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BIOGRAPHY   1950 Born in Amityville, New York 1972 B.A. Skidmore College, Colgate University 1973 Cranbrook Academy   The artist lives and works in New York City   Biography @ AskArt.com ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS 1991 Philippe Staib Gallery, New York 1988 Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN Liz Galasso Fine Art, New York Jason McCoy, New York 1986 Jason McCoy, New York 1985 Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston [more] Centre d’Art Contemporaine, Bordeaux Goldman-Kraft Gallery, Chicago 1984 Madison Art Center, Madison, WI [more] Ted Greenwald Gallery, New York 1981 Gallerie Alfred Schmela, Dusseldorf Bonlow Gallery, New York 1980 Gallerie Yvon Lambert, Paris Gallery Ugo Ferranti, Rome Gallerie Françoise Lambert, Milan Permanent Collection, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Nice [more] 1979 Gallery Ivon Lambert, Paris Gallerie Alfred Schmela, Dusseldorf GRANTS AND AWARDS 1981 C.A.P.S., New York State Council on the Arts, project grant 1980 Artists Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts Natural heritage Trust, project grant 1979 C.A.P.S., New York State Council on the Arts, project grant BIBLIOGRAPHY "Public Sculpture" (28 min., 1983) Features Luise Nevelson, Owen Morrel and Richard Serra. Nevelson and Serra are interviewed by Marc Miller. [cmu.edu] [artnewyork.org] [film specifics] Documentary Film on Public Art by Shalom Gorewitz, Parsons [more] Anderson, Alexandria "Owen Morrel" The Village Voice, July 24, 1978 Anderson, Alexandria "Vignettes" Portfolio, November/December 1981, p. 8 Ashbery, John "Asylum in the Sky" New York Magazine, August 28, 1978, pp. 103-4 Ashbery, John "Don't Look Down" Newsweek, February 1, 1982, p. 77 Ashbery, John "Two For The Road" New York Magazine, July 28, 1980, pp. 52-3 Bourdon, David "An Artist Sees Far" Du, 1977, pp. 9-10 Bourdon, David "Owen Morrel Makes Optical Allusions" The Village Voice, December 13, 1976, p. 109 Brensen, Michael "Owen Morrel" The New York Times, October 16, 1987, p. 27 Brensen, Michael "Sculpture Goes Outdoors" The New York Times, July 1984, 1987, p. C-20 Brunelle, Al "Owen Morrel In Poughkeepsie and New York" Art In America, July/August 1977, pp. 93-4 Castle, Ted and Machals, Duane "Art In It's Place" GEO, September 1982, pp. 64-7 Castle, Ted "Owen Morrel In TriBeca" Art In America, October 1984, p. 195 Cavaliere, Barbara "The Making Of Omega" Arts Magazine, October 1980, pp. 118-122 Cavaliere, Barbara "Cityworks" Arts Magazine, November 1978, p. 19 Christo, C. "Le Toucher de L'Espace et du Temps" Artistes, March 1984, pp. 18-20 "Ein Gefangnis Diensie Der Freiheit" Du, September 1978, p. 19 Everingham, Carol "Heightened Perspectives-Owen Morrel Platforms To New Visions" The Houston Post, March 9, 1985, p. 1-2 Friedricks, Y. "Galerie Schmela, Dusseldorf; Ausstellung" Kunstwerk 33, No. 2, 1980, p. 75-6 Gluek, Grace "Sculpture Under A City Sky" The New York Times, July 14, 1978, p. C-23 Gluek, Grace "Tracking The Marvelous" The New York Times, April 24, 1981, p. C-19 Gordoni, Gianfranco "Boomerang" Actuel, February 1982, pp. 34-5 Karmel Pepe "Photography: Urban Disjunctions" Art In America, March 1982, pp. 45-9 Kingsley, April "Revisionism" The Village Voice, September 25, 1978, p. 113 Koch, Wolfgang "Zweschen Hutte, Halde und Siedlung" Ieton 211 (September 10-11, 1988) Larson, Kay "Is There A Cramp In The Beauty Parlor?" The Village Voice, September 10, 1980, p. 77 Larson, Kay "On Edge" New York Magazine, January 1982, pp. 64-5 Levin, Kim "Owen Morrel" Arts Magazine, February 1977, p. 14 Marzoratti, Gerrald "Museum Without Walls" Soho Weekly News, July 27, 1978, p. 20 McFadden Sarah "Going Places, Part II: he Outside Story" Art In America, Summer 1980, pp. 51-61 McKinnon, Michael "Art Of The 1970's/History of Western Art" London: Visual Publications International, 1980, p. 9 Miller, Larry "Art In New York" Paletten, April 10, 1979, pp. 2-11 Nadelman, Cynthia "Gabo's Progeny" ARTnews, December 1987, pp. 123-7 Nadelman, Cynthia "Forest In Greenwich Village" ARTnews, November 1979, pp. 70-1 1981 Biennial Exhibition Exhibition Catalog New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, p. 79 Nuridsany, Michel "Asylum and Omega" Art Press, February 1981, p. 18 Pearlman, Jill "Boomerang" Us, April 27, 1982, pp. 22-3 Perlberg, Deborah "Reviews: New York" Artforum, December 1978, pp. 65-6 Raven, Arlene "Art In The Public Interest-Doing Or Making Good" The Village Voice, May 3, 1988, pp. 3-4 Raynor, Vivian "Two Sculpture Shows: One In Small Scale, The Other Large" The New York Times, June 12, 1988, p. 32 Rockefeller Center Special Education "The Rockefeller Group At A Glance" Center, November 1989, p. 6 Tompkins, Calvin "Boomerang" The New Yorker, April 19, 1982, pp. 36-7 Trebay, Guy "Struts and Hums" The Village Voice, July 23, 1980, p. 52 Voltz, Wolfgang "Omega" (Photo-essay) Plus, October 29, 1980, pp. 52 Gluek, Grace "Art People" The New York Times, July 21, 1978, p. C-18 McFadden, Sarah "reflections On A Tilted Ramp" Art In America, November 1980, pp. 120-3 Anonymous "New Sight At Niagara" Der Spiegel, July 14, 1980, pp. 137 Anonymous "Omega E Niagara" Domus, February 1981, p. 56 Ash, John "Morrel's Delirious Structures" Art In America, December 1991, pp. 104-08 Chayat, Sherry "Energy Sculpture" Syracuse Herald American, September 10, 1995 Blankstein, Amy Sculpture Magazine, February 1996, p. 27 Vogel, Carol "Inside Art" The New York Times, September 20, 1996 Hogrefe, Jeffrey New York Observer, December 20, 1997 Gerrit Henry "Art Talk" ARTnews, November 1998 Arts and Antiques November 13, 1998 Myers, Trent, "Owen Morrel Works 1976-1984", Madison Arts Center, 1984 [more]

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The skyline of New York has been the focus of Owen Morrel's work for 20 years. McGraw Hill, The New Museum, Sithe Energy Group and Hell's Kitchen are included as installation locations.