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Mark Lavatelli
One-Person Exhibitions:
| 2012 |
"Schoenberg/Lavatelli: Pierrot Lunaire," Buffalo Seminary, Buffalo (collaboration with the Buffalo Chamber Players) |
2010 |
"Arboretum,"
Indigo Art, Buffalo
| 2005 |
"Taos
Paintings," Nichols School, Buffalo |
| 2004 |
"Treescapes,"
Buffalo Arts Studio, Buffalo |
| 2002 |
"Recent Encaustic
Works," Bryant Street Studio, Buffalo |
| 2000 |
"Recent Paintings," Olean Public
Library Gallery, Olean, NY |
| 1999 |
"Ten-Year Mini-Retrospective,"
Biac's World Bistro, Buffalo |
| 1996 |
"Glade: New Paintings by Mark
Lavatelli," Castellani Art Museum,
Niagara University, NY |
| 1993 |
"Recent Work," Monroe
Community College, Rochester, NY |
| 1992 |
"Junctures," Conduit Gallery,
Dallas |
| 1991 |
"True
Gravity," Calumet Gallery, Buffalo |
| 1989 |
"Recent Paintings," Conduit
Gallery, Dallas |
| 1987 |
"Mark Lavatelli," The
Watson Gallery, Houston |
| 1986 |
"Recent Paintings/Works on
Paper," Conduit Gallery, Dallas |
| 1984 |
"Recent Work," Eastfield
College, Dallas |
| 1982 |
"Mainstream Abstractions,"
Mattingly Baker Gallery, Dallas |
| 1980 |
"Psychic Landscapes,"
White Oak Gallery, Albuquerque |
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Education:
University of New Mexico, M.F.A. (Painting
and Drawing), 1979
University of Illinois, M.A. (Art History),
1973
Cornell University, A.B. (Art History),
1970
University of Massachusetts, Summer
Session in Bologna, Italy, 1968
Selected Collections
Burchfield-Penney Art Center; Marshall
Field; Nieman-Marcus; IBM; ARCO; Pepsico; USWest, Phoenix; Dupont;
Penta Hotel, Atlanta; Texas Instruments; Green Collections, Tokyo;
Trans World Corp.; Club Corporation of America; Frito-Lay; Societé
Generale, Houston Branch; Post Oak Bank, Houston; Mountain Bell, Denver;
Southeast Banking, Miami; Interfirst Bank, Dallas; Southwestern Bell,
Dallas; Medaille College, Buffalo; University of New Mexico Fine Arts
Museum, Albuquerque; First National Bank of Chicago; Tam Brands; Western
Savings Corp., Lewisville, TX; Illinois Bank and Trust, Houston. Numerous
private collections.
Awards and Grants
Site-Specific Installation Award, echo Art Fair, Buffalo, July 2012
Gold Medal Award, 115th Catalogue Exhibition, Buffalo Society of Artists, UB Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, Nov. 2011
Jentel Artist
Residency Program, Banner, WY, Feb.-Mar. 2009
Artist Residency, Rocky Neck Art Colony, Gloucester, MA, July - August 2008
Artist
Residency, Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico , Taos, NM,
May - August 2004
First Place, "11th Annual Member's
Show," Big Orbit Gallery, Buffalo, February 2002
Artist Residency, Saltonstall Foundation
for the Arts , Ithaca, NY, June - July 2001 & May - June 2008
Special Opportunity Stipend, New York
Foundation for the Arts, May & November 1999 & April 2006
Sabbatical Leave, Medaille College,
'99-'00, '08-'09
Faculty Development Award, Medaille
College, May 199
1st Prize, Juried Art Show, Lamplighter's
Auction, Dallas, March, 1990
1st Prize (Painting), Festival of Lights
6th Annual Juried Show, Niagara Power Project, Niagara Falls, NY,
December 1989
Top Award, "National Juried Exhibition,"
Clary-Miner Gallery, Buffalo, October 1988
Merit Award, 14th Annual TFAA Spring
Art Exhibition at ARCO Tower, Dallas, Spring 1987
King/Haggar Faculty Development Grant,
University of Dallas, 1985-86
Teaching/Employment Experience
Professor of Humanities, Medaille College, Buffalo, 8/88 - present
Director of Visual and Digital Arts, 9/01 - present
Chairperson of Humanities, 1/94 - 8/99
Assistant Director, Moss/Chumley Gallery, Dallas, 5/87 - 7/88
Assistant Professor of Art, University of Dallas, Irving, TX, 8/80 - 5/87
Teaching Assistant, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, 8/77 - 8/79
Instructor of Art, Missouri Western State College, St. Joseph, 10/72 - 8/76
Reviews of Exhibitions
J. Tim Raymond, "The Art of Installation," Arttvoice, v10n50 December 15, 2011.
Jack Foran,
"Lavatelli,Parisi & Cocktails," Artvoice,v9n37 September 15, 2010.
Colin Dabkowski,
"Taking a Bough," The Buffalo News, March 21, 2008.
Richard Huntington,
"Bark and bite," The Buffalo News, August 18, 2006,
Gusto, 14.
Gaasch,
Cynnie, "Nature into Form at Buffalo Arts Studio," Artvoice,
V3n6, February 5-11, 2004, 28.
Adams, Bruce,
“Out on a Limb,” The Buffalo News, March 15, 2002.
Richard Huntington, "Three artists
in the modernist vein, one making myth from experience," The
Buffalo News, April 28, 1998, C6.
Elizabeth Licata, "At Medaille: Four on Form," Artvoice, V9n16, April 22-28, 1998, 12.
Richard
Huntington, "For Mark Lavatelli, a branch of abstraction,"
The Buffalo News, December 28, 1996.
Richard
Huntington, "Lavatelli paintings find power in old-style abstractionism,"
The Buffalo News, November 19, 1991, C-5.
Richard Huntington, "Fire & Ice, exhibit by members of Hallwalls, runs hot and cold,The Buffalo News, January 31, 1991, B-12.
Richard Huntington, "Energetic Installation Lifts Western New York Show," The BuffaloNews, March 25, 1990, H1, H5.
Janet Kutner, "Deep Ellum Expatriates," Dallas Morning News, April 24, 1989, 5C, 10C.
Manya Fabiniak, "National Juried Exhibition at Clary-Miner," Arts in Buffalo, October26, 1988.
Janet Kutner, "Small Art, Big Impact," Dallas Morning News, December 22, 1987, 5C-7C.
Wade Wilson, "Unsettling Mindscapes," Dallas Art Revue (#23 Spring 1987), 3.
Linda Brown, "Delta Show deserves Long Look," Arkansas Gazette, October 3, 1986, 1B, 6B.
Alan and Jody Govenar, "Combination Images and Mainstream Abstractions," Artspace, (Winter 1982-83), 57.
Janet Kutner, "Acquisitions Are
Only Part of the Action," Art News, December 1982, 86.
Peterson, William,
"Mark Lavatelli at White Oak, Albuquerque," Artspace,
September, 1980, 58.
Selected Invitational and Juried Group and Two-Person Exhibitions
| 2012 |
"116th Buffalo Society of Artists Catalogue Exhibition," Niagara Arts and Cultural Center, Niagara Falls, NY |
2011 |
"Charged
Brushes," The Painting Center, New York, NY
"Buffalo Society of Artists 115th Catalogue Exhibition," UB Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, NY |
| 2010 | "Surface/
Substance," 171 Cedar Arts Center, Corning, NY (two-person show) |
| 2009 |
"Encaustic
Monotypes," University at Buffalo Center for the Arts,
Amherst, NY
"Working
in Wax," Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
"Treescape:
Works by Mark Lavatelli & Robert Schultz," Burchfield
Nature & Art Center, West Seneca, NY
"Embedded
Light," Grosse Pointe Art Center, Grosse Pointe, MI
"Word-Themed
Art," Merge, Buffalo |
| 2008 |
"What
Is Western New York Art?" Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo |
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“Into
the Forest,” Insite Gallery, Buffalo (two-person show) |
2007 |
“Yinyang,”
Insite Gallery, Buffalo |
| 2006 |
“Trees
Interpreted: Charles Burchfield and Mark Lavatelli,” Burchfield-Penney
Art Center, Buffalo |
| 2005 |
"Trees - A Group Exhibition," Neighborhood
Collective, Buffalo |
| 2003 |
"A Walk in the Wood," Adams Art
Gallery, Dunkirk, NY January - March (three-person show) |
| 2002 |
"Text and Texture: 6th Annual
Saltonstall Show," State of the Art Gallery, Ithaca, NY |
| 2001 |
"Rochester - Finger Lakes Exhibition,"
Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY |
| 2000 |
"Herd About Buffalo,"Buffalo
(permanent installation at Medaille College) |
| 1999 |
"Convergence ’99 Y2K,"
Carnegie Art Center, North Tonawanda, NY |
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“Mark Lavatelli and Robert
L. Wood,” Gallery 101 Bistro, Buffalo |
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"El Museo Invitational,"
El Museo Francisco Oller y Diego Rivera, Buffalo |
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"Icons & Relics: The Hallwalls
1999 Members Show,” Hallwalls, Buffalo |
| 1998 |
"Nature Interpreted,"
Medaille College, Buffalo |
| 1997 |
¨In Western New York,¨ Albright-Knox
Art Gallery, Buffalo |
| 1996 |
"46th Western New York Exhibition,"
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo |
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"1996 Rochester - Finger Lakes
Exhibition," Memorial Art Gallery,
Rochester, NY |
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"1st Annual Digital Elements
National Exhibition," St. John’s University
Gallery, Jamaica, NY |
| 1995 |
"Mark Lavatelli, Sherry Owens,
Reinhard Ziegler," Conduit Gallery, Dallas |
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"Polly Little and Mark Lavatelli:
Paintings, Drawings, Prints," Missouri Western State College,
St. Joseph (two-person show) |
| 1994 |
"Exquisite Corpses, Recently
Executed," McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas |
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"Regional '94," Art Dialogue
Gallery, Buffalo |
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"Summer Repertoire, "
Conduit Gallery, Dallas |
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"Annual Painting Show, "
Cheltenham Center for the Arts, Cheltenham, PA |
| 1993 |
"500X at 15," 500X Gallery,
Dallas |
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"25th Niagara Frontier Exhibition,"
Kenan Center, Lockport , NY |
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"X-Sightings '93," David
Anderson Gallery, Buffalo |
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"52nd Rochester-Finger Lakes
Exhibition," Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester |
| 1992 |
"44th Western New York Exhibition,"
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo |
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"Spring Kaleidoscope,"
USX Tower Lobby, Pittsburgh |
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"Expose Yourself," Hallwalls
Contemporary Art Center, Buffalo |
| 1991 |
"Deck the Walls," Barbara
Schuller Gallery, Buffalo |
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"Many Voices," Calumet
Gallery, Buffalo |
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"The Decorative Impulse,"
Pennsylvania School of Art & Design, Lancaster |
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"Fire and Ice," Hallwalls
Contemporary Art Center, Buffalo |
| 1990 |
"Festival of Lights 7th Annual
Juried Show," Niagara Power Project, Niagara Falls, NY |
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"Works on Paper," Conduit
Gallery, Dallas |
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"43rd Western New York Exhibition,"
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo |
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"Inaugural Exhibition,"
Robischon Gallery, Denver |
| 1989 |
"Festival of Lights 6th Annual
Juried Exhibition," Niagara Power Project, Niagara Falls,
NY |
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"Dialogues," Artist's
Gallery, Buffalo (two-person show) |
| 1988 |
"All on Paper and Sculpture,"
Clary-Miner Gallery, Buffalo |
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"National Juried Exhibition,"
Clary-Miner Gallery, Buffalo |
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"The Self-Portrait Show,"
Conduit Gallery, Dallas |
| 1987 |
"Figurative Messages,"
The Art Center. Waco, TX |
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"1987 Texas Fine Art Association
Annual Spring Exhibition at ARCO Tower," Dallas |
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"Couples in Art," Sheraton
Gallery, Dallas |
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"Presence: Twelve Artists,"
Conduit Gallery, Dallas |
| 1986 |
"New American Talent '86,"
Laguna Gloria Museum, Austin, TX |
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"Collage," University
of Texas at San Antonio |
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"29th Annual Delta Art Exhibition,"
Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock |
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"Mark Lavatelli and Bob Stuth-Wade,"
Longview Museum and Art Center, TX (two-person show) |
| 1985 |
"12 Texas Painters," University
of Texas at El Paso |
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"45th Annual Juried Exhibition,"
Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia |
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"Texas Visions," Museum
of Art of the American West, Houston |
| 1984 |
"The Gateway Gallery Exhibition,"
Dallas Museum of Art |
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"About Abstraction," Galveston
Arts Center, Galveston, TX |
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"27th Annual Delta Art Exhibition,"
Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock |
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"Art in the Metroplex 1984,"
Texas Christian University, Fort Worth |
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"Visual Dialogues," Texas
Woman's University, Denton (two-person show) |
| 1983 |
"Actions and Reactions II,"
Richland College, Dallas (two-person show) |
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"Art in the Metroplex 1983,"
Texas Christian University, Fort Worth |
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"7th Biennial Five States Art
Exhibition," Port Arthur, TX |
| 1982 |
"Here and Now, 4th Annual Austin
Contemporary Art," Dougherty Cultural Arts Center, Austin,
TX |
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"The Lawndale Competition,"
University of Houston Art Annex |
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"Southwest," Gallery 500,
Elkins Park, PA |
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"25th Annual Delta Art Exhibition,"
Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock |
| 1981 |
"Stable II," 500 Exposition
Gallery, Dallas |
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"Selections," Vertex Gallery,
Taos, NM |
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"Actions and Reactions,"
University of Dallas, Irving, TX (two-person show) |
| 1980 |
"36th Annual Painting Competition,"
Abilene (TX) Fine Arts Museum |
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"Big Name Show," 500 Exposition
Gallery, Dallas |
| 1979 |
"Exhibition - Albuquerque Contemporary
Arts," Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Taos |
Selected Published Articles
"Surveyors, surveyed,"
Buffalo Spree, May 2011, 22-24.
"Diebenkorn in New Mexico,"
Museum of New Mexico Press (book, co-author)
"Humans, Nature," The
Buffalo News, (10/19/07), Gusto, 16.
"Ray
of Light," The Buffalo News, (8/10/07), Gusto, 18.
"An Artist Revealed," The
Buffalo News, (3/17/07), Gusto, 13.
"Picture
perfect," The Buffalo News (2/24/06), Gusto, 15.
“Painter's
painter,” The Buffalo News (12/23/05), Gusto, 20.
"Holocaust
Recast," Artvoice (2/6 - 12/03), 23.
"Cartoon
Confrontations," Artvoice (6/20-26/02), 20.
"Bodies of Work," The Buffalo News (10/27/00),
Gusto, 21.
"The Old is New Again," The
Buffalo News, (4/21/00), Gusto, 18.
"Jazz
Immersion," The Buffalo News (3/17/00), Gusto, 22.
“Full Moon,” The Buffalo
News (02/18/00), Gusto, 21.
"Compare, Contrast," The
Buffalo News, (1/7/00), Gusto, 19.
“The Big
Picture,” The Buffalo News (11/5/99), Gusto, 23.
“The Cutting Edge,” The
Buffalo News (10/15/99), Gusto, 21.
“In
the House,” The Buffalo News (10/8/99), Gusto, 18.
"'Watercolors'
by way of pixels and printers," The Buffalo News (9/21/99),
C-6.
“Monet at Giverny: Impressionism
becomes Expressionism,” Artvoice (Buffalo, 7/1- 7/99),
26-27.
“Gestural Romanticism,” Artvoice
(Vol. 10#13, 4/8-14/99), 35.
“In
tattoos and piercings, beauty on women's terms,” The Buffalo
News (9/9/98), D-5.
“Shunning traditional style for
collage,” The Buffalo News (6/27/98), C-10.
“Bill Cooper: Signifying Abstractions,”
Artvoice (Vol. 9 #21, 5/27/98), 14.
“Form and Spirit: An Art of Balance,”
Artvoice (Vol.9 #1, 1/7/98), 10.
"Dale Chihuly: A Modernist Triumph,"
Artvoice (Buffalo, Vol. 8 #43, 11/5-11/97), 4-5.
"Building Blocks," The
Buffalo News (10/10/97, Gusto, p. 27).
"A photographer’s eye mixes
reality and illusion," The Buffalo News (9/27/97).
"A painter’s mix-and-match
mishmash," The Buffalo News (9/25/97).
"Altered Iconography," Artvoice
(Vol. 8, #21, 5/28-6/3/97), 8.
"Threshold
Issues," Artvoice (Vol. 8, #7, 2/25/97), 9.
"Retinal Pleasures," Artvoice
(Vol. 7, #21, 10/16-22/1996), 6.
"The
Folksy Surrealist," Dallas Art Revue (#23 Spring 1987),
7-8.
"From
Courbet to Cezanne: A New 19th Century / Preview of the Musee d'Orsay,
Paris," Artscene (Houston, Fall 1986), 34.
"Contemporary Italians, Eugene
Binder Gallery," Artscene (Summer 1986), 82-83.
"New
Talent in Texas at TCU," Artspace (Albuquerque, Summer
1984), 57.
"David
Bates at DW," Artspace (Spring 1984), 61.
"Vernon Fisher at Delahunty,"
Artspace (Spring 1983), 74.
"Richard
Diebenkorn - The Albuquerque Years," Artspace (June
1980), 20 - 25.
Commissions
A 54" X 42" oil painting for a private collector in Massachusetts, 2005
A 43" X 53" encaustic painting for a private collector in Chicago, IL, 1996
Two 50" X 60" encaustic (hot-wax) paintings for the Penta Hotel, Atlanta, 1990
A 72" X 60" oil painting for Mrs. Vernon Smith, Jr. , Dallas
Selected Exhibitions Curated
"Pour: Paintings by Dana Hatchett," Medaile College, Buffalo, September - October 2001
"Nuclear Legacy: Landscape Photographs by Paul Shambroom," Medaille College, Buffalo, November-December 1995 (co-curated with Bob Hirsch, CEPA Gallery)
"Leonel Lopez-Nussa," Medaille College, Buffalo June-July 1993 (co-curated with Craig Centrie, El Museo Diego Rivera y Francisco Oller)
"AIDS: An Acquired Awareness," Medaille College, November 1992, (co-curated with Sara Kellner, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center)
"Contemporary Iroquois Art," Medaille College, October 1991
"Wilhemina Godfrey Retrospective," Medaille College, February 1990
"Expressions," Moss/Chumley Gallery, Dallas, May 1988
"Gary Komarin and Linda Emmerman," University of Dallas, Irving, 1983
"Susan Linnell," University of Dallas, Irving, 1981
"Tony Naponic and Thom Glabman," Missouri Western State College, 1974
Selected Public Lectures
"African Art and Cultural Difference," Medaille College Faculty Forum, September 1994
"Aspects of Gothic and Renaissance Style in the Florence Baptistery Doors," University of Dallas, October 1992
"On My Painting," Calumet Gallery, Buffalo, November 1991
"Impressionists and Impressionism," St. Thomas More Institute, Fort Worth, TX September 1987
"Changing Frames," Albert Einstein Symposium, University of Dallas, October 1980
"Earth Art," and "Minimal, Conceptual, and Performance Art," Albrecht Art Museum, St. Joseph, Missouri, March 1974
Affiliations
Visual Arts Committee, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center
Contributing Reviewer, The Buffalo News
Contributor, Artvoice (Buffalo)
Correspondent, Artspace, 1980-84
Member At-Large, Board of Directors,
Albuquerque United Artists, 1979-80
President, Graduate Students for the Advancement of Art, University of New Mexico, 1978-79
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