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  Dozier Bell

 

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Selected Solo Exhibitions

2009

DFN Gallery, New York, NY

2008

La Galeria, Barcelona, Spain

2007

Fields, Aucocisco Gallery, Portland, ME

2006

DFN Gallery, New York, NY

2005

Aucocisco Gallery, Portland, ME

 

Chase Gallery, Boston, MA

2004

DFN Gallery, New York, NY

 

Dozier Bell: Recent Work, University of Maine Museum of Art, Bangor, ME

 

Soldiers and Pedestrians: Glimpses of the World Wars, Waldo Theater Gallery, Waldoboro, ME

 

Aether, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC

2003

Meditations in Spirit, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY

 

A.V.C. Contemporary Arts Gallery, New York, NY

2002

Aucocisco Gallery, Portland, ME

2000

June Fitzpatrick Gallery, Portland, ME (also 1998)

 

Schmidt Bingham Gallery, New York, NY (also 1997, 1995, 1992, 1990, 1988)

1998

Dozier Bell: Primary Themes, Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London, CT

1995

The Dissonant Heart (with Poet, Wesley McNair), Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME

1994

Original Place: Recent Works by Dozier Bell and Ken Greenleaf, The Farnsworth

 

Art Museum, Rockland, ME; Center Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA

1991

Bingham Kurts Gallery, Memphis, TN

 

Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, ME

1990

Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID

1989

Marilyn Butler Fine Art, Scottsdale, AZ

1987

O'Farrell Gallery, Brunswick, ME

 
 

Selected Group Exhibitions

2009

Biennial, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME

2007/08

Works on Paper, DFN Gallery, New York, NY

2007

New Artists, Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ

2007

Introductions II, Stremmel Gallery, Reno, NV

2007

Wet, DFN Gallery, New York, NY

2006

The Figure in American Painting and Drawing,1985-2005, Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, ME

 

Maine Menagerie, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME

2005

10th Anniversary Show, DFN Gallery, New York, NY

 

Animal Tale, DFN Gallery, New York, NY

 

The Environment of Landscape: Works from the Olivia and Ellwood Straub Collection,
     Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, ME

2004

Images of Time & Place, Lehman College Gallery, Bronx, NY

2003

Facing Reality: The Seavest Collection of Contemporary Realism, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY

2002

9/11: Prelude to an Apocalypse, Art Gallery at University of New England, Portland, ME

 

From Nature, A.V.C. Contemporary Arts Gallery, New York, NY

2001

2001 Collector’s Show, The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR

 

Re-Presenting Representation V, Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY

 

Chase Gallery, Boston, MA

 

June Fitzpatrick Gallery, Portland, ME

2000

Photographing Maine: Part I, 1950 – 2000, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Maine Coast Artists, Rockport, ME

1998-1999

After Nature, Herter Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

1998

Seasons of Change: Maine Women Artists and Nature, University of New

 

England, Westbrook College Campus, Portland, ME

 

After Dark, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Maine Coast Artists, Rockport, ME

1997

Secrets, Schmidt Bingham Gallery, New York, NY

 

Invitational Exhibition, Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN

1996-1997

Destiny Manifest: American Landscape Painting in the Nineties, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art,
     University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

1996

Changing Horizons: Landscape on the Eve of the Millennium, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY

 

Fractured Fairytales, Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, NC
Skowhegan at 50: The Maine Legacy, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Maine
Coast Artists, Rockport, ME; Maine College of Art, Baxter Gallery, Portland, ME
MacDowell Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH;
The Art Gallery of the University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
Changing Horizons: Landscape on the Eve of the Millenium, Katonah Museum of Katonah, NY

1995

Collector's Choice, The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
Irrational Landscapes, Binghamton University Art Museum, Binghamton, NY
and New York Academy of Sciences, New York, NY

1994

Collector's Show, The Arkansas Arts 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
Contemporary Landscapes, Evans-Gropper-Willis Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1993

The Collectors' Show, The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
Landscape as Metaphor: The Transcendental Vision, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA;
     Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI
What's Going on Now, Frick Gallery, Belfast, ME

1992

Gender and Identity, Baxter Gallery, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME
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
Altered by the Moon, Schmidt Bingham Gallery, New York, NY
On the Edge: 40 Years of Maine Painting, Center for Maine Contemporary Art,
Maine Coast Artists, Rockport, ME; University of Maine, Presque Isle, ME; Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME

1991

Darkness into Light, Lintas: Worldwide, New York, NY

1990

Perspectives: Celebrating Contemporary Art at the Portland Museum, PortlandMuseum of Art, Portland, ME
Beyond Black and White: Contemporary Hand-Painted Photographs, The Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME
Horizons, General Electric Company, Fairfield, CT

1989

Interstices, The 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
New Horizons, Alice Bingham Gallery, Memphis, TN
Landscape of the Spirit, The Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT

1988

Collectors' Choice, The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
40th Anniversary Juried Exhibition, The Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME
The Face of the Land, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, PA
Fresh Paint, Baxter Gallery, Portland, ME
New Horizons, Alice Bingham Gallery, Memphis, TN

1987

The Collectors' Show, The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
Beyond Observation, Schmidt Bingham Gallery, New York, NY
New Artists: The Gloria Wilcher Memorial Exhibition, Currier Gallery, Manchester, NH
Gallery Invitational, The Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME
Six Young Maine Painters, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Maine Coast Artists, Rockport, ME

1986

Master of Fine Arts Exhibit, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA

1984

Group Show, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA 

 
 

Awards and Grants

2003/2004

Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant

2002

Curator, Integration: Gender and Identity, Baxter Gallery, Portland School of Art, Portland, ME

2000

Residency at the MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH

1997

Art Honors, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME

1995

Fulbright Full Grant, Residency in Weimar, GERMANY<
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

1989

Maine Painter of the Year, Portland Monthly

1987

National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Painting

1985

Residency and scholarship at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME

1981

Smith College Alumnae Association Scholarship for Graduate Study 

 
 

Selected Public Collections

Arthur Andersen & Company, St. Paul, MN
AT&T, New York, NY
The Christian Keesee Collection, Oklahoma City, OK
Exxon Corporation, Irving, TX
Harvard Business School, Cambridge, MA
The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME
Memphis Cancer Center, Memphis, TN
Metropolitan Life, New York, NY
Nomura Securities, New York, NY
ORYX Energy Corporation, Dallas, TX
Seavest Collection, NY
Swiss Re, New York, NY
United Talent Agency, Los Angeles, CA
Zurich Kemper Investments, Chicago, IL

 
 

Selected Museum Collections

The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
Boise Art Museum, ID
Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME
The Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME
Lyman Allyn Art Museum, Connecticut College, New London, CT
Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, ME
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME

 
 

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, The Visual Arts, week of July 12, 1991.
Two June shows in July, Maine Times, July 16, 1998.
Davidson, Susan. “Where & When,” Museum Listings, The Washingtonian, June 2004.
Dawson, Jessica. “Mining the Leaden Skies,” review of NAS exhibitions, The Washington Post, March 18, 2004.
Destiny Manifest: American Landscape Painting in the Nineties. Harn Museum of Art, Exhibition Catalog, 1997.
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, June Fitzpatrick Gallery, Art New England, October/November 1998.
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.
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.
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, Openings, October 1997.
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.
Ogunquit show features John Laurent, Dozier Bell. Morning Sentinel, June 29, 1991.
Russell, Jenna. Obscure Sunshine: Dozier Bell at June Fitzpatrick. The Portland Phoenix, July 28, 2000.
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. ThePortland 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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