ARTIST INFORMATION:
LYNN SMALL
- I am an art honors graduate of The High School of Music and Art, NYC - the
first school in the nation (1936) to provide a free, publicly funded program
for students gifted in the arts. It has been replicated in most major cities
and has earned an international reputation for excellence. As a Dean's List
student at New York University, majoring in painting with a minor in film
theory, I studied with such renowned painters as Milton Resnick, Esteban Vicente,
Hale Woodruff, John Opper, and Robert Kaupelis, as well as the legendary art
historian, Irving Sandler and film critic and theorist, Andrew Sarris and
John Gassner respectively.
In the early 1970s, while living
and working in Spain, I began work on the Earth Stains series and had
a solo exhibition at the USIA Cultural Center in Madrid. This has been an
ongoing body of work that has evolved into the collaborative multimedia installations
- Earth Elegies. In the mid 1970s, I began a series of anthropological, God-like
imagery while my artist husband, Dennis Paul and I lived in Cuernavaca, Mexico.
This major body of work would later inspire my current Southwest Spirit
Guides series. My Earth Stains paintings and works on paper have
evolved into the series - Golden Light and Shimmering Light
- part of the individual and collaborative California Coastal UpLift
series and in the fall of 2003 while a residency fellow at Yaddo --
Autumn Light, Yaddo. Also in 2003, I was a finalist for the Gottlieb
Foundation Grant. Within the last few
years I have begun work on a series of monotypes, which are handpainted and
inspired by places that we have spent time in during recent travels, such
as California's Sonoma County, Berkeley/Bay area and Topanga Canyon.
DENNIS PAUL - While I was pursuing graduate studies in psychology at The City University of New York, I began to work at the Pratt Graphic Arts Center in Manhattan. During this period I began to utilize both still and early video cameras in my study of nonverbal communications, group process and the intergenerational transmission of body language. These tools quickly became my brushes -- no doubt influenced in part by my many years of watching the women of the Small family create objects of beauty and wonder.
My photographic and video background infused my early teaching career for the NYC Board of Education in the South Bronx. I created innovative pilot programs for Hispanic children that encompassed art and technology and obtained the necessary support through federal ESEA Title III funds and a material grant from the Polaroid Corporation. Utilizing a 1-inch, closed-circuit television station, art and photographic processes, my nascent program, Language Arts Through Visual Arts, became the seed that the urban educator, Dr. Edythe Gaines utilized to birth the national models now known as RITA - Reading Improvement Through the Arts and AGE - Art in General Education.
In addition to my artistic endeavors,
I have worked as an educator, arts administrator and continue to do so as
an organizational development consultant in the nonprofit and private sectors.
In the late 1970s, I established the Development Office at the NYC
Department of Cultural Affairs under Commissioner Henry Geldzahler. In
1980, I also created the Development and Fundraising curriculum for
the Post-Graduate Program of Museum
Studies at New York University, teaching until 1985.
At present I am involved in a number of projects, both individual and collaborative
- the regeneration of two series from the 1970s, Love Canal and the
Cosmic Mass, the multimedia projects: Voice of the Landscape and
Coastal Uplift, as well as a world-wide environmental confessional project
StrangeLove, Earthly Sins.
In the mid-1970s, as Fashion Metamorphosis,
Lynn and I were involved in the NYC fashion industry where we incorporated
various art techniques into the design of women's apparel. This undertaking
represented the earliest of our collaborations and carried over into the creation
of a third artist, which we birthed during our 1978 joint-residency
fellowships in painting and photography at Yaddo, a creative community in
Saratoga Springs, NY. This third artist, which we exhibit under the moniker,
D. PAUL/SMALL, represents a fusion of painting, photography, mixed
and new media, incorporating digital processes. In the fall of 2003, we again
received joint-residency fellowships to Yaddo in painting, photography and
multimedia.
We have lived and exhibited in New York, Europe, Mexico, San Francisco, and
Los Angeles. Our work has been shown in numerous gallery and museum exhibitions.
We have lectured at the Museum of the City of Mexico, the Art Institute of
Chicago and the Brooks Institute of Photography, Santa Barbara, California
among others and have received various grants, awards and commissions. Our
work is represented in public and private collections both in the United States
and abroad.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
2009An Overview of
Dennis Paul's - Arts Administation + Development
CoLabArt's - Environmental Activism + Art
Lynn Small ArtWork Overview 1966-Present
Lynn Small MonoType Presentation
Dennis Paul Photo Journey
2008StrangeLove, Earthly Sins: Earth Elegies V
A WorldWide Environmental Confession
Please Take a Moment and Make Your Confession
Multimedia Installation Videos on YouTube
Love Canal, 30 Years AgoThe Future of Nations - Environment: Citizen Artists Making Emphatic Arguments
18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica, CA + Inaugural Exhibition, La Casa Del Tunel Art Center, Tijuana, Mexico
Al Nodal, Curator Statement
Project Artists StatementsJewish Magic: Folklore and Fantasy, JCC of San Francisco, CA
2007
Multimedia Installation Videos on YouTube
2003
2002
2000 - 2001
2000
1998 - 1999
1998
1995
1993-94
1990;89;88
1989
1988;84
1985
1984
1983
1982
1980
1978-79
1978
1977
1975
1974
Inaugural Group Show, Galeria Uno, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
1973
1972
1971
1970
SELECTED COLLECTIONS: Public/Private
Arbor Group, New York
Atwater State Bank, Minnesota
Richard Catalano, Greenwich, Connecticut/Stowe, Vermont
Anne Clivot, Paris, France
Moriyah Colaine Singh, Topanga, California
Cull House, Long Island, New York
Patty and Marvin Demoff, Beverly Hills, California
Elisabeth Dudley, Redding, Connecticut
Suzanne and Howard Feldman, New York
Rosi Foster, Zurich, Switzerland
Angela Scalpello and Charles R. Foy, New York
Charles and Jill Shira Guice, Berkeley, California
Judy and Adam Haut, Far Hills, New Jersey
Rachel and Jonathan Herlands, New York
The Hidden You, New York
Deborah and Jonathan Himmelfarb, Falmouth, Maine
Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Michigan
Dr. Roy and Barbara Kaplan, Oakland Hills, California
Suzanne Lewin, Naples, Florida
Dr. Andrew Seidman and Dina Markson, New York
Jose Ramirez, Madrid, Spain
Reader’s Digest Collection, New York
Sandra and Mariano Rechy, Mexico City, Mexico
Bonnie and Richard Reiss, Jr., New York/East Hampton, Long Island
Laurie Selik and Eric H. Roth, Los Angeles, California
Sarabeth’s Kitchen, Inc., New York
Helen and Harvey Seslowsky, Dallas, Texas
David Steele, San Francisco, California
Joy and Robert M. Timperio, Indian Wells, California
Harry Wils & Company, Inc., New York
