ARTIST'S STATEMENT:
I like to work with traditional and non traditional techniques, combined with various media, painting and printmaking. Experimentation with concepts, color and contrasting materials is part of my process. My art is eclectic and deals with events that influence emotions in my life and art. For me the act of painting becomes cathartic. The works change in the process of creating them. My paintings and prints feature abstractions of realistic and imaginary subjects which hopefully spark the imagination and interest of the viewer.
SELECTED BIOGRAPHY:
2008 - Feature Artist, UNITY MAGAZINE, Women's History Month, A Celebration of Women in the Arts
2006 - Elected jury member, New Haven Paint and Clay Club, Connecticut
Elected jury member, Connecticut Women Artists,
Elected jury member, American Society of Contemporary Artists, New York
Feature cover artist, ARTIS MAGAZINE, Hartford, Connecticut, February - March Issue
2005-07 Critique with Hugh O'Donnell
2008 - present Critique with Barbara Grossman
2005-08 - Women's Caucus for Art, Membership Chairwoman
2004 - Attended Solar Plate Printmaking with Dan Weldon, Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, Connecticut
Participated in Fine Art and Flowers exhibition Wadsworth Athenaeum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut2002-04 - Attended Imageon Intaglio Workshop with Tong Huo, Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, Connecticut
Member of West Street Artist's Cooperative, Danbury, Connecticut2000-04 - Printer for Center for Contemporary Printmaking Monothon, Norwalk, Connecticut
1998 - Began studying printmaking with Barbara Harder at Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, Connecticut
Studied privately with Alex Shundi, Danbury, Connecticut1997 - Studied privately with Ed Minchin, Rockport, Massachusetts
1983 - Moved to Southbury, Connecticut
1977-80 - Art Director, Teradyne, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts 1980 - Married and relocated to New Jersey. Freelanced for American Telephone and Telegraph Company, Bell Labs, Printers and Advertising Agencies.
1976 - Designed signage and promotional literature for Boston Harbor Islands State Park, Boston, Massachusetts
1970 - Studied privately with Phil Hicken, Watertown and Nantucket, Massachusetts
Layout Artist, New England Telephone Company, Boston, Massachusetts1964-66 Attended School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts1967-69 Attended Massachusetts College of Art, Boston
AWARDS:
December 10th, 2006 - Slater Memorial Museum, 2006 Members Show Connecticut Women Artists, Honorable Mention - "Plaster Armature #3"
July 2006 - Artwell's Tenth Annual Open Juried Exhibition - Burns, Brooks & McNeil Bronze Gavel - "A Matter of the Heart"
May 2005 - Society of Creative Arts Award, Annual Spring Juried Show, Newtown, Connecticut -"No Heart in Mind"
June 2004 - The Violet E. Manon Award (3rd Prize),Regional Hospice of Western CT - Award of Merit
May 2003 - Dick Blick Award, Society of Creative Arts of Newtown - Dick Blick Award - "Leaves"
May 2001 Dick Blick Award, Society of Creative Arts of Newtown - - "Forest thru the Trees"
June 2000 - 1The Violet E. Manon Award (3rd Prize), Regional Hospice of Western CT - 3rd Prize - "Feather or Not?"
June 1998 - The Violet E. Manon Award (3rd Prize), Regional Hospice of Western CT - 3rd Prize "Corporate Madness"
1980 - National Print Award for Art Direction, Teradyne, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts
1979 - Teradyne Advertising Awards (3) for direct mail and sales literature, Boston, Massachusetts
1979-80 - Award of Merit, Society of Technical Illustrators, Boston, Massachusetts
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:
2005 - New Haven Paint and Clay
2005 - Connecticut Women Artists
http://www.ctwomenartists.org/Women's Caucus for Art/membership chair
http://wca-ct.org/Center for Contemporary Printmaking http://www.contemprints.org/
Creative Arts Workshop http://www.creativeartsworkshop.org/
Ridgefield Guild of Artists
http://www.rgoa.org/index.htmPrint Alliance
http://www.printalliance.org/Connecticut Commission on the Arts - Visual Arts Slide Bank - http://www.ctarts.org/about.htm
Also visit: http://www.joyceagricolvario.com
