Elizabeth Duffy

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  SOLO/TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS

2010
Elevator, Muriel Guépin Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, Installation in the Project Space
2008
Printed Matter, NYC, Enclosure/Exposure Book Launch, published with Purgatory Pie Press, NYC
2007
Everyday Inside Out, Space Gallery, Portland, ME: Curator: Alexandra Sax
2006
Clean Start, Holland Tunnel Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (catalog)
A Series of Minor Miracles, Raw & Co. Gallery, Cleveland, OH, collaboration with Brian Miller
2005
Late Bloomer, Barrows Rotunda Gallery, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
2004
The Matzo Files, New York, NY, Installation
Mississippi University for Women, Columbus, Mississippi
2003
Haas Gallery, Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, PA
2001
Lake George Arts Project, Lake George, NY, two-person show with Sonita Singwi
2000
Koussevitzky Art Gallery, Berkshire Community College, Pittsfield, MA
Walls and Boxes, Brownson Gallery, Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY, with Jesse Sadia, Jr.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2010
Stuck Up, The Islip Art Museum, New York, Curator: Karen Shaw (catalog)
Group Show featuring the work of Elizabeth Duffy, Inger Grytting, Anne Mourier Attal and Morgan Maclean, Muriel Guépin Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
New works by Elizabeth Duffy, Carl Hasse and Duncan Johnson, Chazen Gallery, Providence, RI (forthcoming)
Degrees of Density, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas, Curator: Marilyn Symmes, traveling from Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY (forthcoming)
Here, A.P. E. Gallery, Northampton MA (forthcoming), Curator: Candace Bradbury-Carlin (forthcoming)
Information Revisited, The Belskie Museum of Art and Science, Closter, NJ, Curators: Noelle McGuire and Irmari Nacht (forthcoming)
Extreme Scale, Providence Art Club, Providence RI
RI State Council on the Arts Fellowship Recipients Exhibition, Imago Gallery, Warren, RI
2009
Transform/Transmute, Visceglia Gallery, Caldwell College, NJ, Curator: Kendall Baker
Degrees of Density / Selections from the Flatfiles, Kentler Insternational Drawing Space, Curator: Marilyn Symmes (brochure)
Book as Post Modern Medium, 5 Traverse Gallery, Providence, RI
Open City: 2009 Alumni Association Biennial, New York Studio School Gallery, NY, NY, Juror: Sean Scully
Brenda Taylor Gallery, Juried Exhibition, NY, NY
Repetition/Reason/Repose, Omni Gallery, Uniondale, NY, Curator: Dawn Lee
Purgatory Pie Press Postcard Exhibition, Square One Gallery, NY, NY
2008
Au Courant, Dam Stulhtrager Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, Curators: Leah Stuhltrager & Jacqueline Friscia
Process/Presence,Tengelsen Gallery, Dix Hills, NY, Curator: Carole Jay
Aldrich Undercover, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
High, Low and in Between: HIV Law Project Invitational Benefit, Moti Hasson Gallery, NY, NY
100 Works on Paper Benefit, Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY
Drawing, Strauss Gallery, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Purgatory Pie Press, Traveling Exhibition, Fleet Library, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, Pyramid Atlantic, Silver Spring, MD
2007
Making the Most of It, The Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY, Curator: Karen Shaw (catalog)
HardEdgeSoft, Cazenovia College, Cazenovia, NY, Curator: Jennifer Pepper
White as Color, Tengelsen Gallery, Art League of Long Island, Dix Hills, NY, Curator: Carole Jay
Small Works, Berlin Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
Art Daze, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
2006
Aldrich Undercover, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
Celebrating Winter through Nature, Wave Hill, Bronx, NY, Curators: Melissa Calderon and Erica Strongin
Glimpse, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2005-2008
Networks and Intersections: Finding Meaning through Complexity, Curator: Esme Thompson, traveling to: Museum of Art, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, The New Art Center, Newton, MA, Brattleboro Museum, Brattleboro, VT, The List Gallery, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA
2005
Projects 05, The Carriage House, The Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY
Works on Paper: Project Diversity, Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY
Pulp Friction, Carriage Barn Arts Center, New Canaan, CT
Second Time Around, Hewitt Gallery, Marymount Manhattan College, NY, NY, Curator: Millie Burns
2004
Study, Pierogi 2000, Brooklyn, NY, Curator: James Hyde
Reduce/Reuse/Reexamine, Glyndor Gallery, Wave Hill, Bronx, NY, Curator: Jennifer McGregor (catalog)
See Something!, Say Something!, 49 Ann Street, New York, NY
Fiber, Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn, NY, Curator: Marcia Widenor
2003
Cheap, Gallery 312, Chicago, Illinois [traveled from White Columns, New York, NY]
My Mother’s an Artist, Ernest Rubenstein Gallery, New York, NY, Curator: Sheila Pepe
2002
Cheap, White Columns, New York, NY, Curators: Lauren Ross and Elizabeth Ferguson
Paper Cuts, The Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY, Curator: Karen Shaw (catalog)
Painting Lately, The Henry Street Settlement, NY, NY, Curator: Betsy Kelleher
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, Curators: Harry Philbrick and Jessica Hough (catalog)
4 1/2 Years at the WAH Center, Williamsburg Art and Historical Center, Brooklyn, NY
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,
Curators:Jane Ingram Allen and Devorah Sperber
Celebrating Yaddo Artists, Williamsburg Art and Historical Center, Brooklyn, NY
1999
Surface Structure, Nikolai Fine Art, New York, NY
1997 Elizabeth Duffy and Sita McGrath, New York Studio School, New York, NY

CURATORIAL PROJECTS

2008-2009, New Art Center, Newton, MA, Rockland Art Center, West Nyack, NY
Office Space, curated with Brian Miller: works by Molly Bleiden, Danielle Dimston, Marietta Hoferer, Tamiko Kawata, Sandra Eula Lee Karen Shaw, G. Jesse Sadia and Bradley Wester, with an artists’ book published by Loku Press, Acworth, NH

EDITIONS

Entasis, 5 Inkless Relief Impression Prints, Edition of 26, Published with Pugatory Pie Press, NY, 2010
5.5 % APR, Edition of 144, Purgatory Pie Press House of Postcards, New York: Purgatory Pie Press, 2008.
Office Space, with Brian Miller; work by Molly Bleiden, Danielle Dimston, Marietta Hoferer, Tamiko Kawata, Sandra Eula Lee, G. Jesse Sadia, and Bradley Wester, a portfolio of prints, published in conjunction with a traveling exhibition, Loku Press, In Production.
A Series of Minor Miracles, Edition of 33, Loku Press, 2007, with Brian Miller.
Enclosure/Exposure: Data Protection Patterning, New York: Purgatory Pie Press, 2007.
O No, Edition of 144, PurgaSquare Postcard #8, New York: Purgatory Pie Press, 2006.
Anway Avianway Iscellaneymay, Edition of 17, Loku Press, 2005.

VIEWING PROGRAMS

Artists’ Space Slide File, NY, NY
Drawing Center Artist Registry
Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY, drawings on view
Pierogi 2000 Flat Files, Brooklyn, NY; drawings on view
White Columns Slide File, NY, NY, images online at curated artists’ registry

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Cook, Greg, “Tax Dollars at Work: Imago hosts the 2010 RISCA Fellowship Exhibit”, The Providence Phoenix, February 10, 2010
Symmes, Marilyn, "Degrees of Density", Brochure to accompany an exhibition at the Kentler International Drawing Space, Brookyn, NY, 2009
Olson, Marisa, “Reading between the Lines” Rhizome at the New Museum, May 13, 2008
MIllken, Joe, “Networks and Intersections offers Complexity through Simplicity”, The Message for the Week, Chester, VT, February 12, 2008
Willox, Ashley, “Turning Trash into Treasures” The Hawk’s Herald, Roger Williams University, Bristol, RI, January 31, 2--8, p. 6 [illus.]
Budick, Ariella, “Islip Museum Curator Bridges Worlds of Art”, New York Newsday, January 3, 2008
“BMAC exhibits Explore Gravity, Chaos, Order, Decay, and Tell a Good Story Too,” The Brattleboro Reformer, December 20, 2007, p. 8
Donohoe, Victoria, “Swarthmore’s List Gallery,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, December 2, 2007
Shaw, Karen, “Making the Most of It”, catalog, The Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY, 2007 [illus.]
Budick, Ariella, “Review: Making the Most of It, at the Islip Museum, New York Newsday, October 19, 2007
Kamilla, Avery Yale, Envelopes and Labels: Everyday inside out show elevates the ordinary,” The Maine Switch, June 5, 2007
LaRosa, Nicole, “Artists at Wave Hill take season in stride,” Riverdale Press, Dec. 7, 2006, p. B1
Bly, Lyz, “Dogs and their People: Symbols of Home Life Re-examined,” Free Times, Cleveland, Ohio, May 10, 2006
Lewis, Zachary, A Series of Minor Miracles, The Cleveland Scene, Cleveland, Ohio, May 10, 2006
Knight, Dustan, “Networks and Intersections: Finding Meaning through Complexity,” Art New England, February/March 2006
R.K. Baker, “Elizabeth Duffy at Holland Tunnel Gallery,” The Village Voice, February 7, 2006
McQuaid, Cate, “From City to Suburbs in Joyful Color, “ Boston Globe, February 2, 2006
DiDomizio, Milva, “Exploring the Art of Intersections,” Boston Globe, January 8, 2006
Gosling, Nick, “Networks and Intersections,” The Wire, Portsmouth, NH, Nov.. 30, 2005, p. 24.
Cohalan, Mary Lou, “Projects ‘05, An Exhibition of Site Specific Installations in the Carriage House, August 13-October 2, 2005, catalog, The Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY, 2005 [illus.]
Wecker, Menachem, “The Matzo Files at Streit’s”, The Blueprint, NY, NY February 2005, p. 8.
Sculpture Magazine, May 2004 issue, p. 19 [illus.]
Zimmer, William, “Transforming Life’s Debris,” New York Times, Arts & Entertainment, Sunday, May 2, 2004, p. 9.
McGregor, Jennifer, “Reduce, Reuse, Reinvent,” Catalog for the exhibition at the Glyndor Gallery, Wave Hill, Bronx, New York, March 6-May 31, 2004 [illus.]
Slurrymagazine.com, Spring 2003 issue, Editor: Scott Moules
10x10 Magazine, Spring 2003 issue
Gotham Magazine, May 2003, p. 103 [illus.]
Glueck, Grace, “Everybody Now: the crowd in Contemporary Art,” New York Times, Art in Review, November 30, 2001, p. E36.
“Everybody Now,” The New Yorker, December 10, 2001, p. 16.
Valdez, Sarah, “Everybody Now,” Time Out, November 15-22, 2001, p. 90.
Rubel, Casey, “Everybody Now,” Catalog for the exhibition at the Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter College/CUNY, October 25-December 8, 2001, p. 11-12.
Boyce, Roger, “Lake George Arts Project, Elizabeth Duffy and Sonita Singwi,” Art New England, October/November 2001, p. 46 [illus.].
Princenthal, Nancy, “Paper,” Art on Paper, July/August 2001, p. 70 [illus.].
Hough, Jessica, “Paper,” Catalog for the exhibition at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Jan.21-May 20, 2001; Ridgefield, Ct., p. 18-19 [illus.].
The Lake George Mirror, June 15, 2001, p. 14, [illus.].
The Post Star, Glens Falls, New York, Thursday, June 14, 2001, p. 7, [illus.].
Zimmer, William, “On Paper, a Show That Measures Up,” The New York Times, Sunday, March 18, 2001 [Ct. Edition], p. 11. [illus.].
Streitfeld, L.P., “Transformations at the Aldrich,” The Advocate & Greenwich Time, Sunday, February 11, 2001.
Merkling, Frank, “Katonah, Aldrich Shows shine in separate ways,” The News Times, Friday, February 2, 2001, p. D1-D8.
Chicago Art Journal, "Telos" Volume 10, Spring 2000, p. 72-73, 84-85 [illus.].
Fressola, Michael "Elements 2000," Staten Island Advance, January 28, 2000.
Bonenti, Charles, “New Art At Williams, BCC,” Berkshire Eagle, Dec. 16, 2000, p. A9, [illus.].
Clifford, Katie "Surface Structure," Artnews, November 1999, p. 196, [illus.].

REVIEWS OF CURATORIAL PROJECTS

“Office Space Curators’ Talk at the New Art Center”, Big Red on the Town, Big Red and Shiny, Issue 77, February 25, 2008
The Improper Bostonian, January 2008
McQuaid, Cate, “Hiding their Art in Plain Sight, Working Artists,” The Boston Globe, January 31, 2008
Bergeron, Chris, “Turning Office Clutter into Art,” The Daily News Tribune, January 31, 2008
Fagen, Sarah, “Office Space,” Art Scope, January, 2008

TEACHING

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

LECTURES AND VISITING ARTIST TALKS

2009
Colby College, Waterville, ME
2008
Marlboro College, Marlboro, VT, visiting critic
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, visiting critic
2007
Cooper Union, NY NY
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
2006
Cooper Union, NY, NY
2005
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
2004
Mississippi University for Women, Columbus, MS
New York College of Technology/CUNY, Brooklyn, NY
2003
Parsons School of Design, NY, NY, visiting critic, MFA Program
Cooper Union, New York, NY
New York College of Technology/CUNY, Brooklyn, NY
2002
Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
Cooper Union, New York, NY
New York College of Technology/CUNY, Brooklyn, NY
2001
Art Buzz, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut
Careers in Contemporary Art, Panelist; Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
2000
Artists Talk on Art, Panelist; in conjunction with Elements 2000 exhibition, Phoenix Gallery, New York, NY
Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY
Berkshire Community College, Pittsfield, MA

AWARDS/FELLOWSHIPS

2010 Yaddo Fellowship
2010 Rhode Island State Council on the Arts Merit Fellowship: Three Dimensional Art
2010 Fidelity Investments "Extreme Scale" Curatorial Award
2009, 2007  Roger Williams University Foundation to Promote Scholarship
2010, 2008, 2007, 2006  Merit Award, Roger Williams University, Bristol, RI
2005, 2004, 2003, 2002 MacDowell Fellowship
2004 Ragdale Foundation (declined)
2001 New York Foundation for the Arts: Felissimo Honoree
2001 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 Full Fellowship, Johnson, Vermont
1988 Graduate Scholarship, Hunter College/CUNY
1987 Harriet Rutter Eagleson Scholarship, Hunter College/CUNY

EDUCATION

MFA, Brooklyn College/CUNY, Brooklyn, New York, 1999
Certificate, NY Studio School of Painting, Drawing & Sculpture, New York, 1997
Hunter College/CUNY, New York
BA, Rutgers College, New Brunswick, New Jersey
Certificate, Université de Paris/La Sorbonne

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Dartmouth College, Rauner Special Collections Library, Hanover, NH
Deutsche Bank, New York, NY
Fidelity Investments
The Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ
Williamsburg Art and Historical Center, Brooklyn, NY