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JOHN DE ANDREA 1941-
Classical Allusion
Polyester resin and marble, 1987 (unique)
60 x 30 x 31 inches
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Biography
John De Andrea, American sculptor of the super-real nude figure, was born in Denver,
Colorado on November 24, 1941. He studied at the University of Colorado, Boulder from 1961
to 1965 and in 1968 was an art assistant at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. De
Andrea turned to sculpture while at University, initially casting molds in fiberglass and painting
them with motorcar paint. He then refined his technique, by using latex acrylic or oil paint on
polyvinyl to achieve the lifelike tones and high level of detail seen in his later works. He had his
first one-man show at the O. K. Harris Gallery in New York in 1970.
John de Andrea’s works were shown in museums and major expositions in Europe early in his
career. 1971 at the Biennale in Paris France and the Kunstmarkt, Cologne, Germany; 1972
Documenta V in Kassel, Germany, 1978 Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy and again at
Documenta in 1981.
He rapidly developed a style of casting and then painting fiber-glass or polyvinyl acetate
sculptures of figures from life. The extreme verism of his work links it to Photorealism. The
sculptures are usually of one or two young, elegant and casually posed nude figures, usually
female, as in Classical Illusion.
The high degree of realism is heightened by the coloration of the sculpture. In Classical
Illusion the model, posing dispassionately, is casually ‘draped’ over an idealized classical male
marble torso. How does the viewer engage in the relationship between these two figures? Are
we a part of this dramatic scene or are we an intruder to an intimate moment of creativity and
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contemplation? De Andrea deliberately evokes a response from the viewer through the
positioning and placement of the figures.
De Andrea calls to his audience for participation, he waits for the viewer to respond to the
figures in some way so he creates an immaculate surface for this to occur. He works with
preconceived ideas of beauty believing that the nude figure reveals a lot more about a person
than a clothed one.
From all angles, the elements of this sculpture are arranged in a calm and balanced manner.
This reinforces the relationship between the figure and the torso. The viewer’s eye follows the
pale flesh, the dark tones of the model’s sweeping hair and the shadowed areas. The obvious
muteness of the torso and the soft silence of the model, neither directly making eye contact
with the viewer, heightens the self-containment of this artwork.
John de Andrea wants his sculptures to be able to breathe. He obtains this high level of
realism combining the use of modern materials with a technique of casting which goes back to
the bronze casting of ancient Greece and Rome.
De Andrea reduces the skin tones in this artwork which is reminiscent of black and white
photography. He depicts the figures almost in grisaille. This reminds the viewer that the figure
is painted with the shades and tones intentionally heightening the form. The coloration of the
figures is also reminiscent of gradation of the color of marble statues show clearly in just such
a combination of materials used in Classical Illusion. During the period de Andrea created
Classical Illusion, he pursued his interest in classical art following with Allegory : after Courbet,
which was exhibited in the Art Gallery of Western Australia in an exhibition on how art changes
the way we see the world.
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De Andrea has always been one to defy critics who would call him a replicator of life, rather
than the creator of sculptural artworks. His acknowledged success is in creating virtuoso
sculptures out of contemporary materials.
Born
November 24, 1941; Denver, Colorado
Education
1968 University of New Mexico at Albuquerque
1966 Awarded art scholarship
1965 University of Colorado at Boulder, BFA
Individual Exhibitions
1970
1971
1972
1973
1976
1981
1982
1982
1982
1985
1985
1986
1987
1988
1988
1989
O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY
O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY
Wilmaro Gallery, Denver, CO
O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY
O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY
Tortue Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
The Aspen Center for the Visual Arts, Aspen, CO
Foster Goldstrom Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA
O.K Harris Works of Art, New York, NY
O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY
Galerie Isy Brachot, Paris, France
Galerie Isy Brachot, Paris, France
Carlo Lamagna Gallery, New York, NY
Galerie Isy Brachot, Paris, France
Galerie Isy Brachot, Brussels, Belgium
Carlo Lamagna Gallery, New York, NY
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1991
1993
‘96-‘97
1998
2000
ACA Galleries, New York, NY
ACA Galleries/Munich, Munich, Germany
John DeAndrea, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY
Ron Judish Fine Arts, Denver, CO
Selected Group Exhibitions: Museums and private galleries
1970
1970
1971
1971
1971
1971
1972
1972
1972
1972
Annual Exhibition, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Radical Realism, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Biennale, Paris, France
Radical Realism, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Kunstmarkt, Cologne, Germany
Old Realism, New Realism, Dannenberg Gallery, New York, NY
Documenta V; Kassel, Germany
Sharp Focus Realism, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY
Hyperrealistes Americains, Galerie des Quatre Mouvements, Paris, France
Recent Figurative Sculpture, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University,
Cambridge, MA; traveling exhibition
1972 Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
‘72-‘73 Realist Revival, New York Cultural Center, New York, NY
1973 Amenkansk Realism, Lunds Konsthall, Sweden.
1973 Realism Now, Lunds Kunsthall, Lunds, Sweden
1973 Grands Maifres Hyperrealistes Americains, Galerie des Quatre Mouvements, Paris, France
1973 The Super-Realist Vision, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
1973 The Male Nude, Emily Lowe Gallery, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY
1974 Hyperrealistes Americains/Realistes Europeans, Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Paris, (toured
Europe)
1974 New Photo Realism, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
1974 The Real and Ideal in Figurative Sculpture, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
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1974
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1976
Living American Artists and the Figure, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Photo-Realist Art, Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS
Aspects of Realism, Rothman's of Pall Mall traveling exhibition, Stratford Art Gallery, Ontario, (toured
Canada 1976-78)
1976 Super Realism, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
1976 Aspects of Realism, Centennial Museum, Vancouver, Canada; traveling exhibition
1976 Perspective 1976, Freedman Art Gallery, Albright College, Reading, PA
1976 American Salon des Refuses, Stamford Museum and Nature Center, Stamford, CT
1977 The Nude: Avery and the European Masters, Borgenicht Gallery, New York, NY
1977 No Thing But Nudes, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1977 New Realism, Jacksonville Art Museum, Jacksonville, FL
1977 Art '77, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY
1977 Contemporary Figuration, University Gallery of American Art, New York, NY
‘77-’78 Illusion and Reality, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, (toured Australia)
1978 Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
1978 Selected 20th Century American Nudes, Reed Art Gallery, New York, NY
1979 Seven on the Figure, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
1980 The Reality of Illusion, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO (traveling)
1980 Illusionism, O.K. Harris West, Scottsdale, AZ
1980 Radical Realism, Center for the Arts, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA
1981 Contemporary American Realism Since 1960, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
1982 Homo Sapiens: The Many Images, Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT
1982 Real, Really Real, Super Real, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX (traveled to Indianapolis,
Tucson,
and Pittsburgh)
1982 Documenta V1I, Kassel, Germany
1983 Faces Since The 50's: A Generation of American Portraiture, Center Gallery, Bucknell University,
Lewisburg, PA
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1985
Contemporary American Realism, Foster Goldstrom Gallery, Dallas, TX
Ten Years of Collecting at the MCA, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Games of Deception: When Nothing is at it Appears, Artisan Space, The Fashion Institute of Technology,
New York, NY
Image, Effigy, Form: Figurative Sculpture, University Art Museum, California State University,
Long Beach, CA
Figurative Sculpture: Ten Artists/Two Decades, University Art Museum, California State University, Long
Beach, CA
In Celebration, Tortue Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Fortissimo! Thirty Years from the Richard Brown Baker Collection of Contemporary Art, Museum of Art, Rhode
Island School of Design, Providence, RI (traveling)
The Classic Tradition in Recent Painting and Sculpture, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield,
1985
CT
1988 Figure it Out: Visual Body Language, Helander Gallery, Palm Beach, FL
1988 Nude or Naked Vered Gallery, East Hampton NY
1992 Images of Man: Figures of Contemporary Sculpture, Japan Traveling Exhibition: The Isetan Museum of Art,
Tokyo;
Daimura Museum, Osaka; Hiroshima City Museum of Art, Hiroshima
1993
Summer Group Show, ACA Galleries, New York, NY
1997 An Assessment of Contemporary Figuration, David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1997 Feminine Image, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY
‘97-‘98 Faces & Figures, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY
1999 7 Women 7 Years Later, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY
1999 Three Realist Sculptors: George Segal, Duane Hanson, John DeAndrea, Nassau County Museum of Art,
Roslyn Harbor, NY
2000 The Photorealists, Holmes Gallery, Center for the Arts, Vero Beach, FL
2001 Figure it Out, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY
2002 Summer of the Nude Vered Gallery, East Hampton NY
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Periodical Publications by DeAndrea
Art in America, "The Verist Sculptures: Two Interviews: Duane Hanson and John De Andrea"
with J.
Masheck, (New York), November/December 1972.
Art in America, "The Verist Sculptors: Two Interviews", with Duncan Pollock,
November/December
1972, p.98-99.
Bibliography: Books/Catalogues:
Hyperrealistes Americains/Realistes Europeens, exhibition catalogue, Paris, 1974.
Aspects of Realism, exhibition catalogue, Stratford, Ontario, 1976.
Neue Formen des Realismus by Peter Sager, Cologne, 1974
John de Andrea: Sculptures 1978-81, exhibition catalogue with essay by Philip Yenaivine,
Aspen, CO, 1982.
Images of Man: Figures of Contemporary Modern Sculpture (1970-1990), exhibition catalogue
with essay by Dr
Martin H. Bush, Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo, and Daimaru Museum,
Umeda-Osaka, Japan.
John De Andrea, exhibition catalogue with essay by Dr. Martin H. Bush, ACA Galleries, NY,
1993.
Feminine Image, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY; Introduction: Constance
Schwartz.
Franklin Hill Perrell, 1997.
Faces & Figures, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY; Introduction: Constance
Schwartz, 1997.
Three Realist Sculptors: Segal, Hanson, de Andrea, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY; Text:
Franklin Hill Perrell, 1999.
Bibliography: Periodicals:
"A New Realism in Sculpture", by Grace Glueck in Art in America (New York), December 1971.
"Downtown Uptown, Not 10th Street", by John Perrault in The Village Voice (New York), December 1971.
"Art in the Artist", by Emily Genauer in The New York Post, December 1971
"They Only Look Like Photographs", by Daniel Wells in The Chicago Tribune, May 30,1971.
"Exhibition of Radical Realism Chilling", by Don Anderson in the Chicago Today, June
13,1971.
"Neutral Style", by Edward Lucie-Smith in Art and Artists (London), August 1975.
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"Hyper-Realistic Dreikiang", in Du (Zurich), July 1979.
"New York Commentary: Realism Again", by Dore Ashton in Studio International, (New York),
"Look Alive! ", by Rosalind Constable in The Saturday Review, April 1972.
"Direct Cast and Sculpture", by Carl Goldstein in Arts, January 1972.
"The Corn Realist as God", by Robert Hughes in Time, January 1972.
"Remarks on the Nude", by Carter Ratchif in Art International, March 1977.
"De Andrea", by Jean-Louis Ferrier in Le Point, (Paris) September 1985.
"Real Dead" by Richard Kalina in Arts Magazine, December 1991
“Bir New York Galericisi: Ivan Karp”, Gencsanat, (Turkey), May 1998
Selected Public and Private Collections
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
Neue Galerie, Aachen, Germany
Center Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
The Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
J. B. Speed Art Museum, LouisviIle, KY
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland
Bayly Art Museum of the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
Malcom Forbes, New York, NY
Museum of Contemporary Art-Chicago
Sydney and Frances Lewis Foundation, Richmond, VA
Saul Steinberg, New York, NY
Ted Pillsbury, Fort Worth, TX
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Hoffman, Boca Raton, FL
Countess Suzanne Agnelli Rattazzi, New York, NY
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Dr. Peter Ludwig, Germany
Mr. and Mrs. Smith, St. Tropez, France
Mrs. J. Morgan, Shawnee Mission, KS
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