Jump to content

Deborah Remington

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Deborah Remington
Born
Deborah Remington

June 25, 1930
Haddonfield, New Jersey,U.S.
DiedApril 21, 2010 (age 79)
Moorestown, New Jersey,U.S.
EducationPhiladelphia Museum School of Industrial Art,San Francisco Art Institute,
Known forAbstract painting
MovementAbstractHard-edge painting
Websitedeborahremington
"Haddonfield," 1965

Deborah Remington(June 25, 1930 – April 21, 2010) was an American abstract painter. Her most notable work is characterized asHard-edge paintingabstraction.

She became a part of the San Francisco Bay Area'sBeatscene in the 1950s.[1]In 1965, she moved to New York where her style solidified and her career grew substantially.[2]A twenty-year retrospective of her work was exhibited at the Newport Harbor Art Museum in California, in 1983.[3]

Her work was a part of more than thirty solo exhibition and hundreds of group exhibitions including threeWhitney Museum of American Artannuals.[4]She was the descendant of artistFrederic Remington.[5]

Biography

[edit]

Remington was born in 1930 and grew up inHaddonfield, New Jersey.She was the daughter of the late Malcolm VanDyke and Hazel (née Stewart) Remington.[6]With an early inclination towards art, she enrolled in classes at thePhiladelphia Museum School of Industrial Artas a teenager. In 1955, she received her BFA from theSan Francisco Art Institutewhere she studied underClyfford Still.[7]

By the time she graduated from the Institute, she had become affiliated with the Bay Area's Beat scene.[8]In 1954, she was one of six painters and poets, and the only woman, who founded the now legendarySix Galleryin San Francisco.[5]

After graduation, Remington spent two years traveling and living in Japan, Southeast Asia, and India. While in Japan she studied classical and contemporary calligraphy and earned money by teaching English and tutoring actors. This led to some work acting in B movies, including the film "Nightmare's Bad Dream".[9]

Returning to the United States, she took up painting more seriously. She began to exhibit her work at the Dilexi Gallery inSan Franciscoand had solo shows in 1962, 1963, and 1965. In 1965, Remington moved to New York City. She had her first solo exhibition in NYC in 1966 at theBykert Galleryat 15 W. 57th Street in Manhattan. She had four solo shows there between 1967 and 1974.[4][5]

In 1983 Remington had a twenty-year retrospective exhibition that opened at theNewport Harbor Museumin California.[10]This exhibition later traveled to the Oakland Museum (today, theOakland Museum of California) and other venues.[4]In 1984 she received aGuggenheim Fellowship.[11][12]

She was elected to theNational Academy of Designin 1999,[13]and in the same year was the recipient of aPollock-Krasner FoundationGrant.[4]

Death

[edit]

Remington died April 21, 2010, inMoorestown, New Jersey,of cancer, aged 79.[5]She was interred at Haddonfield Baptist Cemetery in Haddonfield, New Jersey.[14]

Selected collections

[edit]

Remington's work has been collected by numerous institutions both in the United States and abroad: theArt Institute of Chicago,Illinois;[15]theAuckland War Memorial Museum,New Zealand;[16]theBibliothèque nationale de France,Paris; theMuseum Boijmans Van Beuningen,Rotterdam, the Netherlands; theCentre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou,Paris; theColumbus Museum of Art,Columbus, Ohio; theBerkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive,University of California, Berkeley,California; theSmithsonian American Art Museum(formerly National Museum of American Art), Washington, D.C.;[17]and theWhitney Museum of American Art,New York.[18][19]

Awards and recognition

[edit]

In 1999, Remington was elected to theNational Academy of Designand received aPollock-Krasner FoundationGrant that same year. She was awarded aNational EndowmentFellowship from 1979 to 1980. In the fall of 1973, Remington was aTamarindFellow Artist-in-Residence.[18]

Legacy

[edit]

In 2016 her work was included in the exhibitionWomen of Abstract Expressionismorganized by theDenver Art Museum.[20]In 2023 her work was included in the exhibitionAction, Gesture, Paint: Women Artists and Global Abstraction 1940-1970at theWhitechapel Galleryin London.[21]

References

[edit]
  1. ^"About the Artist – DEBORAH REMINGTON".Retrieved2024-01-31.
  2. ^"About the Artist – DEBORAH REMINGTON".Retrieved2024-01-31.
  3. ^"Deborah Remington Bio".Deborah Remington Charitable Trust for the Visual Arts. Archived fromthe originalon September 17, 2018.RetrievedMarch 12,2014.
  4. ^abcd"Deborah Remington".David Richard Gallery. Retrieved August 28, 2016.
  5. ^abcdSmith, Roberta (May 18, 2010)."Deborah Remington, Abstract Artist, Dies at 79".The New York Times.RetrievedMarch 9,2014.
  6. ^"Notes for Deborah W. Remington".The Pennocks of Primitive Hall. Archived fromthe originalon June 23, 2016.RetrievedMarch 14,2014.
  7. ^Asthoff, Jens. "Deborah Remington: Kimmerich."Artforum International,vol. 54, no. 10, Summer 2016, p. 410+.Gale In Context: Biography.
  8. ^"About the Artist – DEBORAH REMINGTON".Retrieved2024-01-31.
  9. ^Ashton, Dore (1983).Deborah Remington(Exhibition catalog). Newport Beach, California: Newport Harbor Art Museum.
  10. ^Hudson, Suzanne."Suzanne Hudson on the art of Deborah Remington".Art Forum.Retrieved29 April2023.
  11. ^"Guggenheim Foundation Award Fellowships to 283".New York Times.April 8, 1984. Retrieved August 28, 2016.
  12. ^"Deborah Remington".John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation...Retrieved29 April2023.
  13. ^"National AcademiciansArchived2015-04-02 at theWayback Machine".National Academy of Design. nationalacademy.org. Retrieved August 28, 2016.
  14. ^"Deborah W. Remington Obituary (2010) Courier Post".Legacy.Retrieved2021-07-21.
  15. ^"Deborah Remington".The Art Institute of Chicago.Retrieved29 April2023.
  16. ^"Deborah Remington".Smithsonian American Art Museum.Retrieved29 April2023.
  17. ^abRemington, Deborah (1984).Deborah Remington: A 20-year survey.Newport, CA: Newport Harbor Art Museum. p. 55.
  18. ^"Deborah Remington".Whitney Museum of American Art.Retrieved29 April2023.
  19. ^Marter, Joan M. (2016).Women of abstract expressionism.Denver New Haven: Denver Art Museum Yale University Press. p. 193.ISBN9780300208429.
[edit]
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Deborah_Remington&oldid=1214794763"