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Statement of Work
I focus on time, memory and nature. My work concerns the ways people collect, preserve and remember the quotidian aspects of life as well as life changing events. I am especially interested in the passage of time in nature and focus on how we try to preserve the memory of nature’s fleeting moments of beauty.
As a way to cope with my horror, overwhelming sadness and urge to "do something" after the tragedy of September 11, I performed a healing ritual. Starting September 18, every Tuesday, the anniversary of the attack, I bought a bunch of white roses.
While I peeled off 11 petals from 9 roses, I sang or hummed the hymns, “Amazing Grace" and "Jerusalem.” Then I placed the petals between the pages of the New York city phone book to dry. I continued this each week for many months until I had accumulated enough petals for every victim of the World Trade Center attack. These were preserved, layered in paper towels, housed in shoe boxes, waiting to be made into a memorial.
Now, carefully and reverently coated with acrylic and stamped with numbers, the petals represent the unrecovered bodies of those lost.
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Selected Exhibitions:
2014
Therese A. Maloney Art Gallery: “A Moveable Feast: Art, Food and Culture”
curated by Virginia Fabbri Butera & Raúl Villarreal; College of Saint Elizabeth, Morristown, NJ
Wave Hill: “Prickly, Tender and Steamy: Artists in the Hothouse,”
curated by Jennifer McGregor & Gabriel de Guzman; Bronx, NY
Westbeth Gallery: “Time Frames Marking Time,” curated by Barbara Lubliner & Elisa Decker; NY, NY
Davis Orton Gallery: “Linda Stillman: Multiflora;” Hudson, NY (solo)
2013
Bronx Arts Alliance: “We are Still Here: Art IN the Bronx;” curated by Jeanine Alfieri;
Andrew Freedman Home; Bronx, NY
Curate NYC 2013; online exhibition, curated by Florence Neal
2012
Brooklyn Museum, “Herstory Inventory,” Ulrike Müller’s collaborative drawing project;
part of Raw/Cooked, organized by Eugenie Tsai; Brooklyn, NY
also shown at Kunsthaus Bregenz; Bregenz, Austria
Islip Art Museum: “The Garbage Barge Revisited: Art from Dross,” curated by Karen Shaw; Islip, NY
The Gallery at R&F: “From the Garden – Flowers as Pigment,” curated by Laura Moriarty;
Kingston, NY (solo)
Incubator Space at the Hampden Gallery, University of Massachusetts: “Postcards from Home,”
curated by Anne LaPrade; Amherst, MA (two-person collaboration)
The Arts Club of Chicago: “Figures and Grounds: Approaches to Abstraction,” curated by Anne Rorimer;
Chicago, IL (catalog)
Hunter College Art Gallery: “Notations: Under the Influence of John Cage,” curated by Joachim Pissarro
with Bibi Calderaro, Julio Grinblatt & Michelle Yun; New York, NY; (catalog)
Maloney Art Gallery, College of Saint Elizabeth: “Abstract Universe,”curated by Virginia Fabbri Butera;
Morristown, NJ
2011
Hampden Gallery, University of Massachusetts: “A Novel Idea,” curated by Anne LaPrade & Sally Curcio Amherst, MA (catalog)
Penn State Berks: “9-11 Memorial Exhibition,” curated by Marilyn Fox; Reading, PA (catalog)
Visual Arts Center of New Jersey: “Jersey Bounce,” curated by Mary Birmingham; Summit, NJ
Alliance Gallery at DVAA: “Just Air,” curated by Karen Bell & Dale Emmart; Narrowsburg, NY
Curate NYC 2011, online exhibition, curated by Kevin Stayton
“Here, There and Everywhere: The Art of Collaboration,” sponsored by the Transcultural Exchange,
juried by Mary Sherman; Boston, MA and New York, NY (catalog)
New Century Artists Gallery: “Hidden Cities,” juried by Lisa Phillips, New York, NY (catalog)
2010
The Wassaic Project Summer Festival, curated by Eve Biddle, et al; Wassaic, NY
Hunterdon Art Museum: “Botanica,” curated by Mary Birmingham; Clinton, NJ
Geoffrey Young Gallery: “Singles;” Great Barrington, MA
NY Public Library, Mid-Manhattan Branch: Art Wall on Third: “Found New York,”
curated by Arezoo Moseni; New York, NY (solo)
Thompson Gallery at Cambridge School of Weston: “Fuzzy Logic, Contemporary Painting after a
Century of Abstract Art 3/3,” curated by Todd Bartel;Weston, MA
Gallery at the Brooklyn Arts Council: “Glitch Generation,” curated by Michele Jaslow &
Spring Hofeldt; Brooklyn, NY
Philoctetes Center Gallery: “A Matter of Time,” curated by Olga Ast & Hallie Cohen; New York, NY
2009
Mills Gallery at Boston Center for the Arts: “Drawings that Work, 21st Drawing Show,”
curated by Andrew Stein Raftery; Boston, MA
Grandon Art Gallery: “Twitter 140,” curated by Sheree Rensel; Flagstaff, AZ
Atlantic Gallery: “Traffic,” curated by Pamela Talese; New York, NY
2008
NEXT Gallery at Metropolitan College of NY: “Art & Alchemy,” curated by Barbara Lubliner;
New York, NY
Miller Block Gallery: “Campaign Buttons 2008: Artists Speak Out!” Boston, MA
OK Harris Gallery: “No Chromophobia,” curated by Richard Witter & Suzanne Kreps; New York, NY
Thompson Gallery at The Cambridge School of Weston: “Sublime Climate: Addressing Global
Warming/Symbiosis: Redefining Nature,” curated by Todd Bartel; Weston, MA
Andrea Meislin Gallery: “It’s Gouache and Gouache Only,” curated by Geoffrey Young; New York, NY
2007
Charles Michael Gallery: “Daily Paintings;” Darien, CT
2006
Atlantic Gallery: “Trash,” invitational exhibition; New York, NY
Art at First Presbyterian Church: “Color,” curated by Barbara Sherman; New York, NY
2005
Columbia County Council on the Arts’ ArtsWalk: “Encounters with Sculpture,” Hudson, NY
2004
The Arsenal Gallery: “Wreath Show,” juried exhibition; New York, NY
Paul Mellon Art Gallery, Choate Rosemary Hall School: “Looking In/Looking Out,”
curated by Ellen Pliskin; Wallingford, CT
New Marlborough Village Association Art Gallery: “Stripes,” invitational group exhibition;
New Marlborough, MA
T.H. Wood Art Gallery, Vermont College: “Open Spectrum,” juried exhibition; Montpelier, VT
Hudson Opera House, Columbia County Council on the Arts: “2004 Annual Juried Art Show;”
Hudson, NY
2003
The Spencertown Academy Gallery: Two-person juried exhibition; Spencertown, NY
Atlantic Gallery: “Landscape,” invitational exhibition; New York, NY
A.I.R. Gallery: “Generations III: A Survey of Women Artists;” New York, NY
80 Washington Square East Gallery, NYU: “25th Small Works,” juried exhibition; New York, NY
2001
Carrie Haddad Gallery, Columbia County Council on the Arts: “2001 Annual Juried Art Show;
Hudson, NY
80 Washington Square East Gallery, NYU: “Small Works,” juried exhibition; New York, NY
Albany Center Galleries: “Book/Ends,” juried exhibition; Albany, NY
Silvermine Guild Arts Center: “51st Annual Art of the Northeast USA,” juried exhibition;
New Canaan, CT
2000
Carrie Haddad Gallery, Columbia County Council on the Arts: “2000 Annual Juried Art Show;”
Hudson, NY
1999
Art Students League: Group exhibition; New York, NY (award)
Selected Fellowships, Residencies,Talks:
Wave Hill Winter Workshop, residency, 2013
Panel & Gallery talk at The Arts Club of Chicago; 2012
New York Foundation for the Arts MARK program, 2011
Dialogue with Geoffrey Young, Mid-Manhattan branch of NY Public Library; 2010
Fellowship/residency at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts; 2010
Gallery Talk at the Thompson Gallery at The Cambridge School of Weston; 2008
Lecture: “Stripes in Art” at University of Maine, Orano, ME; 2004
Selected Bibliography:
Ulrike Muller, “Herstory Inventory,” Dancing Foxes Press, 2014
Martha Schwendener, “Last Chance: Collaborative and Solo, With a Certain Feminist Bent;
The New York Times, September 7, 2012
Anne Rorimer, “Figures and Grounds: Approaches to Abstraction,” exhibition catalog, 2012
Jennifer Wolf, “Notations: The Cage Effect Today,” exhibition catalog, 2012
Education:
Vermont College of Fine Arts: MFA in Visual Art
Art Students League
School of Visual Arts: graduate from 3-year program
University of Pennsylvania: BA