'Game Set Cards', c. 1980s
Porcelain 8" Side Plate by Swid Powell
Born in 1951, Donald Sultan was one of the most significant artists to emerge in the 1980's. Sultan uses traditional subject matter such as the landscape, cityscape and still life to create works that are bold and new. His pictures make strong, immediate visual statements. Often his colors, shapes and patterns contain ambiguity, where a lemon could be a person's eye or street lamps and smokestacks could look like the long stems of flowers. A highly collected artist, Sultan received his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1975. He currently lives in New York.
The New York-based Swid Powell company was founded by Nan Swid and Addie Powell, both of whom had a background in contemporary furniture. They had worked for Knoll International, a firm well known for its production of Modernist classics, Swid as a director of product development, Powell as vice-president of sales. Amongst the nine architects involved in preliminary discussions were former Modernist Philip Johnson, Stanley Tigerman, and Richard Meier, all of whom were enthusiastic about designing for a wider public than those able to commission buildings by fashionable designers. In 1984 the first Swid Powell collection of porcelain dinnerware, silverware, and glass was launched, proving highly commercial in design-conscious retail outlets. Swid Powell was well known for its promotion of fashionable ceramics, silverware, and glass by leading international, generally Postmodernist, architect-designers. Those designing for Swid Powell included many of the celebrity 'names' associated with international design, such as Arata Isosaki, Ettore Sottsass, Zaha Hadid, George Sowden, Robert Venturi, and Michael Graves. The company continued to develop its fashionable profile in the late 20th century.
2024
'Donald Sultan: New Works', McClain Gallery, Houston, TX (3/16 - 5/4)
2023
'Framing Nature’s Paradox: Neil Jenney & Donald Sultan, 1969-2023', Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ
'Donald Sultan: Recent Work: Mimosas', Galerie Andres Thalmann Paris, Paris, France
'Donald Sultan: Wallflowers', Leslie Sacks Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2022
'Donald Sultan: The Nature of Things', Ryan Lee Gallery, New York, NY
'Donald Sultan: Wallflowers', HOHMANN FINE ART, Palm Springs, CA
'Donald Sultan: Iconic Florals', Jerald Melberg Gallery, Charlotte, NC
2021
'Donald Sultan: Prints', Leslie Sacks Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
'Donald Sultan: New and Recent Flowers', Meyerovich Gallery, San Francisco, CA
'Donald Sultan: Day and Night: New Paintings and Drawings', Galeria Senda, Barcelona, Spain
'Donald Sultan: New Paintings', Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO
2020
'Donald Sultan: Black and White and Color New Works', Galerie Andres Thalmann, Zurich, Switzerland
'New York in Living Color: Featuring Donald Sultan', Maune Contemporary, Atlanta, GA
2019
'Donald Sultan: Dark Objects Works 1977-2019', Huxley-Parlour Gallery, London, UK
'Donald Sultan: Mimosa, PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS', RYAN LEE, New York, NY
2018
'Donald Sultan', Meyerovich Gallery, San Francisco, CA
'Donald Sultan: The Disaster Paintings', Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE
2017
'Donald Sultan: The Disaster Paintings', North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC (9/23 - 12/31)
'Donald Sultan: The Disaster Paintings', Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC (5/26 - 9/4)
'Donald Sultan: The Disaster Paintings', Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (MAMFW), Fort Worth, TX
2016
'Donald Sultan: The Disaster Paintings', Lowe Art Museum, Miami, FL
'Donald Sultan: Recent Paintings', Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO
2015
'Donald Sultan',Galeria Freites, Caracas, Venezuela
'Donald Sultan', Galerie Forsblom, Helinski, Finland
2014
'Donald Sultan: Artiface', Ryan Lee Gallery, New York, NY
'Donald Sultan: A Decade of Paintings and Drawings', Serge Sorokko Gallery, San Francisco, CA
'Donald Sultan', Meredith Long Gallery, Houston, TX
'Donald Sultan: Recent Work', Galerie Andres Thalmann, Zurich, Switzerland
2013
'Donald Sultan: Echos', Galerie Piece Unique, Paris, France
2012
'Donald Sultan', The Drawing Room, East Hampton, NY
'Donald Sultan: Flower Series', Alan Avery Art Company, Atlanta, GA
2011
'New Acquisitions: Collection of works by Frank Stella and Donald Sultan', Meyerovich Gallery, San Francisco, CA
'Donald Sultan: New Works', Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO
'Donald Sultan', Meredith Long & Company, Houston, TX
'Donald Sultan - Soot and Shine: New Works', Mary Ryan Gallery, New York, NY
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