ANDREW TAVARELLI
Born, New York City
EDUCATION
1963 B.A., Queens College, NYC
1964 Graduate studies in Anthropology, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
1965 Art History, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009 Saint Gaudens National Historic Site, "Hybrids," Cornish, NH
2007 Anthony Curtis Gallery, "Floating Worlds," Boston, MA
2006 University of Connecticut, Avery Point
2005 New England School of Art and Design, Boston MA, Double Vision, pigment prints
2005 Nesto Gallery, Milton Academy, Milton MA, “Floating World”
2004 Patricia Corega Gallery, “A Boat in the Desert,” Sandwich NH
2002 Alexey von Schlippe Gallery of Art, U. Conn, Avery Point
2000 Gallery Naga, “Conversations with Willie and Van,” paintings, Boston MA
1998 Gallery Naga "Schoolhouse Paintings" Boston, MA
1996 Gallery Naga, "Pages from the Travel Books" (watercolors) Boston, MA
1996 Gallery Naga, "Recent Paintings" Boston, MA
1995 Alexey von Schlippe Museum of Art, University of Connecticut
1995 Gallery Naga, "Pages from the Travel Books" (watercolors) Boston, MA
1991 Harcus Gallery, Boston, MA
1987 Virginia Polytechnic, Blacksburg, Virginia
1985 Harcus Gallery, Boston MA
1985 Central Falls, NYC
1983 Passaic County College, Patterson, NJ
1983 Haber Theodore Gallery, NYC
1982 Harcus Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA
1981 Haber Theodore Gallery,
1980 Harcus Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA.
1980 Hayden Gallery, MIT, Cambridge, MA
1977 Harcus Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA
1977 Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA
1976 Fischbach Gallery, NYC
1975 Schochet Gallery, Newport, RI
1975 Hayden Corridor Gallery, MIT, Cambridge, MA
1974 Harcus Krakow Rosen Sonnabend Gallery, Boston, MA
1973 Fischbach Gallery, NYC
1973 Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
1970 Parker Street 470 Gallery, Boston, MA
1968 Tufts University, Medford, MA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008 "Ambivalent Figuration," Samson Projects, Boston, MA
2008 "Itinerant Artists," Patricia Carega Gallery, Sandwich, NH
2007 "Wanderlust," Anthony Curtis Gallery, Boston, MA
2007 "Traditions/Collision," Alfred University, Alfred, NY
2006 Digital Prints &Watercolors, Patricia Corega Gallery, Sandwich, NH
2005 Patricia Corega Gallery, Sandwich, NH
2004 "Refigured,” McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, catalog by Alston Conley
2001 "Constructed,” Newton Art Center, MA
1995 "Inspired by Nature", Boston College Museum of Art, Chestnut Hill, MA
1994 "Shrines, Symbols & Cherished Objects", Fuller Museum, Brockton, MA
1993 "Contemporary Watercolors", Boston College Museum of Art, Chestnut Hill, MA
1990 "For Our Rights", Barridorf Galleries, Portland, ME
2001 "Selections, The Boston College Collection Show",
2001 Boston College Gallery, Boston, MA
1987 "Familiar Faces in New Spaces: Recent Work by the Boston College Studio Faculty", Boston College Gallery, Boston, MA
1987 "Summer Work", Osuna Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1986 "Thanks for the Memories", Harcus Gallery, Boston, MA
1985 Full Time Drawing", Boston College Gallery, Boston, MA
1985 "Jungle Fever" Harcus Gallery, Boston, MA
1985 "Boston Painting from the Last Decade," Tufts University, Medford, MA
1984 "Currents 6: New Abstraction," Milwaukee Art Museum, WI
1984 "Paperworks," Haber-Theodore Gallery, NYC.,NY
1983 "Newscapes," One Penn Plaza, NYC., NY
1983 "Ornamentalism," Harcus Gallery, Boston, MA
1983 "Three if By Air: Take Two," Boston College Gallery, Boston, MA
1983 "Skeet Shoot," Boston College Gallery, Boston, MA
1982 "A Private Vision," The Grahm Gund Collection," M.F.A., Boston, MA
1982 "Small Works," Washington Square Art Gallery, NYC
1982 "Haber Theodore at 500 Exposition," 500 Exposition Gallery, Dallas, TX.
1982 "Works on Paper," Summit Art Centre, Summit, NJ
1981 "Art on Paper," Weatherspoon Art Gallery, U. of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC
1981 "Great American Fan Show," Lerner Heller Gallery, NYC
1981 "Great American Fan Show," Reynolds Minor Galler, Richmond, VA.
1980 "CAPS Award Recipients," Kingsborough College, NYC
1980 "Almost Abstract," Boston College Gallery, Boston, MA.
1979 "Pastels," Harold Reed Gallery, NYC
1978 "Painting and Sculpture Today," Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
1978 "Art at Gracie Manion," Gracie Mansion, N.Y.C. (curated by Henry Geldzahler)
1978 "DeCordova Collects," DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA.
1978 "Recent Drawing," Boston University Gallery, Boston, MA.
1978 Dart Gallery, Chicago, IL
1978 "Remembrances, Fifteen Years," Fischbach Gallery, NYC
1977 "Maps," Museum of Modern Art, NYC
1977 "Collection in Progress," Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA
1976 "Coventry Collection," New England University, Armidale, Australia
1975 "Painted in Boston," Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
1975 "Brutten Collection," Clocktower, NYC
1974 "Painting and Sculpture Today," Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN.
1974 "Vera List Selects," Greenwich, CT
1974 "Art for Collectors," Akron Art Institute, Akron, OH
1974 "Gallery Artists," Vick Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1973 "Whitney Biennial," Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC
1973 "Gallery Artists," Fischbach Gallery, NYC
1973 Summit Art Center, Summit, NJ
1972 "Contemporary Drawing," MIT, Cambridge, MA
1971 "Romantic Abstraction," Brandies University, Waltham, MA
1971 "Contemporary Painting and Sculpture," DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
1971 "Boston Scene," University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
1971 "Big Art," Pine Manor College, College Hill, MA
1970 "Boston Band," Parker Street 470 Gallery, Boston, MA
1970 Studio Coalition, Boston, MA
1969 Studio Coalition, Boston, MA
1969 "Three If By Air," Obelisk Gallery, Boston, MA
1969 "Collaboration," Institute for Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
1969 "Boston Now," Boston City Hall, Boston, MA
1969 "Insights," Parker Street 470 Gallery, Boston, MA
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2004 Conley, Alston, “Refigured”, Exhibition catalogue, McMullen Museum
2001 Corbett, William, “Conversations with Willie and Van” in All Prose, Zoland Books Cambridge
2001 Tarlow, Lois, “Profile Andrew Tavarelli” Art New England, Jan. 01
2000 Corbett, William, “Nuances at Naga”, Arts Media, Summer 2000
2000 Giuliano, Charles, “Tavarelli at Naga”, Art New England, Sept. 2000
2000 Giuliano, Charles, “Talkin Bout my Generation,” Art New England, January
1999 Temin, Christine Boston Globe, July 29, 1999
1998 McQuaid, Cate, Boston Globe, January 22 Gallery Reviews: Psychic Cauldron's; chaos curbed; edgy diamonds
1996 McQuaid, Cate, "Turning a Worldy Eye on Innocence", Boston Globe, February 22, 1996
1996 Horowitz, Stash, "Snake Bitten", Back Bay Covrant, February 20, 1996
1995 Giuliano, Charles, "The Return of the Native", Improper Bostonian, November 24, 1995
1995 Temin, Christine, "At B.C. The Art of Shields Surpasses Their Function" Oct. 12, 1995 Boston Globe
1995 Temin, Christine, "With Landscape Shows B.C., Sets off a Blast of Beauty", June 15, 1995, Boston Globe
1995 McKown, Rick, "Inspired by Nature: A Contemporary View", Art New England, page 62, December 1995
1995 Pellegrini, Lafiosca Rosanne, "Protection, Power and Display" Boston College Chronicle, October 5, 1995
1985 Temin, Christine, "Tavarelli Picks the Best of Both Worlds," Boston Globe, May 1985
1984 Henry, Gerrit, "Andrew Tavarelli at Haber Theodore," Art in America
1984 Giuliano, Charles, "Three If By Air Revisited," Art New England, December 1983
1983 Temin, Christine, "Three If By Air: Take Two," Boston Globe November 16, 1983
1982 Baker, Kenneth, "Islands in the Stream", Boston Phoenix April 1982
1981 Butera, Virginia Fabbri, "The Fan as Contemporary Image," Arts Magazine May 1981
1981 Butera, Virginia Fabbri, "Great American Fan Show," catalogue for exhibition, Lerner-Heller Gallery NYC
1981 Butera, Virginia Fabbri, "Andrew Tavarelli," Arts Magazine October 1981
1978 Giuliano, Charles, "Tavarelli at Harcus-Krakow, Nightfall January 1978
1977 Baker, Kenneth, "The Layers of the Onion," Boston Phoenix December 1977
1976 Baker, Kenneth, "Andrew Tavarelli," Arts Magazine November 1976
1975 Arghyros, Nan, "Tavarelli at Hayden Gallery," New Boston Review June 1975
1974 Bell, Jane, "Reviews," Arts Magazine February 1974
1974 Chandler, John, catalogue for the exhibition at Harcus-Krakow-Rosen-Sonnebend Gallery, Boston, MA
1974 Gilbert-Rolfe, Jeremy, "Reviews," Art Forum Marh
1974 Taylor, Robert, "Painter Confronts the Pictorial Problems of Modernism," Boston Globe June 1974
1973 Belz, Carl, catalogue for the exhibition, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, 1973
1973 Kramer, Hilton, "Second Part of the Whitney, The New York Times January 20, 1973
1973 Rose, Barbara, "New Talent," New York Magazine, 1973
1973 Taylor, Robert, "Tavarelli at the Rose Museum," Boston Globe October 1973
1970 Chandler, John, "Paintings of Andrew Tavarelli," Boston Review of the Arts November 1970
1970 Driscoll, Edgar, "Tavarelli's Canvases," Boston Globe November 1970
1970 Giuliano, Charles, "Tavarelli at Parker Street," Boston Herald-Traveller November 1970
1969 Chandler, John, "Three If By Air," catalogue for exhibition, Obelisk Gallery, Boston, MA
1969 Driscoll, Edgar, "The Forward Look Continues," Boston Globe, June 1969
1969 Giuliano, Charles, "Three If By Air," Boston After Dark June 8, 1969
1969 Koethe, John, "Reviews," ARTnews March 1969
1969 Baker, Kenneth, "Tavarelli Bike Series," Christian Science Monitor November 4, 1969
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
195 Broadway Corporation, NYC
Amerada Hess Corporation
Ardeth Allport Gallery, San Francisco, CA
ATT, NYC.
ATT Longlines, Roanoke, VA
Boston Public Library
Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
British American Tobacco
Chandler Coventry Collection, Paddington, Australia
Chase Manhattan Bank, NYC
Chicago O'Hare Airport, Chicago, IL
Commerce Bank of Kansas City, Kansas City, MO
Creiger-Sesen Associates, Boston, MA
Hyatt Regency Hotel, NYC
Hotel Corporation of America
Kaye and Fealkow, Boston, MA
Lehman Brothers, Kuhn, Loeb, NYC
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
McMullen Museum, Boston College, MA
Millbank, Tweed, Halley and McCloy, NYC
Naples Museum, Naples, FL
Newton Cultural Affairs, Inc. Newton, MA
Prince Macaroni Corporation, Lowell, MA
Prudential Life Insurance, Newark, NJ
Rose Museum, Brandeis University, MA
R.S. Reynolds Industries, Inc., Winston-Salem, NC
Sonesta Hotels, Key Biscayne, FL
Sonesta Hotels, Bermuda
Stop and Shop Corporation, Boston, MA
Vitale Caturano Corporation
Wellington Management, Boston, MA
Xerox Corporation
GRANT AND AWARDS
2003 Research Expense Grant, summer/fall, Boston College
2003 Research Incentive Grant, Boston College
2001 Research Expense Grant, Boston College
1997 Research Expense Grant, Boston College, Summer Research Incentive Grant, Boston College
1995 National Endowment for the Arts, Special Exhibitions, 1995, $35000.00, authored the proposal for Protection, Power and Display
1995 Undergraduate Research Fellows, 140 hours, to assist with the exhibition project, Office of the Dean, Boston College
1993 Boston College Research Expense Grant
1990 Faculty Research Fellowship
1989 Boston College Summer Expense Grant for research in Indonesia
1985 Boston College Summer Research Grant
1981-82 National Endowment for the Arts
1980 New York State CAPS Fellowship
1977 St. Botolph Club Award for the Arts
1975-76 National Endowment for the Arts
1971-72 Blanche E. Colman
EXHIBITIONS CURATED
Protection, Power and Display:Shields of Island Southeast Asia and Melanesia, Boston College Museum of Art, Chestnut Hill, MA 1995 (author, editor of catalogue)
Voice of the Spirits:Indigenous Art of Indonesia Boston College Gallery, 1989 Chestnut Hill, MA (author of catalogue)
Ray Kass, Large Scale Watercolors: Boston College Gallery, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 1987
Three If By Air:Take Two Boston College Gallery, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 1983
Almost AbstractBoston College Gallery, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 1980
Four Sculptors Boston College Gallery, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 1979
Multiple Realities Boston College Gallery, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 1978
TEACHING
Current Boston College, Professor, Assistant Chair Fine Arts Department
2004 Art Institute of Boston/Lesley U., Artist Mentor, Graduate School
1990 Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Resident Artist, Skowhegan, ME (summer)
1987 Virginia Polytechnic, Blacksburg, VA, Visiting Artist
1986 Mountain Lake Symposium, Blacksburg, VA, Visiting Artist
1985 SUNY at Purchase, Purchase, NY, Visiting Artist, Department of Visual Arts (fall semester)
1984 University of Pennsylvania, Visiting Critic, Graduate School of Fine Arts (spring semester)
1976 - Boston College, Boston, MA, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Fine Arts
1972 Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA, Visiting Artist, Department of Painting
1969-76 Cambridge Friends School, Cambridge, MA, Teacher, Art Department
1964-69 Meadowbrook School of Weston, Weston, MA, Teacher, Art Department
1963-64 Washington University, St. Louis, MO, Teaching Assistant, Anthropology Department |