Artist Statement
I work with imagery, which utilizes the intensity of nature as a motif for spiritual and psychological being. The organic inferences evolved from my experience cultivating a garden in upstate New York. I start with a form but the form is no more or less important than the feeling that surrounds it and the deeper and more enduring intangible that cradles that feeling.
The source of a piece is a convergence of linked relationships. It is the still and demanding afternoon light on the lower garden and the awkward quiet movement of holding on and letting go that love requires. The beginnings of a painting are an amalgam of memories, a shaft of light, a shadow, a tender remembrance of the day. I gather and return to these moments of emotional impact.
Once something is laid down, a stratum of building begins through adjusting a color tone or an edge, again and again. Sometimes the traces remain as a pentimento. I work the surface with various implements and mediums to create a physical density and luminosity.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2010 Shala Studio, New York, NY, In Memory
2009 Pearson Art Gallery, White Plains, NY, AIB Exhibition
JLA Tribeca, New York, NY, Streetscapes, Landscapes, Still Lives
Cheryl Pelavin Fine Arts, New York, New York, Friends
2008 Lincoln Hospital Exhibition Space, Bronx, NY, IMPARTING
Train Station Gallery, West Stockbridge, MA, Group Show
Bowman Bloom, New York, New York
2007 Cheryl Pelavin Gallery, NYC
Benefit for Art in a Box, Artists for Aids Orphans and Children at Risk
Train Station Gallery, West Stockbridge, MA, Group Show
2005 Train Station Gallery, West Stockbridge, MA, Group Show
2004 New York Mercantile Exchange, NYC, On Your Marks
Ansonia Pharmacy, NYC, Window Show
The Painting Center, NYC, Recent Paintings
2003 Train Station Gallery, West Stockbridge, MA, Group Show
2002 Gallery One Twenty Eight, NYC, Embodying Light
Train Station Gallery, West Stockbridge, MA, Group Show
New Century Gallery, NYC, Artist at Work
2000 Ute Stebich Gallery, Lenox, MA, Group Show
Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY, Group Show
1999 The Gallery at 1 East 53, NYC, Artists Self-portraits
1998 The Gallery at 1 East 53, NYC, Smallworks,
curated by Lydia Yee, The Bronx Museum of Art
College Misericordia, Dallas, PA, The Persistence of Place
1997 Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus, Brooklyn, NY,
Landscape, Vision, and Spirit
The Gallery at 1 East 53, NYC, Small Works curated by Patterson Sims
The Painting Center, NYC,
Landscape A survey of contemporary painting using landscape imagery
1996 Public Securities Association, NYC, Celebrating Individual Sensibility
National Arts Club, NYC, Paintings
Henry Street Settlement Abrons Art Center, NYC
Fresh A.I.R. At 20
1995 The Painting Center, NYC, Recent Prints
Art Initiatives, NYC, The Field of Vision
Synchronicity Space, NYC, Sixth Annual Juried Painting Exhibition
1994 Art Initiatives, NYC, Mass Exposure
The Painting Center, NYC, Painters Painting
1993 Language Enterprise, NYC,
Solo Exhibition, Paintings and Works on Paper
1992 Artists Space, NYC, Artists from the Studio in a School
1991 Artist Space, NYC, Small Works
1990 Bowery Gallery, NYC, Small Works Invitational
1990 Sotheby’s, NYC, The Friends of the Public Schools Exhibition
1989 Henry Street Settlement Abrons Art Center, NYC, Confluences
1987 22 Wooster Gallery, NYC, Powerful Little Stuff
On Line Gallery
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Publications and Catalogues
1996 Celebrating Individual Sensibility by Martica Sawin
Paintings by Martica Sawin
1995 The Fleeting Eternal by Stephen Sartarelli
Residencies
1992-93 Cummington Community of the Arts, Cummington, MA,
1987-89 Henry Street Settlement Abrons Art Center, NYC
Selected Private/ Public Collections
Mr. Peter S. Gould, NYC
Koloman Handler Inc., Congers, NY
Education and Biography
1971-73 University of South Florida, Tampa, FLA
1975 Florida State University, Tallahassee, FLA, B.F.A.
1982 City College, San Francisco, CA
1953 Born in Nashville, TN