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Denise
Tassin
b.
1966, Louisiana, USA
Academic Preparation
| 1991 |
Master
of Fine Art, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX.
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| 1989 |
Bachelor
of Arts, McNeese State University, Lake Charles, LA.
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Museum
& Significant Collections
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Baltimore
Museum of Art |
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Donald
S. Levinson Collection at Sheppard Pratt Health System |
Significant
Nominations
| 2005 |
Finalist, The Trawick
Prize. Jurors: Olga Viso, Director, Hirshhorn Museum;
Thom Collins, Director, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore;
Andrea Pollan, Independent Curator & Art Consultant. |
| 1993 |
Finalist, Alberta
duPont Bonsal Foundation Award for Emerging Female Artists.
Nominated by Darsie Alexander, Associate Curator, Prints,
Drawings and Photography, Baltimore Museum of Art. |
Selected
Grants and Awards
| 2005 |
The Trawick Prize, Bethesda,
MD, Third Place Winner, Perpendicular
Dialogues Installation |
| 2004 |
Maryland State Arts Council,
Baltimore, MD, Individual Artist Fellowship,
Drawing |
| 2003 |
Maryland State Arts Council, Baltimore,
MD, Individual Artist Fellowship, Installation |
| 2000 |
Maryland State Arts Council, Baltimore,
MD, Individual Artist Fellowship, Painting |
| 1997 |
Maryland State Arts Council, Baltimore,
MD, Individual Artist Fellowship, Painting
Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD, Critics Residency Award,
Painting |
| 1993 |
Works On Paper, San Jacinto College
South, San Jacinto, TX, Juror’s Award, (Anne
Philbin, Director, The Drawing Center, NY) |
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Selected
Solo Exhibitions
| 2005 |
School 33 Art Center,
Baltimore, MD, Denise Tassin: Select Works or Art
Fair of Multiple Personalities |
| 2004-05 |
Evergreen House, Baltimore,
MD, House Guests, Suppressed Desires Party |
| 2000-01 |
Creative Alliance, Baltimore, MD, fortissimo
to pianissimo: Recent Work by Denise Tassin |
| 1999 |
Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD, Willful
Poetries |
| 1998 |
Hamilton Street Gallery, Baltimore, MD, Trembling
Squares |
| 1997 |
Bismark/Wilson Gallery, Baltimore,
MD, Tympanic Cacophony of Dichotic Shakes |
| 1996 |
Bismark/Wilson Gallery, Baltimore,
MD, New Works |
| 1994 |
Abercrombie Gallery, McNeese State
University, Lake Charles, LA, Recent Works |
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Selected
Group Exhibitions
| 2005 |
Center Stage, Baltimore,
MD, These Are Your Instructions
Creative Partners Gallery, Bethesda, MD, The Trawick Prize: Bethesda
Contemporary Art Awards
Station North Arts & Entertainment District, Baltimore, MD, Picture
Window |
| 2004 |
Maryland State Arts
Council, Baltimore, MD, On and Off The Wall
Montgomery College, Rockville, MD, Drawing
Jeffrey Kent Gallery, Baltimore, MD, Femme Effect
RADAR, Baltimore, MD, H2O |
| 2003 |
Maryland Art Place, Baltimore,
MD, Habitat and Dwellings
Signal 66, Washington, DC, Project One
Station North Arts & Entertainment District, Baltimore, MD, Door & Window
Project
Howard County Center for the Arts, MD, Conversation
Barcelona, Spain, FijateX |
| 2002 |
Park School, Baltimore, MD, Very
Young Art |
| 2001 |
Rosenberg Gallery, Goucher College,
Baltimore, MD, Perpendicular Dialogues |
| 2000 |
Villa Julie College Gallery, Stevenson,
MD, Nature Trail
Howard County Center for the Arts, Ellicott City, MD, MD Art 2000
Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD, Snapshot
Meadows Museum, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, departureturn
Abercrombie Gallery, McNeese State University, Lake Charles, LA, Alumni
Exhibition
Perrelli Fine Art and Design, Baltimore, MD, The Last Hurrah
Howard County Center for the Arts, Ellicott City, MD 2000 Views |
| 1999 |
Maryland Art Place, ART House,
Baltimore, MD, Wall Drawings
Villa Julie College Gallery, Stevenson, MD, The Untroubled Mind: Agnes
Martin and Seven Baltimore Artists |
| 1998 |
Corcoran Gallery of Art/Washington
Project for the Arts, Project Space, Washington, DC, Recent Paintings
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE, Biennial ’98 |
| 1997 |
Liriodendron Museum, Bel Air, MD, States
of Mine: Convex Concave Louisiana Vermont
Lost River Co-op, Lost City, WV, From the Hollow
Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD, Critics’ Residency/Critics’ Picks (Critics
- Nancy Princenthal and Barry Schwabsky, writers for Art in America, Art
News and Art Forum) |
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Select
Bibliography
Claudia Rousseau, “Some Interest,
disappointment in Trawick winners show.” The Gazette,
September 21, 2005.
Todd Meyers, “Denise Tassin.” artUS,
Issue 8, May – June 2005.
Eric Wennermark, “House
Guests: Partick Burns, Denise Tassin, Micki Watanabe.” RADAR,
Issue 12: December 2004.
Mike Giuliano, “Evergreen House
inspires its own exhibit,” Baltimore
Sun, October 31, 2004.
Kim Domanski, “Habitats & Dwellings:
Memory and Materials,” RADAR,
Issue 7:September 2003.
Glenn McNatt, “MAP show conjures
up memories of time, place,” Baltimore
Sun, September 18, 2003.
Blake de Pastino, “Space
Cases,” City Paper,
September 3-9, 2003.
Janet Maher, “The Door & Window
Project,” RADAR, Issue 4:February
2003.
Peter Bruun, “Parking garage windows
by City Hall,” RADAR,
Issue 3: December 2002.
Lyndie Vantine, “14th Annual Open
Studio Tour 2002,” PEEKreview, www.peekreview.net April
2002.
Gary Kachadourian, “Best of 2001 – Testimonials,” PEEKreview, www.peekreview.net January
2002.
Glenn McNatt, “Cultures combine in
new exhibit: Surrealist by chance,” Baltimore
Sun, January 18, 2001.
Jan Razauskas, “ff f mf mp
p pp, fortissimo to pianissimo, Recent Work by Denise Tassin,” PEEKreview, www.peekreview.net 2001.
Patrick
Burns, “fortissimo to pianissimo,” PEEKreview, www.peekreview.net January
2001.
Mike Giuliano, “The Art of Disturbance,” review
of Nature Trail, City
Paper, April 2000.
Jack Livingston, “Sonia Denise
Tassin WILLFUL POETRIES & Patrick Burns
MY WORLD FLOATS,” Artmobile, August 1999.
Mike Giuliano, “Mystery
Meat, An Exhibit of All-Natural Work at MAP Evades Easy Interpretation,” review
of Willful Poetries, City Paper,
August 1999.
Mike Giuliano, “Structural Integrity,
Two New Exhibits Redefine Stripped-Down Form,” review
of The Untroubled
Mind, City Paper, April 1999.
John Dorsey, “Wood
works pack visual wallop: Regional artists exhibit,” Baltimore
Sun, April 21, 1998.
John Dorsey, “Critic’s
Picks’ full of fun, beauty at Maryland
Art Place,” Baltimore Sun, March 1997.
Nancy Princenthal
and Angela Adams, “Critics’ Residency Program ‘96-‘97
Maryland Art Place”, editorial supplement to the Washington
Review,
April/May 1997.
Residencies
| 2004 |
Evergreen House, The Johns
Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Montgomery College, Rockville, MD |
| 2003 |
Hand Print Workshop International
(HPWI), Alexandria VA, Project One |
| 2000 |
Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
(July 30 - August 25) |
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Curatorial
Experience
| 2004-05 |
Maryland State Arts Council,
James Backas Gallery, Baltimore, MD, Points of
View: Landscapes by Maryland Artists |
| 2004 |
Maryland State Arts Council,
James Backas Gallery, Baltimore, MD, An Open Eye:
Variations on the Figure by Maryland Artists |
| 2002-03 |
Parking Garage Windows at Holliday
and Fayette Streets, Baltimore, MD, Window Dressing |
| 2000 |
Artscape, Baltimore, MD, Curator, 10
Viewing Stations: 45, 90, 180 or 360 Degree Drawing
Artscape, Baltimore, MD, Co-Curator, Byproducts: Consumer Materials & Art |
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Selected
Private Collections
| Jane Baum, MD • Amy
Bobrick, MI • Barbara Cahn, MD • Bill Carey,
TX • Richard P. DeLong, TX • Marcia Metz Freeman,
LA • Susan Katzenberg, MD • Clair Zamoiski Segal
and Tommy Segal, MD • Dr. Nancy Stevens McMullen,
MD • Zoe Myers, MD • Marilyn Pedersen, VA |
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Teaching
and Related Experience
| 2005 |
The Foundation Center,
Washington, DC, “An Afternoon for Artists,” “Successful
Grantseekers: A Sharing Session,” Panelist |
| 2000-02 |
University
of Maryland, Baltimore County, Catonsville, MD, Instructor,
Visual Concepts I |
| 2001 |
Pearl
Watson Elementary School, Lake Charles, LA, Guest Artist |
| 2000 |
Park School, Baltimore, MD, Instructor,
Drawing on Both Sides |
| 2000 |
School 33 Art Center, Baltimore, MD,
Instructor, Experimental Drawing |
| 1995,
04, 05 |
The Maryland Institute, College of
Art, Baltimore, MD, Guest Artist |
| 1994 |
Dundalk Community College, Baltimore,
MD, Guest Artist |
| 1994,
99 |
Villa Julie College, Baltimore,
MD, Guest Artist |
| 1991-92 |
Upton School Baltimore City Home and
Hospital School, Baltimore, MD, Art Teacher |
| 1991-92 |
Baltimore Museum of Industry, Baltimore,
MD, Docent |
| 1990-92,
02 |
McNeese State University, Lake Charles,
LA, Guest Artist |
| 1990 |
McNeese State University, Lake Charles, LA, team taught
Basic Design with Heather Ryan Kelley |
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Select Work Experiene / Other
| 2005- |
Maryland State Arts Council, Exhibition
Technician |
| 2002-
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Clair Z. Segal, LLC, Baltimore,
MD, www.clairzsegal.com, Arts
Administrator |
| 2002-2004 |
Baltimore Office of Promotion & The
Arts, Independent Contractor for ARTSCAPE Festival, Artists’ Market |
| 1997-02 |
Appointed by Mayor Kurt L. Schmoke
to the Mayor’s Advisory Committee on Art and Culture
(MACAC), Baltimore, MD, Arts Coordinator II |
| 2000- |
PEEKreview, www.peekreview.net,
contributor |
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Boards, Committees and Events
| 2003 |
Maryland
Art Place, Out-of-Order, Event Co-Chair |
| 2000-03 |
Maryland
Art Place, Board of Trustees; Program Advisory Committee,
Chair |
| 1998 |
School
33 Art Center 10th Annual Open Studio Tour Committee |
Representation
Heineman Myers Contemporary, Bethesda,
Maryland – New gallery due to open March 2006.
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