Daisy Youngblood Bio
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DAISY YOUNGBLOOD
1945 | Born September 14 in Asheville, NC |
1963-1966 | Attends Richmond Professional Institute, VA |
1967 | Moves to New York City with then husband Joe Haske and son Youngblood Haske |
1974 | Daughter Savannah Haske born |
1979 | Joins Willard Gallery, New York, NY |
1984 | Moves to Costa Rica and meets Tom Sather |
1986 | Daughter Budhi Sather born |
1991 | Moves to Bisbee, Arizona |
1993 | Joins McKee Gallery, New York |
1999 | Moves to Santa Fe, New Mexico |
2003 | Receives John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship |
Moves to Costa Rica |
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1979 | Willard Gallery, New York, NY |
1981 | Willard Gallery |
1983 | Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York |
1985 | Barbara Gladstone Gallery |
1991 | Tom Cugliani Gallery, New York |
1992 | Beaver College Art Gallery, Glenside, PA |
1993 | McKee Gallery, New York |
1996 | University Gallery, Fine Arts Center, University of Massachusetts, Amherst |
1999 | McKee Gallery |
2004-2005 | McKee Gallery |
2004-2007 | Standing Gorilla, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Coral Gables, FL |
2015 | McKee Gallery |
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1981 | Figuratively Speaking, Institute for Contemporary Art, P.S. 1, Long Island City, NY |
1982 | John Torreano / Daisy Youngblood, Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, MO |
Animals in American Art 1880s-1980s, Nassau County Museum of Fine Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY | |
1983 | American Clay Artists: Philadelphia ’83, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA |
The Sixth Day, Bergman Gallery, The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, IL | |
Inside / Out, Bronx River Restoration Art Center, NY | |
Personification, Carreiro Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston | |
Sculpture Now, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond | |
1984 | Painting and Sculpture Today, Indianapolis Museum of Art, IN |
Beauties and Beasts, Pratt Manhattan Center Gallery, Pratt Institute, New York, NY | |
Modern Masks, Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York | |
50 Artists / 50 States, Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco, CA | |
1985 | Memento Mori, Goldie Paley Gallery, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia |
In the Eye of the Beholder, College Art Gallery, SUNY, New Paltz, NY | |
The Figure Renewed, Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, PA | |
Not Just Black and White, City Gallery, New York | |
1986 | Memento Mori, Centro Cultural / Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico |
1987 | Standing Ground: Sculpture by American Women, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH |
1988 | Painting and Sculpting by Candidates of Art Awards and Exhibition of Work by Newly Elected Members and Recipients of Awards, American Academy and Institute of Arts & Letters, New York |
1990 | Nature’s Materials, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks |
1993 | Here’s Looking at Me: Contemporary Self-Portrait, Espace Lyonnais d’Art, Contemporain, Lyon, France |
1995 | Next of Kin: Looking at the Great Apes, List Visual Arts Center, MIT, Cambridge |
1996 | A Labor of Love, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York |
1997 | Strong Spirits, Dorothy Uber Bryan Gallery, Fine Arts Center, Bowling Green State University, OH |
Figure and Fragility, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York | |
The Changing Image, Claudia Gian Ferrari Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy | |
1998 | The Edward R. Broida Collection: A Selection of Works, Orlando Museum of Art, FL |
1999 | Powder, The Aspen Art Museum, CO |
2000 | The Likeness of Being, DC Moore Gallery, New York |
Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA | |
American Art Today: Fantasies & Curiosities, The Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami | |
Symbols of Survival: Animal Sculpture In Recent Art, Dorsky Gallery, New York | |
Allan Chasanoff Ceramic Collection, Mint Museum of Craft and Design, Charlotte, NC | |
NEW works, McKee Gallery, New York | |
Sculpture 2000, Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London, CT | |
2002-2003 | Lugar(es): la urbe y lo contemporáneo, (Place(s), the Metropolis and the Contemporary), Acervo artístico Fundación Televisa, Museo Nacional de Arte, Mexico City, Mexico |
Aviary, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York | |
2003 | Magic Markers: Objects of Transformation, Des Moines Art Center, IA |
2004 | Bare Clay, Ceramic Nudes in 20th Century Art, Garth Clark Gallery, New York |
2005 | Explorations in Bronze, Degas and New Mexico Sculptors, Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe |
To See the Magic, Galerie Albrecht, Munich, Germany | |
Zoo Story: An Exhibition of Animals in Art – For the Young and the Young at Heart, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Long Island City | |
From the Neck Up, Franklin Parrasch Gallery | |
2006 | Against the Grain: Contemporary Art from the Edward R. Broida Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York |
2007 | Early Signs, McKee Gallery |
2008-2009 | Origins, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY |
2009 | Art at Fairchild, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Coral Gables, FL |
2010 | Sculpture, McKee Gallery |
2012 | The Female Gaze: Women Artists Making their World, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia |
MUSEUM COLLECTIONS
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Coral Gables, FL
Greenville Museum of Art, NC
Honolulu Museum of Art, Spalding House, HI
Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
Georgia and David K. Welles Sculpture Garden, The Toledo Museum of Art, OH
CATALOGUES
Richard Flood, The Sixth Day, Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, IL, 1983.
Julie Boyd, Sculpture Now, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, 1983.
Susan Lubowsky, Modern Masks, Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York, NY, 1984.
Helen Ferrulli, Painting and Sculpture Today, Indianapolis Museum of Art, IN, 1984.
Ellen Schwartz, Beauties and Beasts, Pratt Manhattan Center Gallery, Pratt Institute, New York, 1984.
Judith Tannenbaum, The Figure Renewed, Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, PA, 1985.
Richard Flood, Memento Mori, Goldie Paley Gallery, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA, 1985.
Sarah Rogers-Lafferty, Standing Ground: Sculpture by American Women, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH, 1987.
Laurel Reuter, Nature’s Materials, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, 1990.
Paula Marincola, Daisy Youngblood, essay by Judith Stein, Beaver College Art Gallery, Glenside, PA, 1992.
Ron Platt, Next of Kin: Looking at the Great Apes, essays by Tommy L. Lott, Harriet Ritro, List Visual Arts Center, MIT, Cambridge, 1995.
Regina Coppola, Daisy Youngblood, University Gallery, Fine Arts Center, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1996.
Marcia Tucker, A Labor of Love, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, 1996.
Robert Taplin, Strong Spirits, Dorothy Uber Bryan Gallery, Fine Arts Center, Bowling Green State University, OH, 1997.
Anthony Iannacci, The Changing Image, Claudia Gian Ferrari Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy, 1997.
Sue Scott, The Edward R. Broida Collection: A Selection of Works, Orlando Museum of Art, FL, 1998.
Julie Graham and Maria Friedrich, Powder, essay by Francesco Bonami, The Aspen Art Museum, CO, 1999.
Dahlia Morgan, American Art Today: Fantasies & Curiosities, essay by Dominique Nahas, The Art Museum at Florida International, University, Miami, 2000.
Allan Chasanoff Ceramic Collection, essays by Garth Clark, Carol E. Mayer, Barbara Perry, Todd D. Smith, and E. Michael Whittington, Mint Museum of Craft and Design, Charlotte, NC, 2000.
José Luis Barrios, Lugar(es) la urbe y lo contemporáneo, (Place(s), the Metropolis and the Contemporary), Acervo artístico Fundación Televisa, Museo Nacional de Arte, Mexico City, Mexico, 2002.
Magic Markers: Objects of Transformation, Essays by Jeff Fleming, Stanley Cavell, and Malcolm Warner, Des Moines Art Center, IA, 2003.
A Selection of Works 1975-2003, statements by Maria Friedrich, Daisy Youngblood and Tom Sather, McKee Gallery, New York, 2004.
Ann Temkin, Against the Grain: Contemporary Art from the Edward R. Broida Collection, essay by John Elderfield, Interview with Edward R. Broida by Ann Temkin, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2006.
Marc J. Straus, Origins, essay by John Newsom, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY, 2008-2009.
REVIEWS AND ARTICLES
William Zimmer, “Stalking Heads,” SOHO Weekly News, October 18, 1979.
Grace Glueck, “Art: The Beasts of Daisy Youngblood,” The New York Times, October 19, 1979.
Kay Larson, “Pluto’s Retreat: Reaching the Necro-Nadir,” The Village Voice, October 22, 1979.
Prudence Carlson, “Daisy Youngblood at Willard,” Art in America, February 1980.
Vivien Raynor, “Corporation Builds a Collection That Stresses Youth,” The New York Times, February 3, 1980.
Michael Donahue, “Wealth of Images Dot Modern Show,” Memphis Press Scimitar, December 4, 1980.
Robert Merrit, “A New Bestiary (Virginia Museum),” Richmond Times-Dispatch, January 2, 1981.
Ann Schoenfeld, Review of Willard Gallery Show, Arts Magazine, June 1981.
Matthew Collings, “Nothing Deep,” Artscribe, August 1981.
Deborah C. Phillips, Review of Willard Gallery show, ARTnews, September 1981.
Ann Schoenfeld, Review of Willard Gallery show, Art Press, September – October 1981.
Kay Larson, “Sculpting Figuratively,” New York Magazine, November 16, 1981.
John Perreault, “Food for Figure,” SOHO Weekly News, November 25, 1981.
Janice Parente and Phyllis Stigliano, “Animals in American Art: 1880’s-1980’s” (Catalogue text)
Vivien Raynor, “Art: Zabriskie Offers a Sculpture Twin Bill,” The New York Times, January 29, 1982.
Regan Upshaw, “‘Figuratively Sculpting,’ at P.S.1,” Art in America, March 1982.
Grace Glueck, “A Critic’s Guide to the Outdoor Sculpture Shows,” The New York Times, June 11, 1982.
Peter Schjeldahl, “Situations,” The Village Voice, June 22, 1982.
Grace Glueck, “Daisy Youngblood,” The New York Times, December 23, 1983.
Jeanne Silverthorne, “Reviews: Daisy Youngblood,” ARTFORUM, March 1984.
Stephen Westfall, “Daisy Youngblood,” Arts Magazine, March 1984.
Gerritt Henry, “Daisy Youngblood at Barbara Gladstone,” Art in America, April 1984.
Michael Brenson, “Art: ‘Modern Masks,’ An Assembly of Sculpture on Display,” The New York Times,
December 28, 1984.
Mikhail Horowitz, “Behold, Clay Comes of Age,” Sunday Freeman, Kingston, NY, March 31, 1985.
Gary Indiana, “Framing Creatures,” The Village Voice, May 7, 1985.
Jean Fisher, “Daisy Youngblood,” ARTFORUM, October 1985.
“Banking on Art,” American Craft, February – March 1988.
Gretchen Adkins, “Daisy Youngblood: Offerings to the Forces Beyond,” American Ceramics, Fall 1989.
Mary Jones, “Daisy Youngblood,” Arts Magazine, Summer 1991.
Janet Koplos, “An Anatomy of Melancholy,” Art in America, October 1991.
Eileen Neff, “Daisy Youngblood,” ARTFORUM, May 1992.
George Melrod, “Daisy Youngblood,” American Ceramics, Volume II, No. I, 1993.
Patricia C. Phillips, “Daisy Youngblood,” ARTFORUM, November 1993.
Joanne Silver, “MIT exhibit explores our kinship with ‘Apes’,” The Boston Herald, October 13,1995.
Robert Taylor, “Gorillas in Our Midst,” The Boston Globe, November 16, 1995.
Vicki Croke, “The Draw of the Wild,” The Boston Globe, November 25, 1995.
Sally Vallongo, “Seven Female Sculptors Display ‘Strong Spirits’ in BGSU Exhibit,” The Blade, November 1997.
Everett, “McKee Gallery,” NY Arts, Vol. 3, No. 4, April 1999.
Grace Glueck, “Daisy Youngblood,” The New York Times, May 7, 1999.
Alexi Worth, “Goings On About Town ‘Daisy Youngblood’,” The New Yorker, May 10 & 31, 1999.
Mario Naves, “Three-Inch Heads, Not Without Sentiment,” The New York Observer, May 31, 1999.
Kathleen Whitney, “Arizona & New Mexico: American Sculpture Tour,” Sculpture, July – August 1999.
David Frankel, “Daisy Youngblood McKee Gallery,” ARTFORUM, October 1999.
Eleanor Heartney, “Daisy Youngblood at David McKee,” Art in America, November 1999.
Lisa McGinley, “Monumental Effort,” The Day, November 14, 1999.
Robin Cembalest, “The Woman in the Mirror,” Elle, January 2000.
Rachel Youens, “The Likeness of Being, Contemporary Self-Portraits by 60 Women,” NY Arts, Vol. 5 No. 1, January 2000.
Grace Glueck, “’The Likeness of Being’: Contemporary Self-Portraits by 60 Women,” The New York Times,
January 21, 2000.
Joel Silverstein, “Women Painters: Gender Identity and the Integration of Paint into Feminism,” Review, February 1, 2000.
“The Likeness of Being,” ARTnewspaper.com, Winter 2000.
Joyce B. Korotkin, “The Likeness of Being,” The New York Art World, February 2000.
Carol Diehl, “The Likeness of Being,” ARTnews, April 2000.
David Cohen, “Gallery – Goings,” Arts & Letters, The New York Sun, May 6, 2004.
Ken Johnson, “Is Sculpture Too Free for Its Own Good?,” The New York Times, May 7, 2004.
David Cohen, “Daisy Youngblood,” artcritical.com, Gallery Going, (A version first appeared in The New
York Sun, May 6, 2004), [web page]; http://www.artcritical.com/DavidCohen/SUN51.htm. [Accessed,
May 11, 2004].
Mario Naves, “Victim of Minimalism Triumphs With Bold Ceramic Sculpture,” The New York Observer,
May 17, 2004.
Ken Johnson, “Daisy Youngblood,” Galleries: 57th Street, Art Guide, The New York Times, May 14 & 21, 2004.
Jan Riley, “New York, Daisy Youngblood, McKee Gallery,” Sculpture, December 2004.
Justen Ladda, “The Nature of Nature,” Interview, New Ceramics, September/October 2007.
Garth Clark, “The Death of Craft,” CRAFTS, Janurary-Februrary 2009.