A stunning large oil by the accomplished and noted New York City Artist Marianne Stikas. This painting is signed and dated on the rear red sulphur and dated 1988. Ms Stikas is in many prominent collections and has an extensively exhibited.
A biography of the artist follows:
Mariane Stikas
59 Walker Street
New York, NY 10013
Born: Washington, D.C. 1947
Education:
1974 MFA Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
1971 BFA Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
1970 University of Saskatchewan, Painting Workshop, Emma
Lake, Saskatchewan, Canada (Summer)
1966-1968 Corcoran School of Art, Washington, D.C>
1965 Art Student’s League, New York
Solo Exhibitions:
1992 The Galbreath Gallery, Lexington, Kentucky, Linda
Schwartz, Agent
1990 John Davis Gallery, New York, NY
1989 John Davis Gallery, New York, NY
1984 Hill Gallery, Birmingham, Mi
1983 Baskerville & Watson, New York, NY
1981 Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY
1980 Galerie Liatowitsch, Basel
Feigenson-Rosenstein Gallery, Detroit, MI
Cutler/Stavarides Gallery, Boston, Ma
1979 Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY
1978 Feigenson-Rosenstein Gallery, Detroit, MI
1976 2nd Street Gallery, Charlottesville, Va
Eric Schindler Gallery, Richmond, Va
1975 Wilson College, Chambersburg, Pa
1974 Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth Univ.,
Richmond, Va.(Graduate Thesis Exhibition)
1973 Marsh Gallery, University of Richmond, Richmond, Va
Selected Group Exhibitions:
1993 “The Eidetic Image; Comtenporary works on paper”
Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, Il
1993 The Galbreath Gallery, Lexington, Kentucky
1992 Group Exhibition, The Galbreath Gallery, Lexington,
Kentucky, in cooperation with Linda Scwartz
1990 “Artists in the Abstract”, Weatherspoon Museum,
University of North Carolina at Greensboro,
curated by John Davis (Marianne Stikas, Catherine Lee,
Trevor Sutton, Sean Scully and Michael McKeown)
1989 “Art on Paper/1989”, Weatherspoon Art Gallery
1988 John Davis Gallery, New York , NY
1987 “Romantic Science”, One Penn Plaza, New York, NY
1986-1988 “after Matisse”, Queens Museum, New York and
traveling to: Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Va;
Portland Museum of Fine Art, Portland, Me;
Bass Museum of Fine Art, Miami Beach, Fl;
The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC;
Dayton Art Institue, Dayton, Oh.
1986-1988 Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Ma
Curated by the Independant Curators Inc.
Catalogue essays by Tiffany Bell, Dore Ashton,
Irving Sandler. Catalogue Illustration color.
1983 “The End of The World”, The New Museum of
Contemporary Art, New York, NY.
“New Decorative Works”, Jacksonville Art
Museum, Jacksonville Fl, (catalogue)
“Five Painters”, Getler Pall Gallery, NY, NY
1982 “Small Works”, Getler Pall Gallery, NY, NY
“New New York” Florida State University, 1980
“Painting and Sculpture Today”, Indianapolis
Museum of Art, Indianapolis, In (Catalogue)
“Drawings”, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY
1979 “Summer Group Show” Holly Solomon Gallery NY, NY
“Pfaff Provisor Stikas Wells” Holly Solomon Gallery,
New York, NY.
1978 “Silver and Gold”, Holly Solomon Gallery, NY, NY
“Double Take”, The New Museum of Contemporary Art,
New York, NY
“Six Contemporary Artists”, List Art Center,
Kirkland College, Clinton, NY
1977 “New Work/New York”, The New Museum of Contemporary
Art, New York, NY
1976 Irene Leach Exhibition, Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA
Faculty Exhibition, Anderson Gallery, Virginia
Commonwealth University, Richmond, Va
Summer Invitational, Anderson Gallery, Virginia
Commonwealth University, Richmond, Va
“Ten Women Artists”, Southwestern Center for
Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC
1975 Chrysler Museum Painting/Sculpture Biennial, Norfolk,
Va
1974 Annual Painting Exhibition, Southeastern Center for
Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC
“19th Area Exhibition”:, The Corcoran Gallery of
Art, Washington, DC.
Bibliography;
1992 Heyne, Diana, Review, Lexington Herald Leader,
February 16,1992 C5
1990 Davis, John, Artists in the Abstract, Catalogue,
Weatherspoon Museum, University of NC at Greensboro
1990 Cohen, Ronnie, Artforum, Summer, 1990
1990 Cypher, Peggy, Arts Magazine, Summer 1990 p. 92
1989 Westfall, Stephen, Art in America, Sept. 1989 p.207
1983 Shulman, Daniel, Art In America, March 1983 p.31
1982 Ratcliff, Carter, “New York” Arts International,
Jan/Feb 1982, p.116
1981 Printz, Neil, “New Faces? New Images; Marianne
Stikas” Octular, Summer Quarter, p.66-67
“Photo Album”, Bolaffi La Revista Dell’Arte,
Aug/Sept p.79
1979 Frank, Peter, “Art: Funky Funky but Small”,
Village Voice, Jan.22, p.69
Ittner, John G., “Confetti and Pipes, The New York
Post, Nov. 2, p.69
Larson, Kay, “Art”, Village Voice, Sept 24, p.87
Perlberg, Deborah, “Review”, Artforum, Feb., p.71
Zimmer, William, “Marianne Stikas”, Soho Weekly News
Nov. 8, p. 58.
Awards;
1976 First Prize, Irene Leach Exhibition, Chrysler
Museum, Norfolk, Va
1967 Ford Foundation Grant for sculpture
Teaching:
1991 Visiting Artist, Maryland Institute College of Art
Baltimore, MD.
1989 Visiting Artist, Maryland Institute College of Art
Baltimore, MD.
1986 Visiting Artist, Maryland Institute College of Art
Baltimore, MD.
1985 Visiting Artist, Maryland Institute College of Art
Baltimore, MD.
1983 Visiting Artist, Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, Va.
Visiting Artist, Maryland Institute College of Art
Baltimore, MD.
1982 Visiting Artist, Rhode Island School of Design
Providence, RI.
Visiting Artist, University of California,
San Diego, Ca.
1981 Visiting Artist, Empire State College, New York, NY.
1978 Visiting Artist, Illinois State University,
Bloomington, IL
1975-1977 Instructor, Basic painting and drawing, Virginia
Commonwealth University, Richmond, Va.
1976 Instructor, Painting, Continuing Education Dept,
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Va.
Selected Collections:
American Can Company
American Express
Chase Manhattan Bank
Mint Museum
The Newark Museum
Shearson Lehman Hutton
Weatherspoon Gallery, University of NC
Michael Trapp, Cornwall, CT
Lambertson-Truex, New York, NY
David Anderson, St. Louis, MO