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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011
3rd Street Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, One Part Plaster: Small Mixed Media
Sculpture
2011
Anita Shapolsky Art Foundation, Jim Thorpe, PA, Outdoor Room.
2010 3rd Street Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, Trashed: Small Sculpture from Recycled
Materials
2008 Phillips Museum of Art, Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, PA, Domicile,
An Installation
2006
3rd Street Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, Mouse Work – Presence of Mice
2006
University Museum, Radford University, Radford, VA, Disintegration and
Renewal
2006
Anita Shapolsky Art Foundation, Jim Thorpe, PA, Of Mice and Mending
2005
Pfenninger Gallery, Lancaster, PA, Arriving at Fragmentation
1997
MacDonald Gallery, College Misericordia, Dallas, PA, Reconstructed Mixed
Media Paintings
1996
Knights Gallery, Palmerton, PA, Visions in Silver and Gold
1994
Schumo Gallery, Pennsburg, PA, The Nature of Abstraction
1991
Touchstone Gallery, Bethlehem, PA, Inside Out
SMALL GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011
Anita Shapolsky Art Foundation, Jim Thorpe, PA, Selected Pennsylvania
Masters
2009
Lyet Gallery, Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, PA, Inner, Outer and Secret
2007
3rd Street Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, Domicile, An Installation
2004
3rd Street Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, Mixed Media Paintings on Distressed
Sheetrock
2002
Mulberry East Gallery, Lancaster, PA, Inbound
1999 Villanova University Art Gallery, Villanova University, Philadelphia, PA,
Between Nature and Spirit
1997 Madelon Powers Gallery, East Stroudsburg University, East Stroudsburg, PA,
Dimensions of Symbolic Experience
1997
Maria Feliz Gallery, Jim Thorpe, PA, Dimensions of Symbolic Experience
1995
Artists’ House Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, New Abstractions
1995
Maria Feliz Gallery, Jim Thorpe, PA, Contemporary Abstraction
1995
Knights Gallery, Palmerton, PA, Interior Landscapes
INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS
2006
Japanese Embassy Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand, Fumihiko Enokido
Invitational
2005
Fusion Art Institute, Shizuoka, Japan, Fumihiko Enokido Invitational
2005
Gallery Art Point Black, Florence, Italy, Astrazione – Made in USA/Replica
2005
Korean Federation of Art and Culture Gallery, Seoul, Korea, Enokido
Invitational
2004
Gallery Art Point Black, Florence, Italy, Cielo di Sendai
2004
Gallery Art Point Black, Florence, Italy, VIII Edizione Abstracta
2003
Gallery Art Point Black, Florence, Italy, Canto Apolide/Stateless Song
2001 Galleria San Vidal, Venice, Italy, International Invitational Free Tie
2000
Gallery Art Point Black, Florence, Italy, Astrazione – Made in USA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010
AFA & Linder Galleries, Keystone College, Scranton, PA, NEPA Regional Art
2009
New Arts Program Gallery, Kutztown, PA, Invitational Salon Show of Small
Works
2007
Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York, NY, Collectors’ Choices
2007
3rd Street Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, Small Works Show
2006
Pfenninger Gallery, Lancaster, PA, Annual Small Works Exhibition
2005
Williams Center Art Gallery, Lafayette College, Easton, PA, Sheltered
2005
Anita Shapolsky Art Foundation, Jim Thorpe, PA, 9 Pennsylvania Artists
2005 Fredericksburg Center for Creative Arts/Virginia Museum of Fine Arts,
Fredericksburg, VA, Summer Invitational
2004
Anita Shapolsky Art Foundation, Jim Thorpe, PA, Summer Invitational
2004
Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI, Fresh Materials
2003
3rd Street Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, Small Works Show
2003 State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA, Art of the State 2003
2003 Atlantic City Art Center, Atlantic City, NJ, PAE3 Spring Exhibition
2003
Fredericksburg Center for Creative Arts, Fredericksburg, VA, Strange
Abstractions
2003
Open Space Gallery, Allentown, PA, Phillip & Muriel Berman Exhibition
2003
New Arts Program Gallery, Kutztown, PA, Invitational Salon Show of Small
Works
2002
Hofstra Museum, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY, Walls of Bias
2002 Fredericksburg Center for Creative Arts/Virginia Museum of Fine Arts,
Fredericksburg, VA, Out of the Void: The Art of Absence
2001 US Artists, 33rd Street Armory, Philadelphia, PA, 15 Exposures; Jurors:
Patterson Sims, Museum of Modern Art; Glenn Phillips, Whitney Museum of
American Art
2001
Open Space Gallery, Allentown, PA, Abstracta
2001
New Arts Program Gallery, Kutztown, PA, Invitational Salon Show of Small
Works
2000
Contemporary Gallery, Marywood University, Scranton, PA, Artists as
Visionaries
2000
Open Space Gallery, Allentown, PA, Near Blighted
1999 Historic Yellow Springs (Philadelphia), PA, 102nd Annual Exhibition,
Fellowship, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
1999
Plastic Club, Philadelphia, PA, Fellowship Exhibition, PAFA
1998 Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA, Mayfair; Curator: Daniel Rosenfeld,
Director, Museum of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
1998
New Arts Program Gallery, Kutztown, PA, Joseph Simon Collection Exhibition
1998 Open Space Gallery, Allentown, PA, Awkwardology
1997 Esther M. Klein Art Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, Fellowship of the Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts Board of Trustees Exhibition
1997 Henry McIlhenny Invitational, Philadelphia, PA, Artists of PAFA
1997
Fulton Gallery, Salisbury State University, Salisbury, MD, Thunder and
Lightning
1997 University Museum, Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau, MO,
Faulkner Centennial: A Visual Arts Exhibition
1997
Chester Springs Studio, Chester Springs, PA, Fellowship Exhibition
1997
Maria Feliz Gallery, Jim Thorpe, PA, Sculpture Invitational
1997
Open Space Gallery, Allentown, PA, Bear Mountain Invitational
1996
Discovery Gallery, Sea Cliff, NY, Artists’ Plate Project Exhibition
1994
Rittenhouse Square Fine Arts Annual, Philadelphia, PA
1994
Frank Martin Gallery, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA, Mayfair
1993
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA, Cresson Exhibition
1992
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA, Cresson Exhibition
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Reading Art Museum, Reading, PA
Korean Federation of Art and Culture, Seoul, Korea
Japanese Embassy, Wellington, New Zealand
Slupe Collection, Lancaster, PA
Angelo Roberti Collection, Florence, Italy
College Misericordia, Dallas, PA
Joseph Simon Collection, Mohnton, PA
Kirby Electrical, Ltd., Limerick, Ireland
Avanzato Collection, Philadelphia, PA
Robinson Collection, Los Angeles, CA
Iwata Collection, New York, NY
MEDIA
2008 Domicile, exhibition catalog, Phillips Museum of Art, Franklin & Marshall
College, Lancaster, PA; essay by Lance Eliot Adams, Chicago arts writer and
playwright
2006 Disintegration and Renewal, exhibition catalog, Radford University Museum,
Radford, VA; essay by Preston Thayer, Museum Director
2006 Mouse Work – Presence of Mice, exhibition brochure, 3rd Street Gallery,
Philadelphia, PA; essay by William Zimmer, New York Times
2006
Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia, PA, 7 Days, Michael Harrington
2006
Philadelphia Daily News, Philadelphia, PA, Firsts and Lates
2006
Art Matters, Philadelphia, PA, Not to Be Missed
2006
www.fallonandrosof.com/artblog, Philadelphia, PA, The Art of the Mouse Nest
2006
NPR, Erika Funke interview, Of Mice and Mending
2005
Catalogo della Mostra, Astrazione – Made in USA/Replica, Florence, Italy
2005
Toscana TV interview, Florence, Italy
2005
Art Matters, Philadelphia, PA, A Taste for Abstract, Ellen Slupe review
2005
Sunday News, Lancaster, PA, Fragmented Art at Pfenninger
2005
Intelligencer Journal, Lancaster, PA, Broken, Susan Lindt article
2004
Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia, PA, 7 Days, Michael Harrington
2004
Philadelphia Daily News, Philadelphia, PA, First Friday
2004
Art Matters, Philadelphia, PA, Art Happenings, Exhibitionists
2003
Art Matters, Philadelphia, PA, Art of the State in Harrisburg
2002
Art Matters, Philadelphia, PA, Inside Pennsylvania
2002
Lancaster Sunday News, Lancaster, PA, Lancaster in Their Art
2001
Catalogo Centro d’Arte San Vidal, Free Tie, Venice, Italy, Carlo Cinelli review
2000
Catalogo della Mostra, Astrazione - Made in USA, Florence, Italy
2000 Toscana TV, Florence, Italy, interview
2000 Morning Call, Allentown, PA, Tony Sanzient review
1999
Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia, PA, Victoria Donohoe review
1998
Morning Call, Allentown, PA, Awkward Art at Open Space
1997
Art Matters, Philadelphia, PA, Art Happenings
1997
Morning Call, Allentown, PA, Myra Y. Outwater review
EDUCATION
1989-1993 Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA, CFA 1993
(four-year studio program, with a major in painting, minor in sculpture)
1973-1975
New York University, New York, NY
1971-1973
Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
2005
Encaustic workshop with Michelle Marcuse, Philadelphia, PA
2010
Working with Clay workshop, Stonehedge Studios, Tamaqua, PA
PROFESSIONAL
2009 Teacher, Children’s Summer Workshop, Anita Shapolsky Art Foundation,
Jim Thorpe, PA
2007
Panelist, Community College of Philadelphia, Gallery Hints for Young
Artists
2007, 2005
Panelist, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, PPA Program Stream Grants
2003
Moderator, panel discussion, The Creative Process, Atlantic City Art
Center
1997-2000 Board Member, Fellowship, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts,
Philadelphia
1998-2001
Chair, Advocacy Committee, Philadelphia/Tri-State Artists’ Equity
1999
Editor, New Perspective, Fellowship, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine
Arts, Philadelphia
1999 Curator, Walrus Talk, artist advocacy exhibition, Knights Gallery,
Palmerton, PA
1999-2000 Project Director/Originator, Philadelphia/Tri-State Artists’ Equity, series of
four panel discussions dealing with advocacy/economic issues of
concern to visual artists
1999
Panel Member, Artists Talk on Art, Phoenix Gallery, New York, NY
GRANTS
2010-2011
Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts
grant to
create Outdoor Room, an outdoor living room with live grass growing
on upholstered furniture.
2005-2006
Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts
grant to research repair/mending philosophies/techniques (not art-
related) for incorporation into work.
1999
Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts
grant for artist advocacy exhibition at Knights Gallery (see above).
1999
Pennsylvania Humanities Council grant awarded on behalf of
Philadelphia/Tri-State Artists’ Equity panel discussion series (see
above).