JEFFREY BISHOP
Jeffrey Bishop is a Brooklyn based artist who has shown work consistently over multiple decades, both nationally and internationally. Born in Berkeley, Ca, to a nomadic physicist father, he grew up in Zurich, Paris and Brussels as well as Washington DC, New Jersey and Connecticut. He graduated from The School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA) and Tufts University while winning the prestigious 66th James William Paige Travelling Fellowship in 1974. After a year spent navigating the art capitals of Europe he went to graduate school at the University of Washington where he studied with Jacob Lawrence and Michael Spafford among others. He remained on the west coast, living in Seattle, and also for several years in Los Angeles, while teaching modern art history, painting and drawing at Cornish College of the Arts. In 1982 he had a one person show at the Seattle Art Museum after winning the museum’s Betty Bowen Award. He was for years represented by the Linda Farris Gallery where he had multiple one person shows. He moved to NYC’s Chinatown in 1974. He has continued to show extensively while in NY. He has had one person shows at 490 Atlantic Gallery and John Molloy Gallery among others. Most recently he had a significant survey show at Mosaic Art Space in 2020.
Fathom Compression #21
2020
Ink and Acrylic Silkscreen on Synthetic Substrate
72" x 60"
"What Rough Beast..." #1
2023
Acrylic and Collage on Panel
17" x 14"
"What Rough Beast..." #5
2023
Oil, Acrylic and Collage on Panel
16" x 12"
Vulcan #9
2023
Watercolor on Paper
11" x 15"
Vulcan #11
2023
Watercolor on Paper
13" x 17"
Punctum Disjunction #6
2023
Watercolor and Collage on Arches
22" x 15"
Punctum Disjunction #4
2023
Watercolor and Collage on Arches
22" x 15"
Punctum Disjunction #2
2023
Watercolor and Collage on Arches
19" x 13.5"