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Jonathan
Talbot (JT) born in New York City to artist Helen Talbot and
her husband Irwin Panken.
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Family
lives at #1 Grove Street opposite Sheridan Square in New York's
Greenwich Village.
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JT
and family move to a farm owned by mother's family in Patterson,
NY.
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JT's
childhood artistic efforts are supported by his mother who
encourages him to talk about his drawings and paintings and
transcribes his often lengthily remarks on the backs of the
works.
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JT
begins life-long friendship with James and Hugh Weisman, children
of Susan Stix Weisman, one of his mother's college classmates.
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JT's
paternal grandfather makes him a single-string "guitar" from
a cigar box, a broom handle, some string, and wood scraps.
JT develops an interest in music.
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Family
moves to Croton-on-Hudson, NY. JT's sister Elizabeth is born.
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JT
attends progressive Hessian Hills School in Croton-on-Hudson.
Croton is, at this time, home to a liberal community which
includes many intellectuals and artists. JT meets sculptor
Jacques Lipshitz who has studio in nearby Hastings-on-Hudson.
Also meets Croton resident painter-lithographer George Gropper.
Summers continue to be spent at the farm in Patterson
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JT's portrait
is painted by artist Arthur Lidov. Painting is used as the
cover illustration for the December 1947 issue of The American
Mercury.
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Portrait of JT by A. Lidov
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JT acquires
first guitar and starts to play and sing folk music.
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The
farm in Patterson is sold.
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Family
spends summers in village of Menemsha on the island of Martha's
Vineyard. The beauty of this island draws many artists to
its shores. JT meets painter/muralist/lithographer Thomas
Hart Benton. Plays guitar at local square dances with banjo
player Bill Keith and others. Becomes friendly with actor-to-be
Peter Coyote.
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JT
attends Croton-Harmon High School.
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Attends
Oakwood Friends School, a Quaker boarding school in Poughkeepsie
NY. Graduates in 1957. In spare time JT teaches himself binary
math, builds rudimentary digital computer, and learns to play
flamenco guitar.
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At
urging of his family, JT attends Brandeis University. Leaves
after one year to nurse his ailing mother.
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JT
moves to New York City.
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Juan
Moreno,
Barcelona, Spain 1960
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Using
the stage-name Juan Moreno, JT works as a flamenco guitar
soloist and accompanist for Spanish dance companies. Lives
in both Spain and the US. Performs widely including at Maple
Leaf Gardens in Toronto and on Radio Nacional d'España in
Barcelona. Plays in numerous Greenwich Village venues including
The Village Gate (where JT shares the bill with Lightining
Hopkins), Folk City (where JT shares the bill with John Lee
Hooker), and the Gaslight (where JT accompanies Bill Cosby
and becomes friends with Tom Paxton). JT also serves as master
of ceremonies at the Cafe Wha? where he becomes friends with
Bob Dylan and Richie Havens.
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JT
returns to US. Studies at the New School for Social Research
in New York. Resumes music career, returning to the folk music
which he heard as a child and then broadening his musical
horizons to include rock and classical music.
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While on tour in Florida, JT buys Norton motorcycle. Rides
north to Boston, then to New York, and then cross-country
to Los Angeles, California. Fails to find meaningful work
in California and sells motorcycle. Makes his way back to
New York. Meets wife-to-be, Marsha Goldstein.
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JT, Florida,
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JT
continues music career. Travels to Thule, Greenland as bass
player with a rock group.
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JT
performs as singer-songwriter in clubs in New York and Philadelphia.
Opens for Jackson Browne and Niko and the Velvet
Underground at the Dom in the East Village. Plays bass
for folk-rock group Webster's New Word which records
for Columbia Records. Organizes rock group The Gurus
for record producer Ron Haffkine. Guru's recording of JT's
song Blue Snow Night makes it to the "top 40"
charts. Other songs are published in folk music magazines
and in The Vietnam Songbook, a book of anti-war protest songs
edited by Barbara Dane and Irwin Silber.
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Organizes, directs, and plays electric bass in The New
York Electric String Ensemble. Produces group's first
album for ESP-DISK. Group opens for Judy Garland, Count Basie,
and Jackie Wilson at JFK Stadium in Philadelphia. Group also
performs with Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and at Carnegie
Hall in New York. (For more information about
the New York Electric String Ensemble Click
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The New York Electric String Ensemble
on stage, 1967.
(l to r) Lew Bottomly, Pete Smith, JT |
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JT continues performing with The New York Electric String
Ensemble. Produces group's second album, this time for Columbia
Records.
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JT
leaves music business. Marries Marsha Goldstein. Moves to
San Francisco, CA.
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JT
enrolls in "Etching 101" at San Francisco Academy of Art. Learns
much from fellow student Howard Munson who later becomes master
printer for Bowles-Hopkins. Begins career as visual artist.
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Works
shown at San Francisco Artists Cooperative, San Francisco, CA |
Works
included in Crown Zellerback Exhibition, San Francisco, CA |
Works
included in 25th Annual San Francisco Art Commission Exhibition.
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JT
and wife Marsha move to Los Angeles, CA, then to Morristown,
NJ, then to Montville, NJ and then South Orange, NJ |
JT's works included
in Newark Public Library Statewide Exhibition, Newark, NJ. |
Solo exhibition
at the Morristown Library in Morristown, NJ (first solo exhibit). |
Solo exhibition
at the Hilton Memorial Library in Maplewood, NJ. |
JT sets up printmaking
facility and teaches printmaking at Morris County Art Association
in Morristown, NJ |
JT
Produces & hosts "Morris County Art Scene" television program
on Morris Cablevision |
(l to
r) Al Barker, JT, Gerald Lubeck |
JT
becomes friends with artists Al Barker and Gerald Lubeck whom
he meets at an outdoor art exhibition in Kearny, NJ. JT teaches
them etching in exchange for oil painting instruction (Lubeck)
and watercolor instruction (Barker). Friendship endures to this
day. |
JT
establishes relationship with David Gary Ltd. Fine Art Gallery
in Millburn, NJ. JT has numerous solo exhibitions at David Gary
Ltd. until relationship ends in 1992.
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Solo exhibition
at Scranton Memorial Library in Madison, CT |
Solo exhibition
at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Madison, NJ |
JT demonstrates
etching at Morris Museum of Arts and Sciences in Morristown,
NJ |
The Free
Library of Philadelphia acquires JT's etching "Seals."
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JT participates
in group exhibition at Art Center of the Oranges, East Orange,
NJ
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Daughter
Loren Storm Naomi Talbot born.
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JT and
Marsha move to newly-purchased home in South Auburn, Pennsylvania,
a small community with more cows than people in the rural Pennsylvania
region known as the "Endless Mountains." Property includes small
farmhouse and three story barn. JT converts part of barn to
studio.
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Solo exhibition
of JT's work at Drew University, Madison, NJ. |
Solo exhibition
at The Three Tenses gallery, Clark Summit, PA |
Group
exhibition at William Ris Galleries, Harrisburg, PA |
JT's work
included in Contemporary American Graphics, 1974-75 (traveling
exhibition).
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JT's work
included in group exhibitions at Associated American Artists
in New York |
William
S. Lieberman selects "Pig" to be included in "Museum
Managerie" exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
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JT's work
included in group exhibition at Associated American Artists
in New York |
Central
New York Art Open (juried exhibition), Syracuse, NY |
Associated
American Artists publishes edition of JT's etching "Pig."
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JT and
family leave Pennsylvania and purchase farm in Warwick, NY.
As main barn has burned down prior to purchase, JT converts
former tractor shed into studio.
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Betty
Parsons and Tom Armstrong select JT as award recipient at the
Atlanta Festival of the Arts in Atlanta, GA. |
JT commissioned
by Yachting Magazine to produce a series of etchings of Tall
Ships. |
JT's etchings
sold by Mystic Seaport Museum Store, Apple Arts (Englishtown,
NJ) and numerous other dealers and galleries. |
JT shows
Recent Etchings at the Somerset Art Association in Bernardsville,
NJ
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Son Garret
Jordan Nathaniel Talbot born.
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JT's etching
"Pig" appears on the cover of the Cornell University
Adminstrative Science Quarterly.
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JT's etching
with aquatint "Etching: Noun, Nominative and Participial"
is included in a juried national exhibition which travels from
the Hunterdon Art Center to the Plainfield Library to the Morris
Museum (all in New Jersey). |
The Newark
Public Library acquires JT's etching "Emigrant Eye."
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JT's works
subject of solo exhibition at Ellen Harris Gallery, Provincetown,
MA
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JT has
second solo exhibition at Ellen Harris Gallery, Provincetown,
MA
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JT's oil
on panel "Reflections" is selected for inclusion in the
National Academy's 156th Annual Exhibition in New York. |
Andre
Emmerich selects JT's oil on panel "Waterfront Buildings
- Troy, NY" to receive First Albany Corporation Award in
the Mohawk Hudson Regional Art Exhibition at Albany Institute
of History and Art. |
Selected
works by JT are included in an invitational exhibition at the
Schenectady Museum. |
JT' etching
"Chicken Little" (which deals with the malfunction of
the Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Pennsylvania) is exhibited
at the 5th Annual Eastern States Print Exhibition in Charlotte,
NC. |
JT's etching
with aquatint "Night Watchman" is included in a National
Juried Exhibition sponsored by Columbia-Greene Community College
at Terrance Gallery in Palenville, NY |
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JT's painting
"Waterfront Buildings - Troy, NY" is included in the
157th Annual Exhibition of the National Academy and is purchased
by the Ranger Fund which places it in the Smith College Museum. |
JT's etching
"Chicken Little" (see above) is exhibited in the National
Print Exhibition at Trenton State College, Trenton, NJ, and
at the Boston Printmaker's 34th National Exhibition at the DeCordova
Museum in Lincoln, MA. |
A reproduction
of "Chicken Little" appears in the Art Now Gallery Guide
article on the DeCordova exhibition.
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Ivan Karp
selects JT's miniature collage "Temple" for inclusion
in Small Work Exhibition at New York University. "Temple" is
purchased by noted collector Henry Fiewel. "Temple" is
subsequently exhibited at Brainerd Art Gallery at SUNY Potsdam.
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A new
and larger Talbot collage/construction also called "Temple"
is included in the Art of Northeast USA exhibit at the Silvermine
Guild in New Canaan, CT and is honored with the C. R. Gibson
Company Award. |
Art dealer
Max Weitzenhoffer agrees to exhibit JT's collages in his prestigious
Gimpel & Weitzenhoffer Gallery at 79th Street and Madison Avenue
in New York. Max, a carefuly groomed style-conscious man finds
it amusing that a large man with "rough edges" like JT makes
such delicate works of art. |
JT's oil
painting on panel "Reflections 2" is included in the
41st Annual Audubon Artists annual exhibition at the National
Arts Club in New York.
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JT's first
solo museum show, The Collages of Jonathan Talbot, is
held at the Everhart Museum in Scranton, PA in May of 1984 |
The Byer
Museum of the Arts in Evanston, IL exhibits The World
of Jonathan Talbot (solo exhibition) in September of 1984. |
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Two
collages by JT, "Freighter" and "View from the Customs
House" are selected by Ned Rifkin of the Corcoran Gallery
of Art for inclusion in Recent American Works on Paper in Charlottesville,
VA, Arlington, VA and traveling under the auspices of the Smithsonian
Institution. |
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JT's
first one-person New York exhibition is held at Gimpel & Weitzenhoffer
Gallery at 57th St. and Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. The exhibition
is reviewed in Art News and Art World. |
JT
with Gimpel and Weitzenhoffer Gallery Directors Bill Maynes
and Joseph Rickards at opening of JT's solo exhibition, 1986. |
JT
becomes friendly with artist Clarence Carter, who also shows
at Gimpel & Weitzenhoffer. Clarence is former head of WPA Arts
Project for Northern Ohio during the 1930s and has had a long
a distinguished career in the arts. |
"Engine
Room," a collage-construction by JT is included in Surrealism
After Surrealism at The Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AK
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JT
and Andrew Stasik (former Director of Pratt Graphics Center
in New York) Co-chair the Pratt/Silvermine International Print
Exhibition juried by William Lieberman |
Andrew Stasik and JT at opening of International
Print Exhibition
(also pictured: Debbie Hendel) |
.JT's
etching "Silver Blaze" is shown on page 66 of Smithsonian
Magazine's December 1986 issue. Unfortunately there is no mention
of JT. |
JT's work
included in Art in the Box: Homage to Joseph Cornell
at the Silvermine Guild Galleries in New Canaan, CT
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JT's
second one-person New York exhibition is held at Gimpel & Weitzenhoffer
Gallery at 57th St. and Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. |
JT
with Clarence Carter (see 1986 above) at 1987 opening.
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JT's
work included in The Printed Image at The Hudson River
Museum in Yonkers, NY. |
JT's
work included in Spectrum 1987 at The Hunter Museum in
Chattanooga, TN |
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Two collages
by JT, "Stream of Consciouness" and "An Intellectual
Approach," are included in Recent American Works on Paper
'88 at the Second Street Gallery in Charlottesville, VA
and the Palmer Museum of Art at Pennsylvania University. |
JT's
collage/construction "Malthusian Perspectometer" is included
in an exhibition titled "Interactions: Science and Art" at the
Squibb Gallery in Princeton, NJ. |
JT begin's studies with Jean Houston and Peggy
Rubin. |
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Works
by JT included in group exhibit at Helen Fuscass' Connecticut
Gallery. |
Works
by JT included in group exhibit at the John Szoke Gallery in
New York. |
JT serves
on Artist Advisory Committee for Beyond the Big Apple, a conference
sponsored by the Arts Councils of Orange and Rockland Counties,
NY |
JT curates
Connecticut Collage, an exhibition exploring collage
created by Connecticut artists held at Art at 100 Pearl in Hartford,
CT |
JT's 5-plate
color etching "Anima Captiva" is included in the 2nd
National Small Print Exhibition", University of Wisconsin-Parkside,
Kenosha, WI; in the 40th North American Print Exhibition sponsored
by The Boston Printmakers at the Brockton Museum of Art; and
in the Pacific States National Print Biennial at the University
of Hawaii. |
Collage
by JT included in The Figure in American Art Since Mid-Century
curated by Andrew Stasik at the Silvermine Gallery/Metro Center
in Stamford, CT |
JT's work
included in the U.S. Art in Embassies program under the auspices
of the U.S. Department of State.
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JT's
third one-person New York exhibition is held at Gimpel & Weitzenhoffer
Gallery's new location in Soho. |
JT
with Jan Vladimir Zakrzewski (left) and collector John Lee (center),
1990 |
JT
becomes friendly with Polish artist Jan Vladimir
Zakrzewski who has moved to Warwick. |
At
the invitation of gallery director Sophia Gevas, JT's work is
subject of a solo exhibition entitled Research and Development
at the Gallery of Contemporary Art at Sacred Heart University
in Bridgeport, CT. |
JT's
collage-painting "Point of Departure," (the largest of
a number of works bearing this title) is included in The
Humanist Icon (curated by Lowell Nesbitt) at The Bayly Art
Museum, Charlottesville, VA, The New York Acdemy of Art, New
York, NY, and The Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS.
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JT
joins Lois Lane, Robert Kushner, Daniel Mack, and Jan Vladimir
Zakrzewski in group exhibiton called Five Artists Living
and Working in Warwick.
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JT's
fourth one-person New York exhibition is held at Gimpel & Weitzenhoffer
Gallery in Soho.
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JT establishes
relationship with Gay Head Gallery on Martha's Vineyard. |
The Newark
Museum acquires JT's etching "Railroad Bridge - Newark, NJ"
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Jonathan
Talbot Selected Works 1983 - 1993 exhibition at Donskoj
& Company in Kingston, NY. Exhibition is reviewed by Raymond
J. Steiner in Art Times.
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JT's work
included in Spectrum 1993 at the Hunter Museum of Art in Chattanooga,
TN. |
JT ends
20-year relationship with David Gary Ltd. Fine Art Gallery in
Millburn, NJ
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JT's work
shown in Works on Paper at 79th Street Armory in New
York by Rickards/Stellings Fine Art.
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Work
by JT is included in In This Place and Time at the College
Art Gallery, State University of New York, New Paltz, NY. |
Andrew
Stasik (see 1986 above), former head of Pratt Graphics Center
in New York, invites JT to lead a collage workshop at the Connecticut
Graphic Arts Center in Norwalk, CT. This turns out to be the
first of many workshops led by JT throughout the U.S. and Canada.
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The
Museum Okregowe w Toruniu in Torun, Poland acquires JT's etching
"Anima Captiva." |
JT's construction
"American Odyssey" is reproduced in a portfolio of prints
created for art teachers and students. |
JT serves
as a mentor artist for the Newark Arts Council's Celebrity Art
Auction to benefit the new New Jersey Performing Arts Center.
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JT's
fifth solo New York exhibition, Collages from the Flamenco
Series, is held at Joseph Rickards Gallery, Madison Ave.
and 79th St., in Manhattan.
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First
edition of Collage: A New Approach by JT is published
(First printing: June 1998) |
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The Maitland
Art Center in Maitland, FL acquires JT's collage "Whirligig."
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Jonathan
Talbot: Collage Paintings 1980-2000 exhibit at The Housatonic
Museum in Bridgeport, CT |
Housatonic
Museum acquires JT's collage "Bedtime Story." |
The
Montclair Museum of Art, Montclair, NJ acquires JT's collage
"Radiometer." |
The
Longview Museum of Art, Longview, TX acquires JT's collage "Longview
Patrin."
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JT's
work shown in Paris and Sergines, France in an exhibition sponsored
by Musée Artcolle. |
Fifth
edition of Collage: A New Approach by JT is published
(First printing: March 2001). |
JT accepts
invitation to participate in National Security Seminar at U.S.
Army War College in Carlisle, PA. (June, 2001). |
JT curates Paste and Pixels exhibition
at Core Gallery in New Paltz, NY. |
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Jonathan
Talbot: The Artist as an Explorer, Solo Exhibition at the
Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay, Oregon.
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JT's
work "Neosuprematist Patrin No 2" is included in an International
Collage Exhibition at Kansas State University's Kemper Gallery
in Manhattan, KS. |
The
Beach Museum of Art in Manhattan, KS acquires "Neosuprematist
Patrin No 2." |
Solo
Exhibition, Davis and Cline Gallery, Ashland, Oregon
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Salon
International du Collage Contemporain, Paris, France (International
Collage Exhibit) |
Assemblage
100,
Stratford, New Zealand (International Assemblage Exhibition) |
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Large
Patrin,
Solo Exhibition at the University of South Carolina, Sumter,
SC |
Jonathan
Talbot: The Artist as an Explorer, Solo Exhibition at Quincy
University. Quincy, IL
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Le
Voyage Imaginaire (The Imaginary Voyage) Centre d'Art L'Imagier,
Gantineau, Quebec, Canada / Poughkeepsie Art Museum, Poughkeepsie,
NY USA / Expressions Art Center, Upper Hutt, New Zealand: (International
Traveling Collage Exhibition)
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JT
(with much help) translates Collage: A New Approach into
Spanish.
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JT
and colleague, collagist Fred Otnes, with one of Fred's
works. Connecticut, 2005. (Click here
to enlarge photo)
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JT
leads his first workshop in Europe at El Jardinico in Caravaca
de la Cruz, Murcia, Spain |
Le
Voyage Imaginaire exhibition travels to Germany and Bulgaria. |
JT
supplies artwork for The Portrait, a short film by Spanish
Director José Carrasco |
The
Artist's Marketing & Action Plan Workbook by JT and
Geoffrey Howard is published. |
JT
keynote speaker at the Arts Education of Indiana Annual Convention. |
JT's
work sells at Sotheby's |
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JT
keynote speaker at Texas Arts Education Association Annual Convention. |
JT and family at Oakwood Friends School
May, 2007. |
Le
Voyage Imaginaire exhibition travels to France.
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JT
juries National Collage Society Annual Exhibition. |
JT's
work shown at Broadfoot and Broadfoot Gallery in New York, NY.
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JT receives Distinguished
Alumni Award from Oakwood Friends School. |
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JT
travels to Brussels, Belgium for opening of "Art Collage"
exhbition. |
JT
in Brussels with Georges Verzin, Echevin de la Culture et de
l’Instruction Publique of Schaerbeek, in front of one
of Talbot’s works. |
"The
Bachelors Series" exhibited for the first time. |
The
Durst Organization hosts a NYC exhibition of "The Patrin
Series." |
Eleven
Talbot works included in "Collage Logic"
exhibition. |
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JT's painting "Soundings:
Bermuda" included in "We Are Sailing" exhibition
at the Masterworks Museum of Bermuda Art |
Works by JT included
in "Collage" exhibition at Galerie Leonardo in Paris,
France |
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Ten works from
"The Bachelors Series"
are included in "With or Without Permission: Appropriation,
Assemblage, and Collage" at The Philoctetes Center for
the Multidisciplinary Study of Imagination. New York, NY. |
Thirty-Nine Small
Patrin by JT are included in "InSPIRATion"
at The American University Museum in Washington, DC. |
JT's works included in "L'art du collage dans tous
ses états" at the Loft Gallery in Paris |
Ten of JT's works
are included in the book "Masters: Collage" by Randall
Plowman published in June, 2010 |
JT visits Mesa State College in Grand Junction, Colorado as
part of visiting artist program. |
JT & Robin Colodzin launch The Arts Map project, an interactive worldwide map of arts studios at www.TheArtsMap.com. The project grows to include more than nine thousand artists in one hudred seven countries. |
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"Acrylic Image Transfer: A Handbook for Artists," written by JT and Jessica Lawrence, is published.
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JT and Jessica Lawrence curate "Homage to Kurt Seligmann" exhibition. |
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Publication of "The Collages of Jonathan Talbot" by professor Deborah K. Snider with an Essay by professor Andrew Marvick. |
"Jonathan Talbot" (solo exhibition) at The 155 Project, New York, NY. |
JT & Robin Colodzin terminate The Arts Map project. |
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JT, Deborah K. Snider, and Sue Cotter curate an exhibition titled "ABC: Assemblage, Book Arts & Collage" at the Braithwaite Gallery, Southern Utah University, Cedar City, UT. |
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"Collage Paintings by Jonathan Talbot" (solo exhibition) at The Seligmann Center at the Orange County Citizens Foundation, Chester, NY. |
JT curates "Identity and Anonymity," an invitational exhibition at The Seligmann Center at the Orange County Citizens Foundation in Chester, NY. |
JT, Leslie Fandrich and Professor Steven Specht, edit "Identity & Anonymity- An Artful Anthology" published by Mizzentop Publishing. |
JT curates "The Artist Who Never Was - The Life and Work of Vernon Hart" at The Seligmann Center at the Orange County Citizens Foundation in Chester, NY. |
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