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Broken Sky (cerulean clouds)

Barbara Broughel

2007-2008

Six poplar panels (11 x 11 inches each) with oil paint, three pine shelves

Overall size: 37 x 26 x 3 ¼ inches (94 x 66 x 8.25 cm)
(Inventory #21316)

“Abstraction pushed the use of the perspectival grid beyond its primary function (to allow the rendering of objects in perspective without distortion) and inadvertently made “compositions” from the individual squares within the grid.” (Barbara Broughel)

Broughel’s “Broken Sky (cerulean clouds)” examines the history of abstraction in one of its possible birthplaces (circa 1700 Northern Europe) through the depiction, not only of a period-related subject – clouds and the sky – but of the process and materials of rendering (Broughel used pigments and wood that would have been used at that time). What is unconventional, or even radical for the period is the composition and the way it fractures the realism of the image through leaving the grid visible (thus it references the tool which allows for that realism). The display mechanism of the shelves furthers the focus not just on the imagery but on the object-ness of the broken grid.

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1975-77 – Hartford Art School
1978-80 – UCSD, La Jolla, CA
1982 – Whitney Program, New York

1995-present
artist residencies/lectureships/teaching
Harvard University, MIT, UNC Chapel Hill, Wesleyan University

EXHIBITIONS
2014
Koubek Center, Miami, FL
Andratx Center for Art, Mallorca, SPAIN

2013
Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA

2012
Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA
Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT

2010
University of Connecticut, Stamford

2009
Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston

2008
Frederieke Taylor Gallery, NYC

2007
Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI

2006
Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston

2005
Frederieke Taylor Gallery, NYC
Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN

2004
Arti and Armicitae, Amsterdam, NETHERLANDS
Exit Art, “Terrorvision”, NYC

2003
Sanskriti Institute, New Delhi, INDIA
Frederieke Taylor Gallery, NYC
Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA

2002
Wave Hill, Bronx, NY

2001
Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY
Frederieke Taylor Gallery, NYC
Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA

2000
Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT
Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA
Wethersfield Museum, Wethersfield, CT

1999
Frederieke Taylor TZ’Art Gallery, New York, NY
Hermit Foundation, Plasy, CZECH REPUBLIC
Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA
Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT

1987
Stux Gallery, NYC
Hallwalls, Buffalo NY

1986
SUNY at Binghamton, Binghamton, NY
Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
Webster University, Saint Louis, MO
Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, CANADA
Tweed Courthouse, NYC
Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
“Mass”,The New Museum, NYC
Currier Gallery of Art, San Francisco, CA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Cornell Cinema, Ithaca, NY

1985
The Image Coop, Montpelier, VT
The Kennell Club, Philadelphia, PA
Ritter Art Gallery, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL
Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY
Norman McKenzie Art Gallery, University of Regina, CANADA

1998
College Art Gallery, SUNY, New Paltz, NY
San Jose Museum, San Jose, CA

1997
MIT, Cambridge, MA
Hanes Art Gallery, UNC, Chapel Hill, NC

1996
Katonah Museum, Katonah, NY

1995
Rothschild Gallery, Radcliffe/ Harvard, Cambridge, MA

1994
Kilkenny Castle, Kilkenny, IRELAND

1993
Kunstmuseum des Kantons Thurgau, Warth, SWITZERLAND
Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA

1992
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, IRELAND
Wexner Center for the Visual Arts, Columbus, OH

1991
List Visual Arts Center, MIT, Cambridge, MA
“Micro-Colonization, MAB, NYC

1990
“The Totalitarian Zone”, Stalin Monument, Prague CZECH
Goddard-Riverside Community Center, NYC
Ceres Gallery, NYC

1989
University Art Gallery, SUNY at Albany, Albany, NY
“Public Domain”, Kent Fine Arts, NYC
Proctor Art Center, Bard College, Annandale-On-Hudson, NY

1988
“Selections”, Artists’ Space, NYC
New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
White Columns, NYC
Houston Center for Photography, Houston TX
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Arizona Center for the Media Arts, Tucson, AZ
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, CANADA
Fundacion Municipal de Cultura, Valladolid, SPAIN

1984
Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, CANADA
“Revising Romance: New Feminist Video”, Institute
for Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
“Alibis”, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, FRANCE
Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Mont Beliard Festival, Mont Beliard, FRANCE
University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC
Centre de Simone de Bouvoir, Paris, FRANCE

1983
University Film and Video Conference, Houston, TX
Detroit Film and Video Project, Detroit MI
Institute for Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY

1982
The Kitchen, NYC
Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
Hallswalls, Buffalo, NY
Artists’ Space,NYC
Woodland Pattern, Milwaukee, WI

1981
Media Study, Buffalo, NY
Montevideo, Hartford, CT
Mudd Club, NYC

1980
New York Avant-Garde Festival, NYC
Del-Mar Drive-In Theater, Del Mar, CA
Roxy Theater, San Diego, CA
San Diego Cablecast, San Diego, CA
Mandeville Center Art Gallery, UCSD, La Jolla, CA

1979
Hartford Art School, University of Hartford, CT
University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI
“Alternating Currents”, Alternative Museum, New York, NY
Long Beach Museum of Arts, Long Beach, CA
New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
Artists’ Space, NYC
Northwest Film Study Center, Portland, OR
Freedman Art Gallery, Albright College, Reading, PA
Artemesia, Chicago, IL
University Gallery, Ohio State University, Columbus, OHIO
University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY
The Kitchen, NYC
Adelphi University, Garden City, NY
American Museum of the Moving Image, Astoria, NY
Southwest Alternate Media Center, Houston, TX
Artculture Resource Center, Toronto, CANADA

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