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Stefana McClure

 

Born, Lisburn, Northern Ireland, 1959. Lives and works in New York.

Education

1980-1984 BA in Sculpture, Hornsey College of Art, London
1995 Post-graduate studies in papermaking, Kyoto Seika University, Kyoto, Japan

Selected One-Person Exhibitions

2008
The Beat That My Heart Skipped, Josee Bienvenu Gallery, New York

2007
TRANSFER | MANGA and FILMS on PAPER, Fruehsorge, Galerie Fur Zeichnung, Berlin, Germany

2006
The Shape of Time, Kunstverein Grafschaft Bentheim, Neuenhaus, Germany
The Year Of Spaghetti and other works on paper, Josee Bienvenu Gallery, New York

2005
films on paper, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris

2004
Don't Look Now and Other Films On Paper, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2003
Lost in Translation, Josee Bienvenu Gallery, New York

2002
films on paper, 123 watts, New York

2000
Footnotes and Subtitles, Wynn Kramarsky, New York

Selected Group Exhibitions

2008
Edges of Darkness, Hamish Morrison Galerie, Berlin, Germany
The Cartin Collection, Ars Libri, Boston, MA
BLOWN AWAY, Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL
Uncoordinated: Mapping Cartography in Contemporary Art, Contemporary Arts Center, Ohio
Leaded: The Materiality and Metamorphosis of Graphite, Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA
Traveling to: Salina Art Center, Salina, KS
Traveling to: Baum Gallery of Fine Art, University of Central Arkansas, Conway, AR

2007
Textual Insight, Gallery W52, New York
Postcards from the Edge, James Cohan Gallery, New York
Artists Against Aids, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris
Leaded: The Materiality and Metamorphosis of Graphite, University of Richmond Museum, Richmond, VA
Traveling to: Bedford Gallery at the Dean Lesher Regional Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA What is a Line? Drawings from the Collection, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT

2006
Visual Aids: Postcards from the Edge, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York
Third Anniversary Exhibition, Fruehsorge, Galerie Fur Zeichnung, Berlin, Germany

2005
Artists for Tsunami Relief, Phillips de Pury & Co., New York
New Aquisitions, The Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana
Pages (organized by Buzz Spector), I Space, The Chicago Gallery of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Chicago, IL
Chronos: Time in Art from the Baroque Period to the Present day, Il Filatoio, Caraglio, Italy
Four Times One From Two Thousand and Six, Freuhsorge, Galerie Fur Zeichnung, Berlin, Germany
Minimalist Art Now, Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Madison, WI
Dating Data, Josee Bienvenu Gallery, New York

2004
Infinite Possibilities: Serial Imagery in 20th Century Drawing, Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
Brooklyn Gravity Racers: Pierogi a Go-Go, Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY
Intense Focus, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
MACO Art Fair, Josee Bienvenu Gallery, Mexico City
Microwave: Troy/desTroy, Sicardi Gallery, Houston, TX
Troy Story, Hostfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2003
Pages, Josee Bienvenu Gallery, New York
10 Jahre, Kunstverein Grafschaft Bentheim, Neuenhaus, Germany
Film Revival: Reinvigorating Abstraction in Painting and Drawing, Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, NY
Graphite and Paper, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA
Manic, curated by Nancy Doll, Dumbo Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY
Split: Women in Dislocation, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale on Hudson, NY
Drawings of Choice from a New York Collection, Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA
Traveling to: Cincinnati Museum of Art, Cincinnati, OH
Traveling to: Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME

2002
Art on paper, The Weatherspoon Art Museum, UNC, Greensboro,
NC
The Microwave, Cristinerose/Josee Bienvenu Gallery, New York
Ad Infinitum, a selection of serial works from the collection, Wynn Kramarsky, New York
Drawings of Choice from a New York Collection, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Champaign, IL
Traveling to: Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AK
Between Language and Form, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT

2001
Five views of Japan, The Museum of East Asian Art, Bath, England
Microwave, three, 123 watts, New York
By Hand: Pattern, Precision and Repetition in Contemporary Drawing, University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, CA

2000
Pollock Gallery, Meadows School of the Arts, Southern Methodist University
Drawing, Allston Skirt Gallery, Boston, MA
The Daiwa Foundation, London

1999
The Artistic Possibilities of the Line, Landesgalerie, Landesmuseum, Linz

1998
Drawing Tea, British Artists Exhibition, Kodo-san, Honen-in, Kyoto, Japan

1997
Kampai, Women Artists Exhibition, Tanto Tanto, Kyoto, Japan

1996
Chiaroscuro, Women Artists Exhibition, Gallery Kishodo, Kyoto, Japan
Drawing, Gallery Gallery, Kyoto, Japan

1995
Paper Paper, 2-person show with Moya Bligh, Gallery Gallery, Kyoto, Japan
Two person show with Kinuko Naito, Art Gallery, Takefu, Japan
Wood & Paper, Fuji Gallery, Osaka
Touch Please Show, International Paper Symposium ‘95, Meirin Primary School

1994
The Celtic Festival, Invited Artist, Tokyo, Japan
19th All-Japan Student Print Show, Machida, Tokyo, Japan
1st Asahi Beer Foreign Students Art Exhibition, Tokyo, Japan

1993
Kyoto Seika University Students show, Kyoto International Community House, Japan

1991
3rd Foreign Students Arts & Crafts Exhibition, Minor Award, Museum of Kyoto, Japan

1989
1st Foreign Students Arts & Crafts Exhibition, Museum of Kyoto, Japan

1986
Detail, Covent Garden, London

1984
Art at Home, Islington, London
Degree Show, Seven Dials Gallery, London

Grants and Awards

2008
Artist in Residence, University of Central Arkansas, Conway, AR
Artist in Residence, Field Institute Hombroich, Stiftung Insel Hombroich, Neuss, Germany

2001-2
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant

1998
Visiting Artist, Awagami Paper Mill, Awayamakawa, Japan

1993
Monbusho Scholarship to study Papermaking at Kyoto Seika University, Japan

Bibliography

2008
Gregg Duggan, Ginger, Shock and Awe, catalogue essay for the exhibition Blown Away, organized by Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, January
Hoos Fox, Judith, Blown Up, catalogue essay for the exhibition Blown Away, organized by Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, January

2007
Eshoo, Amy, editor, 560 Broadway: a New York Drawing Collection at Work, Yale University Press, November
Ribas, Joao, Textual Insight, catalogue essay, November
Schlatter, N. Elizabeth, Leaded: The Materiality and Metamorphosis of Graphite, catalogue essay, August
Proctor, Roy, Graphite Show on Tap, Richmond Times-Dispatch, August 19th
Adams, Alison B. et al. What is a Line? Drawings from the Collection, exhibition catalogue, Yale University Art Gallery, April

2006
Weckesser, Markus, On the work of Jill Baroff and Stefana McClure, catalogue essay, The Shape of Time, Kunstverein Grafschaft Bentheim, Neuenhaus, Germany, May
Roberts, Byrony, Art in the City: The Lady and the Tramp, The L Magazine, May 10
Jana, Reena, How It Was Done, Art on Paper, July/August, Vol 10, NO 6

2005
Busto, Andrea, , Cottino, Alberto and Poles, Francisco, editors, Chronos, June
Beatrice, Luca, Films on Paper, Duellanti, May
Ross, Lauren, Dating Data at Josée Bienvenu Gallery, Art on Paper, May/June
Lynch, Kevin, Minimalist Art Now opens at Elvehjem, The Capital Times, February 4th

2004
Klaasmeyer, Kelly, OCDelight: Intrincate, Time-intensive works go up at Sicardi gallery, Houston Press, October 14th
Peiffer, Prudence, One Day After Another: Seriality And The Stuttering Word, from Infinite Possibilities, Serial Imagery in 20th-Century Drawings, Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, September
Gopinath, Gabrielle, The Double Life of Serial Drawing, from Infinite Possibilities, Serial Imagery in 20th-Century Drawings, Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, September, 2004
Hopkins, Randi, Rikki Don’t Lose That Number: “Infinite Possibilities” at Wellesley, The Boston Phoenix, September 3rd
Egoyan, Atom, Subtitles: on the Foreignness of Film, MIT Press and Alphabet City Media, September

2003
Thiessen-Schneider, Gudrun, 10 Jahre, catalogue essay, October
Baron, Reuben M.  & Boycoff Baron, Joan, Film Revival: Reinvigorating Abstraction in Painting and Drawing, catalogue essay, September
Johnson, Ken, Film Revival, Art Guide, Galleries: Other Galleries, The New York Times, October 10
Barliant, Claire, The Microwave, Art on Paper, January-February

2002
Doll, Nancy and Platt, Ron, The 37th Exhibition of Art on Paper, catalogue essay
Helfenstein, Josef, Drawings of Choice from a New York Collection
Johnson, Ken ,The Microwave, Art Guide, Galleries: Chelsea, The New York Times, October 4
Barliant, Claire, Choosing paper, Art on Paper, May-June
D’Souza, Aruna and McDonough, Tom, An Aesthetics of Dispersal: Succession and Seriality, May
Landi, Ann, Stefana McClure at 123 watts, New York reviews, ArtNews, May
Weinberg, George, New Exhibit Explores Aesthetics of Language, The Yale Herald, February 1

2001
Cheng, Scarlet, Look Ma, No Computers, Los Angeles Times, August
Lombino, Mary-Kay, By Hand: Pattern, Precision and Repetition in Contemporary Drawing, catalogue essay, University Art Museum, College of the Arts, California State University, Long Beach
MacAdam, Barbara A., The Microwave, ArtNews, New York, April

2000
Kutner, Janet, Collector Drawn to Emerging Artists, Dallas Morning News
Keuren, Van et al., On Drawing: A Conversation
Volk, Gregory, Concentrated Words, catalogue essay, Footnotes and Subtitles, Wynn Kramarsky
Ibe, Kyoto, Contemporary Papermaking

1999
Assmann, Peter, The Art of the Line, Exhibition catalogue pp. 278-279 ill

1996
Ishimura, Ryoko, Mainichi Shimbun, April 24
Kikusawa, Koso, Kyoto Shimbun, April 24
Benson, John Hart, The Japan Times, April 20
Sakane, Kahori, The Daily Yomiuri, April 17

Public and Corporate Collections

Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, MA
Indianapolis Museum of Art. Indianapolis, IN
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
Werner Kramarsky, New York
Kyoto Seika University, Kyoto, Japan
Hornsey College of Art, London, UK
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
The Machida City International Print Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Charles Schwab & Company Inc.