Joshua Dorman 18 November - 23 December, 2005 Opening, Friday, 18 November 7-9pm   The Stink Bugs and Their Allies (Detail), 2005 Ink on antique maps on panel 20 x 43 inches         Reckoning, 2005 Ink, acrylic, oil on antique maps on panel 36 x 28 inches       While We Slept II, 2005 Ink, acrylic, oil on antique maps on two panels 64 x 36 inches       Lost Travels, 2005 Ink, acrylic, oil on antique maps on panel 36 x 28 inches         Waterland, 2005 Ink, acrylic, oil on antique maps on panel 48 x 50 inches     Pierogi is pleased to present new work by Joshua Dorman. Dorman paints and collages on found maps, drawing upon their systems. He uses their graphic symbols (be they topographical indications, county lines, lakes, streams, et cetera) as a point of departure, or a point of entry. One dotted county line on a map of the Monticello area turns into a stone wall, while another becomes a road for trucks and cars; at the mark pinpointing a town, buildings sprout up and out, piled one on top of another. On a Topographical map of Lake Champlain a small shape denoting an island telescopes out into a complex green plateau. Dorman notes I am not a landscape painter. My goal is not to depict the way light plays on treetops, but I do want to get inside to see the rings of the trees, explore the structure of the roots and branches, understand the bark. Lately, I’ve been using maps to find my way. I was seduced by these obsolete weathered pages—their elegant lines revealing eons of geological shift and erosion—all translated by human mind and hand. I tilt these flattened lands into the frontal plane and then I seek routes and valleys back into space. I’m hoping for vertigo. But there is no one way to lose my balance. I follow a river with ink. I clog a harbor with oil paint. ...After the Fall of 2001, I found I needed to erect buildings out of the grid work of the maps. I could no longer avoid the human presence in my work or continue to invent a pastoral universe. Paul Auster, who curated an exhibition of Dorman’s work, writes The map pieces are tantalizing, elusive works. Though small in scale, they are difficult to describe, almost impossible to pin down in words, and yet they hold our attention in the same way that stories do. So much is going on in them that we feel compelled to look for a narrative, as if by ‘reading’ the images before us we could finally grasp them in all their complexity. But the story I will read in one of these pictures is not the same story you will read. (Auster, 2004)   RESUME: Education M.F.A., Queens College, Flushing, NY, 1992 B.A. Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY Solo Exhibitions 2005 Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Cal State, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA Lake George Arts Project, Lake George, NY Galerie Francoise, Baltimore, MD 2004 The CUE Foundation Gallery, Curated by Paul Auster, New York, NY 2003 55 Mercer Gallery, New York, NY St. George’s School, Hunter Gallery, Newport, RI 2002 Quincy University Gallery, Quincy, Il. New Works on Old Paper Doma, New York, NY 2001 55 Mercer Gallery, New York, NY Wolf Group, New York, NY 2000 Allen Sheppard Gallery, Piermont, NY 1999 55 Mercer Gallery, New York City; “The Daily Works: 365 Miniatures Galerie Gora, Montréal, Quebec 1997 55 Mercer Gallery, New York NY 1996 Galerie Francoise, Baltimore, MD, two-person show with Joan Snyder 1995 Baltimore City Hall, Baltimore, MD, two-person show with Mary Flinn Resurgam Gallery, Baltimore, MD Gallery M, Baltimore, MD Selected Group Exhibitions 2005 Islip Art Museum, Islip, NY, "The Nature of Things" Lehman College Gallery, Bronx, NY, "The City" 2004 Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA, "Full Disclosure" The Drawing Center, New York, NY, "Playpen" (as part of Austin Thomas’ Perch Project) The National Academy Museum, New York, NY, 179th Exhibition of Contemporary Art 2003 Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA, "The New Topography" 2002 Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn,NY, "What Happened in Lime Mills?" Santa Ana College Gallery, Santa Ana, CA, "Pulp Friction" drawing show "Stucture & Situation," travelling show, Los Angeles, CA 2001 Julie Heller Gallery, Provincetown, MA 2000 The Balcony Gallery, Kaufman Cultural Center, New York, NY, "Apparitions" Exhibition Space 156, Williamsburg, Brooklyn Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, "Wunderkammer Show" Barbara Ann Levy Gallery, Fire Island, NY 55 Mercer Gallery, New York, NY, "The Poetry of Earth," curated by William Corbett 1999 Makor Gallery, New York, NY, "Elemental Sources," curated by Lance Esplund Gomez Gallery, Baltimore, MD 1997 Elena Zang Gallery, Woodstock, NY, "Small Works" Cork Gallery at Lincoln Center, New York, NY 1996 Bowery Gallery, New York City; Gabriel Laderman, juror 80 Washington Square Gallery, New York, NY, Edward Thorp, juror Denise Bibro, New York, NY, "Poetic, Romantic, Expressionist," Michael Walls, juror 1995 "Semaphore," New York, NY, curated by Bill Bace, mounted in TriBeCa warehouse Bibliography 2004 Reed, John. Artforum online, Critics Picks, (CUE Foundation show) The New Yorker, Goings on About Town, Nov. 15 (CUE Foundation show) Naves, Mario. The New York Observer, Nov. 22 (CUE Foundation show) Esplund, Lance. Art in America 2003 Smith, Sylvia. Newport This Week The Villager TriBeCa newspaper 2001 Modern Painters, "What Happened in Lime Mills?" Rotunda Gallery "Josh Dorman Drawings" (essay), William Corbett, in Post Road literary journal 2001 Esplund, Lance. Modern Painters (Recent Works, 55 Mercer Gallery) Corbett, William. "Josh Dorman’s New Paintings" (essay), in All Prose (Zoland Books) Commissions, Murals, Corporate Collections 2002 The Ozer Group, Wellesley, MA Painting used for cover of “The Atrocity Paradigm," Oxford University Press 2001 The iFormation Group, Inc., New York, NY 2000 Painting used for cover of Cognitive Neuroscience by Dr. Randall O’Reilly, MIT Press 1999 Painting for Phillip Johnston's Transparent Quartet Needless Kiss CD Mural for Clinton/Washington Subway Station, Brooklyn, NY 1997 Murals for Bon Secours Hospital low-income housing, Baltimore, MD 1997 Memorial Sloan Kettering Collection, New York, NY Aceldama: Co-creator and editor of a limited edition art journal, produced quarterly. Each hand-bound copy contains an original miniature painting, short fiction, and other illustrations and text. Residencies, Curating, Lectures 2003 Visiting Artist, Manchester College, Manchester, CT Gallery talk and slide lecture, Islip Museum, Islip, NY 2004 Yaddo, June residency, Saratoga Springs, NY Curator of "A Bestiary," 55 Mercer Gallery, 16 emerging artists, NY, NY 2003 Curator of four shows at the Balcony Gallery at Merkin Concert Hall, NY, NY Curator of "Fire Works," 55 Mercer Gallery, Show of 8 artists, NY, NY 1998 Millay Colony, Milton and Sally Avery Fellow, Austerlitz, NY Fellowship Award, Studios Midwest, Galesburg, IL 1992 Resident, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT Visiting Artist and Lecturer, Rider College, Princeton, NJ Coordinator, Visiting Artist Lecture Series, Queens College M.F.A. Program Teaching Experience 2005 The Spence School, New York, NY 2004 Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD, Visiting critic and lecturer 2003 Rider University, Princeton, NJ 1997-present Skidmore College, Summer Six Program, Saratoga Springs, NY Drawing and Painting classes for college and advanced high school students; art history lectures St. Georges School, Visiting lecturer, Newport, R.I. 2000-present City University of New York (NYCTC), Brooklyn, NY Life Drawing. 1999-present The Educational Alliance Art School, New York, NY Introductory Painting classes for adults and high school students. 1998 Learning Through an Expanded Arts Program (LEAP), New York, NY Eight week residencies in public schools; drawing, painting, bookmaking Nightingale Bamford School, New York, NY 1991-1992 Maspeth Community Center, Maspeth, NY Introductory Drawing and Painting for students ages 12-75. 1991-1992 Queens College, Flushing, NY Visiting Artist lecturer, Rider College, Princeton, NJ
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