Dee Shapiro

Biography

Dee Shapiro was inspired to be an Artist in her early years of education. Dee's career started in the 1970s as a pattern painter with her works of art included in the Pattern and Decoration at P.S. 1 in 1977. She researched and explored the Fibonacci Progression in color on graph paper and also explored geometric complexity of architectural designs, leading her to create the small horizontal oil paintings of cities and landscapes.

Education and career

Dee Shapiro obtained her bachelor's degree in 1958 and Master of Science in 1960 from Queens College, City University of New York. Dee Shapiro is an artist that sees the subject on a large scale, but what she creates is on a diminutive scale. Shapiro's strength is the ability to give expressive power on canvas that makes her work seem larger than they are. Dee Shapiro has been a teacher, lecturer, and writer through career.

Solo exhibitions

2016 Art 101, Brooklyn, NY2015 Andre Zarre Gallery, NYC

2015 Five Points Gallery, Torrington, CT

2012, 2010, 2009 Andre Zarre Gallery, NYC

2010 Norfolk Library, Norfolk, CT

2009 George Billis Gallery

2006 Harrison Street Gallery, Frenchtown, NJ

2004 The Mercy Gallery. Loomis Chafee, Windsor, CT.

2004,2002, 1998 Andre Zarre Gallery, NY C, National Arts Club, NYC

2000 Principle Gallery, Alexandria, VA

1998 Nassau County Museum of Fine Art, Roslyn, NY

1997 Andre Zarre Gallery, NYC

1996 North Winds, Port Washington, NY

1994, 1991,1988,1985 Andre Zarre Gallery, NYC

1984 Ana Sklar Gallery, Miami, FL

1983 Andre Zarre Gallery, NYC

1982 Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY, Andre Zarre Gallery, NYC

1981 Dubins Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Zenith Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA

1980, 1976 Andre Zarre Gallery, NYC

1979 Gallery 700, Milwaukee, WI Andre Zarre GalleryNYC

1978 St. Mary's College, Notre Dame, IN

1977 University of Arkansas, Little Rock, AK

1975,1973 Central Hall Gallery, Port Washington, NY, Nassau County Museum of Fine Art, Roslyn, NY

Selected collections

A.G. Rosen Collections

Albright College Collection, Reading, PA

Albright-Knox Museum, Buffalo, NY

Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT

Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL

Brown-Foreman, Louisville, KY

Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA

Citibank Collection, NYC

Dartmouth Museum of Art, Hanover, NH

Dayton Institute, Dayton, OH

Owens-Corning Corp., Corning, NY

Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY

General Electric Co., Fairfield, Ct.

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NYC

Corporate Collection, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington,[New York

Herbert F. LJohnson Museum, Ithaca NY

Hoffman-LaRoche Collection, Zurich, Switzerland

IBM Corporation, NY

Lehigh University Collection, Bethlehem, PA

Louis-Dreyfus Financial Group

Mercer Street Medical Center, NYC

Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC

Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY

New York University Collection, NYC

Pepsico Corporation, NY

Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS

St. Mary’s College Collection, Notre Dame, IN

Texaco Corporation, NY

The New Museum, NYC

New York University Collection, NYC

The Newark Museum, Newark, NJ

United States Department of State, Washington, DC

University of Arkansas, Little Rock, AK