DON GUMMER

Born Louisville, Kentucky, December 12, 1946
Lives and works in New York, NY


EDUCATION

  • School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts

  • Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut; B.F.A, M.F.A

  • Indiana University, Indianapolis, Indiana; L.H.D

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

  • 112 Greene Street, New York, NY

  • Artists Space, New York, NY

  • Sperone Westwater Fischer, New York, NY

  • "Surrounded by Divisons," Castle Clinton, Battery Park, New York, NY
    Sperone Westwater Fischer, New York, NY

  • Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, New York, NY
    The Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH

  • Sperone Westwater Fischer, New York, NY
    "Spiral Crown," Seagram Plaza, New York, NY

  • Sperone Westwater, New York, NY

  • Sperone Westwater, New York, NY

  • "Planes of Nature" permanent installation,
    Evansville Museum of Arts and Science, Evansville, IN

  • Sperone Westwater, New York, NY

  • Sperone Westwater, New York, NY

  • Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

  • "House of Music" permanent installation,
    Kitakyushu International Center, Kitakyushu, Japan

  • Fred Hoffman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
    Ten-Jin Project permanent installation, Kitakyushu, Japan

  • Sperone Westwater, New York, NY

  • Sperone Westwater, New York, NY

  • "Sculpture by Don Gummer,"
    650 Madison Avenue Exhibition Program, New York, NY
    Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York, NY

  • Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York, NY

  • Eckert Fine Arts, Naples, FL
    "Primary Compass" permanent installation,
    Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH

  • "The Lyrical Constructivist: Don Gummer Sculpture," Evansville
    Museum of Arts, History & Science, Evansville, IN
    [itinerary: Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH; Indiana State Museum, Indianapolis, Indiana, IN]

  • Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York, NY

  • "Southern Circle" permanent installation,
    Meridian Street Plaza, Indianapolis, IN

  • Galleria delle Esposizioni Benucci, Rome, Italy
    "Primary Separation" permanent installation, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA

  • Marlborough, New York, NY

  • "Fountain for Viva Astaldi",
    Permenant Installation, Rome, Italy

  • "County, City, Desert"
    Imago Galleries, Palm Desert, CA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

  • Sperone Westwater Fischer, New York

  • Sperone Westwater Fischer, New York
    "Eight Sculptors," Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York

  • "Current/New York," Joe and Emily Lowe Art Gallery,
    University of Syracuse, Syracuse, New York
    "Art In Our Time," H. H. K. Foundation for Contemporary Art,
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

  • "James Biederman, Don Gummer, Nigel Hall, Mel Kendrick,
    Avital Oz," The Clocktower, New York
    "Media Relief," John Weber Gallery, New York
    "Instruction Drawings," The Gilbert and Lila Silverman Collection,
    Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
    "New Visions," The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut
    "Summer Exhibitions," Sperone Westwater Fischer, New York
    "35 Artists Return to Artists Space," The Artists Space, New York

  • "Biederman/Gummer/Kendrick," The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
    "1982 Invitational Exhibition," The Berkshire Museum,
    Pittsfield, Massachusetts

  • "Concepts in Construction: 1910-1980,"
    Traveling exhibition organized and circulated by Independent Curators Incorporated, New York; travels 1983-1985

  • "A Decade of New Art," Artists Space, New York

  • "A Sculpture on the Wall," Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut

  • "The Kentuckians: 1987," National Arts Club, New York; Owensboro Museum of Fine Art, Owensboro, Kentucky

  • "40th Annual Academy/Institute Purchase Exhibition,"
    American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York

  • "Summer Sculpture Exhibition," Sperone Westwater, New York
    "Artists for Amnesty," Blum Helman, Germans van Eck, New York
    "Recent Works," Embassy Suites Hotel, New York

  • "Yale Collects Yale," Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven

  • "Abstraction II," Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York
    "Defining Structure," Nations Bank Plaza, Charlotte, NC

  • Galleria d'Arte Benucci, Rome, Italy,

  • "Hypothetical Landscapes," Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

  • "Gummer/Arnoldi," Eckert Fine Art, Kent, CT

AWARDS

  • Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant

  • National Endowment of the Arts

  • American Academy in Rome, Visiting Artist

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

  • The Butler Institute of American Art

  • Chase Manhattan Bank, New York

  • Chemical Bank, New York

  • Creative Artists Association, Los Angeles

  • Evansville Museum of Arts and Science, Evansville, Indiana

  • The Equitable, New York

  • Hiroshima Lying-in Hospital, Hiroshima, Japan

  • International Creative Management, New York

  • Kitakyushu International Center, Kitakyushu, Japan

  • Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, Denmark

  • McCrory Corporation, New York

  • Joseph E. Seagram Company, New York

PUBLIC COMMISSIONS

  • Butler Art Institute, Youngstown, Ohio

  • Evansville Museum of Arts and Science, Evansville, Indiana

  • Kitakyushu International Center, Kitakyushu, Japan

  • Kitakyushu Concert Hall, Kitakyushu, Japan

  • MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA

  • Meridian Street Plaza, Indianapolis, IN

  • Ohio Vallery Art League, Henderson, Kentucky

CATALOGUES

  • Yau, John. East of Ocean/ South of Sunset.
    New York, New York: Lake Island, 1995.

  • Yau, John. Don Gummer: Sculpture.
    New York, New York: Salander-O'Reillery Galleries, 2000.

  • Plagens, Peter. The Lyrical Constructivist: Don Gummer Sculpture.
    Chesterfield, MA: Chameleon Books, Inc., 2001.

  • Thompson, Joseph. Primary Separation.
    North Adams, MA: MASS MoCA, 2005..

BIBLIOGRAPHY

  • Rosemary Mayer, Arts Magazine 4/1 (September/October), p. 67.

  • Sue Heinemann, Artforum 12/6 (March), pp. 80-81.

  • John Russell, The New York Times (March 4) p. C21.

  • Jean E. Feinberg, editor, Interpretations '79, National Park Service and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York.
    Grace Glueck, "Don Gummer," The New York Times (October 26).
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    Kay Larson, "Castle Clinton," The Village Voice (July 2) p. 63.
    Kay Larson, "Imperialism with a Grain of Salt," The Village Voice (September 17) p. 79.
    "New Sculpture at Fort Clinton Blends with the Shape of its Surroundings," The New York Times (August 29) p. 20.
    Douglas Schultz, Eight Sculptors, Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York, pp. 5, 6, 26-32.
    "Sculpture: New Directions," Buffalo Courier Express (March 11).
    William Zimmer, "Mask Marvel," The Soho Weekly News (November 8) p. 58.

  • Carolyn Kinder Carr, "An Interview with Don Gummer," Dialogue (November/December) pp. 44-47.
    I. Michael Danoff, introduction, Art in Our Time, H. H. K. Foundation for Contemporary Art, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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    Tannenbaum, Phyllis, Art in America 68/2 (February) p. 130.
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    The Gilbert and Lila Silverman Collection, Instruction Drawings, Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, pp. 22, 67.

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    Larson, Kay, New York Magazine 15/23 (June 7) p. 75.
    Tuchman, Phyllis, Biederman/Gummer/Kendrick, The Arts Club of Chicago

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  • Owensboro Museum of Fine Art, The Kentuckians,
    Owensboro, Kentucky, pp. 20-21.

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    Art News, vol. 95 (November) p. 134.

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  • McBain, Roger, "Acclaimed Sculptor Returns for Opening of Exhibition," Evansville Courier & Press (November 25).
    McBain, Roger, "Like a Crowd of Friends,"
    Evansville Courier & Press (November 30).
    Berry, Marilou, "Sculptor, Celebrity Wife Share Bill,"
    Evansville Courier & Press (December 2).

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  • De La Mater, Benning. "Art Showcase Draws Celebrity Gathering," TheBerkshire Eagle, (October 7, 2005), p. A1.
    Gardner, Karen. "Sculpture Grew From '60s Turmoil,"
    North Adams Transcript, (October 7, 2005), p. A1.
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    Sandler, Irving. "Deconstructive Constructivist," Art in America, (January 2005), pp. 111-115.

  • Drost, Jayne. "A Boulder Approach," ARTnews, (February 2006), p. 36.

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