Bill Sullivan is an artist who lives and works in New York City . His work has been exhibited and published internationally. He graduated from Georgetown University in Washington DC in 1988 with a degree in English Literature and Painting. He worked for more than a decade on a conceptual body of artwork entitled Das Blaue Auto, which used a variety of media and and text to chronicle the evolution of a fictional lost European Art movement. He took up photography with a focus on street photography in 2002 and began to fuse his conceptual concerns with his experience as a portrait painter, culminating in the project 3Situations, completed in 2007.
All of the works on this site were begun or completed after 2004. These works include the 3 series of photographs that make up 3Situations ( More Turns , Stop Down, and Time Port). These series explore the use of framing in various real-life situations and are exhibited in various sizes . The site includes an ongoing series of paintings in oil on linen and photographs called People I Know.
The site also includes several series of works begun in 2007 that have been exhibited recently or are works in progress. Many of these works employ various types of re-photography to create new kinds of optical texture . These works are made up of prints, photographs, paintings and works on paper. And they form such series as Self Portraits with Mirrors, Landscapes, Courts , The Shape of Things Like the Sun, and Touch Screen.
RECENT SELECTED EXHIBITION LIST
NEW GENRE PICTURES : LUCAS BLALOCK / SAM FALLS / THOMAS HAUSER / BILL SULLIVAN
Flanders Gallery Raleigh NC July 9 2010 – Aug 26 2010
“Bill Sullivan : Whats The Matter” Flanders Gallery Raleigh NC Dec 4 2009 – Jan 29 2010
“Bill Sullivan & Charles Freger : Caught Or Captured ” Caption New York NY Oct 1 – Nov 24 2009
“People I Know Bill Sullivan : NewPaintings” Sasha Wolf Gallery New York NY Mar 12 – May 2 2009
“New Directions in Photography” The Payne Gallery , Moravian College Bethlehem , Pa
Mar 12 – May 2 2009
Hijacked a survey of Australian and Ameriacan Photography Today
Australian Centre for Photography Sydney Australia Friday June 13- July 19 2008
American Photography Today FotoFreo 2008 Fremantle Australia Apr 5 – May 4 2008
“Photo LA 2007” New York Brancolini Grimaldi Nov 18 – Nov 21 2007
“Material Witness” new portraiture General Electric Headquarters Fairfield Ct April 20 - Oct 15 2007
“VersionFest Photographic Invitational” Chicago Ill April 19 – May 6 2007
Randall Scott Gallery Aqua Wynwood Art Basel Miami Dec 9-13 2007
“Paris Photo 2006” Brancolini Grimaldi Nov 15 – Nov 18 2006
PUBLICATIONS
Proximity Magazine Fall 2010 Issue #5 The Photography Issue
6 images from the elevator series “Stop Down” and 12 images from the elevator series “Stop Down” featured
in a selection of readers choice of the best new photography
Foam Magazine for Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam winter 2008 / #17 Portrait?
a portfolio of 17 photos from from the elevator series “Stop Down” featured with an essay by
Sarah Baxter
Foam Album ’08 for Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam Self Portrait #11 featured
The New Yorker April 18 2008 6 photos from from the series “Stop Down” featured
Russian Esquire April 2007 30 images from the subway turnstile series “More Turns” featured
The Guardian UK Feb 2 , 2007 2 page spread of 40 images from “More Turns” featured
GRANTS
2004 Aaron Siskind Foundation Fellowship Grant
INTERVIEWS
interview with Jörg Colberg of Conscientious Sept 2006
http://www.jmcolberg.com/weblog/2006/09/a_conversation_with_bill_sulli_1.html
GALLERIES
Sasha Wolf Gallery : sasha@sashawolf.com
10 Leonard St New York , New York 10013 Tel : 212-925-0025
Brancolini Grimaldi : info@brancolinigrimaldi.com
Via dei Tre Orologi 6a Rome Italy , 00197 Tel: 39 055239 6263
Flanders Gallery : flandersart@mac.com
302 S. West Street Raleigh, NC 27603 Tel : 919.834.5044
For updated CV , recent press, & Image usage contact : Bill_Sullivan_Studio@me.com
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