Sheldon Drake uses various process strategies to excite complex painted conditions,
simultaneously substantial and immanent, a vivid mesh of cataclysm.
Sculptural objects that clench the wall forward.
More than windows, they materially disrupt the time and space around them.
CV:
Berlin, Germany
born 1959, Bath NY USA
EDUCATION:
1984-89 The Cooper Union, New York City
Bachelor of Fine Arts
Instructors: Louise Fishman, Robert Storr,
Irving Petlin, Robert Slutzky, Stuart Diamond,
Dore Ashton, Jack Barth, Norman Sanders,
Donald Kunz, Irwin Rubin, Rosalind Krauss,
Reuben Kadish, Rod Knox, Patricia Colville
1980-82 Sierra Nevada College, Lake Tahoe, Nevada
1977-80 College of William and Mary
Williamsburg, Virginia
COLLECTIONS:
Adobe Systems
Yasuda Mutual: commission for NYC corporate offices
The Travelers Company: commission of fifteen pieces
EXHIBITIONS:
Philadelphia
2008 AxD Gallery: split show
2007 AxD Gallery: solo show
Baltimore
2006 Buono’s
2005 Crabtown: public art project
2004 Ahimsa Yoga Center
Brewer’s Art (art featured in The WIRE)
One World Cafe
Ottobar
Vespa
New York City
2004 Halcyon
2003 Halcyon
Planet One Cafe
2002 Kanvas
Cooper Union
2001 Planet One Cafe
Avenue A Sushi
Col Legno
Cafe Tante Baci
2000 Planet One Cafe
1998 Space Untitled, Soho: “Late Stages of Organic Life”
group show
1997 Art Exchange: group show, reviewed wired.com
Barnes & Noble, Astor Place: solo show
1995 BBDO corporate offices
Planet One Cafe
Bell Cafe
1992 Minor Injury Gallery: group show
reviewed NY Newsday