JESSE LAMBERT - BIO
ARTWORKS
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
Live and works in New York, NY
EDUCATION
MFA in Painting, Hunter College, 1998
BFA in Fine Art, Cooper Union School of Art, 1994
ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2005 Matter Gallery, Portland, ME
2001 Miller Block Gallery, Boston, MA
1997 Roger Smith Gallery, New York City
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009 “(Un)Spoken”, Artspace, New Haven, CT, curated by Jessica Buckley
2007 “PostDec”, Joseloff Gallery, University of Hartford, Hartford Art School, West Hartford, CT Bridge Art Fair, with Eyewash Gallery, Chicago, IL “Weave”, Corridor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, “Brooklyn Abstract”, eyewash@Supreme Trading, Brooklyn, NY
2006 NOVA Art Fair, with Klaus Von Nichtssagend Gallery, Chicago, IL 2005 “Selected Drawings”, Klaus Von Nichtssagend, Brooklyn, NY “Now Playing”, Para/Site Gallery, Beacon, NY 2004 “Semi-Lucid”, White Columns, curated by Lauren Ross, New York City “200 Drawings”, Annie Herron and Barry Blinderman’s selections from the Pierogi Gallery
Flatfiles, University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal, IL
2003 “New Work, New York
New Mexico”, Annie Herron’s selections from the Pierogi Gallery
Flatfiles, Carlsbad Museum and Art Center, Carlsbad, NM
2002 “20/02”, Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY “ARTcetera”, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA “3rd International Biennial”, Gyumri, Armenia
2001 “Residency 2001”, Center for Experimental and Contemporary Art, Yerevan, Armenia “Abstraction/Distraction”, Miller Block Gallery, Boston, MA
2000 “Snapshot”, The Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD “Summer Voices”, Miller Block Gallery, Boston, MA Group Show, Helen Basilevsky Gallery, Nightingale-Bamford School, New York City “The Vermont Studio Center Fellows Exhibition”, Cooper Union, New York City
1999 “Gesture and Contemporary Painting”, Warren Robbins Art Gallery, The University of Michigan, School of Art and Design, Ann Arbor, MI 1997 “Second Annual New York City Art Student Exhibition”, A Project of the Downtown Arts Festival, curated by Fereshteh Daftari, Martin Eisenberg, and Charlotta Kotik, New York City
BIBLIOGRAHPY
“Exploring A Marriage Through Art at Artspace (New Haven, CT)”, Hrag Vartanian, http://hragvartanian.com/
2009/04/19/ganjian-lambert-unspoken/, April 19, 2009 “(Un)Spoken”, catalogue, Artspace, New Haven, CT, 2009 “The Triumph of the Big D”, Alexandra Anderson-Spivy, Artnet.com,
http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/features/spivy/spivy1-9-08.asp, January 9th, 2008 “Fresh Eyes on a Colorful Movement”, Benjamin Genocchio, The New York Times, December 9th, 2007 “Fabric And Tapestry As Art”, Matt Eagan, Hartford Courant, Hartford, CT, November 8th, 2007 “Brooklyn Dispatches”, James Kalm, The Brooklyn Rail, Brooklyn, NY, April, 2007 “Jesse Lambert”, James Wagner, http://jameswagner.com/mt_archives/006148.html, March 17th, 2007 “Notes on Two LIC Studio Visits”, Hrag Vartanian, http://hragvartanian.com/2007/03/12/notes-on-two-lic
studio-visits/, March 12, 2007 “Putting on the Ritz”, Carolyn Fuchek, Pulse, Poughkeepsie, NY, March 24-30, 2005 “Pro Matter”, review, Maggie Knowles, The Portland Phoenix, Portland, ME, February 18-24, 2005 “Fluid Noise”, exhibition essay, Hrag Vartanian, Matter Gallery, Portland, ME, February, 2005 “Semi-Lucid”, Ken Johnson, The New York Times, October 8, 2004 “200 Drawings”, catalogue, University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal, IL. Essays by
Annie Herron and Barry Blinderman, 2004. “ARTcetera”, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA, 2002 “Painters Cast Gaze Skyward”, review, Cate McQuaid, The Boston Globe, December 8, 2001 “Gouache Paintings”, catalogue, Back Pond Press, Brooklyn, NY, essay by Jennifer Dalton, 2001 Review, Aravot Daily, Yerevan, Armenia, July 26 2001 New American Paintings #32, Volume 6, Number 1, The Open Studios Press, March 2001 “Review: An Up-to-the-Moment Look at Iconoclasm”, Ann Arbor News, November 1999
RESIDENCIES
Center for Experimental and Contemporary Art, Yerevan, Armenia, July 2001
The Vermont Studio Center, July - Aug 1998
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Summer 1993
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
The Barbara White Vermont Studio Center Fellowship, 1998
William Graf Travel Award, Hunter College, 1997
Scholarship, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, 1993