Warren Isensee

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Chronology
   
1956
   Born in Asheville, North Carolina
  Lives and works in New York
   
 

Awards
     
2007
  

American Academy of Arts and Letters, Art Purchase Program
1999
   Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant
   
 

Solo Exhibitions
     
2008
  

“Warren Isensee,” Danese, New York, NY
2006
   “Paintings and Drawings,” Danese, New York
“Warren Isensee: New drawings,” Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY
2002
   “Deja View,” Kevin Bruk Gallery, Miami, FL
2001
   “Warren Isensee,” Massimo Audiello, New York
2000
   "Warren Isensee,” Massimo Audiello, New York
“Soft Spot,” Tricia Collins Contemporary Art, New York
1998
   “Bait and Switch,” Tricia Collins Contemporary Art, New York
   
 

Group Exhibitions
     
2007
  

“Lines,” Curated by Susie Rosmarin, Texas Gallery, Houston, TX
“Small Work,” Nina Freundenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY
2006
  

“Gray to Black,” Danese, New York, NY
“Light in August,” Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
2005
   “Works on Paper,” Danese, New York
“Radical Vaudeville,” Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
2004
   “Finesse,” Catherine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“In Polytechnicolor,” Michael Steinberg Fine Art, New York
“Full Disclosure,” Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
“Colored Pencil,” KS Art, New York
2003
   “Tastes Like Chicken," Geoffrey Young Gallery, M
“Makeover,” Massimo Audiello, New York
“Inside Scoop,” Geoffrey Young Galle ry, Great Barrington, MA
2002
   “Abstract Redux,” Danese, New York
“The Tipping Point,” Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
“Loss and Ardor,” Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
2001
   “Persistent Painting,” Peter Coe, Warren Isensee, Kelly Spalding, John Tremblay,
Genovese/Sullivan Gallery, Boston
Group Exhibition, Fusebox, Washington, DC
“Waiting List,” Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
2000
   “la,la,” Tricia Collins Contemporary Art, New York
“To Detail,” Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
“Summertime,” Tricia Collins Contemporary Art, New York
1999
   “Mod,” Tricia Collins Contemporary Art, New York
1998
   “Convivial,” Tricia Collins Contemporary Art, New York
1997
   “Pink and Innocent,” Tricia Collins Contemporary Art, New York
   
 

Bibliography
     
2006
  

Huntington, Richard. “The Drawn Line,” The Buffalo News, November 24, 2006.
Mack, Joshua. “Warren Isensee,” Modern Painters, April 2006, ill.
Naves, Mario. “Isensee’s Cheery Abstractions, Mine Mid-Century Nostalgia,” The New York Observer, February 8, 2006.
Mueller, Stephen. “Warren Isensee,” Gay City News, February 2-8, 2006.
Johnson, Ken. “Warren Isensee,” The New York Times, January 27, 2006, ill.
Cohen, David. “Prada Boxes and Motherboards,” The New York Sun, January 26, 2006.
Johnson, Ken. “Warren Isensee,” The New York Times, Friday, January 20, 2006.
2004
   Baker, Kenneth. “Technology Expands the Notion of Drawing,” San Francisco Chronicle, July 2004.
Church, Amanda. “Colored Pencil at KS Art,” Art on Paper, July/August 2004.
Cohen, Keri Guten. “Design Show Embraces Rainbow of Colors,” Detroit Free Press, January 2004.
Sousanis, Nick. “Painting by Design,” The Detroiter, January 2004.
2002
   Ocana, Damarys. “Grabbed by Detail,” Miami Herald, November 2002/
Smith, Roberta. “Profusion of Painting, Very Much Alive,” New York Times, May 2002.
Naves, Mario. “Painting Scared,” New York Observer, January 2002.
2001
   Daley, Meghan. “Warren Isensee,” Artforum, April 2001.
Johnson, Ken. “Warren Isensee,” New York Times, April 2001.
2000
   Naves, Mario. “Punch Canvases Searching for Beauty,” New York Observer, April 2000.
Faune-Viveros, Christian. “Fabstraction,” New York Press, April 2000.
Johnson, Ken. “la,la,” New York Times, January 2000.
Roberts, Cynthia. “Mod,” Zingmagazine, Winter 2000.
Naves, Mario. “About that Painting in the Window,” New York Observer, October 2000.
Isensee, Warren. “Mellow Drama,” Zingmagazine, Spring/Summer 2000.
“Summertime,” The New Yorker, July 2000.
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