Resume

Re-contextualized debris and found material form the basis of my work which evokes the tracings of time and worlds of activity, distilled into simple constructs. Pieces are located at the intersection of geometric and organic form and often include different types of mesh and eroded metal, which offer the slightest ways to inscribe space.  They speak of presence and absence, and how our perception of an experience, memory, object, space and time all shift — based on where we stand — our point of view.

GRANTS/AWARDS:

  • 2023 – Northampton Arts Council and Mass Cultural Council, 2023, in support of Hestia Mural Restoration, Northampton, MA.
  • 2015 – Northampton Arts Council and the Mass Cultural Council, in support of the installation, Debris Flow at the Contemporary Art at Historic Northampton program.
  • 1997 – Northampton Arts Council & Mass cultural Council, in support of solo exhibition, Northampton Center for the Arts.
  • 1984 – Bus Shelter installation, Arts Project, Amherst, MA.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:

2025

  • 2-Person, Counterspells & Concatenations, with Marianne Connolly, mixed media and photopolymer intaglio prints, Gallery A3, Amherst, MA (September)
  • 2-Person, It All Begins with Matter, with Mercedes Sicilia, Sanford Gallery, Zea Mays, Florence, MA photopolymer intaglio prints (August).
  • Group: the Artistic Journey: Zea Mays Printmaking at 25, curated by Kristina Durocher, University Museum of Contemporary Art , UMASS, Amherst, MA, from September 11th – December 5th.
  • Group: Impressions, Mary Cosgrove Dolphin Gallery at Worcester State University, juried by Amaryllis Siniossoglou, photopolymer intaglio prints. (Sept-Oct),
  • Solo: Matterly Manifestation, Sanford Gallery, Zea Mays, Florence, MA, curated by Sheldon Carroll, photopolymer intaglio prints (January).

2024

  • Solo, Installation, When Matter Talks Back, mixed media installation, Gallery A3, Amherst MA. (September) .
  • Group, Zea Mays Printmaking’s 8th Biennial Exhibition at A.P.E. Gallery, Northampton, MA, Transformative works, juried by Phyllis McGibbon, artist, and E.C. Kopf Professor of Art, Wellesley University.
  • Group: In Residence, Art for the Soul Gallery, Springfield, MA, Dissolving, metal and photograph on architectural tracing paper. (May-June).
  • Group: Blue, Juried show, Workshop 13, ArtWorks Gallery, Ware, MA Adjacent Possibles #1, (January)

2023

  • Installation, Progeneration : Regeneration, an investigation into the difficult – mixed media – Eroded metal, rebar, pigment, photographs printed on architectural tracing paper, daphne and hand-fabricated paper, stone, Styrofoam. Gallery A3, Amherst, MA (October)
  • Group: MICROWORKS, mixed media, Adjacent Possibles -4, mixed media with photograph, A.P.E. Gallery, Northampton, MA (December).

2021

  • Installation, ‘…in this backyard garden of the mind…’ mixed media – reclaimed rebar, 4”x4” pressure treated lumber, flattened expanded mesh beams, eroded metal configurations, photographic images, mesh, organic debris. Gallery A3, Amherst, MA (November).

2020

  • Installation, ‘Limited Access’ with Valerie Gilman, mixed media – cotton scrim, reclaimed rebar, metal bands and strapping bands, mesh. Gallery A3, Amherst, MA (September).

2018

  • Installation, Growth/Overgrowth, with Mary Bernstein & Harriet Diamond, mixed media – organic material (vines), Oxbow Gallery, Northampton, MA (November).
  • Installation, I keep finding myself in the place I am. mixed media, rebar, barrel bands, photo prints on canvas, wire mesh. Gallery A3, Amherst MA (September).

2016

  • Installation, The Weight of Things, a mixed media exploration, at Gallery A3, Amherst, MA (September).
  • Group, In a Slight Yellow Light, a mixed media installation of 12 photo prints, wood, mesh,metal. Part of 6 Photographers, at Gallery A3, Amherst, MA (August).
  • Installation, Debris Flow, a Meditation on the Mill River Disaster in 1874, part of the Contemporary Art at Historic Northampton series, Historic Northampton, Northampton, MA (March-April).

2015

  • Installation, Rise and Fall, part of the Human Impact exhibition, von Auersperg Gallery, Hess Center for the Arts, Deerfield Academy, Deerfield, MA (September-October).
  • Small Group, Drawing Show – wire and mesh drawings, Gallery A3, Amherst, MA (January)
  • Small Works Invitational– Elusie Gallery, Easthampton, MA (July)
  • Art Across the River – A3 Members show at Oxbow Gallery, Northampton, MA (August)

2014

  • Installation, InMOMENTTime, Gallery A3, Amherst, MA (September).
  • Group, Seeking Safety: A mini-series in 6 parts – Episodes 1-6, Gallery A3, Amherst, MA (Dec.)
  • Group, What Am I Seeing: Nine Photographers, Gallery A3, Amherst, MA (August)
  • Installation, What If We Just Stopped Here? Paper City Gallery, Holyoke, MA (May)

2013

  • 2-person show, Algorithm: Rules for a Visual Field with Janet Winston, Gallery A3, Amherst MA (September).
  • Installation, The Other Side of the Bridge, Part 1 – Fine Arts Work Center Gallery, Part 2 – Dunes Edge Campground/Conservation Area, Provincetown, MA (April – May, 2013).

2012

  • Installation, Bridges to Cross/Bridges to Burn, A.P.E. Gallery, Ltd., Northampton, MA,(November) in collaboration with Harriet Diamond & Mary Bernstein. http://www.apearts.org/craig-harbison.html
  • 2-person show, Moving Out of Place with Constance Hamilton, Gallery A3, Amherst MA (September)
  • Group, Gallery A3 Tenth Anniversary Show, Amherst, MA (January)
  • Group, Russell Gallery, Deerfield Academy, Deerfield, MA (April-May)

2011

  • Solo, a-bridge’, Gallery A3, Amherst, MA
  • Group, Synesthesia, Gallery A3, Amherst, MA; Finger Drumming – site specific installation with sound/matter/participant, (using Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues -1980, Fredric Rzewski)
  • Group, Winter Wonder, Gallery A3, Amherst, MA
  • Group, Art form Detritus: Upcycling with Imagination, Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn, NY
  • Group, Paperworks, site-specific installation: I SEE YOU., Holyoke, MA

2010

  • Group, Recycling with Imagination, juried show, Clear Light Gallery, Turners Falls, MA (http://www.ncognita.com/art_from_detritus_2010.htm)
  • 2-person, hover/hovering with Jan Winston, Gallery A3, Amherst, MA, http://www.gallerya3.com/
  • Group, In Dialogue (#1): This is what happened. Site-specific installation in collaboration with Harriet Diamond, Gallery A3, Amherst, MA
  • Group, Art from Detritus – Recycling with Imagination, Veridian Artists, 530 W25th St., New York.

2009

  • 3-person, Small Constructions, Hosmer Gallery, Northampton, MA
  • Group, Gallery A3 Shows Up, Carberry Gallery, Springfield Technical Community College, Springfield, MA
  • 2-person, The Republic of Distance, Installation & Constructions with Tom Morton, Gallery A3, Amherst, MA
  • Group, 100 Drawings, Gallery A3, Amherst, MA

2008

  • 2-person, Light/Remanents with Bob Horowitz, Gallery A3, Amherst, MA
  • Group, Small Wonders, Gallery A3, Amherst, MA
  • Group, Rotating Crops (2), Gallery A3, Amherst, MA

Summary of Solo and group shows: 2007-1982

Gallery A3, Amherst, MA, Open Square Gallery, Holyoke, MA Hosmer Gallery, Forbes Gallery, Northampton, MA, Northampton Center for the Arts, Northampton, MA New City Art, Invitational. Easthampton, MA; Solo, Springfield College, Visual Arts Gallery, Springfield, MA, Group, Zone Gallery, Springfield, MA, Solo, Herter Gallery, U. Mass/Amherst, Amherst, MA, Group, Hamden Gallery, U. Mass/Amherst, Amherst, MA, Group, Student Union Gallery, U. Mass/Amherst, Amherst, MA, Group, Elms College, Chicopee, MA, Solo, Center for the Arts, Northampton, MA, Group, 16th Annual Juried Exhibition, Maris Gallery, Westfield, MA, Group, Northampton Center for the Arts, Grants Recipients Invitational, Northampton, MA, Solo, McQuade Gallery, Merrimac College, North Andover, MA, Group, 15th Annual Juried Exhibition, Maris Gallery, Westfield, MA, Installation, Bus Shelter, Amherst, MA, commissioned by Arts Project, Inc. in cooperation with the Pioneer Valley Transit Commission, Group, Hampshire College, Main Gallery, Amherst, MA, Solo, Hillyer Hall Gallery, Smith College, Northampton, MA, McCoy Gallery, Merrimac College, North Andover, MA.

WORK EXPERIENCE

  • Mixed media Installation and Sculptor, Maintain studio in Florence, MA, 1976-present.
  • Non-Profit employers and retainer clients : 1980-2020 : ServiceNet, Hampshire College, Smith College, Soldier On, Technical Assistance Collaborative, and Gandara Center.
  • Consultant – GrantsWork, Florence, MA, 2002-2020. Art development and Non-profit grant writing and program, design and development and technical assistance for Human Service organization and Federal, State, County and City organizations.

EDUCATION:

  • BA- English, Atlantic Union College, So. Lancaster, MA.
  • Painting/Drawing Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Evening School, Boston, MA
  • MFA- Sculpture, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

CONTINUING EDUCATION:

  • Dharma & Creative Practice, Barre Center for Buddhist Studies, Barre, MA: Understanding Perception through the Lens of Dharma and the Arts, year-long program, 2017-present
  • Investigating Dharma and Arts through the lens of the 8-Fold Path, 2021 – present.
  • Soul-making – Imaginal practice opening to a sense of sacredness drawing from the Dharma, Jung, Hillman, etc. (Rob Burbea, Catherine McGee). 2019 –present
  • Writing a Spiritual Autobiography as a path to Liberation, yearlong writing course, 2021- present.
  • Dharma in the Studio: Self Creation and Self Surrender, 2024-present.
  • Zea Mayes Courses: Photopolymer, Layering and Mark-making, Intro, Advanced and Master classes

ARTIST MEMBERSHIPS:

  • 2007 – Present, Gallery A3, Amherst, MA
  • 2023 – Present Zea Mays Printmaking Studio, Northampton, MA
  • 2003 & 2023-Hestia Mural Restoration Collective, co-lead two restorations of History of Women in Northampton 1600-1980+.
  • 2023-24 – Mentorship program, Zea Mays Printmaking Studio.

PUBLICATIONS:

  • Installation Catalogue of “…in this backyard garden of the mind…”, Rebecca Muller, Gallery A3, Amherst, MA., November, 2021.
  • Artist Profiles: by Craig Harbison, A.P.E. Gallery, Northampton, MA, http://www.apearts.org/craig-harbison.html, 2012.
  • Life is Fleet-Footed Thing: Meditations on Being in Space, Rebecca Muller, MFA Thesis, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, 1980.

VIDEOS:

  • Progeneration : Regeneration, October 2023, with Sarah Bliss.
  • …in this Backyard Garden of the Mind…, 2021, with Stan Sherer.
  • Limited Access, 2021, with Valerie Gilman and Robin Roblee-Strauss.
  • Growth/Overgrowth, November, 2018, with Mary Bernstein and Harriet Diamond.