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
- Interview
in Unity Magazine
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
2005-08
- 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, Connecticut
2002-04
- Attended Imageon Intaglio Workshop with Tong Huo, Creative Arts Workshop,
New Haven, Connecticut
Member of West Street Artist's Cooperative, Danbury, Connecticut
2000-04
- Printer for Center for Contemporary Printmaking Monothon, Norwalk,
Connecticut
2000-04
- 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, Connecticut
1997
- 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, Massachusetts
1964-66
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.htm
Print
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
http://www.cgoldbach.com