On view June 9 – June 14, 2014
EBK Gallery [small works].
218 Pearl St.
Hartford, CT
“Measured, dream-like, solemn, or quick and animated, there is always something insistently personal in the way Power Boothe treads. He is a painter for whom rhythm is the essential organizing force.
…Just as the symmetry of the human gait can be altered by countless fortuitous events (the most determined walker is distracted by sounds, movements, encounters), so the basic rhythmic structures of Boothe’s paintings are modified by countless emotional intonations.
…For Boothe, the composition of similar units was not a way to generate pattern but a way to explore his own experience of the world. His expression of the structure of the world was, and is always lyrical.” Dore Ashton [Arts Magazine]
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POWER BOOTHE
Power Boothe has exhibited his paintings for over four decades. His work is represented in public collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. His work is also represented in the collections of the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, the Baltimore Museum of Art, and the British Museum in the UK, as well as many private collections nationally and internationally.
Boothe has received numerous individual grants, including a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Pollock/Krasner Foundation Fellowship, and a Guggenheim Fellowship for painting. He has received awards for his designs for experimental theater, dance and video productions, including a Bessie Award for set design, a Film/Video Arts Foundation Award for film, and several Art Matters Grants for theater. He has been the co-recipient of numerous collaborative grants including several NEA Inter-Arts Grants and NY State Council Grants, as well as a Lila Wallace Reader’s Digest Grant. In addition, he has been awarded a Yaddo Artists Colony residency, a McDowell Colony residency, and an Asian Cultural Council Grant for travel and study in Japan.
Boothe is currently Professor of Painting at the Hartford Art School, University of Hartford. He served as Dean of the Hartford Art School from 2001 to 2010, where he led a successful campaign to build the Renée Samuels Center, a studio facility focused on teaching art and technology. As Director of the School of Art at Ohio University from 1998 to 2001 he produced a symposium on cognitive theory and the arts: Art/Body/Mind. As Co-director of the Mount Royal Graduate School of Art at the Maryland Institute College of Art from 1993 to 1998, he curated the exhibition, Art + Necessity. The Maryland Institute awarded him the Trustees Award for Teaching Excellence in 1998. Boothe served as Lecturer in the Humanities at Princeton University from 1988–1994 and served on the faculty of the School of Visual Arts from 1979 -1988.
Boothe grew up in Lafayette, CA. He studied painting at the California College of the Arts and the San Francisco Art Institute, then received a BA in Painting from Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO. He came to New York as a student in the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program in 1967, He continued to live and work as an artist for the next three decades in New York City. He studied classical archeology at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, Greece and linguistics and philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1989 he received an Honorary Doctorate of Arts degree from Colorado College for his mid-career accomplishments.
He is married to Lynne Steincamp, a former costume designer for dance and theater and they reside on a small horse farm in rural Connecticut.
EXHIBITIONS AND PRODUCTIONS
2014
Power Boothe: Paintings, solo exhibition, EBK Gallery (small works), Hartford, CT
Borderline, solo exhibition, Five Points Gallery, Torrington, CT
Rhythm and Repetition in 20th Century Art, group exhibition, Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY
American Abstract Artists, group exhibition, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
75th American Abstract Artists Print Portfolio, group exhibitions at: Martin Gallery, Allentown, PA
2013
New Work, Hostetler Gallery, group exhibition, Nantucket, MA
2012
Minimalist Aesthetic, group exhibition, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT
New Work, Hostetler Gallery, group exhibition, Nantucket, MA
Infinite Connections, group exhibition, ArtSpace Torrington, Torrington, CT
2011
Power Boothe: Out of Order, solo exhibition, New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT
Excavating New Ground: American Art in the 1970s, group exhibition, University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville, VA
2008
American Abstract Artists Exhibition, group exhibition, The Painting Center, New York, NY
Interspace: Line and Color, three-person exhibition, Washington Art Association, Washington Depot, CT
1999
Columbia Festival of the Arts, solo exhibition, Columbia MD
New Work, group exhibition at Goya-Girl Press, Baltimore, MD
Twenty-Third Annual National Invitational Drawing Exhibition, Emporia State University, Emporia, KS
1998
New Prints Published by Goya-Girl Press, group exhibition, Baltimore MD
The Fanelli Show, O.K. Harris Gallery, NY
Chance + Necessity, Goya-Girl Press, Baltimore, MD
Tilted Arc, set design, Doug Verone Dance Co., Joyce Theater, NY
1997
Investigations, four-person exhibition, Goya-Girl Press, Baltimore, MD
Abstract Index, group exhibition, Condeso/Lawler Gallery, NY
Made at the Mill, group exhibition of prints, Goya-Girl Press, Baltimore, MD
Art Without Curves, 1120 Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
Breaking Boundaries, group exhibition, Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL
Painted Black, OIA group exhibition, New York Law School Gallery, NY
1996
American Abstract Artists 1936–1996, Mishkin Gallery, NY
American Abstract Artists, 60th Anniversary Exhibition, Kean College Art Gallery, NJ and Westbeth Gallery, NY
Small Works, Stephen Haller Gallery, NY
1995
Power Boothe, solo exhibition, Stephen Haller Gallery, NY
Small Works, group exhibition, Stephen Haller Gallery, NY
Scratching the Surface, group exhibition, Stephen Haller Gallery, NY
1994
The Persistence of Abstraction, group exhibition, Noyes Museum, Ocean Park, NJ
Maryland Institute, Then and Now, traveling exhibition, Josiah White Center, Jim Thorp, PA, Anita Shapolsky Gallery, NY
Between the Sexes, group exhibition, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD
New Performances in Found Spaces, exhibition of drawings and photographs of set designs, Lincoln Center Library, NY
Our Town, set design for dance production, choreographed by Emily Keeler, music by Richard Beggs, Oakland Ballet, Premiere Paramount Theater, Oakland, CA
Set in Motion, New York State Council selection of films, Lincoln Center, Walter Reade Theater, NY
1993
Inaugural Show, group exhibition, The Painting Center, NY
Recent Painting and Sculpture, group exhibition, Robert Morrison Gallery, NY
Private Lives, group exhibition of artists who make films, Zooma Gallery, NY
Ring Around the Rosie, set design for dance/theater production in collaboration with David Parsons, music by Richard Peaslee, lighting by Michael Chyboski, Premiere Hancher Auditorium, Iowa City, IA
Thicker Than Water, set design for dance production, choreographed by Stephan Koplowitz, music by Scott Killian, Premiere Dance Theater Workshop, NY
The Devil Comes to Princeton, set design for theater production, text by Mac Wellman, directed by Beth Schachter, Premiere Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
1992
Recent Paintings, solo exhibition, Robert Morrison Gallery, NY
Drawings, solo exhibition, Lewiston Aubern College Gallery, Lewiston, ME
Action, group exhibition, Trenkmann Gallery, NY
A Momentary Order, set design for dance/theater production in collaboration with Doug Varone, choreographer, music by C. Hyams Hart, costume design by Lynne Steincamp, Premiere Lewiston, ME
Short Shorts, film showing, Thread Waxing Building Space, NY
1991
Paintings and Drawings, solo exhibition, Dance Theater Workshop Gallery, NY
Recent Paintings, solo exhibition, Trenkmann Gallery, NY
Group Show, Robert Morrison Gallery, NY
Interactions, group exhibition, Institute for Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
Once and Once, director, designer, filmmaker for theater/film production in collaboration with Keely Garfield, choreographer and C. Hyams Hart, composer, Premiere Dance Theater Workshop, NY
Five Films, film showing, Dance Theater Workshop, NY
Garden Party, set design for dance production by Claire Porter, Premiere Dance Theater Workshop, NY
Intimate and Not So Intimate, set design for dance production, choreographed by Blondell Cummings, Premiere St. Marks Dance Space, NY
1990
New Paintings, solo exhibition, Time Life Building, NY
Paintings and Photographs, two-person exhibition, Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
30 Stories, set design, theater production by Ain Gordon, Premiere P.S. 122, NY
Cartoon, set design, dance production choreographed by Keely Garfield, Premiere Dance Theater Workshop, NY
Ringer Pike, co-director and set design, multimedia stage production by Dale Worsley, Premiere Hall Walls, Buffalo, NY
Dinizulu and His African Dancers and Singers, set design for video production by Skip Blumberg, NY
1989
Recent Work, solo exhibition, Souyun Yi Gallery, NY
New Painting, solo exhibition, The Harrison Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
Restructure/Subtracting the Grid, group show, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ
Set Drawings for Modern Dance, group exhibition, Harvard Theater Collection, Cambridge, MA
Postcards, set design for video production by Mark Rappaport, NY
Quad, set design for video, dance production by Samuel Becket, Global Village Production, NY
Moon, film premiere, Equitable Center Theater, Whitney Museum, NY
Film/Video Arts Angel Award Showcase, film showing, Museum of Broadcasting, NY
1988
Paintings: 1971–1988, solo exhibition, Hurlbutt Gallery, Greenwich, CT
Recent Paintings, solo exhibition, PMW Gallery, Stamford, CT
Drawings for Sets and Films, solo exhibition, Dance Theater Workshop Gallery, NY
Wilderness, director, designer, filmmaker for theater/film production in collaboration with Catlin Cobb, choreographer, Stephen Fechter, writer, A. Leroy, composer, Premiere Dance Theater Workshop, NY
The Joys and Enigmas of a Strange Hour, set design, Dance Theater Workshop, NY
1987
New Paintings, solo exhibition, painting, Souyun Yi Gallery, NY
Boothe and Zetterstrom, two-person exhibition, drawing, Almquist Gallery, New Preston, CT
Twenty Summers Past, group exhibition, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, CO
House Keeping, set design for dance production in collaboration with Catlin Cobb, choreographer, Premiere Dance Theater Workshop, NY
The Event of the Year, set design for dance production choreographed by Emily Keeler for Jacques d’Amboise’s National Dance Institute, Premiere San Francisco Opera House, CA
Keeping up with the Eighties, set design for theater production in collaboration with Michael Smith and A. Leroy, Premiere Dance Theater Workshop, NY
Beside Herself, 16mm film, Premiere Performance Space 122, NY
Our Man, 16mm film, Premiere Dance Theater Workshop, NY
Films by Artists, group film showing, White Columns Gallery, NY
Naked Eye Cinema, group film showing, Zone Gallery, NY
Art Mix 87, film showing, Avenue B, NY
1986
New Paintings, solo exhibition, Lynn Mayhew Gallery, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, OH
Drawings and Notations for Post-Modern Dance, group exhibition, Harvard University Theater Collection, Cambridge, MA
Low Tide, set design for dance production, Catlin Cobb, choreographer, Premiere Dance Theater Workshop, NY
Transparent Means for Traveling Light, set design for dance production in collaboration with David Gordon, John Cage, composer, Premiere Loeb Theater, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA and Brooklyn Academy of Music, NY
Overture, 16mm film, Premiere Dance Theater Workshop, NY
New Film Works, group film showing, curated by Amy Taubin, The Kitchen, NY
Avant Garde Arama, group film showing, Performance Space 122, NY
1984
Currents, solo exhibition, Institute for Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
Modern Art, group exhibition, selected by John Yau, Ted Greenwald Gallery, NY
Illusion in Contemporary Art, group exhibition, Trompe L’Oeil Gallery, NY
8 in ’84, group exhibition, Ronald Feldman Gallery, NY
Framework, set design for dance production, in collaboration with David Gordon, choreographer, Premiere Dance Theater Workshop, NY and Loeb Theater, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Variety Show, set design for dance production in collaboration with choreographer Charles Moulton and composer A. Leroy, Premiere Dance Theater Workshop, NY
And So and Also, 16mm film, Premiere The Collective for Living Cinema, NY
New Filmmakers, group film showing, San Francisco Cinemateque, San Francisco, CA
1983
Paintings: 1973 to 1983, solo exhibition, Climenhaga Fine Arts Center, Grantham, PA
Subtleties, group exhibition, painting, Sutton Gallery NY
Art and Dance, group exhibition, Institute for Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
Group Exhibition, A.M. Sachs Gallery, NY
Dance Environments, set design and performance in collaboration with contemporary choreographers, Premiere Institute for Art and Urban Resources, P.S. 1, Queens, NY
Bill Loman Master Salesman, set design for video production in collaboration with Michael Smith, Premiere The Kitchen, NY
The Mother of Us All, set design for musical by Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson, directed by Stanley Silverman, Premiere Saint Clement’s Theater, NY
Phantom Limbs, set design for theater production directed by Gitta Honninger, Theater of the Open Eye, NY
1982
New Paintings, solo exhibition, A.M. Sachs Gallery, NY
Navigation Series, solo exhibition, Dance Theater Workshop Gallery, NY
Trying Times, set design for dance production in collaboration with David Gordon, Premiere Dance Theater Workshop, NY
Step Wise Motion, set design for dance production, choreographed by Charles Moulton, Premiere Dance Theater Workshop, NY
It Starts at Home, set design for theater production in collaboration with Michael Smith, Whitney Museum, NY
Film Works, group film showing selected by Amy Taubin, The Kitchen, NY
1981
New Paintings, solo exhibition, A.M. Sachs Gallery, NY
Transitions, group exhibition, Summit Art Gallery, Summit, NJ
Drawings, group exhibition, The Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Omaha, NE
Bridge Dance, set design for dance production by Meg Eginton, Premiere Dance Theater Workshop, NY
1980
The Cold Eye, set design for film by Babette Mangolte, NY
1979
The Language of Abstraction, group exhibition, Betty Parsons Gallery, NY
Group Exhibition, A.M. Sachs Gallery, NY
1978
Recent Paintings, solo exhibition, A.M. Sachs Gallery, NY
Group Exhibition, A.M. Sachs Gallery, NY
1977
Private Images, group exhibition, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Collectors’ Choice X, group exhibition, McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, TX
Painting, group exhibition, P.S. 1, Institute for Urban Resources, Queens, NY
Book-Objects by Contemporary Artists, Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Group Exhibition, A.M. Sachs Gallery, NY
1976
Recent Paintings, solo exhibition, A.M. Sachs Gallery, NY
Books, two-person exhibition, Franklin Furnace Gallery, NY
Rooms, group installations, Institute for Art and Urban Resources, P.S. 1, Queens, NY
Gallery Artists, group exhibition, A.M. Sachs Gallery, NY
Southern Exposure, set design for theater production by Mabou Mines Theater Group, directed by Joanne Akalaitis, Premiere Performing Garage, NY
1975
Collectors’ Choice V, group exhibition, Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa, OK
Recent Acquisitions, group exhibition and traveling exhibition, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY
Painting Endures, group exhibition, selected by Dore Ashton, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
Group Exhibition, A.M. Sachs Gallery, NY
1974
New Paintings, solo Exhibition, A.M. Sachs Gallery, NY
Group Exhibition, A.M. Sachs Gallery, NY
Art of This Decade, group exhibition, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY
Victor, 16mm film, Premiere Collective for Living Cinema, NY
Glass Curtains, 16mm film, Premiere Collective for Living Cinema, NY
1973
Paintings, solo exhibition, A.M. Sachs Gallery, NY
Group Exhibition, A.M. Sachs Gallery, NY
Art for Acquisition, group exhibition, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI
Jim, 16mm film, Premiere Collective for Living Cinema, NY
Match, 16mm film, Premiere Collective for Living Cinema, NY
1972
Recent Work, group exhibition, Art and Urban Resources, NY
Group Exhibition, A.M. Sachs Gallery, NY
1971
New Talent, group exhibition, A.M. Sachs Gallery, NY
Ten Young Artists, group exhibition, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY
1970
Red Horse Animation, set design for theater production by Mabou Mines, directed by Lee Breur, Premiere Guggenheim Museum, NY
1968
Painting and Sculpture, group show, Whitney Museum, Art Resources Center Gallery, NY
Elephant Steps, set design for musical theater production by Richard Foreman and Stanley Silverman, Premiere, Tanglewood, Lenox, MA
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Baltimore Museum of Art, MD
The British Museum, UK
Brooklyn Museum of Art, NY
Climenhaga Fine Arts Center, PA
Colby College Museum of Art, ME
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, CT
Fogg Museum, Harvard University, MA
Joel & Lila Harnett Print Study Center, University of Richmond Museum, VA
Harvard University Museums, MA
Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY
Hunterdon Museum of Art, NJ
Kennedy Museum, OH
Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb, Inc., NY
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
Mississippi Museum of Art, MS
Missoula Art Museum, MT
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Museum of Modern Art, NY
Muscarelle Museum of Art, The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA
New Britain Museum of American Art, CT
New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
Princeton University Library, NJ
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY
Stanford University Art Museum, CA
University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville, VA
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, NY
Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
PRIVATE COLLECTIONS (SELECTED)
Bloomingdale’s, NY
Chase Manhattan Bank, NY
Christophe DeMenil Collection, TX
Colorado College Collection, CO
Deloitte Haskins and Sells, NY
Design Unit Collection, NY
Edgar Tobin Aerial Surveys Collection, IL
Edward Carpenter Collection, CT
Estee Lauder Corporation, NY
General Electric Corporation Collection, NY
Howard and Roberta Miller Collection, CT
Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb Collection, Inc., NY
New York Bank for Savings, NY
Philip Morris Companies Collection, Inc., NY
Patrick J. Waide Collection, NY
John F. Saladino Collection, Inc., NY
Sony Corporation Collection, NY
Trump Collection, NY
Walter and Linda Wick Collection, CT
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2009
Connecticut Art Education Association, Inc.
Scott Shuler Distinguished Art Advocate Award
2000
Andy Warhol Foundation Grant
For Art-Body-Mind: An Integration Symposium at Ohio University
1997
National Endowment for the Arts Inter-Media Grant
For multi-media dance project in collaboration with Doug Varone, Choreographer, and Lynne Steincamp, costume designer
1992
Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Grant
For Momentary Order, a multi-media dance project in collaboration with Doug Varone, choreographer, C. Hyams Hart, composer, and Lynne Steincamp, costume designer
1991
New York State Council on the Arts Grant
For Once and Once, a multimedia theater film collaboration with Keely Garfield, choreographer, and C. Hyams Hart, composer
1989
Pollock/Krasner Foundation Grant for painting
Film Video Arts, Angel Award for film
1988
Maryland Institute Trustees Award for Teaching Excellence
National Endowment for the Arts Inter-Arts Grant
For Wilderness, a multi-media theater/film collaboration
Foundation for Contemporary Performance Art
Art Matters, Inc., Grant
1987
New York State Council on the Arts Grant
1986
New York State Council on the Arts Grant
For Transparent Means for Traveling Light, a collaboration with David Gordon and John Cage
Art Matters, Inc., Grant
Yaddo Fellow for painting and writing
New York State Council on the Arts Grant
Massachusetts Arts Council Grant
For Transparent Means for Traveling Light production at Loeb Theater
1985
John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship for painting
Asian Cultural Council Fellowship for independent study in Japan
Just Above Midtown Production Grant
National Endowment for the Arts Inter-Arts Grant
For “Mike’s House,” a video production in collaboration with Michael Smith
1984
National Endowment for the Arts Inter-Arts Grant
For “Variety Show,” in collaboration with Charles Moulton
Massachusetts Arts Council Grant, 1984
For “Framework,” a dance project in collaboration with David Gordon
New York Art and Performance Award (Bessie Award)
New York State Council on the Arts Grant
For Trying Times, a dance project collaboration with David Gordon, choreographer
1982
Institute for Art and Urban Resources for one-year residency at P.S. 1
1976
National Endowment for the Arts, Artist Fellowship for painting
1971
Theodoran Award, Guggenheim Museum, for traveling exhibition, Ten Young Artists, purchase award
ACADEMIC ADMINISTRATION AND TEACHING
Hartford Art School, University of Hartford 2011 – present
Professor of Painting and Drawing
University of Hartford, 2001–2010
Dean, Hartford Art School
Ohio University, 1998–2001
Director, School of Art
Maryland Institute, College of Art, 1993–1998
Co-Director, Mt. Royal Graduate School, and Artist and Critic-in-Residence
Princeton University, 1988–1995
Lecturer in the Humanities, Visual Arts Program
School of Visual Arts, 1979–1988
Instructor
Colorado College, 1977
Director, Painting and Drawing Summer Program
2014-2015
Faculty Humanities Center Fellow, Lecture: Complexity and Art-making, University of Hartford Humanities Center Lecture Series, Spring 2015, Theme: Exploring Complexity
2008–2009
Chair, University of Hartford’s Academic Strategic Planning Committee
2007–2012
Delegate, Commission on Accreditation, National Association of Schools of Art and Design
2005–2012
Accreditation Chair, Evaluation Teams to assess schools for National Association of Schools of Art and Design accreditation
2000
Director of Art-Body-Mind: An Integration, four-day symposium at Ohio University
Presenters: Mark Johnson, Lewis Hyde, Ellen Dissanayake, Joseph Caroll, Brian Hansen, Nancy Aiken and others
1998
Curator of Chance + Necessity, a painting exhibition at Maryland Art Place (MAP)
Wrote catalogue essay
1986–1998
Co-Director (with composer, Dick Connette) of Present Company, Inc., Not-for-Profit Production Company in New York, NY to produce original theater and film projects
Produced two-multi-media theater events and five independent short films
Designed sets for Obie Award-winning off-Broadway theater productions, including Richard Foreman’s Ontological Hysteric Theater and Mabou Mines theater company
Designed sets for dance productions in collaboration with choreographers, including Doug Varone, Dave Gordon, and David Parsons, and with composers Virgil Thompson, Philip Glass, and Dick Connett
Art directed and designed film productions, including Michael Snow, Mark Rappaport, Babette Mangold and Richard Foreman, resulting national awards
Production design and art direction for many videos, including Cyndi Lauper, Dion, and Jean Luc Ponty, resulting in international video awards
GRANT PANELS AND JURIES
2010
Juror, Alliance for Young Artists, NY
Juror, ArtSpace. Hartford, CT
2009
Juror, ArtSpace. Hartford, CT
Juror, West Hartford Art League, CT
2006
Juror, Mystic Art Center, CT
Juror, Silvermine Art Center, CT
2004
Juror, West Hartford Art League, CT
2002
Juror, Exhibition, Gallery on the Green, Canton, CT
1999
Freedom of Speech in the Arts, Panel at Ohio University, OH
1997
Fulbright Committee, Maryland Institute College of Art, MD
Juror for 7th Annual Pennsylvania Juried Exhibition, PA
1994
National Endowment, Presenting and Commissioning Program, Washington, DC
1991
New York State Council for the Arts, Film Panel, NY
1989
National Endowment for the Arts, Inter-Arts Panel, Washington, DC
1986
National Endowment for the Arts, Inter-Arts Panel, Washington, DC
VISITING ARTIST AND LECTURER
2011
Mystic Art Center, Mystic Seaport, CT
Workshop on Composition; Workshop on Color
2010-11
New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT
Five lectures titled: “Art Matters”
2010
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
Connecticut Art Education Association
2007
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
West Hartford Art League, West Hartford, CT
2005
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
2002
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
Center for Art and Culture, Aix-en-Provence, France
1999
University of Minnesota, MN
Emporia University, KS
Columbia Festival for the Arts, Columbia, MD
St. Mary’s College of Maryland, St Mary’s City, MD
1977
Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, PA
Kennedy Center, Washington, DC
1995
Pennsylvania Academy of Art, Philadelphia, PA
The Cooper Union, New York, NY
Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
1994
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
Messiah College, Grantham, PA
1991
Trinity College, Hartford, CT
Institute for Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
1990
Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Maryland Art Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD
1987
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
1986
Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, OH
1984
Film/Video International, Castle Hill, MA
1982
Rutgers College, New Brunswick, NJ
1978
Pratt Institute, New York, NY
1976
Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD
EDUCATION
Colorado College, BA, 1969; Honorary Doctorate of Arts, 1989
Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, 1967–1968
American School of Classical Studies in Athens, Greece, 1990
Post-graduate research in classical archeology
University of California at Berkeley, CA, 1996
Post-graduate research associate in philosophy and cognitive studies
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
2005–PRESENT
Wadsworth Atheneum, Board (serve on the Education Committee)
1998–PRESENT
National Association of Schools of Art and Design
1986–PRESENT
College Art Association
1983–PRESENT
American Abstract Artists
PUBLICATIONS
“Chance + Necessity,” Catalog Essay for Chance and Necessity, an Exhibition of Abstract Painting, MAP Publication, 1998.
“Out of Balance, A Study of Mondrian’s Dynamic Equilibrium Concept,” American Abstract Artists Journal, NO. 2, AAA Publications, 1996.
“Notes on Abstract/Meaning,” American Abstract Artists Journal, No. I, AAA Publications, 1996.
“On Painting,” Meaning, Volume II. Segue Foundation, 1987.
“When the Fourth Soldier Falls, A Study of Piero Della Francisca’s Resurrection,” Issue, Volume 6, Reflex Horizons, Ltd., 1986.
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ABOUT THE PRODUCTIONS
“It is doubtful if anyone will experience a more beautifully appointed work this season than Our Town . . . an ingenious scenic abstraction, devised by Power Boothe.”
– Allan Ulrich, San Francisco Examiner, 9/23/94
Power Boothe’s “. . . sets, like his experimental films, tend to be simple yet intensely evocative.”
– Jennifer Dunning, New York Times, 3/17/91
“. . . Power Boothe’s Once and Once is the real thing: all sex and hallucination and hysteria.”
– Joan Acocella, Art in America, 6/91
“In the dazzling opening sequence (of Wilderness), a man in ghostly half-light walks in place behind a scrim upon which is projected a black-and-white movie of a landscape slowly drifting by: the border between theater and film seldom has seemed so fluid.”
– Robert Massa, Village Voice, 3/22/88
“Overture recalls old silent movies with its piano-playing accompanist on screen (there’s a stunning sequence with lamps that rivals David Byrne’s lamp dance in Stop Making Sense for most lyrical use of a house lamp).”
– Katherine Dieckman, Village Voice, 2/10/87
“It is this highly operative, integral décor that gives Framework a controlling metaphor as well as a title . . . (David Gordon’s) . . . collaboration with Power Boothe is a happy one, and Boothe himself may be the best thing that has happened to dance since Jennifer Tipton.”
– Arlene Croce, New Yorker, 6/18/84
“Visual effects are an important ingredient in this rich new work (Framework). Power Boothe, whose dance sets often seem to move as much and as much to the point as any of the dancers, has fashioned a collection of large, empty frames, as well as two patterned or painted panels. They serve both to frame the dancers and as objects to move through, around and against, to striking effect.”
– Jennifer Dunning, New York Times, 5/22/84
“Power Boothe’s sets (in Variety Show) were brilliant, an adaptation of the periaktoi of Roman Theatre, three-sided constructions, manipulated by the performers to make a stage with wings, a row of curtained cubicles, a cityscape, a striped art deco interior, a backcloth with a broken heart.”
– David Vaughan, Dance Magazine, 7/84