
Bill Sullivan
O uso sublime da cor de Bill Sullivan eleva, em suas paisagens, as vistas urbanas do Midtown de Manhattan, as montanhas e vulcões dos Andes colombianos e equatorianos e o vale do rio Hudson. Inspirado por pintores luministas como Frederic Church e Sanford Gifford, e pelos realistas pictóricos da Escola de Nova York, Sullivan se destacou em sua geração. Ele transformou sua própria visão desses lugares no que John Ashbery descreveu como “uma certa surrealidade”.
Sullivan entrelaça passagens abstratas de cor em degradê entre as nuvens estriadas que cruzam o horizonte, criando céus surreais que são uma marca de sua obra: uma mistura de desenho e cor que parece de outro mundo. Na crítica da retrospectiva de 2006 no Albany Institute of History and Art, Alfred Corn escreveu na Art in America: “Comparando essas pinturas com as cenas reais, vê-se que Sullivan está disposto a alterar escala e detalhe para criar uma imagem mais coerente; o realismo precisa fazer concessões ao desenho e à expressão”.
Nascido em New Haven, Connecticut, em 1942, Sullivan estudou no Silvermine College e na Universidade da Pensilvânia, onde aprendeu com Fairfield Porter e Neil Welliver. Sua primeira exposição individual, de figuras e naturezas-mortas, foi em 1970 na Bowery Gallery; depois ele se voltou para a paisagem. Viajou vários anos pela América do Sul com seu companheiro, Jaime Manrique, e em 1978 fez uma exposição individual no Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá. De volta a Nova York, continuou expondo até se mudar para Hudson em 2002, onde viveu até sua morte em 2010.
Exposições e coleções
Exposições individuais 31
- 2019“Great Estates”, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson NY
- 2009Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson NY
- 2008BCB Gallery, Hudson, NY
- 2007BCB Gallery, Hudson, NY
- 2006“The Autobiography of Bill Sullivan: A Landscape Retrospective”, The Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany NY
- 2005Roxbury Art Group, Roxbury, NY
- 2003The Gallery at The St. Charles, Hudson NY (two-person) "Paintings of South America" Curated by John Ashbery, Hudson NY
- 2001HHA Gallery, Riverdale, New York
- 1999Silas-Kenyon Gallery, Provincetown, MA
- 1996Uptown Gallery, New York City
- 1990Susan Schreiber Gallery, New York City
- 1990Tatistcheff Gallery, Santa Monica, California
- 1989G.W. Einstein Company, Inc., New York City
- 1986Schreiber/Cutler, Inc., New York City
- 1986G.W. Einstein Company, Inc., New York City
- 1984David Findlay Jr., New York City
- 1981Ruth Siegel Ltd., New York City
- 1980G.W. Einstein Company, Inc., New York City
- 1979Galeria Condor, Barranquilla, Colombia
- 1979Galeria Finale, Medellin, Colombia
- 1978G.W. Einstein Company, New York City
- 1978Museo de Arte Moderno, Bogota, Colombia
- 1978Capricorn Gallery, Washington, D.C.
- 1976Bowery Gallery, New York City
- 1975Webber Gallery, Portland, ME
- 1974Bowery Gallery, New York City
- 1972Bowery Gallery, New York City
- 1970Bowery Gallery, New York City
- 1967East End Gallery, Provincetown MA
- 1965John Slade Ely House, New Haven CT
- 1964The New Haven Library, CT
Exposições coletivas selecionadas 108
- 2010Painted City, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson NY
- 2010Invitational Show, Brick Gallery, Catskill NY
- 2010New Acquisitions, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers NY
- 2010Local Self-Portraits, Hudson Opera House, Hudson NY
- 2009Contempocorpart, National Exhibition Centre, Abu Dhabi
- 2009Four Hundred Years of The Hudson River, Albany Institute of History and Art
- 2009FIRST LOOK, Ramscale Fine Arts, NYC
- 2008Columbia County Council on the Arts, Landscape Exbition, Hudson NY
- 2008Columbia County Historical Society Show, Kinderhook NY
- 2008BCB Gallery Group Show, Hudson NY 2007
- 2008Group Show, BCB Gallery, Hudson NY
- 2008River Views, The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers NY 2006
- 2008Group Show, BCB Gallery, Hudson NY
- 2008The Chair Project, Artwalk, Hudson NY
- 2008Winterwalk, BCB Gallery
- 2005Hudson River Views, Bonnie Andretta Fine Arts, Hudson, NY
- 2005Recent Acquisitions, Albany Institute of History and Art
- 2004Indelible, Gallery 2/20, NYC
- 2004Workshop Exhibition, Danette Koke Fine Art, NYC
- 2004Juried Art Show, Columbia County Council on the Arts, Hudson NY Made In Hudson, Artwalk, Hudson, NY
- 2003Painted City, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson NY
- 2002Group Show, Musselman Gallery, Hudson, NY
- 2001The Landscape That Changed America, The Albany Institute of History and Art Albany, NY
- 1999Greenwoods and Crystal Waters: The American Landscape Tradition; Curated by John Arthur, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma
- 1998Have Suitcase Will Travel; Conductor’s Gallery, London, England.
- 1997House/Scene; Curated by Josie McKee,The Kunsthaus, Hamburg, Germany
- 1997Selected Prints, Atrium Gallery, Long Island City, NY
- 1997Contemporary Selections, Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, NY
- 1996Eight Realists: Realism Then and Now, K & E Gallery, New York
- 1996Recent Acquisitions, Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, NY
- 1996Pennsylvanians Drawn to New York, Pennsylvania Alumni Exhibition, Roger Smith Gallery, New York
- 1996New Acquisitions, Museum of the City of New York, New York
- 1995Five Aspects of American Landscape Painting, Curated by John Arthur, Creiger Dane Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
- 1995New York City Views, Curated by Jim Yost, Owen Gallery, New York City
- 1995Increased Visibility, Organized by Art Group, Leslie Lohman Gallery, NYC
- 1995American Realism, The Bijutsu Sekai, Various Japanese Cities Group Show; G.W. Einstein Co., New York City
- 199425th Anniversary Exhibition, Bowery Gallery, New York City
- 1994American Realism, Isetan, Tokyo & Seibu, Kobe & Kyoto, Japan
- 1994Town and Country Contemporary Landscape, A M.O.M.A. Traveling Exposition
- 1994Sleeping & Waking, curated by Frank Bernarducci, Wellesley Ross Gallery
- 1994Pride in Our Diversity, curated by Ronny Cohen, 24 Hours for Life Gallery, New York City
- 1994Paint Props and Process, curated by Margaret Matthews-Berenson, Castle Gallery, College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, New York
- 1993Celebration, G.W. Einstein Co, Inc., New York City
- 1993Far Away Places Artists Who Travel, SSC&B Lintas Worldwide, NYC
- 1993Group Show, John Szoke Gallery, New York City
- 1993Art & Fantasy, Amos Eno Gallery and The Puck Building, NYC
- 1993Organization of Independent Artists Benefit, Brook Alexander Gallery, NY
- 199319th & 20th Century Works of Art, Friends of Olana Benefit, Hudson, NY
- 1992New York Icons, Michael Ingbar Gallery, New York City
- 1992Group Show, John Szoke Gallery, New York City.
- 199219th and 20th Century Works of Art, Olana State Historical Site, Hudson, New York
- 1992Shanti Foundation Benefit Exhibition, Tatistcheff Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
- 1992Contemporary American Landscape, World Art Collection in conjunction with Quatre Pieces Gallery, Yokohama, Japan
- 1992The Scarf, Bergdorf Goodman, New York City
- 1991Urban Icons, curated by Susan Schreiber, Klarfeld Perry Gallery, NY
- 1991Edge of Night, The Muckenthaler Cultural Center, Fullerton, CA
- 1991Spirit of Place Dada Gallery, Fukuoka, Japan. Group Show, Tatistcheff, Santa Monica, CA
- 1991Group Show, John Szoke Gallery, New York City.
- 1991American Images, Crane Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan; World Art Collection, Yokohama; Daimon Art Gallery, Sapporo; Beersheba Gallery, Osaka, Japan
- 1990American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Invitational Exhibition, American Academy, New York.
- 1990Plein Air Painting: Capturing the Moment, Tatistcheff Gallery, Santa Monica, California
- 1990Land/Sea/Air, Steven Scott Gallery, Baltimore, MD.
- 1990Penn Prints: 30 Years of Printmaking at the University of Pennsylvania, Arthur Ross Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
- 1990A Little Night Music: Manhattan in the Dark, curated by Gerrit Henry, S.S.C. & B., Lintas Worldwide, New York.
- 1990Gallery Group Show, Susan Schreiber Gallery, New York.
- 1990Painting California: Five New York Artists Look at Los Angeles, Tatistcheff Gallery, Santa Monica, CA.
- 1989Food Show, Grand Central Art Galleries, New York
- 1989June Moon: Lunar Reflections by Contemporary Artists, G. W. Einstein Company, Inc.
- 1989Neo Romantics, Lafayette College, The Gallery, Williams Center for the Arts
- 1989Romance is Back, curated by Margaret Matthews-Berenson, S.S.C. & B.: Lintas Worldwide, New York.
- 1988New York Inspired: Past and Present, John Szoke Gallery, New York.
- 1988Contemporary Art at the Bayly, Bayly Museum of Art, Charlottesville, VA.
- 1988The Face of the Land, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, PA.
- 1988The Nude, curated by Gerrit Henry, One Penn Plaza, New York.
- 1988Waterworks, curated by Margaret Matthews-Berenson, S.S.C. & B.: Lintas Worldwide
- 1987The World is Round: Artist and Expansive Vision, Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE; Parish Art Museum, South Hampton, NY; Arts and Science Center, Nashua, NH; College Art Gallery, S.U.N.Y. at New Paltz, NY; The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY.
- 1987One of a Kind, curated by Margaret Matthews-Berenson, S.S.C.& B.: Lintas Worldwide, New York City
- 1987Lush Landscapes, curated by Marc Cohen, Attitude Art, New York.
- 1986Self-Portraits, G.W. Einstein Company, Inc.
- 1986Night Landscapes, Schreiber/Cutler, Inc.
- 1985New York Prints, Mary Ryan Gallery, New York.
- 1985Contemporary Still Life, curated by Gerrit Henry, One Penn Plaza.
- 1985American Art Now!, Columbus Museum of Arts and Science, Columbus, GA.
- 1985Contemporary Painters of the Hudson River, curated by John Yau, Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, NY; Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY; The Arsenal, New York.
- 1985Prints from the Lower East Side Printshop, Department of Cultural Affairs Gallery, New York.
- 1984Gifts to the Museum, Reading Museum, Reading, PA
- 1984New Vistas: Contemporary American Landscapes, curated by Janice Oresman, The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY; Tucson Museum of Fine Arts, Tucson, AZ
- 1984Bowery on the Bowery Invitational, Bowery Gallery, New York
- 1984Eight Years Later, Artists’ Choice Museum, New York
- 1984New Landscapes, Rahr-West Museum, Manitowoc, WI; Frumkin Struve Gallery, Chicago, IL.
- 1983Painted Light, Artist’s Choice Museum Travelling Exhibition: Queens Museum, New York; Butler Institute, Youngstown, OH.
- 1983The New Landscape, One Penn Plaza
- 1983In Honor of the Brooklyn Bridge, curated by John Yau, David Findlay Jr.
- 1982Contemporary Realism, One Penn Plaza 1981
- 1981Escapes, curated by Ann Lauterbach, Art Latitude Gallery, New York.
- 1980Salon des Independants, New York Critics’ Choice, selected by Gerrit Henry, Grand Palais, Paris, France.
- 197916 Realistas, Centro Colombo-Americano, Bogota, Colombia.
- 1979Bienal Americana de Artes Graficas, Museo de Artes Graficas, Maracaibo Venezuela.
- 1978Museo de Bellas Artes, Maracaibo, Venezuela
- 1978Grabados Internacionales, Museo de Arte Moderno, Bogota, Colombia.
- 1978Three Realists, Canton Art Institute, Canton, OH; Madison Art Center, Madison, WI; Habatat Gallery, Dearborn, MI; and Jessie Besser Museum, Alpena, MI.
- 1978The Classic Revival, Illinois State Museum; Quincy Art Center; Kirkland Gallery; Sharp Museum; University of Minnesota; Lakeville Center of the Arts
- 1978Artists’ Choice: Figurative Art in New York, Soho Center for the Visual Arts, NYC.
- 1978New Images: Figuration in American Painting, Queens Museum.
- 1975Selections from the Bowery Gallery, Westminster College, New Wilmington, PA; Squibb Gallery, Princeton, NJ.
- 1973The Representational Spirit, New York State University at Albany, NY.
- 1971Annual Purchase Exhibition, Smith College Museum of Art.
- 1970Painterly Realism, American Federation of Arts Traveling Exhibition (curator) Smith College Museum of Art, Baldwin-Wallace College, Univ. of Michigan Museum of Art, Long Island Univ. Albrecht Gallery, Syracuse Univ. Lowe Art Center, Mobile Art Gallery, Winona St. College, Wisconsin State Univ., Louisiana State Univ. Univ. of South Western Louisiana, Edmonton Art Gallery.
Coleções públicas 11
- Albany Institute of History and Art
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Hudson River Museum
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Museo de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia
- Museo de Arte Moderno, Bogotá, Colombia
- Museo de Artes Gráficas, Maracaibo, Venezuela
- Museo de Bellas Artes, Maracaibo, Venezuela
- Museum of the City of New York
- New York Public Library
- Reading Public Museum and Art Gallery
Coleções corporativas 30
- The Atlantic Group
- American Telephone and Telegraph Company
- Bank of Bermuda
- Bank of Boston
- Bessemer Trust
- Chase Manhattan Bank, N.A.
- Chemical Bank
- Citibank N.A.
- Continental American Life Insurance
- Diner's Club, S.A.
- Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb Inc.
- Lewis Foods, Inc.
- Mellon Bank of Pittsburgh
- Milbank, Tweed, Hadley and McCoy
- Mobil Oil
- J. P. Morgan Associates
- Morgan Lewis, Inc.
- Mutual of New York
- Olwine, Connelly, Chase, O'Donnell, and Weyher
- Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company
- Prudential Life Insurance Company of America
- Reader's Digest
- Reliance National
- Security Pacific National Bank
- Simpson, Thatcher and Bartlett
- Smith Barney Harris Upham & Co.
- Time Warner
- United Parcel Service
- U.S. Trust Company of New York
- Western Electric Company
Prêmios 5
- 2006The Edgar and June Martin Fund
- 2005Furthermore Foundation (J.M. Kaplan Fund)
- 1989National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
- 1981Ingram Merrill Fellowship, New York
- 1979Quirama Award, Instituto de Integracion Cultural, Medellin, Colombia
Formação 3
- Universidade da Pensilvânia
- M.F.A., Silvermine College
- Estudos particulares com Josef e Anni Albers
Os títulos e locais das exposições estão em inglês.