Dee Shapiro

Dee Shapiro
Born Brooklyn, New York
Movement Pattern and Decoration
Website Dee Shapiro Website

Dee Shapiro is an American artist and writer associated with the Pattern and Decoration movement.

Biography

Dee Shapiro was inspired to be an Artist in her early years of education. Dee's career started in the 1970s as a pattern painter with her works of art included in the Pattern and Decoration at P.S. 1 in 1977. She researched and explored the Fibonacci Progression in color on graph paper and also explored geometric complexity of architectural designs, leading her to create the small horizontal oil paintings of cities and landscapes.[1]

Education and career

Dee Shapiro obtained her bachelor's degree in 1958 and Master of Science in 1960 from Queens College, City University of New York. Dee Shapiro is an artist that sees the subject on a large scale, but what she creates is on a diminutive scale. Shapiro's strength is the ability to give expressive power on canvas that makes her work seem larger than they are. Dee Shapiro has been a teacher, lecturer, and writer through career. [2][3]

Solo exhibitions

2015                 Andre Zarre Gallery, NYC

Selected bibliography

Selected collections

References

  1. Dee Shapiro Artwork Paintings, Great Neck NY Retrieved 4 October 2014
  2. The Hudson River School Revisited written by James Panero,Retrieved 28 September 2014
  3. Studio Matters, Travel Picture by Maureen Mullarkey 2004, retrieved 3 October 2014

External links

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