| DONALD SULTAN |
Born in 1951 in Asheville, North Carolina, Donald Sultan earned a B.F.A. from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and an M.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute, Chicago. He moved to New York in 1975, where he now lives. Numerous exhibitions dedicated to Sultan’s work have been held, among them Donald Sultan, at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (1987), and Donald Sultan: In the Still Life Tradition, at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (2000). A recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artist Fellowship, Sultan is represented in The Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, among other public collections.
A renowned painter, sculptor and internationally recognized printmaker, Sultan is best known for his still lifes of objects from the everyday world, such as flowers, fruits, buttons, playing cards and dominoes. By increasing the scale, blurring the edges, and altering the designs of the playing cards and dominoes, Sultan emphasizes their abstract qualities as pure arrangements of form.
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