Resume
Master Resume
Gary Eleinko
Studio: 339 W. Bernhard Home: 1933 Hyde Park
Hazel Park, MI 48030 Detroit, MI 48207
(313) 671-9046
email: geleinko02@comcast.net
website: www.garyeleinko.com
Education
Wayne State University, B.F.A. Painting 1967
Wayne State University, M.A. Painting 1975
Grants, Awards
2016 Juried Exhibition Award, 35th Annual Michigan Fine Arts Competition,
Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center, Birmingham MI
2014 Juried Exhibition Prize, Regional Biennieal Sculpture Exhibition,
Marshall Fredericks Sculpture Museum, Saginaw MI
1991 First Prize, “Celebrate Life” Congregational Church of Birmingham,
Bloomfield Hills, MI
1987 Honorarium, Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI
1985 Honorarium, Macomb County Community College, Mt. Clemens, MI
1984 Creative Artists Grant, Michigan Council for the Arts
One Person Exhibitions
2014 "Gary Eleinko- Selected Works" University Liggett School, Grosse Pointe
Woods, MI
2008 “Man and Nature” Cass Cafe - Detroit, MI
2008 “Orts” Motor City Brewery - Detroit, MI
2007 “Works on Paper” - Pittman-Puckett Gallery@Affirmations - Ferndale, MI
1992 “Recent Paintings” - Time5qu4re, Detroit, MI
1983 Willis Gallery, Detroit, MI
1972 St. Mary’s College, Orchard Lake, MI
Internet Exhibitions
2017 "Collage and Assemblage: Art by Gary Eleinko by Dallas Jeffs, Our Blog
ArtistRunWebsite
www.artistrunwebsite.com/blog/2444/Collage+and+Assemblage%3A+Art+by+GaryEleinko
2004 “Drawings” Marks(zine).com
1998/99 Internet Show at The Gallery: www.lmstudio.com/gallery.html
Limited Group Exhibitions
2013 “ Inspired by Science“ Rotunda Gallery, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
1998 “Color / Painting”, Rose E. Desloover - Gary Eleinko, The Gallery,
Marygrove College, Detroit, MI
1996 “A Good Painting Show”, Paint Creek Center for the Arts, Rochester, MI
1992 “Drawings” - Center Galleries, Center for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI
1991 Three Person Exhibition - Art at Hatties, Suttons Bay, MI
1991 “Structure/Paint : Kathy Clifford, Gary Eleinko, Ruth Goldfaden “-
Detroit Artists Market,Detroit, MI
1990 “Six-person Exhibition” - Earth & Art Gallery, Milford, MI
1985 “Robert Bielat - Gary Eleinko” - Macomb Community College,
Mt. Clemens, MI
1978 “David Armstrong - Gary Eleinko” - Alternative Space Site, Fisher Bldg., Detroit, MI
Group Exhibitions
2023 "Fresh Pasture" Paint Creek Center for the Arts, Rochester, MI
2022 "Cow Show" Black Box Gallery Desarborn, MI
2022 "MR/QD" Collective Detroit, Detroit, MI
2022 "MR/QD" Hatch Gallery, Hamtramck, MI
2022 "MR/QD" Anton Art Center, Mt. Clemens, MI
2022 "DAM Scholarship Exhibition", Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI
2021 "Actual Size" Detroit Contemporary, Detroit, MI
2021 "92nd Michigan Contemporart Art Exhibition", Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, MI
2021 "7th Regional Biennial Sculpture Exhibition," Marshall Fredericks Sculpture Museum, Saginaw, MI
2019 "Actual Size" Detroit Culture Club, Detroit, MI
2019 "91st Michigan Contemporary Art Exhibition, Muskegon Museum of Art,
Muskegon, MI
2019 "Durable, Flexible" Popps Packing, Hamtramckl, MI
2019 "25 Years - Hanging Out" Cass Cafe Detroit, MI
2019 "Uncommon Denominator" Black Box Gallery Dearborn, MI
2019 "Dam Scholarship Exhibition - WSU" Detroit Artist Market Detroit, MI
2019 "Elements" Marin Society of the Arts, San Rafael, CA
2018 "In the Fields:Botannical Lore" Arts Benicia, Benicia, CA
2018 "Regional Biennial Juried Sculpture Exhibition" Marshall Fredericks Sculpture
Museum Saginaw, MI
2018 "Arizona Aqueous XXXII" Tubac Center of the Arts Tubac, AZ
2016 "Detroit Abstraction" Janet Charach Gallery, W. Bloomfield MI
2016 "Detroit Biennale w/Jerry Saltz" MONA North, Armada MI
2016 "Wish You Were Here" Detroit Artiss Market, Detroit, MI
2016 35th Annual Michigan Fine Arts Competition,
Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center, Birmingham MI
2015 "The Collage Show" Hatch Gallery, Hamtramck, MI
2015 "Natural Selection Works" Scarab Club, Detroit, MI
2014 ArtPrize, Boardwalk Condominiums, Grand Rapids, MI
2014 BIG PAINTINGS @ THE FACTORY, Midland Invitational, Highland Park, MI
2014 "Regiional Biennial Sculpture Exhibition" Marshal Fredericks Sculpture Museum,
Saginaw, MI
2014 "Blooms, Bugs, and Beasts" Scarab Club, Detroit, MI
2014 "Twenty Years Against the Wall" Cass Cafe, Detroit, MI
2013 “1982-2012,Art Endures...” Paint Creek Center for the Arts
Rochester, MI
2013 "Detroit Collective" Work Gallery, U of M, Detroit, MI
2012 “National Small Painting Exhibition, 2012” Wichita Center for the Arts,
Wichita, KA
2012 “Menage a Detroit, N’Namdi Center for Contemporary Art, Detroit, MI
2012 Detroit Artists Market 80th Anniversary Exhibition, Detroit Historical
Museum, Detroit, MI
2011 “Edge of Excess II”, Foundry Art Centre, St. Charles, MO
2011 “SMALL(er) Show”, Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI
2011 “Watercolor Revisited; A New Perspective, WSU Art Department Gallery,
Detroit, MI
2011 “Autumn Annual Swan Exhibition, Mercado Gallery, Detroit, MI
2011 “Small Show” Lawrence St. Gallery, Ferndale, MI
2010 “Robert Wilbert - w/work by former students, Scarab Club, Detroit, MI
2010 “Swan Exhibition 2010” Whitdel Gallery, Detroit, MI
2010 “ Wayne State Univ. Scholarship Exhibition, Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI
2010 “In Spite of the Evidence” Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, MI
2010 “ “Made of Wood” Northville Arthouse, Northville, MI
2009 The Creator: Self Portraits” Ford Gallery, WCCC, Detroit, MI
2009 + 2007, 2005, 2003, 2001, 2000, “Actual Size”, CAID Gallery, Detroit, MI
2008 “Voices” Scarab Club Detroit, MI
2008 “Spirit of Paint by Numbers” Detroit Artists Market - Detroit, MI
2007 10th Anniversary Exhibition” Zeitgeist Gallery, Detroit, MI
2007 “4th Annual Intergenerational Community Exhibition” Ellen Kayrod Gallery, Detroit, MI
2007 “ Silence” Paint Creek Art Center, Rochester, MI
2007 “ Driven“ Copper Country Comm. Arts Center,- Hancock , MI
2007 “WSU Scholarship, Faculty, Alumni Exhibition” Detroit Artists Market-
Detroit, MI
2007 “In Search of Ukrainian Symbolism & Motifs” - Scarab Club - Detroit, MI
2007 “Collaborative & Correspondence Art Exhibition - Grosse Pointe Art Center,
Grosse Pointe, MI
2006 “46th Annual Greater Michigan Art Exhibition - Alden B. Dow Museum of Science & Art, Midland, MI
2006 “Think Small” Lawrence St. Gallery, Ferndale, MI
2006 “Under the Radar: Willis Remembered” Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI
2006 “ Members Preview” (juried) - Detroit Artists Market - Detroit, MI
2006 “Our Lakes and Rivers” Grosse Pointe Art Center - Grosse Pointe, MI
2005 “2006 Members Invitational” - Detroit Artists Market - Detroit, MI
2005 “Kinder Show” Juris Galleries - Detroit MI
2005 “2000 Artists” (artists of 2000 Brooklyn) 4731 Gallery, Detroit, MI
2005 “POV- Point of View” - Alley Culture - Detroit, MI
2003 “Artists Working in the Shadow of Tiger Stadium” Padjewski Gallery -
Dearborn , MI
2003 “Withdrawn” Paint Creek Center for the Arts, Rochester, MI
1999 “Alumni Exhibition” - Community Arts Gallery, Wayne State University -
Detroit, MI
1998 “Chain Letters”, Paint Creek Center for the Arts, Rochester, MI
1997 “Sculpture /Pontiac /‘97” - various sites, Pontiac, MI
1996 “The Box Show” - Willis Gallery. Detroit, MI
1996 “The Time is Now” - Detroit Focus Gallery, Detroit, MI
1995 “Ukrainian Mythology, Folklore, & Legends” - Scarab Club, Detroit, MI
1995 “Available Space” - Weber building, Detroit, MI
1995 “Third Street Gallery Show” - Weber Building, Detroit, MI
1995 “Play Ball” -Center Galleries, Center for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI
1995 “Michigan Annual XXIII “, The Art Center, Mt. Clemens, MI
1994 “Detroit Show” - Center Galleries,Center Galleries,
Center for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI
1994 “16th Michigan Artists Competition” - Art Center of Battle Creek
Battle Creek, MI
1994 “Small Works” - Bunting Gallery, Royal Oak, MI
1994 “Sketch book Show” - Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI
1994 “Box Show” - Willis Gallery, Detroit, MI
1993 “Celebrate Life” - Congregation Church of Birmingham, Bloomfield Hills, MI
1993 “Focus Christmas Show” - Detroit Focus Gallery, Detroit, MI
1993 “Box Show” - Willis Gallery, Detroit, MI
1992 “Home Show” -Center Galleries, Center for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI
1992 “Image Unfolded, Contemporary Screens, Detroit Artists Market at Troy
Place, Troy MI
1992 “Subject to Change” - C.A.I.D. , at the Willis Gallery, Detroit, MI
1991 “20th Anniversary Exhibition” - Willis Gallery, Detroit, MI
1991 “Christmas Group Exhibition” Detroit Focus Gallery, Detroit, MI
1991 “Celebrate Life, Congregational of Birmingham, Bloomfield Hills, MI
1990 “Art for Life”, Galleria Officecentre, Southfield, MI
1990 “The Cochrane Plan: A Celebration of Tiger Stadium” - Michigan Gallery,
Detroit, MI
1989 “AIDS and Art: A Day without Art” - Paint Creek Center for the Arts,
Rochester, MI
1989 “Signs of Life Along Michigan Avenue” - Michigan Gallery, Detroit, MI
1988 “Art on Paper” - Paint Creek Center for the Arts, Rochester, MI
1988 “Detroit Art: Hear and Away” - Broadway Gallery, Detroit, MI
1987 “A to Z” - Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI
1987 “Extended Media: Fresh Visions” - Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
1986 “Update: Detroit Art” - Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
1986 ”Other Spaces” - Detroit Artists Market at Brookfield Office Plaza,
Farmington Hills, MI
1986 “Wayne State University in Michigan: Alumni Exhibition” -Wayne State
University Gallery, Detroit, MI
1986 “Detroit Focus Gallery Benefit” - Multiple Galleries, Birmingham, MI
1985 “Autosuggestions” - Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI
1985 “The Independents” - CADE Gallery, Royal Oak, MI
1985 “Annual Fall Exhibition” - Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI
1984 “In Tandem” - M.C.A. Grant Recipient Show - Pontiac Art Center,
Pontiac, MI
1984 “Annual Fall Exhibition” - Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI
1983 “Detroit Focus Gallery Benefit” - Multiple galleries, Birmingham, MI
1982 “Detroit Works: Part II” - CADE Gallery, Detroit, MI
1982 “Atlas Building Artists” - Detroit Artists Market, Detroit , MI
1982 “24 x 24” - Park West Galleries, Southfield, MI
1981 “Detroit: The Summer Months” - Park West Galleries, Southfield , MI
1981 “Michigan Artists 80/81” - Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI 1980 “In and Of
Detroit” - Detroit Focus Gallery, Detroit, MI
1978 “Under 6” - Over 6’ “- Detroit Focus Gallery, Detroit, MI
1978 “Michigan Annual VI” - The Art Center, Mt. Clemens, MI
1977 “Drawing in Detroit” - Detroit Artists Market, Detroit , MI
1977 “Annual Michigan Watercolor Exhibition” - Detroit Artists Market,
Detroit, MI
1976 “Annual Fall Exhibition” - Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI
1976 “Annual Michigan Watercolor Show Exhibition” - Detroit Institute of Arts,
Detroit, MI
1976 “Forsythe Show” - Forsythe Building, Detroit, MI
1975 “Annual Fall Exhibition” - Detroit Artist s Market, Detroit, MI
Other Work
2013 Pantone Postcard Project, Originated Emilly Martin, Cedar Rapids, IA;
Santiago, Chile; Wash. D.C.,; Venice Italy
1992 Commissioned Metro Times Newspaper Box
1989 Commissioned Painting and Bar Art., 123 Restaurant, Grosse Pointe, MI
1987 Commissioned Installation, Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI
1983 “Visions Seven” - Unbound Xerox Set, Compiled and edited by Robin
Crozier, Sunderland, England
1983 “Japan Au Mail Art Book II” - A Mail-art catalogue compiled by Misao
Kusumoto, Nishinomiya-City, Hyogo, Japan
1982 “Black and White: A Photocopy Book” -39 Artists, edition of 100, The
Money for Food Press, New York, New York
1981 “Behind the Glass” - Window Installation, New Center Building, Detroit, MI
Mail and Correspondence Art Exhibitions in Chicago, New York, Detroit, Florida, Brazil, Germany, Italy, and Japan
Reviews/Articles
2019 "Scarab Club Arts Annual v9" Scarab Club, Detroit, MI
2019 "A View from the Easel" Hyperallergic Online Arts Journal, Feb. 15, 2019
2018 ESSAY'D DETROIT 3 : 30 DETROIT ARTISTS Wayne State Press
2017 Essay'd # 78 Gary Eleinko by Matthew Piper Online - Detroit Artists Blog
@essayd.org
2016 "Breakfast with the Artists : Taking the Long View with Gary Eleinko"
2/16/2016 Blog : sarahrosesharp.com/category/breakfast-artist/page/4/
2014 Interview Metro Arts Detroit, Season 3, Episode 1 PBS
“Man and Nature” - Christina Hill - thedetroiter.com - Nov. 6 2008
“Gary Eleinko” - Nick Sousanis - thedetroiter.com - Sept. 20, 2007
“Gary Eleinko Man and Nature at the Cass Cafe (part 1 and 2)” GildaSnowden on YouTube.com Aug., 2008
“Gary Eleinko Works on Paper” Leicanstyk on YouTube.com Jan., 2008
“gary eleinko@Pittman Puckett Art Gallery” - Ann Gordon - detroitarts.blogspot.com
Sept. 11, 2007
“Eleinko goes X-Rated! (Well, sorta)” - Charles Alexander - Between the Lines,
Sept. 13-19, 2007
“Minimalists choose and use color for great effects” - Keri Guten Cohen,-Detroit Free Press, 1998
“City of Angels” - Joy Hakanson Colby - Detroit, News, 1997
“The Ins and Outs of.... Sculpture” - Robert Musial, Oakland Press, 1997
“Exhibit paints baseball contrasts” - Charlie Vincent, Detroit Free Press, 1995
“Showstoppers” - Detroit Monthly, July 1995
“A Good Painting Show” - Claudia Shepard - Ground Up, #8, 1996
“Screen Scenes” - Veronica Pasfield, Detroit Monthly, May, 1992
“Look Homeward Artists” - Joy Hakanson Colby, Detroit News, June 6,
1992
“Taking it to the Streets, Part III” - Angela Maiuri, Metro Times, April 1-7, 1992
“Structure and Paint” - Joy Hakanson Colby - Detroit News, June 18, 1991
“Winners Selected for Celebrate Life”, Birmingham Eccentric, June 13, 1991
“Exhibits: Art for Life” - Joy Hakanson Colby, Detroit News, May, 1990
“Detroit Decay Still Shines in Art” - Dennis Nawrocki, New Arts Examiner, June, 1984
“Gary Eleinko” - Susan Waller, New Arts Examiner, October, 1983
“A Rhythmic Mix of Painting and Sculpture” - Joy Hakanson Colby, Detroit News,1983
“Atlas Building Artists” - Dennis Nawrocki, New Arts Examiner, October, 1982
“Mail Art Gets Stamp of Approval” - Joy Hakanson Colby, Detroit News, July 30, 1981
“Behind the Glass” - Julia Henshaw, New Arts Examiner, July, 1981
“Self Starters...” - Joy Hakanson Colby, Detroit News, May 17, 1981
“David Armstrong & Gary Eleinko” - Mark Morris, Detroit artists monthly, June, 1978
“Detroit Difficult for its Struggling Artists” - Rick Ratliff, Detroit Free Press, March 12, 1978
Collections
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit MI
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Wayne State University, Detroit,MI
Madison Electric, Warren, MI
Miller, Canfield, Paddock, and Stone, Detroit, MI
IBM, Southfield Centre, Southfield, MI
DAC of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois
Macomb County Community College, Mt. Clemens, MI
National Bank of Detroit, Trust Divisions, Southfield, MI
Various Private Collections
K-Mart Corporation, World Headquarters, Troy, MI (defunct)
Art Organizational Work
2014 Curator "313 - Photography Exhibition" Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI
2014 Curator "3 : Brackett-Luchs, Teicher, Woo" Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI
2010-2013 Board Vice Chairperson, Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI
2011 Co-Curator “Unmentionables: The Underwear Show, Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI
2009 Curator, “From a Different Perspective” Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI
2008 Juror, “Urban Edge” Grosse Pointe Art Center, Grosse Pointe, MI
2008 - 2013 Exhibition Comm - Paint Creek Center for the Arts - Rochester, MI
2008 Co-Chairperson, “Art for Life” MAPP, Ferndale, MI
2007-2013 Board Member, Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI
2007 Curator, “Detroit Next” Detroit Artists Market, Detroit MI
2006 Panel Discussion member, Willis Remembered, Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI.
2005-2013 Exhibition Comm., Detroit Artist Market, Detroit, MI
co-organizer holiday shows, 2005-2008
Exhibition Chairperson, 2010-2013
2005-2008 “Art for life” Committe, MAPP, Ferndale, MI
1994 Juror, Silver Medal Exhibition, Scarab Club, Detroit, MI
1992 Juror, Creative Artists Grants, Michigan Foundation for the Arts, Detroit, MI
1990 Independent Artists Chairperson, “Art for Life” exhibition and benefit, Galleria Officecentre, Southfield, MI
1989 Scholarship Exhibition Coordinator, Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI
1986-88Exhibition Committee Member, Detroit Artists Market
1986-87Director, Willis Gallery, Detroit, MI
1985 Juror,Detroit Artist Market, Detroit, MI
1981 Exhibition Curator,”48226: A Mail-Art Show”, Detroit Focus Gallery, Detroit, MI
1980-81Slide Review Jury, Detroit Focus Gallery, Detroit, MI
1980 Exhibition Coordinator, “Focus Extended”, Detroit Focus Gallery, Detroit, MI
1980 Secretary of the Board, Detroit Focus Gallery, Detroit, MI
1979-80 Board Member, Detroit Focus Gallery, Detroit, MI
1979-85 Exhibition Committee Member, Detroit Focus Gallery, Detroit, MI
Writings (Exhibition Reviews)
“Blogging Basel” , thedetroiter.com, 2006
“Ron Leax” , Ground Up,#14, 1997
“Detroit Artists Market Scholarship Recipients 1966-76”, D.A.M.
Journal of Exhibitions, Vol. 1, #7. 1989
“Tom Bills”, Detroit Focus Quarterly, March, 1985
“Holly Brantsner”, Detroit Focus Quarterly, June, 1984
“Michigan Glass Month”, New Arts Examiner, Summer Issue, 1984
“Michigan Watercolor Show 38”, New Arts Examiner, June 1984
“Greta Weekley”, New Arts Examiner, March, 1984
“Kathleen Rashid”, New Arts Examiner, March, 1984
“Lynne Avadenka”, New Arts Examiner, December, 1983
“Nanci Wisti-Grayton”, New Arts Examiner, May, 1983
“CAID in Canada”, 77, March,1983