JANET L. COOLING - Janet passed peacefully from planet-ship earth 2022 February. This painter is at peace.

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You can check the The New Museum New York, NY collection, and the exhibition at Jack Hanley Gallery can be checked at https://www.jackhanley.com/exhibitions/janet-cooling-1978-1982.

EDUCATION

  • 1975 M.F.A., School of the Art Institute of Chicago – Chicago, IL

  • 1973 B.F.A., Pratt Institute – Brooklyn, NY

SELECTED SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS EDUCATION

  • 2019 Janet Cooling 1978-1982, Jack Hanley Gallery NY NY Curated by Ashton Cooper
    Opening date May 31 until June 30
    Press release:     http://www.jackhanley.com/exhibitions/janet-cooling-1978-1982

  • 2016 Janet Cooling- New Paintings

  • The Horace Williams House – Chapel Hill, NC

  • 2016 Janet Cooling- New Paintings

  • The Horace Williams House – Chapel Hill, NC

  • 2012 Public Art Project – Night Voyage, Harriet Tubman Village Charter School, San Diego Unified School District – San Diego, CA

  • 2011 2011 Story Boards, Litmus Gallery – Raleigh, NC

  • 2005 Painting like Dolly Parton, Simayspace Gallery – San Diego, CA

  • 2003 Love at the Ritz, Janet Cooling and John Miller, Thomas Ammann Fine Art –Zurich, Switzerland

  • 2001 Janet Cooling: New Work, Earl & Birdie Taylor Library – San Diego, CA

  • 2000 Janet Cooling: Painting and Drawing Survey, 1997-2000, San Diego Mesa College Art Gallery – San Diego, CA

  • 1999 B-MAN: Serial Paintings, The Barbara Ann Levy Gallery of Contemporary Fine Art – Fire Island, NY

  • 1996 Painting from Hell’s Kitchen, R.B. Stevenson Gallery – La Jolla, CA

  • 1995 Janet Cooling: Paintings and Drawings, Scott Thatcher 20th Century Art – New York, NY

  • 1995 Janet Cooling: New York Paintings, Dalton + Prives – New York, NY

  • 1994 J.L. Cooling: Terrible Beauty, Dru Arstark Gallery – New York, NY

  • 1992 J.L. Cooling: Recent Paintings and Drawings, David Zapf Gallery – San Diego, CA

  • 1991 Quiet Apocalypse, Maturango Museum – Ridgecrest, CA

  • 1990 JL Cooling: New Paintings, Artswatch – Louisville, KY

  • J.L. Cooling and Dave Marsh, Patrick King Contemporary Art – Indianapolis, IN

  • 1988 Modern Myth: Future Perfect, Dean Jensen Gallery – Milwaukee, WI

  • 1987-88 Janet Cooling: Retrospective, Beacon Street Gallery – Chicago, IL

  • 1987 Brave New World, Boehm Gallery, Palomar College – San Marcos, CA

  • Back in the High Life, New Strategies – Los Angeles, CA

  • 1985/86 Selected Works from 1981-1984, Feature Gallery – Chicago, IL

  • 1985 Getler/Pall/Saper Gallery – New York, NY

  • 1984 Joseph Gross Gallery, University of Arizona – Tucson, AZ

  • 1982 Janet Cooling Paintings, Roger Litz Gallery – New York, NY

  • Janet Cooling Drawings, Carolyn Schneebeck Gallery – Cincinnati, OH

  • 1979 Janet Cooling and Robert Donley, Nancy Lurie Gallery – Chicago, IL

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

  • 2019 Stonewall 50, Clifford Chance US LLP Art Program, Group Show Curated by Sam Gordon, June-September

  • 2019 Group Show - Reynolds Gallery - Richmond VA

  • 2016 Group Show - Frank Gallery- Chapel Hill, NC

  • 2016 Group Show - Durham Arts Council - Durham, NC

  • 2014 The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego CA  The Very Large Array

  • 2014 Faculty Show, The Arts Center – Carrboro, NC

  • 2014 Labor- Migrant- Gulf, Curated by Doris Bittar, Southwestern College – Chula Vista, CA

  • 2013 Recent Acquisitions 2013, Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art – New York, NY

  • 2012-13 The Very Large Array: San Diego/Tijuana Artists in the MCA Collection,

  • Farrell Gallery, Jacobs Building, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Downtown – San Diego, CA

  • 2012 Two Loves – Sex, Art, and the Love that Dare not Speak its Name, The Kymara Gallery, The Leslie Lohman Museum at Large – Biddeford, MN

  • 2009 A Show of Love, Gallery OneTwentyEight – New York, NY

  • 2007-08 Re-Covery: 26 Artists Re-imagine 26 Books, Art Around Books, Brighton Press – San Diego, CA

  • 2006 Pure Painting, Earl & Birdie Taylor Library – San Diego, CA

  • 2004 The 5th Annual Invitational Drawing Show, Earl & Birdie Taylor Library – San Diego, CA

  • A Selection of Portraits from the Doug Simay Collection, Riverside Art Museum – Riverside, CA

  • Tzedakah, the Art of Giving, Gotthelf Art Gallery – La Jolla, CA

  • 2003 Acts of Passion (The Red Ball), Sushi Contemporary Performance and Visual Arts – San Diego, CA

  • 2002 Big & Blurry, Flux Gallery – San Diego, CA

  • A Good Impression: A Century of Print-making in San Diego, San Diego Museum of Art – San Diego, CA

  • Artists to Artists: A Decade of the Space Program, Ace Gallery – New York, NY

  • 2001 18 Year Retrospective: Selected Works, Beacon Street Gallery – Chicago, IL

  • 2000 The Drawing Show, Earl & Birdie Taylor Library – San Diego, CA

  • Picturing the Modern Amazon, The New Museum of Contemporary Art – New York, NY

  • Painters for the Millennium: Twelve Important San Diego Artists, Earl & Birdie Taylor Library – San Diego, CA

  • 1997-98 Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation, The Space Program, Sharpe Open Studios – New York, NY

  • 1997 Eating the Cherry, Gormley and Levy Gallery – New York, NY

  • Winter Group/Selection, R.B. Stevenson Gallery – La Jolla, CA

  • 1995 Temporarily Possessed, The New Museum of Contemporary Art – New York, NY

  • 1994-95 A Passionate Perspective: Francis and June Spiezer Collection of Art, Rockford Art Museum – Rockford, IL

  • 1994 Whateva, Dru Arstark Gallery – New York, NY

  • 1993/94 Self Help Graphics & Art – Los Angeles, CA

  • 1993 Artists from the Permanent Collection of The Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, Boehm Gallery, Palomar College – San Marcos, CA

  • 18th Annual Art and the Law, West Publishing Co.;

  • Kennedy Galleries, Inc.

  • Loyola Law School, LA and CA; Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul, MN

  • James R. Thompson Center, Chicago, IL – New York, NY

  • Frustrated Blonde, Sushi Performance & Visual Art, University Art Gallery, San Diego State University – San Diego, CA

  • 1992 From America’s Studio: Drawing New Conclusions, Betty Rymer Gallery (now part of Sullivan Galleries), School of the Art Institute of Chicago – Chicago, IL

  • Absolut Symbols. Absolut Vodka/Advocate Collaborative Political Art Campaign
    – initial publication

  • Trascendiendo Fronteras/Transcending Borders, Lyceum Gallery, Mexico/United States Border Project – San Diego, CA

  • 1990 Black + White + Color Drawings, Three-person Exhibition, *David Zapf Gallery – San Diego, CA

  • All But the Obvious, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibition – Los Angeles, CA

  • Personal/Political: Sexuality Self-Defined, Gallery 2, School of the Art Institute – Chicago, IL

  • Fifteenth Annual Art and the Law, Minnesota Museum of Art – St. Paul, MN

  • A Midsummer Night's Dream, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, ARTspace – Sheboygan, WI

  • Soul Survivors: The Courage to Go Beyond, Beacon Street Gallery – Chicago, IL

  • 1989 The Power of Drawing – Contemporary Views, Center for Contemporary Art – Chicago, IL

  • Twelfth Anniversary Benefit Exhibition and Auction, The New Museum of Contemporary Art – New York, NY

  • Graham Garden, Graham Modern Gallery – New York, NY

  • Portraits: Human, Animal, Land, Three-person Exhibition, Beacon Street Gallery – Chicago, IL

  • Color Emotions, Three-person Exhibition, Alabama State University – Montgomery, AL

  • 1987 Landscape, Seascape, Cityscape, Contemporary Arts Center – New Orleans, LA

  • Vistas, G.W. Einstein Gallery – New York, NY

  • Floating Values, Hallwalls – Buffalo, NY

  • Going Fishing, Graham Modern Gallery – New York, NY

  • Tenth Anniversary Benefit Exhibition and Auction, The New Museum of

  • Contemporary Art – New York, NY

  • 1986 noises in the night, Warm Gallery – Minneapolis, MN

  • 1985 Pastels, Nohra Haime Gallery – New York, NY

  • The Big Car Show: Contemporary Visions of the Automobile, Herron Gallery, Indianapolis Center for Contemporary Art – Indianapolis, IN

  • New Painting at Hal Bromm, Hal Bromm Gallery – New York, NY

  • Karen Carson, Janet Cooling, Amanda Farber, Gillian Theobald, Patty Aande Gallery – San Diego, CA

  • 1984-86 Disarming Images: Art for Nuclear Disarmament – Traveling Exhibition

  • 1984 Drawings: After Photography, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College – Oberlin, OH

  • Real Politik, Fashion Moda – Bronx, NY

  • Paradise Lost/Paradise Regained: American Visions of the New Decade, Venice Biennale, U.S. Pavilion– Venice, Italy

  • Socially Concerned and various shows throughout 1984, Feature Gallery -Chicago IL

  • New Talent, Hal Bromm Gallery – New York, NY

  • 1983 Chicago – Minneapolis: New Work, Minneapolis College of Art and Design – Minneapolis, MN

  • 1982-84 Face It: 10 Contemporary Artists – Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH

  • College of Wooster Art Museum, Wooster; New Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH

  • Trisoline Gallery, Ohio University, Athens, OH

  • 1982 Extended Sensibilities, The New Museum of Contemporary Art – New York, NY

  • The Erotic Impulse, Roger Litz Gallery – New York, NY

  • Painting and Sculpture Today 1982, Indianapolis Museum of Art – Indianapolis, IN

  • 34th Illinois Invitational, Illinois State Museum – Springfield, IL

  • Four Painters, Roger Litz Gallery – New York, NY

  • This Is Where I Live, Nancy Lurie Gallery – Chicago, IL

  • 1981 Young Americans, Allen Memorial Arts Museum – Oberlin, OH

DIGITAL ARCHIVE

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

  • 2014 Performance video and interview of "The Evil Twins"aka "The Desparate Characters" aired online on Jan.22,2014.
    To view video go to Femme, Butch or Blend     dailytarheel.com/multimedia/21237

  • 2012 Chute, James. “Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego Set to Display Local Artists.”

  • Artists.” The San Diego Union-Tribune. November 13, 2012.

  • Schroeder, Nicholas. “A View of Gay and Lesbian Culture at Kymara.” The Portland Phoenix. August 22, 2012.

  • “The Gift of Art.” SDSU NewsCenter. May 24, 2012. Digital file.

  • 2005 Pincus, Robert. “The Conceptualist.” The San Diego Union-Tribune. February 3-9, 2005. pp 40.

  • 2002 Pincus, Robert. “Beneath The Surface.” The San Diego Union. October 10-16, 2002. pp 40-41.

  • Kendricks, Neil. “Fit To Print.” The San Diego Union. July 25-31, 2002. pp 38-39.

  • Smith, Roberta. “Art in Review; Artists to Artists – A Decade of the Space Program.” New York Times. May 24, 2002.

  • Three Views of Fran. Harper’s Magazine. May 2002. p 21.

  • Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation. Artists to Artists: A Decade of the Space Program. Exhibition catalogue. Colorado Springs, CO: Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation, 2002. pp 222-223.

  • 2000 Hammond, Harmony. Lesbian Art in America: A Contemporary History. New York, NY: Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., 2000. pp 6, 31, 54, 58-59, 112, 184.

  • Gaines, Malik. “The Heat’s on Cooling.” The Advocate. May 23, 2000. pp 92-93.

  • Kendricks, Neil. “Woman Power.” The Union-Tribune. April 6, 2000.

  • Breslin, Susannah. “Wonder Women.” Detour. April 2000. p 150.

  • Schmaltz, Jim, “Amazons Invade New York.” Flex Magazine. April 2000. p 34.

  • 1996 Klein, Jennie. “Janet Cooling.” New Art Examiner. November 1996. pp 34-35.

  • Holg, Garrett. “June and Francis Spiezer: In Love with Eccentricity.” ARTnews. October 1996.

  • 1994 Broude, Norma, Mary D. Garrard, and Judith K. Brodsky. Eds.

  • The Power of Feminist Art: The American Movement of the 1970s, History and Impact. New York, NY: Harry N. Abrams, 1994.

  • 1993 Frueh, Joanna, and Cassandra L. Langer. Arlene Raven. Eds. New Feminist

    Criticism: Art, Identity, Action.” Westview Press, 1994.

  • Sheehan, Margot. Interview. Gallery News. No. 001. September 1993.

  • 1992 Adrian, Dennis. From America’s Studio: Drawing New Conclusions. Exhibition catalogue. Chicago, IL: School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1992.

  • Trascendiendo Fronteras/Transcending Borders. Exhibition catalogue.

  • Mexico/United States Border Project, 1992.

  • Kendricks, Neil. “‘Borders’ Is Mixed Offering of Gutsy Art.” The San Diego Union- Tribune – Night & Day. August 13-19, 1992.

  • Van Doren, Phyllis. “A Terrible Beauty.” San Diego Home/Garden. April 1992. pp 14-16.

  • Reed, Victoria. “Works Radiate Color, Message.” Los Angeles Times. April 1, 1992.

  • Shaw, Frances. “JL Cooling Opens Solo Exhibit Exploring Environmental Concerns.” San Diego Independent. March 19, 1992.

  • 1990 Rugoff, Ralph. Art Review [Title Unknown]. L.A. Weekly. December 13, 1990.

  • Jarmusch, Ann. “Somber Show at Zapf Will Draw You In.” [San Diego] Evening Tribune. December 7, 1990.

  • Pincus, Robert L. [Title Unknown]. The San Diego Union. November 30, 1990.

  • Ollman, Leah. “At the Galleries.” Los Angeles Times. November 21, 1990.

  • Mannheimer, Steve. “Mixed-media Works’ Beasts in Lush World.” The Indianapolis Star. September 30, 1990.

  • Jarmusch, Ann. “Three Artists, Three Styles.” San Diego Tribune. November 15, 1990.

  • Cafesjian, Gerald L. Fifteenth Annual Art and the Law. Exhibition catalogue. St. Paul, MN: West Publishing Co., 1990.

  • Lombardo, Guy. “Janet Cooling: I Am the Cat, the Lion, the Wolf.” Revolt in Style. Summer 1990.

  • Campisano, Kathleen. [Title Unknown]. Dialogue. May/June 1990.

  • Gross, Tom. [Title Unknown]. New Art Examiner. March 1990.

  • 1989 Pincus, Robert L. [Title Unknown]. The San Diego Union. April 6, 1989.

  • 1988 Perine, Robert, Andrea I, and Bram Dijkstra. San Diego Artists. Encinitas, CA: Artra Publishing, 1988.

  • Hixson, Kathryn. “Chicago: Janet Cooling.” New Art Examiner. February 1988.

  • Freudenheim, Susan. [Title Unknown]. Artforum International. January 1988.

  • Conn, Sandra. “Radiant Color Heats Janet Cooling Exhibit.” Crain’s Chicago Business. January 11, 1988.

  • 1987-88 Olander, William, and Arlene Raven. Janet Cooling: Retrospective. Exhibition catalogue. Chicago, IL: Beacon Street Gallery, Uptown Hull House, 1987.

  • 1987 Welzenbach, Michael. “Art Pick of the Week.” L.A. Weekly. February 20-26, 1987.

  • 1986 Pincus, Robert L. [Title Unknown]. The San Diego Union. January 16, 1986.

  • 1985 McDonald, Robert. “Four Artists, Four Directions.” Artweek. Volume 16, Number 28.

  • 1985 Henry, Gerrit. “Janet Cooling at Getler/Pall/Saper.” Art in America. June 1985.

  • Segard, Michael. “Chicago’s New Expressionism – The Birth of an Aesthetic?” New Art Examiner. May 1985.

  • “Janet Cooling.” Arts Magazine. April 1985.

  • 1984 Olander, William. Drawings: After Photography. Exhibition catalogue. New York, NY: Independent Curators Inc., 1984

  • Cauthorn, Robert S. [Title Unknown]. The Arizona Daily Star. September 30, 1984.

  • Tucker, Marcia. Paradise Lost/Paradise Regained: American Visions of the New Decade. Exhibition Catalogue. New York, NY: New Museum, 1984.

  • 1983 Frueh, Joanna. “Chicago: Janet Cooling at Nancy Lurie.” Art in America. September 1983. p 183.

  • Moser, Charlotte. “Chicago: Bluster and Brawn.” ARTnews. May 1983.

  • Bonesteel, Michael. “Chicago: Janet Cooling, Nancy Lurie Gallery.” Artforum International. April 1983.

  • 1982 Moufarrege, Nicholas A. “The Erotic Impulse.” Arts Magazine. November 1982.

  • Frueh, Joanna. “Re-Vamping the Vamp.” Arts Magazine. October 1982. pp 98-103.

  • Olander, William. Face It: 10 Contemporary Artists. Exhibition catalogue.

  • Columbus, OH: Ohio Foundation on the Arts, 1982.

  • Tucker, Marcia. “An Iconography of Recent Figurative Painting; Sex, Death, Violence and the Apocalypse.” Artforum. Summer 1982.

  • 1982 Frueh, Joanna. “JL Cooling, Born to Be Alive.” Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin. Oberlin, OH: Oberlin College, Vol. XXXVIII, No. 2, 1982

  • 1981 Schulze, Franz. “How to Get from Gutsy to Great?” ARTnews. April 1981.

  • 1979 Krainak, Paul. “Janet Cooling. Robert Donley.” New Art Examiner. May 1979.

  • 1978 Freuh, Joanna. “The Personal Imperative: Post-Imagist Art in Chicago.” New Art Examiner. October 1978.

SELECTED PUBLIC AND CORPORATE COLLECTIONS

  • Allan Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College – Oberlin, OH

  • Anna Meyers Interiors, Inc. – Chicago, IL

  • Chemical Bank – New York, NY

  • City of San Diego, Public Library Art Collection – San Diego, CA

  • First Bank of Minneapolis – Minneapolis, MN

  • General Mills

  • Illinois State Museum – Springfield, IL

  • Illinois State University – Normal, IL

  • Laguna Art Museum – Laguna Beach, CA

  • Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art – New York, NY

  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art – Los Angeles, CA

  • Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps – San Diego, CA

  • Museum of Contemporary Art – San Diego, CA

  • The New Museum of Contemporary Art – New York, NY

  • Prudential Insurance

  • Rockford Art Museum – Rockford, IL

  • San Diego State University – San Diego, CA

  • State University of New York – Purchase, NY

  • Uptown Hull House – Chicago, IL

  • The West Collection – St. Paul, MN

  • The Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum  Wausau, Wisconsin