A Dudek Timeline

Born: 1952, Adams, Massachusetts. Birthplace of Susan B. Anthony. Location of Mount Greylock, the tallest mountain in Massachusetts, which inspired stories by Hawthorne and Melville.

1976-78: Moves to the Bowery in NYC. Studies at the School of Visual Arts with Louise Bourgeois, Ronald Bladen, Joel Shapiro, Jackie Windsor, Donald Kuspit and Carter Ratcliff. Concentrates on sculpture and develops architectural projects (BFA, 1977). Scholarship to the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, summer of 1978. Builds first large scale, outdoor project at Skowhegan.

1978-83: Moves to Times Square. Enters Masters Program at Hunter College. Studies with Tony Smith, Robert Morris, Antoni Milkowski and E.C. Goossen. Writes thesis, “The Social and Aesthetic Influences on Frederick Law Olmstead”, (MA, 1983). Travels to France and Italy. Continues to work on projects that fuse architecture and sculpture. Starts to exhibit.

1983-89: Receives C.A.P.S. grant (1983) and establishes a studio in Williamsburg, Brooklyn (1985). Travels to Spain. Develops and builds several temporary outdoor installations in New York City, Philadelphia, PA and western Massachusetts (Pittsfield and Stockbridge). Starts teaching at the School of Visual Arts (1985). Begins to make smaller object based sculptures. Exhibits in Midtown and East Village galleries. The sculptures start to engage the early works of Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright and later, mid-century modernist architects and designers such as Charles and Ray Eames.

1989-93: Starts teaching at Hunter College (1989). Works on both large-scale (Socrates Sculpture Park) and small-scale projects. Receives Marie Walsh Sharpe Grant. Travels to Germany and Poland. Sculpture residency in Orosko, Poland (summer, 1993). Curates traveling exhibition of Polish Drawings.

1993-98: Makes several trips to the American Southwest to see earthworks, Native American cliff dwellings, and Donald Judd’s complex in Marfa, TX. Curates Dead-Fit Beauty (sculptors creating fictitious life-forms) and Architecture, Architecture, Architecture (sculptors engaging modern architecture). Teaches in the Bennington College July Program. Travels to France (Paris) Germany (Documenta and Munster).

1998-2003: Buys 50 year old, cape style house in Windsor, MA and begins to “restore” it. Moves studio to new location in Williamsburg. Installation at Art Omi. Starts to incorporate drawings into installations. Exhibits at The Drawing Center, NYC. Collaborates on projects with Monika Sosnowski. Solo show at Studio Facchetti. Curates Acid Bath, American Sandwich, Photasm and Confabulations.

2005: Marries Monika Sosnowski. Travels to Turkey (Istanbul, Ephesus, Pergamon, and the underground cities of Cappadocia). Curates “Unrelated”, “T-Zone”, “Archicule” and “Mostly Sculpture”. Launches the Archicule.com website in conjunction with the exhibit at Makor in NYC.