Joseph A. Fiore (1925-2008)
Born in Cleveland, Ohio, 1925
Family
Salvatore Fiore (father) a founding 40-year member of The Cleveland Orchestra
Education
1948-49 California School of Fine Arts (now San Francisco Art Institute)
1946-48 Black Mountain College (studied with Albers, Bolotowsky, DeKooning)
1938-41 Attended summer and Saturday studio classes at The Cleveland Museum of Art
Selected Awards
American Academy of Arts and Letters- 1981, 1998
The Cleveland Museum of Art
National Academy of Design Awards-
2003 Adolph and Clara Obrig Prize, 1978th Annual
2001 Andrew Carnegie Prize, 176th Annual
1995 Edwin Palmer Memorial Prize, 170th Annual
1993 Certificate of Merit, 1968th Annual
The National Arts Club, New York, New York
Selected One Person Exhibitions
2010 Works on Paper, Alexandre Gallery, New York, New York
2004 Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, Maine
Joseph Fiore: 25 Years of Paintings from Rock Fragments, Rider University, Lawrenceville, New Jersey
2002 Round Top Center for the Arts, Damariscotta , Maine
River Gallery, Damariscotta, Maine
1997 Round Top Center for the Arts, Damariscotta , Maine
Cathedral of St John the Divine, New York, New York
1995-96 50-Year Retrospective, Black Mountain College Museum of Arts Center, Ashville, North Carolina
1988 Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland, Maine
1981 Fischbach Gallery, New York, New York
1977 Fischbach Gallery, New York, New York
1974 John Bernard Meyers Gallery, New York, New York
1973 Green Mountain Gallery, New York, New York
1969 Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York, New York
1965 Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York, New York
1960 Staempfli Gallery, New York, New York (New York debut)
1955 Gallerie Parnass, Wuppertal, Germany
1950 Ten-Thirty Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio
1948 Ten-Thirty Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio
1944 Ten-Thirty Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio
Invitational Exhibitions
2010 Portland Museum of Art, Collage: Piecing It Together, Portland, Maine
2001 Hofstra Museum, Hampstead, Long Island
1997 Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York, New York
1987 The Arts at Black Mountain, Grey Art Center, New York University, New York, New York
1982 Jersey City Museum, Trenton, NJ
1981 American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, New York
1975 Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
1959 Whitney Museum Annual, New York, New York
1955 Artists Annual, Stable Gallery, New York, New York
1954 Artists Annual, Stable Gallery, New York, New York
Selected Collections
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
North Carolina State Museum,
Colby Art Museum, Waterville, Maine
Asheville Museum of Art, Asheville, North Carolina
Black Mountain College Museum & Arts Center, Asheville, North Carolina
Teaching
1972-83 Artists for Environment Foundation, Visiting Artist/Critic, Walpack, New Jersey
1980 Parsons School of Design, Summer Program, Dordogne, France
1970 Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
1962-70 Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1949-56 Black Mountain College, Asheville, North Carolina
Selected Bibliography
Carlyle Burrows, Herald Tribune, October 23, 1960
Rackstraw Downes, What the Sixties Meant to Me, Art Journal, Winter 1974-75
Grace Glueck, The Artists’ Artist, Art News November, 1982
Hilton Kramer, New York Observer, August 25-September 1, 1997
Fairfield Porter, Art, The Nation, 1960 (review of Ad Rheinhardt, Joseph Fiore and Cy Twombly)
Fairfield Porter, Art in It’s Own Terms, Selected Criticism
Philip Pearlstein, Art News, November 1982
Peter Schjeldahl, How to Explain the Flood of Realist Art, Sunday New York Times, March 18, 1973