DAN GORSKI

1939, Cleveland, OH - 2017, Houston, TX

Education

1964 MFA, Yale University, School of Art and Architecture, New Haven, CT

1963 Yale Norfolk Summer School (Scholarship)

1962 BFA, Yale University, School of Art and Architecture, New Haven, CT

1961 Diploma, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH

Selected Exhibitions

2024 Primary Colors: Dan Gorski Paintings, 1962-65, The Jung Center Gallery, Houston, TX

2020 Daniel Gorski: Paintings from the 1960s, Loretta Howard Gallery, New York, NY

2014 Hard-Edge: Then/Now, Wade Wilson Art, Houston, TX

2006 Sculpture Now, Williams Tower Gallery, Houston, TX

2004 Second Language, Williams Tower Gallery, Houston, TX

Rock, Scissors, Paper, Williams Tower Gallery, Houston, TX

Rocky Mountain Biennial, Museum of Contemporary Art, Ft. Collins, CO

2001 Assistance League of Houston Celebrates Texas, Houston, TX

2000 Cleveland Clinic Foundation Invitational, Cleveland, OH

2000 Outrageous Art Salon, Diverseworks, Houston, TX

1997 Drawn Together, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH

Proof of Love, Lynn Goode Gallery, Houston, TX

1996 Anderson Ranch Faculty Show, Snowmass, CO

Bodies in Evidence, New Gallery, Houston, TX

1995 Faith in Vision, Transco Tower Gallery, Houston, TX

Vision Through Materials, Transco Tower Gallery, Houston, TX

Dan Gorski - Recent Works, Davis/McClain Gallery, Houston, TX

1994 Best Laid Plans, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX

1993 Artist’s Angels, Artables Gallery, Houston, TX

Visions/Revisions, Glassell School Gallery, Houston, TX

Models, Drawings/Architectural Installation, Holocaust Museum

Commission/Kogen Residence, Houston, TX

Dan Gorski, Works from Four Decades, Davis/McClain Gallery, Houston, TX

1992 Osaka Hodori Gallery, Osaka, Japan

1991 Angelic Enlightenment, Judy Youens Gallery, Houston, TX

Abstract/Methods, Davis/McClain Gallery, Houston, TX

House, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, TX

1990 The Icon and the Spiritual, Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE

New Space/Select Group, Franz Bader Gallery, Washington, DC

Raw Space Gallery, Albuquerque, NM

1989 Commission/Johnson Law Office, Baltimore, MD

Franz Bader Gallery, Washington, DC 

1988 Dialogues in the Desert Dust, Jill Pribyl Dance Company, Kimo Theater Albuquerque, NM

1987 Themes and Variations: Cubism, Artscape 87

Painters Make Prints, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD

School 33 Art Center, Baltimore, MD

Artoday/Ateoggi, San Giovanni di Massacio, Cortona, Florence, Italy,
1986 Elements of Style: Color, Line, Form & Texture, Artscape 86, Baltimore, MD

Carson Sapiro Gallery, Denver, CO

1984 1984 May Show, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH 

1982 Artscape 82, Baltimore Arts Festival. Inc., Baltimore, MD

1981 Sculpture '81, Beaver College, Glenside, PA 

1978 Aaron Gallery, Washington, DC

1977 Sculpture Outdoors, Temple University, Ambler, PA

1976 The Maryland Biennial Exhibition, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD

1971 Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY

1970 Hanging/Leaning, Emily Lowe Gallery, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY

1969 Yale Norfolk Summer School Show, Norfolk, CT

1968 Cool Art, Larry Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT

1966 Primary Structures, Jewish Museum, New York, NY

1965 Independence, 1965, Philadelphia, PA

Group Show, Daniel’s Gallery, New York, NY

Sculpture in All Directions, World House Gallery, New York, NY

ARTIST’S RESIDENCIES

2001 Yaddo

1999 Japan Residency

AWARDS

1997 City Arts Grant

1985 A.I.C.A. Mellon Grant

1984 A. Mellon Grant

1979 Ford Foundation Grant

ACADEMIC ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE

1990-96 Director, The Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts

1971-90 Chairman/Painting Department, The Maryland Institute, College of Art.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Anderson Ranch Arts Center 

The Glassell School of Art 

The Maryland Institute, College of Art

Drexel University

Ithaca College, Ithaca

School of Visual Art

Pennsylvania State University

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

The Baltimore Museum of Art

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Museum of Fine Arts Houston

Yale University

Private Collections – USA, Japan, Mexico, South America, Thailand