Background
He was born in Nyack, New York, a suburb of New York City, and was awarded a Bachelor in painting from Yale University in 1982.
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Paul Bloodgood
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In 2002 Bloodgood received a Master of Fine Arts from Maine College of Artist
Career
He produces predominantly abstract paintings often relating to the works of earlier artists, particularly Jackson Pollock. He has had two solo exhibitions in New York City, as well as exhibiting in group shows and elsewhere. He moved to New York City in 1996.
In 2010 he suffered a head injury which left him "with an optical disorder that prevents him from recognizing a whole object if he sees only parts of it".
Foreign four years in the early 2000s he worked as a colorist, creating a range of paint colours for Martha Stewart and Lowe"s Home Centers based on Paul Klee"s color theories from his time at the Bauhaus. In April–May 1991, his exhibition Jack"s Name Painting at 303 Gallery drew on Jackson Pollock and other writers and artists including Herman Melville.
In 1995 he worked on the Epilepsy Foundation"s "Winning Kids" program, helping children with epilepsy create art In 1999 he showed work in the exhibit Now Wait for Last Year at Air Corps Project Room in New New York
The 2008 show Three Painters at David Zwirner in New York showed his art with that of Leonard Bullock and Greg Kwiatek.
His 2012 show Objects in Pieces at the Newman Popiashvili gallery in New York included oil paintings derived from collages made from cutting up and combining his own images with those by Jackson Pollock, Paul Cézanne and Dong Qichang. Art in America said "one is deeply impressed by the artist"s offbeat perspective and resolute pursuit of his own language". This inch of Wholeness was a 2013 solo show in Savannah, Georgia.
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Quotations: "one is deeply impressed by the artist"s offbeat perspective and resolute pursuit of his own language".
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