Andrew L. Shea

C.V.

Painter, critic, and editor based in Providence, RI, and New York City. 

EDUCATION

• M.F.A. in Painting, Rhode Island School of Design (with Certificate in Collegiate Teaching in Art & Design), Providence, RI. June 2023
  
• B.A.,  Dartmouth College (Studio Art, English Literature), Magna Cum Laude/Phi Beta Kappa, Hanover, NH. June 2017

SOLO EXHIBITION

• "Andrew Shea: Table Talk," Stowaway, Los Angeles, California, February–March 2025

GROUP AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

• "Tell me another story," curated by Heskin Projects, 1GAP Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, January–May 2025
• Works on Paper 2025, THERE Gallery, New York City, April–May 2025
• Summer Hours; East Manning Projects, Providence, RI, September 2024
• Best in Show; East Manning Projects, Providence, RI, June 2024
• “Drawing Alphabets: 2024 BMCC Art Faculty Exhibition,” Shirley Fiterman Art Center, New York City, February–March 2024.
• Colors for Compassion: An Art Exhibition Benefiting Hope for Henry; BRIC, Brooklyn, NY, November 16, 2023
• Still Up to No Good; East Manning Projects, Providence, RI, November 2023
• Rota Fortunae: RISD MFA Showcase (curated by Ala Dehghan); Field Projects, New York City, June 2023
• RISD Grad Show 2023; Rhode Island Convention Center, Rhode Island School of Design, May–June 2023
• Things Past (two-person exhibition with Holden Willard); Alice Gauvin Gallery, Portland, ME, April 2023–May 2023
• Go Thither; Gelman Gallery, Chase Center, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, January–February 2023
• You're Invited; Alice Gauvin Gallery, Portland, ME, December 2022
• The Poetics of Space;  Memorial Hall Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, October–November 2022
• Painting Triennial;  Woods Gerry Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, September–October 2022
• 28th Annual Bowery Gallery Juried Exhibition, curated by Ro Lohin; Bowery Gallery, New York, NY, August 2019
• 2019 Summer Juried Show, curated by Eric Aho & Rachel Portesi; Blue Mountain Gallery, New York, NY, August 2019
  
• Juried Exhibition, curated by Elisa Jensen; Blue Mountain Gallery, New York, NY. January 2019
• Winter Juried Exhibition; Greenpoint Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. December 2017
• 2017 Senior Majors Exhibition; Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH. May 2017
• Permanent Commission; Campus of Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH. May 2017

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

• Critic, Foundations Design, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI. September 2024–Present
• Adjunct Assistant Professor, Intro Color and Design, Borough of Manhattan Community College, New York, NY. January 2024–Present
• Visiting critic, Final critiques, Painting Atelier (MFA and Certificate students) the New York Studio School,  New York, NY, April 2024
• Visiting critic, “Marathon: Still Life as Gateway,” the New York Studio School,  New York, NY, January 22, 2024
• Visiting critic, Final critiques, Junior Painting (Duane Slick), Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI. December 2023
• Lecturer, Drawing 1, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH. Fall 2023
• Lecturer, Painting 2/3, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH. Fall 2023
• Instructor, "Landscape Painting Today," Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI. Jan 2023–Feb 2023
  
• Teaching Assistant, Drawing Foundations, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI. February 2023–May 2023
  
• Teaching Assistant, Painting 1, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI. September 2022–December 2022
  
• Teaching Assistant, Drawing 2, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI. February 2022–June 2022
  
• Teaching Assistant, Global Contemporary Art History Seminar, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI. February 2022–June 2022
  
• Teaching Assistant, Painting 1, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI. September 2021–December 2021
• Teaching Intern, Studio Art Course, Advanced Studies Program, St. Paul’s School, Concord, NH.  June 2016–August 2016

SELECTED WRITING

• "From Stuff to Sculpture," catalogue essay for "Jim Condron: Collected Things" at the New York Studio School, January 2025.
• “Soumya Netrabile: Holding Current,” The Brooklyn Rail, October 2024. Print.
• "Painting Between the Poles," catalogue essay for "Catherine Kehoe: Back and Forth," at Anderson Yezerski Gallery, Boston, September – October 2024. Print.  
• “Still Life as Gateway: Chaim Soutine and Pierre Bonnard,” lecture, New York Studio School, January 22, 2024.
• “Brenda Goodman: Hop, Skip, Jump — New Work 2022,” The Brooklyn Rail, March 2022. Print.
• “‘Alex Katz: Gathering’ Review: Painting Private Life at the Guggenheim,” The Wall Street Journal, 17 January. 2023.
  
• “‘In the Balance: Between Painting and Sculpture, 1965-1985’ Review: Happy Medium,” The Wall Street Journal, 9 January. 2023.
• “Eric Aho, At the Edge of a Lake,” catalogue essay for “Eric Aho: Threshold” at DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY,  October–November 2022.
• “Aubrey Levinthal: Neighbors, Strangers, Gazers, Bathers,” The Brooklyn Rail, October 2022. Print.
• “Guston in the padded room,” The Spectator (World Edition),  August 2022. Print.
• “Scott Kahn: The Walled City,” The Brooklyn Rail, June 2022.
• “Carrie Moyer: Morphologies,” The Brooklyn Rail, May 2022. Print.
• “Charles Mingus at 100,” The Spectator (World Edition),  May 2022. Print.
• “Jule Korneffel: Here comes the night,” The Brooklyn Rail, April 2022. Print.
• “Abby Lloyd: Goodby Dolly,” The Brooklyn Rail, March 2022. Print.
• “Precarious and thrilling” (on “Milton Avery” at the Wadsworth Atheneum), The Spectator (World Edition),  March 2022. Print.
• “Style & subject” (on “Jane Freilicher and Thomas Nozkowski: True Fictions” at the Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation), The New Criterion, 18 January 2022. Web.
• “Baltimore maven” (on “A Modern Influence: Henri Matisse, Etta Cone, and Baltimore” at the Baltimore Museum of Art),The New Criterion, 20 December 2021. Web.
• “A brush with Joan Mitchell” The Spectator (World Edition),  December 2021. Print.
• “Of bodies chang’d,” (on “Titian: Women, Myth & Power” at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum) The New Criterion, December 2020. Print.
• “The mysterious observations of Lennart Anderson,”The New Criterion, 25 November 2021. Web.
• “Polina Barskaya: Still,” The Brooklyn Rail, November 2021. Web.
• “Matvey Levenstein,” The Brooklyn Rail, October 2021. Print.
• “Andrew Forge’s light of the canvas,” The New Criterion, 16 July 2021. Web.
• “Exhibition note” (on “Julie Mehretu” at the Whitney Museum), The New Criterion, June 2021. Print.
• “‘Soutine / De Kooning: Conversations in Paint’ Review: Discordant Dialogue’,” The Wall Street Journal, 29 April. 2021. Print.
• “Old Masters, new look” (review of updated  European paintings galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) The Spectator (U.S. Edition),  February 2021. Print.
• “Exhibition note” (on “Frank Auerbach: Selected Works, 1978–2016” at Luhring Augustine, Chelsea), The New Criterion, January 2021. Print.
• “Albert Pinkham Ryder: isolato of the brush,” The New Criterion, December 2020. Print.
• “Culture and anarchy: Félix Fénéon, terrorist and connoisseur” (review of Félix Fénéon: The Anarchist and the Avant-Garde—From Signac to Matisse and Beyond at the Museum of Modern Art, New York) The Spectator (U.S. Edition),  November 2020. Print.
• “Still painting after all these years” (review of Paul Resika: Eight Decades of Painting) The Spectator (U.S. Edition),  October 2020. Print.
• “An interview with Jim Condron,” The New Criterion, 15 September 2020. Web.
• “Porter and pals at the Parrish,” The New Criterion, 11 September 2020. Web.
• “Liberty and death: Jacob Lawrence’s struggle for freedom,” The Spectator (U.S. Edition),  September 2020. Print.
• “A moment for myth” (On “Kyle Staver” at Zurcher Gallery), The New Criterion, 17 July 2020. Web.
• “The Staying Inside Guide: Views into Art History,” The Wall Street Journal, 17 June 2020. Web.
• “Exhibition note” (on ‘Gerhard Richter: Painting After All’ at the Met Breuer), The New Criterion, May 2020. Print.
• “Fried and battered (On Roger Fry and the Metropolitan Museum of Art),” The New Criterion, 21 April 2020. Web.
• “Facing Lucian Freud,” The New Criterion, 1 April 2020. Print.
• “Guides to Maine on the ides of March,” The New Criterion, 15 March 2020. Web.
• “The real McCoy: in memory of McCoy Tyner,” The Spectator (U.S. Edition),  9 March 2020. Web.
• “Pat Passlof’s touch of the Brush,” The New Criterion, 17 January 2020. Web.
• “The soft power of Italian jazz: Eat to the beat,” The Spectator (U.S. Edition),  January 2020. Print.
• “A perfect pairing: new Nabi art at the Phillips,” The New Criterion, December 2019. Print.
• “‘William Bailey: Looking Through Time’ Review: Realism Reimagined’,” The Wall Street Journal, 17 September 2019. Print.
• “Exhibition note” (on ‘Abstract Climates: Helen Frankenthaler in Provincetown’ at the Parrish Art Museum), The New Criterion, October 2019. Print.
• “Monsters & manifestos,” The New Criterion, June 2019. Print.
• “Sangram Majumdar’s sleights of hand,” The New Criterion, 3 April 2019. Web.
• “Enrico Riley’s cycled histories,” The New Criterion, 12 March 2019. Web.
• “Eleanor Ray at Nicelle Beauchene Gallery,” The New Criterion, 23 January 2019. Web.
• “William Monaghan at the CAC New Orleans,” The New Criterion, 4 January 2019. Web.
• “Dickinson alive in Philadelphia,” The New Criterion, December 2018. Print.
• “Exhibition note” (on ‘George Shaw: A Corner of a Foreign Field,’ at the Yale Center for British Art), The New Criterion, November 2018. Print.
• “Hank Mobley, the greatest sax player you never heard,” The Spectator (U.S. Edition),  3 September 2018. Web.
  
• “Klimt and Schiele at the Neue Galerie,” The New Criterion, 2 August 2018. Web.
• “Exhibition note” (on ‘Chaim Soutine: Flesh’ at the Jewish Museum), The New Criterion, June 2018. Print.
• “Exhibition note” (on ‘Public Parks, Private Gardens: Paris to Provence’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art), The New Criterion, May 2018. Print.
• “Excess devoured: Steve DiBenedetto at Derek Eller,” artcritical, 6 April 2018. Web.
• “Albers opens eyes to Mexico,” The New Criterion, February 2018. Print.
• “Murillo’s strange conceits,” The New Criterion, December 2017. Print.
• “Josephine Halvorson’s trees,” The New Criterion, 17 November 2017. Web.
• “Peter Doig at Michael Werner Gallery,” The New Criterion, 17 October 2017. Web.
• “The Great War: seen and felt.” The New Criterion, 3 August 2017. Web.
• “Susan Lichtman at Steven Harvey Fine Arts Projects.” The New Criterion, 11 July 2017. Web.
• “Matisse & Diebenkorn at the Baltimore Museum of Art.” The New Criterion, 24 January 2017. Web.
• “‘American Visions’ at the Montclair Art Museum.” The New Criterion, 4 March 2016. Web.
• “Outsider Art at the Metropolitan Pavilion.” The New Criterion, 22 January 2016. Web.

AWARDS

• Marcus Heiman-Martin R. Rosenthal ’56 Award, Dartmouth College May 2017
• Office of Residential Life Purchase Award, Dartmouth College May 2017