HOWARD DANELOWITZ PAINTINGS
Studio Contact Phone: 646-761-5250
Email: info.hdanelowitzpaintings@gmail.com
Instagram: @danelowitzpaintings: Where paintings meet interiors - featuring artwork views, studio process, art fair announcements, and exhibitions
Commissions, Available Works & Studio Visits by Appointment
International Shipping & Architectural Mock-ups, available for Design Trade & Advisories
Prices Available Upon Request
INSTITUTIONAL PROVENANCE & ARCHIVE
Permanent Archive & Distribution: The Danelowitz Film Program 4 works, archived and exclusively distributed by The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York.
Historical Pedigree: Studied under master animator Jules Engel at CalArts; featured in Richard Kostelandetz's Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes.
Feature Film Direction: Director, Animated Title sequence for Brian De Palma's Home Movies (1979/1980), screened at the Ottawa International Animation Festival.
BIOGRAPHY & ARTIST STATEMENT
Howard Danelowitz is an American painter and experimental filmmaker whose five-decade practice explores dynamic color relationships, geometric structure, and visual rhythm. Working across oil on stretched linen, relief constructions in plastic on board and canvas, his non-figurative compositions build upon an intuitive language of form, spatical tension, and subtle transparency.
Danelowitz focuses predominantly on large-scale architectural canvases- typically starting at 30" x 40" and extending to monumental oil-on-linen installations, including 110"-wide quadriptychs. His painterly approach is deeply informed by his background as an award-winning independent filmmaker. Having studied under master animator Jules Engel at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), his works carry a felt sense of motion, temporal progression, and architectural balance.
Beyond the traditional studio, Danelowitz presents Paintings Meet Interiors, an ongoing curatorial dialogue on Instagram (@danelowitzpaintings) that explores his large-scale abstract works within sophisicated architectural environents. His practice has drawn enthusiastic acclain from Elle Decor A-List interior designers, including Amy Lau, Dan Fink, Nicole Fuller, and Fox Nathem.
WORK CATEGORIES & SPATIAL SCALE
Architectural Canvases: Large-scale oil on stretched linen (30" x 40" up to 110" quadriptychs)
Relief & Dimensional Constructions: Walnut-framed grid installations an custom wood-framed works.
Intimate Studio Investigations: Small-format paintings, including 18" x 24" Novo Spheres Series.
Representational & Atmospheric Studies: Site-specific plein air cityscapes, landscapes, and memory sky paintings
FILM & COMMERCIAL DIRECTING HIGHLIGHTS
Director, Animated Title Sequence for Brian De Palma's feature film Home MOvies (1979/1980), screened at the Ottawa International Animation Festival.
Recipient of grants and awards from National Endowment of the Arts, The American film Insitute (AFI) and the New YOrk State Council on the Arts (NYSCA).
Winner of the Rosalind Russell First Place Film Award at FILMEX, and official selection at the New York FilmFestival (eligile for Academy Award consideration).
EXHIBITIONS & COMMISSIONS
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS & PERMANENT INSTALLATIONS
2020: The Gloucester, New York NY- Permanent solo installation of large-scale paintings
2016-2017: Catskill Fine Arts and Antiques, Catskill, NY solo Exhibition
2010: Richard Meier Building, Prospect Park, Brooklyn, NY-featured solo exhibition for landmakr building opening
1983: Animators Gallery, Broome Street, New York, NY- Solo Exhibition
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS & ART FAIRS
2025-2026 Modernism Show, Palm Springs, CA
2025 Exhibition Iris Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
2025 Labspace, Hillsdale, NY
2024 Spencertown Academy, Spencertown, NY
2024 Circle 46 Gallery, Hudson, NY
2014 Columbia County Studio Tour, NY
2012 Art Students League, New York, NY
2011 REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA
2009 Small Works, South Washington Square East Galleries, New York University, NY
2006 CalArts at MoMA, Museum of Modern Art, New York
1980: NEW YORK NEW, Arthur Roger Gallery- Group exhibition featuring ten select artists, including David Hockney and Howard Danelowitz
BIBLIOGRAPHY & PRESS
2024 Chronogram Magazine, Hudson Valley Feature (July)
2014 Columbia Newspaper
2013 Columbia Newspapaer
2008 Featured entry in Dictionary of the Avant-Gardens by Richard Kostelanetz
1985 American Illustration 4
1984 American Illustration 3
1983 The New York Times
1980 Art in American Magazine
1978 Frames: An Anthology of Drawings for Motion Pictures by George Griffin
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS & EDUCATION
Faculty Appointments:
Assistant Professor, Pratt Institute
Mass College of Art & Design
The University of the Arts
Salem State College
Film Society of LIncoln Center
EDUCATION
Pratt Institute
California Institute of the Arts (CalArts)
New York University
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