University period and Pre-Yad series
1968
studied painting and sculpture | «Da Cimabue a Parmigianino», 1968-69 | Florence, Italy1969
student work made | untitled | cast bronze relief and patina | 31x39x10 cm | acquired by FG in September 2022 from a private collector in Cyprus | on view, atelier Madrid, Spain1970
received B.F.A. (sculpture with Honors) | Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York group exhibition | Artists of Central New York | Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, New York moved to Arkville, New York where he lived as a hermit1971
group exhibition and catalogue | Exhibition by Artists of the Mohawk-Hudson Region | from June 6th through August 29th | Schenectady Museum, Schenectady, New York group exhibition and catalogue | Ten Artists of the Mohawk-Hudson Region | catalogue preface by Donald Mochon | November 9 - December 12 | University Art Gallery - State University of New York, Albany, New York award | Artists & Writers Revolving Fund | National Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, New York one-man exhibition | May | Graham Gallery, New York, New York article | Jane Gollin | Art News, New York1972
group exhibition | Graham Gallery, New York, New York1974
sculpture in public collection | Sepryad, 1969 | cast nickel bronze | 13 ins high | gift in 1974 of Ablah, Don, Mr. & Mrs. to Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, Kansas | Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas19890span>
group exhibition | 20th Century Sculpture | April 16 - May 31 | Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas group exhibition | 20th Century Sculpture | October 25 - December 3 | Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas1993
group exhibition | Aspects of Sculpture | May 23 - June 27 | exhibition curated by Donald Knaub | Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas2024
one-man exhibition | Douglas Abdell: Intervalism and Other Mathematics | September 12th - October 26th | Ab-Anbar Gallery, London, United Kingdom article/interview | Douglas Abdell at Ab-Anbar Gallery, London | Cleo Scott | LUX Magazine, London, United Kingdom article | During Frieze Week There Is No Shortage of Things to See. | Farah Nayeri | Oct. 2 | print on Section S, Page 4 in The New York Times International Edition, Oct. 4 | The New York Times, New York, New YorkYad series
1971
commentary | «The Medium Is the Mess» by Douglas Abdell | letters to the editor | December 23 | the Village Voice, New York1972
one-man exhibition | May 31 - June 24 | Graham Gallery, New York City, New York article | Art: The Sculpture of Upper Volta | Saturday, June 3 | John Canaday | The New York Times, New York award | Artists & Writers Revolving Fund | National Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, New York review | Gretchen T. Munson | Art News, New York review | Marianne Hancock | Arts magazine, New York1973
sculpture award | The Silvermine Guid Award | The Silvermine Guid of Artists, Inc., New Canaan, Connecticut group exhibition and catalogue | 24th New England Exhibition | June 9 - July 8 | The Silvermine Guid of Artists, Inc., New Canaan, Connecticut group exhibition | Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire award fellowship | Vermont Arts Council, Vermont Council on the Arts, Vermont2022
institutional exhibition | Douglas Abdell: Yads, Phoenaes, Aekyads 1971-1981 | 7.7.22 - 4.9.22 | MAMCO, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Geneva, Switzerland editorial of the exhibition | «Mamco Journal: MAMCO été 2022» | MAMCO, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Geneva, Switzerland article with reproduction of exhibition | Au Mamco, l’expo de l’été se savoure dès l’apéro | Arts et scènes | Samedi-dimanche 16-17 juillet, p.19 | Tribune de Genève, Genève, Suisse2024
one-man exhibition | Douglas Abdell: Intervalism and Other Mathematics | September 12th - October 26th | Ab-Anbar Gallery, London, United Kingdom article/interview | Douglas Abdell at Ab-Anbar Gallery, London | Cleo Scott | LUX Magazine, London, United Kingdom article | During Frieze Week There Is No Shortage of Things to See. | Farah Nayeri | Oct. 2 | print on Section S, Page 4 in The New York Times International Edition, Oct. 4 | The New York Times, New York, New YorkAeyad
1972
bronze relief | Ekc-Aeyad | black patina | 14'x17'1/2 in | work in a public collection | repository: Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum | owner from 1980: Wichita State University, Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, Kansas1973
wall relief | Klaet-Aeyad | unique bronze | 40.6x45.7 cm | work in a public collection | owner from 1976: St.Mary's College of Maryland, St.Mary's City, Maryland bronze relief | Aekcs-Aeyad | unique bronze | 39.3x45.7 cm | work in a public collection | repository: Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum | owner: University of Notre Dame, Snite Museum of Art, Notre Dame, Indiana moved to South Stratford, Vermont where he lived has a Hermit1975
group exhibition | Marisa del Re Gallery, New York, New York1976
one man exhibition | The Sculpture of Douglas Abdell, 1972-76 | September 26th to October 14th | Manwaring Gallery, Cummings Arts Center, Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut one man exhibition | The Sculpture of Douglas Abdell, 1972-76 | November 1st to November 23rd | St. Mary's College of Maryland and Gallery, St. Mary's City, Maryland1977
one man exhibition and catalogue | The Sculpture of Douglas Abdell, 1972-76 | Kryads and Aeyads series | statements by Douglas Abdell | text by Andrew J. Crispo | catalogue published by Andrew Crispo Gallery, New York City | exhibition: January 14th to February 5th | Andrew Crispo Gallery, New York, New York one man exhibition | The Sculpture of Douglas Abdell, 1972-76 | August 10th to September 4th | Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas2013
work sold at auction | wall relief | Nct-Aeyad, 1973 | unique bronze | 38.1x47.6x10.8 cm | Bonhams/Skinner auction on September 20 | it was owned by art dealer Joan Sonnabend, Boston, MassachusettsKryad
1973
moved to South Stratford, Vermont where he lived has a Hermit sculpture in corporate collection | Caenq-Kryad | unique bronze | 167.6x53.3x43.2 cm | Atlantic Richfield Co., Los Angeles, California / Denver, Colorado1974
group exhibition | Twentieth Century Americans | Andrew Crispo Gallery, New York, New York sculpture in public collection | Traux-Kryad, 1973 | unique bronze | 165.1x33.0x43.2 cm | recent accessions 1974, Corcoran Gallery of Art | Bicentennial Exhibition | permanent collection of Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. group exhibition | Harcus-Krashow-Rosen-Sonnabend Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts1975
one man exhibition | Douglas Abdell, Recent Sculpture | April 24 to May 10 | Andrew Crispo Gallery, New York, New York group exhibition | The Designer Collects | David and Long Co., New York | exhibition at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum of Design, New York City, New York group exhibition | Bertha Schaeffer Gallery, New York, New York group exhibition | Twentieth Century Americans | Andrew Crispo Gallery, New York, New York1976
group exhibition | Arab Celebration - Festival Bostonian | City of Boston, Mayors office of Cultural Affairs | foreword by Mayor Kevin White | Boston Museum of Fine Arts - Boston City Hall, Boston, Massachusetts group exhibition | Rose Art Museum | Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachussetts painting in a public collection | Premonition, 1974 | oil on canvas | 26x22 in | Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut film by Carolyn Swartz | «Douglas Abdell, The Installation of Aepheau-Kryad at the Rose Art Museum», Waltham, Massachusetts one man exhibition | The Sculpture of Douglas Abdell, 1972-76 | September 26th to October 14th | Manwaring Gallery, Cummings Arts Center, Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut one man exhibition | The Sculpture of Douglas Abdell, 1972-76 | November 1st to November 23rd | St. Mary's College of Maryland and Gallery, St. Mary's City, Maryland group exhibition | International Decoration and The Arts | an exhibition for the benefit of Cancer Care, Inc. The National Cancer Foundation | exhibition curated by Billy Baldwin | November 5-28 | Andrew Crispo Gallery, New York, New York sculpture in corporate collection | Assae-Kryad, 1974 | unique bronze | 70x24x12 inch | 178.0x61.0x30.5 cm | Wells, Rich, and Greene Corporation, New York1977
sculpture in public collection | >Baqae-Kryad, 1975 | unique bronze, black patina | 65” x 19” x 14” | Collection of H. H. Thyssen-Bornemisza, Lugano, Switzerland group exhibition and catalogue | Festival Bostonian Retrospective | Jaunary | introduction of the catalogue by Elizabeth G. Cook | City of Boston, Mayors office of Cultural Affairs | Boston City Hall, Boston, Massachusetts text on upcoming exhibitions and photos of Abdell in his studio | Jaunary, p.48 | Andy Warhol's Interview 1977-01: Vol 7 Iss 1 | Brant Publication, New York, New York one man exhibition and catalogue | The Sculpture of Douglas Abdell, 1972-76 | Kryads and Aeyads series | statements by Douglas Abdell | text by Andrew J. Crispo | catalogue published by Andrew Crispo Gallery, New York City | exhibition: January 14th to February 5th | Andrew Crispo Gallery, New York, New York article | Woodstock Colony: 75 Years in Art | February 4 | Grace Glueck | The New York Times, New York work in public collection | cast bronze sculpture | «Kraeaux-Kryad», 1974-76 | 233.6x101.6x45.7 cm | Figge Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa group exhibition and catalogue | Art '77: A Selection of Works by Contemporary Artists from New York Galleries | introduction by Dennis Lucas | February 19 - March 25 | Root Art Center, Hamilton College, Clinton, New York article | March | p. 25 | Allen Ellenzweig | Arts Magazine, New York group exhibition | Recent Acquisitions | April 14 - May 5 | Andrew Crispo Gallery, New York City, New York one man exhibition and catalogue | The Sculpture of Douglas Abdell, 1972-76 | August 10th to September 4th | Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas article | Sculptures, Paintings Reach into the Universe | August 14 | p. 15d | Dorothy Belden | Wichita Eagle and Beacon, Wichita, KansasRed wine bottle label printing, 1978. Copyright © Douglas Abdell
The poem of Sphae-Kryad on the book Kryad Poems, 1978. Copyright © Douglas Abdell
1978
group exhibition | Twentieth Century American Sculpture | August 4-28 | Andrew Crispo Gallery, New York City, New York mention | Networks: «Dulce et decorum est pro Anais testari» | Barry Donald Jones | published by Rochelle H. Dubois, New York printed labels for wine bottles by Abdell | «Baco-Noir» and «Seyval-Aurora» | wine made in Cambridge, Massachusetts group exhibition | Art for Collectors V. | November 12 - December 17 | Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio book | Kryad Poems by Douglas Abdell | introduction «The Grammar of Kryad-Lyric as Abdell's Sculptural Ontology» by Victor Bartolo Manfredi | published by Chelsea Press Inc., Chelsea, Massachusetts1979
article | An Artist for All Seasons | Arlene Friedberg | Boston Today, Boston, Massachusetts review | Kryad Poems review | Rochelle H. Dubois | Art Voices/South, Virginia one man exhibition and catalogue | Douglas Abdell: Sculpture and Drawings, 1973-79 | Kryad and Aekyad series | catalogue foreword by Gene Baro | December 3, 1979 - January 25, 1980 | New World Art Center, Miami-Dade Community College, Miami, Florida group exhibition and book | Syracuse University Alumni Exhibit | Jaunary 5 - February 26 | book foreword by Dean August I. Freundlich | introduction by Raphael Soyer | Lowe Art Gallery, Syracuse, N.Y. and Lubin House of S.U., New York City | Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts, Syracuse, New York1980
one man exhibition and catalogue | Douglas Abdell: Sculpture and Drawings, 1973-79 | Kryad and Aekyad series | introduction to catalogue by Gene Baro | February 12 - March 8 | Sweet Briar College, Sweet Briar, Virginia one man exhibition and catalogue | Douglas Abdell: Sculpture and Drawings, 1973-79 | Kryad and Aekyad series | introduction to catalogue by Gene Baro | March 11 - April 12 | Univerity Library, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia one man exhibition and catalogue | Douglas Abdell: Sculpture and Drawings, 1973-79 | Kryad and Aekyad series | introduction to catalogue by Gene Baro | May 4 - June 1 | Davenport Municipal Art Gallery, Davenport, Iowa1985
one man exhibition | Spoleto Festival U.S.A. and Gibbes Art Gallery | Kryad, Aekyads and 1982/83 paintings | May 23 - June 30 | Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, South Carolina2021
group exhibition | Dimensional: 3D Works from the Figge Collection | September 11, 2021 - Jaunary 16, 2022 | Figge Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa2023
painting sold at auction | Premise of Kryad, 1974 | oil on canvas | 76.3x51 cm | Lot 254 | Middle East | 20th Century Art | Sotheby's London, United Kingdom2024
one-man exhibition | Douglas Abdell: Intervalism and Other Mathematics | September 12th - October 26th | Ab-Anbar Gallery, London, United Kingdom article/interview | Douglas Abdell at Ab-Anbar Gallery, London | Cleo Scott | LUX Magazine, London, United Kingdom article | During Frieze Week There Is No Shortage of Things to See. | Farah Nayeri | Oct. 2 | print on Section S, Page 4 in The New York Times International Edition, Oct. 4 | The New York Times, New York, New YorkAekyad /1st period
1975
painting made | The Democacy of Jazz | pre-phase works of Aekyad series | works of this group showed first time in 2021 for the retrospective by Ab/Anbar Gallery in London1977
welded bronze sculpture made | Naexa-Aekyad | November 7 | 77.5x50.8x8.2 cm | in 1978 Van Day Truex tempthed to buy the sculpture from Andrew J. Crispo, gallery owner of Abdell in those years | in June 1978 the sculpture was showed in the exhibition «Painting & Sculpture Today, 1978» in Indianapolis | in 1979 Van finally buys the sculpture. This was the last purchase made by Van Day Truex before his death in April | after a few years the sculpture was given by Albert Hadley to Adam Lewis | New York, New YorkAbove, two untitled drawing made 10/2/1977, just prior to the drawing for NAEXI 3-AEKYAD (below) of the FG collection. Images: Courtesy of Douglas Abdell
1978
group exhibition | Texas Fine Arts Assoc. 67th National Exhibition | from November 6 | Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, Texas group exhibition and catalogue | Painting & Sculpture Today, 1978 | catalogue edited and compiled by Hilary D. Bassett | book introduction by Robert A. Yassin | organized by Contemporary Art Society of the Indianapolis Museum of Art | June 15 - July 30 | Indianapolis Mueseum of Art, Newfields, Indiana group exhibition | New Forms in Sculpture | July 25 - August 12 | Andrew Crispo Gallery, New York City, New York work in Museum | Fizae-Aekyad | made January 4, 1978 | welded bronze relief | 105.4x195.5x15.2 cm | gift of Gerald Rabinovitz, Gail Kleven Gelb, Alan Elgart, Joel Goodman, Robert Hark, Donald Corkin, and Edward Zuker in Memory of Robert M. Markson (1947-1968) to Brandeis University, Rose Art Museum, Waltham, Massachusetts group exhibition | 20th-century artists | thru October 15 | Abdell, Arman, O'Keefe, Wyeth | Andrew Crispo Gallery, New York City, New York group exhibition | Collector's Choice | November 10 - January 14, 1979 | Mississippi Museum of Art. Jackson, Mississippi1979
one man exhibition and catalogue | The Sculpture of Douglas Abdell | catalogue with an interview by Gene Baro | Andrew Crispo Gallery, New York City, New York review | Douglas Abdell, Sculpture | review of exhibit at Andrew Crispo Gallery | January 18, page 11 | Wiley L. Wood | Art/World, New York article | An Artist for All Seasons | June, pp. 16, 17 | Arlene Friedberg | Boston Today, Boston, Massachusetts sculpture intstallation on Park Avenue, New York | between 74th and 75th Streets | Temporary Public Art on Park Avenue | Parks & Recreation, City of New York, New York article | Three Abstractions Form Puzzle on Park Avenue | sculpture installation on Park Avenue, New York City | November 5, section A, page 1 | Laurie Johnston | The New York Times, New York group exhibition | Twentieth Century Americans | Andrew Crispo Gallery, New York, New York sculptures in public square | «Eaphae-Aekyad #2» and «Kryeti-Aekyad #2» | welded hot-rolled steel, painted black | 297.2x195,6x55,9cm and 231.1x332.7x55.9cm | permanent installation on John Jay Park, Manhattan, East 76-78th Streets and Cherokee Place, New York, New York one man exhibition and catalogue | Recent Sculpture 1979, Abdell | text and quotation of Douglas Abdell | through Dec. 1. | Andrew Crispo Gallery, New York, New York article | A Sculptor is a Wizard of Odds | November 6, page 16 | Donald Flynn | Daily News, New York one man exhibition and catalogue | Douglas Abdell: Sculpture and Drawings, 1973-79 | Kryad and Aekyad series | introduction to catalogue by Gene Baro | December 3, 1979 - January 25, 1980 | New World Art Center, Miami-Dade Community College, Miami, Florida article | From flat metals, Abdell creates movement | December 7 | session: Miami art scene | p. 20 | Lillian Dobbs | The Miami News, Miami, Florida1980
article | 1980-01: Vol 54 Iss 5, p.40 | Addison Parks | Arts Magazine, New York one man exhibition and catalogue | Douglas Abdell: Sculpture and Drawings, 1973-79 | Kryad and Aekyad series | introduction to catalogue by Gene Baro | February 12 - March 8 | Sweet Briar College, Sweet Briar, VirginiaAbove, the sculpture KYEFAE-AEKYAD #2 made 4/28/1979, installed at Sands Point Park in 1980 for group exhibition. Below, the sculpture permanent installed in The Waywest Building in Manhattan, NYC
QAEAU-AEKYAD #2 (1980) welded steel 390x241x90 cm, installed in the Boston City Hall Plaza for the Boston's Jubilee 350. Image: Courtesy of Douglas Abdell ©Copyright
KRAEFF-AEKYAD installed in Berlin for Amerika Haus exhibition. Douglas Abdell ©Copyright Amerika Haus Berlin
"Douglas Abdell - Sculpture and Drawings from Aekyad series", 1981 exhibition at Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., United States. Image on a "Neue Skulpturen" catalogue. Douglas Abdell ©Copyright
1981
one man exhibition | Seven monumental sculptures | February 14 - March 7 | Andrew Crispo Gallery, New York, New York group exhibition and catalogue | Sculptures and their related drawings | March 3-31 | works by: Abdell, Arman, Arp, Bigi, Bolotowsky, Bourgeois, Calder, Crowder, De Riviera, Esbin, Etrog, Frank, Gross, Halahmy, Hokanson, Lassaw, Lewitt, Lipschitz, Lipton, Manzu, Matisse, Miro, Moore, Nakian, Nevelson, Noguchi, Reimann, Rosati, Rickey, Roszak, Smith, Zuniga | curator: Marilyn Rosenberg | Marisa del Re Gallery, New York, New York one man exhibition | Museum School Gallery, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts one man exhibition | catalogue | Sculpture & Drawings from the Aekyad Series | 13 March to 19 April | catalogue foreword and exhibit curator Arthur R. Blumenthal | Dartmouth College Museum & Galleries Beaumont-May Gallery, Hopkins Center, Hanover, New Hampshire one man exhibition and catalogue | Recent Sculptures and Drawings | May 11 - June 10 | catalogue introduction by Renee Landes | The Gallery-North Campus, Miami-Dade Community College, Miami, Florida documentary film | Heavy Metal on Park Avenue | director Carolyn Swartz | presented by The Institute of Contemporary Art to «The New Boston Cinema» | May 16 - July 14 | work about the sculptures installation (1979) on Park Avenue, New York, New York temporary sculpture intstallation on public way | Kraeff-Aekyad | 360x172x75 cm | welded steel painted black | temporary intstallation on Hardenbergstrasse 22 (Charlottenburg), Berlin | from April | Amerika Haus Berlin, West Germany article | Viver Metal Kunst aus Stahl ziert das Amerika-Haus | April 17 | F. Diederichs | Berliner Morgenpost, Berlin, Germany one man exhibition and catalogue | Neue Skulpturen | May, June, July | catalogue introduction by Robert P. Milton and Robert Kudielka | text by Addison Parks | Amerika Haus Berlin, West Germany article | Die grafischen Plastiken des Douglas Abdell, Vor dem Amerika-Haus blüht es stählern empor | 3. Juni | Peter-Hans Göpfert | Berliner Morgenpost, Berlin, Germany article | Sculptur und Lautrnalerei, Der Amerikaner Douglas Abdell in zwei Ausstellungen | Heinz Ohff | June 11, p. 5. | Der Tagesspiegel, Berlin, Germany sculpture in public collection | «Caephae-Aekyad #2», 1979 | welded steel painted black | 243.8x388.6x61 cm | work in Sculpture Park/Museum | gift anonymously to Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, New York sculpture in public collection | Qrefe-Aekyad, 1981 | welded steel painted black | 237.5x150x50 cm | Skulpturenpark des Josef Albers Museums Quadrat, Bottrop, Germany work in public collection | Drawing for Pnauxae-Aekyad, 1977 | graphite on paper | 114.9x81.3 cm | Brooklyn Museum, New York, New York work in public collection | Drawing for "Kcryeti-Aekyad #2, 1980 | gouache on white wove paper | 39.6x48.4 cm | 1981 gift of the artist to Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts1982
article | Public Sculpture | topic: sculpture installation on Park Avenue, Manhattan, New York | March-April | Vol 25 Iss 3-4, p. 102 | Art International, Lugano, Switzerland group exhibition and catalogue | «The Spirit of Paper»: Twentieth Century Americans | catalogue essay by Addison Parks | reprod. p.7 | June 3 to July 29th | Frances Wolfson Art Gallery - Miami-Dade Community College, Miami, Florida group exhibition | 6 paintings: Earth Medallion, Earth Swirls, Fallen Moon, Maze, Inner Blossom, Phantom Flowers | authors: Lowell Nesbitt, Charles Saliger, Douglas Abdell | August 20-26 | Tirca Karlis Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts1983
Two views of Aekyad sculptures shown in Museum Quadrat Bottrop in 1983. Images: courtesy of Douglas Abdell ©Copyright
1985
article | Crosscurrents | High Rise at Sea Level in Palm Beach, Florida | interior design by Angelo Donghia, ASID | text by Jesse Kornbluth | January | pp. 132-141 | Architectural Digest sculpture in public collection | «Kaephae-Aekyad #2», 1979 | 96x112x22 in | welded steel painted black | work installed in 1979 on Park Avenue and later in John Jay Park, Manhattan, New York | Wichita Art Museum purchase with funds donated by the Price R. and Flora A. Reid Foundation and the Friends of the Museum | the sculpture is on permanent display in the sculpture garden of the Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, Kansas article | Score for a Loft | text by Suzanne Stephens about work of a architect Preston Phillips to an open space in Manhattan, New York | editor: Elizabeth Sverbeyeff Byron | Jaunary | pp. 128-134 | House & Garden museum book | A landscape for modern sculpture: Storm King Art Center | publisher by Abbeville Press, New York | text by John Beardsley | photography by David Finn | pp. 41, 93, 94, 95 | Storm King Art Center, New York one man exhibition | Spoleto Festival U.S.A. and Gibbes Art Gallery | Kryad, Aekyads and 1982/83 paintings | May 23 - June 30 | Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, South Carolina sculptures in public collection | «Knaefiel-Aekyad» and «Aephkae-Aekyad» | made 1980 | 345.0x187.5x57.5cm and 280.0x257.5x57.5cm | welded steel painted black | works in a public collection | the Public Monument Conservation Project of The City of Charleston's Department of Park indicates the works from 1985 on Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, South Carolina1988
guide to Manhattan's outdoor sculpture | Upper East Side, east of Fifth Avenue | The Art Commission of the City of New York and The Municipal Art Society, New York | pp. 247, 159, 259, 260 | Michelle Cohen & Margot Gayle | publisher: Prentice Hall Press, New York1989
sculpture in public collection | Kraefo-Aekyad, 1981 | January 2 | welded steel painted black | 222.3x135.9x50.8cm | 1989 gift of Price and Flora Reid Foundation to University of Kansas, Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, Kansas in 1989 | installed on concrete foundation in April 9, 1990 at Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas1990
sculpture in public collection | «Kreke-Aekyad», 11/25/1980 | 89x49x18 inches | welded steel painted black | work donated by the Price R. and Flora A. Reid Foundation to Tabor College | Tabor College, Hillsboro, Kansas1992
article | Simply New York | interior designer David Walker of Carole and Ronald Litoff’s apartment in United Nations Plaza in Manhattan, New York | text by William Weaver | July | pp. 142-147 | Architectural Digest1996
guide | A guide to the sculpture parks and gardens of America | author: Jane McCarthy | pp. 84, 146, 186 | p. 84: Storm King Art Center, New York | p. 146: Martin Bush Outdoor Sculpture Garden, Wichista State University, Kansas | p. 186: Florida International University, Miami, Florida | publisher: Michael Kesend, New York2002
city guide «New York» | John Jay Park | p. 400 | A&C Black Publishers | third edition | earlier editions of 1983 and 1991 | author: Carol von Pressentin Wright | Yorkville and East River Islands, New York, New York2004
sculpture in public collection | Kryeti-Aekyad #3, 1980 | welded silicon bronze | donated to Stanford University by Gap clothing chain owners and art collectors Doris and Donald Fisher | installed outside the SLAC Stanford Linear Accelerator Center's main auditorium on August 6, 2004 | owner: Stanford University, Stanford, California2007
work in Museum | sculpture | Aeqae-Aekyad | made November 11, 1978 | steel painted black | 32 3/4 x 42 x 5 1/2 inches | Wichita Art Museum purchase with Director's Discretionary Fund | Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, Kansas2009
guide | Public Art | New York | p. 174 | author: Jean Parker Phifer | publisher: W.W. Norton, New York, New York2013
art parks guide | Art parks: a tour of America's sculpture parks and gardens | Storm King Art Center | p. 30 | publisher: Princeton Architectural Press, New York2018
artwork in the FG collection | Drawing for Naexi-Aekyad, 1977 | ink on paper | 30.1x22.7 cm | author's gift to FG for the acquisition of the Naexi-Aekyad bronze sculpture in September | on view, atelier Madrid, Spain museum book | The Garden: Wichita Art Museum | Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, Kansas2019
drawing from in FG collection | Drawing for Knaexi 4-Aekyad | made May 5 - May 25, 1978 | ink on paper | 45.0x38.0 cm | on view, atelier Madrid, Spain twin sculptures in public collection | «Kreqe-Aekyed», 10/20/80 and «Kqrefe-Aekyad», 11/27/80 | 79x59x19 inches and 88x48x19 inches | welded steel painted black | the sculptures became a part of Kansas State University’s art collection 1988 | «Kreqe-Aekyed» gift in July from the Price R. and Flora A. Reid Foundation and «Kqrefe-Aekyad» gift in August from the Price R. and Flora A. Reid Foundation and Charles V. Kincaid to Kansas State University | the sculptures were installed on the KSU campus university grounds between Thompson and Nichols halls in 1989 | from 2019 in the outdoor sculpture garden of the Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, Stolzer Family Foundation Gallery, Manhattan, Kansas2020
artwork in the FG collection | Aekyad Poem, 1979 | drawing | 18.5x12.3 cm | inpen and ink on paper | on view, Atelier Madrid, Spain drawing in the FG collection | Drawing for Knadep-Aekyad, 1977 | ink on paper | 60x40 cm | on view, atelier Madrid, Spain drawing in the FG collection | untitled | made April 19, 1978 | ink on paper | 14.7x19.2 cm | on view, Atelier Madrid, Spain2021
article | Art & Voices Matter: Morad Montazami sifts through complexity of Southern Modernism | by Dilpreet Bhullar | Jun 28 | published on: STIRworld, New Delhi, DelhiThe National News article on the retrospective in London, 2021. Photo: Ab-Anbar Gallery
AEKYAD in the foreground, YADS in the background, on display at Mamco in 2022. Photo: Mamco Geneva
2022
group exhibition of outdoor sculptures | Sculpturegarden, Geneva Biennale | collaboration avec MAMCO et la Ville de Genève | commissariat général by Devrim Bayer | Parc La Grange, Geneve, Switzerland institutional exhibition | Douglas Abdell: Yads, Phoenaes, Aekyads 1971-1981 | 7.7.22 - 4.9.22 | MAMCO, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Geneva, Switzerland editorial of the exhibition | «Mamco Journal: MAMCO été 2022» | MAMCO, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Geneva, Switzerland article with reproduction of exhibit | Au Mamco, l’expo de l’été se savoure dès l’apéro | Arts et scènes | Samedi-dimanche 16-17 juillet, p.19 | Tribune de Genève, Genève, Suisse article with reproduction of sculpture | Sculpture Garden at Geneva Biennale | September 19 | Art Viewer, Antwerp, Belgium2023
academic study topic | «D.Abdell e la cultura fenicia» | Docente: Lidia Reghini di Pontremoli | corso: Antropologia Culturale | Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma, Italia eBook | «Atmosphere(s) for Architects: Between Phenomenology and Cognition» | Authors: Michael A. Arbib, Tonino Griffero | essay by Elisabetta Canepa | p.276 | New Prairie Press, Kansas State University Libraries, Manhattan, Kansas2024
group exhibition | Fully Dimensional: Artists of the Outdoor Sculpture Collection | artists of the Martin H. Bush Outdoor Sculpture Collection | Ulrich’s 50th Anniversary special program | Jaunary 25 - June 15 | Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas sculpture in public collection | Eaph-Aekyad | made March 17, 1977 | cast bronze | 16 1/2 x 12 1/2 x 2 3/4 inch | provenence: the collection of Michael Lynne, New York City | owner: The Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, New YorkPhoenaes
1981
Douglas Abdell at the exhibition opening in the Mike Steiner Gallery (Berlin, 1981)
Berlin Phoenaes exhibition catalogue.
Painting PHAENA-FAENA made in April 1981, 95x105 cm. Image in a Berlin Phoenaes catalogue.
1982
one man exhibition | Kraenqo-Phoenaes | phonetic paintings & drawings | June 12 -July 16 | Andrew Crispo Gallery, New York, New York one man exhibition | March 10 | Mercato del Sale, Milano, Italy article | Another Wave Still More Savagely Than the First: Lower East Side, 1982 | Nicholas A. Moufarrage | September: Vol 57 Iss, P.69 | Art News, New York1983
painting in public collection | Springtime on Jupiter, 1982 | oil and graphite on canvas | 182.9x182.9 cm | McNay Art Institute, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas1984
painting in public collection | Karolein in der Bundesalle, 1982 | oil on canvas | 72×72 in | gift of Dr. Harry C. Bishop, Class of 1943, to Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, New Hampshire2020
painting in the FG collection | Phaena-Kraenq-Phaena, 1982 | oil and pencil on paper | 19.2x20.1 cm | on view, atelier Madrid, Spain2022
institutional exhibition | Douglas Abdell: Yads, Phoenaes, Aekyads 1971-1981 | 7.7.22 - 4.9.22 | MAMCO, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Geneva, Switzerland editorial of the exhibition | «Mamco Journal: MAMCO été 2022» | MAMCO, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Geneva, Switzerland article with reproduction of exhibit | Au Mamco, l’expo de l’été se savoure dès l’apéro | Arts et scènes | Samedi-dimanche 16-17 juillet, p.19 | Tribune de Genève, Genève, Suisse2024
one-man exhibition | Douglas Abdell: Intervalism and Other Mathematics | September 12th - October 26th | Ab-Anbar Gallery, London, United Kingdom article/interview | Douglas Abdell at Ab-Anbar Gallery, London | Cleo Scott | LUX Magazine, London, United Kingdom article | During Frieze Week There Is No Shortage of Things to See. | Farah Nayeri | Oct. 2 | print on Section S, Page 4 in The New York Times International Edition, Oct. 4 | The New York Times, New York, New YorkNew York City period
1983
Two views of the solo show at Gallozzi-La Placa Gallery N.Y.C. in 1983. Images: Courtesy of Douglas Abdell ©Copyright Gallozzi-La Placa Gallery
1984
article | review of exhibition at the Fine Arts Museum of Long Island | January 1, section 11LI, page 6 | Writing as a Type of Drawing | Phyllis Braff | The New York Times, New York article | I Neo-Amanuensi | New York: Rammellzee and Douglas Abdell | reproductions, text and interviews | February, pp. 86-91 | Maurizio Torrealta | Frigidaire, Italia review of exhibition at Gallozzi-La Placa Gallery, New York City | February, Vol. 22, No. 2, p. 83 | Ronny H. Cohen | Artforum, New York group exhibition | La Scuola di Atene | febbraio | Centro Culturale Cembalo Borghese, Palazzo Borghese, Roma, Italia monumental sculpture made | The Misconception of an A | welded steel | 250x190x60 cm | co-authors: Douglas Abdell and Phase Two | produced by Gallozzi-La Placa Gallery, New York City, New York | in July 2009 Artnet announces that the work will be in the auction «Urban Art 1972-Present» | source: Fad Magazine | the only monumental steel sculpture of a Letter from the Graffiti movement ever made | accidentally destroyed work group exhibition | Totem | February | Charles Cowles Gallery, Bonnier Gallery and Germans Van Eyck Gallery, New York, New York group exhibition | La Scuola di Atene | marzo | Comune di Ferrara, Gallerie Civiche d'Arte Moderna, Palazzo dei Diamanti, Ferrara, Italia group exhibition | La Scuola di Atene | aprile | Mueso Laboratorio Casabianca, Malo, Veneto, Italia group exhibition | The Paper Show | Gallozzi-La Placa Gallery, New York, New York group exhibition | Chill out New York | works by sixty artists living and working in New York this summer including Abdell, Augeri, Beachler, Hambleton, Lady Pink, Nechvatal | July & August 26 | Kenkeleba House, New York, New York1985
one man exhibition | Spoleto Festival U.S.A. and Gibbes Art Gallery |Kryad, Aekyads and 1982/83 paintings | May 23 - June 30 | Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, South Carolina group exhibition | New York graffiti writers | Galleria Studio G7, Bologna, Italy article | The Misconception of an A | reproduction & text of collaborative sculpture | no. 663, p.76 | July-August | Domus, Italia art fair exhibition | Bologna, Italy1986
group exhibition | among the exhibiting artists: Ben Shahn, Douglas Abdell, Richard Anuszkiewicz, Mlton Avery, Will Barnet, Ilya Bolotowsky, Theodore Roszak, Gordon Parks, James Rosenquist | April 10 to May 17 | Pembroke Gallery, Houston, Texas group exhibition | Heads: Modern – Ancient | May | Mokotoff Gallery, New York City, New York review | spring/summer | No. 5 | contributing artists: Douglas Abdell, Donald Baechler, Mike Glier, Jenny Holzer, Jerry Kearns, Marilla Palmer, Joseph Szilva, Edward Waisnis, George Wardlaw, ArtExtreme, Donald Waisnis and Edward Waisnis | ArtExtreme, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania group exhibition and book | Erratici Percorsi | XIX Rassegna Internazionale d'Arte di Acireale | a cura di Achille Bonito Oliva | redazione catalogo e coordinamento mostra a cura di Lidia Reghini di Pontremoli | catalogo: Nuove edizioni Gabriele Mazzota | exhibition: 21 dicembre 1986 - 25 gennaio 1987 | Palazzo de Cittá, Acireale, Sicilia, Italia review of «Erratici Percorsi» exhibition | December 21 | Giuseppe Contarino | La Sicilia, Catania, Italia1987
article | «Libertà di inventare» | La XIX Rassegna d'Arte di Acireale | p. 11, January 2 | Francesco Poli | Il Manifesto, Roma, Italia article | «Il cielo scolpito da fasci di luce» | Transavanguardia in mostra ad Acireale | January 17 | Lidia Reghini Di Pontremoli | Avanti, Roma, Italia article | Abdell | p. 57, January-February | Stefano Petricca | Leader, Roma, Italia review of «Erratici Percorsi» exhibition | February-March (Italian edition), p. 52 | Barbara Tosi | Flash Art, Roma, Italia video documentario | durata: 27'27" | andato in onda il: 03/3/1987 | XIX Rassegna Internazionale d'Arte Acireale a cura di Achille Bonito Oliva | regia di Pino Badalamenti | Rai - Regione Sicilia, Italia group exhibition | Erratici Percorsi | a cura di Achille Bonito Oliva | Marzo-Aprile | Castello Colonna, Genazzano, Roma, Italia review of «Erratici Percorsi» exhibition | pp. 44-45, April-May | Michel Baudson | Arte Factum, Antwerpen, Belgium1992
group exhibition | 20th century and contemporary painting, sculptures, and works on paper | Artists: Douglas Abdell, Roland Baladi, Alghiero E. Boetti, Marcel Duchamp, Futura 2000, Stephen Hall, Charles 'Koor' Hargrove, Mary Larsen, George Long, Man Ray, Toxic | Dir. Niccolo Lorimer | May | Magnetstone Contemporary Art, Paoli, Pennsylvania2000
auction catalogue and exhibition | GRAFF - Graffiti Art | Guernsey's auction, New York, New York2021
retrospective | Reconstructed Trap House | exhibition curated by Morad Montazami | 12-24 October | Ab/Anbar Gallery, Cromwell Place, London, United Kingdom interview | Douglas Abdell talks to Jean Wainwright about ‘A Reconstructed Trap House’ | The London Magazine, London, United Kingdom work sold at auction | sculpture (totem) | 8 Consolidated Laws 9, 1983 | oil, ink and collage on board | 163x46x38cm | auction: October 20, 2021 | 20th Century Art, Middle East, Lot 15 | Sotheby's London, United Kingdon article | Douglas Abdell's Punic Wars rediscovered in a London retrospective | October 23 | Melissa Gronlund | The National, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates work in public collection | Contract Arment Work, 1983 | collage, oil and ink on wood and canvas | 140x196 cm | acquired by Barjeel Art Foundation, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates2022
artfair exhibition | Artissima Torino | session: Back To The Future | 3 - 6 November | Ab/Anbar Gallery, London/Teheran | OVAL, Lingotto Fiere, Torino, Italia project «Voice Over /Artissima» | critical text by Balthazar Lovay | video: «Douglas Abdell in conversation with Salman Matinfar» gallerist of Ab/Anbar Gallery London/Teheran | «Back to the Future» section of Artissima Voice Over | Artissima Torino, Italia article | Ad Artissima, Tre galleriste da Teheran | edithor: Società Editrice Umberto Allemandi S.r.l. ©Copyright | Numero 434, dicembre, p. 60, | Il Giornale dell'Arte /sezione Gallerie, Torino, Italia2023
group exhibition | Uncharted Echoes | tenth anniversary of the Ab-Anbar Gallery, London/Teheran | opening of the Ab-Anbar Gallery exhibition space in London’s Fitzrovia | exhibition curated by Bartomeu Mari | September 7 - 30 | Ab/Anbar Gallery, London, United KingdomIntervalism
1984
book | Mirror Magnetik Interval | coauth Douglas Abdell and Begonia Korta-Zaharra | publisher: Inst-Intervalist-Itute, 458 Broadway, New York 10013, New York group exhibition | Abecedary | show of works on paper by Abdell, Chia, Cucchi, Rifka and other | April 6 – May 6 | Gallozzi-La Placa Gallery, New York, New York sculpture | The Breaking of the 8 Matrix | cast bronze and steel | 72 1/2 inches | work in Museum | Wichita Art Museum purchase in 1986 with funds donated by the Price R. and Flora A. Reid Foundation | Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, Kansas works in public collection | work on: «The Ruth & Marvin Sackner Archive Of Concrete And Visual Poetry, 1984 catalogue» | 5oo copies | catalogue published in May 1986 | book edited by Marvin Sackner & Ruth Sackner | Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archives, Miami Beach, Florida1985
catalogue by Douglas Abdell «Diamond = Mirror x K» | essays and drawings by Douglas Abdell | reproduction courtesy Gallozzi-La Placa Gallery, New York City | catalogue for exhibit ARCO'85, Madrid, Spain art fair Madrid exhibition | Gallozzi-La Placa Gallery, New York City | ARCO'85, Madrid, Spain art fair exhibition and catalogue | «The Intervalist's Chair» by Douglas Abdell | catalogue including essays, drawings and reproductions | 1 soft cover book, 28 pages | 30x21 cm | catalogue published: Gallozzi-La Placa Gallery, New York City | catalogue signed by: Douglas Abdell | Fiera Internazionale d'Arte Contemporanea'85 di Milano, Italia group exhibition and catalogue | «Birds of Paradise», New Image sculpture | May 23-June 15 | some of exhibitors: Douglas Abdell, Ettore Consolazione, Marianne Eigenheer, Francisco Leiro, Tom Otterness, Rammellzee | Galleria Il Ponte, Roma, Italy article | Abdell el Fenicio | entrevista por Korta-Zaharra | fotos: Paco Navarro | pp. 36-42 | V.O. (uve o) Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain group exhibition | The Music Show | November to December | Gallozzi-La Placa Gallery, New York, New York sculpture exhibition in videoclip | Korta-Zaharra and their video Transit Motion | sculpture exhibition in conjunction with performance | October | Otto Zutz Club, Barcelona, Catalonya, Spain1986
group exhibition | Savage Thrones | under supervision of Anthony Fawcett & July Winters | April 15 to May 10 | The Ginza Art Space, Tokyo, Japan sculpture | Q-Interval of Ether | welded steel | 27 x 10 3/4 x 9 3/8 inches | Wichita Art Museum purchase with funds donated by the Price R. and Flora A. Reid Foundation | Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, Kansas group exhibition and book | Erratici Percorsi | XIX Rassegna Internazionale d'Arte di Acireale | a cura di Achille Bonito Oliva | redazione catalogo e coordinamento mostra a cura di Lidia Reghini di Pontremoli | catalogo: Nuove edizioni Gabriele Mazzota | exhibition: 21 dicembre 1986 - 25 gennaio 1987 | Palazzo de Cittá, Acireale, Sicilia, Italia review of «Erratici Percorsi» exhibition | December 21 | Giuseppe Contarino | La Sicilia, Catania, Italia1987
article | «Libertà di inventare» | La XIX Rassegna d'Arte di Acireale | p. 11, January 2 | Francesco Poli | Il Manifesto, Roma, Italia article | «Il cielo scolpito da fasci di luce» | Transavanguardia in mostra ad Acireale | January 17 | Lidia Reghini Di Pontremoli | Avanti, Roma, Italia article | Abdell | p. 57, January-February | Stefano Petricca | Leader, Roma, Italia video documentario | durata: 27'27" | andato in onda il: 03/3/1987 | XIX Rassegna Internazionale d'Arte Acireale a cura di Achille Bonito Oliva | regia di Pino Badalamenti | Rai - Regione Sicilia, Italia review of «Erratici Percorsi» exhibition | February-March (Italian edition), p. 52 | Barbara Tosi | Flash Art, Roma, Italia group exhibition | Erratici Percorsi | a cura di Achille Bonito Oliva | Marzo-Aprile | Castello Colonna, Genazzano, Roma, Italia review of «Erratici Percorsi» exhibition | pp. 44-45, April-May | Michel Baudson | Arte Factum, Antwerpen, Belgium1993
group exhibition | Aspects of Sculpture | May 23 - June 27 | exhibition curated by Donald Knaub | Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas2021
article | Art & Voices Matter: Morad Montazami sifts through complexity of Southern Modernism | by Dilpreet Bhullar | published on: Jun 28 | STIRworld, New Delhi, Delhi retrospective | Reconstructed Trap House | exhibition curated by Morad Montazami | 12-24 October | Ab/Anbar Gallery, Cromwell Place, London, United Kingdom interview | Douglas Abdell talks to Jean Wainwright about ‘A Reconstructed Trap House’ | The London Magazine, London, United Kingdom article | Douglas Abdell's Punic Wars rediscovered in a London retrospective | October 23 | Melissa Gronlund | The National, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates2022
missing works found | a group of 8 paintings from the '80s have been found in Abdell's studio | Abdell has named this group of works «Window of Intervalism»2023
academic study topic | «D.Abdell e la cultura fenicia» | Docente: Lidia Reghini di Pontremoli | corso: Antropologia Culturale | Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma, Italia2024
one-man exhibition | Douglas Abdell: Intervalism and Other Mathematics | September 12th - October 26th | Ab-Anbar Gallery, London, United Kingdom article/interview | Douglas Abdell at Ab-Anbar Gallery, London | Cleo Scott | LUX Magazine, London, United Kingdom article | During Frieze Week There Is No Shortage of Things to See. | Farah Nayeri | Oct. 2 | print on Section S, Page 4 in The New York Times International Edition, Oct. 4 | The New York Times, New York, New YorkPunic
1986
group exhibition and book | Erratici Percorsi | XIX Rassegna Internazionale d'Arte di Acireale | a cura di Achille Bonito Oliva | redazione catalogo e coordinamento mostra a cura di Lidia Reghini di Pontremoli | catalogo: Nuove edizioni Gabriele Mazzota | exhibition: 21 dicembre 1986 - 25 gennaio 1987 | Palazzo de Cittá, Acireale, Sicilia, Italia review of «Erratici Percorsi» exhibition | December 21 | Giuseppe Contarino | La Sicilia, Catania, Italia interview with reproductions | La experiencia transcultural de Douglas Abdell by Octavio Zaya | book «Le balcon» by Jean Genet | Editor: Marc Barbezat-L'Arbalète, France1987
article | «Libertà di inventare» | La XIX Rassegna d'Arte di Acireale | p. 11, January 2 | Francesco Poli | Il Manifesto, Roma, Italia article | «Il cielo scolpito da fasci di luce» | Transavanguardia in mostra ad Acireale | January 17 | Lidia Reghini Di Pontremoli | Avanti, Roma, Italia article | Abdell | p. 57, January-February | Stefano Petricca | Leader, Roma, Italia review of «Erratici Percorsi» exhibition | February-March (Italian edition), p. 52 | Barbara Tosi | Flash Art, Roma, Italia video documentario | durata: 27'27" | andato in onda il: 03/3/1987 | XIX Rassegna Internazionale d'Arte Acireale a cura di Achille Bonito Oliva | regia di Pino Badalamenti | Rai - Regione Sicilia, Italia group exhibition | Erratici Percorsi | a cura di Achille Bonito Oliva | Marzo-Aprile | Castello Colonna, Genazzano, Roma, Italia review of «Erratici Percorsi» exhibition | pp. 44-45, April-May | Michel Baudson | Art Factum, Antwerpen, Belgium1989
group exhibition and catalogue | Ritratti di un nome | a cura di Achille Bonito Oliva | catalogue publisher: Nuova Prearo Editore, Milano | exhibition: February 4 | Galleria Cleto Polcina, Roma, Italia article | November 28, p.21 | Il Pennello nel fumetto | presentazione della mostra Artoon | Dario Micacchi | l'Unità, Roma, Italia group exhibition and book | «Artoon - L'influenza del fumetto nelle arti visive del XX secolo» | direzione di Achille Bonito Oliva | libro | introduzione del libro «Artoonia» di Achille Bonito Oliva | saggio «Da identità a seduzione: il livellamento culturale e la presenza dei fumetti nell'arte degli anni '80» di Octavio Zaya | November 25 to January 15, 1990 | Palazzo Civiltà del Lavoro, Roma, Italia one man exhibition and catalogue | Preview of the Forth Punic War | September | commissario: Achille Bonito Oliva | catalogo: Cleto Polcina Edizioni | introduzione del catalogo «La Biga di Abdell» di Achille Bonito Oliva | Galleria Cleto Polcina Arte Moderna, Roma, Italia forum art fair Hamburg | Preview of the Forth Punic War | September | Galleria Cleto Polcina, Roma, Italia | Hamburg, West Germany1990
article | Back to the Future | February 16, pp.20-21 | Neena Gopal | Gulf News, Dubai, United Arab Emirates group exhibition and catalogue | Art = Money? | "Art = Money? An Exhibition? A Statement?" | November 29 to December 23 | exhibition curated by Michael McKenzie and Roberto Mitrotti | 16-page catalogue published by American Image, Inc., in association with originating galleries | introduction by Achille Bonito Oliva | artists: Douglas Abdell, Arman, Barton Benes, Mike Bidlo, Ronnie Cutrone, Allan D'Arcangelo, Ron English, Jeff Koons, Alexander Kosalopov, Mark Kostabi, Barbara Kruger, David Lynch, Michael McKenzie, Roberto Mitrotti, Larry Rivers | The Gallery, New York, New York1991
ABDAAL NELLA QUARTA GUERRA PUNICA, 1990. Bronze coin showed in the exhibitions around United States and Italy. Image: Courtesy of Douglas Abdell ©Copyright
1992
book | «Propaganda Arte» by Achille Bonito Oliva | 1 gennaio | Edizioni Carte Segrete, Roma, Italy group exhibition | Art = Money? | exhibition curated by Michael McKenzie and Roberto Mitrotti | Galleria Massimo Riposati, Rome, Italy group exhibition and catalogue | «Dislocazione Dell'Arte» | XXXVII Mostra Internazionale di Arte Contemporanea | under supervision of Achille Bonito Oliva | catalogue publisher: Umberto Sala Editori, Pescara, ltaly | exhibition: Juny 27 to August 31 | Termoli, Campobasso, Italy group exhibition and catalogue | Orestiadi di Gibellina | «Paesaggio con rovine» | Achille Bonito Oliva | September 27 - October 31 | Fondazione Orestiadi, Gibellina, Trapani, Sicilia, Italy1993
PORTRAIT OF ACHILLE BONITO OLIVA, bronze. Private collection, Rome. Image: Courtesy of Douglas Abdell ©Copyright
1994
one man exhibition and catalogue | Abdell | January 11 | poem by Antonio Zaya and letter from Jean G. Daniel, November 1993 | Instituto Egipcio de Estudios Islámicos, Madrid, España article | Los Outsiders | January | Adolfo Castaño | ABC, Madrid, Spain work in public collection | Instituto Egipcio de Estudios Islámicos, Madrid, Spain article | Abdell, Minot e Ira Tierra | winter issue | Jesús Tablate Miquis | Álbum, Madrid, Spain article | Cuando la piedra habla Civilización | February | Yosef Nazmi | Majalat Al Andalus, Madrid, Spain interview | Abdell, le Phenicien Magnifique | August 25 | Zéna Zalzal | L'Orient-Le Jour, Beirut, Lebanon1995
one man exhibition and catalogue | La Unió dels Estats Fenicis | comisari Achille Bonito Oliva | catalogue with essay by Achille Bonito Oliva «Congelar en l'Art un temps millor: L'Estratègia d'Abdell» and essay by Joan Abelló «Abdell, El Fenicio» | exhibition at Centre Cívic Pati Llimona, districte de Ciutat Vella, Barcelona, Catalunya, España article | Un Fenicio Post Moderno | December, p.60 | Berta Álvarez | Vogue, España permanent installation | Edificio Genesis | complejo residencial Genesis, Zaragoza, España1996
one man exhibition and catalogue | Unión de los Estados Fencios | comisario Achille Bonito Oliva | texto «Congelar en el Arte un tiempo mejor: La Estrategia de Abdell» di Achille Bonito Oliva | 29 de Febrero - 24 de Marzo | Museo Pablo Gargallo, Zaragoza, España review of exhibition | El Mundo del Arte es Social | March 1, p.21 | Angela Labordeta | Diario 16 (Aragón), Zaragoza, Spain review of exhibition | EL Libanés Abdell propone la Unión de los Estados Fenicios | March 1, p.45 | Mariano García | Heraldo de Aragón, Zaragoza, Spain article | Museo de Pablo Gargallo, Abdell | March 10 | Artes y Letras, p.4 | Angel Azpeitia | Heraldo de Aragón, Zaragoza, Spain review of exhibition | La Piedra de Calatorao y sus lazos con Oriente Medio | March 14, p.46 | Carmen Serrano | El Periodico de Aragón, Zaragoza, Spain review of exhibition | Abdell, La Unión de los Estados Fenicios | March 15, p.19 | El Punto de Las Artes, Madrid, SpainAL-SÜR, cast bronze ready for the installation in 1995 at a Building Residence in Zaragozza, Spain. Image: Courtesy of Douglas Abdell ©Copyright
Abdell next to a stone sculpture of Sepulveda in the studio on Calle Mediodía Chica in the Barrio de La Latina in Madrid, Spain. Image: Courtesy of Douglas Abdell ©Copyright
1998
etching | 'Libanizar' el Planeta | 74x52.5 cm | artwork from the FG collection | same series of work added in 2023 to the collection of Sursock Museum, Beirut, Lebanon1999
group exhibition | Pictores Fictoresque III | June - July - August | Joan Guaita Gallery, Palma de Mallorca, Spain2000
proyecto de Abdell y Maria Merinero para Atlantica | Atlántica. International Journal of the Arts | nº 25, Invierno, pp.160-167 | Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, España2003
article | «Las huellas de la personalidad en la escritura» by María del Mar García Tijeras | nº 24, March, pp. 34-37 | published by Arte y Naturaleza (Arts & nature) magazine, Madrid, Spain sculpture | Dialogo Fenicio (Phoenician dialogue) | stone of Sepulveda, Segovia, Spain | 59x39x25cm | work sold at auction on April 27, 2023 | 20th Century Art, Middle East, Lot 35 | Sotheby's London, United Kingdon2005
one-man exhibition and catalogue | Abdell: El Retorno del Fenicio | texto de Joan Abelló | Museo de Adra, Almería, Andalucía, España2017
one-man exhibition | El Retorno del Fenicio, Douglas Abdell | Museo de Chiclana de la Frontera, Cádiz, Andalucía, España2018
one-man institutional exhibition | El Retorno del Fenicio. Douglas Abdell | nº de asistentes: 12.716 personas | 26 abril-24 junio | Museo de Càdiz, Andalusia, España2019
one-man exhibition | El Retorno del Fenicio, Douglas Abdell | Fundación Antonio Gala, Cordoba, Andalusia, España2020
group exhibition | Scrivere Disegnando When Language Seeks Its Other | 29 January – 23 August | curators: Andrea Bellini and Sarah Lombardi | essay by Morad Montazami «Free Arab Speech: On Emancipated Writing» | Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève, Suisse2021
retrospective | Reconstructed Trap House | exhibition curated by Morad Montazami | 12-24 October | Ab/Anbar Gallery, Cromwell Place, London, United Kingdom interview | Douglas Abdell talks to Jean Wainwright about ‘A Reconstructed Trap House’ | The London Magazine, London, United Kingdon article | Douglas Abdell's Punic Wars rediscovered in a London retrospective | October 23 | Melissa Gronlund | The National, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates2023
academic study topic | «D.Abdell e la cultura fenicia» | Docente: Lidia Reghini di Pontremoli | corso: Antropologia Culturale | Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma, Italia2024
one-man exhibition | Douglas Abdell: Intervalism and Other Mathematics | September 12th - October 26th | Ab-Anbar Gallery, London, United Kingdom article/interview | Douglas Abdell at Ab-Anbar Gallery, London | Cleo Scott | LUX Magazine, London, United Kingdom article | During Frieze Week There Is No Shortage of Things to See. | Farah Nayeri | Oct. 2 | print on Section S, Page 4 in The New York Times International Edition, Oct. 4 | The New York Times, New York, New YorkM=Agua
1999
M=AGUA #23, made in 1999 and sold at Sotheby's auction in 2021.
The National News write about the London retrospective in 2021. Photo by Ab-Anbar Gallery ©Copyright
2003
sculpture | M=Agua #8 | bois, zinc, marbre, eau, valise et journaux | 78.5x184x118 cm | Oeuvre acquise en 2019 par le CNAP, Centre national des arts plastiques, France2005
article | «Abdell, M=Agua» by Joan Abelló Juanpere | nº 36, March, pp. 46-47 | published by Arte y Naturaleza (Arts & nature) magazine, Madrid, Spain2006
Abdell publishes the official website of the series "M=Agua" | www.abdellmagua.eu | webmaster: María Merinero2021
retrospective | Reconstructed Trap House | exhibition curated by Morad Montazami | 12-24 October | Ab/Anbar Gallery, Cromwell Place, London, United Kingdom interview | Douglas Abdell talks to Jean Wainwright about ‘A Reconstructed Trap House’ | The London Magazine, London, United Kingdon article | Douglas Abdell's Punic Wars rediscovered in a London retrospective | October 23 | Melissa Gronlund | The National, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates2023
academic study topic | «D.Abdell e la cultura fenicia» | Docente: Lidia Reghini di Pontremoli | corso: Antropologia Culturale | Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma, ItaliaAekyad /2nd period
1,674
total works made (August 31, 2024 update) of which:
961
drawings | (837) 50x70 and (124) 30x42 cm | A-D | Aekyad-Drawing sub-series
5
paintings | (4) 150x200 and (1) 180x250 cm | A-P | Aekyad-Painting sub-series
20
paintings | 60x80 cm | A-M-P | Aekyad-Mekaniks-Painting sub-series
5
wall works alluminium sculptures | 50x70x3 cm | A-W-W | Aekyad-Wall-Work sub-series
1
welded steel sculpture | H.300 cm
3
welded steel sculptures | H.100 cm
11
cast bronze sculptures | H.30/40 cm
11
steel sculptures | H.30/40 cm
373
drawings for sculpture | (25) 42x68, (323) 30x42 and (25) 21x30 cm
284
polystyrene models for cast bronze sculpture | H.30/40 cm
2018
The base of the AK-354 steel sculpture in Jaunary 2022. Image: Courtesy of Douglas Abdell ©Copyright
2019
Selection of five Aekyadic-Drawings (A-D), one for each year of production from 2020 to the present:
A-D #8 (2020)
A-D #141 (2021)
A-D #403 (2022)
A-D #645 (2023)
A-D #831 (2024)