WILLIAM BAZIOTES (1912-1963)William Baziotes: Surrealist Watercolors was shown at the Allentown Art Museum in the summer of 2015. William Baziotes: A Centennial Celebration, Surrealist Drawings, was held at the Susan Teller Gallery in 2012.
Born in Pittsburgh and raised in Reading, PA, Baziotes came to New York City in 1933. He attended the National Academy of Design and graduated in 1936. He then worked on a New Deal Project teaching art to adults in Queens. In the late 1930s he met the artists Jimmy Ernst, Gerome Kamrowski, and Matta, with whom he explored Surrealism. In early 1940s he met Jackson Pollock, Andre Masson, and Robert Motherwell, Abstraction Expressionists with an interest in Surrealism as well. In his work Baziotes bridged these worlds. His first one-man show was at Peggy GuggenheimÕs Art of This Century Gallery in 1944. He taught at the Brooklyn Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, Hunter College, and New York University. In 1965 the Guggenheim Museum held a Memorial Exhibition in his honor.
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