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Throughout his career, James Bishop has engaged with European and American traditions of postwar abstraction while developing a subtle, poetic, and highly unique visual language of his own. This catalogue presents numerous large paintings on canvas from the 1960s to the early 1980s, as well as small-scale paintings on paper, to which Bishop turned exclusively in 1986 and which he continues to produce today.
Born in 1927 in Neosho, Missouri, James Bishop studied
painting at Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, and Black
Mountain College, North Carolina, and art history at Columbia
University, New York, before traveling to Europe in 1957 and
settling in Blévy, France. His work has been the subject of major
museum exhibitions: in 1993-94, James Bishop, Paintings and Works
on Paper traveled from the Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland, to
the Galerie national de Jeu de Paume, Paris, and the Westfälisches
Landesmuseum, Münster; and in 2007-08, James Bishop. Malerie auf
Papier/Paintings on Paper traveled from the Staatliche Graphische
Sammlung München, Munich, to the Josef Albers Museum Quadrat
Bottrop, Germany, and The Art Institute of Chicago.
Carter Ratcliff is an award-winning poet and art critic. His
first gallery reviews appeared in ARTnews in 1969. Since then his
writing has been published by major art journals in the United
States and abroad, including Art in America, Artforum, Modern
Painters, Tate, Art Presse, and Artstudio, and in catalogues
published by American and European museums, including The Museum of
Modern Art, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York;
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; and The Center for Contemporary Art,
Cincinnati. Ratcliff has taught at New York University; Hunter
College, New York; and the New York Studio School of Drawing,
Painting & Sculpture. He received a Poets Foundation grant in 1969.
His other awards include an Art Critics grant, NEA, 1972 and 1976;
a Guggenheim Fellowship, 1976; and the Frank Jewett Mather Award
for Art Criticism, College Art Association, 1987. His first novel,
Tequila Mockingbird, was published in 2015.
James Bishop offers "an opportunity to view the range of Bishop's work and observe the development over time of an intricate exploration of form."--A. Corrigan "Art Observed"
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