John DeAndrea 1941 —

Biography

John De Andrea, American sculptor of the super-real nude figure, was born in Denver, Colorado on November 24, 1941. He studied at the University of Colorado, Boulder from 1961 to 1965 and in 1968 was an art assistant at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. He had his first one-man show at the O. K. Harris Gallery in New York in 1970.

He rapidly developed a style of casting and then painting fiber-glass or polyvinyl acetate sculptures of figures from life. The extreme verism of his work links it to Photorealism. The sculptures are usually of one or two young, elegant and casually posed nude figures, usually female, as in "Dorothy" (1969-70; Aachen, Neue Gallery) and “Garnet” (1996). "Untitled" (Studio Scene) (1977; Cologne, Mus. Ludwig), shows the artist and his model.

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Born

November 24, 1941; Denver, Colorado

Education

1968 University of New Mexico at Albuquerque

1966 Awarded art scholarship

1965 University of Colorado at Boulder, BFA

Individual Exhibitions

1970 O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY

1971 O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY

1972 Wilmaro Gallery, Denver, CO

1973 O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY

1976 O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY

1981 Tortue Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

1982 The Aspen Center for the Visual Arts, Aspen, CO

1982 Foster Goldstrom Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA

1982 O.K Harris Works of Art, New York, NY

1985 O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY

1985 Galerie Isy Brachot, Paris, France

1986 Galerie Isy Brachot, Paris, France

1987 Carlo Lamagna Gallery, New York, NY

1988 Galerie Isy Brachot, Paris, France

1988 Galerie Isy Brachot, Brussels, Belgium

1989 Carlo Lamagna Gallery, New York, NY

1991 ACA Galleries, New York, NY

1993 ACA Galleries/Munich, Munich, Germany

'96-'97 John DeAndrea, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO

1998 O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY

2000 Ron Judish Fine Arts, Denver, CO

Selected Group Exhibitions

1970 Annual Exhibition, TheWhitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

1970 Radical Realism, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL

1971 Biennale, Paris, France

1971 Radical Realism, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL

1971 Kunstmarkt, Cologne, Germany

1971 Old Realism, New Realism, Dannenberg Gallery, New York, NY

1972 Documenta V; Kassel, Germany

1972 Sharp Focus Realism, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY

1972 Hyperrealistes Americains, Galerie des Quatre Mouvements, Paris, France

1972 Recent Figurative Sculpture, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University,

Cambridge, MA; traveling exhibition

1972 Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

'72-'73 Realist Revival, New York Cultural Center, New York, NY

1973 Amenkansk Realism,Lunds Konsthall, Sweden.

1973 Realism Now, Lunds Kunsthall, Lunds, Sweden

1973 Grands Maifres Hyperrealistes Americains, Galerie des Quatre Mouvements, Paris, France

1973 The Super-Realist Vision, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA

1973 The Male Nude, Emily Lowe Gallery, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY

1974 Hyperrealistes Americains/Realistes Europeans, Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Paris, (toured Europe)

1974 New Photo Realism, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT

1974 The Real and Ideal in Figurative Sculpture, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL

1974 Living American Artists and the Figure, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA

1974 Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL

1975 Photo-Realist Art, Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS

1976 Aspects of Realism, Rothman's of Pall Mall traveling exhibition, Stratford Art Gallery, Ontario, (toured Canada 1976-78)

1976 Super Realism, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD

1976 Aspects of Realism, Centennial Museum, Vancouver, Canada; traveling exhibition

1976 Perspective 1976, Freedman Art Gallery, Albright College, Reading, PA

1976 American Salon des Refuses, Stamford Museum and Nature Center, Stamford, CT

1977 The Nude: Avery and the European Masters, Borgenicht Gallery, New York, NY

1977 No Thing But Nudes, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

1977 New Realism, Jacksonville Art Museum, Jacksonville, FL

1977 Art '77, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY

1977 Contemporary Figuration, University Gallery of American Art, New York, NY

'77-'78 Illusion and Reality, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, (toured Australia)

1978 Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy

1978 Selected 20th Century American Nudes, Reed Art Gallery, New York, NY

1979 Seven on the Figure, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

1980 The Reality of Illusion, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO (traveling)

1980 Illusionism, O.K. Harris West, Scottsdale, AZ

1980 Radical Realism, Center for the Arts, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA

1981 Contemporary American Realism Since 1960, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

1982 Homo Sapiens: The Many Images, Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT

1982 Real, Really Real, Super Real, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX (traveled to Indianapolis, Tucson, and Pittsburgh)

1982 Documenta V1I, Kassel, Germany

1983 Faces Since The 50's: A Generation of American Portraiture, Center Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA

1983 Contemporary American Realism, Foster Goldstrom Gallery, Dallas, TX

1984 Ten Years of Collecting at the MCA, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL

1984 Games of Deception: When Nothing is at it Appears, Artisan Space, The Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY

1984 Image, Effigy, Form: Figurative Sculpture, University Art Museum, California State University,

Long Beach, CA

1984 Figurative Sculpture: Ten Artists/Two Decades, University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, CA

1985 In Celebration, Tortue Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

1985 Fortissimo! Thirty Years from the Richard Brown Baker Collection of Contemporary Art, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI (traveling)

1985 The Classic Tradition in Recent Painting and Sculpture, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT

1988 Figure it Out: Visual Body Language, Helander Gallery, Palm Beach, FL

1988 Nude or Naked Vered Gallery, East Hampton NY

1992 Images of Man: Figures of Contemporary Sculpture, Japan Traveling Exhibition:The Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo;

Daimura Museum, Osaka; Hiroshima City Museum of Art, Hiroshima

1993 Summer Group Show, ACA Galleries, New York, NY

1997 An Assessment of Contemporary Figuration, David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, MI

1997 Feminine Image, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY

'97-'98 Faces & Figures, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY

1999 7 Women 7 Years Later, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY

1999 Three Realist Sculptors: George Segal, Duane Hanson, John DeAndrea, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY

2000 The Photorealists, Holmes Gallery, Center for the Arts, Vero Beach, FL