Dean Fleming

Born:           Santa Monica, CA, 1933

Education:  California State Polytechnic College, San Luis Obispo, CA, 1951-52

                    Santa Monica City College, Santa Monica, CA, 1955

                    Mexico City College, Mexico D.F. 1955-56

                    San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA 1956-59 - BFA, MFA

 

Awards:       I. N. Walters Sculpture Award, San Francisco Art Institute 1958

                    First Prize Sculpture, Richmond Museum, Richmond California, 1960

                    Florsheim Foundation, 1998

                    Athena Foundation, 2001

                    Tanne Foundation, 2002

                    Pollock Krasner, 2013

 

Selected Solo Exhibitions:

                   2017 “Duality”, David Richard Gallery, New York City, NY

                   2014 University of Southern Colorado, Pueblo, CO

                   2013 Museum Of Friends, Waldenburg, CO

                   2005 Sangre de Christo Art Center, Pueblo, CO

      2003 Parkside Gallery, La Veta, CO

                   2000 Spacetime C. C., Long Island City, NY

                   1998 Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, CO

                   1983 Stephen Rosenberg Gallery, New York, NY

                   1982 Gallery of Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM

                   1979 Mills College Gallery, Oakland, CA

                   1978 Max Hutchinson Gallery, Houston, TX

                   1977 St. Charles Gallery, Denver, CO

                   1975 Max Hutchinson Gallery, New York, NY

                   1965, 1967 Park Place Gallery, New York, NY

                   1964 Westinghouse Laboratories, Pittsburgh, PA

                   1961 Batman Gallery, San Francisco, CA

                   1959 Spatsa Gallery, San Francisco, CA

                   1958 Russian Hill Gallery, San Francisco, CA

                   1957 Six Gallery, San Francisco, CA

 

Selected Group Exhibitions

                   2017 “Delirious, Art at the Limits of Reason”, Met Breuer, New York, NY

                   2017 “Inventing Downtown: Artist-Run Galleries in New York City, 1952-1965”

                             Grey Art Gallery NYU, New York, NY

                   2017 “Park Place and Friends”, David Richard Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

                   2015 Drop City 50th anniversary, La Veta, CO

                   2010-2012 Whitmore Gallery, La Veta, CO

                   2010-2011 Eckhaus, Stuttgart, Germany                             

                   2008 “Reimagining Space: The Park Place Gallery Group in 1960s New

                            York,”   Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX

                   2008 “Lost-Found-Lost,” University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, CO

                   2006  “Peace Tower,” Whitney Museum, New York, NY

                   2004 “Twister: Moving Through Color 1965-1977,” Jack S. Blanton

                               Museum of Art, Austin, TX

                   2003 “ Museum of Merchandise,” The Gershman Y, Philadelphia, PA

                   2003 “Comic Art, “ Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn, NY

                   2001 Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, CO

                   2000 Studio 18 Gallery, New York, NY

                   1994 “Artists of Upper Huerfano,” Fremont County Center for the Arts,

                            Cañon City, CO

                   1993 “100^th Anniversary,“ Denver Museum of Art, Denver, CO

                   1992 Colorado Artists, Sangre de Cristo Arts Center, Pueblo, CO

                   1988 Huerfano County Arts Council, Walsenburg, CO

                   1987 “I-25 Artists,” University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, CO

                   1986 Galeria Uno, Puerto Vallerta, Jalisco, Mexico

                   1981 Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD

                   1975 Tomlinson Gallery, Albuquerque, NM

                   1974 “I-25 Artists,” Sangre de Cristo Arts Center, Pueblo, CO

                   1972 Casa de Cultura, Quito, Ecuador

                   1971 “Paintings of the Sixties,” Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, TX

                   1969 “Thirty-First Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting”,

                             Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

                   1968 Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

                   1968 “Park Place Group Show,” Massachusetts Institute of Technology,

    Cambridge, MA

                   1968 “International Monumental Sculpture Symposium,” Burns

                              Park, CO

                   1968 “Cool Art: Abstraction Today,” Newark Art Museum, Newark, NJ

                   1968  “From Synchromism Forward,” Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA

                   1967  “Park Place Group Show,” Friends of Contemporary Art, Lincoln Towers,

                              Denver, CO

                   1967 “Premio Internacional,” Instituto Torcuato di Tella, Buenos Aires,

   Argentina

                   1967 Museo del Arte, Caracas, Venezuela

                   1967 Arts Council, “Museum of Merchandise,” Young Women’s Hebrew

Association, Philadelphia. PA

                   1967 “Art For the City,” Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA

                   1967 New School of Social Research, New York, NY

                   1966 “Systemic Painting,” Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY1966 “Highlights of the                     

                   1965-66 Season,” Larry Aldrich Museum,

    Ridgefield, CT

                   1966 Jacksonville Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, FL

                   1965 “4D,” Daniels Gallery, New York, NY

                   1965 J. P. Lannan Museum, Palm Beach, FL

                   1964 Carnegie Institute [Carnegie Mellon], Pittsburgh, PA

                   1964 Noah Goldowsky Gallery, New York, NY

                   1962-67 Park Place Gallery, New York, NY

                   1961 San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA

                   1961 “Sculpture Annual, “ Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA

                   1960 “Sculpture Annual,” Richmond Museum, Richmond, CA

                   1960 “Painting Annual,” Oakland, Museum, Oakland, CA

                   1956-58 Six Gallery, San Francisco, CA

              

Teaching:  

                   1983 School of Visual Arts, New York, NY

                   1981 Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD

                   1979 Mills College, Oakland, CA

                   1972 Picalquí Art Center, Tabacundo, Ecuador

                   1966 Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

                   1963-64 Carnegie Institute [Carnegie Mellon], Pittsburgh, PA

                   1961-62 Fredonia State College [SUNY Fredonia], Fredonia, NY

                   1959-61 San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA

 

Traveled and Painted:

                   Military service in Korea with frequent travel to Japan 1953-54

                   Mexico City 1954-56

     San Francisco, CA 1956-61

     New York City, NY 1961-63

     Pittsburgh, PA 1963-64

                  North Africa, Egypt, Lesbos (Greece), Europe, 1964

                  New York City, NY 1965-67

     Libre, Colorado 1968-Present

                 Japan 1970

    Mexico, Central America 1971-72

                 Picalquí, Tabacundo, Ecuador 1972

                 Colombia, Peru, 1972

                 Yelapa, Jalisco, Mexico 1985-89

                 Europe 1990, 1997, 2001

                 Ibiza, Spain 1997

                 Mexico 2003

                 Nice, France 2005

                 Sayulita, Nayarit, Mexico 2008, 2009

                 Bocas del Toro, Panama 2010, 2011                 

Founding Member:

                Six Gallery, San Francisco, CA

  Park Place Gallery, New York, NY

  Libre Incorporated, Gardner, CO