Harry C Tabak

Tabak’s early work reflects his bond to nature through his landscape paintings. Social commentary followed with an emphasis on environmental issues for nearly two decades. These works were the subject of numerous exhibitions at the Dorsky Galleries in NYC (80’s) and museums. The Wichita Art Museum sponsored a traveling exhibition titled “The Radwaste and Stonehenge Books” a series of sculptural ‘books’ in a collaboration with artist Nava Atlas. The series then traveled to several other museums sponsored by the Art Gallery at SUNY New Paltz (now the Dorsky Museum).

Tabak began to explore sculpture as a medium in 2001 utilizing found natural materials. These became the basis for his current experiments often describes as ‘three dimensional drawings’. These are compositions utilizing wood, stone, glass, discarded broken materials, as well as metallic objects.

More recently, Tabak began to incorporate collaborative performance projects working with dancers and musicians. These are interpretive creations utilizing digitized and color edited images projected as part of the performances. One of these was created in Hanoi,Vietnam in 2016 (
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Studied Painting and Sculpture at The Art Students League of NY
Brooklyn College

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018 Dance performance at WAAM, Woodstock, NY
2016 Heritage Center Gallery, Hanoi, Vietnam
2014 Concourse/Discourse Gallery, N. Adams, MA: Conversations in Wood, Stone, and Glass 1985-89 TRAVELING EXHIBIT: e Radwaste and Stonehenge Books (two-person)
Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS (originating site) Carnegie Center for the Arts, Dodge City, KS
Mulvane Art Center, Washburn University, Topeka, KS Pittsburg State University, Pittsburg, KS
Emporia University, Emporia, KS
College Art Gallery, SUNY at New Paltz, NY Nelson Fosdick Gallery, SUNY at Alfred, NY Tyler Art Gallery, SUNY at Oswego, NY
1986 Dorsky Galleries, NYC
1982 Vorpal Gallery, NYC
1981 Dorsky Galleries, NYC
1980 Dorsky Galleries, NYC
1978 Long Island University, Humanities Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Yale University, Sterling Hall Medical Library, New Haven, CT 1977 Harvard University, Science Center Gallery, Cambridge, MA
Art Students League of NY, NYC 1976 Gallery One (NYC)
1974 Orpheus Gallery (NYC)


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018 - stArt gallery, Manchester, VT
2017 - SUNY Orange, NY
2016 - Flomenhaft Gallery, NYC : Earth SOS
2012 - Bau Gallery, Beacon, NY: Apocalypse
2006 - Collaborative Concepts, Beacon, NY: Invitational...