Ben Dallas detail

Ben Dallas

Artist Statement:

Something between this and that is a thing without associations as somewhere between here and there is a place unknown. The only aesthetic category that matters is the one accommodating the unexpected. Even the labels of "sculpture" and "painting" carry weight too heavy for art that demands to be left alone. The contexts available for the works we make are already set and waiting for new arrivals. There is too much information in the world and in art. I want to make something more alive and active than the categories used to kill it.

-Ben Dallas (Berlin, 2001)

EDUCATION:
B.A. History of Art, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 1969
M.A. History of Art, University of Illinois, Chcmpaign, IL 1971

EMPLOYMENT:
Professor of Art, William Rainey Harper College, Palatine, IL 1974 to 2001
Staff Lecturer, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 1972 to 74

DISTINCTIONS:
Artist Fellowship, Illinois Arts Council, 2002
Artist in Residence, Karl Hofer Gesellschaft, Berlin, 2001
Artist Fellowship Finialist Award, Illinois Arts Council, 2001
Artist Fellowship, Illinois Arts Council, 1998
Artist Fellowship, Illinois Arts Council, 1995
ICIS (Illinois Consortium for International Studies) Faculty, Visiting Artist
Christ Church College, Canterbury, UK 1995 ICIS Faculty, London, 1987
Fullbright-Hayes Fellowship, Belgium and The Netherlands, 1976

EXHIBITIONS
ONE PERSON:
BEN DALLAS Mainsite Contemporary Art, Norman, OK 2001
BEN DALLAS Studio Exhibition, Karl Hofer Gesellschaft, Berlin, 2001
BEN DALLAS -LOUD Wood Street Gallery, Chicago, IL Sept. 2000
BEN DALLAS -DIMENSIONAL WORKS Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR Mar.2000
BEN DALLAS Trinity Christian College, Palos Heights, IL Nov. 1999
BEN DALLAS- WALL WORKS Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR Nov. 1998
BEN DALLAS- RECENT WORKS Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL July-Sept 1998
BEN DALLAS Wood Street Gallery , Chicago, IL Sept. 1998
BEN DALLAS Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, TN Feb. 1998
BEN DALLAS Davidson Gallery, Seattle, WA June 1996
BEN DALLAS Christ Church College, Canterbury, UK Dec. 1995
BEN DALLAS Harper College, Palatine, IL Mar. 1991

2/3 PERSON: PAINTING- BEN DALLAS/TIM VAN LAAR New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art, New Harmony, IN Aug.- Sept. 2002
THE DIRECTIVE OBJECT- DALLAS AND KARRASCH Gallerie im Saalbau, Berlin, Oct. 2001
BEN DALLAS/VALERIE GILMAN Riverside Art Center, Riverside, IL Feb. 2000
DALLAS, CLARK, AND POLLOCK Loyola University, Chicago, IL Jan. 2000
BEN DALLAS AND MICHAEL KOZIEN College of Lake County, Grayslake, IL July, 1999
DALLAS, GEICHMAN, AND POWELL Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago, IL Mar. 1997
BEAUTY AND THE THREE Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL May, 1997
Bradley University, Peoria, IL Aug. 1997
BEN DALLAS/MICHAEL HOPKINS Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL Mar. 1996
TWO PAINTERS: DALLAS AND MATALAN Baylor University, June 1994
SHAPES OF SURFACE- DALLAS, POLLOCK AND RIZZO Wood Street Gallery Chicago, IL Sept. 1996
ABSTRACT SERIALIZATION-THE IMPLIED RULE- DALLAS AND ANDERSON NAB Gallery, Chicago, IL 1993

SELECT GROUP:
CHICAGO ART EXPO Elizabeth Leach Gallery, May, 2002
ABSTRACT TRUTHS Hinsdale Center for the Arts, Hinsdale, IL, Jan. 2002
SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL ART EXPOSITION (Elizabeth Leach Gallery) Jan.
2002 CONTEMPORARY LANDSCAPE Davidson Gallery, Seattle, WA 2001
LAYERINGS Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR 2001
INSTINCT Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA 1999
CONTEMPORARY ABSTRACTION- CHICAGO Klein Art Works, Chicago, IL 1999
SMALL SIGNIFICANT SCULPTURE -Ben Dallas, K. Hamanishi, Richard Hunt, Rob Lorenson, E. Maakestad, Bruce White, Deborah Lovely Fine Arts, Oakbrook Terrace, IL 1999
SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL ART EXPOSITION (Elizabeth Leach Gallery) 1999
THE CONSCIOUS LINE Anne Reed Gallery, Ketchum, ID 1999
SMALL WONDERS San Francisco Craft and Folk Art Museum, San Francisco, CA 1996
SHAPE SHOW Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR 1996
WANDERLUST-ABSTRACTION IN CHICAGO A.R.C. Gallery 1995
THOUGHT MANIFESTED-3D WORKS FROM THE PERMANENT COLLECTION Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL 1995
FASSBENDER GALLERY GROUP SHOW Chicago, IL 1995
RHONA HOFFMAN GALLERY GROUP SHOW Chicago, IL 1995
ABSTRACT CHICAGO Klein Art Works, Chicago, IL 1993
SMALL WORKS INTERNATIONAL Amos-Eno Gallery, New York, NY 1992




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