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Selected Résumé (full resume may be obtained upon request)

Hugh A. Lifson

219 6th Avenue N.
Mt Vernon, IA 52314
319-895-8487
Sahlifson@worldnet.att.net
http://people.cornellcollege.edu/hlifson

Exhibitions (an asterisk indicates a one person show)

• Continuing Exhibitor, Gallery '72, Omaha NE., Infusion Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Stan Wiederspan Gallery, Cedar Rapids IA., Hudson River Gallery, Iowa City IA., Grace Chosy Gallery, Madison Wis.
• Modern Masters Fine Art, Santa Fe NM, 2006
• Eclectic Eye Gallery Davenport, IA., '05, '06
• LREI, Auction, N.Y., N.Y. '01-'06
• Downtown Gallery Iowa City Iowa, various exhibitions, '03 ff.
• Kirkwood College, Cedar Rapids IA, Neilson Galleries: "Balanced, Unbalanced:, '04*
• Wind and Water 2^nd prize, Hearst Center for the Arts, Cedar Falls IA., '03
• NEH sponsored: "Enduring Dignity, Voices and Visions on the September Attacks, University of Iowa, '02
• Cornell College Retrospective, "The Cornell Years," '01*
• Retrospective of computer graphics, '99* Iowa State University
• Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, "Four Parables" Computer Graphics, '97*
• 8th Annual Nobel Peace Prize Forum, installation: "The Shul at Ulla", 9*
• Faculty Exhibition, Gustavus Adolphus College '89
• "Artists who Teach:, Cedar Rapids Art Center '85
• Two Person Show South Bend Art Center, South Bend Indiana '89
• Group Show Frank Marino Gallery, N.Y., N.Y. '77-'79
• Ten Iowa Artists: Cedar Rapids Art Center, IA r'77
• Ohio State University, '72*
• Martin Gallery, Minneapolis MN. '70-'71
• De Mena Gallery, N.Y., N.Y. '68* (reviews in Art and Art News)
• Iowa Collects, Davenport Museum '67
• Nelson Gallery, Kansas City, KA, c. '66, c. '68
• "Recent Painting, The Figure," Museum of Modern Art, N.Y.C '62
• "Recent Painting, The Figure," Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN '63
• "Recent Painting, The Figure," Isaac Delgado Museum of Fine Arts, New Orleans, LA
• "Recent Painting, The Figure," San Francisco Museum of Fine Arts, CA '63
• "Recent Painting, The Figure," Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, CO. '63
• "Recent Painting, The Figure," Atlanta Association of Fine Arts, Atlanta, GA. '62
• "Recent Painting, The Figure," Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts Columbus, OH '62
• "Recent Painting, The Figure," Museum of Modern Art, N.Y.C, '62
• East End Gallery, Provincetown, MA. '60-61
• Whittingham Gallery, Boston MA. * (review in Christian Science Monitor) '58

Collections:

• Jane Gilmor, Artist
• Susan Stamats, collector
• Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts
• Larry Shiner, Author of The Invention of Art
• University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics: Project Art
• Kirkwood College
• James Novak, Architect
• Bob Baffert
• Norval Tucker Assistant chair, Dept of Art emeritus, University of Iowa
• Richard Kostelanetz, Artist, Poet, Critic
• Coe College
• Cedar Rapids Museum of Art
• Car Shorske, Professor of History, Pulitzer prizewinner
• S.U.N.Y. Potsdam
• Leonard Bocour, C.E.O, Bocour Artists Colors
• Arthur Collins, C.E.O., Collins Radio
• Irving Marantz, Artist
• James Mcgarrell, Artist
• Chiam Gross Museum
• Alan Shestak, Deputy Director, National Gallery of Art
• Figge Art Museum, Davenport
• Wesleyan University
• University of Wisconsin

Critical Comments:

--"Lifson's thought provoking paintings, collages and drawings can be appreciated on many levels . . . Lifson layers transparent and opaque images and physically attaches paintings in unexpected ways, coaxing us to ponder balance--and the lack of it in our lives, in nature and art" Judith Winter, Cedar Rapids Gazette, May 2, 2004

--"Lifson canvases . . . present misty air saturating the space." Art News, December, January, '68, '69 "Lifson has discovered unexpected aesthetic qualities in polyolifinics which, without him, might have languished in the money making whirls of big business . . . [he] find [s] effectiveness in the use of unfamiliar shapes, whose novelty stirs the mind" Arts, December '68

--". . . should elicit interest and enthusiasm from experienced views." Dorothy Aadlow, Christian Science Monitor, October, '58

Education: (names in apposition indicate instructors)

• '62 MFA, Pratt Institute: Robert Richenberg, Al Blaustein Mercedes Matter, Walter Rogolski
• '59-'61, Indiana University: James Mcgarrell, Rudy Pozzati
• '58 B.A. Wesleyan University: Russell Limbach (High Distinction in Art)
• '55-'56, University of Wisconsin: Warrington Colescott, Santos Zingale (Phi Eta Sigma)
• '55 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture: Henry Varnum Poor, Ann Poor, Sidney Simon, Abbott Patterson, Wilard Cummings, (Scholarship, honorable mention)
• Provincetown School of Painting: Irving Marantz '53-60

Publications:

• Folio Magazine, drawing, Spring, 1960
• North American Review, illustrations and reviews '64, '68, cited by Richard Kostelanetz, Winter 1970
• Illustrations in Assembling 8th and 9th ed.
• Work cited in Metamorphosis, Assembling Press, Reichard Kostelanetz, 1981

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