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C H R I S t i n ...C
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V I T A E
Born : Springfield Massachusetts
BFA / Painting magna cum laude, University of Massachusetts, 1974
Brooklyn Museum School post graduate scholarship, 1974-1975
Boston Museum of Fine Arts HS scholarship, 1968
U Mass/Bologna, Italy summer 1972
Art Students' League, NYC summer 1973
S E L E C T E D
S O L O E X H I B I T I O N S :
Greenfield Community College, MA "Valentine" Environment 1996
Galeria Arvil, Mexico City "Seducciones Nocturnas" 1988 travelling
Fauve Gallery, Amherst, MA "A Pastorall" 1987
Centro Cultural Vanguardia, Saltillo, MX , 1984
Galeria Arvil, Mexico City "Placeres Terrenales" 1983 travelling
Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York "Predellas" 1982
Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York , 1980
Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York, 1979
47 Bond Street Gallery, New York, 1978
Herter Hall Gallery, U.Mass, "Kinderhaus"
Environment 1974
S E L E C T E D
G R O U P E X H I B I T I O N S
Canal Gallery, Holyoke, MA "Maestros y Maestras" Homage to leonel Gongora, 2000
Sharon Arts Center, Peterborough, NH "BIENNIAL" 2000
Westbeth Gallery, New York, "Private Mythologies" 1999 (curated by Elisa Decker)
The Brush Art Gallery, Lowell,MA "Dreamweavers" 1998-99 (curated by Francine Miller)
Galeria Jose Maria Velasco, Mexico City "Correspondence Lines" 1997
Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York "The Domestic Landscape" 1995
Museum Gallery, University of Maine, Orono "Migrant Within" 1994-5 travelling
Barn Gallery, Ogunquit, ME "Night Light" 1993
Mount Holyoke College Museum of Art, S.Hadley, MA "PictureThis, Imagine That" 1992
Staemfli Gallery, New York "The Art of Drawing IV" 1989
Oklahoma Art Center, OK City "Selections from the Westheimer Collection" 1988
One Penn Plaza, New York "Interiors in Paint" 1988 (curated by Gerrit Henry)
Monique Knowlton Gallery, NYC "The Romantic Landscape" 1986
Sioux City Arts Center, Iowa "New Talent/New York" 1984 travelling
PS 122, New York "Four Painters" 1984
University Gallery, U Mass, Amherst "Eleven Alumni"1983 (curated by Sam Hunter &Babara Haskell)
Monique Knowlton Gallery, NYC, "New Work" 1983
Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma, Norman "Points of View '82" 1982
Hecksher Museum, Huntington, NY "Kindred Spirits" 1981
Landmark Gallery, NYC "Drawings 1980" 1980
Foro de Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City "Eureka! 5 North American Painters" 1979
Monique Knowlton Gallery, NYC "American Landscapes" 1978
State House, Boston, MA "Western Mass Artists" 1976
Brooklyn Museum Art School "Student Show"
1975
A W A R D S AND
F E L L O W S H I P S
Scholarship, Brooklyn Museum Art School 1975-76
McDowell Colony Artist in Residence 1980
Juror's Award (Holly Solomon) Small Works Show, NYC 1982
Fullbright Finalist, Canberra, Australia 1985
1st prize (Barbara Haskell) Valley Women Artists Show 1985
Yaddo Artist in Residence 1987
Fondation Karolyi Artist in Residence 1989
Millay Colony Artist in Residence 1995
S E L E C T E D
C O L L E C T I O N S :
Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma
Armando Colina, Mexico City
Stewart Mott, New York City
Jerome Westheimer, Oklahoma
Jose Ludlow, Mexico City
Monique Knowlton, New York City
Giancarlo Menotti, Italy
Dawn Gideon Associates, New York City
George Staempfli, Maryland
Michel Roux (Absolut Vodka), New Jersey
T E A C H I N G :
The Norman Rockwell Museum, Artists of the Berkshires Art Lecture series, 2000
Ashfield Art Lecture Series, 1997
ARTS Club/Guest Lecture,Greenfield Community College, 1996
Art Bank/Instructor, 1995-96
Instructor/Drawing Clinic( private), 1994
Centre d'Art, St. Georges de Beauce, Quebec /Visiting Artist Talk
Valley Women Artists/ Guest Lecture, 1986
Rhode Island School of Design/Guest Lecture/graduate critique,1985
The New School/ Guest Lecture, 1981
P R O J E C T S :
5 College DaDa/Surrealist Festival,asst. coordinator ,1971
EUREKA! Art/Performance Group, participant, Mexico City 1979
SALON DES REFUSEES/VWA, organizer, Amherst, MA 1980
47 UNION SQUARE OPEN STUDIOS, participant , NYC 1986
VALENTINE PERFORMANCE, AUDITORIO NATIONAL,participant, MEXICO CITY 1985
1 DAY HAPPENING/ART BANK, Shelburne Falls,
MA, Organizer/participant, 1994
(over 30 artists doing site specific work
in unrenovated building)
TEEN BOXCAR MURAL,Trolley Museum/ PAWM(Partnership
for the Arts in Western Mass)
Organizer, 1995 (6 week project involving
local teens)
RENAISSANCE BALL/PAWM, Co Chairman of gala fundraiser for new performance space,1996
MARDIJANTO/Indonesian Batik paintings,/PAWM,Organizer/curator,1997
SIROCCO/PAWM, Munson murals from the 40's,Middle Eastern performance, Organizer,1997
DAY OF THE DEAD/PAWM, Organizer/participant, Mexican altars by artists and high school students, 1997
TCHOCHKE HEAVEN /REDTIDE, Buckland Ritz, organizer,1st annual artists' tagsale, 1998
MAESTROS Y MAESTRAS,Canal Gallery, Holyoke,
Co-Curator of Memorial exhibition, 2000
F U T U R E P R O J
E C T S :
"Toyz n' Totz''- a consideration of works relating to children & toys
"Monumental Intimacy"- art on a small scale with a big presence-from architectural models , sculpture, to jewelry
"Einstein's Dreams" (working title)- considerations of TIME in different forms and interpretations.
"The Antique Future" - work that encorporates both contemporary and ancient viewpoints
"Country Noire" - work focusing on the
dark side of pastoral.
A F F I L I A T I O N S :
Western Massachusetts Illustrators' Guild
Friends of the Arms Library
Valley Women Artists/Women's Caucas for Art, Founding Member
Franklin Enterprising Women / FEW, Franklin County CDC
Partnership for the Arts in Western Mass/ Founding Member, Board member 1995-98
Redtide/Bluefire -Founding Member
Mass MoCA member
Volunteer/Community:
Mohawk Trail Concerts /Annual Cabaret fundraiser
Art Bank/ Board of Directors/ programming,fundraising,exhibitions committee
Arms Library /children's drawing workshop
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