IMAGE: Untitled (272-10), 2010
ink, watercolor, gouache, graphite, and colored pencil on paper
22 x 30 inches
Exhibition through May 31.
Hermine Ford was born in New York City in 1939. She grew up on East 23rd Street. Her childhood neighborhood went from East 23rd down 2nd Avenue to Houston Street and all points East. Her first extended stays away from the sidewalks of New York, to the green world came at summer camp in New Jersey, provided by her local Settlement House. In the years since, s...
IMAGE: Untitled (272-10), 2010
ink, watercolor, gouache, graphite, and colored pencil on paper
22 x 30 inches
Exhibition through May 31.
Hermine Ford was born in New York City in 1939. She grew up on East 23rd Street. Her childhood neighborhood went from East 23rd down 2nd Avenue to Houston Street and all points East. Her first extended stays away from the sidewalks of New York, to the green world came at summer camp in New Jersey, provided by her local Settlement House. In the years since, she has spent long periods of time in relatively uninhabited spaces on the Atlantic seaboard, and also long visits to Rome. She lives and works in New York and Nova Scotia. A book featuring the collaboration between poet Kathleen Frasier and Ford was recently published by Granary Books.
Ford graduated from Antioch College (62) spending one year as an undergraduate at Yale School of Art and Architecture. In 1977 she received a CAPS Grant from New York State Council on the Arts. and has been a Visiting Artist/Lecturer at Rhode Island School of Design, School of Art Institute of Chicago, New York Studio School, Bennington College, and The American Academy in Rome among others. Ford was Artist in Residence at Mount Royal College of Art at Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, from 1986-2010.
Solo exhibitions include: Artists Space ('76); Barbara Toll Gallery, NYC ('81, '86); Bertha Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA ('92); Grant Selwyn Gallery, NYC ('97, '99); Goya Girl, Baltimore, MD ('03); Sigma Gallery, NYC ('97); Norte Maar, Brooklyn ('09); Storefront, ('11).
Among many group shows: American Painting: The Eighties curated by Barbara Rose, Grey Art Gallery, New York University, NY (79); Abstract Painting: The 90s, curated by Barbara Rose, Andre Emmerich Gallery, NYC (91); Three Artists, curated by Mary Heilmann, Apex Art, NYC (95); Strokes, curated by Elizabeth Murray, Exit Art, NYC (99); Invitational at American Academy of Arts and Letters, Purchase Award (00); Material and Culture, curated by Mary Heilmann, Bronx River Art Center, Bronx (05); Hermine Ford and John Newman, curated by Jason Andrew, Plattsburgh State Art Museum, Plattsburgh, NY (07); Something About Mary, Orange County Museum of Art, CA (07); Works on Paper from 1940 to Present, ACME Fine Art, Boston, MA (08); Old Dogs, New Tricks: Recent work by R. M. Fisher, Hermine Ford, John Newman, KS Art, NYC (09); Works on Paper, Danese Gallery, NYC (10); That Is Then. This is Now, curated by Irving Sandler and Robert Storr, Cue Art Foundation, NYC (10).
Selected Public Collections: Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AK; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Gihon Foundation, Sante Fe, NM; Hood Museum at Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; The New School for Social Research, New York, NY; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT.
Additionally, an exhibition of paintings by Hermine Ford will open at Storefront (16 Wilson Ave, Bklyn, NY) on April 22, from 6-9PM and will continue through May 22, storefrontbk.com.