Event Diary
July 12 – August 16 2007 Sculpture by Elaine Grove
Paintings by Dan Christensen
Opening Reception
Saturday July 14, from 6:00PM – 8:00 PM
Spanierman Gallery at East Hampton
in the Newcourt Mall
68 Newtown Lane, East Hapmton, NY
(631) 329-9530
http://www.spanierman-at-easthampton.com
March 2 – April 25, 2007 Pure Painting: A Forty Year Retrospective
LewAllen Contemporary
129 West Palace Avenue, Santa Fe, NM 87501
(505) 988-8997
www.lewallencontemporary.com
February 15 – April 22, 2007 "High Times Hard Times- New York Painting 1967-1975"
Opening reception, Thursday, February 15, 2007 6–8PM
National Academy Museum
1083 Fifth Avenue at 89th Street
New York, NY
www.nationalacademy.org
January 9 – February 1, 2007 Dan Christensen, Retrospective
Spanierman Modern, 53 East 58st NY
(212) 832-1400
www.spaniermanmodern.com
November 2, 2006 - January 3, 2007 "On Paper – From Sketch to Showpiece"
Spanierman Modern, 53 East 58st NY(212) 832-1400
November 4 - December 4, 2006 "Long Island Abstraction 1950s to Present"
Spanierman Gallery, East Hampton, NY
August 6 - October 15, 2006 High Times Hard Times: New York Painting 1967-1975
Weatherspoon Art Museum Greensboro, NC
July 1 - July 24, 2006 Solo Show
Pamela Williams Gallery 167 Main Street, Amagansett NY
(631) 267-7817
May 11 - June 11, 2006 Group Show
Leif Hope's Restaurant, 31 Race Lane, East Hampton, NY
September 22 - November 15, 2005 "Art and the Garden" Post-War and Contemporary Paintings of the Garden, curated by Ronny Cohen
Spanierman Gallery, East Hampton, NY
July 23 - September 5, 2005 Opening Saturday July 23, 2005
"Artists and Nature on Eastern Long Island: 1940s to the Present"
Spanierman Gallery, East Hampton, NY
June 30 - Aug 1, 2005 "Works on Paper"
Sideshow Gallery, 319 Bedford Ave Williamsburg, Brooklyn
June 3 - August 20, 2005 "Dan Christensen: A Survey of Paintings and Graphics"
Skot Foreman Gallery, Atlanta, Ga.
October 15th - 27th, 2004 "Re / View"
see press release below
August 14 - October 24, 2004 "On The Books: Sculptural Collaboration"
1 piece in collaboration with Randy Rosenthal
Guild Hall, 158 Main Street East Hampton, NY
July 24-August 8 2004 9 paintings at Lizan-Tops Gallery
66 Newtown Lane, East Hampton, NY July 24 - August 8 2004
March 11th 2004 - April 3rd 2004 Elaine Baker Gallery ebakerart@aol.com
May 17 2003 - June 15 2003 Lizan-Tops Gallery, East Hampton, New York
April 12 2003 - August 10 2003 "Big Canvas - Paintings from the Permanent Collection"
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska
20th Oct 2002 - 5th Jan 2003 The Hamptons - Parrish Art Museum, New York
Parrish Art Museum


 

 PRESS INFORMATION ..FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

 Dan Christensen

 

RE/VIEW

Paintings, 1967 to the present.

 October 15th through November 27th, 2004

  

The Edward Thorp Gallery will exhibit a survey of paintings by the American artist Dan Christensen. The exhibition will consist of eight to ten large paintings, acrylic on canvas.

Dan Christensens abstract paintings have a touch and ambience all their own.

His paintings physically embody an elusive combination of inventive play, materiality, unfettered color and reticence that creates the impression of spontaneous arrival.  It is this presence throughout his work that gives it a place in contemporary painting.  It is also the absence of a signature style that makes his work pertinent to current discussions about abstract painting.

 Dan Christensen began exhibiting in the late sixties and was much revered as a painter by Clement Greenberg. He also received critical success in the American and European press. Yet Christensen was never a straight color-field painter, his paintings have metamorphosised continuously, often from painting to painting.  The ribbon paintings of the sixties were followed by geometric color panels.  In 1972all-over paintings in thicker paint, then linear drawing and amorphous shapes and ambient target paintings..Within this apparent stylistic diversity a characteristic sensuality and lyricism is enacted with cool economy, a pragmatic execution of the essential means of expression.  It is Christensens casual command of color, drawing and scale that brings us, through playful precision, to a sense of presence, without dogma or over-determining context.

Christensen has exhibited extensively here in the US, with Nick Wilder on the West Coast and Andre Emmerich in New York as well as Europe and Asia.

He is represented in many public and private collections.

He lives and works in East Hampton, NY.

Gallery hours are from 11am to 6pm Tuesday through Saturday. For more information please call (212) 691-6565 or email mail@edwardthorpgallery.com.

 		  
     
  Should you wish to be informed of any forth coming events or exhibitions please email Register@DanChristensen.com