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ARTIST'S STATEMENT - BOGDAN SWIDER
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For the past twenty years the focus of my artwork has been landscape. My subject matter derives from sites throughout the American Southwest as well as from Mexico and Central America. I dedicated myself to this pursuit after studying the works of master painters and draftsman in museums. I am most influenced by European art from the period that begins in the Renaissance and ends in the late nineteenth century. The paintings of Titian, Theodore Rousseau and Caspar David Friedrich are of particular interest as are the drawings of Leonardo Da Vinci, Peter Paul Rubens and Paul Cezanne. My drawings are done outdoors directly from nature; my paintings are done in the studio using drawings as reference. I don't work from photos. The paintings are done in oil. The early layers are opaque paint the latter transparent glazes. Drawings intended primarily as reference for paintings are usually worked on in pencil; drawings that stand alone have been done in charcoal, conte and Japanese ink--separately or in unison. The fact that I derive my income from teaching allows me to work slowly and deliberately. Larger paintings often take a year to complete; I may devote two or three months to the preparatory studies alone. I like to think of myself as part of a long line of artists whose main task is translating, in a coherent way, what they perceive visually onto a two dimensional plane. The images in the Chauvet caves are probably the earliest extant examples of this vocation. They are still of great interest to us today. I hope my efforts are also of interest to others. |
CURRICULUM VITAE - BOGDAN SWIDER
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| Personal | |
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Address: 915 North Royer Colorado Springs, CO 80903 (719) 632-9233 |
Birthdate: March 18, 1947 Penleyhall, England U.S. Citizen |
| Education | |
| BFA in Painting |
School of the Art Institute of Chicago Chicago, IL - June 1969 Skowhegan School of Art Skowhegan, ME - June-August 1968 |
| MFA in Painting |
University of Florida Gainesville, FL - June 1971 |
| Exhibitions | |
| 2004 | Pierogi, The Flat Files, University Art Museum, Albany, NY (September 7 - November 22) |
| 2004 | Pierogi: The Flat Files, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburg, PA (February 6 - March 30) |
| 2003 | Pierogi: The Flat Files, The University of Southern Maine, Gorham, ME (September) |
| 2002-03 | New York, New Work, Now!, The Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH (September 28 - January 12) |
| 2002 | One-Man Show, Coburn Gallery, Colorado College |
| 2001 | The Pierogi Flatfiles, Block Artspace, Kansas City, MO (January 19 - February 28) |
| 2000 | Haulin' Ass, POST Galley, Los Angeles, CA (November 18 - December 16) |
| 2000 | Multiple Sensations, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA (August 4 - October 22) |
| 1999 | Faculty Art show, Coburn Gallery, Colorado College |
| 1999 | Pierogi 2000: The Flatfiles, Rosenwald - Wolf Galley, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA (November 4 - December 4) |
| 1998 | Pierogi Goes to College, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY (October 5 - November 5) |
| 1998 | Pierogi Goes to College, Bard College, Rheinbeck, NY (October 5 - November 5) |
| 1998 | Pierogi 2000, New York: The Flatfiles, Kunstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria (August 28 - September 28) |
| 1997-98 | Current Undercurrent: Working in Brooklyn, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY (July 24 - January 25) |
| 1997-98 | Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC (November 16 - January 18) |
| 1997 | New York Drawers, The Pierogi 2000 Flatfiles, Cornerhouse, Manchester, England (October 4 - November 16) |
| 1997 | New York Drawers, The Pierogi 2000 Flatfiles, Gasworks, London, England (August 30 - September 28) |
| 1997 |
Contemporary Drawing, Group Show, Brooklyn Museum New York Drawings, Group Show, University of North Carolina |
| 1996 |
Pierogi 2000 Drawing Collection/Gallery, New York, NY (March to present) Group Show (May), Caelum Gallery, New York, NY Group Show (July), Caelum Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1995 | One-Man Show, Coburn Gallery, Colorado College |
| 1990 | One-Man Show, Coburn Gallery, Colorado College |
| 1988 |
One-Man Show, Coburn Gallery, Colorado College Faculty Show, Coburn Gallery, Colorado College |
| 1987 |
Fifty - Memphis, TN Recharge - Denver, CO Colorado State Fair, Pueblo, CO |
| 1985 |
Fine Arts Competition at the Colorado State Fair Day of the Dead, Lawton, OK |
| 1984 |
Amarillo National Competition, Amarillo, TX One-Man Show, Canon City Fine Arts Center, Canon City, CO |
| 1983 |
College of the Mainland and National Competition, Texas City, TX 42nd Annual Cedar City National Art Exhibition, Cedar City, UT Amarillo Competition, Amarillo, TX |
| 1982 | Salmagundi Club Biennial, 5th Avenue, New York, NY |
| 1980 | 23rd Delta Exhibition, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR |
| 1979 | Faculty Exhibition, Memphis Academy of Arts, Memphis, TN |
| 1978 | 21st Delta Exhibition, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR |
| 1977 | Seventy-Sixth Chicago Show, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
| 1976 |
St. John's Gallery, Memphis, TN Invitation Exhibition, Brooks Memorial Art Museum, Memphis, TN |
| 1975 |
Traveling Exhibit, Atlanta Art Institute, Atlanta, GA Area Faculty Show, Brooks memorial Art Museum, Memphis, TN Mid-South Biennial, Brooks Memorial Art Museum, Memphis, TN, Juror's Award 18th Delta Exhibition, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR, Honorable Mention |
| 1974 |
Bogdan Swider's Paintings, One-Man Show, Lewis Gallery, Memphis, TN Area Show, Brooks Memorial Art Museum, Memphis, TN |
| 1973 | Paintings, Memphis Academy of Art, Memphis, TN |
| 1972 |
Paintings, Guilford College, Greensboro, NC Painting and Drawing, Greensboro College, Greensboro, NC |
| 1971 |
Micanopy Art Gallery, Micanopy, FL Graduate Show, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL Faculty Show, University of Northern Alabama, Florence, AL |
| Teaching | |
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9/03 to present 9/89 to 9/03 9/82 to 9/89 |
Professor - Colorado College Associate Professor - Colorado College Assistant Professor - Colorado College Colorado Springs, CO Drawing and Painting |
| 9/81 to 12/81 | Assistant Professor - Pratt Institute Brooklyn, NY Light, Color, and Design |
| 9/73 to 6/80 |
Assistant Professor - Memphis Academy of Arts Memphis, TN Design and Color Theory Painting and Figure Drawing |
| 9/72 to 6/73 |
Instructor - Guilford College Greensboro, NC Drawing and Art History (Renaissance & 20th Century) |
| 9/71 to 6/72 |
Instructor - Northwest Alabama State Florence, AL Drawing and Painting |
| 9/69 to 6/70 |
Graduate Assistant - University of Florida Gainesville, FL Teaching Figure Drawing |