"As an artist who paints landscapes, Weidle's rejection of the picturesque, merged with his sensitivity to tone and penchant for accurate description, sets a very high bar. And yet, as formally masterful and sensitive to nuance as he is in depicting countless ordinary shapes, a lot more seems to be happening in these paintings. If an archetypal "American" painting style began in the mid-19th century, with the Hudson River School, and the celebration of the unspoiled American landscape, then artists such as Rackstraw Downes, Stanley Lewis, Cindy Tower, and Jim Weidle show what happened to that landscape after it was annexed by waves of optimism mixed with arrogance and greed. While Downes, Lewis, and Tower paint complex, beautiful paintings of ugly or abandoned rubbish-filled factories, and rural life's weedy disorder, Weidle turns his attention to littered grounds, dense forest growth, and gravel yards. It seems as if we are stuck in the middle of nowhere."
John Yau, October 12, 2022,
"Jim Weidle and Our Beautiful Despair"
www.hyperallergic.com
RECENT SHOWS
BIO
| JIM WEIDLE RESUME | |
| EDUCATION | |
| 1973 | B.F.A., Southern Illinois University |
| 1982 | M.F.A., University of Pennsylvania |
| SELECTED ONE-MAN EXHIBITIONS | |
| 1983 | Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1986 | Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY |
| 2007 | Fischer Art Gallery, Marshalltown, IA |
| 2012 | ICON Gallery, Fairfield, IA |
| 2014 | Buchanan Art Center, Monmouth, IL |
| 2016 | Art Center of Burlington, Burlington, IA |
| 2017 | Art Center of Burlington, "The Paint Goes On!", Burlington IA |
| 2018 | Blue Mountain Gallery / "Paint Happens!" (Sept) New York, NY, with Gallery Talk, and Talk with Horace Mann students Art Center of Burlington / "Paint Happens" (Oct) |
| 2019 | Americus Diamond Gallery / "Must See!" |
| 2020 | Americus Diamond Gallery / "For Real" with Gallery Talk, Fairfield, IA Gallery Carbone / "Nightcrawlers," Alameda, CA |
| 2022 | Blue Mountain Gallery / "Paint: Apply Now!" New York, NY |
| AWARDS | |
| 1989 | Who's Who in American Art, Jacques Cattell Press |
| 1990 | Film in the Cities/N.E.A., Minneapolis, MN |
| 2000 | N.E.A., Painting Grant |
| SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS | |
| 1978 | "Works on Paper," Annual, Chicago Art Institute |
| 1979 | Annual, Des Moines Art Center |
| 1981 | Wallinford Art Center, Wallinford PA |
| 1982 | "Collector's Gallery XVI," Marion Koogler McNay Art Inst., San Antonio, TX |
| 1983 | "Contemporary American Watercolors," Priebe Art Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, WI |
| 1984 | "American Seen," Adams-Middleton Gallery, Dallas, TX "The Spirit of the Coast," Monmouth, Museum, Lincroft, NJ Maine Drawing Biennial, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME |
| 1985 | "American Realism," William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, CA "The Realist Landscape," Rutgers University, Robeson Center Gallery, Newark, NJ |
| 1985-87 | "American Realism: Twentieth-Century Drawings and Watercolors," organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA |
| 1988 | Maine Coast Artist Gallery, Rockport, ME "City Views: Panoramas of Particulars; works from the CIGNA Collection," CIGNA Headquarters, Philadelphia, PA |
| 1992 | Great Falls Arts Center, Great Falls, MT Schneider Museum of Art, Ashland, OR Paris Gibson Center for Contemporary Arts, Great Falls, MT Redding Museum and Art Center, Redding, CA |
| 1993 | Omak Art Center, Omak WA Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City Fresno Art Center, Fresno CA Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA |
| 1996 | Rogers/Tatistcheff, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1997 | Dropped out, built Straw-Bale House, Lenore, ID (Nebraska-style, load bearing) |
| 2004/05 | Shilpi Gallery, Fairfield, IA |
| 2007 | Americus Gallery, Fairfield, IA |
| 2008 | ICON Art Institute, Fairfield, IA |
| 2010 | Teeple/Hanson Gallery, Fairfield, IA |
| 2012 | 64Arts / National Juried Annual, Monmouth, IA |
| 2013 | 64Arts / National Juried Annual, Monmouth, IA |
| 2014 | First Street Gallery / National Juried Exhibition, Juror: Jed Perl, New York, NY |
| 2015 | Prince Street Gallery / National Juried Exhibition, Juror: Robert Berlind, New York, NY 64Arts / National Juried Annual, Monmouth, IA |
| 2016 | 64Arts / National Juried Annual, Monmouth, IA Visiting Artist / San Francisco Art Institute, Guest of Mike Kuchar |
| 2017 | Blue Mountain Gallery / Juried Exhibition, Juror: Priscilla Caldwell, New York, NY Buchanan Art Center / "Art in the Heartland," Monmouth, IL Blue Mountain Gallery / "Small Works," New York, NY Blue Mountain Gallery / "New Members Show," New York, NY |
| 2018 | Art 52 / "Paint Happens" (March-April), Fairfield, IA Blue Mountain Gallery / "Paint Happens" (August), New York, NY Sanctuary Coalition (Dec), Brooklyn, NY |
| 2019 | Blanden Art Museum / "Line," Fort Dodge, IA / "Line" (traveling exhibit), Fairfield, IA Horace-Mann Gallery / "Contemporary Realists Group Show," New York, NY |
| 2020 | Blue Mountain Gallery / Member Group Show, New York NY "Essential Art: Work by Blue Mountain Gallery Artists during the Pandemic: Part 1," Virtual Exhibit |
| 2021 | Blue Mountain Gallery / "New Year/New Space," Virtual Exhibit 64Arts / National Juried Annual, Monmouth, IL |
| 2022 | Blue Mountain Gallery / "From the Studio: Blue Mountain Gallery Artists," New York, NY (January) and Manhattanville College (February-March), Purchase, NY |
| 2023 | Blue Mountain Gallery / "The Long View: Creativity Over Time - Blue Mountain Gallery Artists", New York, NY (Jan-Feb) and Green Kill Gallery, Kingston, NY (July-Aug) |
| SELECTED COLLECTIONS | |
| CIGNA Corporation, PA | |
| Commerce Bancshares, Kansas City | |
| Connecticut Insurance General of North America, Philadelphia, PA |
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| Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, TX | |
| First National Bank of Boston | |
| Thomas Boudreau, Durango, CO | |
| Dr. Robert Carroll, New York | |
| Mr. & Mrs. Howard Zagor, New York | |
| Michael Cuddehe, New York | |
| Dr. Lawrence S. Waldman, OH | |
| Mrs. Paula Erskine, CA | |
| Cr. & Mrs. Steve Grossman, MA | |
| Boise Museum of Fine Arts, Boise, ID | |
| Mrs. William C. Janss, Idaho | |
| Mr. Paul Lurie, Illinois | |
| Tim & Meg Fitz-Randolph, Iowa City, IA | |
| Dr. & Mrs. Ken Sandler, Mahern, PA | |
| FMC Corporation, Executive Offices, Chicago, IL | |
| Professor Joseph Goldstein, New Haven, CT | |
| Randy Dillon, Fairfield, IA | |
| Zui R. Cohen, Manchester, NH | |
| Heidi Krabbe, Marshalltown, IA | |
| John Morris, Camden, ME | |
| Bank of New York, New York | |
| Ernst & Whinney, New York | |
| Susan Twomey, Monmouth, IL | |
| Professor L. Gamberg, Penn. State University | |
| Kevin Cook, Toronto, Canada | |