Early Career

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Landfield began exhibiting his work in New York City in 1962. He studied painting by visiting important museum and gallery exhibitions in New York City during the early sixties and by taking painting and drawing classes at the Art Students League of New York and in Woodstock, New York. He graduated from the High School of Art and Design in June 1963. Briefly attending the Kansas City Art Institute, he returned to New York City in November 1963. In February 1964 he traveled to Los Angeles. He settled in Berkeley, California in March 1964, where he began painting Hard-edge abstractions primarily with acrylic paint. He briefly attended the University of California at Berkeley and the San Francisco Art Institute before finally returning to New York City in July 1965.

In late 1966 through 1968 he began exhibiting his paintings and works on paper in leading galleries and museums. His work was included in group exhibitions at the legendary Park Place Gallery, the Bianchini Gallery, the Bykert Gallery, the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Studio Museum in Harlem, and the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts (Stanford University Museum of Art) amongst other places. Two drawings were reproduced in S.M.S. III by the Letter Edged in Black Press, and he was included in New York 10, a portfolio of prints published by Tanglewood Press. In October 1969 he had his first one-man exhibition at the David Whitney Gallery in NYC.

His work is in the permanent collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The National Gallery, The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, The Norton Simon Museum, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Walker Art Center, The Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, New York University, Stanford University amongst numerous others.

Recent

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He taught Fine Arts at the School of Visual Arts from 1975 until 1989. During the eighties and early nineties he showed his paintings with the Charles Cowles Gallery and Stephen Haller Fine Arts in New York. He's been represented by the Salander/O'Reilly Gallery in New York since 1997. In October 2005 he had a solo exhibition of his paintings at the Heidi Cho Gallery in Chelsea. Currently he teaches at The Art Students League of New York. He draws, paints and writes lefthanded. Landfield's two sons are artists who live in New York, Matthew Hart Landfield is an actor/writer/director and Noah Landfield [http://www.noahlandfield.com is a painter/musician.

Awards

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Gold Medal for Painting San Francisco Art Institute 1965, William and Noma Copley Grant (Cassandra Foundation)1969, National Endowment Grant Clayworks NYC 1983, Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant 1995, Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant 2001.

External Links

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• http://www.ronnielandfield.com ^*
• http://www.paperworks.net^*
• http://www.abstract-art.com ^*
• http://www.salander.com ^*

 

1947 births | American artists | New York artists | Living people | American painters | College dropouts | People from the Bronx