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Ad Code: 4
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"Descending S, 1971", Oil on linen,
75 x 47" signed
Artwork images are copyright of the artist or assignee
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Biography from David Hall Fine Art, LLC:
|  Ernest Dieringer is a Chicago born and educated painter whose raw large
scale canvasses of floating forms of color were first exhibited at the
Wells Street Gallery in Chicago. Within a few years, Dieringer
like many of his Wells Street artist friends had moved to New York.
In 1962 he had his first one man show at the Poindexter Gallery
exhibiting alongside, Willem de Kooning, Richard Diebenkorn, Franz
Kline and Emerson Woelffer. Dieringer’s work caught the attention of
noted art historian, Clement Greenberg, and in 1964 he was included in
the now famous Greenberg exhibition, “Post Painterly
Abstraction.” Greenberg saw a new era of painting emerging that
was reacting to the prior two decades of Abstract Expressionism.
Among the thirty one artists included in this exhibit were Sam Francis,
Helen Frankenthaler, Ellsworth Kelly, Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland and
Frank Stella.
Dieringer’s work falls into several distinct
periods. After graduating from the Art Institute of Chicago in the mid
1950’s he focused on creating large scale expressive colorful canvasses
of random floating forms. The intensity of these forms ranged from very
deliberate and direct statements to more painterly orchestrations of
colors often achieving a fleeting Cezanne like atmosphere.
In the early 1960’s, Dieringer started to reign in his compositions,
using large paint soaked sponges which allowed him to draw long, thick
translucent forms in turn creating common symbols such as an asterisk
or a zig-zag. By the mid 1960’s the compositions become more
formal. Wide linear bands of color often applied in semi
transparent layers at first appear very controlled but the artist
cleverly introduces arbitrary relationships within the forms. The
artistic logic of these random statements prevents these formal
compositions from becoming predictable and repetitive.
Dieringer then moved into hard-edged geometric images of color so
intense and powerful the works seem difficult to contain as you view
them. In the early 1970’s, having pushed the boundaries of color
and form, Dieringer pulled back from the high keyed palette of his
earlier compositions and sought out the clarity and nuance of form
revealed when using pure white paint applied via an airbrush on raw
linen. These overlapping geometric forms were described in a New York Times
review by the art historian and critic, Hilton Kramer, as being “a sort
of constructivist sculpture rendered in pictorial form.”
Dieringer would continue to explore the possibilities of this medium
creating both monochromatic and multi color compositions.
The
one consistent element present in all periods of Dieringer’s work is
that of the experimental process. He would use non-traditional
means to achieve his painterly goals. This required in-studio
experimentation until he found or created the method capable of
producing the image and its effect. Giant sponges, spray paint,
airbrush and constant experimentation is what we are left with in these
magnificent works.
Ernest Dieringer, American, b. 1932
Studied; Art Institute of Chicago, National Scholastic Scholarship; 1950 - 54
US Army; 1955 - 1957
Teacher; Painting & Drawing, Hyde Part Art Center, Chicago, 1958, 1959
Teacher; Chicago and NY Public High Schools, 1958 - 60
ONE-MAN EXHIBITIONS
Wells Street Gallery, Chicago, 1959
Poindexter Gallery, NY, 1962, 64, 66, 68, 70, 72
Greenwich Art Center, Greenwich, Ct. 1973
William Sawyer Gallery San Francisco, CA. 1973
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Chicago Art Institute, 1955
Exhibition Momentum, Chicago; 1955 - 1957
Wells Street Gallery, Chicago, 1958
Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, 1959
Montana Historical Society, Permanent Collection, 1961
Fairweather - Hardin Gallery, Chicago, 1963
Dealers Choice, Contemporary Arts Association, Houston, 1963, 1964
Dayton Art Institute, 1964
Post Painterly Abstraction; National Traveling Exhibition, curated by Clement Greenberg
Park Bernet Summer Show, NY, 1964
Riverside Museum, NY Artists, 1964
American Artist Show, Art Institute of Chicago, 1964
Daniels Gallery, NY, 1965
American Painting, Univ. Of IL, Champaign Urbana, 1965
New England Annual, 1971, Abstract Painting Award
Chicago Expatriates, Illinois Bell Gallery, Chicago, 1972
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