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Ross Bleckner

1949
Born in New York City, NY
Lives in New York, NY
1971
BA, New York University, New York, NY
1973
MFA, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA

Selected Exhibitions

2022
"Ross Bleckner," Carling Dalenson, Stockholm, Sweden
"Sehnsucht," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2021
"Ross Bleckner: Paralipsis," Maruani Mercier Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
"Heart in the corner of the room," Petzel Gallery, New York, NY
"Ross Bleckner: Stripe Paintings from the 80’s," Van de Weghe, East Hampton, NY
2020
"Quid Pro Quo," Capitan Petzel, Berlin, Germany
2019
"How to Survive the Present," Allouche Benias, Athens, Greece
"Overhead and Below," Neues Museum, Nürberg, Germany
"Pharmaceutria," Petzel Gallery, New York, NY
2018
Mazzoli Gallery, Modena, Italy
Maruani Mercier, Brussels, Belgium
Maruani Mercier & Hadida, Paris, France
2017
Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO
Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, TX
2016
Leila Heller Gallery, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
“Architecture of the Sky”, Böhm Chapel, Hürth-Kalscheuren, Germany
2015
“Black Monet”, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO
2014
Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
2012
“Ross Bleckner: Brains and Flowers Paintings”, Jablonka Galerie, Köln, Germany
2011
“Ross Bleckner: Time Paintings”, Alain Noirhomme Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2010
Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
“Ross Bleckner: Meditation and Time”, Emilio Mazzoli Galleria d’Arte Contemporanea, Modena, Italy
2008
“New Paintings”, Imago Galleries, Palm Desert, CA
2007
Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
Cais Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
Thomas Ammann Fine Art, Zurich, Switzerland.
2005
Ruzicska Gallery, Salzburg, Austria
2004
“Dialogue with Space”, Esbjerg Art Museum, Esbjerg, Denmark
2003
Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York, NY
2001
Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
2000
Maureen Paley/Interim Art, London, UK
Mario Diacono Gallery, Boston, MA
Galerie Ernst Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland
1999
Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
1997
Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France
Bawag Foundation, Vienna, Austria
1996
Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
1995
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo, Norway.
I.V.A.M., Centre Julio Gonzalez, Valencia, Spain
1994
Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
1993
Galerie Max Hetzler, Koln, Germany
1991
Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Kolnischer Kunstverein, Koln, Germany
1990
Kunsthalle Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
1989
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
1988
Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
1987
Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
1986
Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
Mario Diacono Gallery, Boston, MA
1983
Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY

Group Exhibitions

2023
"An Apartment for Ghosts: ’57–’23," Petzel Gallery, New York, NY
2022
"Christen Sveaas Art Foundation: The Unseen Selected by Hurvin Anderson," Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
"Empire of Water," The Church, Sag Harbor, NY
"Artgenève 2022," Palexpo Genève, Geneva, Switzerland
"Every Moment Counts—AIDS and its Feelings," Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Høvikodden, Norway
2020
"Dialogue of Images," Galerie Bernd Kugler, Innsbruck, Austria
Caroline Bachmann – 58. av. J.-C., Kunsthaus Glarus, Switzerland
Art Basel Curated Selection: New Painting, Sculpture and Works on Paper, Petzel Gallery, New York, NY
"The Shadow of the Sun," Wave Hill, Bronx, NY
2019
"A Cloth Over a Birdcage," Château Shatto, Los Angeles, CA
"The Empathy Lab," Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"Where Art Might Happen, The Early Years of the California Institute of the Arts," Santa Clarita, CA Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover, Germany
"Rebel with a Cause: The Extravagant Eighties as Envisioned by Eric Fischl," Nassau County Museum, Roslyn, NY
2018
"Welcome to the Dollhouse," The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
"Scenes for the Collection," The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
"The Color of Light," Brintz Galleries, Palm Beach , FL
"In the Shadow of the Sun," Saskatoon, CA
2017
"Artists as Innovators: Celebrating Three Decades of New York Council on the Arts," New York, NY
"Foundation for the Arts Fellowships," Dorsky Museum of Art SUNY, New Paltz, NY
"Fast Forward: Painting from the 1980s," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
"Blue Black," Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, St. Louis, MO
"Nocturne," Paul Petro Contemporary, Montreal, CA
"Garden Party," Brintz Galleries, Palm Beach, FL
"So Lightly Here," Paul Petro Contemporary, Montreal, CA
"The Secret Life of Plants," Freight and Volume, New York, NY
2016
"Contemporary Artists vs. The Masters, Brattleboro Museum and Art Center," Brattleboro, VT
"Nice Weather," Skarstedt Gallery, New York, NY
"Art AIDS America," Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA
"Art AIDS America," The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY
“Water|Bodies”, Southampton Arts Center, Southampton, NY
"12 New Yorkers," Jablonka Maruani Mercier Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
“Unfinished Business: Paintings from the 1970s and 1980s by Ross Bleckner, Eric Fischl, and David Salle”, Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, NY
“Art AIDS America”, Alphawood Foundation/Alphawood Gallery, Chicago, IL
“Art AIDS America”, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, New York. “Phantom Bodies: The Human Aura in Art”, Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL
“Nice Weather”, Skarstedt Gallery, New York, NY
2015
"Phantom Bodies: The Human Aura in Art," Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN
“Selfies and Portraits of the East End”, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY
“Art AIDS America”, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Washington. “Phantom Bodies: The Human Aura in Art”, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN
"Ross Bleckner and Volker Eichelmann," Sargent’s Daughters, New York, NY
2014
"Repetitive Motion," SHFAP at Projector Gallery, New York, NY
"In the Beginning/End States," Sgorbati Projects, New York, NY
“Urban Theater: New York Art in the 1980s”, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX
2013
"Paint Hotel," Joe Sheftel Gallery, New York, NY
2012
“Word Symbol Space”, The Jewish Museum, NYC, NY.
“Conceptual Abstraction”, Hunter College/Times Square Gallery, New York, NY
2011
"An Instance of Vibration," Anonymous Gallery, New York, NY
"Magic Hand," ARTBLOGARTBLOG, New York, NY
“Surrounding Bacon and Warhol: Selections from the Astrup Fearnley Collection”, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway
“Circa 1986 – The ‘80s from Six Important New York Art Collections”, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY
“Pop Art 1960’s-2000’s From Misumi Collection”, Kawaguchiko Museum of Art, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan
2010
"In Dialogue," Anonymous Gallery, New York, NY
"Selections," LA Art House, West Hollywood, CA
“Your History is Not Our History”, Haunch of Venison, New York, NY
“Other as Animal”, Danese Gallery, New York, NY
“America: Now and Here”, cross-country traveling exhibition. “Stream of the Unknown: Selections from the Collection”, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Long Island City, NY
2009
“A Tribute to Ron Warren”, Mary Boone Gallery. New York, NY
2008
“Empires and Environments”, The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
“Genesis: The Art of Creation,” Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland.
2007
"Time .01: I Love My Scene/Scene 3," Mary Boone Gallery, NY, NY
“All the More Real: Portrayals of Intimacy and Empathy”, The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
2006
“View Nine: I Love My Scene/Scene 3”, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
2005
"Picturing America: Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art," Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum, Nagasaki, Japan
“ZooStory,” Fisher Landau Center for Art, Long Island City, NY
2004
“A Celebration of the Guild Hall Academy of the Arts Lifetime Achievement Honorees in the Visual Arts”, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY
“North Fork/South Fork: East End Art Now/Part II”, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
“Flowers Observed, Flowers Transformed”, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA
“Flowers”, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
2003
“Me & More”, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland
2002
“Art Downtown: New York Painting and Sculpture”, 48 Wall Street, New York, NY
2001
“Mythic Proportions: Painting in the 1980s”, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL
“Jasper Johns to Jeff Koons: Four Decades of Art from the Broad Collection”, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
2000
“In the Power of Painting”, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
“On Canvas: Contemporary Painting”, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
“In the Power of Painting”, Alesco, Zurich, Switzerland
1999
“The American Century: Art and Culture 1950-2000”, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1997
“Birth of the Cool: Amerikanische Malerei”, Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
1996
“Nuevas Abstracciones”, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
1995
“Passions Privees”, Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
1994
“Painting and Sculpture: Recent Acquisitions”, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1992
“Slow Art: Painting in New York Now”, P.S. 1 Museum, Long Island City, NY
1991
“Devil on the Stairs: Looking Back on the Eighties”, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
“Mito y Magia en America: Los Ochenta”, Museo de arte contemporaneo de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico
“Metropolis”, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany
1989
“1989 Biennial Exhibition”, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
“Prospect 89”, Frankfurt Kunstverein and Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, West Germany
1988
“Carnegie International”, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
“Art at the End of the Social”, The Rooseum, Malmo, Sweden
“The Binational/Die Binationale”, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
“The Image of Abstraction”, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
“Biennial of Sydney”, Sydney, Australia.
1987
“1987 Biennial Exhibition”, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1985
“Currents”, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
1984
“The Meditative Surface”, The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1981
“New York in Black and White”, The Museum of Modern Art/Penthouse, New York, NY
1979
“New Painting/New York”, Hayward Gallery, London, UK

Bibliography

2022
Shining, Stewart & Cultured Staff. "In the Studio with Ross Bleckner," Cultured, The Long Summer Playbook, Hamptons Issue, July 11 (Link)
Slenske, Michael. "Ross Bleckner Paints The Town Blue," Los Angeles Magazine, February 11 (Link)
Babette, Emily. "GALLERY ROUNDS: Ross Bleckner Vielmetter Los Angeles," Artillery, February 10 (Link)
2021
Bernadac, Marie-Laure. "Ross Bleckner: Paralipsis," Maruani Mercier Gallery, Graphius, Belgium, September (Link)
Mitchell, Rory. “Brussels Gallery Weekend: Artwork Selections,” Ocula, September 6
Wolgamott, L. Kent. “Sheldon’s ‘Point of Departure’ surveys 6 decades of abstract painting,” Lincoln Journal Star, August 25
Boston, Nicholas. “Flowers Burst Through ‘Shadow of the Sun’ Collaboration,” Gay City News, June 23
Dan Golden, Dan. “Pictures: Interview,” Curator, February 24
Nauphal, Lana. “Exhibition Review: ‘PICTURES’ at Petzel Gallery,” Musée Magazine, February 1
2020
Steer, Emily. “Ross Bleckner Captures the Raw Vulnerability of Human Life in Paint,” Elephant, October 5
“7 Things You Didn’t Know About: Ross Bleckner,” artnet Auctions, September 29
Quin, John, “Stick Figures & Robotic Systems: At Berlin Gallery Weekend,” The Quietus, September 19
Fateman, Johanna. “Goings on About Town: Community Board,” The New Yorker, September 5
Tuten, Frederic. “Frederic Tuten and Ross Bleckner in Conversation,” Reflektor Magazine, #4 Fall
“The Circularity of History: Daniel Sturgis on Ross Bleckner at Capitain Petzel, Berlin,” Texte zur Kunst, September
Karmel, Pepe, “Abstract Art: A Global History,” Thames & Hudson Ltd, London, 2020, p. 167
2019
Pierson, Jack and Kunle Martins. “Black Swan Song,” Sneeze Magazine, No. 41 Fall 2019, pp. cover, A12 – A25
Enright, Robert and Walsh, Meeka. “A History of the Painter’s Heart An Interview with Ross Bleckner,” Border Crossings, September 2019, pp. 72-83
Hoban, Phoebe. "Ross Bleckner’s Burnt Offerings," Riot Material, June 10 (Link)
Bleckner’s Pharmaceutria,” Riot Material, June 10
Kurutz, Steven. "Ross Bleckner Wipes the Canvas Clean," New York Times, July 24 (Link)
“Ross Bleckner: Pharmaceutria at Petzel Gallery,” Artefuse, May 15
Hodkin, Jeremy. “A Conversation with the Newly Announced—And Unlikely Duo—of Ross Bleckner and Friedrich Petzel,” The Canvas, May, pp. 25-33
“Ross Bleckner: ‘Pharmaceutria’,” Time Out, April 29
Loos, Ted. "Ross Bleckner on His Comeback and Mary Boone," New York Times, April 25 (Link)
2018
Farago, Jason. “A Museum’s Fresh Take on the Whole Megillah,” nytimes.com, January 25
2016
Johnson, Ken. "Searching for Light in the Darkness of the ’80s," New York Times, August 18 (Link)
Russeth, Andrew. "Three Kings: Painters David Salle, Eric Fischl, and Ross Bleckner Return to the Decades They Conquered," W magazine, July 27 (Link)
van Straaten, Laura. "80s Art World ‘It’ Boy Ross Bleckner Is Having a New York Moment," artnet, March 31 (Link)
2015
Mason, Shana Beth. "Ross Bleckner and Volker Eichelmann," Brooklyn Rail, March (Link)
2014
Melouney, Carmel. "Artist of Science Makes His Return," Wall Street Journal, March 8-9 (Link)
1996
Adams, Brooks, “Ross Bleckner at Mary Boone”, ART IN AMERICA, November
Schjeldahl, Peter, “Paint Recovery”, THE VILLAGE VOICE, 28 May
1995
Schwabsky, Barry, “Memories of Light”, ART IN AMERICA, December
Retrospect”, ARTFORUM, February
Carrier, David, and Neville Wakefield, “Mourning Glory: Ross Bleckner in
Stevens, Mark, “Art of Darkness”, NEW YORK MAGAZINE, 13 March 1995, p. 68. Schjeldahl, Peter, “Angles in America”, THE VILLAGE VOICE, 14 March
1994
Smith, Roberta, “Bleckner: loss and mourning, abstractly”, THE NEW YORK TIMES, 27 May
1991
Donald, “Ross Bleckner”, ARTFORUM, September
1989
Storr, Robert, “Ross Bleckner”, ART IN AMERICA, March 1989, pp. 145-146. Kuspit,
1988
Brenson, Michael, “Ross Bleckner”, THE NEW YORK TIMES, 28 October
Liebmann, Lisa, “Ross Bleckner’s Mood Indigo”, ART NEWS, May
1987
Rankin, Aimee. "Ross Bleckner by Aimee Rankin," Bomb, April 1 (Link)
Cameron, Dan, “On Ross Bleckner’s ‘Atmosphere’ Paintings”, ARTS MAGAZINE, February
Smith, Roberta, “Art: In Bleckner Show, an Array of Past Motifs”, THE NEW YORK TIMES, 13 February
Mc Gill, Douglas, “An Artist’s Journey from Obscurity to Success”, THE NEW YORK TIMES, 19 February
Rankin, Aimee, “Ross Bleckner”, BOMB, April
Steir, Pat, “Where the Birds Fly, What the Lines Whisper”, ARTFORUM, May
1986
Brenson, Michael, “Ross Bleckner”, THE NEW YORK TIMES, 14 February
Westfall, Stephen, “Ross Bleckner at Mary Boone”, ART IN AMERICA, May

Public Collections

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Astrup Fearnley Collection, Oslo, Norway
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
Bawag Foundation, Vienna, Austria
Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam
The Broad Art Foundation, Santa Monica, California
Brooklyn Museum, New York
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York
Citibank Art Collection, New York
Daros Collection, Zürich, Switzerland
Douglas S. Cramer Foundation, Los Angeles
Dannheisser Foundation, New York
Fisher Landau Center for Art, New York
General Mills, Golden Valley, Minnesota
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
Ho-Am Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
Jacksonville Art Museum, Jacksonville, Florida
The Jewish Museum, New York
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska
Marx Collection, Berlin, Germany
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin
Museo de Arte Contemporanea, Seville, Spain
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Orlando Museum of Art, Florida
Prudential Life Insurance, Newark, New Jersey
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
The ROC Group, Paris, France
Rubell Family Collection, Miami, Florida
The Saatchi Gallery, London, England
Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California
Smith, Klein and Beckman, Swedeland, Pennsylvania
Tsurukame Corporation, Nagoya, Japan
Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota, Duluth, Minnesota
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Catalogues and Publications

2020
Baerwaldt, Wayne, Jennifer Mcgregor, and Leah Taylor. 2020. The Shadow of the Sun : Ross Bleckner & Zachari Logan. Saskatoon, Saskatchewan: Kenderdine Art Gallery/College Art Galleries At The University Of Saskatchewan
2019
Bleckner, Ross; Tuten, Frederic. Nine Flowers. New York: Planthouse Gallery
2018
Milazzo, Richard. The Corner of the Room: Ross Bleckner’s Paintings of the1 970s. Modena, Italy: Emilio Mazzoli Editions
2015
Bleckner, Ross. Freddy Presents Dick. New York: Freddy Gallery
Bleckner, Ross. 18 Inches. New York: Sargent’s Daughters
2014
Black Bird Brain. (Catalogue Design by Ross Bleckner) Brussels: Maruani Mercier Gallery
2012
Bleckner, Ross. My Life in the New York Times. New York – Paris – Turin: Edgewise Press
2011
Bleckner, Ross. A3 Our Lives in the New York Times. New York – Paris – Turin: Edgewise Press
Ross Bleckner. (Catalogue Design by Ross Bleckner) Brussels: Maruani & Noirhomme Gallery
Milazzo, Richard. The Flower Paintings of Ross Bleckner. Modena, Italy: Emilio Mazzoli Editions
2009
Bleckner, Ross. Examined Life: Writings 1972-2007, edited and with an introduction by Richard Milazzo, New York – Paris – Turin: Edgewise Press
2007
Milazzo, Richard. The Paintings of Ross Bleckner. Brussels: Éditions Alain Noirhomme
1998
Page Three. Santa Fe: Twin Palms Publishers
Ross Bleckner: Watercolor. Santa Fe, New Mexico: Arena Editions
1993
Ross Bleckner: Flowers, edited by Douglas Andrews, Nicola Del Roscio and Guido Orsini, Rome, Italy
1990
Bleckner, Ross. Art Random. Kyoto: Kyoto Shoin International

Writings By The Artist and Interviews

2017
“I Have Always Been Afraid To Be Someone’s Wife,”in Art, Poetry, and the Pathos of Communication, edited by Richard Milazzo. OBSzine, No. 3
2010
SJP Tries Reality TV, thedailybeast.com, 8 June
2009
Bleckner, Ross. “When This is,” in Welcome to Gulu, The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and the ICC Trust Fund for Victims, New York
2007
Bleckner, Ross. “Excerpts from a Conversation: Ross Bleckner and Frederic Tuten,” Ross Bleckner, Cais Gallery, Seoul, Korea, October 4 – November 7
2005
Bleckner, Ross. “On Spirituality” (A Lecture), Strategies for the Future of Culture: Dresden in Global Context, Dresden, Germany, October 27 – 29
2002
Cameron, Dan.“Ross Bleckner,” Artforum, March, pp. 230-31, 274
2001
Bleckner, Ross. Moira Dryer: Paintings 1989-1992, Art Gallery of York University, Nov. 29 -Feb. 4
1994
Cotter, Holland. “Art After Stonewall: 12 Artists Interviewed,” Art in America, June, pp. 56-65, 115
1993
Bleckner, Ross. “From the Journals,” Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, New York, 19 June – 1 August
Seidner, David, and Ross Bleckner. “Endless Loss,” Parkett, December, pp. 68-72
1991
Bleckner, Ross. “Interview,” Art and Text, January, pp. 77-78
1989
Chua, Lawrence. “Ross Bleckner,” Flash Art, November, pp. 122-25
Zaya, Octavio. “Entre la Luz y la Muerte (Una Conversacion con Ross Bleckner),” Balcon, February, pp. 60-64
Bleckner, Ross. David Deutsch: New Work, May 3-27, Blum Helman Gallery, New York Paparoni, Demetrio. “A Veil of Light: Ross Bleckner,” Tema Celeste, July, pp. 52-54
Sischy, Ingrid. “Ross Bleckner,” Interview, February, pp. 112-19
Bleckner, Ross. “Painting on Love,” Kunsthalle Zürich, November 3 – December 30 Bleckner, Ross. “Excerpts from Interviews,” Kunsthalle Zürich, November 3 – December 30
1988
Morgan, Stuart. “Strange Days,” Artscribe, March, pp. 48-51
Fairbrother, Trevor, and David A. Ross. The Binational: American Art of the Late 80s, The Institute of Contemporary Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and DuMont Buchverlag, pp. 58-61
Zinsser, John.“Interview with Ross Bleckner,” Journal of Contemporary Art, March,pp.45-55
McCarron, John. “Ross Bleckner,” Shift, Spring, pp. 22-23, 36
1987
Wei, Lilly. “Talking Abstract,” Art in America, July 1987, pp. 80-97
Rankin, Aimee. “Ross Bleckner,” Bomb, April, pp. 22-27
1986
“Philip Taaffe: Failure, Theft, Love, Plague,” Pat Hearn Gallery, New York, January
Siegel, Jeanne. “Geometry Desurfacing: Ross Bleckner, Alan Belcher, Ellen Carey, Peter Halley, Sherrie Levine, Philip Taaffe, James Welling,” Arts Magazine, March, pp. 26-32
Drake, Peter. “Ross Bleckner,” Flash Art, June, pp. 66-67
1983
Bleckner, Ross. “Disavowal and Redemption,” Effects Magazine, July, p. 15
Bleckner, Ross. “These Paintings,” Mary Boone Gallery, New York, November 5-26
1979
Bleckner, Ross. “Transcendent Anti-Fetishism,” Artforum, March, pp. 50-55
1972
Bleckner, Ross. “Vito Acconci: Torturing the Body,” The Big News, Vol. 1, No. 3, February 24