John Grillo
John Grillo; signed, dated 1951, 12 X 23, oil/collage on paper

John Grillo : Painter, Teacher, b. 1917

John Grillo attended Hartford Art School, Conn, where he met Edward Dugmore 1933-1938. With Alexander Calder and Dugmore, helped Eugene Berman design sets for Paper Ball:Le Cirque des Chiffonniers. Attended California School of Fine Arts 1946-1947. Studied with Hans Hofmann in New York and at Hans Hofmann School of Fine Arts, Provincetown, Mass. 1948-1951. Received Ford Foundation grant 1964. Taught painting at New School for Social Research, New York City 1964-1966. Professor of Fine Arts, University of Massachusetts at Amherst 1967-1991.

Selected One Person Exhibitions:

Daliel's Gallery, Berkeley, Calif. 1947; Artists' Gallery, New York City 1948; Tanager Gallery, New York City 1952, 1960; Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York City 1953; Bertha Schaefer Gallery, New York City1955,1957,1959; HCE Gallery, Provincetown, Mass. 1959; Howard Wise Gallery, New York City 1961,1962,1963; Ankrum Gallery, Los Angeles 1962-1963; Worth Ryder Art Gallery, University of California, Berkeley 1962; Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Mass 1988; University of Massachusetts, Amherst 1988; Carlson Gallery, San Francisco 1990.

Selected Group shows:

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1952-1953; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1953,1959; Walker Art Center, 1955; Six Gallery, San Francisco 1958-1959; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1963; San Francisco Museum of Art, 1963; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1970, 1972, 1977; The Oakland Museum, California, 1973

Excerpted from The San Francisco School of Abstract Expressionism, Susan Landauer; and San Francisco and the Second Wave, The Blair Collection of Bay Area Abstract Expressionism.


 

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