Deborah Kass employs the visual motifs of post-war painting to explore the intersection of politics, popular culture, art history and personal identity.
Deborah Kass
Biography
Deborah Kass employs the visual motifs of post-war painting to explore the intersection of politics, popular culture, art history and personal identity. Her celebrated series, The Warhol Project, from the early 1990’s refocused Andy Warhol’s eye for celebrity portraiture. Her work incorporates lyrics from Broadway musicals, movie quotations and Yiddish sayings into canonical formats like Frank Stella’s concentric squares, Ellsworth Kelly’s rainbow spectrum and Andy Warhol’s camouflage patterns. She is a Senior Critic in the Yale University M.F.A. Painting Program. She is represented by Vincent Fremont and the Paul Kasmin Gallery.
She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
1974 – BFA (Painting), Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
1972 – Whitney Museum Independent Studies Program, New York, NY
1968-70 – Art Students League, New York, NY
Awards and Grants
1996 Art Matters Inc. Grant 1992 Art Matters Inc. Grant 1991 New York State Foundation for the Arts, Fellowship in Painting 1987 National Endowment for the Arts, Painting
“Deborah Kass: Before and Happily Ever After” – The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh
2010
“MORE feel good paintings for feel bad times” Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York City
2007
Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY
Paul Kasmin Gallery, Armory Show, New York, NY
2001
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC, “Deborah Kass: The Warhol Project”
2000
University Art Museum, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, “Deborah Kass: The Warhol Project”
Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Houston, TX, “Deborah Kass: The Warhol Project”
1999
Newcombe Art Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, “Deborah Kass: The Warhol Project (traveling, catalogue)de
