1. Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe was a British-born American painter, art critic, art theorist, and educator, born in Royal Tunbridge Wells, England.
12 Facts About Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe
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Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe died in Gainesville, Florida, on 14 August 2024, at the age of 79.
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Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe has two sons, Cyrus Gilbert-Rolfe and Cedric Gilbert-Rolfe.
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Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe had shown in New York fairly regularly from 1970, and sporadically elsewhere.
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Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe said he went to an exhibition at the Tate Gallery in London in 1963 to see the Pop Art that was in it but what caught his attention instead, causing him to decide he needed to go to America, were the paintings of the New York School and especially and specifically Barnett Newman's Vir Heroicus Sublimis.
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Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe wrote about art and related topics, including poetry, fiction, fashion, with particular regard to its interaction with photography, digital technology, and the general state of things in art and how the present situation seems to have emerged.
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Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe's publications include two anthologies of his essays, a book about Frank Gehry's architecture co-authored with the architect, Beauty and the Contemporary Sublime, and other essays and reviews.
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Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe has returned to some aspects of this argument in two essays in particular.
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For painting, Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe has been honored by two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, The Francis Greenberger Award and a Pollock-Krasner Fellowship.
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Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe was awarded an NEA fellowship in Art criticism in 1974 and was the 1998 recipient of the College Art Association's Frank Jewett Mather Award for Art and Architectural Criticism.
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Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe had been working there since 1986 after being hired to develop an MFA program for the school.
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Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe served as a Lecturer at the Art Department of California Institute of the Arts in 1986 and as a Graduate Studies teacher at Art Center College of Design from 1986 to 2015.