willard lustenader
C W O S ARTIST
Other media: Drawing, Printmaking, Photography, Metal
lustenader
218 state street 4south
Erector Sq., CWOS weekend only
new haven, CT 06510
Phone: 203-809-0303
Neighborhood : New Haven: Erector Square
Email: wlustenader (at) gmail (dot) com
Website: http://wlustenader.com
Artist Statement
Cut-out Paintings:
In 2003 I started a series of still life paintings using paper
cut-outs as the object of study. What interested me immediately
was the duality inherent in the subject.
These are representational oil paintings and mixed media drawings
that present the cut-outs as still life objects placed on table tops,
floors, or walls. The house shapes are of particular interest to me because they create multiple worlds, hermetic yet simultaneously geocentric, even geomorphic, as their shapes reference urban/suburban dialogues or politics on one level, and literal tectonics on an altogether formal level; that multiple reference-switch that constantly turns on and off is essential. I like the fact that within milliseconds neighborhoods appear, conflicts emerge, yet silence pervades, and folded paper returns.
"Areas of Refuge" is a new project that incorporates the bent wire sculptural models used in the studio that relate to the line drawings and consequential linear paintings o
Selected Works
|  Cut-outs, 2 Green, 2 Yellow - 2009 - oil on linen - 24 x 36"  White Cut-outs #5 - 2009 - oil on linen - 18 x 36"  White Cut-outs, 1 Green, 1 Blue - 2010 - oil on linen - 24 x 36"  Areas of Refuge #1 - 2010 - oil on linen - 30 x 40"  History of Suburbia #5 (Devil Sowing Seeds) - 2009 - ink, acrylic on paper - 26 x 40"  Cut-outs, 3 Green - 2008 - oil on linen - 36x42"  Blue Cut-outs #2 - 2009 - oil on linen - 36x 36"  Cut-outs, 2 Magenta, 1 Yellow - 2009 - oil on linen - 30x42"  White Cut-outs, 1 Pale Green - 2008 - oil on linen - 36x36  Red Cut-outs - 2007 - oil on linen - 30x40"  Black Cut-out w/ Lines - 2009 - ink on mylar - 24 x 30" |
Artist Bio
WILLARD LUSTENADER
Studio: 203-809-0303
218 State Street Loft 4 South
New Haven, CT 08510
wlustenader@gmail.com
www.wlustenader.com
Education
Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, M.A. 1981
Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, B.A. 1979
Upcoming Exhibitions
Fred Giampietro Gallery, New Haven, CT solo exh. June 2011
Silo Gallery, Newtown, CT Three artist exhib. June, 2011
Selected Exhibitions
2011
Flinn Gallery, Greenwich Public Library, Greenwich, CT Feb - Mar. 16
2010
Silvermine Galleries,“61st Art of the Northeast”, New Canaan, CT Katie Rashid, director Jack Shainman Gallery, NY, juror
Greenwich Arts Council, “Art to Ave.” May, 2010
International Juried Show 2010, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ Jan. – Mar. 2010
artSPACE “Conspectus I” flat file exhib. Feb. - Mar. 2010
2009
Manifest Gallery , “Monochrome”, Cincinnati, OH
artSPACE, “Refurbished Means”, New Haven, CT
Bachelier Cardonski Gallery, “3 Painters” Kent, CT
San Diego Art Institute, “50th Annual Awards Exhibition”, San Diego, CA
artSPACE, “ Index II”, New Haven, CT
Member's Exh. City Wide Open Studios, artSPACE, New Haven, CT
John Slade Ely House Center for Contemporary Art, “Inviting Abstraction, W. Lustenader, M. Craig and Levni Sinanoglu”, New Haven, CT
2008
Wesport Arts Center,” Willard Lustenader” Westport , CT . Solo Exhib.
Creative Arts Workshop, “Painting as Presence”, New Haven, CT William Bailey juror
Silvermine Galleries, “59th Art of the Northeast” New Canaan, CT Thom Collins , Dir. Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY juror. Honorable Mention
Hygienic Gallery, New London, CT “Third Crossing” Jeffery Anderson, Dir. F. Griswold Museum, Old Lyme, CT juror
Brad Cooper Gallery, Tampa, FL “Co-Existence” 23rd Anniversary Exhib. Dec. 2007 – Feb. 2008
Seton Art Gallery, Sacred Heart University, Faculty Show, Fairfield, CT
2007
Luchsinger Gallery, Wallace Performing Arts Center, Greenwich Acad.,
Greenwich, CT Solo Exhib.
Haskins Laboratories, New Haven , CT “Table Tops”
Metzer Gallery, Uni. New Haven, CT Faculty Show Nov./ Dec.
Hoorn-Ashby Gallery, New York, NY “The Unexpected”
Brad Cooper Gallery Group Show, Tampa, FL
Hoorn Ashby Summer group, Nantucket, MA
artSPACE, New Haven, CT
2006
Brad Cooper Gallery, Tampa, FL “Conventional Wisdom” Solo Exhib.
Chase Freedman Gallery, JCC Greater Hartford, West Hartford, CT
“Four Years of Space” Solo Exhib.
Vanbrundt Gallery, Beacon, NY
artSPACE, Open Studios, New Haven, CT
Hoorn-Ashby Gallery, Nantucket, MA
Brad Cooper Gallery, Tampa, FL
Greenwich Art Soc. Members Exh. Greenwich, CT Dede Young juror
Stamford Art Assoc. Winter Exhibition, Stamford, CT
2005
Longstreth Goldberg Gallery, Naples FL
artSPACE, Open Studios, New Haven, CT
Bachelier Cardonsky Gallery, Three person exh. Kent, CT
Hoorn-Ashby Gallery, Summer Group, New York, NY
Hoorn-Ashby Gallery, Nantucket, MA
Brad Cooper Gallery, Tampa , FL
Alessandra Gallery, New port, RI
2004
Brad Cooper Gallery, Tampa, FL “20 Years, 20 Artists”
Gallery North, Setauket, NY
Cooley Gallery, Old Lyme , CT “Annual Group Exhibition”
Hoorn-Ashby Gallery, New York, NY “City Life”
artSPACE, New Haven, CT “Open Studios”
Louisiana State University Art Gallery, Baton Rouge, LA “20x20x20” 2004
Hoorn-Ashby Gallery, Nantucket, MA summer group
artSPACE, New Haven, CT benefit
New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain , CT benefit
Brad Cooper Gallery, Tampa, FL summer show, gallery artists
2003
Brad Cooper Gallery, Tampa, FL “Painting and Drawing” Solo Exhib.
Melvin Gallery, Florida Southern College, Lakeland, FL “Painting and Drawing” Solo Exhib.
Stephen F. Austin State University, Art Center, Nacogdoches, TX
Kathryn Schultz Gallery, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA
Kauffman Gallery, Shippensburg University, Shippensburg, PA
Louisiana State University Art Gallery, Baton Rouge, LA