Don Hazlitt
American, Born 1948
Don Hazlitt was born in Stockton, California. In 1971 he received a Bachelors in Art at Sonoma State University and in 1973 he received an Master in Art at California State University. Dee Shapiro, writing about him for Frigate in the late 1990s, referred to the “Deft recapitulations of Renaissance perspective, energetic forms, and bursts of spatial play, never heavily metaphysical or surreal ... subtly deployed in the modernist arrangements that characterize Hazlitt's paintings.” The Andre Zarre Gallery has been one of his longstanding supporters, incorporating him in group exhibitions and hosting five solo shows between 1995 and 2005. He has also appeared in one man shows at the Rosa Esman Gallery, the Gallerie Vostadt in Basel, Switzerland, and the Musée de Toulon in France. The Yale Art Gallery, the Butler Art Institute, and the Musée de Toulon all have his works in their collections. Currently he lectures at Molloy College, New York, where he chairs the institution’s MFA program.