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Colin Chase
Elegy #2, 2009
Glass, wood, brass, cotton, nylon
79 x 42 x 42 inches
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Born Newark, New Jersey
Lives and works in New York City |
Education |
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1986 |
MFA,
University of Michigan, School of Art and Design, Ann Arbor, MI |
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1982 |
BFA,
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, School
of
Art, New York |
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1979 |
AAS, Fashion Institute of Technology, Division of Textile Design,
New York |
Solo Exhibitions |
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2009 |
Intersection: sculpture, June Kelly Gallery, New York |
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2005 |
not one not two: sculpture, June Kelly Gallery, New York |
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2003 |
season
reason with a transitive verb, June Kelly Gallery, New York |
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2001 |
To Turn a Somersault on a Needle’s Point, The Phillips Museum,
Franklin &
Marshall, Lancaster, PA |
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1999 |
free
associating new - ancient tongues, June Kelly Gallery, New York |
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1995 |
Praise
Poems and Mute Dialogue in the Upside-Down Circle, June Kelly
Gallery,
New York |
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1993 |
Alchemy
of Thought, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Sculpture, Visual Arts Program, Saint Peter’s Church, New York |
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1992 |
After
the Benediction of the Rain, Sculpture, June Kelly Gallery, New York
House of Many Stories, Sculpture, Olin Art Gallery, Kenyon College,
Gambier,
OH |
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1990-91 |
New
Sculpture, organized by the Flushing Council on the Arts, Jamaica
Arts
Center, Jamaica, NY |
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1989 |
Spirit
Catchers, June Kelly Gallery, New York |
Selected Group Exhibitions |
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2008-10 |
Reimaging the Distaff
Toolkit, curated by Rickie Solinger, Bennington Museum,
VT, traveling exhibition with independent
catalogues and brochures |
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2008 |
From Taboo to Icon:
Africanist Turnabout, curated by Sophie Sanders and
Shervone Neckles, Ice Box Project Space,
Crane Arts, Philadelphia, PA |
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2007 |
Celebration: Nine
Artists Commemorate the 35th Anniversary of the Winston-Salem
Delta Fine Arts, Inc., NC; brochure
Crossing the Line: African American Artists in the Jacqueline Bradley and
Clarence
Otis, Jr. Collection, Cornell Fine Arts
Museum Winter Park, FL; traveling
exhibition; catalogue |
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2004 |
Birdspace: A
Post-Audubon Artists Aviary, Contemporary Arts Center, New
Orleans; traveling exhibition; catalogue
Hearing Voices: Personal Narratives, Bristol Myers Squibb, Princeton,
NJ
Birdspace: A Post-Audubon Artists Aviary, Contemporary Arts Center,
New
Orleans,
traveling exhibition, catalogue |
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2002 |
Out
Of The Woods, curated by Kathleen Spicer, Delaware Arts Center
Gallery, Narrowsburg, NY
Reactions, Exit Art/The First World, New York |
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2001 |
Cross-Pollination, The Arboretum of Los Angeles County,
Arcadia, CA
Cross-Pollination, Holland Tunnel Gallery, New York |
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2000 |
The
Act of Drawing: Meaning/Method/Meaning, curated by Cynthia
Hawkins,
Rusharts Gallery, New York
The End: An Independent Vision of Contemporary Art, 1982-2000,
Exit Art/The
First World, New York
African-American Art at 2000, Rockland Center for the Arts, West
Nyack, NY |
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1999 |
Passages: Contemporary Art in Transition, guest curator,
Deirdre A. Scott, The
Studio Museum in Harlem, New York;
traveling exhibition, catalogue |
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1998 |
Pieces 2, curated by Sylvia Netzer, Gallery 128, New York
Black New York Artists of the 20th Century: Selections from the Schomburg
Center
Collection,
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, NY; catalogue
Postcards from Black America, curated by Rob Perrée, De Beyerd,
Centre For
Contemporary Art, Breda, Netherlands and
the Frans Hals Museum,
Haarlem, Netherlands; catalogue essays by Rob Perrée |
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1997 |
Objectivity: International Objects of Subjectivity, co-curated
by Carla Hanzal and
Barbara J. Bloemink, Contemporary Art
Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, VA
Pieces Speak, Gallery 128, New York
The 6th International Shoebox Sculpture Exhibition, University of
Hawaii at Manoa
Art Gallery
Shaded Voices, School of Art, Cooper Union, New York |
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1996 |
Til Spring Thaw: An Exhibition of Eclectic Environmental Works,
Aquamarine Park & Sculpture Garden,
New York
Small Works, Arthur Houghton Gallery, Cooper Union, New York
10th Anniversary Season, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City,
NY
The Shape of Sound, curated by Jeanette Ingberman and Papo Colo,
music
curated by Ben Neill,
Exit Art/The First World, New York |
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1995 |
Imaginary Beings, curated by Jeanette Ingberman and Papo Colo,
Exit Art/The
First World, New York
Required Nuance: Three Contemporary Sculptors, guest curator Carl E.
Hazelwood,
The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
Os Herdeiros da Noite: Fragmentos da Imaginario Negro, Palmares 300
Anos,
Pinacoteca Teca de Estados, Sao Paulo,
Brasil; curator, Dr. George Preston |
Public Collections |
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The Studio Museum in
Harlem, New York
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York
The New School, New York
Prudential Life Insurance Company
AT&T |
Public Commissions |
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1999-2003 |
“Breath and Mandala Queens Hospital Center, New York |
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1994-1998 |
"Malcolm X Memorial," etched glass and bronze lettering, Percent for Art
Program, sponsored by the Department
of Cultural Affairs and NY City
Economic Corporation |
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