K e n  D u b i n

THE EMERGENCE / BURIAL / …SERIES

1979 - PRESENT

1973, Ken Dubin, Proviso East High School, Maywood, IL

Ken Dubin is an American visual artist recognized primarily for his sparse abstract paintings on canvas and paper. His ongoing body of work, THE EMERGENCE / BURIAL / … SERIES: 1979 - PRESENT, is informed by origin, growth, change, and its return. "A cyclic narrative about things brought forth and things reclaimed", Garrett Holg, The New Art Examiner. Born in Chicago, Dubin received his M.F.A. from the University of Illinois, Chicago, in 1981. He currently lives and works in Fairfield, Iowa.

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THE EMERGENCE / BURIAL / … SERIES, is informed by the unfolding of time and the cycles of life that exist within; the idea that everything comes from somewhere and is growing and changing into something else. White as the predominant color field is a metaphor for the potential of all possibility. The layered surface activity ranges from quiet to erupting; releasing and restricting the implied movement to suggest degrees of origin, growth, transformation, and the potential of what’s to come, or what might have once existed. While the content is confined by the surface edges, I suggest the visual activity extends and exists beyond, waiting to be revealed. Though each piece is considered finished, from early on I understood their need to be parts of a larger dynamic, that when viewed together would shape a more comprehensive whole. Ultimately a reflection of life and living.


Artwork has been included in Solo and Group exhibits in the United States and abroad including: the Rockford Art Museum in Illinois; the Chicago Cultural Center, Perimeter Gallery, Fassbinder Gallery, and Artemisia Gallery in Chicago; the Wustum Museum of Fine Arts in Racine, Wisconsin; David Adamson Gallery in Washington DC; Shirley Fetterman Gallery and Triplex Gallery in NYC; Iowa Contemporary Art and the Dubuque Museum of Art in Iowa; the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Camp Gallery and Muscarelle Museum of Art in Virginia, and the Deutsch-American Institute in Regensburg, Germany and a traveling exhibit throughout Virginia curated by Frederick Brandt of 20th Century Art at the Virginia Museum that included the Bayly Art Museum, Maier Museum of Art and Roanoke Museum of Fine Art. Artist residency fellowships beginning in 1982 include: Ragdale and Prairie Center of the Arts, Illinois; the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Virginia; Ox-Bow, Michigan and Paul Artspace in St. Louis, Missouri.


SOLO and TWO PERSON EXHIBITS


2019   Memoirs From the Emergence / Burial / Series, CSPS Hall, Cedar Rapids, Iowa


2017   Ken Dubin: Project Art at UIHC, Gallery 2, Iowa City, Iowa


2012   Poetry in Response to Painting, Maharishi International University Library Gallery, Fairfield, IA


2011   Ken Dubin: The Emergence / Burial / ... Series, ICON Gallery, Fairfield, Iowa


2012   Fish Nor Foul: Ken Dubin and Ty Smith, Times Club at Prairie Lights, Iowa City, IA, curator: Mary Laube


2010   The Emergence / Burial / … Series, Unity Gallery, Maharishi International University, Fairfield, Iowa


2008   The Emergence / Burial / … Series”, Teeple Hansen Gallery, Fairfield, Iowa


2004   Work From The Emergence / Burial / . . .Series, Ferguson Gallery, Concordia University, River Forest, Il


1989   Ken Dubin: Paintings, Reicher Gallery, Barat College, Lake Forest, Illinois


1988   Ken Dubin, Southport Gallery, Chicago, IL


1987   Ken Dubin: Recent Paintings, Pavillion For The Arts, Chicago, Illinois


1987   Ken Dubin, Camp Gallery, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, Virginia


1981   Ken Dubin, Montgomery Ward Gallery, University of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois


1979   O'Connor Gallery, Dominican University, River Forest, Illinois


1972   Jim Osborne and Ken Dubin, Jane Addams Hull House, Chicago, Illinois



SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITS

 

2019    Alumni Invitational, Prairie Center Of The Arts, Peoria, IL


2017   Ken Dubin / Dennis Kowalski, Anomaly Gallery, Ottumwa, Iowa


2016   Fall Review, Sculptureworks Ferguson, MO


2016   74th Rockford Midwestern Biennial, Rockford Art Museum, IL, Juror: Sarah Krepp


2015   Three Visions: Ken Dubin, Benjamin Gardner, Dennis Kowalski, Transient Gallery, Des Moines, IA


2015   Dust, Viaduct Gallery, Des Moines, Iowa, curator: Benjamin Gardner


2014   Whimsy: Play, Quirk and a Tongue-in-Cheek Aesthetic, ICON, Fairfield, Iowa, curator: Ken Dubin


2013   2013 Biennial Exhibition, Dubuque Museum of Art, Dubuque, Iowa, Juror: James Welu


2012   ICON / IOWA / VCCA, ICON Gallery, Fairfield, Iowa, curator: Ken Dubin


2010   2010 Biennial Exhibition, Dubuque Museum of Art Dubuque, Iowa, Juror: Frank Paluch


2009   3rd Annual Large Works Show, ICON Gallery, Fairfield, Iowa, curator: Bill Teeple


2008   2nd Annual Large Works Show, ICON Gallery, Fairfield, Iowa, curator: Bill Teeple


2008   19th Evanston+Vicinity Biennial, Evanston Arts Center, Evanston, Il


2005   Silver Paper Gallery, Gallery Closing Show, Milwaukee, WI, Curator: Todd Groskopf  


2004   Riverside Arts Center, Riverside, Illinois


2003   12 x 12, The Arts Center, Highland Park, IL


2003   60th Annual Salon Show, Northern Indiana Arts Association, Munster, Indiana, (cat.)


2001   Works on Paper, Riverside Arts Center, Riverside, IL


2001   O'Connor Art Gallery, Dominican University, River Forest, Il


2000  The Ragdale Experience, Gwenda Jay/Addington Gallery, Chicago, IL


2000  Peltz Gallery, Milwaukie, Wisconsin


2000  Perry Nicole Fine Art, Memphis, Tennessee


1999   30 times 15” x 15, Fassbender Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, Curator: Ingrid Fassbinder


1999   Return of the Men, Peltz Gallery, Milwaukee, WI


1998   Group Show, Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL


1997   Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, Illinois


1997   Peltz Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin


1996   Peltz Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin


1995   Eastwick Gallery, Chicago, Illinois


1994   51st Annual Salon Show, Bachman Gallery, South Shore Arts, Munster, Indiana, (cat)


1993   Shirley Fetterman Gallery, NY, NY, Selections from the BMCC Permanent Collection, curator: Linda Stein


1992   New Chicago Artists, Tough Gallery, Chicago, IL


1992   Triplex Gallery, New York, NY, Selections from the BMCC Permanent Collection, Curator: Linda Stein


1992   Open Spectrum, David Adler Cultural Center, Libertyville, Illinois, (cat.)


1991   Primary Visions: Ken Dubin, Richard Lange, Gyaeyoung Song, Temporary Space, Chicago, Illinois


1990   Judith Racht Gallery, Harbert, Michigan


1989   Judith Racht Gallery, Harbert, Michigan


1988   Deutsch-Amerikanisches Institute, Regensburg, Germany (cat.)            


1988   Lynchburg Fine Arts Center, Lynchburg, VA


1988   Muscarelle Museum of Art, Williamsburg, Virginia, curator: Frank Gettings


1988   Van Straaten Gallery, Chicago, Illinois


1988   Topeka Does Chicago, Topeka Gallery, Chicago, IL


1987   11th Annual Illinois Print and Drawing Exhibition, Harper College, Palatine, IL, Juror: Keith Achepohl


1987   Van Straaten Gallery, Chicago, Illinois


1987   Adamson Gallery, Washington, DC


1986   Suburban Fine Arts Center, Highland Park, IL


1986   Mt. San Angelo Artists, Virginia Beach Arts Center, Virginia Beach, Virginia, curator: Frederick Brandt


1986   Mt. San Angelo Artists, Maier Museum, Lynchburg, Virginia, curator: Frederick Brandt


1985   Mt. San Angelo Artists, Roanoke Museum of Fine Art, Roanoke, Virginia, curator: Frederick Brandt


1985   Mt. San Angelo Artists, Bayly Museum, Charlottesville, VA, curator: Frederick Brandt


1985   Moming Dance and Fine Arts Center, Chicago, Illinois


1985   20th Anniversary Alumni Invitational:Fine Art Competition Winners, 1977-1984, Ward Gallery, U of I, Chicago


1983   Chicago Works on Paper-Abstracted, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL, Juror: Susan Senseman (cat.)


1983   Chicago Works on Paper-Abstracted, Wustum Museum of Fine Art, Racine, WI, Juror: Susan Senseman (cat.)


1983   Columbus Technical Institute, Columbus, OH


1983   Works:Paper, Ohio Foundation For The Arts


1982   Works: Paper, Siegfried Gallery, U of Ohio, Athens, Ohio, Jurors: William Olander, Kathryn Clark, (cat.)


1982   Ruth Volid Gallery, Chicago, Illinois


1981    Open Spectrum, David Adler Cultural Center, Libertyville, Illinois      


1981    Landscape Show, NAB Gallery, Chicago, Illinois


1981    6/6, Artemesia Gallery, Chicago, Illinois


1980   Best Of The Midwest, Artist Guild of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, Juror: Harry Bouras 


1979    6/6, West Hubbard Gallery, Chicago, Illinois


1972   Union Carbide Exhibition Hall, New York, NY: 46th National Scholastic Art Awards

1968   Oak Park Art League, Annual  Exhibit, Oak Park, IL



PUBLICATIONS


New American Paintings, 15th Anniversary Edition, Open Studios Press, Boston, MA., February, 2010


Painters Bread (blog), Michael Rutherford, July 25, 2010, http://www.paintersbread.com/2010/07/ken-dubin.html


Wednesday Journal, "The Metaphysics of artist Ken Dubin", Anna Poplawska, August, 2004


New American Painting, Open Studios Press, Boston, MA. Juror: Carl Belz, August, 1998


New Art Examiner, "Ken Dubin", Garrett Holg, 1/’1989


Art Prose "The Emergence / Burial / ... Series", Elizabeth Carrera, 1989


Maier Museum of Art, Winter 1986, Vol. V111, #2 


New Art Examiner, "Chicago Abstractionists rise above a bitter political legacy", Michel Segard, 3/’84


Milwaukee Sentinel, "New Chicago abstraction is earthbound", Dean Jensen, July, 1983


New Art Examiner, "6/6 Exhibition", Leon Upshaw, January, 1979



CURATORIAL


WHIMSY: Play, Quirk, and a Tongue-in-Cheek Aesthetic, ICON Gallery, Fairfield, Iowa, 2014


ICON/IOWA/VCCA: Virginia Center For The Creative Arts Fellows In Iowa, ICON Gallery, Fairfield, IA, 2013



COLLECTIONS


Borough of Manhattan Community College, NY


De Paul University, Chicago, Illinois


Dominican University, River Forest, Illinois


Hallmark Greeting Cards, New York


Harris Bank, Chicago, Illinois


The Kemper Group, Long Grove, Illinois


McDonald's Corporation, Oak Brook, Illinois


Moraine Valley Junior College, Palos Heights, Illinois


Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest, Illinois


Virginia Center For The Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, Virginia



RESIDENCIES


Grinnell Artist Residency, Grinnell, Iowa, 2011


Michael Karolyi Memorial Foundation Fellowship, Vence, France, 1985


Ox-Bow, Saugatuck, Michigan, 1985


Paul Artspace, St. Louis, Missouri, 2016


Prairie Center of the Arts, Peoria, Illinois, 2012


Ragdale Foundation Fellowship, Lake Forest, Illinois, 1987,1998,1999, 2002, 2011


Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, Virginia, ’82, '85,-’87, '93, '97-'01, '03, '05, '11, '17

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