John Seery
{{short description|American lyrical abstraction artist}}
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| birth_place = Maspeth, New York
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| nationality = American
| known_for = Painting
| training = Art Academy of Cincinnati and Ohio State University
| movement = Lyrical abstraction
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John Seery (born 1941) is an American artist who is associated with the lyrical abstraction movement.{{cite web|url=http://www.pbartspaper.com/2009/06/art-review-lyrical-abstraction-show.html |title=Palm Beach ArtsPaper: Art review: Lyrical Abstraction show demonstrates resilience of American painting |accessdate=2009-07-25 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110601170122/http://www.pbartspaper.com/2009/06/art-review-lyrical-abstraction-show.html |archivedate=2011-06-01 }} Jenifer A. Vogt, Exhibition review, retrieved July 25, 2009[http://www.visualartsource.com/components/ExhibitionDetail.php?height=500&width=800&eID=156237 John Seery new work][http://www.sbmuseart.org/exhibitions/colorscope.web] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924094656/http://www.sbmuseart.org/exhibitions/colorscope.web |date=2015-09-24 }} retrieved June 2, 2010 He was born in Maspeth, New York, was raised in Flushing, Queens and as a teen, moved to Cincinnati, Ohio.
Biography
He studied at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, from 1959 to 1963 then continued his studies at the Art Academy of Cincinnati and Ohio State University in Columbus. He was on the faculty of the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston and was a visiting lecturer at Harvard University during the 1980s. He currently lives in Florida.
Public collections
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
The Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.
Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA
Museum Of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, FL
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, Wisconsin
Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY
Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio
Honolulu Academy of Art, Honolulu, HI
Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
Julius Baer Art Collection, Switzerland
References
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Sources
- Brandl, Mark Staff, John Seery, Richterswil, Kunsthaus Richterswil, 1998.
- Galerie Andre Emmerich and Peter Schjeldahl, John Seery: Paintings, Zurich March, 1975.
- The Madison Art Center, John Seery: Paintings, Madison, Wisconsin Madison Art Center, 1974.
External links
- [http://www.nga.gov.au/International/Catalogue/Detail.cfm?IRN=36016 John Seery at the National Gallery of Australia]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20120301132419/http://www.whitewallmag.com/2010/05/11/john-seery-new-work/ Interview with John Seery 2010, Whitewall Magazine]
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