movement birth_place training nationality field birth_date article_title name bgcolour
lyrical , post-painterly abstraction abstraction , minimalism , formalism -lrb- art -rrb- new haven , ct phillips exeter academy , princeton university american abstract painting 23 september 1934 walter darby bannard
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walter darby bannard

walter darby bannard -lrb- born september 23 , 1934 in new haven , ct -rrb- , also known as darby bannard , is an american abstract painter .
bannard attended phillips exeter academy and princeton university , where he struck up a friendship and working relationship with frank stella , which continued after graduation and eventuated in the extreme minimalism both artists engaged in around 1959 and thereafter .
the first paintings from the 1959-1965 period contained few forms , as little as a single band painted around a field of color , and then developed into somewhat more complex geometric forms by the mid-60s .
in the late 60s the forms dissolved into pale , atmospheric fields of color applied with rollers and paint-soaked rags .
he was associated with lyrical abstraction , minimalism , formalism -lrb- art -rrb- , post-painterly abstraction and color field painting .
he began using the new acrylic mediums in 1970 and his paintings evolved into colorful expanses of richly colored gels and polymers applied with squeegees and commercial floor brooms , which continues to the present .
bannard was awarded a guggenheim fellowship in 1968 .
bannard 's first solo show was at the tibor de nagy gallery in january , 1965 and he had exhibitions there until 1970 .
he began showing at the lawrence rubin gallery , and then in 1974 at the knoedler contemporary gallery , where he showed for the next 15 years .
currently he shows at the loretta howard gallery and the berry campbell gallery in new york city , the daniel weinberg gallery in los angeles and the center for visual communication in miami , florida .
he has exhibited in numerous museums and galleries nationally and internationally to the present day .
bannard has had close to a hundred solo exhibitions , been in several hundred group shows and is represented in the collections of all the major new york museums and many others around the world .
he is a prolific writer on art with over a hundred published essays and reviews ; bannard has taught , lectured and participated in panel discussions , and has been a co-chair of the international exhibitions committee of the national endowment for the arts .
he curated and wrote the catalog for the first comprehensive retrospective exhibition of the paintings of hans hofmann , at the hirshhorn museum in washington , d.c. currently bannard is professor and head of painting of the department of art and art history at the university of miami .
