Dan Gualdoni
Born in Missouri, Dan Gualdoni received his BFA in painting from Washington University and his MFA in painting at Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles, California. He worked as a lithographer at Gemini, Ltd, in Los Angeles in the late 1960’s. Following that experience, he co-founded the lithography workshop for Sam Francis in Santa Monica, California. After returning to St. Louis, he taught at Washington University, where he co-founded Washington University Printmaking Workshop and served as its first printer-collaborator. Since that time he has taught painting, drawing, printmaking, materials & methods, and 2 dimensional design at Washington University, St. Louis Community College, Webster University, and Fontbonne College while continuing to produce and show his own work. His work has shown throughout Missouri, as well as in Chicago, New York, Nashville, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, San Diego and Ireland and Austria.
STATEMENT
Dan Gualdoni develops compositional elements with pencil and oil-turpentine washes on two-ply museum mounting board. The mounting board is then laminated to a wooden support. He then applies many layers of a thin water-based glue on top of the preliminary image. He further develops the image by applying layers of glue and oil paint to the surface —which can take weeks to cure and dry—and then smears, scrapes, and adds other mark making to emphasize the foreground and add dimension. The process varies slightly throughout the series but this is the basic process for all works.
RESUME
Solo Exhibitions
2012 Coastal Redux Series – Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA
2011 Recent paintings – Kathryn Markel Gallery, New York, NY
2009 Recent paintings – Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, TN
2008 Fata Morgana Series – Davidson Contemporary, Seattle, WA
2006 Paintings – William Shearburn Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2006 aer/Eire – Davidson Contemporary, Seattle, WA
2005 aer/Eire – Tapestry Gallery, Ketchum, Idaho
2004 aer/Eire – William Shearburn Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2000 Arcadia Redesigned - Locus Gallery, Clayton, MO
1999 Arcadia/Mingo Series - Margaret Harwell Art Museum, Poplar Bluff, MO
1998 Paintings and Prints- Locus Gallery, Clayton, MO
1993 Material Language - Webster University, St. Louis, MO
1992 Recent Work - Messing Gallery, St. Louis, MO
1991 Monoprints - Martin Schweig Gallery, St. Louis, MO
1988 Monoprints - Locus Gallery, St. Louis, MO
1983 Paintings & Prints - Messing Gallery, St. Louis, MO
1981 Paintings & Prints- Okun-Thomas Gallery, St. Louis, MO
1981 Paintings & Prints- University of Delaware, Newark, DE
1980 Paintings & Prints- St. Louis Community College at Meramec, St. Louis
1971 Paintings & Prints- Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
Awards
2003 Fellowship, The Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Ballycastle, County Mayo, Ireland, 2003
Selected Group Shows
2016 Family Ties - Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, TN
2016 Artists Select 2016 - Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, TN
2016 Everywhere and Elsewhere II: Painting Exhibition – St. Louis Community College at Meramec, St. Louis, MO
2015 Dialogue with Nature – St. Louis Community College at Forest Park, St. Louis, MO
2015 Summer Selections – Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, TN
2014 Summer Selections – Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, TN
2013 Like – A Socially Interactive Exhibition – Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA
2013 Summer Selections – Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, TN
2011 New Contemporary Works – Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA
2010 Art of Today from St. Louis – Mitchell Museum, Mt. Vernon, IL
2010 Urban and Natural Landscapes – Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA
2010 Summer Session– Madelyn Jordan Fine Art, Scarsdale, NY
2010 Invitational #1 – Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, New York, NY
2010 Just Add Water- Susan Street Gallery, Salona Beach, CA
2008 Summer Group Show – William Shearburn Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Landscape – Davidson Contemporary Gallery, Seattle, WA
2007 St. Louis Painters – Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, MO
2006 Contemporary Masterworks: Saint Louis Collects – Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis MO
2005 The Elusive Landscape – Kathryn Markel Gallery, New York, NY
2005 Natural Selection – Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA
2003 Altered Forms – Schmidt Art Center, Southern Illinois Univ., Edwardsville, IL
2002 Small Packages 7 - Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, TN
2001 Contemporary Landscape – Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA
Landscapes - Reicher Gallery, Barat College, DePaul University, Lake Forest, IL
Revival! - Bridgewater/Lustberg & Blumenfeld Gallery, New York, NY
2000 Small Packages 6 - Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, TN
A New View: Worked Images by Contemporary Photographers –
The Noyes Museum of Art, Oceanville, NJ
1999 Turning the Century – Bridgewater/Lustberg & Blumenfeld Gallery, NY, NY
Twenty-One for Twenty-One – Locus Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Small Work Show - Bridgewater/Lustberg & Blumenfeld, New York, NY
Printmakers Invitational - The Meramec Art Gallery, St. Louis, MO
1996 T. K. Lang Gallery (Webster University), Vienna, Austria
1994 Emulsion Media II: Another Exposure to Alternative Photography -
Martin Schweig Gallery, St. Louis, MO
1993 Emulsion Media - Martin Schweig Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Group Show - Locus Gallery, St. Louis, MO
1991 In/Form III - Lemp Complex, St. Louis, MO
1990 In/Form II- Lemp Complex, St. Louis, MO
In/Form - Lemp Complex, St. Louis, MO
1989 Art St. Louis V - Gateway One Building, St. Louis, MO
1988 Webster University, Webster Groves, MO
1986 Artists Select - Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, TN
1985 Craft Alliance Gallery, St. Louis, MO
St. Louis Arts Festival - Globe Democrat Building, St. Louis, MO
1983 Mark Twain Empire Bank, Kansas City, MO
1982 Figuration and Configuration - Okun Thomas Gallery, St. Louis, MO
18 x 2 - Art Annex, Inc., St. Louis, MO
1981 Previews - Messing Gallery, St. Louis, MO
A Summer's Place - Okun-Thomas Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Coast to Coast - Okun-Thomas Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Faculty Show - Steinberg Gallery, St. Louis, MO
1980 Timothy Burns Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Mitchell Museum, Mt. Vernon, IL
Faculty Show - Steinberg Gallery, St. Louis, MO
1979 4th National Italian-American Artists in the U.S.A., Stone Park, IL
Faculty Show - Steinberg Gallery, St. Louis, MO
1978 St. Louis Artist Guild, St. Louis, MO
Faculty Show - Steinberg Gallery, St. Louis, MO
1973 Artrium '73 Art Show - Santa Rosa Junior College, Santa Rosa, CA
27th Annual Art Festival - San Francisco, CA
3rd Nat'l Print & Drawing Exhibition - Minot State College, Minot, ND
2nd Annual Print Exhibition - deAnza College, Cupertino, CA
1972 26th Annual Art Festival, San Francisco, CA
California Society of Printmakers National Print Exhibition, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
First Annual Print Exhibition, deAnza College, Cupertino, CA
1970 Standiford Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Temple Street Artists - Long Beach Art Museum, Long Beach, CA
8th Annual Southern California Exhibition, Long Beach, Museum, CA
1969 Six Light Artists - Outdoor searchlight performance of light sculpture,
Los Angeles, CA
50th Anniversary Show - Otis Art Institute Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Selected References
Wagonfeld, Judy, “Artists Turn the Physical Into the Emotional in ‘Natural Selection’, Post Intelligencer, June 17, 2005
Bonetti, David, “Gualdoni’s paintings are almost photographic,” St. Louis Post Dispatch, October 3, 2004.
Art on Paper, "Working Proof", Vol. 4, No. 4, pp 67-68, March/April 2000
Bellos, Alexandra, "In/Form III: Group Exhibition," Riverfront Times, November, 1991
Bellos, Alexandra, "Dan Gualdoni: Monoprints 1980-1990," Riverfront Times, April, 1991
Bellos, Alexandra, "Nine Lush Gualdoni Prints Hung in Locus Gallery," St. Louis Post Dispatch, December 15, 1988
Bry, Charlene, "A Lofty Look," St. Louis Globe Democrat, September 16, 1982
Duffy, Robert, "Emulsion Media II: Another Exposure to Alternative Photography," St. Louis Post Dispatch, October 20, 1994
Duffy, Robert, "An Artful Workshop," St. Louis Post Dispatch, February 8, 1981
Harris, Paul, "Monoprints," St. Louis Post Dispatch, March 28, 1991
Hieronymus, Clara, "The Chosen Nine," The Tennessian, February 20, 1986
King, Mary, "Dan Gualdoni Work at Gallery," St. Louis Post Dispatch, Nov. 20, 1981
King, Mary, "Past and Present," St. Louis Post Dispatch, December 1979
Kohorst, Ellen, "Art Prints," St. Louis Post Dispatch, September 21, 1982
Rice, Nancy, "Dan Gualdoni: Recent Work" St. Louis Post Dispatch, January 29, 1992
Rice, Nancy, "Dan Gualdoni," New Art Examiner, December 8, 1981.
Rubin, Michael, "Prints, Pots, and Plates," St. Louis Globe Democrat, February 19, 1983
Rubin, Michael, "Contract Lithography- a Renaissance in Printing," An Artist's Newsletter, June 1982
Seldis, Henry, "Otis Institute Alumni Show," Los Angeles Times, September 22, 1968
Shepley, Carol Ferring, "Material Language: Works by Dan Gualdoni and John Ruppert", St. Louis Post Dispatch, November 9, 1993
Tyler, Suzanne, "Starts and Stops," St. Louis People, August 1990
Corporate Acquisitions
Federal Reserve, Kansas City, MO
Bryan Cave Law Firm, St. Louis, Mo
A.G. Edwards & Sons, Inc., St. Louis, MO
Brown Group, Brown Shoe Company, Clayton, MO
Cybertel, Clayton, MO
Grey Eagle Distributors, Inc., Anheuser-Busch Corporation, St. Louis, MO
J.P. Morgan, New York, NY
Mark Twain Banks, St. Louis, MO
Montgomery First National Bank, St. Louis, MO
Retina Consultants, Barnes Hospital, St. Louis, MO
Save-A-Lot, Ltd., St. Louis, MO
St. Louis Sun Newspaper, St. Louis, MO
U.S. Department of State, Washington, D. C.
Westin Hotel, St. Louis, MO