About Dee Solin

Dee Solin is an abstract artist. Her visionary new work transcends the limits of pure abstraction as she conjures visual narratives about our collective present and near future. Solin’s precise hard-edge geometric and biomorphic shapes conjure a visceral sense of space, motion and otherworldly places. Solin’s new work is inspired by Op Art, Pattern and Decoration and Color Field painting.

Hers is a contemporary form of interactive storytelling where the viewer is invited to complete the process and find personal meaning in the story. Dee makes personal the act of perception.

After graduating from the San Francisco Art Institute, in 1976, earning her Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) degree, Dee returned to New York City where she worked at Young and Rubicam Advertising Agency and in Fine Fragrance Marketing and new product development at Revlon Inc., before founding her own Creative Development Company with offices in Westport, Connecticut and later in London, England where she worked on promotions directly with Vivienne Westwood, Virgin Records and Harrods.

Focusing on her art, she subsequently moved to the south of France and opened a private art studio where she created large scale color field paintings.

While visiting the United States in the mid 1990’s she met her future husband and re-settled in Manhattan. Solin earned her Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degree at the School of Visual Arts in 2017.

She exhibited in prominent New York City Galleries since the early 2000’s, the Andre Zarre Gallery (Chelsea), Sideshow Gallery (Williamsburg), Flatiron Gallery and Phyllis H. Mason Gallery (Manhattan), to name a few. Her work is in private collections in the USA and Europe.

Today, Dee divides her time between New York and Florida. She works primarily in her north Miami studio producing optically vibrant paintings that are alive with energy and hope.

In her new series, Journeys - the Future is Yours, she imagines the ways in which we move forward in life independently and within structures of community, mining philosophical questions of personal identity and interpersonal relationships.

Solin’s new Digital Earth paintings are equally powerful. She imagines the future as a collaboration between humanity and artificial intelligence with global networks, smart orbs and digital realms blanketing Earth.

EXHIBITION HISTORY

SELECTED LECTURES, ESSAYS, VIDEOS & WORKSHOPS

The Art and Science of Color Mixing
Dee Solin Workshop – Art Students League NY 

Color Mixing for Woodblock Printing
Dee Solin Workshop - Columbia University Teachers  College NY, November 2019

Art and Alchemy of Color Mixing
Dee Solin Workshop - Art Students League NYC, April 2019

Is There Room for Color Theory in Today’s Art Classroom?
Dee Solin Lecture - College Art Association NYC, February 2019

Building a Live-Work Space in the Hudson River Valley
Dee Solin Speaker/Panel Discussion - College Art Association NYC, February 2019

Mentoring Program Volunteer
College Art Association NYC, February 2019

“Articulation” Dee Solin Workshop
Venus Center for The Arts, Palm Desert, CA, March 2017

Color – Intentionality and Inspiration Dee Solin Lecture
Venus Center for the Arts,  Palm Desert, CA, 2013

Two For The Craze - Part 1 Differences and Part 2 Similarities
Piri Halasz, art critic and writer, Andre Zarre Gallery March 2015

The Once and Future Show
Piri Halasz, art critic and writer, Sideshow Gallery  January 2014

Who’s Afraid of Red Yellow Blue
Jeffrey Collins, filmmaker, profile/interview 2014

Top 100 emerging Artists of 2013
Michael Corbin, art writer and critic, interview 2013

ESSAYS BY OTHERS

Tracking Consciousness
David Gibson, art writer and critic, profile Dee Solin
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Color As Language
David Gibson, art writer and critic, profile Dee Solin
Excerpts from an essay by Davis Gibson, 2012
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Profile
W.C. Agree, September 2015
Professor Emeritus of Art History at Hunter College and author of Modern Art in America by Phaidon I
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Review
Piri Halasz, New York Critic in reference to Dee Solin’s “Color in Cosmic Mind” show at Andrew Zarre Gallery
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CONTACT DEE

deesolin@gmail.com