Dee Shapiro, Quilt or Persian Rug Serigraph Pattern and Decoration Feminist Lithograph Print, 1983

Dee Shapiro is a Contemporary American artist and writer associated with the Pattern and Decoration movement. I have seen this referred to as Hejaz.
Dee Shapiro was inspired to be an Artist in her early years of education. Dee’s career started in the 1970s as a pattern painter with her works of art included in the Pattern and Decoration at P.S. 1
(other artists included Mary Grigoriadis, Valerie Jaudon, Joyce Kozloff, Robert Kushner, Kim MacConnel, Miriam Schapiro, Betty Woodman, Robert Zakanitch.)
She researched and explored the Fibonacci Progression in color on graph paper and also explored geometric complexity of architectural designs, leading her to create the small horizontal oil paintings of cities and landscapes. Dee Shapiro became a Yaddo fellow in 2017.
Dee Shapiro obtained her bachelor’s degree in 1958 and Master of Science in 1960 from Queens College, City University of New York. Dee Shapiro is an artist that sees the subject on a large scale, but what she creates is on a diminutive scale. Shapiro’s strength is the ability to give expressive power on canvas that makes her work seem larger than they are. Dee Shapiro has been a teacher, lecturer, and writer through career. “I have been concerned with women’s issues most of my life. I have worked to enhance the position of women in society through supporting the work of women artists. As a contributor to Heresies Magazine and a founder of a women’s cooperative gallery as well as developing a body of work that references women’s work and more currently focuses on female sexual imagery, I identify with feminist matters and affairs.”

Group exhibitions
2018 The American Dream, Emden, Germany
Solo exhibitions
2016 Art 101, Brooklyn, NY
2015 Andre Zarre Gallery, NYC
2015 Five Points Gallery, Torrington, CT
2012, 2010, 2009 Andre Zarre Gallery, NYC
2010 Norfolk Library, Norfolk, CT
2009 George Billis Gallery
2006 Harrison Street Gallery, Frenchtown, NJ
2004 The Mercy Gallery. Loomis Chafee, Windsor, CT.
2004,2002, 1998 Andre Zarre Gallery, NY C, National Arts Club, NYC
2000 Principle Gallery, Alexandria, VA
1998 Nassau County Museum of Fine Art, Roslyn, NY
1997 Andre Zarre Gallery, NYC
1996 North Winds, Port Washington, NY
1994, Andre Zarre Gallery, NYC
1984 Ana Sklar Gallery, Miami, FL
1983 Andre Zarre Gallery, NYC
1982 Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY, Andre Zarre Gallery, NYC
1981 Dubins Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Zenith Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
1980, 1976 Andre Zarre Gallery, NYC
1979 Gallery 700, Milwaukee, WI Andre Zarre GalleryNYC
1978 St. Mary’s College, Notre Dame, IN
1977 University of Arkansas, Little Rock, AK
1975, 1973 Central Hall Gallery, Port Washington, NY, Nassau County Museum of Fine Art, Roslyn, NY
Selected bibliography
James Panero, Supreme Fiction The Hudson River School Revisited, March, 2010
Piri Halaz, From the Mayor’s Doorstep, April 2010
Steve Starger, Art New England, Dee Shapiro: “On The Horizontal,” Feb/Mar 2005
Maureen Mullarkey, The New York Sun,”The Last Time I Saw Cuba,” April 15, 2004
James Kalm, NY ARTS, International Edition, April 2000
Helen Harrison, The New York Times, April 12, 1998, April 11, 1981
Phyllis Braff, The New York Times, 1989
Charlotte Rubenstein, American Women Artists, Avon, 1982
Barbara Colin, “Pattern of a Painter” New York Arts Journal, Oct-Nov 1981
Helen Harrison, Harald Szeeman, “Pattern Paintings” D U Die Kunstzeitschrift, Zurich, June 1979
Ellen Lubell, “Lush Complexities and Visual Indulgence” Soho Weekly News, Feb.13, 1979
Peter Frank, The Village Voice, May 1, 1979
Judith Tannenbaum, Arts Magazine, April 1978
Peter Frank, “Pattern Painting” ARTnews, February 1978
Madeline Burnside, ARTnews, April 1978
April Kingsley, “Opulent Optimism” The Village Voice, Nov.28.1977
John Canaday, “Talent Blooms” The New York Times, May 9, 1976
Malcolm Preston, Newsday, September 18, 1976
Gordon Brown, Arts Magazine, September 1976
Ellen Lubell, “Watercolor Electricity” Soho Weekly News, Feb.16,1975

Selected collections
Albright-Knox Museum, Buffalo, NY
Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL
Brown-Foreman, Louisville, KY
Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA
Citibank Collection, NYC
Dartmouth Museum of Art, Hanover, NH
Dayton Institute, Dayton, OH
Owens-Corning Corp., Corning, NY
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
General Electric Co., Fairfield, Ct.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NYC
Corporate Collection, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington,[New York
Herbert Johnson Museum, Ithaca NY
Hoffman-LaRoche Collection, Zurich, Switzerland
IBM Corporation, NY
Lehigh University Collection, Bethlehem, PA
Louis-Dreyfus Financial Group
Mercer Street Medical Center, NYC
Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC
Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY
New York University Collection, NYC
Pepsico Corporation, NY
Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS
St. Mary’s College Collection, Notre Dame, IN
Texaco Corporation, NY
The New Museum, NYC
New York University Collection, NYC
The Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
United States Department of State, Washington, DC
University of Arkansas, Little Rock, AK