Gus Heinze
One of the original members of the American Photorealist movement, Heinze brings to realism an invigorated excitement and abstract composition of juxtaposed shapes and forms, as well as subtle colours which leave the viewer with a sense of harmony and order among familiar urban objects.
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BORN: 1926, Bremen, Germany
EDUCATION
Art Students League, New York, studies with Howard Trafton and Robert Ward Johnson, School for Visual Arts New York; studies with Robert Weaver 1947 - 1950
SELECTED RECENT SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011, 2009 & 2006- Bernarducci.Meisel.Gallery, New York
2010- Plus One Gallery, London
2004- David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan
2004- Plus One Gallery, London
2004- 2002- Bernarducci. Meizel, New York
2003, 2001 & 1998- Modernism, San Francisco
1999 & 1997- Mendenhall Gallery, Pasadena, California
1996, 1994- 1991- Modernism, San Francisco
1992- Cudahy's Gallery, New York, NY
1991, 1989 & 1988- Modernism, San Francisco
1985 & 1981- William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco
1985- Ankrum Gallery, Los Angeles
1981- M. Shore and Son Gallery, Santa Barbara
1976- Far Gallery, New York, NY
1973- Gallery 3, Greenwich, CT
1972- Deecey Gallery, Greenwich, CT
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS SINCE 2000
2012- “Seeing Red”, Bernarducci.Meisel.Gallery, New York
2011- “The New York Project”, Bernarducci.Meisel.Gallery, New York
2010- “Expansion”, Bernarducci.Meisel.Gallery, New York; Art Hamptons, Bridgehampton, New York
2009- “Photorealism: A Closer Look”, Scott Richards Contemporary; Louis K.Meisel Gallery
2009- “40Years of Photorealism”, Bernarducci.Meisel.Gallery, New York.
2009- “Photorealist Paintings”, ManhattanvilleCollege, Purchase
2009- “Summer Views”, Bernarducci.Meisel.Gallery, New York
2008- “Contemporary American Realism: 2008 Biennial”, Fort WayneMuseum of Art, Fort Wayne
2008- “Unforeseen Reflections”, Bernarducci.Meisel.Gallery, New York
2008- “SPF 20 - Shades of Summer”, Bernarducci.Meisel.Gallery, New York
2007- "Culinary Arts", Bernarducci.Meisel.Gallery, New York
2007- "Structure”, Bernarducci.Meisel.Gallery, New York
2006- "Summer Suite," Bernarducci.Meisel.Gallery, New York
2005-6 "-Majestic Tapestries of Magnolia Editions", Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek
2005- "Contemporary American Realism VIII", MA Doran Gallery, Tulsa
2005- "Personal Places", Bernarducci.Meisel.Gallery, New York
2005- "Winter in Blue", Bernarducci.Meisel.Gallery, New York
2005- "Industrial Landscapes in Contemporary Painting", Bernarducci.Meisel.Gallery, New York
2005- "21st Century Realism", General Electric Company Corporate Art Program, Fairfield, CT
2004- "Contemporary Landscape Painting", David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, USA
2004- "25th Anniversary Exhibition", Modernism, San Francisco
2004- "Vertical Arrangements", Bernarducci.Meisel.Gallery, New York
2003- "Snow, Paintings of Winter", Bernarducci.Meisel.Gallery, New York
2003- "Facing Reality: The Seavest Collection of Contemporary Realism," NeubergerMuseum of Art, Purchase College, USA
2003- "Hot Water" Bernarducci.Meisel.Gallery, New York
2003- "Contemporary American Realism VI," M. A. Doran Gallery, Tulsa
2002- "Historic Sites & Structures," Bernarducci.Meisel.Gallery, New York
2001-"Contemporary American Landscapes," M. A. Doran Gallery, Tulsa
2001- "Hudson River", Merrill Lynch Corporate ArtGallery, New York
2000- "Town & Country," Bernarducci.Meisel.Gallery, New York
1999- "Ghost in the Shell" Photography and the Human Soul, 1850-2000, Los AngelesCountyMuseum of Art, Los Angeles
1999- Augenblick und Endlichkeit, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany (Photography)
1999- "Innovation/Imagination, 50 Years of Polaroid Photography", AnselmAdamsCenter for Photography, San Francisco
1999- "The Century of the Body: Photoworks 1900-2000", Portuguese Center of Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal
1999- "The Triumph of the Fragment", Mus'e de l'Elys'e, Lausanne, Switzerland (photography)
1998- "In Over Our Heads: The Image of Water in Contemporary Art", San JoseMuseum of Art, San Jose
1996- "The Cigar" Modernism, San Francisco
1995- "Martini Culture" Modernism, San Francisco
1994- "Realism '94" Fletcher Gallery, Santa Fe
1993- "Tribute" William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco
1993- "Photorealism Since 1980", Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY
1992- "California Dreamin'" FresnoMetropolitanMuseum, Fresno, CA
1991- Cudahy's Gallery, New York, NY
1991- "The Palm Tree Show; New Paintings by Eleven Artists", Modernism, San Francisco
1990- “Contemporary Realist Painting”, Oliver Art Center, California College of Arts & Crafts, Oakland, curated by Dyana Chadwick
1982- “Realism Show”, Rosenthal Gallery, Chicago
1982- “Motor Trends”, Grapestake Gallery, San Francisco
1982- “Thirty Approaches to Realism”, William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco
1978- “Art and the Automobile”, Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI
AWARDS
1978- Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI
1977- First Prize, Marin Society of Artists Inc., Ross, CA
1976- Prize for Painting, Artrium, Santa RosaCollege
1975- Best in Show, Friends of HopkinsCenter, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2009- “Exactitude: Hyperrealist Art Today”, by: Taylor, John Russell (pgs 132-143)
2008- Exhibition catalog, “Contemporary American Realism: 2008 Biennial”, by: Fort Wayne Museum of Art (Fort Wayne, IN)
2006- American Art Collector (September)
2006- “Summer Suite Group Show,” in: American Art Collector (June)
2004 -“Modernism, Twenty Five Years, 1979-2004,” (720 pages, ill.)
2002- “Photorealism at the Millenium”, by: Louis K. Meisel and Linda Chase (Harry N Abrams, New York)
1997- “Gus Heinze”. Introduction by Peter Frank (Mendenhall Gallery, Pasadena)
1995- “Trash-Kultur und Status-Symbole," by Müller, Katrin Bettina, in: Kunst & Antiquitäten (No. 15417, Oct 14, Seite B3)
1993- “Photorealism since 1980”, by: Louis K Meisel (Harry N Abrams, New York)
1991- "S.F. Art World Knows No Season," by Bonetti, David, in: San Francisco Examiner (Jun 25, p. C1)
1989- "Critic's Choice," by Roche, HarrySan in: FranciscoBay Guardian (Jun 28, p. 57)
1988- "Artwalk Returns to San Francisco," in: Art-Talk (Feb, p. 38)
1985- "Photorealism as Abstraction," by McDonald, Robert, in: Artweek (No. 10)
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Allergan Pharmaceuticals, Los Angeles
Bank of America World Headquarters, San Francisco
Banker's Life, Des Moines
Bergen/Brunswig, Los Angeles
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, NY
Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream, Oakland
Salvadore Dali Organization, Spain
Dean Witter Reynolds, San Francisco
GTE Corporation, Thousand Oaks, Ca
Grubb and Ellis Corporation, Oakland
Hancock, Rothert & Bunshoft, San Francisco
Hughes Aircraft Corporation, Los Angeles
Kaiser Permanente, Fontana, CA
Transamerica Corporation, Los Angeles
Transamerica Corporation Realty Group, San Francisco
STATEMENT
“It is quite evident that in most of my paintings the suggestion and visual appearance discern an abstract intent. The cropping of the subject enforces a tight composition, the subject thus becomes ambiguous. The finished painting will consciously remain objective, eliminating subjective qualities such as identifiable techniques and any suggestions to the narrative.
“Besides my desire for the direction of the abstract, I am quite fascinated with what nature and the elements do to the objects I choose to paint: how the sun over time can change a paint colour and the various colours of rust. If I imagined or made up these inadvertencies in nature, I think it would be subjective, something of me would then remove mostly the image of my painting from an abstract awareness.
“For example, my painting Red Machine is what appears to be just composition, colour and shapes, thereby identifying the abstract element. Then the obvious representational elements in the painting would certainly denote along with the abstract, realism. So there we have it, a total oxymoron, abstract-realism.”
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