Dozier Bell
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Curriculum Vitae:
 
SELECTED ONE AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2010 Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME
2010, 2007, 2005, 2002 Aucocisco Gallery, Portland, ME
2009, 2006, 2004 DFN Gallery, New York, NY
2009 La Galeria, Barcelona, Spain
2007 Gold/Smith Gallery, Boothbay Harbor, ME
2005, 2001, 1999 Chase Gallery, Boston, MA
2004 University of Maine Museum of Art, Bangor, ME
2004 National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC
2003 The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
2003 A.V.C. Gallery, New York, NY
2000, 1998 June Fitzpatrick Gallery, Portland, ME
2000, 1998, 1995, 1992, 1990, 1988 Schmidt-Bingham Gallery, New York, NY
1998 DozierBell: Primary Themes   Lyman Allyn Museum, New London, CT  (catalog)
1995  The Dissonant Heart  (in collaboration with the poet Wesley McNair)
  Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME (catalog)
1994 Original Place: Recent Work by Dozier Bell and Ken Greenleaf
  Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME, and Center Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA (catalog)
1991 Bingham-Kurts Gallery, Memphis, TN
1990 Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID
1989 Marilyn Butler Fine Arts, Scottsdale, AZ
1987 O'Farrell Gallery, Brunswick, ME
   
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010 Sacred and Profane  Portsmouth Museum of Art, Portsmouth, NH
2009 Selections from the Ogunquit Museum of American Art  Portsmouth Atheneum, Portsmouth, NH
  Portland Museum of Art Biennial   Portland, ME
2008 Art from Anxious Times  Art Students League, New York, NY
  Transcendental and Sublime  Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT
  Silence   La Galeria, Consell de Cent, Barcelona
  Midnight Full of Stars  Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ
2007 New Artists  Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
  Introductions II  Stremmel Gallery, Reno, NV
2006 The Figure in American Painting and Drawing, 1985-2005  Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, ME
2005 The Environment of Landscape: Works from the Olivia and Ellwood:  Straub Collection  Bates College, Lewiston, ME
2004-07  American Embassy in Abuja, Nigeria
2004 Images of Time and Place: Contemporary Views of Landscape  The Lehman Gallery, Bronx, NY
2003-04 Facing Reality: The Seavest Collection of Contemporary Realism  Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY
2002 50th Anniversary Exhibition  Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME
2002 Keenly Observed   Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT
2001-02 Re-presenting Representation V    The Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY
2000 Photographing Maine: 1850 - 2000   Maine Coast Artists, Rockport, ME
1998 After Dark   Maine Coast Artists, Rockport, ME
 

After Nature  The Herter Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA (catalog)

  Seasons of Change: Maine Women Artists and Nature in conjunction with the American Women Nature Writers Conference at the Payson Gallery, Westbrook College, Portland, ME
1997 Invitational Exhibition  Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN
1996-97 Destiny Manifest:  American Landscape Painting in the 90's  Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL (catalog)
1996 Torn Asunder:  Collage in Twentieth-Century Art  Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
  Inside/Outside: Recent Photography from the MacDowell Colony  Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College,  Hanover, NH, and the Art Gallery of the University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
  Changing Horizons:  Landscape on the Eve of the Millennium  Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY (catalog)
  Skowhegan at 50:  The Maine Legacy  Maine Coast Artists, Rockland, ME, and Baxter Gallery, Portland, ME
  Fractured Fairy Tales:  Art in the Age of Categorical Disintegration  Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, NC (catalog)
1995 Irrational Landscapes  Binghamton University Art Museum, Binghamton, and New York Academy of Sciences, New York, NY
1994 The Collectors' Show   The Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR
  Ten Years, Ten Artists   Albers Fine Art Gallery, Memphis, TN
  Dialogues:  On and Off the Wall   Schmidt-Bingham Gallery, Garth Clark Gallery, and Peter Joseph Gallery, New York, NY
  Landscape not Landscape   Gallery Camino Real, Boca Raton, FL (catalog)
  Contemporary Landscapes   Evans-Gropper-Willis Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1993 The Collectors' Show   The Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR
  Landscape as Metaphor:  The Transcendental Vision    Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA and Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI
  Gender and Identity   Baxter Gallery, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME
1992 Art of Maine: A Bounty of Woods and Water   Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, NJ
  Apocalypse and Resurrection   AmFAR Benefit and Exhibition, The Gallery Three Zero, New York, NY
  On the Edge:  40 Years of Maine Painting   Maine Coast Artists, Rockport, ME;  Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME  (Catalog)
1991 Darkness into Light   Lintas: Worldwide, New York, NY
1990 Perspectives:  Celebrating Contemporary Art at the Portland Museum  Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
  Beyond Black and White:  Contemporary Hand-Painted Photographs   The Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME
1989 Interstices   Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME
  Vision and Visions:  Contemporary Landscape Painting   Tavelli Gallery, Aspen, CO
  New Work   Dean Velentgas Gallery, Portland, ME
  Contemporary Environment   General Electric Company, Fairfield, CT
  Landscape of the Spirit   The Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT  (catalog)
1988 40th Anniversary Juried Exhibition   The Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME
  The Face of the Land   Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, PA
  Fresh Paint   The Baxter Gallery, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME
1987 Beyond Observation   Schmidt-Bingham Gallery, New York, NY
  New Artists:  The Gloria Wilcher Memorial Exhibition   Currier Gallery, Manchester, NH (catalog)
  Gallery Invitational   The Farnsworth Museum of Art, Rockland, ME
  Six Young Maine Painters   Maine Coast Artists, Rockport, ME
   
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2009 Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Individual Support Grant
2003-04 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
2000 Residency at the MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH
1997 Achievement Award and Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME
1995-96 Fulbright Fellowship as artist-in-residence at the Bauhaus University in Weimar, Germany
1995 Residency at the MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH
1993 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
  Residency at the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Study and Conference Center in Bellagio, Italy
1990 Residency at the Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY
1987 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Painting
1985 Residency and full scholarship at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
1981 Smith College Alumnae Association Scholarship for Graduate Study
   
TEACHING AND GUEST LECTURES
2009 Guest Lecturer, University of Alabama
2004 Faculty, Andover Newton Summer Institute for Arts and Theology
  Guest Lecturer, University of Delaware
2002 Guest Lecturer, Maine College of Art
2001 Guest Lecturer, Kansas City Art Institute
1997 Guest Lecturer, University of New Hampshire
1995 Interim Faculty, Bowdoin College Art Dept.
1992 Guest Lecturer, Mt. Holyoke College
   
SELECTED PUBLIC AND MUSEUM COLLECTIONS
  Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR  |  Arthur Andersen & Company, St. Paul, MN
  AT & T, New York, NY  |  Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID  |  Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Bowdoin, ME
  Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME  |  Exxon Corporation, Irving, TX  | 
  Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME  |  Harvard Business School, Cambridge, MA
  Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME  |  Lyman Allyn Museum, New London, CT
  Memphis Cancer Center, Memphis, TN  |  Metropolitan Life, New York, NY
  Nomura Securities, New York, NY  |  Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, ME
  ORYX Energy Corporation, Dallas, TX  |  Swiss Re, New York, NY  |  Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
  United Talent Agency, Los Angeles, CA  |  Zurich Kemper Investments, Chicago, IL (catalog)
   
EDUCATION
  MFA, University of Pennsylvania, 1986
  Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, 1985.  Full scholarship.
  BA, Smith College, 1981.  Magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa
   
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  Beem, Edgar Allen. “True native vision: Celeste Roberge and Dozier Bell, two of Maine's most important artists.” The Maine Times. December 2, 1988.
  “Laurent and Bell in Black and White.” The Maine Times. July 12, 1991.
  “Two June shows in July.” Maine Times. July 16, 1998.
  Dawson, Jessica. “Mining the Leaden Skies.” review of NAS exhibitions, The Washington Post. March 18, 2004.
  Fensterstock, Lauren.  “Dozier Bell: New Paintings.”  Art New England.  February/March 2006
  Gold, Donna. “Dozier Bell: Spareness of Color, Content Characterize Maine Native's Work.” Kennebec Journal. April 6, 1991.
  “Maine Art Goes to Manhattan.” Maine Times. March 30, 2000.
  Grausman, Jennifer. “Fractured Fairy Tales: Art in the Age of Categorical Disintegration.” Duke University Museum of Art, Exhibition catalog. 1996.
  Grimes, Nancy. “Dozier Bell at Schmidt Bingham.” ARTnews, Reviews. 1988.
  Isaacson, Philip. “Artists' Works Merit Attention.” Maine Sunday Telegram. July 14, 1991.
  “Bell’s Layers of Conflict Give Off a Spiritual Intensity.” Maine Sunday Telegram. July 19, 1998.
  Jacks, Shirley.A Stunning Collaboration Between Two of Maine's Best.” The Greater Old Port Guide and Downtown Arts District. October 12, 1995.
  “Dozier Bell: The Conflict Series.” Art New England. October/November 1998.
  Keyes, Bob.  “Bell’s ‘radiant vision’ on view at Aucocisco.”  Maine Sunday Telegram. November 20, 2005
  King, George. Changing Horizons: Landscape on the Eve of the Millennium. Katonah Museum of Art, Exhibition catalog. 1996
  Koeppel, Fredric. “Vibrant Vision Contrasts with Delicate Darkness.” The Commercial Appeal, Art Reviews. April 18, 1991.
  Kramer, Hilton. “Painter Dozier Bell Reaches to the Skies and Finds the Divine.” New York Observer. October 4, 2004.
  Little, Carl. “Metamorphosis: Four Maine Artists.” Art New England. July/August 1990.
  Dozier Bell: Primary Themes, Lyman Allyn Art Museum, Exhibition catalog. 1998.
  “The Bleak and the Beautiful” Maine Home and Design.  April 2009
  Lombardi, D. Dominick. “The New Art of Landscape Painting.” The Record-Review. August 16, 1996.
  Marshall, Laurence A. “Books in Brief.” The Sciences. November/December 1996.
  Maxwell, Douglas F. Review, Exhibitions. April 15, 2000.
  Maxwell, Douglas F. and Young, Dede. Destiny Manifest: American Landscape Painting in the Nineties. Harn Museum of Art, Exhibition Catalog. 1997.
  McWilliams, Margot. “New Work on Paper.” Casco Bay Weekly. April 11, 1991.
  Melrod, George. “You Are Here: Mapping out the terrain of earth, sky, nature, and the human psyche”. Art & Antiques. October 1997.
  Mergen, Bernard.  Weather Matters: An American Cultural History Since 1900. University Press of Kansas, 2008
  Moore, Milton. “Images of the Heavens and earth make a powerful impression at Lyman Allyn exhibit.” The Day. May 19, 1998.
  Moynihan, Megan. “Subtle and Expressive Works at DFN.” Tribeca Trib, Vol. 11, Issue 2. October 2004.
  Nelson, James.  “Dozier Bell’s Small Works a Revelation at the University of Alabama.”  The Birmingham News.  August 16, 2009.  Ogunquit show features John Laurent, Dozier Bell. Morning Sentinel. June 29, 1991.
  Page, Ian.  “Remote Meditations.”  The Portland Pheonix. November 25, 2005
  Russell, Jenna. “Obscure Sunshine: Dozier Bell at June Fitzpatrick.” The Portland Phoenix. July 28, 2000.
  SG, Hermione.  “Works on Paper, 2008: Park Avenue Armory NYC” Demos News  March 3, 2008
  Smee, Sebastian.  “Maine event.”  The Boston Globe.  May 8, 2009
  Struve, William. An American Landscape Collection: Views from the Heartland, Zurich Kemper Investments Collection catalog. 1997.
  Tate, Haines Sprunt. “The Double Vision of Bell and Greenleaf.” Maine Times. October 24, 1994.
  Thompson, Chris. “Warmachines: Dozier Bell at Aucocisco.” The Portland Phoenix. November 22, 2002.
  WETA, Washington Public Television, “Around Town,” NAS exhibition review. May 6, 2004.
  Zevitas, Steven. New American Paintings, Number 20: The Fourth Open Studios Northeast Competition Catalog of winners’ work, Wellesley, MA. The Open Studios Press, 1999.
  Zimmer, William. “The Spiritual Side of Art.” The New York Times. April 2, 1989.

 

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