Amy Cohen Banker

Beauty in Paint
 Beauty in Paint

Amy Cohen Banker

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Contents
FROM AMERICAAMY COHEN BANKER,A TRIUMPH
OF LINES AND COLORS. . . . . . 1

WHIMS OF AUTHOR.AMY COHEN BANKER,A

PAINTING BETWEEN LIGHT, FORM AND
COLOR. . . . . . . . . . 5

Elgin Series. . . . . . . .16

Elysian Series. . . . . . . 27

BIOGRAPHY/EXHIBITIONS. . . . .39
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FROM AMERICA
AMY COHEN BANKER,
A TRIUMPH OF LINES AND COLORS

In Amy Cohen Banker the extraordinary beauty of the nature and the unusual
entries (passages) of the imaginary create a new bridge of connection between
New York and Western Europe in the art of XXI century.
In the art works of Amy the new pictorial representations of the classical mythology are born
from the rapid movements of the color that it is always load of feeling and almost narrative in
its impact with the senses, as it happens in the paintings entitled “Apollo” and “Orpheus and
Eurydice”, where the sense of the movement is amplified by the line.

In the works of Amy is very strong the contact between the American Art and the European
Culture. This cultural fusion is especially recognizable in the treatment of the themes con-
nected to the classical myths, with a look to the ancient epoch and the pagan iconografies of
the Art Greek-Roman.

Instead, the employment of the noisy color cheerful and positive is typically American.

This is a color that tells and it tells him through a soft interlacement of oscillating lines that lift
him in the poetry of the painting or that they go down in the lightest thoughts, that stop on
the island of the feeling or surrounds the shore of the memoirs, lines that lines that dance or
they jump on the roads ever crossed, lines that tremble under the strong throw of the sketch
as uneasy trajectories of the mind.

This game of lines is, in reality, a colossal theater of the communication magistrally realized
by the famous American painter Amy Cohen Banker that gives emphasis to the histories of
the pictorial story through the maximum expression of the color, a color that trionfa triumphs
opening a window of emotions to whom wants to listen the sweet and passionate song of the
contemporary art.

In the art of Amy happies sounds and vibrations of the brush describe the whole music of the
cosmos: the magic of the nature is in every fragment of color, in every fantastic image. The
nature painted by Amy has a great sense of conscience and deep sensibility through a free
and light pictorial search.

The majority of the blue color in some pictures of Amy underlines the cosmic and philosophi-


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cal meaning of her painting. The examples are the paintings “Hercules”, “Little Revolution”,
“Boundaries” e “Reverie”. In fact the “Blues” series represents the goal of this philosophical
search. Red stains underline the pictorial ability of Amy in “Olivia’s Garden” and “Twelfth Night”.

The tones of the color are a hymn to the life and the love, a spring of the spiritual existence;
the fast movements of the lines are a symbol of struggle against the evil, against the winter of
the heart and the obstacles of the life.

Historical, fantastic, theatrical and musical characters, heroes of the past or the present, relive
through the artistic talent of Amy with stylistic novelty, without any search of physiognomy
that today could be too much academic.

Mysterious female or masculine figures appear on the surface from enigmatic environments,
underlining the importance of the painted character. It’s the example of “Lucretia” realized
with few evocative lines but of great optic effect or of “Alice Coltrane” with the face that is born
from an opaque atmosphere.

The decomposition of the volumes becomes particularly evident in the paintings realized in
the 2004 as “Jacob Wrestles the Angels” or “Opera House”. In these works the painting of Amy is
full of geometric idylls and of colored scannings.

Amy shows to possess only not great artistic abilities for her courage of abstraction and for
that splendid wild of the color what surprises the observer. Amy surprises above all for her
cloths full of numerous quotations literary and of unexpected cultural references that travel
without any geographical border, without any cultural prejudice. Her language is cultured
and aware, an anthropological language full of intellectual rivisitazioni, that is the fruit of the
inextinguishable thirst of knowledge that lives the mind of Amy Cohen Banker.

Sabrina Falzone

Art Critic and Historian

www.sabrinafalzone.info

 
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WHIMS OF AUTHOR.
AMY COHEN BANKER,
A PAINTING BETWEEN
LIGHT, FORM AND COLOR
Art Critical Text

Recently on the Italian artistic scene an original American artist is affirming,

skilled in to create dream atmospheres. Her name is Amy Cohen Banker and she
is not only a painter. Amy is an eclectic woman, endowed with great creative-
ness, that loves the art in all artistic expressions: from the photo to the sketch,
from the sculpture to the painting, from the installation to the watercolor and
even the poetry and the literature.
Her paintings are little hidden worlds that have a universal interest for the human history
through a new language and a “capricious” style. Whims of author are these expressions of line
of Amy, autonomous and frantic in their rebellious movements. Her paintings are suspended
between reality and imagination, between abstraction and figuration and they transport
symbolic colors on the dream dimension.

From “Sleeping Song” a clean, clear and bright painting emerges. The white brushstrokes
sometimes break the stains of color on the pictorial surface, creating some magnificent sourc-
es of light, where the eye stops for a long time and in depth to the search of a metaphysical
entity.

The art work “Darkness Falls” provokes strong emotions for the sure and trembling line.
The beauty of the white splendidly dominates the cloth hiding the green and brown color.
This painting is realized with the tones sudden and not gradual. Here we feel the expressive
strength of Amy Cohen Banker and her artistic passion.

Also the pictorial language of the artist American is eclectic and this very articulated style
is seen in “Aphrodite”, where the precious subject flies toward the universal harmony of the
color.

Prof. Salvatore Recco

 
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Elgin Series

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Elgin Series Apollo - Helios Elgin Series Artemis - Semele

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Elgin Series Hephaestus Elgin Series Hercules

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Elgin Series Orpheus & Eurydice 1 Elgin Series Orpheus & Eurydice 2
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Elgin Series Orpheus & Eurydice 3 Elgin Series Persephone (Hectate)

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Elysian Series

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Elysian Series Aphrodite Elysian Series Away with Me

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Elysian Series Darkness Falls

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Elgin Series Glow (Detail)
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Elysian Series Little Revolution Elgin Series Only Sleeping

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Elysian Series River Elgin Series Sleeping Song

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Elysian Series Throw Me to the Sky Elgin Series Waiting (Detail)

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AMY COHEN BANKER

BIOGRAPHY/EXHIBITIONS
www.amycohenbanker.com
e-mail: amycohenbanker@earthlink.net
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BIOGRAPHY/EXHIBITIONS

Amy Banker at the Studio Amy Banker at the Studio Artforum - September 2005

AMY COHEN BANKER

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
www.amycohenbanker.com e-mail: amycohenbanker@earthlink.net
2008 Schaefer Landing Condominium, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, 10/08
212-722-4933

‘Finding Beauty’, two persons show, the Common Ground Gallery, sponsored by the World Monuments Fund,
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
NYC, NY
2008 Schaefer Landing Condominium, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, 10/08
Recent Paintings, JWS, Great Barrington , Solo Exhibition from Aug. – Sept., 2008
‘Finding Beauty', two persons show, the Common Ground Gallery, sponsored by the World Monuments Fund,
Private Roads, Prophetic Turns”, small works exhibition, Le Petit Musee, Housatonic , MA
NYC, NY
Recent Paintings, JWS, Great Barrington , Solo Exhibition from Aug. – Sept., 2008
Private
Private Solo exhibition
Roads, (JanTurns",
Prophetic 08 – ongoing), Galeexhibition,
small works Group, NYCLe Petit Musee, Housatonic , MA
Private Solo exhibition (Jan 08 – ongoing), Gale Group, NYC
Copacetic
Copacetic Pictures,
Pictures,Dumbo,
Dumbo,NYC
NYC(Jan 0808
(Jan - ongoing)
- ongoing)
Private exhibition,
Private exhibition,Hard
HardWorking
WorkingMovies,
Movies,Dumbo,
Dumbo, NYC
NYC (Jan
(Jan 08-ongoing)
08-ongoing)
2007
2007Monterey
MontereyPop
Popinspired
inspiredportraits
portraits(Kevin Kushel,
(Kevin Ovoworks
Kushel, curators)
Ovoworks BillyBilly
curators) Name and and
Name Warhol Factory,
Warhol Factory,
L'Univerre Gallery, 20 rue des Coutures Saint Gervais Paris, France .
L’Univerre
Janos GatGallery,
Gallery,20Amy
rue des Coutures
Banker Now, Saint Gervais from
Inspirations Paris,Poetry
France of
. Harrison, Mandelstam, Shakespeare, Dante,
Stevens, Jeffers. Feb 6 - Mar 3. - The Metaphor from Poetry to Paint.
Janos Gat Gallery, Amy Banker Now, Inspirations from Poetry of Harrison, Mandelstam, Shakespeare, Dante,
Great Barrington Berkshire Coop, May - June, 2007, Years Around Here
Stevens, Jeffers.Quebec
Gallery Gora, Feb 6 - ,Mar 3. - TheAmy
Montreal, Metaphor from
Banker Poetry
Now, to Paint. from Poetry of Harrison, Mandelstam,
Inspirations
Shakespeare, Dante, Stevens, Jeffers. The Metaphor from Poetry to Paint. June 19 to July 7, 2007 .
Great Barrington Berkshire Coop, May - June, 2007, Years Around Here
2006 Spring Joy, CVB Space, NYC; D'Ars Foundation, Milan , Italy ; Recent Drawings and Watercolors, National
Gallery Gora, Quebec , Montreal, Amy Banker Now, Inspirations from Poetry of Harrison, Mandelstam,
Association of Women Artists Gallery, NYC
Shakespeare, Dante, Stevens, Jeffers. The Metaphor from Poetry to Paint. June 19 to July 7, 2007 .
2005 The Relicts Multi-Media Project, CVB Space, NYC; The Lady Who Felt the Earth, Eickholt Gallery, NYC;
2006 Spring Joy, CVBLobby
Dag Hammarskjold Space,Gallery,
NYC; D’Ars Foundation,
NYC; Milan , Italy
Recent Paintings, CVB; Recent
Space,Drawings
NYC and Watercolors, National
Association
2004 D'Ars of Women Artists
Foundation, MilanGallery,
, Italy NYC
; Ezaire Gallery, NYC; Cadena Studios, NYC
2005
2003The Relicts
Ezaire Multi-Media
Gallery, NYC; LaProject,
Vuelta,CVB Space,
Long NYC;
Island The, Lady
City NY ; Who Felt the Earth,
Metropolitan OperaEickholt Gallery,
House Art NYC;
Gallery , NYC
Dag
2002Hammarskjold Lobby Gallery,
J. Mavec & Company, NYC;NYC;EzaireRecent Paintings,
Gallery, CVB Space,
NYC; Howland ArtNYC
Center, Beacon, NY; La Vuelta, Long Island
City, NY
2004 D’Ars Foundation, Milan , Italy ; Ezaire Gallery, NYC; Cadena Studios, NYC
2003
2001Ezaire
Juicy Gallery, NYC;, La
Art Gallery Vuelta,NY;
Beacon, LongBroome
Island City , NYArt
Street ; Metropolitan Opera House Art Gallery , NYC
Gallery , NYC

2002
2000J.Kuwait
Mavec Art
& Company,
Museum,NYC; Ezaire
Kuwait; SoGallery, NYC; Howland
Hyun Gallery; Art Center,
NYC; Roslyn GrantBeacon, NY;NYC;
Gallery, La Vuelta, Long Island
Francis Goodwin Gallery, NYC; Loren Ellis Gallery, NYC; Kaminsky Gallery, Berlin, Germany
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1999 Plaza Exchange, NYC; National Arts Club. NYC
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City, NY
2001 Juicy Art Gallery , Beacon, NY; Broome Street Art Gallery , NYC
2000 Kuwait Art Museum, Kuwait; So Hyun Gallery; NYC; Roslyn Grant Gallery, NYC;
Francis Goodwin Gallery, NYC; Loren Ellis Gallery, NYC; Kaminsky Gallery, Berlin, Germany
1999 Plaza Exchange, NYC; National Arts Club. NYC
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1998 Janos Gat Gallery, NYC; Loren Ellis Gallery , NYC
1997 Trustees Hall, Cornell University , Ithaca , NY
1995 Gubala Fine Art Gallery . NYC; Stephen Gang Gallery, NYC; Cadena Studios, NYC
1993 Gubala Fine Art Gallery , NYC
1975 Residential College for the Arts, Cornell University , Ithaca , NY
1974 Residential College for the Arts, Cornell University , Ithaca , NY
1973 Residential College for the Arts, Cornell University , Ithaca , NY
1972 Residential College for the Arts, Cornell University , Ithaca , NY
1971 Rockland County Historical Society, New City, NY; Finkelstein Memorial Library, Spring Valley, NY

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2008 Femminili Presenze, Intntl.Exhibition of Cont. Art,Turin, Italy, Sala Artigiando nelliate “The Woman”
curated by Sabrina Falzone Mostre
Rumorie Silenzi Dell’Anima, Turin, Italy, Jolly Hotel Ligure, both 09/08 “The Soul” curated by Sabrina Falzone
Mostre
Naturae Sentimento, Messina, Italy, Palazzo Della Provincia, Salone deglispecchi, “The Nature” curated by
Sabrina Falzone Mostre
Palm Award, Leipzig,Germany, Art Domain Gallery
International Exhibition of Contemporary Art, L’Introd Dei Sogni, Culturale Laarca dei Folli. atalier
Annunzia, Cupra, Marittima, “Dream” (curated by Sabrina Mostre
Profiles Design and Decorating Gallery, New York City, ongoing representation from 08/08 on.
Lichtenstein Art Center, Pittsfield,MA, group show, Jewish Modern Art, 09/09
Mithologus Gallery(Portugal) show for Chinese Cultural Department, Beijing,China, 8/08-10/08
JWS Art Supply Store,8/08-0/9/08, solo show,Great Barrington,MASS
Art and Chocolates, Lenox,MA, group show with 12 pieces
International Art Media “OBjects of Sleep” show curated by Steffania Carrozini, 9/08-10/08, Beijing,China.
Gideon Stein Gallery, Southampton
International Exhibition of Contemporary Art, “L’EFFIGIE DELLA MUSICA”, (THE IMAGE OF MUSIC), Genoa,
Palace Spinola di San Luca (Ars Habitat), Genoa (GE) Italy.
New Haven Arts Gallery, multi-media presentation, Bronx, NY
Bowery Poets Club, multi-media presentation, NYC, NY.
Digital Art Expo International, Los Angeles, CA
Guild Hall Selected Members, Southampton, NYC
“Biography of Traveler”, Primo Piano Livingallery, Arte Contemporanea, Lecce, ITALY
“EVA’S SECRET”, Primo Piano Livingallery, Arte Contemporanea, Lecce, ITALY

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The Sonic Self, Audio Video Immersions, 3 person collaboration multimedia presentation;
‘Benign and Terrifying Eternity’, Chelsea Art Museum, NYC, NY
Contemporary Art Center, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Small Works Show,
Vienna, Austria
Red Bank, New Jersey, Asher Neiman gallery group show, March 2008.
Gallery RFD, Classicism, Modernism and Beyond Lasting Traditions and Current Trends in Painting, Swainsboro,
GA Urban identity - Video Art & Architecture event, Monkeytown, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY Massive Media -
Video Art & Architecture, Winter Music Conference, Area 57 Studios, Miami, Florida Americas Museum, “Woman
in the Arts”. Exhibition by women artists celebrating the International Women Month, Miami, Fl. International
exhibition organized by CRISOLART GALLERIES, Barcelona, Spain. ARTsMODERNE Gallery, Housatonic, MA
Group Exhibition, Evelyn Luppi Gallery, Rhode Island
Group Show Theatre For The New City
Group Show NOHO Art Walk
Temple Emanu - El Art Fair
Indiana New Media & Video Exhibition, Indiana University Kokomo Art Gallery, Indiana
2007 Kasia Kay Art, Chicago, IL; HPGRP Gallery, NYC; Barcelona Museum, Film Festival, Barcelona, Spain; The
London Jewish Museum of Art, London, UK; Tenth Annual New Marlborough Artists Show, Thee Meeting
House/New Marlborough Village Association, Marlborough, MA; Adelphi University, Long Island, “Personal
Totems - About, By, For and Of Woman Of Color”. Faith Ringgold, National Association of Woman Artists, Joan
Greenfield curator; In The Wake of Warhol - CVB Space - Group Exhibition including Billy Name, Kevin Kushel,
Amy Cohen Banker and Cynthia von Buhler as curators; University of Pennsylvania, Pa, International Video and
Multimedia Group Exhibition; Biennale Firenza; Blue Hill Gallery, Pearl River; Factory Craze Gershwin Hotel,
NYC, NY.
2006 The London Jewish Museum of Art, London, UK; Ninth Annual New Marlborough Artists Show, Thee
Meeting House/New Marlborough Village Association, Marlborough, MA; Bridges Over Cultures; The Masks
Show, Reflections of the Skin, Venezuelan Consulate Gallery, NYC; The Circus, CVB Space, NYC; The Stilled
Life, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY; Women and Spirituality, The Interchurch Center, NYC; Small Works, The
Karpeles Library Museum, Newburgh, NY; Small Works, Port of Call Gallery, Warwick, NY; Large Works, Made
in U.S.A, Blue Hill Gallery, Pearl River; Annual Oakes Park Art Exhibition, Old Tappan, NJ; Ryan Chelsea
Clinton Medical Center, NYC; Tribes Gallery, NYC; Temporary Cities, Cultural Communications Center, Art
Expo, Klaipeda, Lithuania; The Big Arts & Music Festival, Jersey City, NJ.
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2005 AAF Contemporary Art Fair, AWOL Gallery, NYC; Square Foot Show, Art Gotham, NYC; Small Works,
Robert Miller Gallery, NYC; Random Moments, Eickholt Gallery, NYC; The Spirit of the Moment, U Gallery,
NYC; Spring Preview, CVB Space, NYC
2004 The Sky’s the Limit, The Blue Sky Emerging Arts, NY; Ben Uri’s International Competition, The London
Jewish Museum of Art, London, UK; Washington County Museum, of Fine Arts, Hagerstown, MD; The Holocaust
museum, Washington, DC; Theatre for the New City, NYC; The Ultra Violet Multi Art Project, NJCU, Jersey City,
NJ; N.Y.C. Artists Inc. Traveling Exhibitions, Bern, Switzerland; MGCVB Space, NYC; Berkshire Art Center,
Pittsfield, MA; Noho Community Art Walk, NYC
2003 Night of 1,000 Drawings, Artist’s Space, NYC, Exit Art, NYC; N.Y.C. Artists Inc. Traveling Exhibition,

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Geneva, Switzerland; Monique Goldstrom Gallery, NYC;
MGCVB Space, New York; The Sonic Self, Chelsea Art Museum, NYC; Geometric Show and Works on Paper,
William Whipple Art Gallery, University of Southern Minnesota, Marshall, MN; Noho Community Art Walk, NYC
2002 Simple Pleasures, Dingle, Ireland; Re: Duchamp, Venice, Italy; Metropolitan Opera House Gallery, NYC;
Photo District Gallery, NYC; The Global Response 9/11, Exit Art, NYC; Monique Goldstrom Gallery, New York;
Salander O’Reilly, NYC; Small Works, United Nations Art Gallery, NYC, The Madison Avenue Art Walk, NYC
2001 White Box Gallery, NYC; Cedar Bar, NYC; Empty Set, Pittsfield, MA; New Marlboro Art Center, Southfield,
MA; National Association of Woman Artists, NYC 2000 Baltimore Convention Center, Baltimore, MD; Centrum
Art Center, Port Townsend, Washington; National Association of Woman Artists, NYC
1999 30 Artist Alumni-Best for 30 years, Art Student’s League, NYC; National Association of Woman Artists,
NYC
1998 Waltech Gallery, JCC, Palisades, NJ; Old Church Cultural Center School of Art, Morristown, NJ; National
Association of Woman Artists, NYC
1997 Arthur Ross Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; Gallery Alexis, Budapest, Hungary;
Richard Anderson Gallery; New Marlboro Art Center, Southfield, MA
1996 Staff Exhibition, Museum of Modern Art, NYC; Cork Gallery, Lincoln Center, NYC; Andrus Gallery,
Carnegie Hall, NYC; Tibetan Art Museum of Staten Island. NY; Chuck Levitan Gallery, NYC
1995 Isabel O’Neill School & Foundation, Sotheby’s, NYC; Small Works, NYU Galleries, NYC; West Beth Gallery,
NYC; IMAJ, NYC; White Columns, NYC; Lobby Gallery, Deutsche Bank Building, NYC; National Arts Club
Roundtable Exhibitions, NYC; Ceres Art Gallery for Women, NYC; Berkshire Art Center, Pittsfield, MA
1994 Isabel O’Neill School & Foundation, Sotheby’s, NYC; Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC; National
Academy of Design, NYC; West Side Art Coalition, NYC
1993 Lever House Lobby Gallery, NYC; White Columns, NYC
1992 Cork Gallery, Lincoln Center, NYC; Brooke Alexander Gallery, NYC; Dieu Donne, NYC; Staff Exhibition,
Museum of Modern Art, NYC; Milton Weil Gallery, 92nd Street Y, NYC; Denise Bibro Gallery, NYC

Art Fairs
2008 Las Vegas Art Fair, represented by AmericasMuseum,Miami,Florida, “Small Is Beautiful”
2007 Tompkins Square , Art Around The Park, NYC; HOWL Video Festival, NYC
2005 Armory Show, NY Arts Magazine Presentation, NYC; AAF Contemporary Art Fair, AWOL Gallery, NYC

Collections
Ben Uri, The London Jewish Museum of Art , London , UK
University of Southern Minnesota, Marshall, MN
Queensborough Community College, Queens, NY
University of Indiana, Sculpture Park, Bloomington, IN
Roosevelt Hospital, Oncology Department, NYC
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Urban Group Marketing, NYC
Warner Brothers, NYC
Fox Studios, NYC

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Cooper Industries, TX
Creative Exchange Agency, NYC
Stone Age Murals, Jersey City, NJ
Yeshiva of Great Neck, Long Island, NY
H and M Corporation, NYC
Sciame Corporation, NYC
Israel Humanitarian Foundation for the Holocaust Museum, NY
Membership College Art Association, NYC
Women’s Art Archives Research Council
Copacetic Pictures
Hard Working Movies
Aperture
CORO
Urban Groove

Awards and honors

Mozart Small Works Show, Vienna , Austria Goya Small Works Show, Barcelona, Spain
Member, New York Academy of Science
Cornell Women’s Leadership Council
International Fulbright Scholarship Committee
Member, Board of Directors, The Educational Alliance, Arts & Humanities
National Arts Club
National Association of Women Artists
Women In The Arts
College Women of Japan
Who’s Who in Executives and Businesses, Artists and Designers International
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Gold Record of Achievement Award, International Biographical Institute.
College Art Association Member

Related work experience

Art Investors, US
Lynne Dunham, Artrentandlease.com
Interviewed by Judith Rosley on WBCR-LP 97.7 radio
Member at Large Board of Directors Cornell University , Upstate NY and MA.
Hall of Science, Queens , New York Association Curator, Art Meets Science
Entrepreneurship@Cornell, Cornell University , Ithaca , NY
Book Cover for Larissa Shmailo Spring 2008 Book - ‘For way to prevent suicide’.
Mad Hatters Review, illustration for M. E. Parker, Penn Kemp & Chris Meloche Poetry.
National Association of Woman Artists, Gallery Director

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National Association of Woman Artists, Exhibition Committee Member
The Dead Life, Project Coordinator for Ovo Works, Inc. and Ivy Nicholson
The Ultra Violet Arts Project Coordinator
Coordinator for Barbara Ingber, Artist’s Museum of NYC
Lectures, Princeton University Art Museum
Museum of Modern Art, Membership and Education Departments
Harvard Program Development on Aesthetic Thinking ,with Project Zero
Program Development; Lincoln Center
Scholarship Committee for the Visually Handicapped College Women of Japan
Touch Tours, Art for the Blind ,Museum of Modern Art
Whitney Museum, Director’s Council Member
Assistant to Knox Martin (teaching and research collaborator) ,painting assistant
Theatre set designs at The Medicine Show Theatre
Set design, La Mama Theatre Company
Coordinator for 250 volunteers and 100 international members and Japanese artists located in Japan

Education
Cornell University, B.S.; MS. I.L.R.
National Academy of Design
New York University
New School of Social Research
Parsons School of Design
Art Students’ League
University of Pennsylvania
Temple University
Study in Japan, Indonesia, Thailand, Italy, France, Spain, and Ireland
Isabel O’Neill School & Foundation

ARTIST STATEMENT
I work in a variety of mediums: acrylic, oil, pastels, aquarelle, oil sticks, varnishes, glazes, finishing and
surface techniques. I explore the basic issues of opacity, color, form, depth, obfuscation and revelation in life,
language and in art. I cannot help but be influenced by philosophy, poetry, literature, psychological symbolism,
fairy tales, music, myths, conceits, and metaphors, especially of strong feminist models: women’s conflicting
roles in a changing time throughout the centuries.
I am using background in design, two and three dimensional techniques and aesthetics. My background is
integrated with my writing, psychology, my early childhood and life experiences evolving as a woman and
mother combining international study to explore these issues in an organized but abstract way. I tend to
reinvent the same themes, work from a structure and then proceed by distressing, demolishing, recreating and
conserving. My major themes are inner restoration and survival, challenging always reality vs. myth.

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