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Robert Kushner

Robert Kushner(/ˈkʊʃnər/; born 1949, Pasadena, CA) is an American contemporary painter who is known especially for his involvement in Pattern and Decoration.[1][2] He has been called "a founder" of that artistic movement.[3] In addition to painting, Kushner creates installations in a variety of mediums, from large-scale public mosaics to delicate paintings on antique book pages.

Robert Kushner
Born1949
Pasadena, CA
EducationUniversity of California, San Diego
MovementPattern and Decoration
Websitehttps://www.robertkushnerstudio.com/

Work edit

Kushner draws from a unique range of influences, including Islamic and European textiles, Henri Matisse, Georgia O'Keeffe, Charles Demuth, Pierre Bonnard, Tawaraya Sotatsu, Ito Jakuchu, Qi Baishi, and Wu Changshuo. Kushner's work combines organic representational elements with abstracted geometric forms as a background in a way that is both decorative and modernist. He has said, “I never get tired of pursuing new ideas in the realm of ornamentation. Decoration, an abjectly pejorative dismissal for many, is a very big, somewhat defiant declaration for me. … The eye can wander, the mind think unencumbered through visual realms that are expansively and emotionally rich. Decoration has always had its own agenda, the sincere and unabashed offering of pleasure and solace."[citation needed]

 
Spring Scatter Summation (Detail), 2005 By Robert Kushner, Oil acrylic, gold leaf, and glitter on canvas 84 x 552 inches

Kushner's 2010 installation, Scriptorium: Devout Exercises of the Heart, is a group of over one thousand drawings of flowers and plants on book pages that date from 1500 to 1920. The pages have been removed from discarded and damaged books of all types from around the globe. Scriptorium was exhibited in Desire at The Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin.[4] It then traveled to the Kunsthallen Brandts in Odense, Denmark[5] before returning to the U.S. for the inaugural Chelsea exhibition at DC Moore Gallery in 2011. It was exhibited at the La Jolla Athenaeum in California in summer 2012.

Murals edit

Kushner has created large-scale murals for public and private spaces. In 2004, he installed two monumental mosaic murals, 4 Seasons Seasoned, at the 77th Street and Lexington Avenue subway station.[6] He has also completed commissions at Gramercy Tavern and Maialino restaurants in New York City,[7] Union Square in Tokyo, The Ritz Carlton Highlands in Lake Tahoe, CA, and Federal Reserve System in Washington, DC. In 2010, an eighty-foot-long marble mosaic, Welcome, was installed at the new Raleigh Durham International Airport in North Carolina.[8]

Two 2021 glass mosaics of his are displayed in Kalauao metro station on Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi.

Exhibitions edit

Kushner's work has been exhibited extensively in the United States, Europe, and Japan and has been included in the Whitney Biennial three times[9] and twice at the Venice Biennale in Italy.[10] He was the subject of solo exhibitions at both the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Brooklyn Museum.[11] A mid-career retrospective of his work was organized by the Philadelphia Institute of Contemporary Art.[12][13]

Most recently, Kushner’s work has been included in several national and international museum exhibitions focusing on the Pattern and Decoration movement: With Pleasure: Pattern and Decoration in American Art 1972-1985, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (2019-2020); Less is a Bore: Maximalist Art & Design, Institute for Contemporary Art, Boston, MA (2019); Pattern and Decoration: Ornament as Promise, Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Germany, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung, Vienna, Austria, and Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary (2018-2019); Pattern, Decoration & Crime, MAMCO, Geneva, Switzerland, and Le Consortium, Dijon, France (2019).[14]

Other work edit

In his early career, Kushner participated in solo and group performance art. Many of these performances featured costumes that Kushner created with craft techniques such as sewing and embroidery.[15] His first performance, entitled Costumes for Moving Bodies, occurred in 1971 during the artist's senior exhibition at the University of California San Diego. The following year, Kushner began incorporating food into his clothing-based performances.[16] Kushner created two performances in 1972 that featured food costumes. The first, Costumes Constructed and Eaten, was presented at the Jack Glenn Gallery in Corona del Mar, California, and the second, Robert Kushner and Friends Eat Their Clothes, in New York. Both of these performances ended with the audience eating the garments.[17] According to the artist, the primary artistic elements of such food performances would be the “ephemeral composition of all the costumes together, the observation of their disintegration through the act of eating, and the lingering sense of gustatory titillation.”[15]

He has also published scholarly articles in a variety of publications. Most recently, he edited the publication Amy Goldin: Art in a Hairshirt (2011),[18] a compilation of the art critic Goldin's essays.

He was interviewed for the film !Women Art Revolution.[19]

Selected bibliography edit

A monograph on Kushner's three decades of artistic work, Gardens of Earthly Delight, was published by Hudson Hills Press in 1997.[20] Wild Gardens, a selection of Kushner's recent paintings with an essay by Michael Duncan, was published by Pomegranate in 2006.

  • Anderson-Spivy, Alexandra. “Robert Kushner: Gardens of Earthly Delight,” New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1997.[20]
  • Robert Kushner: Silk Road, essay by Justin Spring (DC Moore Gallery, 2008).
  • Robert Kushner, On Location, interview by Peter Eleey (DC Moore Gallery, 2007).
  • Robert Kushner: Wild Gardens, Pomegranate, 2006, essay by Michael Duncan.[21]
  • Robert Kushner: Opening Doors, introduction by Bridget Moore, essay by Robert Kushner (DC Moore Gallery, 2004).[22]
  • Robert Kushner: Hot!! Essay by Howard Rogers (DC Moore Gallery, 2001).
  • Robert Kushner: The Language of Flowers, essay by Donald Kuspit, foreword by Bridget Moore (DC Moore Gallery, 1998).[23]
  • Robert Kushner: The Language of Flowers, 1998 (exhibition catalogue)
  • Robert Kushner: Hot!!, 2001 (exhibition catalogue)
  • Robert Kushner: Opening Doors, 2004 (exhibition catalogue)
  • Robert Kushner: On Location, 2007 (exhibition catalogue)
  • Robert Kushner: Silk Road, 2009 (exhibition catalogue)
  • Robert Kushner: New Paintings / New Collages, 2012 (exhibition catalogue)

Public collections edit

Kushner's work is represented in numerous important public collections worldwide,[24] including:

  • Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
  • Art Collection of the United States Embassy, Panama
  • Australian National Gallery, Canberra, Australia
  • The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
  • Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME
  • The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
  • California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA
  • Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
  • The Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
  • The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI
  • The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
  • The Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
  • Galleria degli Ufizzi, Florence, Italy
  • Gröninger Museum, Gröningen, the Netherlands
  • Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, HI
  • J.B. Speed Museum, Louisville, KY
  • J. Paul Getty Trust, Los Angeles, CA
  • Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
  • The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
  • Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
  • The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
  • Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
  • Museum Ludwig, St. Petersburg, Russia
  • Museum Moderner Kunst - Palais Lichtenstein, Vienna, Austria
  • The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
  • The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
  • Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
  • Neue-Galerie-Sammlung Ludwig, Aachen, Germany
  • The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
  • Orlando Museum of Art, Florida
  • Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
  • Rockefeller Center, New York, NY
  • San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
  • Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL
  • State of Hawaii
  • St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
  • Peter Stuyvesant Foundation, Amsterdam, Holland
  • The Tate Gallery, London, England
  • Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
  • Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS

Notable solo exhibitions edit

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2021

  • “Robert Kushner: I Heart Matisse,” DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY, May 6 – June 12, 2021

2019

  • “Robert Kushner: By My Window,” DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY, October 10 – November 9, 2019

2018

  • “Robert Kushner: Reverie: Dupatta-topia,” Texas Gallery, Houston, TX, November 29, 2018 – January 5, 2019
  • “Robert Kushner: Reverie: Dupatta-topia,” DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY, May 3 – June 16, 2018
  • “A Mist of Unknowing,” 8 / ART GALLERY / Tomio Koyama Gallery: Tokyo, Japan, April 4 – 30, 2018
  • “Tracery and Plane: Paintings by Robert Kushner,” Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, February 8 – March 23, 2018

2017

  • “Robert Kushner: Portraits & Perennials,” DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY, February 9 – March 11, 2017
  • Robert Kushner at 375 Hudson Street / Saatchi & Saatchi Building, New York, NY, November 28, 2017 – May, 2018

2016

  • “Robert Kushner,” Jerald Melberg Gallery, Charlotte, NC, March 11 – April 23, 2016

2015

  • Galleri DGV, Svendborg, Denmark
  • “Tenderness and Thorns,” Hakusasonso Hashimoto Museum, Kyoto, Japan, September 9 – 27, 2015
  • “Robert Kushner: Pleasure and Solace,” Eleanor D. Wilson Museum, Hollins University, Roanoke, VA, June 16 – September 12, 2015
  • “Robert Kushner: baroque,” DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY, January 8- February 14, 2015
  • “Robert Kushner: Paintings & Collages,” Texas Gallery, Houston, TX, May 14 – June 20, 2015
  • “Robert Kushner: Patois,” Off Ramp Gallery, Pasadena, CA, April 12 – May 17, 2015

2014

  • “Robert Kushner: Treasures, Souvenirs, Memories – New Collages,” October 1 – 25, Yoshiaki Inoue Gallery, Osaka, Japan
  • “Robert Kushner: Paintings 2010-2013 & The Four Seasons,” January 10 – April 12, 2014, Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH

2012

  • “Robert Kushner: New Paintings/New Collages,” November 8 – December 21, 2012, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY
  • “Robert Kushner: New Work,” September 7 – October 6, 2012, Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL
  • “Robert Kushner's Scriptorium: Devout Exercises of the Heart,” June 23 – July 28, Joseph Clayes III Gallery, La Jolla Athenaeum, La Jolla, CA
  • “Robert Kushner: Wildflowers / Garden Flowers,” June 30 – August 4, Bellas Artes, Santa Fe, NM

2011

  • "Robert Kushner: Wildflower Convocation," February 3 - March 12, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY
  • “Robert Kushner, Flora Dreams: Paintings and Works on Paper,” February 26 – April 9, Jerald Melberg Gallery, Charlotte, NC
  • “Robert Kushner: 30 Literary Nudes,” April 16 – May 28, 2011, Luis De Jesus, Santa Monica, CA

2009

  • “Robert Kushner: Paintings and Works on Paper,” van Straaten Gallery, Denver, CO
  • “Robert Kushner: Caravansarai,” Bellas Artes, Santa Fe, NM
  • “Robert Kushner,” Federal Reserve System, Washington, DC
  • “Robert Kushner: Silk Road,” DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY
  • “Robert Kushner: New Work,” Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL

2007

  • “Robert Kushner,” Federal Reserve System, Washington, DC
  • "Robert Kushner: On Location," DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY

2006

  • “Robert Kushner: Winter Bouquets,” Sandy Carson Gallery, Denver, CO
  • “Robert Kushner: Red Series,” Yoshiaki Inoue Gallery, Osaka, Japan

2005

  • “Robert Kushner,” Gallery Camino Real, Boca Raton, FL
  • “Robert Kushner,” Wistariahurst Museum, Holyoke, MA

2004

  • “Robert Kushner: Opening Doors,” DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY
  • Gallery Camino Real, Boca Raton, FL
  • Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL
  • “Robert Kushner: New BYOBU Paintings,” Takada Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  • Yoshiaki Inoue Gallery, Osaka, Japan

2003

  • “Robert Kushner - Sliding Doors: Homage to John Cage,” DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY
  • Yoshiaki Inoue Gallery, Osaka, Japan
  • Gallery Orie, Tokyo, Japan
  • Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL

2002

  • “Kakishibu + Gold,” Bellas Artes, Santa Fe, NM
  • Takada Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2001

  • Oxy Gallery, Osaka, Japan
  • “Hot!!,” DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY
  • The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii

2000

  • “Robert Kushner Prints & Drawings,” Yoshiaki Inoue Gallery, Osaka, Japan
  • “Florid,” Michael Lord Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
  • “New Work,” Lizan Tops Gallery, East Hampton, NY

1999

  • “Robert Kushner: Silk Leaves/Paper Flowers,” Bellas Artes, Santa Fe, NM
  • “Robert Kushner,” Gallery APA, Nagoya, Japan
  • “Robert Kushner,” Lizan Tops Gallery, East Hampton, NY

1998

  • “Robert Kushner: New Works on Japanese Paper,” Hiromi Paper International, Inc., Bergamot Station Art Complex, Santa Monica, CA
  • “Robert Kushner: The Language of Flowers,” DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY
  • “Robert Kushner,” Parchman Stremmel Galleries, San Antonio, TX
  • “Robert Kushner: 25 Years of Making Art,” New Jersey Center For Visual Arts, Summit, NJ

1997

  • “Robert Kushner: Pomona and Flora,” DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY
  • “The Iris Series: Works on Paper,” Gallery One, Toronto, Canada
  • “Mesas and Vistas,” Bellas Artes, Santa Fe, NM
  • “A Prayer for Peace: Robert Kushner and Hiroshi Senju,” Hiroshima Prefectural Museum, Japan
  • Tenmaya Department Store, Hiroshima. Traveled to: Tenmaya Department stores in Okayama and Fukuyama, Japan
  • “The Pleasure of it All: Robert Kushner’s Flower Paintings,” Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
  • Yoshiaki Inoue Gallery, Osaka, Japan
  • Gallery Shiraishi, Tokyo, Japan

1996

  • Elliot Smith Fine Art, St. Louis, MO
  • “Celestial Banquet,” The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA

1995

  • “Mille Fleurs: A Cornucopia of New Paintings,” Midtown Payson Galleries, New York, NY
  • “Robert Kushner Paintings and Monoprints,” Barbara Scott Gallery, Miami Beach, FL
  • “Robert Kushner: Paintings and Drawings,” Parchman Stremmel Galleries, San Antonio, TX

1994

  • “Robert Kushner: Works on Paper,” Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY
  • “Robert Kushner: Works on Paper,” Gallery APA, Nagoya, Japan
  • “Robert Kushner: New Etchings,” Crown Point Press, San Francisco, CA
  • “Neo Rimpa: Robert Kushner & Hiroshi Senju,” Gallery Inoue & Yoshiaki Inoue Gallery, Osaka, Japan
  • “Pele’s Garden: Recent Monoprints,” Quartet Editions, New York, NY
  • Gallerie OZ, Paris, France
  • Blancpain/Stepczynski Galerie, Geneva, Switzerland

1993

  • “Robert Kushner, Japanese Ceramics,” Yoshiaki Inoue Gallery, Osaka, Japan.
  • “Robert Kushner,” Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY
  • “Forcing the Spring,” Floria/Brown Gallery, Woody Creek, CO
  • “Seasons,” Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ

1992

  • Timothy Brown Fine Art, Aspen, CO
  • Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense, Denmark
  • Yoshiaki Inoue Gallery, Osaka, Japan
  • “Four Seasons,” Midtown Payson Galleries, New York, NY

1991

  • “Perennial Diary,” Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY
  • “Seasonal Furbelows: A One Year Installation,” The American Craft Museum, New York, NY
  • “Leaves,” First Gallery, Moscow, Russia

1990

  • Gloria Luria Gallery, Bay Harbor Islands, FL
  • Michael Lord Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
  • “Opulent Subversions,” Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY
  • Gallery Basque, Fukuoka, Japan. Traveled through 1991 to: American Cultural Centers in Tokyo, Sapporo, Osaka, and Nagoya, Japan
  • “Black and White Prints,” Crown Point Press, New York, NY

1989

  • Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
  • Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY
  • “Silent Operas,” Staller Center for the Arts, SUNY, Stony Brook, NY

1988

  • “Robert Kushner: Paintings and Sculpture,” Iannetti-Lanzone Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  • Michael Lord Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
  • D. & J. Bittker Gallery, Birmingham, MI
  • J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY

1987

  • “Robert Kushner: New Bronze Sculpture,” Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY
  • Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA
  • Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

1986

1985

  • Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY
  • Galleria Capricorni, Venice, Italy
  • Mayor Gallery, London, England
  • Crown Point Press, New York, NY

1984

  • McIntosh/Drysdale Gallery, Houston, TX
  • “Robert Kushner: Mixed Media on Fabric and Paper,” Brentwood Gallery, St. Louis, MO
  • Galleria Giulia, Rome, Italy
  • “Grand Lobby Installation,” The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
  • “Paintings on Paper,” The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

1983

  • Dart Gallery, Chicago, IL
  • Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY

1982

  • “Domestic Exotica,” Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY
  • Gallery Rudolf Zwirner, Cologne, Germany
  • University of Colorado Art Gallery, Boulder, CO
  • “Grafiek,” American Graffiti Gallery, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
  • “Souvenirs,” Studio Marconi, Milan, Italy
  • “Robert Kushner at USC,” The Helen Lindhurst Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
  • Castelli-Goodman-Solomon, East Hampton, NY

1981

  • “New Works,” The Mayor Gallery, London, England
  • Galerie Bischofberger, Zurich, Switzerland
  • “New Robert Kushner Work,” Brainerd Art Gallery, State University of New York at Potsdam. Traveled to: Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA
  • “Some Recent Acquaintances,” Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY
  • “Dreams and Visions,” Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY
  • Asher/Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
  • Akira Ikeda Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
  • Barbara Gladstone Editions, New York, NY
  • “The Cupid Prints,” Holly Solomon Editions, New York, NY

1980

  • Dart Gallery, Chicago, IL

1979

  • “The Dance, The Kiss,” Daniel Templon Gallery, Paris, France
  • Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY

1978

  • “Mere Decoration,” Lunn Gallery/Graphics International, LTD, Washington, D.C.
  • The Mayor Gallery, London, England

1977

  • Thorpe Intermedia Gallery, Sparkill, NY
  • “One Size Fits All,” Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, PA
  • “Paper and Cloth,” Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY

1976

  • “Persian Line Part II,” Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY

1975

  • “The Persian Line,” The Kitchen, New York, NY
  • “Recent Works,” Rasdall Gallery, University of Kentucky at Lexington, KY
  • “Tie and Pie Boutique,” Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY

1971

  • “Costumes for Moving Bodies,” Art Gallery, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA

References edit

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  10. ^ Anderson-Spivy, Alexandra; Kushner, Robert; Cotter, Holland (1997). Robert Kushner: Gardens of Earthly Delight - Alexandra Anderson-Spivy, Robert Kushner, Holland Cotter - Google Books. ISBN 9781555951214. Retrieved 2012-05-30.
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  13. ^ Kardon, Janet; Kushner, Robert (1987). Robert Kushner: Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania ... - Janet Kardon, Robert Kushner, University of Pennsylvania. Institute of Contemporary Art, J.B. Speed Art Museum, Aspen Art Museum (Aspen, Colo.) - Google Books. ISBN 9780884540434. Retrieved 2012-05-30.
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External links edit

  • Robert Kushner at artnet
  • Robert Kushner at DC Moore Gallery
  • ArtForum, February 2013, "Robert Kushner"
  • Art Critical, February 2011, "Healing Hurt Pages: Robert Kushner’s Scriptorium"

robert, kushner, born, 1949, pasadena, american, contemporary, painter, known, especially, involvement, pattern, decoration, been, called, founder, that, artistic, movement, addition, painting, kushner, creates, installations, variety, mediums, from, large, sc. Robert Kushner ˈ k ʊ ʃ n er born 1949 Pasadena CA is an American contemporary painter who is known especially for his involvement in Pattern and Decoration 1 2 He has been called a founder of that artistic movement 3 In addition to painting Kushner creates installations in a variety of mediums from large scale public mosaics to delicate paintings on antique book pages Robert KushnerBorn1949Pasadena CAEducationUniversity of California San DiegoMovementPattern and DecorationWebsitehttps www robertkushnerstudio com Contents 1 Work 2 Murals 3 Exhibitions 4 Other work 5 Selected bibliography 6 Public collections 7 Notable solo exhibitions 8 References 9 External linksWork editKushner draws from a unique range of influences including Islamic and European textiles Henri Matisse Georgia O Keeffe Charles Demuth Pierre Bonnard Tawaraya Sotatsu Ito Jakuchu Qi Baishi and Wu Changshuo Kushner s work combines organic representational elements with abstracted geometric forms as a background in a way that is both decorative and modernist He has said I never get tired of pursuing new ideas in the realm of ornamentation Decoration an abjectly pejorative dismissal for many is a very big somewhat defiant declaration for me The eye can wander the mind think unencumbered through visual realms that are expansively and emotionally rich Decoration has always had its own agenda the sincere and unabashed offering of pleasure and solace citation needed nbsp Spring Scatter Summation Detail 2005 By Robert Kushner Oil acrylic gold leaf and glitter on canvas 84 x 552 inchesKushner s 2010 installation Scriptorium Devout Exercises of the Heart is a group of over one thousand drawings of flowers and plants on book pages that date from 1500 to 1920 The pages have been removed from discarded and damaged books of all types from around the globe Scriptorium was exhibited in Desire at The Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin 4 It then traveled to the Kunsthallen Brandts in Odense Denmark 5 before returning to the U S for the inaugural Chelsea exhibition at DC Moore Gallery in 2011 It was exhibited at the La Jolla Athenaeum in California in summer 2012 Murals editKushner has created large scale murals for public and private spaces In 2004 he installed two monumental mosaic murals 4 Seasons Seasoned at the 77th Street and Lexington Avenue subway station 6 He has also completed commissions at Gramercy Tavern and Maialino restaurants in New York City 7 Union Square in Tokyo The Ritz Carlton Highlands in Lake Tahoe CA and Federal Reserve System in Washington DC In 2010 an eighty foot long marble mosaic Welcome was installed at the new Raleigh Durham International Airport in North Carolina 8 Two 2021 glass mosaics of his are displayed in Kalauao metro station on Oʻahu Hawaiʻi Exhibitions editKushner s work has been exhibited extensively in the United States Europe and Japan and has been included in the Whitney Biennial three times 9 and twice at the Venice Biennale in Italy 10 He was the subject of solo exhibitions at both the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Brooklyn Museum 11 A mid career retrospective of his work was organized by the Philadelphia Institute of Contemporary Art 12 13 Most recently Kushner s work has been included in several national and international museum exhibitions focusing on the Pattern and Decoration movement With Pleasure Pattern and Decoration in American Art 1972 1985 Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles CA 2019 2020 Less is a Bore Maximalist Art amp Design Institute for Contemporary Art Boston MA 2019 Pattern and Decoration Ornament as Promise Ludwig Forum Aachen Germany Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Vienna Austria and Ludwig Museum Budapest Hungary 2018 2019 Pattern Decoration amp Crime MAMCO Geneva Switzerland and Le Consortium Dijon France 2019 14 Other work editIn his early career Kushner participated in solo and group performance art Many of these performances featured costumes that Kushner created with craft techniques such as sewing and embroidery 15 His first performance entitled Costumes for Moving Bodies occurred in 1971 during the artist s senior exhibition at the University of California San Diego The following year Kushner began incorporating food into his clothing based performances 16 Kushner created two performances in 1972 that featured food costumes The first Costumes Constructed and Eaten was presented at the Jack Glenn Gallery in Corona del Mar California and the second Robert Kushner and Friends Eat Their Clothes in New York Both of these performances ended with the audience eating the garments 17 According to the artist the primary artistic elements of such food performances would be the ephemeral composition of all the costumes together the observation of their disintegration through the act of eating and the lingering sense of gustatory titillation 15 He has also published scholarly articles in a variety of publications Most recently he edited the publication Amy Goldin Art in a Hairshirt 2011 18 a compilation of the art critic Goldin s essays He was interviewed for the film Women Art Revolution 19 Selected bibliography editA monograph on Kushner s three decades of artistic work Gardens of Earthly Delight was published by Hudson Hills Press in 1997 20 Wild Gardens a selection of Kushner s recent paintings with an essay by Michael Duncan was published by Pomegranate in 2006 Anderson Spivy Alexandra Robert Kushner Gardens of Earthly Delight New York Hudson Hills Press 1997 20 Robert Kushner Silk Road essay by Justin Spring DC Moore Gallery 2008 Robert Kushner On Location interview by Peter Eleey DC Moore Gallery 2007 Robert Kushner Wild Gardens Pomegranate 2006 essay by Michael Duncan 21 Robert Kushner Opening Doors introduction by Bridget Moore essay by Robert Kushner DC Moore Gallery 2004 22 Robert Kushner Hot Essay by Howard Rogers DC Moore Gallery 2001 Robert Kushner The Language of Flowers essay by Donald Kuspit foreword by Bridget Moore DC Moore Gallery 1998 23 Robert Kushner The Language of Flowers 1998 exhibition catalogue Robert Kushner Hot 2001 exhibition catalogue Robert Kushner Opening Doors 2004 exhibition catalogue Robert Kushner On Location 2007 exhibition catalogue Robert Kushner Silk Road 2009 exhibition catalogue Robert Kushner New Paintings New Collages 2012 exhibition catalogue Public collections editKushner s work is represented in numerous important public collections worldwide 24 including Albright Knox Art Gallery Buffalo NY Art Collection of the United States Embassy Panama Australian National Gallery Canberra Australia The Baltimore Museum of Art Baltimore MD Bowdoin College Museum of Art Brunswick ME The Brooklyn Museum of Art Brooklyn NY California Palace of the Legion of Honor San Francisco CA Carnegie Museum of Art Pittsburgh PA The Columbus Museum of Art Columbus OH The Contemporary Museum Honolulu HI The Corcoran Gallery of Art Washington DC The Denver Art Museum Denver CO Galleria degli Ufizzi Florence Italy Groninger Museum Groningen the Netherlands Honolulu Academy of Arts Honolulu HI J B Speed Museum Louisville KY J Paul Getty Trust Los Angeles CA Library of Congress Washington D C Los Angeles County Museum of Art Los Angeles CA The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY Milwaukee Art Museum Milwaukee WI The Minneapolis Institute of Arts Minneapolis MN Museum Ludwig Cologne Germany Museum Ludwig St Petersburg Russia Museum Moderner Kunst Palais Lichtenstein Vienna Austria The Museum of Modern Art New York NY The National Gallery of Art Washington D C Nelson Atkins Museum of Art Kansas City MO Neue Galerie Sammlung Ludwig Aachen Germany The Oakland Museum Oakland CA Orlando Museum of Art Florida Philadelphia Museum of Art Philadelphia PA Rockefeller Center New York NY San Francisco Museum of Modern Art San Francisco CA Sarah Moody Gallery of Art University of Alabama Tuscaloosa AL State of Hawaii St Louis Art Museum St Louis MO Peter Stuyvesant Foundation Amsterdam Holland The Tate Gallery London England Whitney Museum of American Art New York NY Wichita Art Museum Wichita KSNotable solo exhibitions edit 25 better source needed 2021 Robert Kushner I Heart Matisse DC Moore Gallery New York NY May 6 June 12 2021 2019 Robert Kushner By My Window DC Moore Gallery New York NY October 10 November 9 2019 2018 Robert Kushner Reverie Dupatta topia Texas Gallery Houston TX November 29 2018 January 5 2019 Robert Kushner Reverie Dupatta topia DC Moore Gallery New York NY May 3 June 16 2018 A Mist of Unknowing 8 ART GALLERY Tomio Koyama Gallery Tokyo Japan April 4 30 2018 Tracery and Plane Paintings by Robert Kushner Sarah Moody Gallery of Art The University of Alabama Tuscaloosa AL February 8 March 23 2018 2017 Robert Kushner Portraits amp Perennials DC Moore Gallery New York NY February 9 March 11 2017 Robert Kushner at 375 Hudson Street Saatchi amp Saatchi Building New York NY November 28 2017 May 2018 2016 Robert Kushner Jerald Melberg Gallery Charlotte NC March 11 April 23 2016 2015 Galleri DGV Svendborg Denmark Tenderness and Thorns Hakusasonso Hashimoto Museum Kyoto Japan September 9 27 2015 Robert Kushner Pleasure and Solace Eleanor D Wilson Museum Hollins University Roanoke VA June 16 September 12 2015 Robert Kushner baroque DC Moore Gallery New York NY January 8 February 14 2015 Robert Kushner Paintings amp Collages Texas Gallery Houston TX May 14 June 20 2015 Robert Kushner Patois Off Ramp Gallery Pasadena CA April 12 May 17 2015 2014 Robert Kushner Treasures Souvenirs Memories New Collages October 1 25 Yoshiaki Inoue Gallery Osaka Japan Robert Kushner Paintings 2010 2013 amp The Four Seasons January 10 April 12 2014 Carl Solway Gallery Cincinnati OH 2012 Robert Kushner New Paintings New Collages November 8 December 21 2012 DC Moore Gallery New York NY Robert Kushner New Work September 7 October 6 2012 Perimeter Gallery Chicago IL Robert Kushner s Scriptorium Devout Exercises of the Heart June 23 July 28 Joseph Clayes III Gallery La Jolla Athenaeum La Jolla CA Robert Kushner Wildflowers Garden Flowers June 30 August 4 Bellas Artes Santa Fe NM 2011 Robert Kushner Wildflower Convocation February 3 March 12 DC Moore Gallery New York NY Robert Kushner Flora Dreams Paintings and Works on Paper February 26 April 9 Jerald Melberg Gallery Charlotte NC Robert Kushner 30 Literary Nudes April 16 May 28 2011 Luis De Jesus Santa Monica CA 2009 Robert Kushner Paintings and Works on Paper van Straaten Gallery Denver CO Robert Kushner Caravansarai Bellas Artes Santa Fe NM Robert Kushner Federal Reserve System Washington DC Robert Kushner Silk Road DC Moore Gallery New York NY Robert Kushner New Work Perimeter Gallery Chicago IL 2007 Robert Kushner Federal Reserve System Washington DC Robert Kushner On Location DC Moore Gallery New York NY 2006 Robert Kushner Winter Bouquets Sandy Carson Gallery Denver CO Robert Kushner Red Series Yoshiaki Inoue Gallery Osaka Japan 2005 Robert Kushner Gallery Camino Real Boca Raton FL Robert Kushner Wistariahurst Museum Holyoke MA 2004 Robert Kushner Opening Doors DC Moore Gallery New York NY Gallery Camino Real Boca Raton FL Perimeter Gallery Chicago IL Robert Kushner New BYOBU Paintings Takada Gallery San Francisco CA Yoshiaki Inoue Gallery Osaka Japan 2003 Robert Kushner Sliding Doors Homage to John Cage DC Moore Gallery New York NY Yoshiaki Inoue Gallery Osaka Japan Gallery Orie Tokyo Japan Perimeter Gallery Chicago IL 2002 Kakishibu Gold Bellas Artes Santa Fe NM Takada Gallery San Francisco CA 2001 Oxy Gallery Osaka Japan Hot DC Moore Gallery New York NY The Contemporary Museum Honolulu Hawaii 2000 Robert Kushner Prints amp Drawings Yoshiaki Inoue Gallery Osaka Japan Florid Michael Lord Gallery Milwaukee WI New Work Lizan Tops Gallery East Hampton NY 1999 Robert Kushner Silk Leaves Paper Flowers Bellas Artes Santa Fe NM Robert Kushner Gallery APA Nagoya Japan Robert Kushner Lizan Tops Gallery East Hampton NY 1998 Robert Kushner New Works on Japanese Paper Hiromi Paper International Inc Bergamot Station Art Complex Santa Monica CA Robert Kushner The Language of Flowers DC Moore Gallery New York NY Robert Kushner Parchman Stremmel Galleries San Antonio TX Robert Kushner 25 Years of Making Art New Jersey Center For Visual Arts Summit NJ 1997 Robert Kushner Pomona and Flora DC Moore Gallery New York NY The Iris Series Works on Paper Gallery One Toronto Canada Mesas and Vistas Bellas Artes Santa Fe NM A Prayer for Peace Robert Kushner and Hiroshi Senju Hiroshima Prefectural Museum Japan Tenmaya Department Store Hiroshima Traveled to Tenmaya Department stores in Okayama and Fukuyama Japan The Pleasure of it All Robert Kushner s Flower Paintings Indianapolis Museum of Art Indianapolis IN Yoshiaki Inoue Gallery Osaka Japan Gallery Shiraishi Tokyo Japan 1996 Elliot Smith Fine Art St Louis MO Celestial Banquet The Fabric Workshop and Museum Philadelphia PA 1995 Mille Fleurs A Cornucopia of New Paintings Midtown Payson Galleries New York NY Robert Kushner Paintings and Monoprints Barbara Scott Gallery Miami Beach FL Robert Kushner Paintings and Drawings Parchman Stremmel Galleries San Antonio TX 1994 Robert Kushner Works on Paper Nina Freudenheim Gallery Buffalo NY Robert Kushner Works on Paper Gallery APA Nagoya Japan Robert Kushner New Etchings Crown Point Press San Francisco CA Neo Rimpa Robert Kushner amp Hiroshi Senju Gallery Inoue amp Yoshiaki Inoue Gallery Osaka Japan Pele s Garden Recent Monoprints Quartet Editions New York NY Gallerie OZ Paris France Blancpain Stepczynski Galerie Geneva Switzerland 1993 Robert Kushner Japanese Ceramics Yoshiaki Inoue Gallery Osaka Japan Robert Kushner Holly Solomon Gallery New York NY Forcing the Spring Floria Brown Gallery Woody Creek CO Seasons Montclair Art Museum Montclair NJ 1992 Timothy Brown Fine Art Aspen CO Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik Odense Denmark Yoshiaki Inoue Gallery Osaka Japan Four Seasons Midtown Payson Galleries New York NY 1991 Perennial Diary Holly Solomon Gallery New York NY Seasonal Furbelows A One Year Installation The American Craft Museum New York NY Leaves First Gallery Moscow Russia 1990 Gloria Luria Gallery Bay Harbor Islands FL Michael Lord Gallery Milwaukee WI Opulent Subversions Holly Solomon Gallery New York NY Gallery Basque Fukuoka Japan Traveled through 1991 to American Cultural Centers in Tokyo Sapporo Osaka and Nagoya Japan Black and White Prints Crown Point Press New York NY 1989 Aspen Art Museum Aspen CO Holly Solomon Gallery New York NY Silent Operas Staller Center for the Arts SUNY Stony Brook NY 1988 Robert Kushner Paintings and Sculpture Iannetti Lanzone Gallery San Francisco CA Michael Lord Gallery Milwaukee WI D amp J Bittker Gallery Birmingham MI J B Speed Art Museum Louisville KY 1987 Robert Kushner New Bronze Sculpture Holly Solomon Gallery New York NY Fay Gold Gallery Atlanta GA Institute of Contemporary Art University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia PA 1986 Rugg Road Boston MA Galerie Rudolf Zwirner Cologne Germany 1985 Holly Solomon Gallery New York NY Galleria Capricorni Venice Italy Mayor Gallery London England Crown Point Press New York NY 1984 McIntosh Drysdale Gallery Houston TX Robert Kushner Mixed Media on Fabric and Paper Brentwood Gallery St Louis MO Galleria Giulia Rome Italy Grand Lobby Installation The Brooklyn Museum Brooklyn NY Paintings on Paper The Whitney Museum of American Art New York NY 1983 Dart Gallery Chicago IL Holly Solomon Gallery New York NY 1982 Domestic Exotica Holly Solomon Gallery New York NY Gallery Rudolf Zwirner Cologne Germany University of Colorado Art Gallery Boulder CO Grafiek American Graffiti Gallery Amsterdam the Netherlands Souvenirs Studio Marconi Milan Italy Robert Kushner at USC The Helen Lindhurst Gallery University of Southern California Los Angeles CA Castelli Goodman Solomon East Hampton NY 1981 New Works The Mayor Gallery London England Galerie Bischofberger Zurich Switzerland New Robert Kushner Work Brainerd Art Gallery State University of New York at Potsdam Traveled to Danforth Museum Framingham MA Some Recent Acquaintances Holly Solomon Gallery New York NY Dreams and Visions Holly Solomon Gallery New York NY Asher Faure Gallery Los Angeles CA Akira Ikeda Gallery Nagoya Japan Barbara Gladstone Editions New York NY The Cupid Prints Holly Solomon Editions New York NY 1980 Dart Gallery Chicago IL 1979 The Dance The Kiss Daniel Templon Gallery Paris France Holly Solomon Gallery New York NY 1978 Mere Decoration Lunn Gallery Graphics International LTD Washington D C The Mayor Gallery London England 1977 Thorpe Intermedia Gallery Sparkill NY One Size Fits All Philadelphia College of Art Philadelphia PA Paper and Cloth Holly Solomon Gallery New York NY 1976 Persian Line Part II Holly Solomon Gallery New York NY 1975 The Persian Line The Kitchen New York NY Recent Works Rasdall Gallery University of Kentucky at Lexington KY Tie and Pie Boutique Holly Solomon Gallery New York NY 1971 Costumes for Moving Bodies Art Gallery University of California at San Diego La Jolla CAReferences edit Ian Chilvers Pattern and Decoration movement Encyclopedia com Retrieved 2012 05 30 Barry Schwabsky 3 May 1998 ART REVIEW Pattern and Decoration Abstract and Otherwise New York Times The New York Times Retrieved 30 May 2012 Robert Kushner Bellasartesgallery com Retrieved 2012 05 30 Blanton Museum of Art The University of Texas at Austin Blantonmuseum org Retrieved 2012 05 30 Wild Things e flux 2010 06 22 Retrieved 2012 05 30 4 Seasons Seasoned Robert Kushner 2004 Nycsubway org Retrieved 2012 05 30 John Leimbach Open gt Restaurant The Architect s Newspaper Archpaper com Retrieved 2012 05 30 Raleigh Durham International Airport Rdu com 1903 12 17 Archived from the original on 2012 06 04 Retrieved 2012 05 30 Russell John 1985 03 22 Art Whitney Presents Its Biennial Exhibition Review The New York Times Retrieved 2012 05 30 Anderson Spivy Alexandra Kushner Robert Cotter Holland 1997 Robert Kushner Gardens of Earthly Delight Alexandra Anderson Spivy Robert Kushner Holland Cotter Google Books ISBN 9781555951214 Retrieved 2012 05 30 Robert Kushner s Panoramic Paintings on Fabric Arcadia Dreaming Brooklyn Museum Retrieved 2012 05 30 About Robert Kushner SULAIR Lib stanford edu 1987 11 29 Retrieved 2012 05 30 Kardon Janet Kushner Robert 1987 Robert Kushner Institute of Contemporary Art University of Pennsylvania Janet Kardon Robert Kushner University of Pennsylvania Institute of Contemporary Art J B Speed Art Museum Aspen Art Museum Aspen Colo Google Books ISBN 9780884540434 Retrieved 2012 05 30 Pattern Crime amp Decoration a b Kushner Robert 2004 Food Clothing Gastronomica The Journal of Critical Food Studies 4 77 85 doi 10 1525 gfc 2004 4 1 77 Meyers Kingsley Dara Morris Catherine 2001 Off the Wall The Development of Robert Kushner s Fashion and Performance Art 1970 1976 Fashion Theory Kushner Robert 1995 Life in the Produce Aisle Art Journal 54 62 65 doi 10 1080 00043249 1995 10791679 Hard Press Editions announces Amy Goldin Art in A Hairshirt Art Criticism 1964 1978 absolutearts com 2012 02 16 Retrieved 2012 05 30 Anon 2018 a b Anderson Spivy Alexandra Kushner Robert Cotter Holland 1972 12 10 Robert Kushner Gardens of Earthly Delight Alexandra Anderson Spivy Robert Kushner Holland Cotter Google Books ISBN 9781555951214 Retrieved 2012 05 30 Robert Kushner Wild Gardens Robert Kushner Michael Duncan Google Books 2006 ISBN 9780764937699 Retrieved 2012 05 30 Frank Mary E 2004 Robert Kushner Opening doors Robert Kushner Bridget Moore Mary E Frank D C Moore Gallery Google Books Retrieved 2012 05 30 Kushner Robert Kuspit Donald Burton Moore Gallery D C 1998 Robert Kushner the language of flowers Robert Kushner Donald Burton Kuspit D C Moore Gallery Google Books Retrieved 2012 05 30 Robert Kushner Artist Bio International Print Center NY Ipcny org Archived from the original on 2012 08 04 Retrieved 2012 05 30 DC Moore Gallery DC Moore Gallery Retrieved 2012 05 30 Anon 2018 Artist Curator amp Critic Interviews Women Art Revolution Spotlight at Stanford Archived from the original on March 26 2018 Retrieved August 23 2018 External links editRobert Kushner at artnet Robert Kushner at DC Moore Gallery ArtForum February 2013 Robert Kushner Art Critical February 2011 Healing Hurt Pages Robert Kushner s Scriptorium Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Robert Kushner amp oldid 1174216532, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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