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Carlos Villa
American, born Filipino, 1936
Solo Exhibitions: Spatsa Gallery 1958; Poindexter Gallery, New York 1962; Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York ; Park Place Gallery, New York 1964;
Selected Exhibitions: Noah Goldowsky Gallery, New York; San Francisco Museum of Art 1986; Syntex Gallery, Palo Alto; the INTAR Gallery, New York and the American Academy at Rome, Italy.
Public Collections: Casa de las Americas, Havana, Cuba; Columbia University, New York; The Oakland Museum; The Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; and The Whitney Museum, New York.
Awards: National Endowment for the Arts grant, the Distinguished Alumni Award from the San Francisco Art Institute, the Rockefeller Travel Grant, Flintridge and Pollock - Krasner Fellowships and the Adaline Kent Award.
Literature: Thomas Albright, Art in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945-1980; Henry Hopkins, Painting and Sculpture in California: The Modern Era
Source:
David J Carlson, Carlson Gallery, California. Carlson's specialty is Post-World War II California artists, and he is preparing a catalogue for a 2004 traveling exhibition of these artists to several California museums.
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"An Abstract Expressionist in the late 1950s and early 1960s, he began in the late 1960s to paint swirling arcs and coils of color in acrylic on unstretchd canvases, adding to them such materials as feathers and broken glass. Following the feathered, cape-like works for which he became known in the early 1970s, he turned to imprinting canvases directly with images of his face, hands, and other parts of his body, during quasi-primitive dances and other ritualistic actions that he performed."
Source:
Thomas Albright, Art in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945-1980
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