DOUGLAS WIRLS
Born: 1951 - Cleveland, Ohio
Education:
Education:
1970-74, B.F.A., Tyler College of Fine Art, Philadelphia PA
1972 - Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
ONE and TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2013 “ Wood” Imogen Holloway Gallery, Saugerties, NY
2010 “Terrains” The Painting Center, New York, NY
2007 “Furnishings” The Painting Center, New York, NY
2006 “Observations” The Projects Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2005 “Bad Botany” The Painting Center, New York, NY
2003 “Plants and Animals” The More Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1972 - Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
ONE and TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2013 “ Wood” Imogen Holloway Gallery, Saugerties, NY
2010 “Terrains” The Painting Center, New York, NY
2007 “Furnishings” The Painting Center, New York, NY
2006 “Observations” The Projects Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2005 “Bad Botany” The Painting Center, New York, NY
2003 “Plants and Animals” The More Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2000 Binghamton University, Rosefsky Memorial Gallery, Binghamton, New York
1997 The More Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1996 Left Bank Gallery, Bennington, VT
1995 The Prince Street Gallery, New York, NY
1993 The More Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1990 The More Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1988 The More Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1984 Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1980 Landmark Gallery, New York
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2013 “Summer Selections” , Denise Bibro Gallery, New York NY
2012 “December Drawing Show” , Imogen Holloway Gallery, Saugerties NY
“Zoom In” Imogen Holloway Gallery, Saugerties NY
“Foundation Faculty Exhibition” , Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
2011 “Winter Salon”, Denise Bibro Gallery, New York, NY
“Pennsylvania Impressionism and Landscape from the Collection of the Woodmere Art Museum”, Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia , PA
“Hudson River Contemporary: Works on Paper”, Boscobel House and Garden, Garrison, NY
2010 “Portrayals” , Lohin-Geduld Gallery, New York, NY
“New Walls, New Paint” , The Painting Center, New York, NY
“Fortieth Anniversary Exhibition” , Prince Street Gallery, New York, NY
2009 “Spring”, Ober Gallery , Kent , CT
“Gone to the Dogs” Denise Bibro Gallery, New York , NY
“Foundation Faculty Exhibition” Schafler Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn
2008 “Philadelphia Collects: Works on Paper” Delaware Center for the
Contemporary Arts
2007 “Crossing Disciplines: Furniture”, The Schaffler Gallery, Pratt Institute,
“Altered Landscapes”, The Projects Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2006 “Black and White”, The Projects Gallery, Philadelphia , PA
“25th Anniversary Exhibition”, Denise Bibro Gallery, New York, NY
“Inaugural Exhibition” Ober Gallery, Kent, CT
2005 “Creatures”, Denise Bibro Gallery, New York, NY
“Crossing Disciplines”, The Schafler Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
2004 “Staying on Point”, Figure Drawing , Denise Bibro Gallery, New York, NY
2003 “What’s Black and White, Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary Art”, The State Museum of Pennsylvania
“Light and Landscape: Reflections of Italy” Wayne Art Center, Wayne PA.
“IV Centuries of Birds in Paintings, Sculpture, and Prints” , The Clarke Galleries, Traveled , Stowe Vermont, Palm Beach FL., New York City (catalog)
2002 “Imaginative Affinities, Echoes of Edwin Dickenson in Contemporary
American Paintings”, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Philadelphia, PA
2000 “175th Annual Exhibition” The National Academy of Design Museum
New York, NY (received the Laufman Award for drawing)
1999 “Please Be Seated”, MetLife Exhibitions Program, Met Life Building,
1998 “173rd Annual Exhibition”, The National Academy of Design Museum,
1997 “Birds in Art” Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI
1996 “Smith College Invitational Drawing Exhibition”, Smith College,
Northhampton, MA
1992 “Man and Beast”, Fan Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
“New Acquisitions, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
1991 “Figures”, Seraphim Gallery, Englewood, NJ
1990 “Nocturne”, The More Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1987 “The Figure”, William and Mary College, Williamsburgh, VA
1986-7 “Works on Paper”, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
1985 “Works on Paper”, Woodmeer Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA
1983 “Four Painters”, Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1982 “Elaine Dekooning and Her Inadvertent Collection”, Elaine Benson
Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY
1977 “New Talent”, Maine Coast Artists, Rockport, ME
Awards and Grants
2008 FIPSE “Dean’s Award”, Pratt Institute
2007 Distinguished Teacher Award, Pratt Institute
2002 Faculty Development Grant, Pratt Institute
2000 Laufman Award for Drawing, National Academy of Design
1998 Joseph S. Isador Medal for Painting, National Academy of De
Public and Corporate Collections
Ashville Art Museum, Asheville, NC
Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
Western Carolina University, Belk Art Gallery, Cullowhee, NC
Cigna Museum Philadelphia, PA
Pennsylvania State Museum, Harrisburg, PA
New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
Ciba-Geigy Collection, Ardsley, NY
Woodmeer Art Museum, Woodmeer, PA
Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau WI
Bibliography
Prince Street Gallery: Fortieth Anniversary, catalog, June 2010
Krytynn Warchol “ Gallery Turns Art World Upside Down ; Altered Landscapes” Key to Philadelphia Magazine, March, 2007
James Cooper, “ Douglas Wirls at the Painting Center” , American Arts Quarterly, Spring 2005
Edward J. Sozanski, “Drawings With Punch”, Philadelphia Inquirer, April 25, 2003
E. Lynn Moss, “Drawings in Flux”,American Artist Magazine, January 2001
Birds in Art 1997, Leigh Yawkey Wodson Art Museum, p. 121
Edward J. Sozanski, Philadelphia Inquirer, May 28, 1993
William P. Scott, “ Douglas Wirls at the More Gallery”Art in America, January, 1989
Jennifer Crohn, Philadelphia Inquirer, March 20, 1990
Victoria Donohoe, Philadelphia Inquirer, December 26, 1986
1997 The More Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1996 Left Bank Gallery, Bennington, VT
1995 The Prince Street Gallery, New York, NY
1993 The More Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1990 The More Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1988 The More Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1984 Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1980 Landmark Gallery, New York
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2013 “Summer Selections” , Denise Bibro Gallery, New York NY
2012 “December Drawing Show” , Imogen Holloway Gallery, Saugerties NY
“Zoom In” Imogen Holloway Gallery, Saugerties NY
“Foundation Faculty Exhibition” , Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
2011 “Winter Salon”, Denise Bibro Gallery, New York, NY
“Pennsylvania Impressionism and Landscape from the Collection of the Woodmere Art Museum”, Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia , PA
“Hudson River Contemporary: Works on Paper”, Boscobel House and Garden, Garrison, NY
2010 “Portrayals” , Lohin-Geduld Gallery, New York, NY
“New Walls, New Paint” , The Painting Center, New York, NY
“Fortieth Anniversary Exhibition” , Prince Street Gallery, New York, NY
2009 “Spring”, Ober Gallery , Kent , CT
“Gone to the Dogs” Denise Bibro Gallery, New York , NY
“Foundation Faculty Exhibition” Schafler Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn
2008 “Philadelphia Collects: Works on Paper” Delaware Center for the
Contemporary Arts
2007 “Crossing Disciplines: Furniture”, The Schaffler Gallery, Pratt Institute,
“Altered Landscapes”, The Projects Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2006 “Black and White”, The Projects Gallery, Philadelphia , PA
“25th Anniversary Exhibition”, Denise Bibro Gallery, New York, NY
“Inaugural Exhibition” Ober Gallery, Kent, CT
2005 “Creatures”, Denise Bibro Gallery, New York, NY
“Crossing Disciplines”, The Schafler Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
2004 “Staying on Point”, Figure Drawing , Denise Bibro Gallery, New York, NY
2003 “What’s Black and White, Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary Art”, The State Museum of Pennsylvania
“Light and Landscape: Reflections of Italy” Wayne Art Center, Wayne PA.
“IV Centuries of Birds in Paintings, Sculpture, and Prints” , The Clarke Galleries, Traveled , Stowe Vermont, Palm Beach FL., New York City (catalog)
2002 “Imaginative Affinities, Echoes of Edwin Dickenson in Contemporary
American Paintings”, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Philadelphia, PA
2000 “175th Annual Exhibition” The National Academy of Design Museum
New York, NY (received the Laufman Award for drawing)
1999 “Please Be Seated”, MetLife Exhibitions Program, Met Life Building,
1998 “173rd Annual Exhibition”, The National Academy of Design Museum,
1997 “Birds in Art” Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI
1996 “Smith College Invitational Drawing Exhibition”, Smith College,
Northhampton, MA
1992 “Man and Beast”, Fan Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
“New Acquisitions, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
1991 “Figures”, Seraphim Gallery, Englewood, NJ
1990 “Nocturne”, The More Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1987 “The Figure”, William and Mary College, Williamsburgh, VA
1986-7 “Works on Paper”, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
1985 “Works on Paper”, Woodmeer Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA
1983 “Four Painters”, Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1982 “Elaine Dekooning and Her Inadvertent Collection”, Elaine Benson
Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY
1977 “New Talent”, Maine Coast Artists, Rockport, ME
Awards and Grants
2008 FIPSE “Dean’s Award”, Pratt Institute
2007 Distinguished Teacher Award, Pratt Institute
2002 Faculty Development Grant, Pratt Institute
2000 Laufman Award for Drawing, National Academy of Design
1998 Joseph S. Isador Medal for Painting, National Academy of De
Public and Corporate Collections
Ashville Art Museum, Asheville, NC
Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
Western Carolina University, Belk Art Gallery, Cullowhee, NC
Cigna Museum Philadelphia, PA
Pennsylvania State Museum, Harrisburg, PA
New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
Ciba-Geigy Collection, Ardsley, NY
Woodmeer Art Museum, Woodmeer, PA
Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau WI
Bibliography
Prince Street Gallery: Fortieth Anniversary, catalog, June 2010
Krytynn Warchol “ Gallery Turns Art World Upside Down ; Altered Landscapes” Key to Philadelphia Magazine, March, 2007
James Cooper, “ Douglas Wirls at the Painting Center” , American Arts Quarterly, Spring 2005
Edward J. Sozanski, “Drawings With Punch”, Philadelphia Inquirer, April 25, 2003
E. Lynn Moss, “Drawings in Flux”,American Artist Magazine, January 2001
Birds in Art 1997, Leigh Yawkey Wodson Art Museum, p. 121
Edward J. Sozanski, Philadelphia Inquirer, May 28, 1993
William P. Scott, “ Douglas Wirls at the More Gallery”Art in America, January, 1989
Jennifer Crohn, Philadelphia Inquirer, March 20, 1990
Victoria Donohoe, Philadelphia Inquirer, December 26, 1986