Theresa Hackett
b. Santa Barbara, CA
STATEMENT
For many years now I have been introducing new materials to my work. I find that one material can activate a dialogue with another and can create certain tensions. My work is a philosophical inquiry; I use the language of abstraction, blending it with the pictorial and pastoral, to create hybrid, textural landscapes. Painting as a language presents itself as a game for me to dissect; it enables me to play within its delicate balance. I have always been interested in creating an environment for my paintings, either through transforming the gallery space into an installation, or introducing three-dimensional sculptural objects to engage in a relationship with a two-dimensional work. I find that this dialogue between installation and painting creates a certain dialectic that offers the opportunity to form a broader interpretation of the work.
The work that I make is a collection of unpredictable forms, one that produces an intimate relationship between the act of painting, the unconscious and intuition. In the last four decades I have committed much of my studio practice to a mixology; an alchemy which tends to direct the composition toward visual play, a paronomasia of textural complexities and surface variations. My paintings are problems that I construct for myself and try to solve through exploration and experimentation. Formal decisions bounce back and forth, the past and present are analyzed; this process creates a visual recording and evidence of decision making. The surface I work with becomes a "wearing down" of time, a form of weathering an articulation of memory.
This re-contextualizing is a process which is shaped by continual questioning, and by constant construction and deconstruction. This is the basis of my painting practice, it is a place where I create temporality, construct elements that contain time and form personal histories.
EDUCATION
MFA Hunter College, New York, New York,
BFA University of California, Santa Barbara, College of Creative Studies
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021
High Noon, Around the Bend, New York, NY
2018
High Noon, Slippery Slope, New York, NY
2017
DVAA, Narrowsburg, NY.
2011
NYFA, Patron Window Residency, NY
Bryan Art Gallery, Coastal Carolina University, SC
2010
Contemporary Museum, On View, Baltimore, MD
2009
Haas Gallery, Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, PA.
2007
Florence Lynch Gallery, New York, NY
2005
Florence Lynch Gallery, New York, NY
2004
Florence Lynch Gallery, New York, NY
2002
Linda Schwartz Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio
2001
Florence Lynch Gallery, New York, NY
2000
Soho Myriad, At the Edge of Understanding, Atlanta, GA
1999
Smallworks Gallery, Las Vegas, NV
1998
Florence Lynch Gallery, New York, NY
1993
Cigales et Lavandes, Turin, Italy
1992
Sue Spaid Fine Art, Traces of Erasure, Los Angeles, CA
1991
Sue Spaid Fine Art, Landmark to Landmark, Los Angeles, CA
1990
Condeso/Lawler Gallery, New York, NY
1984
Jus de Pomme, New York, NY
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021
"Artists Draw Their Studios", Kleinert James Center for the Arts, Woodstock, NY
2020
USPS Collaboration Project, various venues
2019
Divine Intervention, Christ Episcopal Church, Sag Harbor, NY
Bring Something Pink, Look & Listen/ Atelier Seruse, PAC, Marseille, France, organized by Emily Noelle Lambert
Mermer Blakeslee, Dale Emmart, Theresa Hackett and Margot Mclean, CAS, Livingston Manor, NY
Quirky/Wonderful, curated by Fran Shalom, Kathryn Markel Gallery, NY
2018
Wrap Around 17: Theresa Hackett, Holly Miller, Bill Smart, curated by Renée Riccardo ARENA at Suite 806, 89 Fifth Ave., NY
Venice Vending Machine Tate Exchange, Tate Gallery, Liverpool, UK
True North, Lab Space, Hillsdale, NY
Among Friends, Beth Dary Studio, Dumbo, NY
2017
The Painted Desert, High Noon Gallery, NY
More Woman Painting, Design Sublime, Miami, Fl
Flower Power, Sara Nightingale Gallery, Sag Harbor, NY
We Need To Talk, Petzel, NY. ( Video Screening)
2016
NOMENcolorATURE, Studio10, Brooklyn, NY
Hamburg Vending Machine, Kunst Altonale, Hamburg, Germany
Space, Light and Disorder, curated by Marilla Palmer, Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, NY
2015
Venice Vending Machine, Edition 3, Serra dei Giardini, Venice, Italy
Summer Salad, organized by Francie Bishop Good, Girl's Club Annex Space, Ft Lauderdale, FL
Displaced Landscape, DVAA, Narrowsburg, NY
2014
Paintings From Paris, Makebish Gallery, New York, NY
Starting Here: A Selection of Distinguished Artists from UCSB, Art, Design & Architecture Museum, UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA
The Last Brucennial, New York, NY.
2013
Jill Levine and Theresa Hackett: Gravity's Elbow, The George Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
Lumen, Film Festival, Staten Island, NY. Curated by David Terry, NYFA.
As The Eye Is Formed, Juried by Peter Campus, Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, NY. (Video Screening)
Mass MoCA-One Minute Film Festival: 10 Years. North Adams, MA
2012
Between the Two: Six Artists from NY, The George Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
Summer Invitational, Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, New York, NY
Hamburg Vending Machine, Kunst Altonale, Hamburg Germany
Little Languages/Coded Pictures, Lesley Heller Work Space, New York, NY
Little Languages/Coded Pictures, Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, New York, NY
2011
Fractured Earth, Lesley Heller Work Space, New York, NY
2010
Milred's Lane Renovating Walden, Collaborator, Tufts University, Boston, MA
New York Foundation for the Arts, Dumbo Arts Festival, Brooklyn, NY
String Theory, Storefront, Brooklyn, NY
Spreading the Influence, Olin Gallery of Art, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH
New Work, New Space: Inaugural Exhibition, Storefront, Brooklyn, NY
2009
Free Arranger, Miami International Airport, Miami, FL
Shrink Wrap, curated by Liza Phillips, DVAA, Narrowsburg, NY
2008
40th Anniversary, Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
Treemendous, Islip Art Museum Carriage House, Islip, NY
Summer Group Show, Florence Lynch Gallery, New York, NY
Under the Influence, Girls Club Foundation, Fort Lauderdale, FL
2007
Sum of Three, Pool Installation, The Mirador 1200, Miami, FL
The Pierogi Show, Pocket Utopia , Brooklyn, NY
2006
Winter Salon, Lesley Heller Gallery, New York, NY
Two by Two, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
Flow, Kleinert/ James Arts Center, Woodstock, NY
2005
Benefit Auction, Cincinnati Contemporary Museum of Art, Cincinnati, OH
Maps, Pierogi 2000, Brooklyn, NY
2004
1st Annual Big Apple fest, New York, NY
Books’ and Books, Coral Gabel, FL
2003
Visiting Artist and Faculty Exhibition, SU Art Gallery, Columbus, OH
Gush, DAC, Brooklyn, NY
Abstract-ed, Limn Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Tenth Anniversary Show, Schroeder Romero, Brooklyn, NY
Welcome, Linda Schwartz Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2002
Red, Linda Schwartz Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
Waves, The Work Space, New York, NY
Reactions, Exit Art, New York, NY
Pass Me The Peace, The Space@Media Triangle, New York, NY
2001
Small Works, Linda Schwartz Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
Aqua Marine, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont, NY
Breathing Room, Art Center, Miami Beach, Florida
Project Space, Linda Schwartz Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2000
Quixotic Landscape, Kjubh Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany
Small Works, Linda Schwartz Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
That Perfect Place, The Work Space, New York, NY
Recess, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont, NY
1999
Cremolata Floatage, Aboard the Staten Island Ferry, New York, NY
Primordial, Soup to Nuts, Dirt Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Outdoor Installation, Comune di Varallo Pombia, Italy
Peek, Curated by Masters Degree Program at FIT, New York, NY "Phenotypology", Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY
Outside Edge: A Survey, La Sorbonne, University of Paris, Paris, France
1998
Galerie Le Faisant, Strasbourg, France
What’s On The Wall, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY
The Exchange Show, Florence Lynch Gallery, New York, NY
Reading Between the Lines, The Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Collectors, Provincetown Art Museum, Provincetown, MA
1997
Sweet & Low, Sherry Frumkin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Pierogi 2000 Flatfiles, The Gas Works Gallery, London, England
Current Undercurrent: Working in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum of Art, NY
The Exchange Show, Florence Lynch Gallery, New York, NY
The Gramercy International Art Fair, Pierogi 2000, New York, NY
White Out, The Work Space, New York, NY
1996
Sequence, Florence Lynch Gallery, New York, NY
On the Small Side, Sherry Frumkin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
A Walk in the Woods, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY
One Thousand Nine Hundred Ninety-Seven Postcards, Gallery 7, Hong Kong
Reproducing Nature, Sherry Frumkin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Black, White and Blue, 450 Broadway Gallery, New York, NY
Strappy Sandals and Skinny Belts, Murray Feldman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1995
Strappy Sandals and Skinny Belts, Push, San Francisco, CA
Fallout, Sauce, Brooklyn, NY
1994
Painting, Arena, Brooklyn, NY
Hair: The Long & Short of It, Mills Pond House, St James, NY
1993
Invitational Exhibition, Hudson D Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Autumn Salon, Arena, Brooklyn, NY
The Layered Look, Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Joke Show, Four Walls, Brooklyn, NY
1992
Salon ‘92, Art in General, New York, NY
1991
Artists for Choice, Ceres Gallery, New York, NY
The First Decade of the MFA Program 1981-91, Hunter College, NY, NY
1990
Mind/Matter Sculpture 1991, Fermilab Accelerator Facility, Batavia, IL
1990 Exhibition of Works on Paper, Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA
Corporealities, Sue Spaid Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
Arts & Fusions, Visual Image/Writing/Sound, New York, Traveled to: Kassel Documenta Archive, Kassel, Museum Ludwig Koln, Cologne, Staatsgalerie Grafische, Stuttgart, Germany
AWARDS, GRANTS, RESIDENCIES
MacDowell Colony, 2016
Nominated for the Joan Mitchell Award, 2013
Nominated for the Joan Mitchell Award, 2012
Venice Printmaking Residency, Murano, Italy, 2011
Fellow in Printmaking/ Drawing/ Book Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, 2009
Fountainhead Residency, Miami, Florida, 2009
Nominated for the Joan Mitchell Award, 2005
Nominated for the Joan Mitchell Award, 2001
Nominated for the Joan Mitchell Award, 2000
Edward Albee Foundation, Creative Persons Center, Montauk, NY, 1994
Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant, 1993
Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY, 1987
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Mac Dowell Colony
Moses & Singer LLP
Wynn Kramarsky (Hammer Museum)
Kassel Documenta Archive, Kassel, Germany
Museum Ludwig Koln, Cologne, Germany
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart Grafische, Stuttgart, Germany
Peco Energy, King of Prussia, Pennsylvania
Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia
Dow Jones, New York, New York
Atlantic Records, New York, New York
Keller Donovan Corporation, Florida
Pfizer Corporation, New York, New York
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