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    • Past Exhibitions >
      • 2023 >
        • The Unbearable Lightness-Love of the Body
        • NJ & Me Imperfect Together
        • Tall Tales and Other Truths
      • 2022 >
        • Ani Rosskam and Bill Leech: A Wonderful World
        • Public Art Projects
      • 2021 >
        • Dvora p.2
        • Dvora p.1
      • 2020 >
        • David & Beatrice: Hands and Other Symbols. The Work of David W. Cummings and Beatrice M. Mady
        • Take Home a Work of Art Fundraiser 2020
        • Art Fair 14C
        • Dvora
      • 2019 >
        • The Big Show: All Animals Welcome
        • Cosmic Love
        • Just Beneath the Surface
        • Let Me Tell You A Story
        • Somewhere We Landed
        • Art Fair 14C 2019
      • 2018 >
        • Now Ya See it Now Ya Don’t / Open and Shut / Sneak Peek/ Not Ready for Prime Time / This is Not the Grand Opening: Drawing Rooms Presents Artists of the Topps Building
        • Somewhere Over The Interconnected Rainbow and Prospero's Grand St. Masque
        • Drawing Rooms Art Project: JC to AC
      • 2017 >
        • The Big Small Show 2017
        • Honoring Margaret & Sup-A-Genius
        • NJCU MFA Dress Rehearsal
        • The Can-Man Show
        • The Innocence of Trees
        • Bold and Beautiful
      • 2016 >
        • THE BIG SMALL Show 2016
        • State of the Union
        • Pin It Up
        • ReUse, ReDuce, RePurpose: The Art of ReFuse
        • New Drawing, New Jersey
        • The Nature of Things
        • Project Rooms Show 2016
      • 2015 >
        • THE BIG SMALL SHOW 2015
        • The Divine and Sublime
        • Mostly Drawing
        • Color Rules
        • Little Hand
        • Paper Constructions
        • Project Rooms Show 2015
      • 2014 >
        • THE BIG SMALL SHOW 2014
        • Duets
        • Drawing of the Wall
        • There to Here
        • Automatic Systematic
        • Pictures of Everything
        • Just Looking
      • 2013 >
        • THE BIG SMALL PAINTING SHOW 2013
        • Raw Drawing
        • Multiplicities
        • Night and Day
      • 2012 >
        • Subjective Objective
      • 2011 >
        • Pin It Up at Mana Contemporary
        • VAP at Warburg Realty
        • Victory Arts Projects at Mack-Cali Atrium
      • 2010-2007 >
        • Victory Arts Projects at The Beacon
        • 545 Washington
  • Projects & Programs
    • The Art Project
    • Rewriting Herstory
    • Prayers for the Pandemic Project
    • The Portfolio Project
    • Victory Arts Projects >
      • JC Library Project
      • Installment One
    • Rainbow Thursdays Artists >
      • The Can-Man Show Artworks
    • Victory Hall Press
  • Giving
    • One Time Donation
    • Sustaining Donor
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    • The Big Small Show 2023
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Kaare Rafoss
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    Warhol Pollock Marden                                          $6,500

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Kaare Rafoss Artist Bio & Statement
Kaare Rafoss: Biography
2019
Born in Flekkefjord, Norway, Kaare Rafoss emigrated to the U.S. at the age of fifteen.  He holds degrees in painting from Pratt Institute and Yale School of Art. He has received grants from the State University of New York, the New York State Arts Council (C.A.P.S.), the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New Jersey State Council for the Arts. In the early 70's, Rafoss was represented by Reese Paley Gallery, NYC. He has had solo exhibitions at the Henie-Onstad Kunstsenter, Høvikodden, Norway, Trans Hudson Gallery, NYC, the Flemming Museum, Burlington, Vermont and SUNY College at Cortland, New York. His participation in group exhibitions has included: Kunst Markt, Cologne, Germany; Henie-Onstad Kunstsenter, Norway; Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC, Whitney Biennial; Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Texas; Montclair Art Museum, NJ; Jersey City Museum, Reese Paley Gallery, NYC, Sideshow Gallery, Williamsburg. Rafoss' works are in the collections of Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Texas; Rutgers University, New Jersey; United California Bank, Los Angeles; Omni International Hotel, Atlanta; Erie County Bank, Buffalo, New York. In 2004-5 Rafoss was a participant in two site-specific installations by Tony Oursler that originated at the Musee d'Orsay, Paris and was reconceptualized at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC.
 
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