Dee Shapiro is an American artist and writer associated with the Pattern and Decoration movement.
Biography
Dee Shapiro was inspired to be an Artist in her early years of education. Dee's career started in the 1970s as a pattern painter with her works of art included in the Pattern and Decoration at P.S. 1 in 1977. She researched and explored the Fibonacci Progression in color on graph paper and also explored geometric complexity of architectural designs, leading her to create the small horizontal oil paintings of cities and landscapes. Dee Shapiro became a Yaddo fellow in 2017.
Education and career
Dee Shapiro obtained her bachelor's degree in 1958 and Master of Science in 1960 from Queens College, City University of New York. Dee Shapiro is an artist that sees the subject on a large scale, but what she creates is on a diminutive scale. Shapiro's strength is the ability to give expressive power on canvas that makes her work seem larger than they are. Dee Shapiro has been a teacher, lecturer, and writer through career.
Group exhibitions
2018 The American Dream, Emden, Germany
2018 “Systemic Pattern Painting” David Richard Gallery, NYC
2019 With Pleasure, Pattern and Decoration in American Art, 1972-1985, LAMOCA 2019, Hessel Museum, Bard College, Annandale on Hudson, NY 2020 “My Corona: Ro2 Gallery, Dallas TX 2020 “Unfinished Business." Bernay Fine Art, Great Barrington, MA 2021. "11 Women of Spirit,” Zurcher Gallery, NYC
Solo exhibitions
2016 Art 101, Brooklyn, NY
2015 Andre Zarre Gallery, NYC
2015 Five Points Gallery, Torrington, CT
2012, 2010, 2009 Andre Zarre Gallery, NYC
2010 Norfolk Library, Norfolk, CT
2009 George Billis Gallery
2006 Harrison Street Gallery, Frenchtown, NJ
2004 The Mercy Gallery. Loomis Chafee, Windsor, CT. 2004,2002, 1998 Andre Zarre Gallery, NY C, National Arts Club, NYC 2000 Principle Gallery, Alexandria, VA 1998 Nassau County Museum of Fine Art, Roslyn, NY 1997 Andre Zarre Gallery, NYC 1996 North Winds, Port Washington, NY 1994, 1991,1988,1985 Andre Zarre Gallery, NYC 1984 Ana Sklar Gallery, Miami, FL 1983 Andre Zarre Gallery, NYC 1982 Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY, Andre Zarre Gallery, NYC 1981 Dubins Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Zenith Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA 1980, 1976 Andre Zarre Gallery, NYC 1979 Gallery 700, Milwaukee, WI Andre Zarre GalleryNYC 1978 St. Mary's College, Notre Dame, IN 1977 University of Arkansas, Little Rock, AR 1975,1973 Central Hall Gallery, Port Washington, NY, Nassau County Museum of Fine Art, Roslyn, NY
Selected bibliography
James Panero, Supreme Fiction The Hudson River School Revisited, March, 2010
Piri Halaz, From the Mayor’s Doorstep, April 2010
Steve Starger, Art New England, Dee Shapiro: “On The Horizontal,” Feb/Mar 2005
Maureen Mullarkey, The New York Sun,”The Last Time I Saw Cuba,” April 15, 2004
James Kalm, NY ARTS, International Edition, April 2000
Helen Harrison, The New York Times, April 12, 1998, April 11, 1981
Phyllis Braff, The New York Times, 1989
Charlotte Rubenstein, American Women Artists, Avon, 1982
Barbara Colin, "Pattern of a Painter" New York Arts Journal, Oct-Nov 1981
Helen Harrison, Harald Szeeman, "Pattern Paintings" D U Die Kunstzeitschrift, Zurich, June 1979 Ellen Lubell, "Lush Complexities and Visual Indulgence" SoHo Weekly News, Feb.13, 1979 Peter Frank, The Village Voice, May 1, 1979 Judith Tannenbaum, Arts Magazine, April 1978 Peter Frank, "Pattern Painting" ARTnews, February 1978 Madeline Burnside, ARTnews, April 1978 April Kingsley, "Opulent Optimism" The Village Voice, Nov.28.1977 John Canaday, "Talent Blooms" The New York Times, May 9, 1976 Malcolm Preston, Newsday, September 18, 1976 Gordon Brown, Arts Magazine, September 1976 Ellen Lubell, "Watercolor Electricity" SoHo Weekly News, Feb.16,1975