Solo and Featured Exhibitions/ Installations

2021 What We Look At, Maine Jewish Museum - Pop Up, Portland, ME

2018 Garden Menagerie, Pequot Library, Southport, CT

2018 In Loving Memory, Maine Jewish Museum, Portland, ME

2017 Drawings, Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, Portland, ME

2015 Drawings Inspired by Cuba, Maine Jewish Museum, Portland, ME

2015 Catching the Moon, installation and performance by Ellipsis Productions, Director Andrew Hesselbart, Portland Ballet Theater Art Gallery, Portland, ME

2011 The Jar Project, Spring Gallery and Sculpture Garden, Belgrade Lakes, ME

2011 The Jar Project, Whitney Art Work, Portland, Maine

2014 Catching the Moon, installation, Animalia Exhibition, Flinn Gallery, Greenwich, CT

2010 Various Amusements, AES Gallery, Long island City, NY

2009 Various Amusements, Whitney Art Works, Portland, ME

2009 Cobweb Club, Maine Women Writers Collection, University of New England, Portland, ME

2006 Material Matters, Whitney Art Works, Portland, ME

2004 Altered Realities, Westchester Community College Gallery, Valhalla, NY
2003 A Shift in Scale, The Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT
2003 The Crane Project, Vassos Gallery, Silvermine Guild, New Canaan, CT

2002 Menagerie Recovery at Wave Hill, Wave Hill, Bronx, NY

1999 Animal Drawings, Brodsky Gallery, Princeton, NJ

1998 My Trip to the Zoo, Bruce S. Kershner Gallery, Fairfield, CT

Selected Group Exhibitions

2018 Drawing I, Engine Gallery, Biddeford, ME

2014 Hamilton Alumni Show, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY

2012 Portes, Space Gallery, Portland, ME

2012 Faculty Show, University of Southern Maine, Gorham, ME

2011 Hamilton Makes Art II, Ian Peck Gallery, New York, NY

2010 Spring Gallery, Belgrade Lakes, ME

2010 Art for MARC, University of New England, Portland, ME

2009 ARC Gallery, Fairfield, CT

2009 The Variety of Summer, AES Gallery, Long Island City, NY

2008 New Natural History, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME

2008 USM Faculty Exhibition, University of Southern Maine Art Gallery, Gorham, ME

2007 Tiny, Whitney Art Works, Portland, ME

2007 Leighton Gallery, Blue Hill, ME

2006 Calendar Months and Other Printed Matter, University of Southern Maine, Gorham, ME

2006 Maine Menagerie, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME

2006 USM Art Faculty Exhibition, University of Southern Maine Art Gallery, Gorham, ME

2006 Silvermine Guild Exhibition, New Canaan, CT

2005 Collage- Collage, Ubu Studio, Portland, ME

2005 The Matzo Files, Streit’s, New York, NY

2005 Leighton Gallery, Blue Hill, ME

2005 Monkey Business, Ubu Studio, Portland, ME

2004 The Matzo Files, Streit’s, New York, NY

2004 Open Studios, CSV Cultural Center, New York, NY

2004 New Mixed Media work, Courthouse Gallery, Lake George, NY

2003 All Creatures Great and Small, The Silo Gallery, New Milford, CT

2003 Leighton Gallery, Blue Hill, ME

2003 Puppy Love, Pelham Art Center, Pelham, NY

2002 Leighton Gallery, Blue Hill, ME

2001 Hamilton Makes Art, Ian Peck Fine Paintings, New York, NY

2001 New Members: New Work, Silvermine Guild Galleries, New Canaan, CT

2001 Leighton Gallery, Blue Hill, ME

1998 Hurlbutt Bestiary, Hurlbutt Gallery, Greenwich, CT

1997 Great Big Works, Westport Arts Center, Westport, CT

1997 M.F.A. Thesis Exhibition, Museum of American Art, Philadelphia, PA

1996 Contemporary Realism '96, Gallery Alexy, Philadelphia, PA, Juror: Sidney Goodman

1996 Award Winners 98th Annual Juried Exhibition, Museum of American Art, Philadelphia, PA

1996 National Juried Exhibition of Small Works, Montclair University, Upper Montclair, NJ, Juror: Grace Glueck

1995 The Power of Paper, Main Line Art Center, Haverford, PA

Curatorial Projects

The Jar Project, Whitney Art Work, 2011

Everyday Inside Out, Space Gallery, Portland, Maine, 2007

A Place and Time, Space Gallery, Portland, Maine, 2007

Awards/ Fellowships

New York Percent for Art and School Construction Authority Commission, 2007

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Visual Art Fellowship, Sweet Briar, VA, 2006, 2004-2002

Weir Farm, Resident Artist, Wilton, CT, 2003

The MacDowell Colony for the Arts, Visual Art Fellowship, Peterborough, NH, 2001,1999

Silvermine Guild Artist Member, New Canaan, CT, 2000

Merion Art and Repro Award, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA, 1995

Emily and Alfred Bohn Prize, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY, 1993

Bibliography

Daniel Kany, Engine gets edgy with ‘Drawing I, Portland Press Herald, October 7, 2018

Philip Isaacson, A Jarring Uniqueness, Portland Press Herald, February 20, 2011

Laura Powers, Maine Artists Come Together For The Jar Project, USM The Free Press, February 14, 2011

Emily Parkhurst, The Jar Project Presents Seven Jarring Dances for Clarinet(s) and Steel-String Guitar, Classical voice of New England, March 5, 2011

Randy Ludacer, The Jar Project, Boxvox.net, Beach Packaging Design, February 9, 2011

Bob Keyes, What Did You Do, Arts Planner, Portland Press Herald, February 27, 2011

Melissa Hall, Altered Realities: A Realistic Creation of the Imagination, The Viking News, April 13, 2005

Philip Eliasoph, Beyond Holiday Ornaments, Connecticut Post, Dec. 7, 2003

Jennifer Clement, Creatures Great & Small, The Sunday Republican, Waterbury, Connecticut, June, 29, 2003

Susan Tuz, “More Artists to take Residence at Weir Farm,” The News-Times, Connecticut, May 20, 2003

L.P. Streitfeld, Landmark Debut-Celebrations of Nature at Silvermine, The Advocate & Greenwich Times, March 9, 2003

Boros, Phyllis A.S, Mother-daughter exhibit at Silvermine, Connecticut Post, Arts&Travel Cover, Feb. 9,2003

Deborah Frizzell, Alexandra Sax, NY Arts Magazine, July 5, 2002

The Hour, exhibition review with photograph, Norwalk, Connecticut, Jan. 4, 2001

Carol Cole, Alexandra Sax Library Exhibit Portrays ‘My Trip to the Zoo, Fairfield Citizen~News, Fairfield, Connecticut, July 17, 1998, C6

Lectures/Workshops

2018 Artist Talk, Garden Menagerie, Pequot Library, Southport, CT

2018 Artist Workshop, Sketch a Scape- Poetry and Landscape, Pequot Library, Southport, CT

2016 Visiting Artist, Piper Shores, Scarborough, ME

2014 Artist Talk, Catching the Moon, installation, Flinn Gallery, Greenwich, CT

2008 Artist Talk, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME

2006 Artist Roundtable Discussion, Maine Menagerie, Center for Maine Contemporary Art

2006 Visiting Artist, University of Southern Maine, Gorham, ME

2005 Visiting Artist, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME

2003 Visiting Artist, Sweet Briar College, Sweet Briar, VA

2001 Visiting Artist, New Canaan Country Day School, New Canaan, CT

1999 Visiting Artist, Peterborough High School, Peterborough, NH

1996 Visiting Artist, Fairfield University, Fairfield, CTWork Experience

Teaching

2018 Pre-College Instructor, Maine College of Art & Design, Portland, ME

2017- 2018 Adjunct Lecturer, Drawing and Design, University of Southern Maine, Gorham, ME

2017- 2018 Adjunct Lecturer, Drawing, Southern Maine Community College, South Portland, ME

2006- 2013 Adjunct Lecturer, Drawing and Design, University of Southern Maine, Portland and Gorham, ME

2013 Pre-College Instructor, Maine College of Art & Design, Portland, Maine

2007-2007 Instructor, Painting & Drawing, Continuing Studies, Maine College of Art & Design, Portland, ME

1998 Instructor, Painting and Drawing, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

1997 Adjunct Lecturer, Painting and Drawing, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA

1997 Art History and Studio Art Instructor, Gwynedd Mercy Academy, Philadelphia, PA, Grant funded by Connelly Art Connection

Education

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, MFA, 1997

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Post Baccalaureate Studies, 1995

Painting, University of California At Berkeley, CA, 1994
Painting, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA,1993

Hamilton College, BA Studio Art, Cum Laude,1993

Munsen William Proctor Art Institute, Figure Drawing, Utica, NY, 1992

School for International Training, Bali, Indonesia, 1992

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