roland flexner

ROLAND FLEXNER
Lives in New York City
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008 “Cuts”, Front Room, D’Amelio Terras, New York, NY, September 2- September 27
2007 Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2006 “Encres imagées,” Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, France, October 21 – December 9
2005 “Nocturne,” Caren Golden Fine Art, New York. October 20 – November 26
Itsutsuji Gallery, Tokyo, Japan. November15 –December 17
2004 Institut Franco-Japonais de Yokohama, Japan. November 4–December
Institut Franco-Japonais de Tokyo, Japan. October 14–November 13
Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milano. Bubbles and Vanitas, Sept 29–Oct 20
Todd Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA (September)
2003 Miller/Block Gallery, Boston, MA (May)
2002 Caren Golden Fine Art, New York, NY September
Todd Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA October
2001 Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, France. April 26 - May 26
Caren Golden Fine Art, New York, NY May
2000 Centre d'Art d’Ivry, Galerie Fernand Leger, Ivry-sur-Seine, France.
Espace Gustave Fayet, Serignan, France. December 15 - February 15
1999 Miller/Block Gallery, Boston, MASS. December 3 - January 5
Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA. September 7 - October 2
“A Slip of the Mind” Centre Regional d’Art Contemporain Languedoc-Roussillon,
Sete, France. February 14 - April 6.
1998 Deven Golden Fine Art, New York. September 10 - October 10
Galerie Evelyne Canus, La Colle sur Loup, France. May 15 - July 7
1997 "Figures and Vanitas." Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT.
Centre Regional d'Art Contemporain, Sete, France. April 19 - June 30
Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland OH. Dec. 5 - Feb. 8,
1996 Deven Golden Fine Art, New York. November 1 - 30, 1996
1994 Galerie Meteo, Paris. September 10 - October 22
1992 "Dyptiques a Pleurants." Abbaye de Noirlac, Noirlac, France. Aug. 12-Sept. 20
1991 "Master of the Bowery," Saint Peter's Church, New York. March 5 - April 21
"Caput Mortuum," Galerie Art Concept, Nice. August 5 - September 29
1990 "Recent Paintings," Bitter Larkin Gallery, New York. January 13 - February 17
1987 "Submission," Bruno Facchetti Gallery, New York. May 31 - June 28
1986 Bruno Facchetti Gallery, New York, May 31 - June 28
1984 Edward Williams Gallery, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Hackensack, N.J.
1982 Institute for Art and Urban Resources, PS 1, New York. March - April
1981 Fondation Marie-Louise Jeanneret - Boissano, Italy. July - August
1978 Galerie La Caisse, Nice. July 5 - July 30
1974 "Analyse et deconstruction d'un signe," Galerie AARP, Paris. Oct. 1 - Oct. 28
1972 "Permutations" Galerie Fererro, Nice. June 24 - August 15
1971 Galerie Senator, Stuttgart, Germany. February - March
1969 Galerie Ben Vautier, Nice. June - July
RECENT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008 “Parallel Worlds,” Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
July 26 – September 28
2007- 08 “Two Years,” Whitney Museum, October. 17, 2007 – February. 17, 2008
2007 "Works on Paper," D'Amelio Terras, New York, NY, March 31-April 28
2006-7 “Délicieux cadavre exquis,” Le Dojo, Nice, France, Nov. 27, 2006 – Feb.
23, 2007, (catalog)
2006 “Collectors Show,” Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AK. Dec. 1 – Dec. 31.
The 4th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Arts, Berlin, Germany
Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI
Museum IM Kulturspeicher Wurzburg, Germany
2005 “Head Over Hand: Pushing the Limits of Paint,” Denise Bibro Fine Art,
New York, NY, December 15 - January 28, 2006
“Hot Town Summer in the City,” Caren Golden Fine Art, New York, NY,
Juy 1 – August 5, 2005.
Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, NY, Co-Conspirators: Artist and
Collector, February 5 - April 10
Chelsea Art Museum, New York. Co Conspirators, April 21 - May 29.
Kunst-Museum Ahlen, Germany. Medizin im Spiegel der Zeitgenossischen
Kunst. December - February.
Museum im Kulturspeicher Wurzburg, Germany. March - June.
Centro Sperimentale per le Arti Contemporanee. Chronos. Il Tempo nell’Arte
d’all’ Epoqua Barocca all’eta Contemporanea. Caraglio, Italy,
May 28 - October 9
Galerie Iconoscope. Locus Solus. Montpellier, France. June 17- July 22
2004 The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan. Selections from the
Permanent Collection. October 9 - December 19
“Co-Conspirator,” curated by Sue Scott, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL,
traveling to the Chelsea Art Museum, NYC, (catalog)
“National Drawing Invitational,” Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR,
January 15 – February 29, 2004 (catalog)
“Breathless,” curated by Dede Young, The Neuberger Museum of Art,
Purchase, NY. August 17, 2003 – Feb 15, 2004
2002 “Snapshots,” The Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT. January 20 - May 1
“Cascade of Scales,” James Graham Gallery, January 24 - February 23
“Oxygen,” White Box Gallery, New York, N Y, February 8 - March 9
“Continuity/Departure,” National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan.
“Blobs, Wiggles and dots,” New York May 17 – July 12
“Reactions,” Exit Art, New York, February 8 – March 9.
“Luck of the Drawn,” Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA. Nov. 2Musee d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain, Nice, France. October-January
2000 Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MA. November 2 - January 14
Beaver College Art Gallery, Glenside, PA. February – June
“Blurry Lines,” J. Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI. Oct. 8 - Jan. 14
Curt Marcus Gallery, New York. June 16 - July 21
Gallery Korea, Korean Cultural Services, New York. April 6 -May 26
Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, "Best of the Season," Ridgefield, CT.
September 26 - January 9
RECENT GROUP EXHIBITIONS , con’t.
1999 Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA. July 10 - August 21
Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York. July 1 - September 11
Yoshi Gallery, New York. May 5 - June 19
Galerie Brownstone/Correard, F.I.A.C. Paris. September
Galerie Jacques Girard, Toulouse, France. July - August
"Radicalite," Galerie Brownstone Correard, Paris. June 4 - July 17
"Ainsi de suite." Centre Regional d'Art contemporain, Sete, France.
February 19 - May 19
"Hands Off," Florence Lynch Gallery, New York. February 13 - March 13
1998 Deven Golden Fine Art, New York. November 10 - December 10
"Drawings," Gallery Korea, Korean Embassy. New York. September 1 - 14
Maria Cilena Arte Contemporanea, Arte Fiera, Bologna, Italy. January.
"Encres sur papier," Galerie Serge Ziegler, Zurich, Switzerland.
December 10 - January 10
Morgensen Gallery, New York. June 11 - July 25
Musee d'Art Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg. Strasbourg, France
November 98 - September 99
1997 Cheryl Haynes Gallery, "10 Years Anniversary," San Francisco, CA.
October 15 - November 15
"Light Catchers," Usdan Gallery, Bennington College, VT. Sept. 24 - Oct. 24
"In Vivo," Galerie Meteo, Paris. September 13 - October 18
"Ecole de Nice 1967-1997," Galerie Alexandre De la Salle, Saint Paul de
Vence, France. September 6 - November 7
"Auto Portrait, The Calligraphy of Power," Exit Art, New York. May.
"Micro Climat sur l'Art Contemporain," Galerie Meteo, Paris. April 17 -23
“Meteo Show, Micro Climat sir l’Art Contemporain.” Galerie Meteo, Paris. April
1996 Curt Marcus Gallery, New York. January 6 - February 10
Galerie Meteo, Gramercy International Contemporary Art Fair, New York, May
Centre d' Art Contemporain Le Capitou, Frejus, France. May - June
Galerie Alejandro Sales, Barcelona, Spain. July - September
"Artissima," Gal`erie Alejandro Sales, Torino, Italy. September
“Morceaux Choisis du Fonds National d’Art Contemporain.” Centre national d’Art
Contemporain de Grenoble, France, October 14-January 7.
1995 E.S. Vandam Gallery, New York, Nov 10 - Dec 23
Meteo Gallery, Gramercy Park Art Fair, Los Angeles, CA. December
Contemporary Art Fair, Galerie Meteo, Brussels, Belgium. April 20 – April 25
"Figures," Centre d'Art du Parvis, Tarbes, France. February.
"L'Art d'Aimer," Espace Boyer, Sete, France. July 11-September 2
Galerie Alejandro Sales, Barcelona, Spain. April 28 - March 2
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
"10 Ans des Musees de Nice," Activites et Acquisitions, 1972 -1982. exhibition catalog.
Galerie d'Art Contemporain des Musees de Nice, Nov. 27- Jan. 22, 1983
Baker, Kenneth. "Drawing Unbound," San Francisco Chronicle, p. D1 Aug.7,
Bouvard, Phillipe. "Les Arts," Le Figaro, (Paris) June, 1969
Chambers, Christopher. "Roland Flexner at Deven Golden," Soho Arts Magazine,
(New York) November, 1996
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY, con’t.
"Chroniques Nicoises, Genese d'un Musee," Tome 1. Edition du Musee d'Art
Moderne et d'Art Contemporain. (Nice) 1991
"Chroniques Nicoises, Genese d'un Musee," Tome 2. Edition du Musee d'Art Moderne
et d'Art Contemporain. (Nice) 1996
“Continuity/Transgression,” catalogue essay by Kazuo Nakabayashi. pp. 40-48 (illus.)
October 29 – December 23, 2002
Cork, Richard. "Undiscovered Country," The Guardian, (London) April 20, 1979
Shepherd, Michael. "France' 79," French Art at the Serpentine, What's on IN LONDON,
( England) April 6, 1979
Desbiolles, Maryline. "La Main a la Pate," 10 dessins de Roland Flexner, La Metis,
(Nice) No 6, Le Travail., Spring, 1991
Dictionnaire de Poche, "Le Pop Art," Fernand Hazan Editeur. (Paris) 1975
"Diptyques a Pleurants" Lettre de Noirlac. 10 Edition, Ete de Noirlac, Saison ,1992
Domingo, Willis. "Artists from France," Art Monthly, (London) May, 1979
"Dossier Nice," Chorus (France) No 7, September, 1970
"The Drawing Center's Annual Selections," The New Yorker, (NY) March 22, 1993
Flexner, Roland. "Analyse et Deconstruction d'un Signe," exhibition catalogue,
Galerie A.A.R.P. (Paris) October 1 - 28, 1974
Flexner, Roland. "A propos de Nice," statement by the artist, exhibition catalog
Musee National d'Art Moderne. (Paris) January 21 - April 11, 1977
Flexner, Roland. "A propos du Ready-Made," La Fenetre, (Nice) Edition Ben Vautier,
July, 1973
Flexner, Roland. "Art in the Folds," Guest Editor of New Observations, (New York)
No 110, Introduction: pp.2, "Fabric-Made Body:" p.26-27., Jan.-Feb., 1996
Flexner: Drawings,” Art on Paper, September-October 2001, p. 90 Flexner, Roland.
"Bernard Pages," essay for the exhibition catalogu, Galerie Eric Fabre. (Paris) 1975
Flexner, Roland. "CAA Annual Conference," (New York) Abstracts, 1997 pp. 123 -124,
February, 1997
Flexner, Roland. "Corps Mystique, Corps Sacre," Yale French Studies No. 86,
Cover, 1995
Flexner, Roland. "Drawings," Bomb Magazine, (NY) No 47 p.p. 84-85, Spring, 1994
Flexner, Roland. Drawings on Daniel Dezeuze's "Colophons" Editions Galerie Athanor,
(Marseille) France,1998
Flexner, Roland. Drawings on John Yau's "GenghisChan: Private Eyes XXIII," pp. 84 89, Lacanian Ink, (New York) No 11, Spring, 1997
Flexner, Roland. "Ensembles," Text for the exhibition "Ecole de Nice, 1953 - 1973,"
Galerie Fererro. (Nice) October 14 - January 5, 1973
Flexner, Roland. "Etude sur le Paquet de Cigarette Camel," exhibition catalogue, 20
Flexner, Roland. "Etude sur le Paquet de Cigarettes Camel Filtre" La Quinzaine
Litteraire (Paris) No 29, September 1971
Flexner, Roland. "Les Boites Camel de la Collection Durand-Ruel," Iconographie.
Les Cahiers d'Imago, (Paris) August 1974. Second edition, 1980
Flexner, Roland. "Looking at Sculpture as a Pictural Model" Visibility and Expressivity,
Seventeenth Annual Meeting, International Association for Philosophy and Literature
Conference Duquesne University. (Pittsburg, Pennsylvania) May,1993
Flexner, Roland. "Statement by the Artist," Exhibition brochure, Selections/Spring 93,
The Drawing Center. (New York) 1993
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY, con’t.
Flexner, Roland. "Study on the Camel Filter Cigarette Paquet," Beau Geste Press,
(London,England) Dossier Francais. No 6, November, 1975
Fournet, Claude. "Autour de Nice," exhibition catalogue, Acropolis, Fond d'Art
Contemporain des Musees de Nice. (Nice) June, 1985
Fournet, Claude. "L'Ecole de Nice 20 Ans Apres”,
L'Aventure du Sens de la Peinture, Connaissance des Arts, (Paris) No 316 pp. 78-85. June, 1978
Gaudet, Michel. "Haute Tension," Le Patriote Nice - Cote d'Azur (Nice) Oct. 20, 1970
Genocchio, Benjamin, “An Ethereal World, Explored Breath by Breath,” The New York Times,
Sept. 21, 2003, (illus)
Golden, Deven, “The Raw and the Cooked,” www.artcritical.com, (online article), Summer, 2003
Goodman, Jonathan. "Roland Flexner at Deven Golden," Art On Paper, (New York) Volume 2,
No 3. January, 1999
Gowa, Sabine. "Croisees," Roland Flexner exhibition catalogue. Fondation Marie-Louise Jeanneret.
(Boissano, Italy.) July - August, 1980
Harris, Susan. "Roland Flexner at Deven Golden," Art in America, (NY) March 1997
Hartney, Eleanor. "An American Collection of Contemporary French Art,"
essay for the exhibition catalogue, French Cultural Services. (NY) Nov. 18 - Dec. 10, 1993
Hirsch, Faye. "Drawing Bone: Roland Flexner Figures and Vanitas,"
catalogue essay for the exhibition at the Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT. January, 1997
Hirsch, Faye. "Roland Flexner," On Paper, (New York) Volume 1, No 2., Nov., 1996
Hirsch, Faye. "Roland Flexner," Meteorie, Edition Galerie Meteo, Paris, Spring, 1997
Hunter, Sam. "Roland Flexner: Recent Paintings," Bitter-Larkin Gallery, exhibition
catalogue, (New York) January 13 - February 17, 1990
Hunter, Sam. "The School of Nice and its Movements," exhibition catalogue, Bass
Museum of Art, (Miami, Florida) March 15 - April 21, 1990
Hutcheson, Katurah. Art On Paper, (New York) May 2001
Imbernon, Laurence. "Tout vas bien: Comme la peinture en 1970," Artistes, (Paris) No.
13, November 1982
Johnson, Ken. "Art in Review: Drawings," The New York Times, August 13, 1999
Johnson, Ken. The New York Times, July 14, 2000
Kaneda, Shirley. "Editor's Choice," Bomb Magazine, (NY) No 57, November,1996
Rubinstein, Raphael and Yau, John. "Report from the ruins of Emerald City" Lingo,
(New York) No 6, Winter, 1996
Kernan, Nathan. “Roland Flexner at Caren Golden,” Art In America, (NY) March, 2006
Krajewsky, Sarah. “Blurry Lines,” New Art Examiner, (WI) March 2001
Lamarche Vadel, Bernard. "De Supports-Surfaces a l'Abstraction Analytique,"
Opus International, (Paris} September, 1977
Lambotte, Marie-Claude. Les Vanites dans l’Art Contemporain Editions Flamarion,
Paris 2005 pp. 31-32, pp. 52-53 illus.
Lepage, Jacques. "La Province Bouge," L'Art Vivant, (Paris) September, 1972
Levin, Kim. The Village Voice, (New York) September, 1998
Lecoq, Sandra D. Délicieux cadavre exquis, Ou L’Histore de la ‘Sainte’ Famille Recomposée,
exhibition catalog, Le Dojo, Nice, France, 2006-7
Lepage, Jacques. "Quatro Giovani della Ecole de Nice," Mostra 16, Centro La
Comune, Brescia, Italy) March, 1970, (illus.)
Litt, Steven. "Flexner Paintings, Drawings Show his Mastery of Illusion," The Plain Dealer,
(Cleveland,OH.) February 3, 1998
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY, con’t.
Malecki, Alex. “Neuberger exhibit leaving patrons ‘Breathless” The Harrison Report,
December 5, 2003 pp. 2 & 4 (illus)
Marle, Judy. "French Art, An English Selection," A travelling exhibition of the British
Council. catalogue essay. Serpentine Gallery. (London) April 7 - May 6, 1979
Marle, Judy. "Roland Flexner," Biennale de Paris, Exhibition catalogue, Musee d'Art
Moderne de la ville de Paris, (Paris) 1980
McQuaid, Cate. "Words and Images in Witty Puns," Boston Globe, (MA) Dec. 23, 1999
McNamara, Peter. "Roland Flexner at Saint Peter's Church," Art and Architecture.
Polyptych for Saint Peter's Church, (March 5 -April 21, 1991
Mendelsohn. "Roland Flexner at Deven Golden Fine Art," The Artnet Hit List, Nov 1997
Millet, Catherine. "La peinture a Nice," Art Press, (Paris) No 1, January, 1973
Muridsany, Michel. "Une rentree consensuelle" Le Figaro, (Paris) September 20, 1994
"Exporama." Dessins. Galerie Meteo. Art Press, No 197, December, 1994
Naves, Mario, “With Chance and a Quick Brush, Artist Invents Nocturnal Dramas,”
The New York Observer, November 14, 2005
Nahas, Dominique. "Roland Flexner at the Aldrich Museum," Review Magazine,
(New York) February, 1997
Parsy, Paul Herve. "Roland Flexner," Text in the exhibition Catalogue: Morceaux
Choisis du Fond National d'Art Contemporain. Magasin, Centre National d'Art
Contemporain de Grenoble, (Grenoble, France). Oct. 14, 1995 - Jan. 7, 1996
Peintres et le Groupe Textructions. (Etrechy, France) Sept. 1 -Oct. 1, 1972
Pierre, Jose. "Ou en est l'Ecole de Nice," La Quinzaine Litteraire (Paris) No 124
September 1-15, 1971
Pierre, Jose. "Der Geist des Surrealismus," exhibition catalogue. Baukunst Galerie,
(Koln, Germany) October 4 - November 20, 1971
Pierre, Jose. "Pop Art, An Illustrated Dictionary," Eyre Meythuen, (London) 1977
Published in German: "Kleines Lexicon der Pop Art". DuMont Editions, (Berlin)
Phay-Vaakalis, Soko, “L’envers des Vanités de Roland Flexner,” Art Absolument,
Autumn 2006, no. 18, pp. 44 – 49 (illus.), cover (illus.)
Philippi, Desa . “Minimal Surfaces,” Roland Flexner - Encres, essay for the exhibition
at Centre d’Art d’Ivry and Espace Gustave Fayet, Serignan, Sept. 2000
Platt, Ron, Art on Paper, exhibition catalog Weatherspoon Art Museum,
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2004, p. 8 illus.
Restany, Pierre. "Ecole de Nice," exhibition catalogue. L'Ecole de Nice, 10 Ans,
Galerie De la Salle. (Saint-Paul de Vence) August, 1977
Robin, Herve. “L’art et la maniere de coincer une bulle,” Le Midi Libre, (Toulouse)
January 17, 2001
Rubistein, Raphael. “Independent and International,” Highlights of the Cottrell/Lovett Collection,
Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL. September 2004,
Rubinstein, Raphael, “ When Bubbles Burst,” Art in America, February, 2003 pp.96-99 (illus.)
Ruggiero, Laurence. "The School of Nice," exhibition cataloG. The John and Mable
Ringling Museum of Art. (Sarasota, Florida) October - November, 1989
Schwabsky, Barry. “Gerhard Mayer: Everything is Essentially Possible/Roland Flexner
Scott, Sue. “Co-Conspirators : Artist and Collector. The Making of a Collection.”
Orlando Museum of Art. FL. September 2004.
Smith, Roberta. “Roland Flexner/Iona Rozeal Brown,” The New York Times, p. E38
October 11, 2002
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY, con’t.
Stampleman, Arthur. “Art Round-Up Neuberger Leaves Us Breathless,”
The Rye Record, October 2, 2003 p.22
Von Weist, Powell. "Roland Flexner at the Bitter-Larkin Gallery," New York Magazine,
(New York) February, 1990
Wayser, Claudine. "L'Ecole de Nice," Art Press International, (Paris) 1979
Woody, Shulman. "French Works Show Rebellion Against predecessors' Art,"
The Bradenton Herald, November 15, 1989
Young, Brian. “National Drawing Invitational,” (catalog), Arkansas Arts Center,
2004 pp. 18-19, pp. 50-51 illus.
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA.
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan.
Fond National d’Art Contemporain, Paris, France.
Musee d’Art Moderne, Saint Etienne, France.
Musee d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain, Nice, France.
Musee d’art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg, France.
Fond Regional d’Art Contemporain de Picardie, Amiens, France.
Wadworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT, USA.
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Arkansas Art Center Foundation. Little Rock, AK, USA