SHEA GORDON   1714 HOLMES   KANSAS CITY, MO  64108

 

816.678.5533   www.sheagordon.com   shealast@gmail.com

 

CURRICULUM VITAE

1964-present

 

MAJOR THEMES: Ecofeminism, The Gold Standard, The Dead Sea: A Theory of Everything, Synchronicity: Coordinates of Coincidence, Number as Archetype, Dualities, Androgyny, Science/Spirituality, Equality/Democracy

PROCESS AND MEDIA: Minimalism, Conceptualism and Abstraction:

drawing, painting, print-making, sculpture, mixed media, performance and installation, digital imaging and music, artist’s books

 

SOLO, TWO AND THREE PERSON EXHIBITIONS

* indicates solo exhibitions

2014 - “Under the Influence: The Work of Shea Gordon, 1967-2014,”

    Heidmann Art Salon, Kansas City, MO *

2010 - “Picnic on Art Island,” Cara and Cabezas Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO  

2009 -  “Dead Sea Artworks,” Kansas City, MO *

2007 - "Echoes of the Dead Sea Scrolls: Floating the Gold Standard,”

            Epsten Gallery, Overland Park, Kansas *

2006 - “Introspective Retrospective, Dead Sea Artworks,” Kansas City, MO                                             

2004 - "Floating the Gold Standard,” St. Anne’s College, Oxford University, Oxford, England, Curated by Dr. Alison Denham *

          - “Aerial Gardens,” The Writer’s Place, Kansas City, MO *

          - “B.E.S.T.,” MLB Designs, Kansas City, MO

2000 - "Primaries,” Barstow School, Kansas City, MO

1999 - “Beauty in the Bottoms,” Kansas City, MO

1997 - “Pre-Launch: Dead Sea Clear Sailing Project,” Cardoza Law School

            Gallery, New York, NY *   

        - “Pre-Launch: Installation,” West Bottoms, Kansas City, MO *

1995 - “Passage d’Homme,” Place de la Bastille, Paris, France

1993 - “The Dead Sea: A Theory of Everything,” Blue Heron Gallery, Rolla, MO

1992 - "The Dead Sea in the Rainforest,” Sculpture installation and processional, Belem, Pará, Brazil *                             

1991 - “The Dead Sea: A Theory of Everything,” J.A. Rogers Academy of Liberal Arts, Kansas City, MO *           

    - “Salt Crystals,” Venue, Kansas City, MO *

1990 - “The Dead Sea: A Theory of Everything,” Santa Fe Gallery, Santa Fe

            Community College, Gainesville, FL *

1989  - “The Dead Sea: A Theory of Everything,” University of Missouri-

             Kansas City Art Gallery, Kansas City, MO, Curated by Craig Subler *

    - “Scaled Seas,” Exeter Press, New York, NY, Curated by Lynn Forgach *

            -  “Black/Gold,” Exhibition & Lecture, Fulbright College, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AK, Curated by Myron Brody *

1988 - “Statistical Mystical Metaphors,” Central Exchange, Kansas City, MO

         - “Drawings: Gordon, Warren, and Westerfield”, Arkansas State  

             University, Jonesboro, AK

         - “Ancient/Current,” Euphrates Gallery, Kansas City, MO

         - “Gordon and McFarlin,” Mabee-Gerrer Museum, Shawnee, OK

1985  - “Paintings, Prints, Drawings, Books,” Adams/Frischer Gallery, London,  England

    - “The Dead Sea Paintings: Mixed Media,” Douglas Drake Gallery,    

             Kansas City, MO *

1983 - “Walking the Line: Seed Tapes = Pierced Tapes,” Paintings, Drawings, Books, Douglas Drake Gallery, Kansas City, MO *

1982 - “Paintings and Drawings by Pat Steir, Shea Gordon, Denise Green,”

            Mulvane Art Center, Topeka, KS

1977 - Artist Books “Synchronicities: Numerological Portraits,” Franklin Furnace, New York, NY *

1976 - “Bicentennial Symbology: Drawings and Books,” Hard Art Gallery,   

            Washington, DC

1974 - “The High Rise Fire Squadron in the Sky,” Hard Art Gallery, Washington, DC

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2013 - “1970s Minimalism and Conceptualism,” The Nelson-Atkins Museum of

 Art, Curated by Jan Schall

2012 - “Vanguards & Visionaries,” Leedy Voulkos Arts Center, Kansas City, MO

2011/12 - “The Voice that Reaches You IV,” Cara and Cabezas Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO

2011 - “Artists in Resonance Group Exhibition,” Cara and Cabezas  Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO

2010 - “Be a Doll,” invitational fundraiser for Change the Truth, Leedy Voulkos Art Center, Kansas City, MO

         - ”Pages,” Paragraph Gallery, Kansas City, MO, Curated by Amy Kligman

2007- “Women Artists,” Faso Gallery, Kansas City, MO, Curated by Sonie Joi Ruffin

2006 - “Escape to Create,” Seaside Residency Group Exhibition, Seaside, FL - Urban Suburban, Epsten Gallery, Overland Park, KS

2002 - “ArtWear, 18th St. Fashion Show,” Crossroards, Kansas City, MO

2000 - “Flatfile Invitational Biennial,” H&R Block ArtSpace, Kansas City, MO

         - “Beyond Bounds,” Johnson County Community College Art Gallery, Overland Park, KS

1999 - “In The Absence of Color,” The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, Curated by Jan Schall

1998 - “Summer in the City,” Jan Weiner Gallery, Kansas City, MO

1997 - “Kansas City: Artists on the Edge,” Cox Gallery, Drury College, Springfield, MO, Curated by David Levik

1994/5 - Summer Invitational, Oxford University, Oxford, England

1994 - “Drawings: Reaffirming the Media,” University of Missouri-Kansas City Gallery of Art, Kansas City, MO, Curated by Craig Subler

1993  - “Drawing Invitational,” Artists Coalition Gallery, Curated by Deborah Emont Scott

1992 - “Consumption of Paradise”, Elsa Mott Ives Gallery, New York, NY

1989 - “Wild Women,” Myra Morgan Gallery, Kansas City, MO

1987 - “Homage to Duchamp”, Forest City Gallery, London, Ontario, Canada

        - “9 From the Heartland”, 1708 East Main Street Gallery, Richmond, VA

1986 - “Gallery Artists, Prints,” Mary Ryan Gallery, New York, NY

         - “Gallery Artists, Painting,” Gloria Luria Gallery, Miami, FL

1984-86-“La Huella Del Artista, Grabados y Mixographia,” Prints and Monotypes   Curated by Anne Sue Hirshorn for the United States Information Agency. Traveled to major museums in Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador,  Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela, Haiti, and Costa Rica.

1984-85-“Missouri Painting,” Missouri Arts Council and the University of Missouri-Kansas City Gallery of Art. Traveled to nine museums in Missouri, including the Ralph Foster Museum, Springfield Art Museum,  Museum of Art and Archeology, Albrecht Museum and First Street Forum.

1981 - “Words and Images: A Contemporary Survey of Artists’ Books,”  Philadelphia Art Alliance, PA

        - “Re: Pages: Artists’ Books,” Cambridge, MA, Curated by Hera Educational Foundation and New England Foundation of the Arts

1980 - “Pages Plus,” The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO

        -  “The Reading Room,” Nexus, Philadelphia, PA

1978-79 - “Artists’ Books,” Curated by Franklin Furnace, New York, NY, traveled  to Australia and New Zealand,

1979 - “The Book as Art,” Wildcraft Art Center, New Rochelle, New York, NY

1977 - “Women Artists 77”, Kansas City, MO, Juror: Miriam; Shapiro; cited in symposium by Lucy Lippard

1972 - “Inaugural Exhibit”, Washington Project for the Arts (WPA), Washington, DC

 

PERFORMANCE/INSTALLATION:

 

2010 - “Dead Sea Driftwood,” American Camp, Friday Harbor, San Juan Island,  Washington State

2010 - “Picnic on Art Island,” Cara and Cabezas Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO

2006 - Gulf of Mexico: “Dead Sea Armada,” in collaboration with Childrens‘ Workshop, Seaside Residency, Seaside FL

1999 - "Musical Scoring of the Bill of Rights,” Conservatory of Music, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, MO: digital music and voice

1998 - “In/Up– Down/Out,” Gem Theater, Kansas City, MO

1995/6 - “Sailing of Dead Sea Boat,” at the Dead Sea, Israel

1992 - "The Dead Sea in the Rainforest,” Sculpture installation and processional,  Belem, Pará, Brazil

1991 - "Musical Scoring of the Bill of Rights,” Bicentennial Performance, J.A.   Rogers Academy of Liberal Arts and Science, Kansas City, MO: digital  music and voice

1990 - “Dangerous Ideas", Musical Interludes: Scores of the Declaration of  Independence and the Constitution,” Under One Roof, Triplex Theaters, Borough of Manhattan Community College, TriBeca, New York, NY.   Presented in protest of National Endowment for the Arts withdrawal of funds for performance artists.

1989 - "Rights of Man,” (Droits de l’Homme), French Bill of Rights, Bicentennial Performance, Place de la Bastille,14 juillet, Paris, France

    - “Ezekiel 47,” in conjunction with “The Dead Sea: A Theory of  Everything,” University of Missouri-Kansas City Art Gallery,   Kansas City, MO,

1987 - "Ancient/Current: The Constitutional Coded Cadence,” performed at Liberty Memorial, Kansas City, MO: digital music with dance

      Aired on National Public Radio: “Constitutional”

1986 - "Ancient/Current: The Musical Scoring of the Declaration of  Independence”, Leedy-Voulkos Gallery, Lake Lotawana, Missouri, with  simultaneous digital performances in Maine, New York City, Philadelphia,  PA, Washington, DC, Miami Beach, FL, Dallas, TX, Chicago, IL, Santa Fe,   NM, Northern and Southern California, and Seattle, WA

 

ARTIST’S MUSIC:

All music created in digital media with Dr. James Mobberley and Joel Boyer, at the Conservatory of Music, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, MO

1991 - “The Musical Scoring of the United States Bill of Rights,” in honor of Bicentennial Celebration

1989 - “Ezekiel 47,” in conj. with “The Dead Sea: A Theory of Everything,” University of Missouri-Kansas City Art Gallery, Kansas City, MO

1988 - “The Musical Scoring of the French Bill of Rights” (Droits de l’Homme) in honor of Bicentennial Celebration

1987 - “The Constitutional Coded Cadence”

1986 - “The Musical Scoring of the Declaration of Independence”

 

ARTIST’S BOOKS:

1984-85 - “Dead Sea,” subtitled: ‘Sea Life’

1983-84 - “The Sting and I,” subtitled: ‘The King of Pain Meets the Queen of Coincidence,’ insert edition published by Borderline Magazine, 1991

1983 - “Walking the Line,” subtitled: ‘Seed Tapes = Pierced Tapes’

1972-1980 - “Pierced Embryos,” subtitled: ‘The Pasmore Pool’

1977 - “The Kansas City Flood,” subtitled: ‘The All State Scandal’

         - “From A to Z and the 22 Trip that Lasted 33 Days”

         - “Androgyny: Personal, National, Universal, and Beyond,” subtitled:

        ‘The Hea/Shea Story’

          - “The Numerical Interpretation of Some Highways in the United States,”  

        subtitled: ‘A Palm View 1’

          -”The Numerical Interpretation of Some Cities in the United States,”

        subtitled: ‘A Palm View 2’

1974-76 - “The Numerical Interpretation of the Declaration of Independence,”  subtitled: ‘Bicentennial Symbology’

1972-74 - “The High Rise Fire Squadron in the Sky,”  subtitled: ‘There Are a Lot  of Martyrs and Very Few Saints’

EDUCATION

1971 - George Washington University, Washington, DC; Painting, Drawing

1967 - Studio Assistant, Takis Vasilakis (sculptor), Chelsea Hotel, New York, NY 1965 - Finch College, New York, New York; A.A.S.

    School of Visual Arts, New York, NY; Drawing

1964 - University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida; Fine Arts Major

 

ART RELATED WORK EXPERIENCE:

2000-present - Co-Chair, Ramla, Israel Committee of the Sister City Association of Kansas City, Missouri

1982-4 - Co founder of the Kansas City Contemporary Art Center with Suzanne  Richards and Dell Millin. Now the Leedy Voulkos Arts Center

1980-4 - Visual Arts Coordinator, Mid America Arts Alliance, Kansas City, MO

1976 - Director/owner Shea Gordon Gallery, Kansas City, MO

1973-4 - Art Coordinator, Art Now ’74, Kennedy Center, Washington, DC

1972-3 - Assistant Director, Max Protech Gallery, Washington, DC

 

VISITING ARTIST:

2006 - Residency/Lecture , Seaside , FL

2004 - Kansas City Art Institute, Visiting Artist

2001 - Kansas City Art Institute, Sculpture Critique

1998 - The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Evening Lecture in conj. with acquisition, Kansas City, MO.

1993 - The Pembroke Hill School, Kansas City, MO; Panel: “Drawing as a  Medium,” Kansas City, MO

1992 - Bilingual School, Belem, Pará, Brazil Outeiro - Pará, Brazil

1991-92 -  J.A. Rogers Academy of Liberal Arts and Science, Kansas City, MO

1990 - Santa Fe Community College, Gainesville, FL

1989 - Fulbright College, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AK

1988 - Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO

        - ”Meet the Artist,” Central Exchange, Kansas City, Missouri

1986 - Kansas City Art Institute, Painting: Kansas City, Missouri

- University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, MO; Panel: “Minorities in the Arts”

 

HONORS AND AWARDS:

2007 - Cosgrave Award, Finch College, NY,NY

2004 - Tarosian Foundation Grant

2003 - Tarosian Foundation Grant

1999 - Tranin Foundation Grant

1988-89 - Missouri Arts Council Creative Artists Project Award

1987 - National Endowment for the Arts/Mid American Arts Alliance Grant to complete video of “Ancient/Current: Musical Scoring of the Declaration of     Independence”. Collaboration with Kevin Dowd. Produced at the Kansas City Art Institute

        - National Endowment for the Arts/Mid American Arts Alliance Grant for “Dialogue: Dead Sea and the Ear,” collaboration with Barbara Westerfield

1986 - National Endowment for the Arts/Mid American Arts Alliance Fellowship

 

SELECTED PERMANENT COLLECTIONS:

 

  • Black and Veatch Engineering, Waterworks Division

  • Continental Corporation, Inc. – New York, NY; Dallas, TX; Sacramento, CA

  • DST Corporation, Kansas City, MO

  • Exeter Press – New York,NY

  • Finley, Kumble, Wagner, Heine, Underberg, Manley, and Casey – Miami, FL

  • Hallmark Cards Foundation, Inc. – Kansas City, MO

  • Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, KS

  • Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI

  • Museum of Modern Art, Buenos Aires, Argentina

  • Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO

  • Nerman Museum, Overland Park, KS

  • Oklahoma Art Center – Oklahoma City, OK

  • Shook, Hardy, and Bacon – Kansas City, MO

  • Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Florm – New York, NY

  • Sprint, Overland Park,KS

  • Stowers Research Institute, Kansas City, MO

 

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY:

 

 

  • Ofiesh, Rebecca, “Reawakening: The Art of an Ecofeminist. On the Art of Shea Gordon,” New Letters Magazine, 2015

  • Gordon, Shea, “Under the Influence,: The Work of Shea Gordon, 1967-2014,” Exhibition Brochure, 2014, Heidmann Art Salon, Kansas City, Missouri

  • Bembnister, Theresa, “Pages worth turning at Paragraph Gallery,” Kansas City Star, Dec. 9, 2010

  • “Outsiders find KC’s Uniqueness,” Kansas City Star, Dec. 31, 2008, p. B1

  • Mote, Sarah ,"Floating Through Time", Preview Magazine, Kansas City Star, March 15, 2007.p.21

  • Denham AE, “Floating the Gold Standard,” Exhibition Brochure, Mary Ogilvie Gallery, St. Anne’s College, Oxford University, England, 2004

  • Schall Jan, Ph.D., “Shea Gordon: Reweaving the World,” Exhibition Brochure, Mary Ogilvie Gallery, St. Anne’s College, Oxford, England, 2004

  • Vando Hickock,Gloria, “Spud Book”, Helicon Nine Publisher.

  • Arts Radio, KKFI, Interviewed by Carol Mickett, Kansas City, Missouri

  • New Letters, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Vol. 64 #2, Winter 1998

  • Kirsch, Elizabeth, “Hot Town at Weiner”, Kansas City Star, July 18, 1997

  • Thorson, Alice, “Art Review”, Kansas City Star, April 23, 1993, p. 6-25.

  • Stewart, Robert, “The Healing Art”, Kansas City Star, June 21, 1992, pp. 1 & 4.; Stewart. Robert, “The Dead Sea Meets the Rainforest”, E Magazine, Sept/Oct 1992, pp. 10-11.; “Monumento A Ecologia No Outeiro”, A Provincia Do Pará, May 30, 1992.; Coverage of Installation by three TV Networks, Belem, Brazil

  • Ferruzza, Charles, “Shea Gordon is Alive and Well and Living in Kansas City”, Kansas City Jewish Chronicle, Spring 1990, pp. 43-48, 64.

  • Presson, Rebekah, “Morning Edition”, Music for the French Revolution’s Bicentennial and Interview, National Public Radio, July 14, 1989.

  • Hoffman, Donald, “Primitivism in ‘Dead Sea Essay’ Permeates Virtuoso Show at UMKC”, Kansas City Star, Sunday, January 29, 1989, p. 41.

  • Draper, Mary Jo, “Fresh Air”, Interview, National Public Radio, January 23, 1989.

  • Moore, John D., “Shea Gordon”, New Art Examiner, April 1988, pp. 61-62.

  • Risatti, Howard, “Nine from the Heartland”, Art Paper, March/April, 1988.

  • Hoffman, Donald, “Delicacy of Life Permeates Exhibition”, Kansas City Star, March 27, 1988, p. 4D.

  • “Drawings Exhibition Featured at A-State”, Jonesboro Sunday Times, February 14, 1988, p. 10C.

  • Adler, Eric, “Document Inspires Music”, Kansas City Star.

  • Von Ziegazer, Peter, “Constitutional Coded Cadence”, commentary, KCUR, September 17, 1987.

  • Walker, Steve, “Constitutional Music”, Nightcrawlers, K.C. Pitch, November 1987.

  • Murphy, Mike, KCMO Radio (interview) Declaration Music, “Constitutional”, July 3, 1987.

  • Ziegler, Laura, KCUR Radio (interview), Declaration Music, July 2, 1986.; Kaplan, Elizabeth, “Artist Inspired by Dead Sea Mystery”, Kansas City Jewish Chronicle, September 1986, p. 28A.

  • Von Ziegazer, Peter, “Shea Gordon”, KCUR Radio, commentary on Dead Sea Paintings, November 1985.

  • Koenig, Leonard, “Shea Gordon/Walking the Line”, Forum, Kansas City Artists Coalition Magazine, January, 1984, pp.7-8.

  • Kirsch, Elizabeth, “Synchronicities: Numerological Portraits,” Forum, Kansas City Artists Coalition Magazine, March, 1977, pp. 11-12.