Monty Stabler Galleries is proud to present the works of Birmingham native, Cham Hendon. Hendon had already decided on an art career when he graduated from Shades Valley High School in 1954. In 1963 he received a B.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He followed this by getting his M.A. from the University of New Mexico Albuquerque. Then he spent a decade as the director of The Madison Art Center , Madison, Wisconsin. While in Madison he earned a M.F.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1977.

     Hendon was pulled from Wisconsin obscurity by being included as a contributor in Marsha Tuckers infamous Bad Painting Show in 1978. His images were figurative, appropriately from found photographic sources of well known images. His works were referrals to Bonnard or Monet, Matisse, Pollack or Cezanne.

     Today Hendon continues to expound on variations of these same themes as his unique technique has continued to develop. He pours the plastic rhoplex, mixed with various colors (sometimes as many as four or five semi-mixed colors in a beaker), out of beakers. The mixture slides and melds with the practiced jiggle of the artists hands. What emerges is a work of highly complex color patterns that are luscious and electrical.

     Hendon had exhibited extensively in the United States, France, Italy, Germany and Mexico. Pieces of his work are part of many corporate collections and several museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Birmingham Museum of Art. His artwork is also included in many of Americas foremost private collections including those of Henry Luce III (publisher of Time-Life), Vera List (founder of the New School) and William Copley.

     Hendon now lives in Oakland, California, with his wife and the youngest of five children and their golden retriever.

Education

     1977 M.F.A., University of Wisconsin Madison

     1965 M.A., University of New Mexico Albuquerque     

     1963 B.F.A., School of The Art Institute of Chicago

     1958 B.S., Georgia Tech

Positions

     1989 Visiting Artist, East Carolina University, Greenville

     1988 Guest Lecturer, Syracuse University, Department of Art

     1987 Visiting Artist, Tandem Press, University of Wisconsin

     1986 Visiting Artist, Dept of Art, VCU Richmond, Virginia

     1985 Visiting Artist, Dept. of Art, Mich. St., Grand Rapids

      1984 Visiting Artist, Dept of Art, University of Wisconsin

     1983 Visiting Artist, Milton College, Janesville, Wisconsin

     1982 Visiting Artist, Dept. of Art, Mankato St., Minn.

     1967-77 Director, Madison Art Center, Wisconsin

     1965-67 Instructor, Dept. of Art, University of Denver

Solo Exhibitions

     1991 The Red Mill, Cloverdale, New York, Sponsored by the Merchant Ivory Foundation

     1990 Monty Stabler Galleries, Birmingham, Alabama

     1989 Gray Gallery, East Carolina University

     1988 Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York

     1987 Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York

     1986 Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago

     1985 Godula Buchholz, Munich

     1984 Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York

     1984 Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago

     1983 Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York

     1982 Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York

     1981 Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York1981 Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago

     1980 Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York    

     1979 Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York

Select Group Exhibitions

     1991 American Landscape Painting, Hudson Gallery, New York

     1990 American Painting, Long Island Museum of Art, New York

     1989 Annual Purchase Exhibition, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters

     1988 CRASH, Computer Assisted Art, Wright Museum of Art, Beloit College, Beloit, Wisconsin

     1987 39th Annual Purchase Exhibition, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York

     1987 Art Against AIDS, Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York      

     1986 Photo-Synthesis, One Penn Plaza, New York

     1986 Line Drives, Gallery 53, Cooperstown, New York     

      1985 Nueva Pintura Narrativa, Museo Rufino Tomayo, Mexico City

     1985 New Landscape Painting, Pallazo Ducale, Gubbio, Italy

     1985 New Narrative Paintings: Selections from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Art, Ft.Lauderdale, Florida

     1985 Contemporary Issues II, Holman Art Gallery, Trenton State College, New Jersey

     1984 Exotik, Godula Buchholz Werkram, Munich, Germany

     1984 Painting and Sculpture Today 1984, Indianapolis Museum

     1983 Saints, Harm Bouchart Gallery, New York

     1983 Bodies and Souls, Artists Choice Museum, Marisa Del Rey, New York

     1983 Festival of the Arts, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pennsylvania

     1982 Still Life/Interiors, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, Louisiana

     1982 Challenge and Response, Twenty-Two New York Artists, Turman Gallery

     1981 Escapes, Art Latitude Gallery, New York

     1980-81 Five Decades: Recent Work by Alumni of the Department of Art, Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin

     1980 Studio Workspace Program Exhibition, P.S.1, New York

     1979-80 Painters From New York Galleries, James Madison University, Virginia Tech and Roanoke College

     1979 Annual Mid-Year Show, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown Ohio

     1978 Bad Painting, The New museum, New York

     1978 Painting and Sculpture Today, Indianapolis Museum of Art

Public Collections

     Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York

     Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York

     Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, New York

      Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama

     Madison Art Center, Madison, Wisconsin

      Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey

     City College of New York