Statement

In my work themes of transience and transformation resurface in objects and
drawings made with labor-intensive methods. My sources are things we use in
our daily routines...the overlooked remnants of our lives. Business envelopes,
cleaning products, lint, straws and office supplies are accumulated and
manipulated to bring out their alternate lives and to draw attention to what we
use and discard. I have always lived in urban settings and my neighborhood has
been my art store; in its dollar stores, hardware and stationery stores I have
found ways to create a parallel experience that echoes the transcendence the
natural world bestows. Maps have become webs, straws beehives, pencils
haystacks. My work encompasses sculpture, installation, and works on paper.
Since 2005 I have been collaborating with the artist Brian Miller. Our current
project, "A Series of Minor Miracles" explores everyday objects' particular power
and resonance and links the domestic world of the 15th century to the present
day through Jan Van EyckÕs Arnolfini Portrait. Van Eyck paints his world with
meticulous delicacy and reverence, infusing every article with meaning. The
sculptures and photographs we are creating seek to recreate the intensity of that
world within the contemporary reality of our own lives.

Individual Exhibitions

2006 A Series of Minor Miracles, Raw & Co. Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio, collaboration with Brian Miller
2006

Clean Start, Holland Tunnel, Brooklyn, NY

2005 Late Bloomer, Barrows Rotunda Gallery, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
2004 Mississippi University for Women, Columbus, Mississippi
2004 The Matzo Files, New York, NY, Installation
2003 Haas Gallery, Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, PA
2001 Lake George Arts Project, Lake George, NY, with Sonita Singwi
2000 Walls and Boxes, Brownson Gallery, Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY, with G. Jesse Sadia, Jr., Koussevitzky Art Gallery, Berkshire Community College, Pittsfield, MA

Group Exhibitions

2008 Drawing, Strauss Gallery, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Purgatory Pie Press, Traveling Exhibition, Fleet Library, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
2007 Making the Most of It, The Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY, curated by Karen Shaw
HardEdgeSoft, Cazenovia College, Cazenovia, NY, curated by Jennifer Pepper
White as Color, Tengelsen Gallery, Art League of Long Island, Dix Hills, NY, curated by Carole Jay
Small Works, Berlin Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
Everyday Inside Out, Space Gallery, Portland, ME, two-person show with Bradley Wester
2006 Glimpse, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
125 Works On Paper Benefit, Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY
Black and White, Holland Tunnel Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2005 /
2007

Networks and Intersections: Finding Meaning through Complexity, Curator: Esme Thompson, The New Art Center, Newton, MA, The Brattleboro Art Museum, Brattleboro, VT, The List Art Center, Swarthmore College, PA, 55 Mercer, New York, NY
2005 Second Time Around, Marymount Manhattan College, NY, NY
Momenta Benefit, Momenta Art & White Columns, NY
Works on Paper, Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY
Sporadic, Brooklyn, NY
Projects 05, Carriage House, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY
2004 See Something, Say Something, 49 Ann St., NY, NY
Good Fortune, Dieu Donne Paper Mill, New York, NY
Study, Pierogi 2000, Roebling Hall, Parker’s Box, Brooklyn, NY, Curator: James Hyde
Reduce/Reuse/Reexamine, Glyndor Gallery, Wave Hill, Bronx, NY, Curator: Jennifer McGregor (catalog)
Fiber, Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn, NY, Curator: Yuko Nii & Marcia Widenor
2003 Take Out, Dieu Donné Paper Mill, New York, NY
2003 Benefit Auction, White Columns, New York, NY
My Mother’s an Artist, Ernest Rubenstein Gallery, New York, NY, Curator: Sheila Pepe
New York Studio School 2003 Alumni Exhibition, New York, NY, Curator: Bill Jensen
2002 Cheap, White Columns, New York, NY, Curators: Lauren Ross and Elizabeth Ferguson, traveled to Gallery 312, Chicago
Paper Cuts, The Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY, Curator: Karen Shaw (catalog)
Painting Lately, The Henry Street Settlement, NY, NY, Curator: Betsy elleher
Conceptually Bound 2, An Exhibition of Artists’ Books, Coyote Gallery, Butte Glenn Community College, Oroville, CA, Curator: Nanette Wylde
New York Studio School Alumni Exhibition, Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY, Curators: Judd Tully and Karen Wilkin
2001 Paper, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut (catalog)
Material Reconsideration, Herndon Gallery, Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio, Curator: Nevin Mercede
Everybody Now, Hunter College/Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, New York, NY, Curator: Katy Siegel (catalog)
2000 Elements 2000, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY, Curators: Jane Ingram Allen and Devorah Sperber
On the City: Urban Realities and Fantasies, New York Studio School, New York, NY, Annual Alumni Exhibition, Curator: Irving Sandler
Faculty Show, Delaware College of Art and Design, Wilmington, DE
Snapshot, Contemporary Art Museum, Baltimore, MD
1999 Familiar Strangers Invitational, Galapagos Art & Performance Space, Brooklyn, NY
Surface Structure, Nikolai Fine Art, New York, NY
MFA Thesis Exhibition, West Chelsea Arts Building, New York, NY
1998 Artists from the Vermont Studio Center, Gordon College, Wenham, MA
1997 Final Show, New York Studio School, New York, NY

Ongoing

Ann Lydecker Fine Art, New York, NY, drawings on view
Artists’ Space Slide File, NY, NY
The Drawing Center Slide File, NY, NY
Dumbo Art Center Slide File, Brooklyn, NY
Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY, drawings on view
The Matzo Files, NY, NY; drawings on view
Pierogi 2000 Flat Files, Brooklyn, NY; drawings on view
Rotunda Gallery Slide File, Brooklyn, NY
White Columns Slide File, NY, NY, images online at curated artists’ registry

Awards / Fellowships

2005 MacDowell Fellowship
Ragdale Fellowship
2004 MacDowell Fellowship
Ragdale Foundation
2003 MacDowell Fellowship
2002 MacDowell Fellowship
2001 New York Foundation for the Arts: Felissimo Honoree
Pollock-Krasner Foundation
2000 Yaddo Fellowship: Louise Bourgeois Residency, Saratoga Springs, NY
1999 George G. Shaw Memorial Award, Brooklyn College/CUNY, Brooklyn, NY
1998 Graduate Teaching Fellowship, Brooklyn College/CUNY, Brooklyn, NY
1997 Vermont Studio Center Painting Fellowship, Johnson, Vermont
1988 GraduateScholarship,Hunter College/CUNY
1987 Harriet Rutter Eagleson Scholarship, Hunter College/CUNY

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Teaching

2005 - present Assistant Professor, Roger Williams University, Bristol, RI
2003 - 2005 Lecturer, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
2005 summer Lecturer, SUNY Purchase, Purchase, NY
2002 - 2003 Instructor, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania
2002 NYFA Artists and Audience Exchange : Sterling Center Camp, Monroe, NY, Taught Art Workshops in a Bereavement Camp to families of 9/11
2000, 2004 Adjunct Lecturer, Delaware College of Art and Design, Wilmington, Delaware
1998 - 2001 Adjunct Lecturer, Brooklyn College/CUNY, Brooklyn, NY
1998 Teaching Assistant , Brooklyn College/CUNY, Brooklyn, NY
1997 - 1999 Art Teacher, Highbridge Unity After-School Program; Taught Art and Art Appreciation to Children, Ages 6-12, Bronx, NY

Education

MFA, Brooklyn College/CUNY, Brooklyn
New York Studio School of Painting, Drawing & Sculpture, New York
Hunter College/CUNY, New York
BA, Rutgers College, New Brunswick, New Jersey
Université de Paris/La Sorbonne

© 2005 Elizabeth Duffy