SIMON DINNERSTEIN
“Simon Dinnerstein paints with a reverence for life that is rare. The radiance of his light can transform reality into a presence that is essential, mythic and dreamlike.”
George Tooker
A Chronological Listing of Selected Articles and Essays
George Staempfli, catalogue essay, one-man exhibit, Staempfli Gallery, January 14 – February 8, 1975
John Russell, In Dinnerstein’s Painting, An Echo Chamber, The New York Times, February 8, 1975
Michael André, Simon Dinnerstein (Staempfli), Art News, March, 1975
John Gruen, On Art, Freilicher, Fish, Dinnerstein, Petersen, Baber, The SoHo Weekly News, 1975
Bennett Schiff, On a Roman Hill Scholars Dwell in an Estate of Mind, Smithsonian, March, 1978
Doug Turetsky, Simon Dinnerstein: Artist in the Round, Brooklyn Affairs, April, 1985
Simon Dinnerstein, Looking At One’s Own Artwork, American Artist, April, 1986
Theodore Wolff, The Kind Word for Such Art Is ‘Conservative’, The Christian Science Monitor, April 25, 1988
Albert Boime, Introduction: Simon Dinnerstein's Family Romance, The Art of Simon Dinnerstein, The University of Arkansas Press.
Thomas M. Messer, Foreword, The Art of Simon Dinnerstein, The University of Arkansas Press, 1990
Richard Mertens, Essential Realities: Simon Dinnerstein draws the essence of art from the commonplace, The Concord Monitor, October 25, 1991
Scott A. Johnson, Unexpectedly at home: Simon Dinnerstein’s ‘The Fulbright Triptych’ Finds a Surprising Connection to Fayetteville, Northwest Arkansas Times, November 19, 1999
Beth Finger, Exhibit looks back on career and life of Fulbright Scholar, Arkansas Democratic-Gazette, November 19, 1999
Guy Davenport, The Art of Simon Dinnerstein, Simon Dinnerstein: Paintings and Drawings, Hudson Hills Press, 2000
Miller Williams, Coming to Know Simon Dinnerstein: The Art and the Artist, Simon Dinnerstein: Paintings and Drawings, Hudson Hills Press, 2000
Robert L. McGrath, To See and Be Seen: The Fulbright Triptych of Simon Dinnerstein, Simon Dinnerstein: Paintings and Drawings, Hudson Hills Press, 2000
Rudolph Arnheim, Pictures of the Lasting World, Simon Dinnerstein: Paintings and Drawings, Hudson Hills Press, 2000
Edward Sullivan, The Urban View in the Art of Simon Dinnerstein, Simon Dinnerstein: Paintings and Drawings, Hudson Hills Press, 2000
Joe Maniscalco, An Artist at Work: Park Slope painter lets you In on the creative process, Park Slope Courier, January 31, 2000
Roy Proctor, Exploring the Edge: No Slave to fashion, artist draws us into other states of mind, Richmond Times-Dispatch, August 20, 2000
Deborah McLeod, Bodies of Work: From visceral portraits to romanticized nymphs, Simon Dinnerstein’s retrospective at the Marsh Gallery shows a stylistic niche through every turn of the artist’s evolution, Richmond Style Weekly, September 1, 2000
Ilana Abramovitch, From Brownsville to Park Slope: An Interview with Simon Dinnerstein, Jews of Brooklyn, Brandeis University Press, 2002
Carl Blumenthal, Simon Dinnerstein Takes on the Nude: A Visit to the Artist At Home in Park Slope, The Phoenix, July 19, 2002
Letters: Wanted the Other Nude, The Phoenix, August 2, 2002
Gabriela Lena Frank, Ghosts in the Dream Machine For Piano Quintet, (composer’s statement), March 14, 2005
Cynthia Maris Dantzic, Simon Dinnerstein, 100 New York Painters, Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 2006
Louise Crawford, Brushing up: Park Slope painter heads uptown, The Brooklyn Paper, June 2, 2007