Willard Lustenader
Primary Medium: Paint
Other media: Drawing, Photography, Printmaking, Wire
Email: wlustenader (at) gmail (dot) com
Website: http://wlustenader.com
Artist Statement
Cut-out Paintings:
Eight years ago 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 on paper that present the cut-outs as still life objects placed on minimally rendered surfaces. As the series has progressed the potential for a more subjective exploration has continuously played itself out. 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. Some necessitate a journey of sorts, while others play off of a more kinetic energy of proximity. I like the fact that within milliseconds neighborhoods appear, conflicts emerg
Other media: Drawing, Photography, Printmaking, Wire
Email: wlustenader (at) gmail (dot) com
Website: http://wlustenader.com
Artist Statement
Cut-out Paintings:
Eight years ago 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 on paper that present the cut-outs as still life objects placed on minimally rendered surfaces. As the series has progressed the potential for a more subjective exploration has continuously played itself out. 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. Some necessitate a journey of sorts, while others play off of a more kinetic energy of proximity. I like the fact that within milliseconds neighborhoods appear, conflicts emerg
Selected Works
|  Blue, Red, Green Cut-outs - 2009 - pencil, ink, pastel - 14 x 17" - $300.00 [Fundraiser]  Lines on Gray #2 - 2009 - graphite, ink on paper - 14 x 17" - $300.00 [Fundraiser]  Lines on Orange - 2009 - acrylic, ink on mylar - 24 x 24" - $500.00 [Fundraiser]  Lines on Yellow #1 - 2009 - acrylic, ink on mylar - 24 x 24" - $500.00 |
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
Current Exhibition
Manifest Gallery, “Monochrome”, Cincinnati, OH
Upcoming Exhibitions
Flinn Gallery, Greenwich, CT 3 artist exhibition 2010
Silo Gallery, Newtown, CT 2011
Solo Exhibitions
2008
Wesport Arts Center,” Willard Lustenader” Westport , CT .
2007
Luchsinger Gallery, Wallace Performing Arts Center, Greenwich Acad., Greenwich, CT
2006
Brad Cooper Gallery, Tampa, FL “Conventional Wisdom”
Chase Freedman Gallery, JCC Greater Hartford, West Hartford, CT “Four Years of Space”
2003
Brad Cooper Gallery, Tampa, FL “Painting and Drawing”
Melvin Gallery, Florida Southern College, Lakeland, FL “Painting and Drawing”
2002
Premier Etage Galleries, Newport, RI “Recent Paintings”
Hartford Steam Boiler, Polytechnic Club, Hartford, CT
1999
Cooley Gallery, Old Lyme, CT
Yale University, Ezra Stiles College, New Haven, CT-+
1997
Nassau Club, Princeton, N J
1996
Ward Center for the Arts, Baltimore, MD
1995
Paul Mellon Arts Center, Wallingford, CT "Portraits, Figures and Landscapes"
1993
Wallace Gallery, Stony Creek, CT "Selected
Paintings 1986-1993"
1987
Erector Square Gallery, New Haven, CT "New Work"
1986
Paul Mellon Arts Center, Wallingford, CT "New Paintings"
1985
Showplace Gallery, New Haven, CT "Recent Paintings"
New Haven Foundation, New Haven, CT "Works on Paper"
Selected Group Exhibitions
2009
Manifest Gallery , “Monochrome”, Cincinnati, OH
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
Creative Arts Workshop, “Painting as Presence”, New Haven, CT William Bailey juror
Silvermine Galleries, “Art of the Northeast” New Canaan, CT Thom Collins , Dir. Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY juror
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
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
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
Stephen F. Austin State University, Art Center, Na