Details
- Dimensions
- 29ʺW × 1ʺD × 22.5ʺH
- Frame Type
- Unframed
- Art Subjects
- Other
- Period
- 1980s
- Item Type
- Vintage, Antique or Pre-owned
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- Materials
- Monotype
- Paint
- Condition
- Good Condition, Unknown, Some Imperfections
- Color
- Yellow
- Condition Notes
- Good good. mounted, not framed. Good good. mounted, not framed. less
- Description
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Mixed media monotype or monoprint works with hand painting, chine colle, applied glitter. From Cheryl Pelavin Editions NYC.
Helen Oji … more Mixed media monotype or monoprint works with hand painting, chine colle, applied glitter. From Cheryl Pelavin Editions NYC.
Helen Oji (American, born 1950) Born in Sacremento, CA. Helen Oji was highlighted in the early 1980s New York City art scene as an artist with a distinctive vision. She has exhibited her paintings, works on paper and prints including mixed media monotype or monoprint works with hand painting, chine colle, applied glitter etc. in numerous exhibitions in New York, nationally and Europe. In addition to her artwork, she collaborated with a range of performers/writers in creating set designs that were presented in New York City, London, and across the US. and in various corporate and private collections. Awards and honors include: Creative Artists Public Service Program, Ariana Foundation for the Arts, Inc. Mixed Media Grant , The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum Commission, Recieved Artists Space Materials Grant, New York, NY Visiting Artist Fellowship, Brandywine Workshop, Philadelphia, PA
Lives and works in New York, NY
Select Exhibitions
1986 Intar Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1984 Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT (solo)
1982 Nelson Gallery/University of California, Davis, CA (solo)
1981 Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1980 Fine Arts Center/Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem , NC (solo)
1978 Soho Center for the Visual Artists, New York, NY
Select Public Collections
Museum of Modern Art, MoMA New York, NY
The Brooklyn Museum of Art
The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
Jacksonville Art Museum, Jacksonville, FL
Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX
The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick
Selected Group Exhibitions
2019 Surface 9, ARENA at BD, curator, Renée Riccardo, Brooklyn, NY (forthcoming Nov 22)
Plus 2 pix from 122, PS122 Gallery, New York, NY
2018 Donald Alberti & Helen Oji, Estrada Fine Art
2017 The Bedroom, The Women Artist Team, Joyce Goldstein Gallery, Chatham, NY
2013 Silhouettes, The EFA Foundation, Blackburn, 20/20, curator, Bill Carroll, New York, NY
2011 Social Photography II Exhibition, Carriage Trade, New York, NY
1998 Urban Encounters, New Museum of Contemporary Art, NYC
1995 Made to Order, The Alternative Museum, New York, NY Ancestors, Asian American Arts Centre & Kenkeleba House, New York, NY
1994 Robert Beauchamp, William Kent, Helen Oji, Shari Urquhart, Monique Knowlton Gallery/Kent, Kent CTThe Return Of Cadavre Exquis, The Drawing Center, NYC, American Center, Paris, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, Forum for Contemporary Art, St. Louis,
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
1988 Song of Lawino, Set Design for Reduta Deux LTD, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar & Valeria Vasilevski, Dance Theater Workshop, City College, NYC, LACE & MOCA, Los Angeles, CA, Boulder, CO, Tampa, FL, & London. 1983 Peachfish, Installation/Performance Collaboration, Jessica Hagedorn, Laurie Carlos, Ching Valdes, Basement Workshop, NYC
She was a member of Godzilla: Asian American Arts Network a New York-based Asian American arts collective and support network established in 1990. Founding members Ken Chu, Bing Lee, Margo Machida, and others established Godzilla in order to facilitate inter-generational and interdisciplinary dialogue and collaboration for Asian American artists and art professionals.
Godzilla's contemporaries included Godzookie, and the Barnstormers. The original members of Godzilla were Tomie Arai, Ken Chu, Karin Higa, Arlan Huang, Byron Kim, Bing Lee, Colin Lee, Janet Lin, Mei-Lin Liu, Margo Machida, Stephanie Mar, Yong Soon Min, Helen Oji, Eugenie Tsai, Charles Yuen and Garson Yu. Some of Godzilla's members were previously involved in Basement Workshop and Asian American Art Centre. Members decided to name the organization "Godzilla" after Japanese movie monster Godzilla. Other notable artists and arts professionals who later joined Godzilla include artists Paul Pfeiffer, Zhang Hongtu, Nina Kuo, Allan deSouza, and art critic Alice Yang. less
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