CHUCK WEBSTER
1970 Born in Binghamton, NY
Lives and works in New York City and Binghamton, NY
Education
1996 MFA in Painting, American University, Washington, DC
1993-5 Summer study, Chautauqua School of Art, Chautauqua, NY
1992 BA, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
Solo Exhibitions
2009 Galerie Gabriel Van de Weghe, Antwerp, Belgium
Galerie Jones, Cologne, Germany
FRED, London
Steven Zevitas Gallery, Boston
2008 ZieherSmith, New York
2007 Devotional Pictures, co-presented by ZieherSmith, Salander O’Reilly Gallery, New York
Working Groups: Paintings & Works on Paper by Chuck Webster, Weston Art Gallery, Cincinnati Arts Association, Cincinnati, OH
Messengers: Recent Work, Open Studios Press Gallery, Boston
From A Friend, Helen Nyborg Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2006 ZieherSmith, New York
2005 Drawings, Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA
ZieherSmith, New York
2004 ZieherSmith, New York
Selected Group Exhibitions
2009 Collaborations, Two-person show with Eddie Martinez, ZieherSmith, New York
The Language of Abstraction The Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA
At Close Range, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York
2008 Narcissus, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA. Curated by Geoffrey Young
Unnameable Things, Artspace, New Haven, CT. Curated by Clint Jukkula
Gouache and Gouache Only, Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York.
Curated by Geoffrey Young
2007 New Drawings: Recent Accessions at the MFAH , Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Inaugural Exhibition, Galerie Jones and Truebenbach, Cologne, Germany
Block Party, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles
Stuff: From the Collection of Burt Aaron, Museum of Contemporary, Art, Detroit
Animated Painting, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego
Painting As Fact – Fact As Fiction, curated by Bob Nickas, de Pury & Luxembourg, Zurich, Switzerland
We Are Near, curated by Eddie Martinez, Allston Skirt Gallery, Boston
(The) Melvins @ (The) Mandrake, curated by Bob Nickas, Mandrake, Los Angeles
2006 Aprés nous, le deluge, Francis Naumann Fine Art, New York
The Difficult Shapes of Possible Images, ZieherSmith, New York
Salvage + Assemble: The Barnstormers, Space, Portland, Maine
2005 The Painted World, curated by Bob Nickas, P.S.1 Contemporary, New York
Bedtimes Stories, Flying Space, Sag Harbor, New York
Exploding Plastic Inevitable, curated by Simon Watson and Craig Hensala of Scenic, Bergdorf Goodman, NY
The Art of the Definite, curated by Helen Miranda Wilson, DC Moore, New York
2004 Barnstormers Retrospective, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem
Water, DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Visual Fellows Show, Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA
2003 Barnstormers: Billboards, H&M Gallery, New York
2002 Group Exhibition, Contemporary Artist Center, North Adams, MA
Prints, Pixels, and Portals, CAC Gallery, North Adams, MA
2001 The Barnstormers: No Condition is Permanent, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY
Rough House Goes West, Cordell Taylor Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT
2000 Superduper New York, Pierogi 2000, Brooklyn, NY
Selected Bibliography
Shane McAdams, “Chuck Webster” The Brooklyn Rail, December 2008
Bob Nickas, Painting Abstraction, Phaeton Books, 2009
Craig Olsen, “Chuck Webster” The Brooklyn Rail, October 2007
Cate McQuaid, "Chuck Webster", exhibition reviews, The Boston Globe, May 10, 2007
Brice Brown,“A Tale of Two Cities” The New York Sun, April 26, 2007
Jane Durell, "Chuck Webster" exhibition reviews, Art Papers, May/June 2007
R. Klanten, S. Ehmann, and N. Bourquin editors, Into the Nature of Creatures and Wilderness, Die Gestalten, 2006
Jeff Bader, “The Barnstormers Storm Portland,” The Bollard, April 12, 2006
Mario Naves, “Lost in Space,” The New York Observer, February 6, 2006
Brian Sholis, "Critic's Pick: Chuck Webster," Artforum.com, January 2006
"Old Paper, New Ink," The New York Sun, January 11, 2006
Ken Johnson, “The Painted World,” The New York Times, November 11, 2005
Mario Naves, “Webster’s Candy Factory,” The New York Observer, January 24, 2005
David Brown, “The Barnstormers’ Pilgrimage Down South,” Sculpture, January 2005
Ken Johnson, “The Art of the Definite,” The New York Times, December 17, 2004
Mario Naves, “Whale-Watcher,” The New York Observer, August 4, 2003, p. 16
Ken Johnson, “Chuck Webster: Plenty,” The New York Times, July 4, 2003
Joey Garfield, “Barnstorm,” Anthem Magazine, 2003
Gnosis ,“Barnstormers” Elemental, Vol. 4, issue 46
Larry Sell, New Art in Old Surroundings, Poughkeepsie Journal, 2002
“Barnstormers: At Binghamton,” Relax Magazine, June 2002
Gina Bellafante, “Art Patrons Wanted,” The New York Times, May 2001
“Guest Muralists: Experts in the Field,” Just Paint 10, Published by Golden Artists Colors
Barbara Rose, catalog essay, Forced Proximity, Foundry Gallery, Washington DC 1996
Selected Projects
The Barn Painting Project (1999-2003): With twenty other artists from New York and Japan, known collectively as the Barnstormers, painted a series of murals on old tobacco barns in rural North Carolina. Wee have made timelapse films, installations, a huge installation of painted speakers, and other large painting collaborations. The Barnstormers have been featured in several publications including The Fader, Elemental, Mass Appeal, Jane, and Flash Art, as well as NPR’s Morning Edition in October 2001.
Working People (2002): Organized a Barnstormers project in Binghamton, NY for 15 artists to paint collaboratively on three sides of a 40,000-square-foot warehouse. Wrote contract with donors and obtained funds and gifts in-kind from local businesses.
Subject of the documentary film “Chuck Makes a Woodcut,” produced and directed by Joe Caterini and Michael Houston and featured at the Florida International Film Festival (2001), the Antimatter Festival (Vancouver, BC 2001), the West Coat Nomad Film Festival (2002), and the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (2003).
Collections
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Los Angeles
Baltimore Museum of Art
Beinecke Library, Yale University, New Haven
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Awards and Residencies
2009 Dieu Donne Workspace Program, New York
2006 The Space Program of the Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation, New York
2005 Jentel Artist Residency, Banner, Wyoming
2004 Winter Fellowship, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA
2004 Fellowship, Macdowell Colony, Peterborough, NH
2002 Artist-in-Residence, The Contemporary Artist Center, North Adams, MA
2001 Residency Fellowship, The Millay Colony Austerlitz, NY
2000 Milton and Sally Michel Avery Visual Arts Fellowship, Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY
2000 Residency Fellowship, The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, VA
1996-7 Staff Residency, The Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT