Barbara Takenaga — Biography



1972 B.A. University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
1978 M.F.A. University of Colorado, Boulder, CO

 

 Lives and works in New York and Williamstown, MA
University of Colorado at Boulder, BFA, 1972
University of Colorado at Boulder, MFA, 1978

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2007       Gallery Camino Real, Boca Raton, FL
              Museum of Nebraska Art, Kearny, NE (catalogue)
              Brattleboro Museum of Art, VT
              McKenzie Fine Art, New York

2006       Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, CA
              Museum of Outdoor Arts, Englewood, CO
              Gallery Camino Real, Boca Raton, FL

2005       CU Art Museum, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO (brochure)
              McKenzie Fine Art, New York (catalogue)

2004       The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, TX

2003       McKenzie Fine Art, New York
              Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2001       James Graham & Sons, New York

1997       Science and Wiener Dogs, Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, PA

1993       The Conversation, Art in General, New York
              Cambridge Multicultural Center, Cambridge, MA
              College of Wooster Art Museum, Wooster, OH

1992       Right and Left, Marymount Manhattan College, New York
              Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series, Douglass College, Rutgers
              University, New Brunswick, NJ

1991       A.I.R. Gallery, New York

1990       Watson Gallery, Wheaton College, Norton, MA
              Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:


2007        Big Bang! Abstract Painting for the 21st Century, DeCordova Museum and
   Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA (catalogue)
               Natured Anew: Reflections on the Natural World, Brian Burkhardt, Doug Bosch,
   Neeta Madahar and Barbara Takenaga, David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI
              Block Party 2, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles
              To the Left, CTRL Gallery, Houston, TX

2006        Jack, Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles, CA
              Decades of Influence: Colorado 1985 - Present, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO
              World without End, McKenzie Fine Art, New York
              Block Party, An Exhibition of Drawings, Daniel Weinberg Gallery,
              Los Angeles
              Dieu Donne: Thirtieth Anniversary Exhibition, CG Boerner Gallery,
              New York
              ZusammenKunst, Galerie Hafemann, Wiesbaden, Germany
              Patternings: Barbara Takenaga and Ed Epping, Williams College
              Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA

2005        Eye Tattoos, Quint Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
              From Natural to Techno Universes: Our Brave New Worlds, Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Program,
   Long Island City, New York (brochure)
              Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York
              Sharon Booma, Akiko Sugiyama, Sang Roberson, Barbara Takenaga,
              Rocky Bridges, Joel Graesser, Gallery Camino Real, Boca Raton, FL            
              The 2005 DeCordova Annual Exhibition, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln,
   MA (catalogue)
              Ceremonial Exhibition, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York
              Good Vibrations, McKenzie Fine Art, New York
              How Bad Do You Want It, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
              National Drawing Invitational, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
              Cooperation of Pleasures, Julie Evans and Barbara Takenaga, Halsey Gallery, College
   of Charleston, SC

2004       Hard & Soft, Thatcher Projects, New York
              Radial Gradient, Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco (brochure)
              Abstraction, Miller Block Gallery, Boston
              179th Annual:  An Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art,
              The National Academy of Design, New York (catalogue)
              Border Crossing: Artists from the Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series, Douglass College,
   Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
              I Want to Take You Higher, McKenzie Fine Art, New York
              Mindscape, Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York
      
2004        About Painting, Tang Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
   (catalogue)
              Good Fortune, Dieu Donne Gallery, New York

2003       The Anxious Image, The Painting Center, New York (catalogue)
              And Now They Aren't. But They Are., Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, CA
              Beautiful Recession, Red Dot, New York
              Obsessive Pleasures, Pavel Zoubok, New York
              Flicker, Jeffrey Coploff Fine Art, New York
              Works on Paper: Variations and Themes, Pace University Gallery, Pleasantville, NY
              Working it Through: Art by Williams College Studio Faculty, Williams College Museum of Art,
   Williamstown, MA
              New Prints 2003/Winter, International Print Center, New York
              Round, George Billis Gallery, New York

2002       Accumulations, Islip Art Museum, Islip, New York
              Artists to Artists: A Decade of the Space Program, The Marie Walsh
              Sharpe Foundation, Ace Gallery, New York (catalogue)
              Inaugural Exhibition, M%, Cleveland, OH
              Cascade of Scales, James Graham & Sons, New York
              Vermont Studio Center Press, Robert Hall Fleming Museum, Burlington, VT

2001       Alterations, James Graham & Sons, New York
              Figstract Explosionism, Bridgewater/Lustberg & Blumenfeld Gallery, New York
              Revival, Bridgewater/Lustberg & Blumenfeld Gallery, New York
              Takada Gallery, San Francisco

2000         Elbows and Tea Leaves, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO (catalogue)
                Battenfield, Harder, Lambert, Takenaga, Nightingale-Bamford School, New York
                Small Pleasures in Idleness, Gallery 456, New York

1999         Xmas Show, Kent Gallery, New York
                NEFA Fellowship Recipients, University Art Gallery, University of
                Massachusetts, Dartmouth
                Size Matters, Gale Gates, Et. Al., Brooklyn, NY
                Split/Shift: Williams and Bennington Faculty, Mass MOCA, North Adams, MA
                Trippy World, Baron/Boisante Gallery, New York

1998         DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA
                Contemporary Asian Women Artists, the Taipei Gallery, New York (catalogue)

1997          Threshold: Limits of Perception, Eighth Floor Gallery, New York (catalogue)
                 1: One, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
                 Fermented, Parsons School of Design, New York
                 Generations, A.I.R. Gallery, New York
                The Intimate Brush, Palo Alto Arts Center, Palo Alto, CA

1996          25th Anniversary Exhibition, Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series,
                 Douglass College, Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, NJ (catalogue)
                 Pulse: Works on Paper, No.B.I.A.S., Bennington, VT
                Repetition Compulsion, Eighth Floor Gallery, New York

1995           In and Out of Character, Roger Smith Gallery, New York
                 Beyond Boundaries and Traditions, Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, MI
1994           Art to Art: Expressions by Asian American Women, Asia Society, New York
                Pasando La Mano, Soho 20 Gallery, New York
                 Redefining Legacies, 1203 Art Space, San Antonio, TX

1993          And He Was Looking for Asia: Alternatives to the Christopher Columbu Story, Asian
   American Arts Center, New York
                Art to Art: Expressions by Asian American Women, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco
                NEFA Painting Fellows, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston
                The Choice of Painting, Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London, CT (brochure)
                Visible Meaning, (2 person show), Ise Art Foundation, New York

1992           Rudolfo Abularach, Nachume Miller, Barbara Takenaga, Brattleboro Art Museum,
   Brattleboro, VT

1991           Inaugural Awards by Alice Baber Art Fund: Carnwath, Gillespie, McCoy,
                 Pitt, Takenaga, Helander Gallery, New York

1990–94      Ancestors Known and Unknown: Boxworks, traveling exhibition organized by the
   Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

2007        Capasso, Nick, catalogue essay for Big Bang! Abstract Painting for the 21st Century,
              DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA "The Cosmic and the Ordinary,"
   Williams Alumni Review, January
              Cook, Greg.  "Ah, Painting!  At the DeCordova, Abstraction is New Again," The Boston
   Phoenix, January 25
              Johnson, Ken. "Seeing a Pattern, From Cosmology to Geology, Science Inspires Abstract
   Art At DeCordova,"
              The Boston Globe, February 2

2007        Dantzic, Cynthia. 100 New York Painters, Schiffer Books
              Duncan, Michael, catalogue essay for Julie Evans, Julie Saul Gallery, New York
              MacAdam, Barbara. "The New Abstraction," Artnews, April
              Rodriguez, Teliza V., catalogue essay for Barbara Takenaga, Museum of Nebraska
   Art, Kearny, NE
              Van Slican, Bill. "Forces of Nature and Art," The Providence Journal, June 21
              McQuaid, Kate.  "Revealing Creative Nature," The Boston Globe, June 21

2006        MacMillan, Kyle. "Colorado's Top Creators, 1985-2006," Denver Post, June 4
              Paglia, Michael. "Basis Loaded, 'Decades of Influence' is a home run…," Denver
   Westword, June 29

2005        Baker, Kenneth. "Radial Gradient," Artnews, January
              Henry, Sara Lynn, brochure essay for Brave New Worlds, Dorsky Curatorial Programs,
   Long Island City, NY
              Novina, Alexandra. "Barbara Takenaga," The 2005 DeCordova Annual Exhibition,
   DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA
              Meyers, Lisa. "L.A. Hosts Art Fairs Trifecta," Art Business News, April
              Becker, Lisa Tamiris, brochure essay for Barbara Takenaga, Micro/Macro, CU Art Museum,
   University of Colorado, Boulder
              Marglin, Elizabeth. "Artful Transformation," The Boulder Daily Camera, July 3
              Cohen, David. "Gallery Going," The New York Sun, July 7
              Chandler, Mary Voelz. "Art by Numbers," Rocky Mountain News, July 14
              Johnson, Ken. "Good Vibrations," The New York Times, July 15
              Trieschmann, Werner. "Invitational at Arts Center is a Big Draw," Arkansas Democrat
   Gazette, October 28
              Kushner, Robert, catalogue essay for Barbara Takenaga, McKenzie Fine Art, New York
              Cohen, David. "Gallery Going," The New York Sun, November 17
              Baker, R.C., "Barbara Takenaga," The Village Voice, December 6
              Perry, Vicky. Abstract Painting, Concepts and Techniques, Watson-Guptill Publications, New York
   
2004       Johnson, Ken. "The 179th Annual," The New York Times, May 14
              Kushner, Robert. "Barbara Takenaga," Art in America, February
              Malloy, Nancy. "The Annual Exhibition Today," The 179th Annual, an
              Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art, National Academy of Design, New York
              Walker, Sarah, brochure essay for Radial Gradient, Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2003        Buhmann, Stephanie.  “Barbara Takenaga,” Artcritical.com, October
              Johnson, Ken. “Obsessive Pleasures,” The New York Times, May 9
              Hirsch, Faye. “Working Proof,” Art on Paper, April
              Korotkin, Joyce. "Beautiful Recession," M The New York Art World, April

2002        Newhall, Edith. “Talent,” New York Magazine, January 7

2001         Johnson, Ken. “Barbara Takenaga,” The New York Times, December 28
               Johnson, Ken. “Alterations,” The New York Times, August 10
               “Figstract Explosionism,” The New Yorker, February 19

2000        Gluckstern, J. “Frontrange Women,” Daily Camera, Boulder, CO, June

1999        Johnson, Ken. “Trippy World,” The New York Times, October 22
              Levin, Kim. “Choices,” Village Voice, October 19
              “Trippy World,” Shout Magazine, New York, NY, September
              “People are Talking About . . .,” Vogue Magazine, September

1998        Cotter, Holland. “Contemporary Asian Women Artists,” The New York
              Times, April 24
              Lien, Fu-Chia-Wen. Contemporary Asian Women Artists, Taipei Gallery, New York

1997        Pelli, Denis. “Seeing Is Easy,” New York Arts Magazine, October

1996       Cheng, Amy. “Would You Mind Repeating That Again?” NY Soho Arts
              Magazine, October

1993       Cloud, Laura. “The Choice of Painting at Lyman Allyn Art Museum,”
              Art New England, June/July
              Raven, Arlene. The Conversation: Barbara Takenaga, Art in General, New York
              Zimmer, William. “Invention Hews to Yankee Tradition,” The New York Times, March 14

1992       Sherman, Mary. “Fellowship Recipients . ,” Boston Herald, September 13
              Becker, Jacqueline. “Visions of Nature and Culture,” Art New England October/November

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:

Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AK
Citigroup, New York, NY
CU Art Museum, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA
Dieu Donne Papermill, New York, NY
Fidelity Investments, Boston, MA
The Hallmark Fine Arts Program, Kansas City, MO
Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME
Museum of Nebraska Art, Lincoln, NE
The News Corporation, New York, NY
Progressive Corporation, Mayfield Village, OH
United States Embassy in Algeria
Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA