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|  Eleanore Mikus is known for monochromatic kinesthetic moving surfaces
on canvas, wood, and paper. From 1960-1968, she did paintings
called The Tablets and did Paper Folds from early 1960 to the
present. She continued to create paper folds into monochromatic
kinesthetic moving surfaces and also paintings. A period from
late 1969 to 1981 was her Neo-Expressionist period.
EDUCATION:
The School of Arts and Crafts, Detroit, Michigan
Arts Students League, New York City
Three years of independent study in Central Europe
B.F.A., M.A., University of Denver, Denver, Colorado
HONORS AND AWARDS:
2004 Yaddo Grant in Drawing/Painting
2001 Research Grant, Cornell University
1988 Dean’s Fund for Excellence of Architecture, Art and Planning, Cornell University
1985 Women’s Development Fund Grant, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
Summer 1969 McDowell Fellow in Painting
Summer 1968 Tamarind Fellow in Lithography
1966–1967 Guggenheim Fellow in Painting
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2008 University of Texas, Austin, Texas, Jack S. Blanton Museum
2006 Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona, “Fresh Eyes!”
2004 University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, “Small Giants”
2003 Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York:
“Cornell University Department of Art Faculty Exhibition
2001 Armory Show, Mitchell Algus Gallery, New York City
2001 Variations: Works on Paper, The Project Room, Ebert Gallery, San Francisco
1999 Armory Show, Mitchell Algus Gallery, New York City
1998 Mitchell Algus: New York City, “White"
1997 Intimate Universe (Revisited), Robert Steele Gallery, New York City
1996–2001 Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York:
“Cornell University Department of Art Faculty Exhibition”
1995 Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, New York: "Essence and Persuasion”
1991 Tamarind Lithographs Moss Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1979–1994 Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York:
“Cornell University Department of Art Faculty Exhibition”
1986 Art and Culture Center, Hollywood, Florida
Headley-Whitney Museum, Lexington, Kentucky
1984 Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles:
“Twenty-five Year Tamarind Retrospective”
New Acquisitions Gallery, Syracuse, New York: “Paper in the Works”
Navy Pier, Chicago: “Chicago’s International Art Exposition”
1983 Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York:
“Women Artists: Selected Works from the Collection”
1982–1986 Mary Baskett Gallery, Cincinnati
1982, 83 Webb-Parsons Gallery, New Canaan, Connecticut
1980–1985 OK Harris Gallery, New York City
1980–84, 94, 96, 03 Upstairs Gallery, Ithaca, New York
1977 Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro: “Art on Paper”
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia
1975 Newark Public Library Lithographs, Newark, New Jersey
1974 Museum of Modern Art, New York City: “Printed, Cut, Folded and Torn”
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
1973 Akron Art Institute, Akron, Ohio
Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey: “Beyond Easel Painting”
1972 Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut
Finch Museum, New York City: “Prints from Hollander’s Workshop”
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio
University of Utah, Salt Lake City: “Drawing and Painting Annual”
1971 State University at Potsdam, New York: “Women in Art”
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City: “Twentieth Century”
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City: “Oversized Prints”
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City: “Women’s Show”
1970 New Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis: “Painting and Sculpture Today”
1969 Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut:
“Survey of Contemporary Art”
1968–1969 Bradford, England: “First British International Print Biennale”
1969 Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Annual, Philadelphia
1968 Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
1967 Loeb Student Center, New York University, New York City
1965 Museum of Modern Art, New York City: “New Acquisitions”
Andrew Dickson White Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
1964 Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York
Hanover Gallery, London, England
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS:
The National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
The New York Public Library, New York City
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama
Housatonic Art Museum, Bridgeport, Connecticut
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York
Cincinnati Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio
University of Denver, Denver, Colorado
Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, Fort Worth, Texas
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana
H. F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
Coco Gallery, Kyoto, Japan
The Gallery, Kyoto, Japan
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England
Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, California
Grey Art Gallery, New York University Art Collection, New York City
The Public Library of Newark, Newark, New Jersey
Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, California
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
Lewis and Clark, Portland, Oregon
Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Massachusetts
Museum of Arts and Science, Staten Island, New York
Tatsaya Tanami, International House of Japan, Tokyo, Japan
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Triensboro
Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona
Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, Hawaii
University of Arizona, Tucson Arizona
University of Texas, Austin, Texas, Jack S. Blanton Museum
De Cordova Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts
TEACHING:
1994 to present: Professor Emeritus, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.
June 1992 to 1994: Professor of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.
September 1979 to June 1992: Associate Professor of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.
Spring 1989: Professor in the College of Art and Architecture Rome Program.
October
1973 to June 1977: Visiting Lecturer in Painting,
Central School of Art and Design, Southampton Row, London.
September 1974 to June 1977: Visiting Lecturer in Painting, Kensington Institute, London.
September
1975 to June 1976: Visiting Lecturer in Painting,
Harrow College of Technology and Art, Northwick Park, Harrow, England.
September
1970 to June 1972: Visiting Lecturer in Painting,
Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York.
January 1966 to June 1970: Assistant Professor of Art, Monmouth College, West Long Branch, New Jersey.
PUBLICATIONS:
2007 Eleanore Mikus: The Drawing Paper #65, “From Shell to Skin. Luis Camnitzer, The Drawing
Center, November 11, 2006 – February 10, 2007. #65 Edward
Hallam Tuck Publication Program 2006-2007, N.Y.C.
1991
Eleanore Mikus: Shadows of the Real. Hobbs/Bernstock, Groton
House, Ithaca, in association .with Washington University Press,
Seattle and London.
1988 Laura Wesley, Eleanore Mikus. Q, A Journal of Art, July, pp.28-31, Cornell University.
1983
Women Artists: Selected Works from the
Collection. Ithaca, N.Y.: Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell
University, Judith E. Bernstock.
1981 Handbook of the Collections, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Thomas W. Leavitt.
American Art in the Newark Museum, The Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey, Fearn C. Thurlon.
1972 Women in Art, Potsdam, N.Y.: Art Gallery, Brainerd Hall, State University of New York College at
Potsdam, Benedict Goldsmith.
1971 Tamarind. A Renaissance of Lithography. Los Angeles: Tamarind LithographyWorkshop,
E. Maurice Bloch.
1970 Painting and Sculpture Today. Indianapolis: Indianapolis Museum of Art, Carl J. Weinhardt.
REVIEWS:
2008
Salvador Castillo, The Austin Chronicle, Folded, Torn, Cut, Woven, and
Pulled., The Blanton
Museum, Austin, Texas, May 2, 2008
2007
Buzz Spector, Art on Paper, Eleanore Mikus at The Drawing Center,
New York, March/April 2007, Vol 11. No. 4
2007
Martha Schwendener, The New York Times, Eleanore Mikus, The
Drawing Center, November 11 through February 10, 2007
2007 Artists Unite Issue, Article Sky Pape, Eleanore Mikus at The Drawing Center
2007
Robert Ayers, Art Info Com, February 5, 2007, Eleanore Mikus at
The Drawing Center, November – February 2007, New York City
2007 Daniel Belasco, Art in America, Eleanore Mikus at The Drawing Center, April 2007
2006 The New Yorker, The Drawing Center, Eleanore Mikus, December 4, 2006
1999 Eleanor Heartney, Art in America, Eleanore Mikus at Claudia Carr and Mitchell Algus. May 1999
1998
Mark Daniel Cohen, Review Magazine, The Critical State of Visual
Art in New York, Paintings 1960's -1990's, Mitchell Algus Gallery and
Works on Paper 1960-1998, Claudia Carr Gallery October 14 - November 14
J.
Bower Bell, Review Magazine, Paintings 1960's -1990's, Mitchell Algus
Gallery, and Works on Paper, Claudia Carr Gallery, October 14 -
November 14
Ray Johnson, New York Times, November 6 Mitchell Algus
Gallery, Paintings 1960's -1990's, and Works on Paper, Claudia Carr
Gallery 1960's - 1990's October 14 - November 14
Ray Johnson, New York Times, Mitchell Algus Gallery, "White", August 5 - August 21
1997
George Baumgardner, The Ithaca Journal, Ithaca, NYArts and
Leisure, May 1, Mikus art mixes feeling, form. Mikus Paintings,
drawings and paperfolds, April 22 - May 24,Upstairs Gallery, Ithaca
1995 Essence & Persuasion, The Power of Black and White, Anderson Gallery Buffalo, April 1, May 13
1993
Woman’s Art Journal, Eleanore Mikus, Shadow of The Real Essay by
Robert Hobbs and Judith Bernstock, Groton House and University of
Washington Press, Spring 1991/Summer 1993
1984 Sherry Chayat, Exhibition Not Papered Over. Syracuse Herald American StarsMagazine, September 30
1980 Jeanne Mackin. Upstairs Trio Offers Wide Range. Ithaca Journal, May 10
Carol Spence. Cherished Simplicity. Ithaca Times, May 8-14
1979 Jeanne Mackin. Faculty Art Show Is a Mixed Bag. Ithaca Journal, September 29
1972 Arts Magazine, June (review of solo show at OK Harris Gallery)
Art News, Summer (review of solo show at OK Harris Gallery)
1971 Arts Magazine, April (review of solo show at OK Harris Gallery)
Gordon Brown.: New York Galleries. Arts Magazine, April, p.92 (review of solo show at OK Harris Gallery)
1966 Artist Wins Guggenheim Fellowship. Asbury Park Evening Press, April 4
College Art Teacher Granted Study Award. Asbury Park Evening Press, May 18
1964 Arts Magazine, February (review of solo show at Pace Gallery)
Suzi Gablik. Reviews and Previews: New Names this Month, Art News, February, p.18 (review of solo show at Pace Gallery)
Old
Hundred, Opening Exhibition: Selections from the Larry Aldrich
Contemporary Collection, 1951-1964. Ridgefield, Conn.: Aldrich Museum
of Contemporary Art
Visitors East, February (review of solo show at Pace Gallery)
1960
Carlyle Surrows. A Fresh Season Begins Promptly. New York Herald
Tribune, September 11, sec.4 (review of show at Pietrantanio Gallery)
James R. Mellow. In the Galleries. Arts Magazine, September, p.65 (review of show at Pietrantonio Gallery)
1958 Eugene Lewis. Art Notes. Dallas Times Herald, January 26
Source:
Information was provided by the artist
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