Rebecca Ibel Gallery - Billy Sullivan

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Billy Sullivan

Billy Sullivan views his work as a diary, describing the people and objects around him. The world he records in pastels, oils and inks is a glamorous one of beautiful settings and interesting people. His still lifes capture the lushness and inherent beauty of a vase of sunflowers on a windowsill overlooking Long Island Sound or a plate of fish and mussels on a checkered tablecloth. The portraits, in their spontaneity and tenderness, offer an intimacy, as if we belong, are part of the moment. Sullivan is one of a select group of artists whose portraits are considered more than accurate likenesses of the sitter; they transcend beyond to a work of art. David Rimanelli in his Top Ten of the Nineties, (Art Forum, December '99), describes Billy Sullivan as a contemporary artist in whose work "we see the distant reflection of Ingres's enterprise, one that admits both frank idealization and more psychologically ambiguous homage."

Based in New York, Billy Sullivan has been exhibiting with the Columbus gallery since 1994.

What others are saying about Billy Sullivan:

"Sullivan's canvases bustle with activity as a garden does with insects and ripening, but they are always quite precise. His paintings deal with how now is composed, the light of now - sunlight, flashbulb, lamp. . .Glamour is life, . . .and after Sullivan's luminance, I can't bear anyone who insists pleasure cocktails come with guilt chasers."
Bruce Hainley, Art Forum, January 1995.

"[Sullivan's work is as] traditional in its aesthetic as it is revolutionary in its poetics."
Rose E.C. Slivka, The East Hampton Star, March 18, 1999.

"If Billy Sullivan's work has one thing, it's personality. And tenderness . . . . This is portraiture as still-life; it's object as emotion and emotion as flesh. You don't just look at it; you feel it. That's good painting in my book. That's Billy Sullivan's art. . . .[W]hat I'm seeing are psychologically loaded, sensuously patterned portraits . . . . An intricate meld of abstraction and representation, architecture and ornament - Matisse meeting Mondrian after Warhol. Pretty damn smart, if you ask me. I love it."
Linda Yablonsky, Exhibition Catalogue, February 2000.

1946

Born, New York, New York.

1968

School of Visual Arts, Fine Arts Department, New York, New York

1964

High School of Art and Design, New York, New York

Lives and works in New York City.

Solo Exhibitions

2006	Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, New York.
2005	Galleria Francesca Kaufmann, Milan, Italy
2004	‘North Fork/South Fork: EastEnd Art Now,’ Parrish Art Museum, South Hampton, New York
2003	'New Work,' Nicole Klagsbrun, New York, New York. Regien Projects, Los Angeles. California
2002	'Photographs,' New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, New York 'Photographs, 1969-2002,' Nicole Klagsbrun, New York, New York
2001	'New Pastels,' Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Columbus, Ohio
2000	Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Columbus, Ohio
1999	'Pastels,' Fischbach Gallery, New York, New York'Writers, Models and Still Life,' Fischbach Gallery, New York, New York Texas Gallery, Houston, Texas Aurel Scheibler, Koln, German
1998	Rebecca Ibel Gallery (Ibel Simeonov), Columbus, Ohio
1997	Fischbach Gallery, New York, New York Regen Projects, Los Angeles, California
1996	"The Back Room," Rebecca Ibel Gallery (Allez les Filles), Columbus, Ohio
1994	Rebecca Ibel Gallery (Allez les Filles), Columbus, Ohio Barney Wyckoff Gallery, Aspen, Colorado Fischbach Gallery, New York, New York Stux Gallery, New York, New York
1993	Marguerite Oestreicher Fine Arts, New Orleans, Louisiana
1992	Fischbach Gallery, New York, New York
1990	Fischbach Gallery, New York, New York
1989	Fischbach Gallery, New York, New York
1986	Fischbach Gallery, New York, New York
1985	Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, New York
1984	Stamford Museum and Nature Center Art-Ex Gallery, Stamford, Connecticut Petersburg Gallery, New York, New York
1983	Roger Ramsay Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1981	The Arts Gallery, Baltimore, Marylan Kornblee Gallery, New York, New York
1980	Kornblee Gallery, New York, New Yor
1979	Kornblee Gallery, New York, New York
1978	Sarah Y. Rentschler Gallery, New York, New York Kornblee Gallery, New York, New York
1974	Duffy and Sons, New York, New York
1964	Contact Graphics, Texas Gallery, Houston, Texas Selected Group Exhibitions

Selected Group Exhibitions

2006	Whitney Biennial 2006, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York.
2005	‘Fabulous,’ Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Columbus, Ohio
	‘Art and the Garden’, Spainerman Gallery, East Hampton, New York.
	‘Painting’, Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Ferndale, Michigan.
	‘Paper’, Nicole Klagsburn, New York, New York.
2004	‘Beginning Here: 101 Ways’, Visual Arts Gallery, New York, New York.
	‘North Fork / South Fork: East End Art Now’, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York.
	‘Il Nudo’, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bolgna, Italy.
	‘Gio Ponti: Furnished Stetting & Figuration’, ACME, Los Angeles, California.
	‘On Paper,’ Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, New York.
2003	‘Ideale e Realta: Una storia dal Neoclassicismo ad oggi’, Galleriea d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy.
	‘Ten Years in Columbus: Part 3’, Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Columbus, Ohio.
2002	‘Summertime’, Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Columbus, Ohio.
2001	‘Reflection’, Curated by Rebecca Ibel and Carl Palazzolo, Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Columbus, Ohio.
	‘Sex - Vom Wissen und Wunschen’, Stiftung Deutsches Hyginene-Museum, Dresden, Germany.
	‘Happiness’, Galleria Presença, Porto, Portugal.
	‘Rocks & Trees’, Photographic Resource Center, Boston Univerity, Massachusetts.
2000	‘Couples’, Cheim & Read Gallery, New York, New York.
	‘Still Life’, Carpenter Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
	‘O O’, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, New York.
1999	FIAC Galerie Aurel Scheibler, Paris, France.
	‘Parallel Lines: Mix & Match for Karen’, McCready Fine Art, New York, New York.
	‘Views from the Edge of the World, Landscape Photography’, Marlborough Chelsea, New York, New York.
1998	'Summer,' Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York, New York 'Still Lives,' Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York 'Augenlust,' Kunsthaus, Hannover 'Drawings,' Meyerson & Nowinski, Seattle, Washington
1997	'Sex/Industry,' curated by John Yau, Stefan Stux Gallery, New York, New York
1996	'Summer 1996,' Rebecca Ibel Gallery (Allez les Filles/Ibel Simeonov), Columbus, Ohio 'Garden Themes,' Heckscher Museum, Huntington, New York 'Beaches,' Rene Fotouhi, East Hampton, New York
1995	'Face Value: American Portraits,' curated by Donna De Salvo, The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio and the Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, Florida 'Robert Harms, Billy Sullivan,' Rebecca Ibel Gallery (Allez les Filles), Columbus, Ohio Paul Morris Gallery, Inaugural Exhibition, New York, New York Clarissa Dalrymple, The Gramercy International Art Fair, New York, New York
1994	'Oeuvres Choisis,' Allez les Filles, Columbus, Ohio 'Demystifying the Contemporary Portrait: A Primer for the Patron,' Rebecca Ibel Gallery (Allez les Filles), Columbus, Ohio 'Dirty Pictures,' curated by Jack Pierson for Regen Projects, The Gramercy Art Fair at the Chateau Marmont, Los Angeles, California 'The New York Times Sunday Magazine.' Holly Solomon, New York, New York 'Some People,' Tom Cugliani Gallery, New York, New York 'Reveillon ‘94,' Stux Gallery, New York, New York 'Landscapes. . . Ideas,' curated by Michael Toledo, Apex Art, New York, New York 'Vered Flower Show,' Vered Gallery, East Hampton, New York 'Inaugural Group Exhibition,' Offshore Gallery, East Hampton, New York 'Truth be Told: It’s All About Love,' Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York, New York 'Absence, Activism & the Body Politic,' curated by Joseph R. Wolin, Fischbach Gallery, New York, New York 'Pride In Our Diversity,' 24 Hours for Life Gallery, New York, New York 'Summer Review,' Stux Gallery, New York, New York 'Swan,' Tom Cugliani Gallery, New York, New York 'The Second Parrish Art Museum Design Biennial: Mirrors,' The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York
1993	'Fruits, Flowers and Vegetables; the Contemporary Still Life,' Kavesh Gallery, Ketchum, Idaho
1992	'Slow Art,' curated by Alanna Heiss, Institute of Contemporary Art, P.S. 1 Museum, New York, New York 'Some People,' Tom Cugliani Gallery, New York, New York
1991	'An Artist in the Garden,' National Academy of Design, New York, New York 'The First Parrish Art Museum Design Biennial: Weathervanes' The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York 'Urban Icons,' Klarfeld Perry Gallery, New York, New York
1990	'Festivals & Festivities,' Lehman College Art Gallery 'Menagerie,' Pfizer, Inc., New York, New York 'A Little Night Music - Manhattan in the Dark,' One Dag Plaza, New York, New York
1989	'The Scarf,' exhibit and auction to benefit DIFFA, Bergdorf Goodman, New York, New York 'Collector’s Gallery XXII,' Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas 'The Food Show,' Grand Central Art Galleries, New York, New York 'Don’t Bungle the Jungle,' Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, New York
1988	'Situations,' organized by the Art Advisory Service of the Museum of Modern Art for General Electric Company, Fairfield, Connecticut 'The Art of Music,' The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, New York 'Drawn From Life: Contemporary Interpretive Landscape,' Sewall Art Gallery, Rice University, Houston, Texas
1987	'Portraits,' Ginza Art Space, Tokyo, Japan 'Major Works in Small Format,' Lever/Meyerson Galleries, Ltd., New York, New York 'Animal Life,' One Penn Plaza, curated by Gerrit Henry, New York, New York 'Water Works,' One Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, New York, New York
1986	'Summer Issue,' Fischbach Gallery, New York, New York
1984	The Cable Gallery, New York, New York 'Animals, Animals, Animals!,' The Stamford Museum and Nature Center, Stamford, Connecticut 'The New Portrait,' P.S. 1, Long Island City, New York
1984	'The Innovative Landscape,' Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, New York 'The American Still Life' Contemporary Arts Center, Houston, Texas (traveling exhibition 1983-4)
1983	The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio U.S.F. Galleries, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida 'The Painterly Figure,' Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York
1982	'Pittura di Corta Memoria,' Arts Studio, Milan, Italy 'Pittura di Corta Memoria,' Palazzo della Permanente, Milan, Italy Roger Ramsay Gallery, Chicago, Illinois 'Color it Pastels,' Paul Creative Arts Center, University of New Hampshire 'Body Language: Figurative Aspects of Recent Art,' Hayden Gallery, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, The Fort Worth Art Museum University of South Florida Galleries, and The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
1981	'Menagerie,' Goddard-Riverside Community Center, New York, New York 'New Dimensions in Drawing,' Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut, Galleria del Cavallino, Venice, Italy 'Still Life,' Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York 'Art on Paper,' Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, North Carolina
1980	'Still Life: A Selection of Contemporary Paintings,' Kent State and Tangeman Fine Art Gallery, Ohio Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Portland, Oregon P.S. 1, Long Island City, New York 'Art for Your Collection,' Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Rhode Island
1979	Staten Island Museum 'Imitation of Life,' Joseloff Art Gallery, Hartford, Connecticut 'American Watercolor,' Mitchell Museum, Mt. Vernon, Illinois and Cedar Rapids Art Center, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
1978	'Artists’ Postcards,' Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York, New York New Gallery, Schacht Fine Arts Center, Russel Sage College, Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts

Selected Bibliography

2006	Iles, Chrissie and Vergne, Philippe. Whitney Biennial 2006: Day for Night. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
2004	Bomb, Fall (cover illustration). Fyffe, Joe. ‘Lessons from the Sensual East End’, Gay City, August 12-18. Johnson, Ken. ‘The Hamptons, A Playground for Creativity’, The New York Times, August 6. Oksenhorn, Stewart. “Billy Sullivan: into the here and now’, The Aspen Times, Vol. 17, No. 157, August 6.
2003	‘BOMB sprang from a community’, BOMB Magazine, Summer, No.84, p.18-19.
2002	Montreuil, Gregory. ‘Nicole Klagsburg Review’, Falsh Art International, November-December. Billy Sullivan: Photograph a CD-ROM and DVD project essay by Peter Schjeldahi, interview by Mark McGill, published by ARTPIX. Becker, Johnathan & Colacello, Bob. ‘Studios By The Sea’. Kertess, Klaus. Essay, Transformed Photography.
2001	Starker, Melissa. ‘Here's Looking At You’, Columbus Alive, May 10, p. 12. The New Yorker, March 5, p. 23. Johnson, Ken. ‘Review of exhibitions’, The New York Times, February 23.
2000	Colacello, Bob. ‘Studios By The Sea’, Vanity Fair, August, p. 137 - 154. McQuaid, Cate, ‘Artists Evoke Yearning, Seduction, and Romance’, The Boston Globe, June 8. Johnson, Ken. ‘Art in Review’, ‘Couples’, The New York Times, February 11, p. B35.
1999	Braff, Phylliis. ‘For the Mind as Well as the Eyes’, The New York Times, November 28. Corn, Alfred. Art in America, November. Slivka, Rose C.S., ‘From the Studio’, The East Hampton Star, November 4. Kalil, Susie. ‘Canyons and Cowboys’, Houston Press, May 28. ‘Full Color’, ( Page reproduction) , Kolner Glady Unzciger, April 23. Slivka, Rose C.S., ‘From the Studio’, The East Hampton Star, March 18, p. III-4. Bell, Bowyer J. The New Yorker, March 15, p. 30.
1998	Trebay, Guy, ‘Island Outpost’, House and Garden, July, p. 90. Intra, Giovanni, ‘Ouverture’, Flash Art International November-December, p.100. Adams, Brooks, ‘The World According to Billy Sullivan’, Elle Decor, June/July.
1997	Hainley, Bruce, ‘Billy Sullivan Regan Projects, Los Angeles’, Frieze, November/December. Stanger, Ila, ‘Worldly Goods’, Departures, March/April. ‘Billy Sullivan at Fischbach’, Art Net Magazine, May. Southgate, Pasty, ‘Billy Sullivan, The Art Of The Personal’, East Hampton Star, May 1. Christy, George, ‘The Great Life’, The Hollywood Reporter, July 1. XXX Fruit Summer.
1996	Morera, Daniela. ‘Art is Love’, Moschino, October. ‘Billy Sullivan's Spring Fashions’, The New York Times Magazine, Sunday, January 1. ‘Desire,’ Visionaire 12.
1995	De Salvo, Donna. ‘Face Value: American Portraits’, exhibition catalogue, Flammarion. Harrison, Helen A. ‘Garden of Earthly Delights at the Heckscher Museum’, The New York Times, June 23, 1996; Paris, France 1995. Kalina, Richard. ‘Billy Sullivan at Fischbach’, Art in America, February, p. 93. Hainley, Bruce. ‘Billy Sullivan at Fischbach Gallery’, Art Forum, January, p. 87. McGee, Celia. ‘Portrait is Back, But How It’s Changed’, New York Times, January 1. Braff, Phyllis. ‘New Way to Contemplate Portraiture’, The New York Times, July 30. Slivka, Rose C.S. ‘From the Studio’, East Hampton Star, July 27. Austria, Saul. ‘Billy Sullivan’, Bomb, Winter, pp.94-5.
1994	Heisler, Eva. Columbus Dispatch, Sunday, December 18, p. 8G. Hall, Jacqueline. Columbus Dispatch, November 13 p. 7D. Liebmann, Lisa. ‘A Fashion Gallery’, New York Times Magazine, Sunday, September 18. Pierson, Jack. ‘Billy Sullivan/Marcelo Krasilic: People's Parties’, ARTFORUM, Summer. Hall, Jacqueline. ‘Inside the Arts’, The Columbus Dispatch, March 20. Cotter, Holland. ‘Gay Pride (and Anguish) Around the Galleries’, The New York Times, June 24.
1993	Peri, Jed. ‘Making faces’, Vogue, March. Saltz, Jerry. ‘Let us now praise artist’s artists’, Art & Auction, April.
1992	Bomb, Fall, (Cover). Heartney, Eleanor. Art in America, June. Hirsch, David. ‘The View from 105’, New York Native, March 30.
1990	Reader's Digest, July, (Cover).
1989	Mueller, Cookie. ‘Art and About’, Details, September. Hirsch, David. New York Native, June 19.
1988	Cannon, Elizabeth. ‘Artists Choose Designers’, Bomb, Summer.
1987	Gerrit, Henry. Art in America, April.
1986	Martin, Alvin. ‘American Realism: Twentieth-Century, Drawings, & Watercolors’, San Francisco Museum of Art, Abrams.
1984	Mayhall, Dorthy. ‘Animals! Animals! Animals!’, Stamford Musuem & Nature Center, June-September. Klein, Ellen Lee. ‘The New Portrait’, Arts, September.
1983	Winerip, Michael. The New York Times, August 26. Harrison, Helen. ‘Computerized Billboard Brightens up Times Square with Art-of-the-Month’, The New York Times, July 10. Braff, Phyllis. ‘From the Studio’, The East Hampton Star, July 7. Genovese, James Robbins. ‘From the Studio’, Hamptons Newspaper/Magazine, June 18, p. x. Stout, Ruth Marks. ‘Pols told of bor's arts focus’, Queens, April 11. Richman, Johnathan and the Modern Lovers, (Cover), ‘Johnathan Sings.’ McClatchy, D.J. A Garden Bestiary.
1982	Conti, Viana. Short Memory, Artra Studios, Milan, Italy. Mueller, Cookie. ‘Art and About’, Details, December. Smith, Roberta, ‘Body Language’, MIT Committee On the Visual Arts.
1981	Smith, Roberta. Village Voice, October 21-27. Torri, Grazia, Maria, ‘Jill Kornblee Gallery,’ Falsh Art no. 105, October-November. Zimmer, William. ‘All the Alternatives (above)’, Soho News, October 27.
1980	Bass, Ruth. Artnews, September.

Selected Corporate Collections

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
New Orleans Museum of Art, Louisiana
Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, New York
Commerce Bancshares, Kansas City, Missouri
Deloitte and Touche, Stamford, Connecticut
Dow Jones Company, New York, New York
Ernst and Whinney, New York, New York
Gardener, Carlton & Douglas, Washington, D.C.
The General Electric Company, Fairfield, Connecticut
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, New York, New York
Neuberger & Berman, New York, New York
NYNEX, New York, New York
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison, New York, New York
Pizzuti, Inc., Columbus, Ohio
Reader's Digest, New York
Scott's, Columbus, Ohio

Selected Private Collections

Mr. and Mrs. Adam Aronson, Missouri.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Auger, New York.
Mr. and Mrs. Casey Bayles, New York.
Mr. and Mrs. Alain and Meschell Blondel, Paris, France.
Anthony Bosca and Tracy Fletcher, Ohio.
Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Bosca, Ohio.
Mr. Fred Brandt, Virginia.
Ms. Stockard Channing, New York.
Mr. and Mrs. Martin J. Davidson, New York.
Mme Agnes B. DeFleirieu, Paris, France.
Mr. Richard Ely, New York.
Mrs. Mary Evangelista, New York.
Ms. Susie Frankfurt, New York.
Barrett and Peter Freylingheuser, New York.
Mr. and Mrs. Martin Goodman, New York.
Debra and Bing Gordon, Woodside, California.
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Grounds, New Jersey.
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Kahn, New York.
Mr. and Mrs. Ken Kaltman, Connecticut.
Mr. Ray Landers, New Jersey.
Mr. Ronald Lauder, New York.
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Malloy, New York.
Mr. Richard S. Marks, Georgia.
Mr. and Mrs. William McKibbin, New York.
Mr. Norman Muse, Illinois.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Neuberger, New York.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Nordern, New York.
Mrs. John O’Boyle, Texas.
Mr. and Mrs. William O’Boyle, New York.
Mr. David Rawle, South Carolina.
Mr. Rene Reynolds, New York.
Mr. and Mrs. Edward B. Romanow, Jr., California.
Ms. Marilyn Rosenberg, New York.
Mr. Richard Schabairo, New York.
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Schoentha, New York.
Mr. and Mrs. Harley Schrager, Nebraska.
Mr. and Mrs. Philip Schrager, Nebraska.
Mr. and Mrs. Martin Sklar, New York.
Mr. Tom Smith, New York.
Ms. Nancy Alessi and Mr. Richard Smolev, Illinois.
Mr. Kenzo Takada, Paris, France.
Mr. and Mrs. W. Nicholas Thorndike, Massachusetts.
Mr. Paul Walter, New York.
Mr. David Watsin, Wisconsin.
Mr. and Mrs. John Zaccaro, New York.

For availability and prices please contact the gallery.

Billy Sullivan
Missy and Bobby
2006
Oil on linen
30 x 21 inches
BS 286

Billy Sullivan
Christian
2006
Watercolor on paper
20 x 16 inches
BS 288

Billy Sullivan
Robert
2006
Oil on linen
30 x 42 inches
BS 289

Billy Sullivan
Christian at Two Mile Hollow
2006
Pastel on paper
21 1/4 x 30 1/4 inches
BS 287

Billy Sullivan
Sirpa Gold
2006
Digital Cibachrome, edition of 5, framed
12 x 18 inches
BS 290

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