GRANTS / RESIDENCIES / VIRTUAL STUDIES
2021 MASTERCLASS ARTIST RESIDENCY WITH MICHAEL DAVID
Two weeks, in-person residency at Castle Hill's Edgewood Farm, Truro, MA (Cape Cod)
2021, 2020
MICHAEL DAVID'S YELLOW CHAIR SALON VIRTUAL RESIDENCY - Brooklyn, NY and Castle Hill Arts Center Truro, MA
Includes discussions, presentations, one-on-one critiques with Michael David and guest artist portfolio critiques with Paul D'Agostino,
Mark Milroy, Elisabeth Condon, and Glenn Goldberg
2021, 2020
MICHAEL DAVID'S YELLOW CHAIR SALON VIRTUAL MASTERCLASS
Paul D'Agostino: Art Writing I - Writing Artist Statements & Then Some
Paul D'Agostino: Art Writing II - Themes & Forms
David Cohen: Redefining the Canon: Contemporary Art Since the 1960s
2015 VERMONT STUDIO CENTER, Merit-Based Grant, Johnson, VT (attended February 2016)
2011 COMMUNITY ARTS OF ELMIRA RESIDENCY - Grant from the NYFA
AWARDS
2015 OXFORD GALLERY JURORS AWARD, Rochester-Finger Lakes Biennial Exhibition, Memorial Art Gallery & Museum
Juror Michael Rooks, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art Atlanta's High Museum of Art
2015 CONTEMPORARY ART AWARD, Southern Tier Biennial, Olean, NY
2013 SOLO SHOW AWARD, Gargiulo Fine Arts Foundation, Palm Coast, FL
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 The Geography of Land & Waters, Miller-Fenwood Fine Art Gallery, Holland, MI
2019 Universal Current, Harrison Center's Speck Gallery, Indianapolis, IN
2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015
New & Selected Works, Oils By The Sea / ROCCAPRIORE Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2013 The Clothesline Project, Hollingsworth Gallery, Palm Coast, FL
ARTIST TALKS
2016 "Painting Through Grief", Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2015 "The Geography of Color", Memorial Art Gallery & Museum, Rochester, NY
2011 "The Clothesline As Series", Community Arts of Elmira, Elmira, NY
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 New Narrative, A virtual exhibition at Castle Hill for the Arts, selections from the Yellow Chair Salon curated by Michael David
Making: 200 Years, Columbus, Indiana's Bicentennial Exhibition at The Workshop
2021, 2020, 2019
Left Bank Gallery, Wellfleet, MA (Cape Cod)
Plum Contemporary Gallery, St. Augustine, FL
411 Gallery 50 / 50 Exhibition, Columbus, IN
2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015
Oils By The Sea / Roccapriore Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Miller-Fenwood Fine Art & Restoration, Holland, MI
Plum Contemporary Gallery, St. Augustine, FL
2017 Arts On Douglas - Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL
Southern Tier Biennial Exhibition, A Regional Survey of Contemporary Art, Olean, NY
2015 65th Rochester-Finger Lakes Biennial Exhibition, Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
The Gallery Store, Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
Southern Tier Biennial Juried Exhibition, A Regional Survey of Contemporary Art, Olean, NY
2014 STRUCTURE, Roan and Black Contemporary Gallery, Saugatuck, MI
Grand Re-Opening Celebration/Exhibition, Plum Contemporary Gallery, St. Augustine, FL
Oils By The Sea / Roccapriore Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2013 64th Rochester-Finger Lakes Biennial Juried Exhibition, Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
Southern Tier Biennial Juried Exhibition, A Regional Survey of Contemporary Art, Olean, NY
2012 Arnot Art Museum, GALLERY GALA 2012 [ biennial invitational fundraiser ], Elmira, NY
2011 63rd Rochester-Finger Lakes Biennial Juried Exhibition, Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
Southern Tier Biennial Juried Exhibition, A Regional Survey of Contemporary Art, Olean, NY
EDUCATION
WORKSHOPS
Art 2 Life Creative Visionary Program with Nicholas Wilton - 2016
Anne Packard, Painting the Landscape, Three Day Outdoor Workshop at the artist's home in Provincetown, MA - 2015, 2014
Thomas R. Dunlay Plein Air Landscape Workshop, Seven Day Outdoor Workshop, Nantucket, MA - 2015, 2014
Cynthia Packard, Painting from Life (figure & stills), Intensive Three Day Workshop in Artist's Studio, Provincetown, MA - 2013, 2012, 2011
Harold Garde, Strappo Printmaking Technique 3-Day Workshop, New Smyrna Beach, FL - 2013
Tom Gargiulo, Print Making as Painting Artform, Palm Coast, FL - 2012
Kate Miller (MFA University of South Florida), Encaustics, SECCA School of Art, Palm Coast, FL - 2012
Foundational Figure Drawing, Richard Schreiner, (MFA Yale, Ph.D. Art Education Columbia University), SECCA School of Art, Palm Coast, FL - 2011
Color Theory, William (Bill) Brant, (MFA Syracuse, Professor Emeritus Mass Art), SECCA School of Art, Palm Coast, FL - 2010
Southeast Coalition of Contemporary Arts, 6 months one-on-one Study under John JJ Graham - 2010
Abstract Expressionism: Oil Painting Techniques, Trouble Shooting & Traditions
> Foundation Work: preparation, palette and premeditation
> All About the Paint: viscosity, value & volume
> Studying the Abstract Expressionists and the Bay Area Figuratives
> Landscapes as Figures: use of layering, line, shape & color
> Painting the contemporary Portrait: Studying the masters and contemporary works of David Park & Lucien Freud
PLYMOUTH STATE UNIVERSITY
1979 BA Geography, Minor in Studio Art, Plymouth State University, Plymouth, NH
ORGANIZATIONS / ALLIANCES
Columbus Museum of Art & Design (CMAD) - Board Member, Columbus Indiana
ARTIST STATEMENT
I paint much like I drive my 1972 red MGB forty-miles out of my way to an apple farm with the top down on a crisp Fall day – knowing intuitively just when to shift gears as the shadows of tree limbs race across my sunglasses and I reach for the balance between properly maneuvering the tight curves and skidding uncontrollably off into the brush. It is from these moments cemented in memory that I pull from, creating diverse patterns and pathways found in the surrounding landscape, rooted in a mix of thick loam and limestone that I attempt to emulate using thick textured paint and a variety of odd garden tools and palette knives. Recently I have been journaling and writing poems about birds – how they communicate, each to a specific cadence, their relationships with the trees and brush that canopy their days - all as studied from my back porch while sharing coffee with my husband. In the stillness between our words I listen to the language, the language of birds as the wind kicks up and I think of those that have passed and wonder, are they here now?