Dan Christensen

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Dan Christensen
Born(1942-10-06)October 6, 1942
Guggenheim fellowship

Dan Christensen, (October 6, 1942 – January 20, 2007) was an American

abstract painter
He is best known for paintings that relate to
Color field painting, and Abstract expressionism.[2]

Christensen was born in

Easthampton, New York. His early work from 1965-1966 was related to Minimalism. A graduate of the Kansas City Art Institute, class of 1964, where he studied alongside Ronnie Landfield and Sherron Francis, Dan Christensen moved to New York City from the Mid-West during the late summer of 1965. Christensen was represented by several influential galleries including the Andre Emmerich Gallery, the Salander/O'Reilly Gallery and various others throughout the United States and Europe. He has had more than seventy-five solo exhibitions and his work has been included in hundreds of group exhibitions. His paintings are in important museum collections throughout the United States and Europe
.

Art world beginnings

Dan Christensen arrived in

loft on Great Jones Street in lower Manhattan. After several months of experimenting on new abstract paintings with interlocking rectangular "L" shapes in shades of tan, grey, ochre and brown that resembled jigsaw puzzles in oil paint, he began to use acrylic paint. Christensen began painting the series of abstract paintings for which he became first known - his Minimal "Bar" paintings in the spring of 1966. After Dave Wagner returned to Iowa in March 1966, his friend the painter Ronnie Landfield shared his Great Jones Street loft with him until the early winter of 1967.[3]

Dan Christensen was part of a large circle of young artists who had come to Manhattan during the 1960s. Kenneth Showell, Peter Young, Michael Steiner, Ronnie Landfield, Dick Anderson, his brother Don Christensen, Peter Reginato, Carlos Villa, David R. Prentice, James Monte, Frosty Myers, Tex Wray, Larry Zox, Larry Poons, Robert Povlich, Neil Williams (artist), Carl Gliko, Billy Hoffman, Francine Tint, Lee Lozano, Pat Lipsky, John Griefen, Brice Marden, John Chamberlain, Donald Judd, Frank Stella, Carl Andre, Dan Graham, Robert Smithson, Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol, Kenneth Noland, Clement Greenberg, Bob Neuwirth, Joseph Kosuth, Mark di Suvero, Sherron Francis, Brigid Berlin, Lawrence Weiner, Rosemarie Castoro, Marjorie Strider, Dorothea Rockburne, Colette, and Marisol were just a few of the artists he saw regularly at Max's Kansas City — the favorite place for artists in New York City during the 1960s.[4]

Early career

In the late fall of 1966 the art dealer

W. Germany, the Nicholas Wilder Gallery in Los Angeles,[7] and the Meredith Long Gallery both in Houston Texas, and New York City
.

Dan Christensen's paintings were included in the

Guggenheim fellowship.[8]

Late career

Christensen's abstract paintings changed and evolved throughout his career. During the final ten years of his life he moved with his family to

Nelson-Atkins Museum Kansas City, Missouri, Boca Raton Museum of Art
and dozens of others.

Recent

On January 18, 2007 Dan Christensen enjoyed the opening of an important survey exhibition of paintings selected from his long painting career, spanning the years from 1966 until 2007 at the Spanierman Gallery on E. 58th Street in Manhattan. After enduring Polymyositis for nearly nineteen years, Dan Christensen died on Saturday, January 20, 2007. He is survived by his wife Elaine Grove Christensen (sculptor & actress), and his three sons: Moses, James (of the Hip Hop group Junk Science, currently signed to Definitive Jux records) and William, his brother Don and his two sisters Marilyn and Kay.

References

  1. ^ Ashton, Dore. Young Abstract Painters: Right On! Arts v. 44, n. 4, February, 1970, pp. 31-35.
  2. ^ [1] Archived 2010-07-03 at the Wayback Machine retrieved June 2, 2010
  3. ISBN 1-882790-50-2
  4. ^ High on Rebellion: Inside the Underground at Max's Kansas City, by Yvonne Sewall-Ruskin, foreword by Lou Reed, Thunder's Mouth Press NYC. 1998, pp.2-105
  5. ^ The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyrical Abstraction, exhibition: April 5 through June 7, 1970, Statement of the exhibition
  6. ^ "Andre Emmerich Gallery records and Andre Emmerich papers, 1930-2008". Research collections. Archives of American Art. 2011. Retrieved 17 Jun 2011.
  7. ^ "Nicholas Wilder, 51, Artist and Art Dealer (Published 1989)". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2023-05-12.
  8. ^ "list of Guggenheim fellows". Archived from the original on 2008-05-16. Retrieved 2008-05-08.
  9. ^ ,MoMA

External links

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