Gideon bok biography

Bio.
Gideon Bok (born 1966) is an American painter who lives and works in Maine.
Gideon Bok is an American painter who lives and works in Maine.

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Gideon Bok

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Gideon Bok

Bio

Gideon Bok (b. 1966) received his BFA from Hampshire College and his MFA from the Yale University School of Art.

He has had solo exhibitions in numerous galleries, as well as the University of Maine, Gorham, the College of Charleston, SC, and the Center for Maine Contemporary Art. His work is included in the collections of the Boston Athenaeum, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Farnsworth Art Museum, and the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art. He received a 2004 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship and the Hassam, Speicher, Betts, and Symons Fund Purchase Award through The American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2005. Bok’s work has been written up in The New York Times, Time Out New York, ARTnews, Art New England, and The Boston Globe.

Bok is committed to painting the passage of time within a confined space, his own studio, he depicts it over and over in various states of array with objects such as draped clothes, musical instruments, and artist supplies. His intent is to make the room s