NAME: Harry Spitz
BIRTH PLACE:
BIOGRAPHY
Resume Harry Spitz
1973 - 1976 Moved to San Francisco where I showed in The Mostly Flowers Gallery DaDa Postcard Museum, The Lawson Gallery and The Nanny Goat Hill Gallery.
1976 moved to Manhattan
1978 won a National Endowment for the Arts.
Co-founder (with G. H. Hovagimyan) of the 75 Warren Street Project, New York
1979 Helped Organize and participated in "A Salute to Creative Youth," 75 Warren Street, New York
Organized and participated in the first DUMBO open Studio show.
1980 One of the early members of ABC NoRio. I organized and participated in the Positive Show
Played Sledge hammer on Glen Branca's Lesson #1.
Performed "Pipe Music" on the mega Album Just Another Asshole. Click on http://www.towerrecords.com/product.aspx?pfid=1034712 to hear a clip.
Performed pipe music in the Kitchen and at Arlene Schloss' A's
1989- Purchased my first kayak.
1996- Built a Guillemot stripper Kayak.
1998- Took a paddling class from Derek Hutchinson (the great British paddler)
2002- Built a Aleut Baidarka (a traditional Aleut kayak) http://www.canoeworld.org/baidarka1.html
2003- Honed my paddling skills by taking some classes and working as a teachers assistant at the New York Kayak Company http://www.nykayak.com/
Attained my BCU (British Canoe Union) 4 Star Rating (sort of a brown belt for kayakers)
2003- Joined Ted Knerr's Walls Gallery at http://www.art-spirit.net
2004- Led a group of 28 paddlers from the Downtown Boat House to the first legal landing of kayaks on Governors Island in recorded history.
2004- 2006 Showed in Jeffrey's Meat Market in the Essex Market at Essex and Delancey St. in NYC and The Matzo Files on Rivington Street.
Group show in MeatSpace Gallery in Long Island City
2nd group show openning May 10 2007 at the Meatspace Gallery in Long Island City NY.
http://meatspacegallery.com/
Field marker drawing in the Governors Island Figment Arts festival
Sept. 2008 Ezair Gallery
November 2008 Field Marker Drawing on the Floyd Bennett Field Tarmac for the Decom Festival.
http://www.ezairgallery.com/galleryinfo.html
