RAY RAPP
 
 

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VIDEO COW

   Biography

        Exhibitions
        1999 
                 Flowered, (video installation), the Kitchen, New York, NY
        1998
                 Fashioned, White Box, organized by KOOH, NY, NY
                 Static, Eugene Binder Gallery, LIC, NY
                 Op at UP & Co., UP & Co., organized by Tom Moody, NY,
                 NY
                 CyberLab, Ericsson CyberLab, Vanguard Visions, organized
                 by Lauren Amazeen, NY, NY
        1997
                 rayrapprayrapp, (one person exhibition), TZ'Art & Co, NY, NY
                 Affirm Identity, Kingsboro Community College Art Gallery,
                 director Lily Wei, Brooklyn, NY
                 Concrete Signal 2, Ben Shahn Gallery, William Patterson
                 College, Robert Costa curator, Wayne, NJ
                 Sizzle, Jeffrey Coploff Gallery, New York, NY
        1996
                 New York State Biennial, New York State Museum, curated
                 by Ken Johnson, Albany, NY
                 Shopping: The Bake Sale, Dietch Projects, organized by
                 Elaine Tin Nyo, NY, NY
                 Postmodern Techne, Art & Science Collaborations, 473
                 Broadway, NY, NY
                 R-town3, VISCIO studios, Brooklyn, NY
        1995
                 Saints, (one person exhibition) TZ'Art & Co., NY, NY
                 Hybrid Nights No. 3, (video installation), The Kitchen, NY, NY
                 Video Sculpture, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem,
                 North Carolina
                 Jealousy, (video installation) Dowling College, crated by Islip
                 Museum, Islip, NY
                 Series One: Video: HERE, NY, NY
                 Polyglot, Art Builders, Jersey City, NJ
                 Pages 17, 450 Broadway, New York, NY
                 Between This and That, Eighth Floor Gallery, NY, NY
                 Solid State, Morgan Industrial Complex, Pro Arts, Jersey
                 City, NJ
                 Concept into Form, K & T Lionheart Ltd. Exhibition Space,
                 Boston, MA
        1994
                 (of)f the Screen, (two person exhibition), TZ'Art & Co., NY, NY
                 Redefining the Pop Icon in the Nineties, Pamela
                 Auchincloss, NY, NY
                 stepping down, (video installation), Art Awareness,
                 Lexington, NY
                 Random Access, Ramnarine Gallery, Long Island City, NY
                 The Return of the Cadavre Exquis, The Corcoran Gallery of
                 Art, Washington, DC
                       Fundacion para el Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City
                       Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
                       Forum for Contemporary Art, St. Louis, Missouri
                 Phrenology: A Multimedia 'Electronic Magic Lantern' Show,
                 Millennium, NY, NY
                 Defining Color, TZ'Art & Co., NY, NY
                 Cidade Imaginada, Forum of Visual Arts, Museum of
                 Brasilia, Brasilia, Brazil
        1993
                 Images du Futur '93, La Cite' des Art et Nouvelles
                 Technologies, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
                 Zoo Extracts, (video installation), Islip Art Museum, Islip, NY
                 Xenographia - Nomadic Wall, video installation organized
                 by Grunert and Scrocca, Venice Biennale, Italy
                 The Return of the Cadavre Exquis, The Drawing Center,
                 New York, NY
                 Lumen Essence, #1 Main Street, organized by Art &
                 Science Collaborations, Brooklyn, NY
                 Concrete Signal, Tribeca 148, organized by Robert Costa,
                 NY, NY
                 Twisted State, 80 Washington St., organized by Primary
                 Projects, NY, NY
                 Art Toys: Playful Art and Art You Can Play With, Madelyn
                 Jordon Gallery, NY, NY
        1992
                 Standing Water, P.S. 122, NY, NY
                 Apartment Store, Exit Art/The First World, NY, NY
                 Constructed Sculpture in Wood, (works from the collection),
                 The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
                 1+N=J, (video installation), 148 Duane Street, NY, NY
                 The Pull of Kinetics, Newhouse Center, Snug Harbor, Staten
                 Island, NY
                 Art 150 x 150, Rosa Esman Gallery, Organization of
                 Independent Artists (benefit), NY, NY
        1991
                 Tweeking the Human, Minor Injury Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
        1990
                 The Expressionist Surface: Contemporary Art in Plaster,
                 (video installation), Queens Museum, NY
                 Enclosure, The Rotunda Gallery, (video installation),
                 Brooklyn, NY
                 An Obscure Object to Desire, Marymount Manhattan College
                 Gallery, NY, NY
                 The Notion of Motion, Islip Art Museum (video installation),
                 Islip, NY
        1989
                 On the Cutting Edge, Fine Arts Museum of Long Island,
                 Hempstead, NY
                 Verticality, (one person exhibition), Nancy Bratton Gallery,
                 NY, NY
        1988
                 Six Views: Installations, City Gallery, Department of Cultural
                 Affairs, (installation), NY
                 Three Artists, Nancy Bratton Gallery, NY, NY
                 Interference, (one person exhibition), ASAGE Gallery, NY,
                 NY
                 Group 29, Westbeth Artists Center, (video Installation), NY,
                 NY
        1987
                 Constructions and Drawings, 55 Mercer, NY, NY
                 Petit format de papier, Cul-des-Sarts (Couvin), Belgique
                 Constructions, ASAGE Gallery, NY, NY
        1986
                 Group Exhibition, Jim Diaz Gallery, NY, NY Heads I win,
                 Tails You Lose, Brooklyn Arts and Cultural Association,
                 (installation), Brooklyn, NY Weekend, Public Image Gallery,
                 (installation), NY, NY Wall Works, Phenix City Gallery, NY, NY
        1985
                 Working in Brooklyn: Sculpture, Brooklyn Museum,
                 Brooklyn, NY
                 Recent Acquisitions, Buscaglia-Castellani Gallery, Niagara
                 University, NY
                 What a Relief, Miriam Perlman Gallery, Chicago, IL
                 On and Off the Wall, Pan Arts-Northside Arts and Industries,
                 (installation), Brooklyn, NY
        1984
                 Works on Paper by Contemporary Sculptors, Brooklyn
                 Museum, Brooklyn, NY
                 Totem, Salena Gallery, Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY
                 Loft 7 - Art in the Bush, Bush Terminal, Brooklyn, NY

        Workshops and Teaching Experience
        1992 - 98
                 College of Mount Saint Vincent, adjunct professor,
                 Introduction Studio Art/Art History
        1997
                 College of Mount Saint Vincent, adjunct professor, Modern
                 Art History
        1996 - 98
                 Studio tour and presentation, St. Olafs College
        1995
                 Guest Lecturer, video-sculpture, Wake Forest University,
                 Winston-Salem, NC
        1992
                 Guest Lecturer, sculpture, New York University, NY
        1992
                 "Site Specific Installations", Artists Talk on Art, moderator:
                 Janet Riker, Soho Photo, NY, NY
        1990
                 "Working with Plaster", workshop, Queens Museum
        1989
                 "On the cutting Edge", panel discussion, Fine Arts Museum
                 of Long Island, Hempstead, NY
        1985
                 Brooklyn Museum studio tour, "Meet the Artist", (in
                 conjunction with "Working in Brooklyn: Sculpture")
        1981
                 T.A. San Francisco Art Institute, Photo Printmaking
                 Techniques, Dick Graf, instructor

        Grants and Awards
        Vanguard Visions, Exhibition Honorarium 1998
        Adolph and Esther Gonlieb Foundation, Inc., Grant 1995
        Dowling College Exhibition Honorarium 1995
        Art Awareness Residency and Exhibition Honorarium 1994
        MacDowell Residency 1993
        Cite des Arts et Des Nouvelles Technologies de Montreal Honorarium
        (equipment, travel, living expenses) 1993
        Experimental Television Center Residency Program 1993
        Experimental Television Center Finishing Funds Grant, Rotunda
        Gallery, Brooklyn 1990
        Queens Museum Exhibition Honorarium 1990
        55 Mercer Exhibition Grant (partially funded by NYSCA) 1989
        Artists Space Artist's Grant 1990, 1989, 1987, 1986, 1984
        Organization of Independent Artist's Grant 1990, 1989
        BACA Artist's Grant, BACA Downtown 1986, 1984
        Public Image Gallery Honorarium 1986
        Berkshire Museum Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, 1st award
        sculpture, Patterson Sims (juror) 1983

        Education
        1981
                 M.F.A. San Francisco Art Institute
        1977
                 B.A. San Francisco State University, Fine Arts
        1973
                 B.A. University of California, Berkeley, Philosophy University
                 of California, Los Angeles

        Selected Bibliography
        1998
                 "Op 'til you drop", Time Out New York, Carol Kino, 6/25 -
                 7/2/98 "Op Art in the 90's", VERY. Tom Moody, 5/98 "Op at
                 Up', Review, J. Bowyer Bell, 6/15/98 "Concrete Signal",
                 catalog, Robert Costa, William Patterson University
        1997
                 "Ray Rapp", Review, Steve Mumford, 12/15/97 "Ray Rapp",
                 New York Times Art Guide, Ken Johnson, 12/19/97 "Ray
                 Rapp", Village Voice Art Choices, Kim Levin, 12/13/97
                 "Affirm Identity", exhibition catalog, essay by Sue Scott,
                 Kingsborough Community College
        1996
                 "Art Reviews: Ray Rapp", Village Voice, Kim Levin, 1/3/96
                 "Ray Rapp", Cover, Robert Costa, 3/96 "New York State
                 Biennial", Albany Times Union, Timothy Cahill, 2/25/96
        1995
                 "Diverse Visions, Common Ground", New York Times,
                 Vivien Raynor, 7/30/95 "Video Sculpture" (catalog), Wake
                 Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC "Five artists at WFU
                 weave video into their creations", Winston-Salem Journal, T.
                 Patterson, 3/12 "Art as a Metaphor for Change", PECO
                 Energy Collection Catalog, Sue Scott
        1994
                 "Concrete Signal", COVER, A. Moore, 1/94 "Jeremy Adams,
                 Ray Rapp", ARTnews, Susan Harris, 5/94 "90's Pop at
                 Auchincloss", Art & Auction, Robert Knafo, 6/94 "Stepping
                 Down", Times Union, Albany, NY, William Jaeger, 7/3/94
        1993
                 "Zoo Extracts", New York Times (Long Island ed.), Helen
                 Harrison, 8/8/93 "Images du Futur 1993" (catalog), Cite des
                 Arts et des Nouvelles Technologies de Montreal, Montreal,
                 Canada "Whimsical New Yorkers Bring High Tech Art to Old
                 Port", The Gazette, Montreal, Canada, P. Delean, 5/14/93
                 "Twisted State", exhibition catalog (printing donated by
                 Brooklyn Union), NY, NY
        1990
                 "A Widely Varied Response to the Notion of Motion", New
                 York Times (Long Island ed.), H. Harrison, 10/28/90 "Plaster
                 as a Medium", New York Times, M. Brenson, 7/13/90 "The
                 Brooklyn Awakening", Sculpture, Tsipi Ben-Haim, May 1990
                 "The Expressionist Surface: Contemporary Art in Plaster",
                 (catalog), Queens Museum, Barbara Matilsky, curator
        1989
                 Contemporary Art Print In the World, International Art Center
                 of Kyoto, Japan, Misool Gongron Sa (pub) "On the Cutting
                 Edge", (catalog), Fine Arts Museum of Long Island
        1988
                 "Barbasol on Oil Tank Car", New Art Examiner, 3/88
        1987
                 "Petit format de papier", (catalog), organisee par le Musee
                 du Petit Format Cul-des-Sarts (Couvin), Belgique
        1986
                 "New Yorks moderna museer", Palatten, Eva
                 Axelson-Kumlin, 1/86 "The Newest Left Bank", New York
                 Magazine, Amy Vershup, 3/21/86 "I Just Dropped in to See
                 What Condition My Condition Was In", Artscribe, Peter
                 Plagens, Feb/Mar 86, no. 56
        1985
                 "A Sculpture Revival All Around Town", New York Times,
                 Michael Brenson, 11/1/85 "Working in Brooklyn: Sculpture",
                 (catalog), Brooklyn Museum, Charlotta Kotik
        1984
                 "The American Artist as Printmaker", The Print Collector's
                 Newsletter, vol. 14, no. 6, Jan/Feb "New Paintings and
                 Sculptures at BC", Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus,
                 Birgit Gaida, 6/84
        1982
                 "The American Artist as Printmaker", (catalog), Brooklyn
                 Museum, Barry Walker "Berkshire Art Association 1983
                 Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture", (catalog) Berkshire
                 Museum

        Collections
        The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
        Experimental Television Center, Owego, NY
        Musee du Petit Format, Cul-des-Sarts (Couvin), Belgique
        Buscaglia-Castellani Art Gallery, Niagara University, NY
        American Medical Association
        Ronald Lauder
        PECO Energy Company
        Private Collections