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DeWITT ANDERSON GODFREY
Associate Professor
Department of Art and Art History
311 Little Hall
Colgate University
Hamilton, NY 13346
Tel: (315) 228 7593
Fax: (315) 228 7787
e mail: dgodfrey@colgate.edu
web: www.dewittgodfrey.edu
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| EDUCATION |
| 1996 |
-Edinburgh College of Art, Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland, MFA Sculpture |
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1982 |
-Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, BA Art |
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SELECTED ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS AND INSTALLATIONS |
| 2003
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2001 |
-Eli Marsh Gallery, Fayerweather Hall, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts
-Black + White Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
-Amherst College, "Amherst Drawings", Amherst, Massachusetts |
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1998 |
-Butler Gallery, Houston, Texas (also 1997, 1992 and 1987)
-Sculpture Center, New York City
-Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas
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1991 |
-David Beitzel Gallery, New York City |
1988 |
-R.C. Erpf Gallery, New York City |
1986 |
-Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, Texas |
1984 |
-Hadler/Rodriguez Galleries, Houston, Texas |
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS |
| 2002 |
-"Systems Order Nature," Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, Texas
-"5 x 10: Five College Honors Drawing Faculty," Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts
-"2002 International Sculpture Symposium," Europos Parkas, Vilnius, Lithuania
-"Labyrinths," Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, Texas
-"Faculty and Student Show" Cortona Studies Abroad Program 2000-01, Lamar Dodd School of Art, THe University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia
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| 2001 |
-"The Fields Sculpture Park," Art Omi International, Ghent, New York |
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2000 |
-"II Sculture Simposium Ciudad Empresarial,“ Ciudad Empresarial, Santiago, Chile
-“Once Removed,” Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, New York
-“Confluence: artist’s books at five myles,” five myles gallery, Brooklyn, New York
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1999 |
-“5 College Faculty Exhibition,” Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts
-“XCXL: eXquisite Corpse eXtra Large,” 20th Anniversary Exhibit, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, Texas |
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1998 |
-"Sculpture Annual,” Art-Omi, Omi, New York
-“Faculty Exhibition,” Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York |
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1996 |
-“Edinburgh Festival Exhibition,” Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh |
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1995 |
-“Society of Scottish Artists Annual,” Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh |
1994 |
-“Out of This World,” Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
-“Annual,” Stone Museum, Aji-cho, Kagawa-ken, Japan |
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1993 |
-“Darkness + Light, Twentieth-Century Works from Texas Collections,” Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Houston, Texas.Catalogue
-“Ink and Wash: Drawings...,” Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, Texas |
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1992 |
-“Singular and Plural, Recent Accessions, Drawings and Prints, 1945-1991,” Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas |
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1991 |
-“Another Dimension: Drawings by Six Contemporary Sculptors,” Met Life Gallery, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, New York City |
1990 |
-“Drawing and Space,” Sagacho Exhibit Space, Tokyo, Japan |
1989 |
-"Private Eye: Selections from Private Collections,” Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas |
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1988 |
-“Selections from the Edward Albee Collection,” Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, Pennsylvania. catalogue
-“Innovations in Sculpture: 1985-1988,” Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut. Catalogue
-“Direction and Diversity, Works from the Permanent Collection,” Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
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1986 |
-“Art on the Beach,” Creative Time, Long Island City, New York
-"Third Western States Biennial," Western States Art Foundation, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York. catalogue. |
| 1985 |
-"Charcoal Drawings: 1880-1985," Janie C. Lee Gallery, Houston, Texas. catalogue
-"Houston Festival: The Bayou Show," Houston, Texas
-"Southwest '85," Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico. catalogue.
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| 1984 |
-"Drawings," D.W. Gallery, Dallas, Texas.
-"The Third Coast Show," Midtown Art Center, Houston, Texas. catalogue.
-"Texas Only," Texas Fine Arts Association, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, Texas.
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AWARDS/GRANTS |
| 2002 |
-Faculty Research Assistance Program, Amherst College (also 2000, 1999) Amherst |
| 2001 |
-Miner D. Crary Summer Research Fellowship, Amherst College, Amherst |
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1997 |
-Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, Artist Fellowship, Sculpture, New York |
1994 |
-Fulbright Fellowship, Fulbright Commission, United States and United Kingdom |
1993 |
-Japan Foundation, Artist’s Fellowship, Tokyo, Japan |
1991 |
-New York Foundation for the Arts, Artists Fellowship, Sculpture |
1989 |
-Henry Luce Foundation, Luce Scholar, New York City
-Sculpture Space, Funded Residency, Utica, New York |
1987 |
-Edward F. Albee Foundation, Summer Residency, Montauk, New York |
1985 |
-National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Artist’s Fellowship |
1984 |
-Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Clare Hart DeGolyer Fund award, Dallas, Texas |
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SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York
PaineWebber, New York City
Chemical Bank, New York City
Century Development Corporation, Houston, Texas
Southwestern Bell, St. Louis, Missouri
Texaco, Houston, Texas
Estee Lauder Group, New York City
Runnymede Sculpture Park, San Francisco, California
Oracle Corporation, Los Angeles, California
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Stalford, Maria- "Labyrinths," http://glasstire.com/reviews/dbhb_2_02_labyrinths.html, Glasstire, Houston Texas.
Parnass, Larry – “Q&A, DeWitt Godfrey,” Daily Hampshire Gazette, November 27, 2000, pg. B6
Colpit, Francis – “Report From Houston,” Art in America, October, 2000, pg. 71
Yee, Amy – “Socrates Sculpture Park,” The Financial Times, August 30, 2000
Smith, Roberta – “Stretching Definitions of Outdoor Sculpture,” The New York Times, July 28, 2000
Greene, Alison de Lima –Texas: 150 Works from the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, 2000, pp. 29, 116-117, 143-144, 233, 245, 256
Highstein, Jene – “The State of Sculpture in Late 1999,” NY Arts Magazine, Vol. 4, No. 12, December 1999, p. 83
Wei, Lily – “Dewitt Godfrey at the Sculpture Center,” Art in America, #9, September 1999, p. 129
Johnson, Ken - “DeWitt Godfrey,” The New York Times, December 18, 1998
Everett, Deborah - “DeWitt Godfrey,” NYArts, #27, December 1998, p.56
Editor, Goings on About Town, Art - “DeWitt Godfrey”, The New Yorker, November 30, 1998, p.18
Mayo, Marti - DeWitt Godfrey: A Sculpture and Two Drawings, catalogue, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas, June 1, 1998
Greene, Alison de Lima, Diane Planer Lovejoy and William Thompson, “The Lilllie and Hugh Roy Culle Sculpture Garden of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston," The Museum of Fine Arts, HoustonBulletin 17, April 1996, pp. 54-55
Kerr, Sally - “Edinburgh College of Art...,” The Glasgow Herald, June 20, 1995
Uchiyama, Akiko - “Interview with a Key Person, DeWitt Godfrey,” Gallery (Japan), October 1994, p.46
Scott, Martha - Innovations in Sculpture 1985-1988 catalogue, Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield,
Connecticut, 1988
Kimmelman, Michael - “Biomorphic Profiles,” The New York Times, May 20, 1988, section C
McCombie, Mel - “DeWitt Godfrey,” ARTnews, March 1988, p. 214
Heartney, Eleanor - “DeWitt Godfrey/Stephen Maine,” ARTnews, April 1987, pp. 179-181
Brenson, Michael - “L’Ecole des Beaux Arts ...,” The New York Times, January 16, 1987, p. 30C
Kotik, Charlotta - “America Isn’t a Country - It’s a World,” Third Western State Biennial catalogue, Western States Arts Foundation, 1986
Freudenheim, Susan - “A Fresh Take on Minimalism,” Texas Homes, August 1986, pp. 15-18
Kutner, Janet - “Finding Artistic Purpose in...,” The Dallas Morning News, August 20, 1986, p.1F
Brenson, Michael - “How the Myths and Violence of the West Inspires Its Artists,” The New York Times, June 15, 1986, section C
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TEACHING EXPERIENCE |
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| 2001 |
-Lecturer, Honors Drawing Course, 5 Colleges, Inc., Amherst, Massachusetts (also 1999) |
| 2001 |
-Faculty, University of Georgia Studies Abroad Program- Cortona, Cortona, Italy |
| 2000 |
-Co-oordinator, Honors Drawing Course, 5 Colleges, Inc., Amherst, Massachusetts. |
1999- pres. |
-Assistant Professor, Sculpture, Department of Fine Arts, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts |
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1999 |
-Section Leader, 5 Colleges, Inc., Honors Drawing Course |
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1997-98 |
-Adjunct Assistant Professor, Fine Arts and Art History Department, Hofstra University |
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1994-96 |
-Ad-Hoc Faculty, School of Sculpture, Edinburgh College of Art, Heriot Watt University |
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1982-86 |
-Instructor, Junior School, Glassell School, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston |
1982- 87 |
-Instructor, Adult School, Glassell School, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston |
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| ACADEMIC SERVICE |
| 2002 |
-External Juror, Junior and Senior Awards Exhibition, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (also 2001) |
| 2001-02 |
-First Thesis Reader and Advisor, Department of European Studies, Amherst College |
| 2000-02 |
-Secretary, Services to Artists Committee, College Art Association, New York |
| 1999-02 |
-Fayerweather Building Committee, Department of Fine Arts, Amherst College |
| 1999-02 |
-Printmaker Search Committee, Department of Fine Arts, Amherst College |
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VISITING ARTIST |
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2001 |
-Common School, Amherst, Massachusetts |
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1999 |
-Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California |
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1995 |
-East Anglia University, Cambridge, England |
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1993 |
-Glassell School, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
-University of Texas, Austin, Texas |
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1991 |
-SUNY Albany, Albany, New York
-Columbia University, New York, New York |
1988 |
-Boston Museum School, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
-Tokyo School of Art, Tokyo, Japan |
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RELATED
Extensive travel and living experience in Japan, including six months intensive stone carving instruction. Travel in East and South Asia. Speak and comprehend Japanese Language, read and comprehend French Language.
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