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Vincent Longo American (born 1923) Vincent Longo was born in New York City in 1923. He studied at the Cooper Union, New York, from 1942-1946, and at The Brooklyn Museum Art School from 1949-1950. He went on to teach painting and printmaking at The Brooklyn Museum Art School in the mid-1950s, and printmaking at the Yale Summer School in the late-1950s and also in the late-1960s. Longo taught at Bennington College, VT from 1957 to 1967, and at Hunter College, New York from 1967 until his retirement in 2001. Although he was primarily a teacher of printmaking, and was early in his career celebrated as an innovative printmaker, Longo has painted continuously throughout his career. Since the early 1950s his work has been abstract and, since the 1960s at least, has tended to revolve around grids and often mandalas. For about the last ten years he has been absorbed with works that evoke a check or lattice; "At the moment I'm mostly concerned with layering bands that indicate light and space but I still want to demonstrate that a key metaphor of painting is brushing color across a plane as a kind of essence of leaving a personal mark, a lingering trace."* Selected Solo Exhibitions 2003 Hunter College, New York; "Vincent Longo. Reflections on Abstraction" 1995 Hunter College; "Vincent Longo Prints, 1954-1995, a retrospective" 1984-1995 Condesco / Lawler Gallery, New York; six print and painting exhibitions 1981 Adam Gimble Gallery, New York; paintings 1976 Andrew Crispo Gallery, New York; selected small paintings 1974 Susan Caldwell Gallery, New York; paintings and prints 1970 The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, and The Detroit Institute of Art; "Vincent Longo Print Retrospective" 1965 Fleming Museum, Bennington, VT; paintings 1963 Thibaut, New york; paintings 1956 Zabriski Gallery, New York; paintings 1953 Brooklyn Museum, "2 Fulbright Artists. Edmond Casarella and Vincent Longo" Selected Collections Museum of Modern Art, New York Whitney Museum of Art, New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Guggenheim Museum, New York National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Museum of Fine Art, Boston Fogg Museum, Boston The Brooklyn Museum, New York The New York Public Library Yale University Gallery, New Haven Philadelphia Museum of Art Oakland Art Museum, Oakland, CA Detroit Institute of Arts Guild Hall, Easthampton, NY Biblioteque Nationale, Paris Victoria and Albert Museum, London * From a 2003 interview with Michael Brenson, included in the exhibition catalogue "Vincent Longo. Reflections on Abstraction", Hunter College, 2003.

 

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