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Education

B.F.A., University of Illinois, 1980
M.F.A., University of Illinois, 1983

Biography

Drasler has taught undergraduate and graduate painting at Princeton University, Williams College and Montclair State University. Recipient of National Endowment of the Arts and New York Foundation of the Arts Fellowships his work has been exhibited at The Whitney Museum of American Art, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, The Queens Museum of Art, Artist Space and the Center for Contemporary Art in Chicago. Solo exhibition venues include the Betty Cunningham Gallery, New York; The Center for Contemporary Art, Chicago; Queens Museum of Art, NY, and the recent Tattoo Parlor, at California State University at Fullerton, Santa Anna; Group exhibitions include New Museum of Contemporary Art; Whitney Museum of Contemporary Art/Champion, NY; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; awards: National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship; author of: “Painting into a Corner: Representation as Shelter,” in The Vitality of Objects: Exploring the Work of Christopher Bollas (Wes- leyan University Press, ); represented in New York by the Betty Cunningham Gallery.