About
"The pleasure in viewing her work is one usually associated with Oriental art - seeing a whole palpable image come together out of a few strokes...The artist knows where she is going."William Zimmer former art critic of The New York Times
Statement
Whenever my eyes are opened I am composing visually; sometimes consciously, sometimes subconsciously. These compositions manifest themselves physically as paintings, drawings, etchings, sculpture, installations, performance pieces. Viewing these, I again compose and recompose until they are developed and refined to a point at which I say "enough" and go on to something else.
Most of these manifestations involve color and some sort of movement -- implied or actual. When realism is used it either represents itself or becomes a vehicle for elements within itself: a line, a shape, a form, to be integrated into the whole composition.
When an idea is communicated to the viewer it is usually from the subconscious, unintentional, psychological part of me and completes the cycle of maker of art to viewer of art.
Biography
Timeline
1955 Bachelor of Arts Degree - Brooklyn College
1955 New York State Teaching Certificate
1956 Founded private art school, Kinston, NC
1965 Art Students League, New York City - Drawing, painting, sculpture with Marshall Glaser, Vaclyv Vtlacil and John Hovannes
1967 Moved to London, England
1968/9 Camden Arts Institute, London, England - Sculpture with Jesse Watkins
1969 University of London, London, England - Lithography wiht John Bowles
1969 The Islington Studio, London, England - Ethcing workshop with Hugh Stoneman
1970 Return to USA
1971 Silvermine painting seminar, New Canaan, CT with Robert Reed (Yale University)
1972 Open studio, Westport, CT
1973 Returned to London, England
1974 Received grant from London Arts Council for studio
1975 Awarded studio at SPACE by London Arts Council
1979 Atelier 17, Paris, France, Color printmaking with S. W. Hayter
1980 Returned to USA - Built studio, Westport, CT
1981 SUNY, Purchase, NY - studied site sculpture with Ellyn Zimmerman
1982 Created Livre d'artiste, "Haiga-Haiku" (haiga = etchings)
1984 Westport Center for the Arts, Westport, CT - Founding Member. Established fifty studios for working artists; chairman of review committee
1986 Idylwyld School, Idylwyld, CA - studied environmental sculpture with Lita Albuquerque
1986/7 School of Visual Arts, New York City, Studied papermaking
1989 Art/Place Gallery, Southport, CT - President
1990 New York University, New York City - Master Candidate
1991 Umbrellas; Joint Project for Japan & USA - worked with Christo
1991/2 Umbrellas - Produced video Japan/California
1993 Opened The Berkeley Studio - Westport, CT
1995 25th Connecticut Art Competition - Stamford Museum - Honorable Mention - Juror - Eugenie Tsai, Director, Whitney Museum
1996 Masters Degree - New York University
1998 Artist in Residence - Atelier A, - etching studio, Aprical Italy - Daniele Noel, Founder. Micky Launey, Master printer
2004 Etching "Haiku" included in Library of Congress print collection
2004 Honorable mention, "Peace" @ Center for Contemporary Printmaking - Norwalk, CT, Robert Kipness, Judge
2007 Listed with Saatchi Online
2008 Alexandria Bibliotheca, Alexandria, Egypt - paintings "Blue Nile" and "White Nile" included in collection
One Person Exhibitions
2012 Entryway Gallery, Gray/Ruelle - Chelsa, NY
1955 Fairfield Arts Council - Fairfield, CT
2005 Ulla Surland Gallery - Fairfeild, CT
2003 Art/Place, Faces - Southport, CT
2002 Ulla Surland Gallery, Other Landscapes - Fairfield, CT
1999 Art/Place, Zig-Zag - Southport, CT
1996 Art/Place, Chance Occurrence, Southport, CT
1994 Westport Arts Center - Westport, CT
1990 Art/Place - Southport, CT
1988 Art/Place - Southport, CT
1986 Fairfield Library Gallery - Fairfield, CT
1984 Waveny House Art Barn - New Caanan, CT
1984 Saugatuck Gallery - Westport, CT
1983 Landmark Gallery - Stamford, CT
1982 LYC Gallery - Banks-Brampton, England
1982 University of Maryland Gallery, Munich, West Germany
1979 Open Studio Exhibition - Wapping Wall, London, England
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021 Sonoran Art League, Off the Wall - Cave Creek, AZ
2019 Sonoran Art League, Small Works - Cave Creek, AZ
2019 Desert Foothills Library, Hot Art/Cool Show - Cave Creek, AZ
2009 Westport Historical Society, Years in the Making
2009 Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Miniature Print Show juried by Jacqueline Akers
2009 Level 9 Gallery - Cave Creek, AZ
2008/9 Wendy Nylen, Picture This Gallery - Westport, CT
2006 Center for Contemporary Printmaking
2005 VanDeb Editions - New York, NY
2004 Art Students League Exhibition from Bob Blackburn Collection - New York, NY
2004 Westport Arts Center, Connecticut Prints curated by James Reed
2004 Ulla Surland Gallery, 111 Show
2004 Independence Hall, Art/Place artists - Fairfield, CT
2002 Independence Hall, Art/Place artists - Fairfield, CT
2002 ART/PLACE @ Fairfield Library - Fairfield, CT
2002 Westport Arts Center, Fresh Start - Westport, CT
2000 SAGA at Steve Gang Gallery - Chelsea, NY
2000 Gallery on the Green, Exquisite Corpse - Canton, CT
2000 Paper - CJG Projects, curated by Cortland Jessup - Provincetown, MA
2000 Paperworks curated by Harry Philbrick, Director Aldrich Museum, Connecticut Graphics - Norwalk, CT
2000 The Woman, traveling exhibition - Apricale, Italy & Antibes, France
1998 36th Annual Fairfield Festival of the Arts, curated by Cynthia Roznoy, Whitney Museum & Cynthia Cormie, Wadsworth Athenum
1998 Art/Place, (W)Interactions - Southport, CT
1997/8 Riverpark Atrium - Norwalk, CT
1997 Brenda Koos Gallery - Clevland, OH
1997 Connecticut Women Artists Annual, University of Hartford
1997 SAGA at Nabisco National Headquarters - NJ
1996 Brocken Gallery, Dirty Realism - Tokyo, Japan
1995 Art/Place, Books, Boxes, and Beautiful Things - Southport, CT
1995 Stamford Museum, 25th Annual Connecticut Art Competition, Honoarable Mention - Stamford, CT
1995 Cheseboro-Ponds Gallery, Sculpture and Screens Invitational - Westport, CT
1995 Gertude White Gallery, Exploring the Figure Invitational - Greenwich, CT
1994 Art/Place, Originations - Southport, CT
1993 Art/Place, ARTPLAYS - Southport, CT
1992 Multimedia Gallery - New York, NY
1990 Art/Place - Southport, CT
1989 Art/Place, Winter Lineup - Southport, CT
1989 Art/Place, Summer Lineup - Southport, CT
1988 Museum of Art, Science and Industry - Bridgeport, CT
1988 Fairfield Unversity Gallery, award winner Best in Graphics - Fairfield, CT
1987 Art/Place - Southport, CT
1987 Stamford Museum, Painters and Sculptors Competition - Stamford, CT
1986 Atria Architects Gallery - Hartford, CT
1986 Saugatuck Gallery - Westport, CT
1985 Ramapo College, Women Make Prints - Ramapo, NJ
1984 Columbia University Ferris Booth Hall, Women Make Prints - New York, NY
1983 Henry Street Settlement, Women Make Prints - New York, NY
1983 SUNY, Women Make Prints, Purchase, NY
1975 The Minories Museum - Colchester, England
1975 Kendall Museum - Abbotsholme, England
1975 Paper Point Gallery - London, England
1975 Davidson National Print and Graphics Exhibition judged by Clement Greenberg - Davidson, NC
1971 Bridgeport Museum Annual, award winner - Bridgeport, CT
1969 Lord Mayors Gallery - London, England
Collaborations
1991 Silvermine Gallery, Garbage of Eden - New Caanan, CT
1986 Channel 27, Dateline Westport, Performance Piece conceived by Barbara Gray, music by Winifred Keane, choregraphy by Margaret Bisceglie. Taped at the Awards meeting of the American PEN Women
1981 Livre d'Artiste Haiga-Haiku Concept and Haiga etchings by Barbara Gray. Haiku poetry by Peggy Heinrich
1979 Five, catalogue of International Artists - London, England
1975 Inner Eye, catalogue and alternative exhibition resource book - London, England
Lecturing
1995 Norwalk Community Technical College, Abstraction - Norwalk, CT
1995 WAC Institute, Drawing the Figure - Westport, CT
1993/4 The Berkeley Studio, Painting and Drawing - Westport, CT
1990 Art/Place, Gallery Talk - Southport, CT
1990 Norwalk Community College, Art History - Norwalk, CT
1989 Fairfield High School, Art History - Fairfield, CT
1988 Art/Place, Gallery Talk - Southport, CT
1986 Barnes Collection, Lecture tour - Merion, PA
1985/6 Norwalk Community College, Figure drawing, Basic Design, Drawing - Norwalk, CT
1984 Barnes Collection, Lecture tour - Merion, PA
1978 Whitelands College, Figure drawing - Roehampton, England
1977 Digby College, graduate student thesis projects - Putney, England
1975 Central School, Studio lecturer - London, England
1968 St Marys Town & Country School, Art Instructor - London, England
1964 Guild of Creative Art, Painting Instructor - Shrewbury, NJ
1963 Strathmore School, Art Instructor - Matawan, NJ
Private Collections
Dr & Mrs Jack Welch - Nantucket, MA
Mr Peter Heering - London, England
Mr Bjorn Bryn - London, England
Mr & Mrs Phillipe Sands - London, England
Messrs. John Bygott & John Drewes - New York, NY
Dr & Mrs Richard Firestone - New York, NY
Mr & Mrs Edward Katz - Stamford, CT
Mr Joseph Blumenthal - New York, NY
Mr & Mrs Roger Rouse - Princeton, NY
Mr & Mrs John Sweeney-Lowe - London, England
Estate of Elena Gaputyte - London, England
Mr Joseph Catanese - London, England
Ms Natalie D'Arbelof - London, England
Dr Lillian Klein - Munich, West Germany
Ms Pamela Palmer - Westport, CT
Ms Helen Chrysler Greene, Westport, CT
Nintenshi Gallery - Tokyo, Japan
Ms Alicia Moi Orban - Paris, France
Ms Iris Nemni - Westport, CT
Dr & Mrs Marc Oliver - Randolph, NJ
Ms Juin Hong Shieh - Taipei, Taiwan
Mr Frank Lupo & Ms Eve Stockton - Weston, CT
Ms Peggy Heinrich - Bridgeport, CT
Mr & Mrs Lee Ruelle - New York, NY
Mr & Mrs Alex Henderson - Greenwich, CT
Ms Robin Fech - Atlanta, GA
Mr & Mrs Richard Keogh - New York, NY
Mr & Mrs Michael Gold - Los Angeles, CA
Mr Stephen Sullivan - Bridgeport, CT
Mr & Mrs Ronald Lang - Sharon, CT
Dr & Mrs Marty Reichgut - Milford, CT
Mr & Mrs Dale Reinker - Weston, CT
Mr & Mrs John Hus - Gainesville, VA
Douglas Gray & Julie Dauphinais - Gilbert, AZ
Dr & Mrs Steve Hochschuler - Paradise Valley, AZ
Mr & Mrs Les Wilder - Fairfield, CT
Dr & Mrs Sydney Groffman - Somerset, NJ
Corporate Collections
John Brown, E & C - Stamford, CT
Riokan Rantai - Kyoto, Japan
Herminghaus Hotel Renovations - Munich, Germany
Huntington Film Institute - Rancho Mirage, CA
Keith Prowse Agency - London, England
Mary Fox Linton - London, England
Paragon Partners - Chandler, AZ
Gray & Graham - Westport, CT
Public Collections
Paper Museum - Tokyo, Japan
Houston Museum of Contemporary Art - Houston, TX
Printmaking Workshop - New York, NY
Norwalk Community Technical College - Norwalk, CT
Goverment House Grand Hotel - Taipei, Taiwan
Town Hall - Westport, CT
Atelier-A - Apricale, Italy
Public Library - Westport, CT
Atelier Dix-Sept - Paris, France
Housatonic Museum - Bridgeport, CT
Westport Schools Collection - Westport, CT
Library of Congress Collection - Washington, DC
Alexandria Biblioteca - Alexandria, Egypt
Reviews
The New York Times - December 16, 1995 - William Zimmer
The New York Times - July 17, 1995 - William Zimmer
Fairfield County Advocate - Critics Choice - November 1990
Fairpress - January 1990
ARTS NEW ENGLAND - March 1998
ARTS NEW ENGLAND - October 1996