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Charles Swank http://www.absolutearts.com/portfolios/s/swank Mediums - Artist's Statement -I feel the whole purpose of painting is to go into places within myself that have never been explored and discover new insights and understandings of what its all about, my place in this big picture of existence. Sometimes its easy and sometimes it's hard, but most of the time its worth it. --Charles Swank, November 1999, San Diego Gallery Affiliations - Exhibitions - M.F.A. Yale University, New Haven 1972 B.A. University of California, San Diego 1970 1966 Annual Religious Exhibition (Curator: Hans Burkhart) San Diego` 1966-1968 Juried Exhibitions, State University, San Diego 1968 Debut Solo Show, Unicorn Theater, La Jolla, California 1970 Tandem Solo Show with Richard Serra, University of California, San Diego 1971 "Earth, Air, Fire and Water" at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 1972 Solo Shows, Yale University, New Haven 1973 "Millenium" Video (Sponsor: Soul Rush), Los Angeles 1975 Solo Show, Art Center, Santa Cruz 1976 Museum Without Walls (Sponsor: Billboard), Santa Cruz 1976-1979 Exhibits, University of California, Santa Cruz 1977 Solo Show, University of California, Santa Cruz 1979 Mural (Sponsor: Agfa Film Co.), Los Angeles 1980 Solo Show, The Gallery, Soquel, California 1983 Solo Show, Art Center, Santa Cruz 1984-98 Juried Exhibits, Art Institute, San Diego` 1985 45th International Exhibition, Art Institute, San Diego 1990-1994 National Print Exhibitions, San Diego` 1990-1995 Solo/Group Shows, Rita Dean Gallery, San Diego 1991,1998 Annual Exhibitions, Athenaeum, La Jolla, California` 1992 San Diego/Yokahama Cultural Exchange, Yokahama, Japan 1993 La Jolla Art Association, La Jolla, California` 1994 19th Annual Small Image Exhibition, San Diego 1996 21st Annual Small Image Exhibition, San Diego` 1998 Creative Arts Consortium, San Diego` 1998 35th Annual Religious Exhibition, San Diego, California` 1998 Southern California Regional Exhibition, Art Institute, San Diego 1998-1999 Solo Shows, Lyceum Gallery, San Diego 1999 Selected Paintings, Rancho Santa Fe Gallery 1999 Small Image Exhibition, Spanish Village Art Center, San Diego 2000 Group Exhibition, Rancho Santa Fe Gallery 2000 National Juried Show, Art Institute, San Diego 2001 Solo Show, Rancho Santa Fe Library 2002 Group Exhibition, Rancho Santa Fe Gallery 2003 Small Image Exhibition, Spanish Village Art Center, San Diego ` indicates award |  |
Biography - American Painting: Past to Present--Alluring and enigmatic, Charles Swank's paintings appear to capture spiritual entities. Proscribed in bars or grids, Swank wholeheartedly treats surfaces baring vaporous fields and harmonious colors. American abstraction of the 1960s started him off and remains in the sphere of his current canvases. Bleeding pigment into unprimed canvas akin to Morris Louis, coloring lush like Larry Poons, reinforcing his work with hard edges bordering on Al Held, Swank has a clear picture in what makes painting a choice means of expression. He studied with Held at Yale, exhibited with Richard Serra at UCSD in 1970 and the following year at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. --Scott Garland, January 2000, New York City |