| A Dudek Timeline
Born: 1952, Adams, Massachusetts. Birthplace of Susan
B. Anthony. Location of Mount Greylock, the tallest mountain in Massachusetts,
which inspired stories by Hawthorne and Melville.
1976-78: Moves to the Bowery in NYC. Studies at the School
of Visual Arts with Louise Bourgeois, Ronald Bladen, Joel Shapiro, Jackie
Windsor, Donald Kuspit and Carter Ratcliff. Concentrates on sculpture
and develops architectural projects (BFA, 1977). Scholarship to the Skowhegan
School of Painting and Sculpture, summer of 1978. Builds first large scale,
outdoor project at Skowhegan.
1978-83: Moves to Times Square. Enters Masters Program
at Hunter College. Studies with Tony Smith, Robert Morris, Antoni Milkowski
and E.C. Goossen. Writes thesis, “The Social and Aesthetic Influences
on Frederick Law Olmstead”, (MA, 1983). Travels to France and Italy.
Continues to work on projects that fuse architecture and sculpture. Starts
to exhibit.
1983-89: Receives C.A.P.S. grant (1983) and establishes
a studio in Williamsburg, Brooklyn (1985). Travels to Spain. Develops
and builds several temporary outdoor installations in New York City, Philadelphia,
PA and western Massachusetts (Pittsfield and Stockbridge). Starts teaching
at the School of Visual Arts (1985). Begins to make smaller object based
sculptures. Exhibits in midtown and East Village galleries. The sculptures
start to engage the early works of Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, Frank
Lloyd Wright and later, mid-century modernist architects and designers
such as Charles and Ray Eames.
1989-93: Starts teaching at Hunter College (1989). Works
on both large-scale (Socrates Sculpture Park) and small-scale projects.
Receives Marie Walsh Sharpe Grant. Travels to Germany and Poland. Sculpture
residency in Orosko, Poland (summer, 1993). Curates traveling exhibition
of Polish Drawings.
1993-98: Makes several trips to the American Southwest
to see earthworks, Native American cliff dwellings, and Donald Judd’s
complex in Marfa, TX. Curates Dead-Fit Beauty (sculptors creating fictitious
life-forms) and Architecture, Architecture, Architecture (sculptors engaging
modern architecture). Teaches in the Bennington College July Program.
Travels to France (Paris) Germany (Documenta and Munster).
1998-2003: Buys 50 year old, cape style house in Windsor,
MA and begins to “restore” it. Moves studio to new location
in Williamsburg. Installation at Art Omi. Starts to incorporate drawings
into installations. Exhibits at The Drawing Center, NYC. Collaborates
on projects with Monika Sosnowski. Solo show at Studio Facchetti. Curates
Acid Bath, American Sandwich, Photasm and Confabulations.
2004: In addition to the Williamsburg space,
establishes a second studio in Pittsfield, MA.
Researches “Concrete-rail Bridges” and “The Dams of Adams”. Travels to Scotland (Isle of Skye, Orkney,
Lewis and Glen Coe.)
Forms Archicule (www.archicule.com), a group of artists (painters, sculptors, writers) who through their own practices have developed an interest in architecture and have designed and/or built houses, landscape architecture, and furniture or other household furnishings. A commitment to "small architecture" and highly crafted, yet inexpensive, well-made functional forms is central to Archicule. Products and services by these artists are available through its website.
2005: Marries Monika Sosnowski. Together they travel to Turkey (Istanbul, Ephesus, Pergamon, and the underground cities of Cappadocia). Curates “Unrelated”, “T-Zone” and “Mostly Sculpture”.
2006: Becomes the Director of the Storefront Artist Project in Pittsfield, MA.
Curates "Selections from the Cultural Corridor" and launches the Archicule.com website in conjunction with the "Archicule" exhibition at Makor in NYC.
2007: Participates in Art Cologne. Travels to Poland (Warsaw, Kracow). Receives NYFA Fellowship in Sculpture. |
