Painter, photographer, sculptor. Taught art at LA Tech for 31 years. Retired Professor Emeritus

DEAN DABLOW
1402 Madera St
Ruston, Louisiana 71270
318.255.7490
[email protected]
web site www.deandablowart.com

PERSONAL
Born: 1946 Superior, Wisconsin

EDUCATION
MFA 1974/ MA 1972, University of Iowa, Iowa City
BS‚ U of Wisconsin, Stevens Point‚ 1969

PROFESSIONAL
Director, School of Art, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA, 1997-2007 - Retired Professor Emeritus
Professor, School of Art, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA, 1985
Associate Professor, School of Art, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA, 1979-1985
Assistant Professor, School of Art, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA, 1976-1979
Instructor, Art Department, Coe College, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 1974–1976
Photographic Coordinator, University of Iowa College of Dentistry, Iowa City, Iowa, 1974-76 Teaching Assistant, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa , 1972-1974
Lecturer, Iowa Memorial Union, University of Iowa, Iowa City, 1973

HONORS
Artist Residency, Colorado Art Ranch, Salida, CO - May 2011
Artist Residency, Jentel Foundation, Banner, Wyoming - August/September 2007
Faculty Development Grant, Louisiana Tech University, Summer, 1989.
Attended workshop‚ sponsored by The Friends of Photography in Carmel, California
(faculty included Morley Baer, Ruth Bernhard, Lois Conner, Michael Kenna, and John Sexton)
Purchase Award – U.S. Biennial III Museum of Art, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, 1988
Artist Fellowship, Southern Arts Federation/National Endowment for the Arts, Atlanta, GA, 1987
Purchase Award, LaGrange National XI, LaGrange, GA, 1986 –
Purchase Award, 16th Annual Prints, Drawings, Crafts Exhibition, Arkansas Arts Center,
Little Rock, AR, 1983
Artist Fellowship Grant, Louisiana Division of the Arts, Baton Rouge, 1982
Who’s Who in American Art, 1982
Purchase Award, U.S. Biennial, Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, 1982_
Merit Award, 17th Annual Juried Exhibit, St. Tammany Art Association, Covington, LA,
Merit Award, 16th Annual Juried Exhibit, St. Tammany Art Association, Covington, LA,
First Award, Birmingham Arts Alliance, Birmingham, AL, 1980
Purchase Award, (photograph) Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA, 1979
Purchase Award, (drawing) Masur Museum of Art National Exhibition, Monroe, LA, 1978
Purchase Award, (2 photographs) LaGrange National III, LaGrange, GA, 1978
Purchase Award, (photograph) Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR, 1977
Purchase Award, (2 photographs) LaGrange National II, LaGrange, GA, 1977
Purchase Award, (painting) Consolidated Paper Company, Port Edwards, Wisconsin, 1970
Purchase Award, (painting) Wausau Art Festival, Wausau, Wisconsin, 1969
Purchase Award, (painting) Sentry Insurance, Stevens Point, Wisconsin, 1968
Purchase Award‚ (collograph) Beloit and Vicinity Show, Beloit, Wisconsin, 1968


PUBLICATIONS / REVIEWS / PAPERS
American Art Collector: Juried National Competition, 2013, one painting Alcove Books, Berkeley, CA,
October, 2012
“Studio Visit”, two paintings published in juried national magazine, Carl Belz juror, Open Studios Press,
Boston, MA 2008
Author, The rain are fallin: A Search for the People and Places Photographed by the Farm Security
Administration in Louisiana, 1935-1943, Scrub Jay Press, Tollhouse, CA, September, 2001, 185pp.
Review, St. Louis Post–Dispatch, September 20, 1998, by Jeff Daniel, p. C3
Photograph “Sunstone” shown on CBS Sunday Morning News Program as segue, New York, 1993
Photographs reproduced in Lotus magazine, 1992–1993
Photograph reproduced in exhibition catalog, U.S. Biennial III, Museum of Art, U of Oklahoma,
Norman, OK, 1988
Art Papers, Atlanta, GA, Nov. –Dec., 1988, Article by Robert J. Doherty_
Louisiana Photographers: Landscapes, Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA, 1988
A Century of Vision: Louisiana Photography 1884–1984, edited by Herman Mhire, University of
Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette, LA, 1986
Discovering a Personal Photographic Vision: A National Anthology of Photography Assignments,
edited by Philip Krejcarek, Carroll College, Waukesha, Wisconsin, 1986
Paper, “Content and the Malleable Image,” South East College Art Association conference,
Chattanooga, TN, 1983
Review, Popular Photography, April 1983, p. 190 by Natalie Canavor
Photographic Artists and Innovators, Turner Browne and Elaine Partnow, MacMillan, New York, 1983
Photograph reproduced in U.S. Biennial catalog, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, 1982
Photographs reproduced in “Camera”, Sept. 1981, C.J. Bucher, Ltd., Lucerne, Switzerland
Photograph reproduced in catalog of traveling exhibition, Contemporary Photography in Louisiana III: The Documentary Photograph, Contemporary Art ‚Center, New Orleans, LA, 1980_
Drawing reproduced in exhibition catalog, Masur Museum National Art Exhibition, Monroe, LA,1979
Creative Camera International Yearbook, Coo Press, London, England, 1977 (four photographs)
Photograph reproduced in exhibition catalog, Photography as a Fine Art, USIA exhibition for US
Embassies, 1974

JURIED EXHIBITIONS
“54th Annual National Juried Exhibition” Masur Museum of Art, Monroe, LA 2017 painting
“Contemporary Louisiana 2015,” Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, two paintings
“Contemporary Louisiana 2014,” Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, two paintings
“Humanities and Home” Institute for Humanities Research, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
Jan 6-April 24, 2014 two photographs from Midwest Property Line series
“Regarding the Third Dimension: Real or Imagined”, South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA, 2012
one painting
“49th Annual National Juried Competition,” Masur Museum of Art, Monroe, LA 2012 one painting
“LaGrange National XXVI”, LaGrange, GA, February 2012 two paintings
“No Place Like Home”, PDNB Gallery, Dallas, TX July-August 2008
“Red Clay Survey, 2005 Triennial,” Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL, 2005
“42nd Annual National Juried Competition”, Masur Museum of Art, Monroe, LA 2005
“Scene/Unseen ‘03” Eastern New Mexico University, Portales, NM, November, 2003
“Louisiana Art for Louisiana Places” Traveling exhibition of thirteen Louisiana photographers, Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge, 2002
Computer Art 99, St Louis Community College at Florissant Valley, St Louis, MO, 1999
41st Annual Delta Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, ‚1998
one sculpture, Juror, Peter Frank
The National Digital Art Exhibition, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN, 1997
three digital ink–jet prints
Southeastern Juried Exhibition, Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL, April, 1996‚ digital ink-jet print
Texas Visual Arts Association Regional Open, Dallas, TX June 1996‚ two digital ink-jet prints
Photography as Art, Masur Museum, Monroe, LA, 1993
SAF/NEA Fellowship Awards Exhibition, Atlanta College of Art, 1988
U.S. Biennial III, Museum of Art, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, 1988
A Century of Vision: Louisiana Photography, 1884–1984, University Art Museum, Univ. of
Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette, 1986
LaGrange National XI, Lamar Dodd Art Center, LaGrange College, GA, 1986
Louisiana Tech Faculty Exhibition, LSU, Baton Rouge, 1986
Recent Acquisitions in Photography, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1986
The Print Club 61st Annual, Philadelphia, PA, 1985
Louisiana Major Works Louisiana Worlds Fair, New Orleans, 1984
Seventh Biennial Five State Art Exhibition, Port Arthur, TX, 1983
16th Annual Prints, Drawings, Crafts Exhibition, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, 1983
U.S. Biennial, Museum of Art, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, 1982
National Exhibition, The Light Factory, Charlotte, NC, 1982
Photographic Illusion, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY, 1982
Exposure Time VI, James Madison Univ., Harrisonburg, Virginia, 1982
17th Annual Juried Exhibit, St. Tammany Art Association, Covington, LA, 1982
North Texas State Photography Exhibition, NTSU, Denton, TX, 1982
University of Southwestern Louisiana 4th Annual Photography Competition, Lafayette, 1982
Contemporary Photography 5, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA, 1982
East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN, 1981
Belhaven College, Jackson, MS, (two person) 1981
16th Annual Juried Exhibit, St. Tammany Art Association, Covington, LA, 1981
14th Annual Prints, Drawings, Crafts Exhibition, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, 1981
Photography in Louisiana: 1900–1980, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA, 1980
Birmingham Arts Alliance Regional Exhibition, Birmingham, AL, 1980
Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA, (two person) 1979
Contemporary Photography in Louisiana, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA, 1979
Members Exhibit, Friends of Photography, Carmel, CA, 1979
Masur Museum National Art Exhibition, Monroe, LA, 1979
12th Annual Prints, Drawings, Crafts Exhibition, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, 1979
5th Annual Photography Exhibit, Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay, Oregon, 1979
Contemporary Photography in Louisiana, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA, 1978
Members Exhibit, Friends of Photography, Carmel, CA, 1978
LaGrange National IV, LaGrange, GA, 1978
Southeast Regional Photography Exhibition, Masur Museum, Monroe, LA, 1978
New Photographics 78, Central Washington State College, Ellensburg, WA, 1978
10th Annual Prints Drawings, Photographs Exhibition, Arkansas Art Center, _‚Little Rock, 1977
Members Exhibit, Friends of Photography, Carmel, CA. 1977
Light II, Humboldt State College, Arcata, CA, 1977
LaGrange National III, LaGrange, GA, 1977
Radius Burpee Art Museum, Rockford, IL, 1976
New Photographics, Central Washington State College, Ellensburg, WA, 1976
Color Photo I, Modesto Junior College, Modesto, CA, 1976
The Magic Silver Show, Murray State University, Murray, KY, 1976
Photography as a Fine Art, United States Information Agency traveling exhibit for American
Embassies, 1974
Central Pennsylvania Festival of Art, University Park, PA, 1974
Radius Burpee Art Museum, Rockford, IL, 1974
Refocus University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, 1974
Central Pennsylvania Festival of Art, University Park, PA, 1973
Contemporary Photography, Sheldon Memorial Museum, Lincoln, NB, 1972
19 Portfolios, Milwaukee Art Center, Milwaukee, WI, 1972


INVITATIONAL EXHIBITIONS
Six Contemporary Photographers, Barnwell Arts Center, Shreveport, LA Oct 1996 ‚
Documentary Photography, Golden West College, Huntington Beach, CA, 1985
Four Louisiana Photographers, McNeese State University, Lake Charles, LA, 1985
Infinity Gallery, Governors State University, Park Forest South, IL, 1985
Trends in Contemporary South Central Photography, Pan Handle Plains Museum, Canyon, TX, 1984
Arboretum, University of Denver, Denver, CO, 1983
Camera Vision Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 1983
Ekstrom Library, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, 1982
Allen Street Gallery, Dallas, TX, 1982
Mid–South/New York Photography, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, AR, 1982
5 Iowa Graduates, Golden West College, Huntington Beach, CA, 1977
Mid–States Photographers, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO, 1975
Recent Graduates, University of Wisconsin, Steve ns Point, WI, 1974

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
The Masur Museum of Art, Monroe, LA, November 2016 – March 2017
Studio 301, Ruston, LA 2015
“A Way of Seeing,” South Arkansas Arts Center, Eldorado, AR April 2009 photographs/paintings/sculpture
Camera Cases, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, 1999
Levee Gallery, Monroe, LA 1998
Rocks on a Flat Plane, Southeast Louisiana University, Hammond, LA, 1991
Lightfantastic Gallery, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 1990
SUNY College at New Paltz, New York, 1990
Rocks on a Flat Plane, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, AR, 1989
Ritual Sites, Stoner Art Center, Shreveport, LA, 1987
The Photograph Gallery, Tarrant County Community College, Dallas, TX, 1987
Austin College, Sherman, TX,1984
Carol Lowenstern Gallery, Houston, TX, 1984
Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY, 1984
Bry Gallery, Northeast Louisiana University, Monroe, LA, 1983
Project Art Center, Cambridge, MA,1982
Recent Color, The Craft Alliance, Shreveport, LA, 19822
Camera Cases, The University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, 1981
Southern Light Gallery, Amarillo College, Amarillo, TX, 1980
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, 1980
Talley Gallery, Bemidji State University, Bemidji, MN, 1979
Sioux City Art Center, Sioux City, IA, 1979
Sarah Reynolds Gallery, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 1977
Cedar Rapids Art Center, Cedar Rapids, IA, 1975
Nexus Gallery, Lexington, KY, 1975
Bergstrom Art Center, Neenah, WI, 1974

PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
The Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX
Baltimore Museum of Art
Corcoran Gallery, Washington, DC
Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA
Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
Alexandria Museum of Art, Alexandria, LA
LaGrange College, LaGrange, GA
Golden West College, Huntington Beach, CA
Masur Museum, Monroe, LA
Ten photographs in American embassies
Consolidated Paper Company, Port Edwards, WI
Sentry Insurance, Stevens Point, WI
Marine Banks Art Collection, Milwaukee, WI

https://deandablowart.com

MFA Univ of Iowa, Iowa City

1974