BARBARA KASSEL

BORN: Los Angeles, CA

EDUCATION

1978 MFA in Painting, Yale University, New Haven, CT
1976 Diploma in Fine Art, Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK
1970-72 University of California at Los Angeles, CA

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023 Coming Undone, Clark Gallery, Lincoln MA
2019 Interior Life, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA
2017 In the Despoiled and Radiant Now, A Gallery, Oak Bluffs, MA
2015 Musings, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA
2012 Hirschl & Adler Modern, NY NY
2010 Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA
2009 Hirschl & Adler Modern, NY NY
2008 Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA
2008 Craven Gallery, "Paintings", Martha's Vineyard, MA
2006 Clark Gallery, “135 Duane St Paintings”, Lexington, MA
2005 Maxwell Davidson Gallery, “135 Duane St New Paintings”, NY
2003 Maxwell Davidson Gallery, “New Work New York”, NY
2002 University Art Gallery, University of New Mexico, Las Cruces
2002 Craven Gallery, Martha’s Vineyard
2001 Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York, NY
2000 Craven Gallery, Monoprints, Martha’s Vineyard
1999 Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York, NY
1997 Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York, NY
1995 Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York, NY
1993 Tatischeff/Rogers Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1992 Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, IA
        Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York, NY
1991 Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD
1989 Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York, NY
1987 Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York, NY
1986 Kathryn Markel Gallery, New York, NY
1984 Kathryn Markel Gallery, New York, NY
1983 Goucher College, Towson, MD
1981 Meredith Contemporary Art Gallery, Baltimore, MD
1980 Colby College Art Museum, Waterville ME

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023 Flora, First Street Gallery (Zeuxis), First Street Gallery,NYC, NY 
2022 For the Love of Chardin, First Street Gallery, NYC,NY and Miller Art Museum, WI
2021 Composing in the Key of S, First Street Gallery, NYC,NY
2019 Three Artists, A Gallery, Martha's Vineyard, MA
2018 Realism:Then and Now, Cavalier Galleries, New York, NY
        Pistil and Stamen, Ille Arts, Amagansett, New York
        Here and Now, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA
        Winter Invitational, J Cacciola Gallery, Bernardsville, NJ
2017 National Wildlife Museum of Art, Jackson, WY
        Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA
2016 Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA
2014 Our American Life, Hirschl & Adler Modern, NY NY
        Western Visions, National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson, WY
        Variations on a theme, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA
2012 Summer Selections, Hirschl & Adler Modern, NY NY
2011 Masterworks, Hirschl & Adler Modern, NY NY
2008 Cheryl Pelavin Gallery, NY NY
2008 Clark Gallery, Salon Show, Lincoln, MA
2008 Hirschl & Adler Modern, "Summer Selections", NY NY
2008 Celebrating Women Artists, For Women's History Month,Hirschl and Adler Modern, NY
2008 Interiors and Narrative, Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia
2006 Summer Show, Hirschl and Adler Modern, NY
2006 30th Anniversary Show, Clark Gallery, Lexington, MA
2005 Twelve Contemporary Artists III, Spanierman Gallery, Hamptons, NY
2004 Over 100 Years of New York City Art, Spanierman Gallery, NY
2003 Gallery Artists, Craven Gallery, Martha’s Vineyard, MA
2001 Summer Show, Craven Gallery, Martha’s Vineyard, MA
2000 Summer Show, Craven Gallery, Martha’s Vineyard, MA
1999 New Faculty, Four Painters, Carpenter Center Gallery, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Monoprints, Craven Gallery, Martha’s Vineyard
1998 Works on paper, Clark Gallery, Lexington, MA
1997 Twenty Five Treasures, Campbell Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, CA
American Gothic , Suzanne H Arnold Art Gallery, Lebanon Valley College of Pennsylvania, Annville, PA
Works on Paper, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA
1997 Salon 97, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA
1994 Dealer’s Choice, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI
1993 Daytime Fantasies/The Dark Side of Night, Riverside Museum of Art, Riverside, CA
Interiors, Tortue Gallery, Los Angleles, CA
1993 Blue, Tatistcheff Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1993 Distant Voices, Still Lives, PNYK, Kent, CT
1991 Coming Attractions, Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York, NY
Aqua Puro: Images of Water in Comtemporary Art, H.B.O., NY
1990 Masterworks by Gallery Artists, Maxwell Davidson Gallery, NY
Underneath it All:Works on Paper,Maxwell Davidson Gallery, NY
1989 Group Exhibition of Gallery Artists, Maxwell Davidson Gallery, NY Four Artist’s Inner Realities-Outer illusions, Carone Gallery, Ft. Lauderdale, FL.
Caritas, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY (Traveling exhibition)
Revelations and Devotions : The Spirit of Religion in Contemporary Art, Sherry French, New York, NY (Traveling exhibition)
1988 Landscape, Three Perspectives, Curated by William Dunlop,
Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD.(Travels for one year)
40 Women Painters, Curated by Carol Vanderhouten, One Penn Plaza, NY
1987 The Artful Traveler, Curated by Michael Walls, BMW Gallery, NY
Works on Paper, Curated by Martin Armstrong, Indiana University Gallery, Bloomington, IN
Artscape ‘87, Maryland Art Place Benefit Exhibit
Surrealism/Realism, Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York, NY
Architecture as a State of Mind, School 33, Baltimore, MD
Jerome Carlin and Barbara Kassel, Janet Steinberg Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1986 Aspects of Light, Curated by Ned Rifkin, Artscape ‘86, MD
1985 An Architect’s Eye, Selections from the Collection of Graham Gund, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, MA
Artscape ‘85, Curated by Douglas Walla and Jack Cowart
How I Spent my Summer Vacation, Kathryn Markel Gallery, NY
1984 Venice Biennale, “Paradise lost/Paradise Regained: American Vision of the New Decade”, American Pavilion, Venice, Italy
Summer Paintings, Kathryn Markel Gallery, New York
Domestic Tales, University of Massachusetts Gallery, Amherst, MA
Maryland Annual, Annapolis, MD
Past & Present, Goucher College , Towson, MD.
1983 Contemporary Light, Kathryn Markel Gallery, New York, NY
Peer Selections, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD
Horizons, Maryland Landscape, Maryland & Japan
1982 Works on Paper, JCC Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Artscape ‘82, Curated by Marcia Tucker
1981 Intimate Interiors, Goucher College, Towson, MD
Maryland Annual, Annapolis, MD.
1980-83 Faculty Exhibitions, Maryland Art Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD.
1979 Maine Biennial, Bowdoin College of Art, ME
Two Person Exhibition, Colby College Art Museum, ME
Works on Paper, Maine Coast Artists, ME
1978 MFA Show, Yale Art & Architecture Gallery, New Haven, CT
1976 Diploma Show, Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK

AWARDS

2002 Medway Foundation Grant
1989 Beatrice Aitchison Grant, Goucher College, Towson, MD
1988 Cityarts Grant, Baltimore, MD
1986 Cityarts Grant, Baltimore, MD
1985 Ingram Merrill Foundation Grant
Maryland State Arts Council Grant
“Artscape ‘85” Award, awarded by Douglas Walla/Jack Cowart
1983 Yaddo Fellowship
1982 “Artscape ‘82” Award, awarded by Marcia Tucker
1978 Ford Foundation Grant, Yale University, New Haven, CT
1976 Boise Traveling Fellowship, Slade School of Art
1975 Helen Batell Stoekel Summer Fellowship, Yale University, New
Haven, CT

BIOGRAPHY/REVIEWS

PAINTING PERCEPTIONS: Interview with Barbara Kassel by Larry Goff, March 8, 2016
MARTHA'S VINEYARD MAGAZINE: Barbara Kassel's Interior Worlds, Elizabeth Hawes, Summer 2017
MARTHA'S VINEYARD TIMES:  Find a Story in Barbara Kassel's symbolic oil paintings at the A Gallery, Gwyn McAllister, August 1, 2017

TRIBECA TRIBUNE: “Home work”, December, 2005 
NEW MEXICO TIMES: Exhibition at University Art Gallery, 2002
CATALOGUE: “In a Garden”, Stephen Greenblatt, 1999
LOS ANGELES TIMES: “Uneasy Air”, Barbara Kassel, Tatistcheff/ Rogers Gallery, CA. May 1993
ART NEWS: “Barbara Kassel”, Maxwell Davidson Gallery, Summer
1992
ART NEWS: “Barbara Kassel,” Grimaldis Gallery, Tom Weisner,
Oct. 1992
ART PAPERS: “Barbara Kassel,” Grimaldis Gallery, Carol Wood,
Sept/Oct 1991
ARTFORUM: “Barbara Kassel,” Maxwell Davidson Gallery, Ronny
Cohen,1990
CATALOGUE: “Maryland Arts Place Critics Residency Program,”
Carter Ratcliffe, 1987-8
ARTFORUM: “Barbara Kassel,” Maxwell Davidson Gallery, Jean
Fischer, Sept. 1987
CATALOGUE: “Barbara Kassel” New Paintings,” Maxwell Davidson
Gallery, Essay by James Merrill, May 1987
THE NEW YORK TIMES: “Barbara Kassel,” Maxwell Davidson Gallery, John
Russell, May 15, 1987
THE CITY PAPER: “Building Blocks,” Tom Weisser, March 26, 1987
THE EVENING SUN: “Varied Media Explore Architectural Forms,” Steve Purchase, March 5, 1987
ART NEWS: “New York Reviews: Barbara Kassel:Kathryn Markel
Gallery,” Susan Gill, May 1986
CATALOGUE: “An Architect’s Eye: Selection from the Collection of
Graham Gund,” Sally Yard, Mount Holyoke College
Art Museum, 1985
THE BALTIMORE SUN: “The Forum Annual Artscape Exhibit,” Elizabeth
Stevens, July 18, 1985
CATALOGUE: “Paradise Lost/Paradise Regained: American Visions
of the New Decade,” 41st Venice Biennale “United
State Pavilion,” Essay by Marcia Tucker, 1984
CATALOGUE: “Domestic Tales,” University of Massachusetts at
Amherst, Helaine Posner, 1984
BALTIMORE SUN: “Goucher Art Faculty’s Work, New Or Not,” John
Dorsey, September 19, 1984
BALTIMORE SUN: “Goucher’s Kassel Exhibit Documents Artist’s
Growth,” John Dorsey, November 4, 1983
THE BALTIMORE EVENING SUN: “Barbara Kassel’s Interiors,” Linelle Smith, March 29, 1983
THE BALTIMORE SUN: “Faculty Exhibitions ‘82, Mixed Media, Mixed Results,” Elizabeth Stevens, October 1982
THE NEWS AMERICAN: “Lively Arts,” T.P. Harris, February 21, 1982
THE NEWS AMERICAN: “Art for Every Taste of Charles Street,” R.P. Harris,
April 15, 1981
THE BALTIMORE SUN: Landscape Exhibitions,” John Dorsey, February, 1981

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

New Britain Museum of American Art

The National Museum of Wildlife Art

Skirball Museum, Los Angeles, CA

Fidelity
Wellington
Bank of America
Chase Manhattan Bank
Elaine Dannheiser Foundation
Southeast Banking Corporation
U.S. West
Kanagawa Prefectural Government, Japan
Hospital Corporation of America
William A. M. Burden & Comapny
IBM Corporation
Signet Bank
Piper and Marbury
Rhone-Poulenc Rorer Pharmaceutical
Exxon Corporation

TEACHING

1978-80 Assistant Professor, Colby College, Waterville, ME
1980-84 Maryland Institute, College of Art , Baltimore, MD
1984-90 Associate Professor, Goucher College, Towson, MD
1999-2001 Associate of the Carpenter Center, Harvard University

CONTACT ADDRESS

blkassel@gmail.com