Paul Shank

Paintings / Works on Paper

Education

BFA, Washington University, St.Louis

Solo Exhibitions

  • 2012 Paris/St.Louis Portrait, Philip Slein Gallery, St.Louis
  • 2009 Paintings and Works on Paper, 1964-2008, Philip Slein Gallery, St.Louis
  • 2006 A Selection of Work, 1995-2005, Philip Slein Gallery, St.Louis
  • 2004 Recent Work, Elliot Smith Contemporary Art, St.Louis
  • 2001 Algerian Paintings, Elliot Smith Contemporary Art, St.Louis
  • 1995 Recent Drawings, Stein Gallery, St.Louis
  • 1994 Works on Paper, Stein Gallery, St.Louis
  • 1982 Dana Reich Gallery, San Francisco
  • 1973 Intersection Gallery, San Francisco
  • 1972 Xoregos Theater Art Space, San Francisco

Selected Group Exhibitions

  • 2015 Works on Paper, Philip Slein Gallery, St.Louis
  • 2014 Beyond Violet with the Emperor Scorpion, Des Lee Gallery, St.Louis
  • 2013 Washington University Alumni Exhibition
  • 2011 Through American Eyes, Frank Lloyd Wright House at Ebsworth Park, St.Louis
  • 2008 40 Artists: Small Scale Works, Philip Slein Gallery, St.Louis
  • 2006 30 Artists: Small Scale Works, Philip Slein Gallery, St.Louis
  • 2004 Twentieth Anniversary Celebration, Elliot Smith Con- temporary Art, St.Louis
  • 2001 Relative Perspectives, Des Lee gallery, St.Louis
  • 2000 The Landscape, Des Lee Gallery, St.Louis
  • 1991 Martin Kippenberger, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
  • 1991 Edith Caldwell Gallery, San Francisco
  • 1987 Vines Gallery, St.Helena
  • 1986 Chain Reaction, San Francisco Art Commission Gallery
  • 1986 Stamp Out Fine Art, Lone Wolf Gallery, San Francisco
  • 1985 1531 Folsom Gallery, San Francisco
  • 1984 University of California, San Francisco
  • 1972 Twelve Theater Designers, Imago Gallery, San Francisco
  • 1962 Harmon Gallery, St.Louis

Public Art

  • 1972 Xoregos Dance Company, San Francisco, CA. set and costume design for a production of Stravinsky’s “Petrushka”

Residency

  • 2011 Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris

Selected Collections

  • Washington University, St.Louis

  • Pulaski Bank, St.Louis

  • Brobeck, Phleger and Harrison, San Francisco

  • John Wheatman and Associates, San Francisco
  • Capes, Sokol, Goodman and Sarachan, St. Louis
  • Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation, San Francisco

Selected Bibliography

  • Miller, Angela. foreword. “Paul Shank. 22 Young Men, San Francisco Saint Louis Paris,” 2019
  • Baran, Jessica. “ Paul Shank: Paris/ St.Louis Portrait ,” Riverfront Times, October 4, 2012, St. Louis, MO
  • Baran, Jessica. “ Paul Shank. Paintings and Works on Paper. 1964-2008,” Riverfront Times, April 1, 2009, St.Louis
  • Bonetti, David. “ Paul Shank. Paintings and Works on Paper. 1964-2008,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, March 29, 2009, St.Louis, MO
  • Cooper, Ivy. “Paul Shank Builds Grace into Variety,” St. Louis Beacon, March, 2009
  • Caplinger, Hesse. “ Retrospective is 20⁄20,” Examiner.com, April 13, 2009
  • Fitzgerald, Shannon. “Paul Shank: Landscape, Still-life, Abstraction, and the Figure,”
Catalogue, Paintings and Works on Paper, 1964-2008, Philip Slein Gallery, March, 2009 St.Louis, MO
  • Cooper, Ivy. “Ernest Trova 3 Drawings and Paul Shank, Recent Work.” Riverfront Times,
December 15, 2004, St. Louis, MO
  • Cooper, Ivy. “1984-2004 Twentieth Anniversary Celebration at Elliot Smith,” Riverfront Times,
September 29, 2004. p 178, St. Louis, MO
  • Daniel, Jeff. “The Art of Family,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, October 18, 2001, St. Louis, MO
  • Daniel, Jeff. “People Project Could Take a Lesson from Multiple-Focus Shows,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, May 6, 2001, St. Louis, MO
  • Otten, Liam. “Relative Perspectives,” Catalogue published by Washington University,
Des Lee Gallery Exhibition, October 2001, St. Louis MO
  • Daniel, Jeff. “Landscapes Go in All Directions,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, July 9, 2000,
St. Louis, MO
  • Shepley, Carol. “Recent Drawings of Paul Shank,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, May 25, 1995, St. Louis, MO
  • Duffy, Robert W. “Paul Shank’s Object of Focus,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, February 10, 1994, St. Louis, MO
  • Albright, Thomas. “A New Step for DeStaebler,” San Francisco Chronicle, February 11, 1982, San Francisco, CA
  • Sim, Catherine. “Xoregos Dance Company,” Dance Magazine, July, 1972
  • Fried, Alexander. “Dance Troupe Scores,” San Francisco Examiner, March 24, 1972, San Francisco, CA