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HELENE BRANDT
Nata a Philadelphia, PA nel 1936/Born in 1936 Philadelphia, PA
Diplomata alla St. Martin’s School of Art di Londra. Master in Belle Arti alla Columbia University School of the Arts, New York, N.Y. Laureata in Belle
Arti, City College, City University of New York/Certificate of Advanced Studies, St. Martin’s School of Art, London, England. MFA, Columbia
University School of the Arts, New York, N.Y. BA in Fine Arts, City College, City University of New York.
PERSONALI/SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009
“Biological Transformations” - SACI Gallery, Firenze, Italia
2007
“The phoenix, the traveler and the acrobat” - Humanities Gallery, Long Island University Brooklyn Campus, Brooklyn, N.Y.
2006
“Helene Brandt: Cages 1979-1984” - Humanities Gallery, Long Island University Brooklyn Campus, Brooklyn, N.Y.
2004
“Steel Transformations” - Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, FL
2003
“Helene Brandt: Embodiments” - Azarian McCullough Art Gallery, St. Thomas Aquinas College, Sparkill, N.Y.
2003
“The Sculpture of Helene Brandt, Body Enclosures 1998-2003, Mondrian Variations 1995-1996” - Tyler Art Gallery, State University of N.Y.
at Oswego, N.Y.
2001
“The Progression Sculptures of Helene Brandt” - Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, FL
1999
“Open Sanctuaries - New Work” - Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, N.Y.
1998
“Mondrian Variations” - Mondriaanhuis Museum of Constructive and Concrete Art, Amersfoort, Netherlands
1996
“Shifting in and out of the Third Dimension: Mondrian Variations 1995-96, Cage Sculptures 1979-83” - Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, N.Y.
1995
“Paths of Vision” - The Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT
1994-95 “Helene Brandt” - The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA
1994
“Joyfully Realized, the Steel Sculpture of Helene Brandt” - Memorial Union Art Gallery, North Dakota State University, Fargo, N.D.
1994
“Helene Brandt” - Atelier Scuderi, Bagno a Ripoli, Firenze, Italia
1993
“Architectonic Evolutions: Sculpture and Drawings - Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, New York, N.Y.
1991-92 “Progressions and Processions” - Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, N.Y.
1991
“Progressions: Sculpture and Drawings 1989-91” - Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, New York, N.Y.
1989
“New Sculpture” - Trabia-MacAfee Gallery, New York, N.Y.
1987
“Sculpture and Drawings” - Penna. Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA.
1985
“Sculpture and Drawings” - A.I.R. Gallery, New York, N.Y.
1984
“Viewpoints” - Nassau County Museum, Roslyn, N.Y.
1984
“Helene Brandt: Sculpture” - Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, N.Y.
1983
“Bicycle Sound Sculptures” - Staten Island Children’s Museum, Staten Island, N.Y.
1983
“Sculpture and painted wall constructions” - Queens Museum, Flushing, N.Y.
1982
“Sculptural Metaphors” - M.O.A. Gallery, New York, N.Y.
1982
“Machines and Sanctuaries” - Sculpture Center, New York, N.Y.
1980
“Cage Sculptures” - Women’s Interart Center, New York, N.Y.
1973
“Five Solos” - Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, N.Y.
PREMI/AWARDS
2003
New York City Masterwork Awards, Municipal Art Society, Metropolitan Transportation Authority Public Art in Subways project
1997
Residency, Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, N.Y.
1991
BRIO Excellence in the Arts Award
1985-86 Guggenheim Fellowship
1980
National Endowment for the Arts, Artist in Residence Grant, Northern State College, Aberdeen, S.D.
1972
Purchase Award, Hudson River Museum
ARREDO URBANO/PUBLIC ART
2007
The Assyrians, Moore College of Art Sculpture Garden, Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, PA.
2004
Charion, grande uccello/biga in acciaio saldato. Mostra estiva/large welded steel bird/chariot. Outdoor summer exhibition, Wave Hill,
Bronx, N.Y.
2002
Room of Tranquillity, Yankee Stadium Subway Station, Metropolitan Transit Authority, N.Y., mosaico parietale in marmo e vetro in
collaborazione con/marble and glass mosaic wall in collaboration with Vito Acconci
2000
Portable Bridge, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA.
1996
Central Park Ziggurat, progetto per una scultura scivolo per il parcogiochi Adventure Playground (con Joe De Pace, architetto)/project for a
climbing play sculpture for an Adventure Playground (with Joe De Pace, architect), Central Park, N.Y.
1994
Dancing cubes, scultura/installazione di partecipazione composta da cinque parti, legno di cedro dipinto/participatory five part sculpture
installation, stained cedar wood, Staten Island Children’s Museum, Staten Island, N.Y.
1994
Path of Expanding Vision, Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, Conn., scultura: archi e seating area, alluminio saldato dipinto e
cedro/sculptural archway, path and seating, painted welded aluminum and cedar
1988
Tripod, scultura-installazione, acciacio saldato dipinto/sculpture installation, painted welded steel, C.W. Post Campus, Long Island Univ.
Brookville, N.Y.
1987
Carapace, scultura-installazione temporanea, acciaio saldato dipinto e legno/temporary sculpture installation, painted welded steel and
wood, Municipal Plaza, Philadelphia, PA.
1984
Thorpe gazebo, scultura: seating area nel giardino di meditazione del complesso per anziani, acciaio saldato dipinto, legno/sculptural
seating area in meditation garden of senior citizen housing complex, painted welded steel, wood, Thorpe Village, Sparkill, N.Y.
1983
Portable Bridge, commissione per la celebrazione del centenario del Ponte di Brooklyn, acciaio dipinto, legno/commission for celebration of
the Brooklyn Bridge Centennial, painted steel, wood, N.Y.
1981
Gazebo, scultura: seating area sul terreno del/sculptural seating area on grounds of Manhattan Psychiatric Hospital, Ward’s Island, N.Y.
COLLEZIONI PUBBLICHE/PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Mondriaanhuis Museum of Constructive and Concrete Art, Amersfoort, The Netherlands
Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel (Dono di/Gift of Louise Bourgeois)
Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, N.Y.
Staten Island Children’s Museum, Staten Island, N.Y.
Hillwood Art Museum, C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University, Brookville, N.Y.
American Telephone and Telegraph Co. Bedminster, N.Y.
American Telephone and Telegraph Co. South Plainfield, N.J.
Thorp Village, Sparkill, N.Y.
Gestetner Corporation,Yonkers, N.Y.
Columbia University, New York, N.Y.
Wards Island Sculpture Garden, New York, N.Y.
Best Products Co., Inc., Richmond, Va.
Merck USA, Hackensack, N.J.
Yankee Stadium Subway Station, Metropolitan Transit Authority, N.Y.
Lucy Daniels Foundation, Raleigh, N.C.
BIBLIOGRAFIA ESSENZIALE/SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
1981
New York Times, December 6, l981 “Helene Brandt’s ‘Trike Drum’” Photograph on cover of (The Guide)
1982
New Yorker Mag., March 22, 1982 Gallery Reviews “Helene Brandt”
1983
Newsday, February 28, 1983 “Helene Brandt. Sculpture and painted wall constructions at the Queens Museum”, Malcolm Preston (illus.)
1984
New York Times, April 6, l984 “Welded sculptures by Helene Brandt”, Michael Brenson (illus.)
Arts Magazine, October l984 (vol. 59 n. 2, p. l3) “Helene Brandt”, by Mina Roustayi (illus.)
1985
New York Times, September 20, 1985 “Helene Brandt”, Michael Brenson
1987
Phila. Inquirer, September 24, l987 “Helene Brandt”, Edward J. Sozanski (illus.)
Art News, December 1987 (vol. 866, n. 10, p. 127) “Gabo’s Progeny” by Cynthia Nadelman (illus.)
1989
New York Times, May 12, l989 “Helene Brandt”, Michael Brenson
1991
New York Times, November 10, 1991 “Progressions and Processions at the Hudson River Museum” Vivien Raynor
1994
La Repubblica, Florence, Italy, June 4, 1994 “Artisti in Viaggio”
The Chrysler Museum Bulletin, Fall 1994 (vol. 24, n. 4) “Helene Brandt, Parameters Galleries - November 19, 1994 through February 19, 1995
(illus.)
The Virginian-Pilot and The Ledger Star, December 11, 1994, “Chrysler exhibits encourage you to linger”, by Teresa Annas (illus.)
1998
Utrechts Nieuwsblad, The Netherlands, February 11, 1998 “Three dimensional fun with flat Mondrians - Helene Brandt’s Mondrian
Variations (“Ruim telijke grappen met platte Mondriaans”) Thea Figee (illus.)
Stad Amersfoort, The Netherlands, February 18, 1988 “Mondrian Variations by New York Sculptress Helene Brandt (“Mondrian variations’
van New Yorkse beeldhouster Helene Brandt”), Anco Mali
De Telegraaf, The Netherlands, February 20, 1998 “Cocksure Mondrian in Three Dimensions” (“Eigenwijze Mondriaan in Drie Dimensies”),
by Paola Van De Velde
2001
Miami New Times, April 26-May 2 “Three Sculptors: Helene Brandt,Priscilla Page, Donna Rosenthal
2002
Sculpture Magazine, June 2002 “Helene Brandt:Metaphysics of Shelter” by Deborah Everett (illus.)
2003
The New York Times, May 25, 2003 “New Look for Bronx Civic Crossroads”, David W. Dunlap
The New York Times, August 24, 2003 “Sticks and Stones 2, Collaborative Concepts, Beacon, N.Y.”, D. Dominick Lombardi
2004
Miami Newtimes, Miami, Florida September 30-October 6, 2004 “Helene Brandt at Bernice Steinbaum Gallery “, Alfredo Triff (illus.)
2005
“Dreaming Your Way to Creative Freedom”, Lucy Daniels, iUniverse Press (Illus. p. 115)
2006
“Along the Way, MTA Arts for Transit”, Sandra Bloodworth, William Ayres, Monacelli Press, N.Y. (illus.)
DOCENZE/TEACHING
1973-75
Columbia University School of the Arts
(Welded steel sculpture)
1983-84
Department of Cultural Affairs, New York,
N.Y. (Apprenticeship program)
1984
School of Visual Arts, New York, N.Y., (Guest Artist)
1986-89
Parsons School of Design, New York, N.Y.
(Sculpture)
1983-92
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, N.Y. (Intern program)
1984-94
New York University, New York, N.Y. (Intern
program)
2003- Empire State College, State University of New York (mentor, evaluator, Distance Learning faculty)