BORN: New York City
EDUCATION:
B.A., M.S. Queens College, New York
University of Mexico
Brooklyn Museum
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2009
- Solo Exhibition, George Billis Gallery, New York, NY.
2008
- Solo Exhibition, George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
Solo Exhibition, DFN Gallery, New York, NY.
2007
- Solo Exhibition, Hidell Brooks Gallery, Charlotte, NC.
New York at Night, DFN Gallery, NY, NY.
The National Arts Club, NYC
2006
- Harrison Street Gallery. Frenchtown, N.J.
2004
- The Mercy Gallery, Loomis Chaffee, Windsor CT
Andre Zarre Gallery, NYC
National Arts Club, NYC
2002
- Andre Zarre Gallery, NYC
2001
- Andre Zarre Gallery, NYC
2000
- Principle Gallery, Alexandria VA
Andre Zarre Gallery, NYC
1998
- Nassau County Museum of Fine Art, Roslyn, N.Y.
1997
- Andre Zarre Gallery, NYC
1996
- North Winds, Port Washington, NY
1994
- Andre Zarre Gallery, NYC
1991
- Andre Zarre Gallery, NYC
1988
- Andre Zarre Gallery, NYC
1985
- Andre Zarre Gallery, NYC
1984
- Ana Sklar Gallery, Miami, FL
1983
- Andre Zarre Gallery, NYC
1983
- Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY
1982
- Andre Zarre Gallery, NYC
1981
- Dubins Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1981
- Zenith Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
1980
- Andre Zarre Gallery, NYC
1979
- Gallery 700, Milwaukee, WI
1979
- Andre Zarre Gallery, NYC
1978
- St. Mary's College, Notre Dame, IN
1977
- University of Arkansas, Little Rock, AK
1976
- Andre Zarre Gallery, NYC
1975
- Central Hall Gallery, Port Washington, NY
1973
- Central Hall Gallery, Port Washington, NY
Nassau County Museum of Fine Art, Roslyn, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2007
- “Goodnight Sun” George Billis Gallery, NYC
2006
- “Street Scenes” Gallery North, Setauket, NY
2005
- Insider’s Gallery, Cornwall Bridge, CT
2003
- Andre Zarre Gallery, NYC
2002/3
- The National Arts Club Artist Members Exhibition
2001
- Uta Stebich Gallery, Lenox , MA
Jay Etkin Gallery, Memphis, TN
2000
- 25th Anniversary Show, Andre Zarre Gallery, NYC
1996
- "Central Hall Retrospective" Museum at Stony Brook, Stony Brook NY
"Central Hall Artists" Gallery North, Setauket, NY
1994
- "20th Anniversary Show" Andre Zarre Gallery, NYC
1993
- "Artists Books" Islip Art Center, Islip NY
"Small Works" Andre Zarre Gallery, NYC
1989
- "Metamorphosis" Wunsch Art Center, Glen Cove, NY
1986
- "Let's Play House" Bernice Steinberg Gallery, NYC
1983
- "Criss-Cross en la Cuidad de Mexico" Galeria Pecanins, Mexico
1981
- "Recent Acquisitions" Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY
"Abstract Art in the '80's" Randolph-Macon College, Lynchburg, VA
"New Acquisitions" Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY
"Homework" Women's Hall of Fame, Seneca Falls NY & elsewhere
"Women and Art" Suzanne Brown Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
1980
- "Pattern Painters of New York" Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY
1979
- "Patterns Plus" Dayton Institute of Art, Dayton, OH
1977
- "Pattern, Grid and System Art" Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA
"Pattern Painting" P.S. 1, Long Island City, NY
1976
- "Contemporary Reflections" Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT
1975
- "Works on Paper" Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn NY
1974
- "18" CUNY Graduate Center, NYC
SELECTED MUSEUM and CORPORATE COLLECTIONS:
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NYC
Albright College Collection, Reading, PA
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Amoco Corporation, Denver, CO
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL
Brown-Foreman, Louisville, KY
Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA
Citibank Collection, NYC
Owens-Corning Corp., Corning, NY
Corporate Collection, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Dartmouth Museum of Art, Hanover, NH
Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse , NY
General Electric Company, Fairfield, CT
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY
Hoffman-LaRoche Collection, Zurich, Switzerland
IBM Corporation, NY
Lehigh University Collection, Bethlehem, PA
Lehman Brothers, Kuhn Loeb Inc, NYC
Louis-Dreyfus Financial Group, NYC
Mercer Sreet Medical Center, NYC
Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC
Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY
New York University Collection, NYC
Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City, OK
Pepsico Corporation, NY
Sage Gray Dos Lynch & Castro, Miami, FL
Southeast Banking Corporation, Miami, FL
Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS
St. Mary’s College Collection, Notre Dame, IN
Texaco Corporation, NY
The New Museum Collection, NYC
The Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
United States Department of State, Washington, DC
University of Arkansas, Little Rock, AK
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Joshua Rose, "Never Sleeping City", American Art Collector Magazine, February 2007
Ellen Lubell, "Watercolor Electricity" Soho Weekly News, Feb. 16,1975
John Canaday, "Talent Blooms" The New York Times, May 9, 1976
Malcolm Preston, Newsday, September 18, 1976
Gordon Brown, Arts Magazine, September 1976
April Kingsley, "Opulent Optimism" The Village Voice, Nov. 28. 1977
Peter Frank, "Pattern Painting" ARTnews, February 1978
Judith Tannenbaum, Arts Magazine, April 1978
Madeline Burnside, ARTnews, April 1978
Ellen Lubell, "Lush Complexities and Visual Indulgence" Soho Weekly News, Feb. 13, 1979
Peter Frank, The Village Voice, May 1, 1979
Harald Szeeman, "Pattern Paintings" DU Die Kunstzeitschrift, Zurich, June 1979
Carol Donnell-Kotrozo, "Women and Art" Arts Magazine, March 1981
Helen Harrison, The New York Times, April 11, 1981
Barbara Colin, "Pattern of a Painter" New York Arts Journal, Oct-Nov 1981
Charlotte Rubenstein, American Women Artists, Avon, 1982
Phyllis Braff, The New York Times, 1989
Editor, North Shore Today, Elite Magazine, 1996
Rene Rosen, Working Women's Calendar, Review, October, 1997
Helen Harrison, The New York Times, "Challenges to the Viewer's Imagination,"
Dec. 22,1996; "Confronting Social and Political Issues," April 12, 1998
James Kalm, NY ARTS, International Edition, April 2000
Maureen Mullarkey, The New York Sun,”The Last Time I Saw Cuba,” April 15, 2004
Steve Starger, Art New England, Feb/Mar 2005
GRANTS:
NEA, Videotex Project Grant, NYU 1979
America the Beautiful Fund Grant, "North Shore in the 1920's" Oral histories and photo exhibiton, 1980
CAPS Finalist, three times
Cow Parade 2000, NYC Parks Department (Leopard Cow)
Presidents Award, National Arts Club, 2001
PUBLICATIONS:
Editor, Central Hall Newsletter, articles, "Alternatives" and "Bordering on the Decorative" 1976-1978
Heresies, Women's Traditional Arts, The Politics of Aesthetics, Photo Essay "Grandma Sarah Bakes" "7 New Jersey Women," Winter 1978
Long Island Jewish World, Essay, “From Buba to Buba in Five Generations,” July 1993
Expressions, Poetry Quarterly, 1996, "Sweet Taste of Then"
New Press Literary Quarterly, Winter/Spring 1996, "Fire at Full Moon"
Chiron Review, Spring 1999, "A Short Story”
Black Bear Review, Fall/Winter 1999, “La Ciudad de Mexico, 1958” “Finding Venice” “Crossing”
The Bark, Number 8, Essay, “Return Trip, “ poem, “Song”
Small Pond Review, Winter /Spring 2000, “Colored Boys,” “Recipe” “Ben Bluestein Bites the Dust”
Aught, Volume 4, March 2000, “Fibonacci Dictionary”
Blueline, Volume XXI, 2000, “ Harvest”
Adironack Review, Vol 1. No 2 “Hawk” 2000
New York City Poetry.com, February, 2001 “Jardin D’Amour” “Birthday”
Editor, Stylist, Time/Life American Country Series, Rebus, Inc. NYC 1988-1994
Photo Editor, America A to Z, Reader's Digest Books, NYC 1996
Art Editor and contributor to FRIGATE, an on line literary publication,
Frigatezine, Poem “Short Bio of Alice Neel,” Review of the Alice Neel Show at the Whitney, 2000
"How to Make a Pigeon Pie " On line exhibition: Australian and New Zealand Artists
www.frigatezine.com
Connecticut River Review , Summer 2002 “The Weight of Loss”
Winter 2002 “Between Seasons”
Rhapsoidia. Winter 2006 “ First Lines Chapter by Chapter, On The Road With Jack Kerouac
Arabesques Journal 2006, “My One True Love” Je Suis Heureus Ici” “ Postcard”
R-KV-R-Y Quarterly Literary Magazine, Winter 2007, “My New Life”
Confrontation Magazine, Winter 2007, “In the Lateness of Life” “Searching for Space”
ByLine, July 2007, “Catalpa” November 2007“ Indian Winter”
Acorn Magazine, November 2007, “Frozen Pond”
Television Show, Artists of Long Island, Channel 40, Interview with Shirley Romaine, Appearances.1988,1991, 2001
WORK EXPERIENCE:
Visiting Artists in Long Island Schools,1975-1978
Gallery Director and Curator, North Shore Community Arts Center, Great Neck NY, 1978-82
Lecturer, Hofstra University, LI, NY
Co-teaching, Adelphi University, LI. NY “Saying, Seeing” Poetry and Arts
Artist in Residence, St. Mary's College, Notre Dame, IL, 1981.
Lecturer, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, NY 1981
Artist in Residence, Bowling Green State College, Bowling Green, OH, 1986
Editor, Stylist, Rebus Inc. 1987-1994
Photo Editor, Reader's Digest Books 1995-96
Faculty Tutor, Empire State College, Old Westbury, NY, 1977-present
MEMBERSHIPS
College Art Association
Poetry Society of America
The National Arts Club
Artists’ Fellowship, Inc. 2005
Women Writing Women’s Lives
Represented by The George Billis Gallery
555 West 25 Street, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10001
phone: 212-645-2621
fax : 212-645-2397
gallery@georgebillis.com
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