SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2014  S.H.E  GALLERY, Boonton, NJ

2013 ROSENFELD GALLERY, Philadelphia, Pa

2011 ROSENFELD GALLERY, Philadelphia, Pa

2010 CENTER FOR VISUAL ART, Summit, NJ

2009  JACK MEIR GALLERY, Houston, TX

OCEAN COUNTY ARTIST”S GUILD, Island Heights, NJ

2007 BLOCK GALLERY, Montclair, NJ

2006 PRESENT AND PAST, Goat Café Gallery, South Orange, NJ

2005 INTRODUCTIONS, Jack Meier Gallery, Houston, TX

FROM THE PAST, Philips Lighting Gallery, Somerset, NJ

2004 NEW WORK, Classic Design Gallery, Maplewood, NJ

2003 TIME WILL TELL, Pierro Gallery of South Orange, South Orange, NJ

2002 MIDWINTER SHOW, Sharon Gill, Montclair, NJ

2001 NEW WORK, Simon Gallery, Morristown, NJ

1999 PARK AVENUE CLUB, Florham Park, NJ

1996 RECENT WORK, Watchung Arts Center, Watchung, NJ

1995 IMAGES, MARKS, DREAMS, AND WORDS, MCA, Rutherford, NJ

TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2013  MAPPING TIME; A Collaboration, Firehouse Gallery, Orange, NJ

2008 JACK MEIER GALLERY, Houston, TX

2007 JACK MEIER GALLERY, Houston, TX

2005 SETON HALL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW, Newark, NJ

1998 SIMON GALLERY, Morristown, NJ

1997 POSTCARDS, Chubb Group of Insurance, Warren, NJ

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2013  PAINTING, Susan Eley Gallery, New York City,  NY

2013  SWEPT AWAY: Translucence, Transparence, Transcendence in Contemporary Encaustic. The Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA. Curated               by Michael Giaquinto.

2013 GROUP SHOW, Western Carolina State University Museum, Cullowhee, NC

2013 RED, A Gallery, Provincetown, MA

2013 ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM , Laconia Gallery, Boston MA

2013 WAX IS HOT, Amy Simon Gallery, West Port,Conn

2012 FROM WHERE I STAND, Rye Arts Center, Rye , NY

2012 MERGE, PRINTMAKING /ENCAUSTIC Castle Hill Gallery, Truro, Mass

2012  WAX: MEDIUM MEETS MESSAGE, Morean Arts Center,St Petersburg, Fl

2012  ENCAUSTICS WORKS 12, R&F  Handmade Paints Gallery, Kingston, NY

2011  KINDRED SPIRITS, Schiltkamp Gallery, Clark University, Worcester, MA

2011  MAKING THEIR MARK, Susan Eley Fine Art ,New York, NY

2011  THE AFFORDABLE ART FAIR, Anelle Gandelman Fine Art, New York, NY

2010  NEW JERSEY ARTS ANNUAL, “Reality & Artifice, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ

2010  SMALL GEMS, Butters Gallery, Portland. Oregon

2010  ILLUSIVE BALANCE: Transcendental Pattern and Layered Surface,Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series, New Brunswick, NJ

2009  RECENT ENCAUSTIC PAINTING USC Upstate Gallery, Spartanburg, SC

2009  CONNECTIONS, George Segal Gallery, Montclair, NJ

2008  BENNET GALLERY, Group Show, Atlanta, GA

2008  ROSENFELD GALLERY, Small Works, Philadelphia, PA

2008  RYE ART GALLERY, Rye, NY

2008  ROSENFELD GALLERY, New Talent, Philadelphia, Pa

2007  SMALL JEWELS, L Ross Gallery, Memphis, TN

2007  NAVIGATION, Art Gotham, New York, NY

2007  BENEATH THE SURFACE, Art Forms Gallery, Red Bank. NJ

2004  DRAWING SHOW, Beshert Gallery, Montclair, NJ

2004  SYNOPSIS @10, Pierro Gallery of South Orange, South Orange, NJ

2003  COLOR & CONCEPT, Seton Hall University School of Law, Newark, NJ

2002  21st ANNUAL METRO SHOW, City Without Walls Gallery, Newark, NJ,Curators: Joyce Korotin, Patterson Sims, Lauren Wittels

2002  GROUP SHOW, Confident Gallery, St Petersburg, FL

2001  WHEN TWO BECOMES ONE, City Without Walls Gallery, Newark, NJ Curator: Peter Tilgner

2000 ESSEX EXPOSED, Gallery of South Orange, NJ, Jurors: Jim Murray, Yoalnd Skeete, Greg Smith

2000  CWW 25th ANNIVERSARY SHOW, Seton Hall University School of Law Newark, NJ Curator: Stephen Sennot

1999  18th ANNUAL METRO SHOW, City Without Walls Gallery, Newark, NJ Jurors: Alejandro Anreus, Victor Davson, Judy Wukitsch

1999  CHROMATICALLY SPEAKING, Seton Hall University School of Law, Newark, NJ Curator: Stephen Sennot

1998  WORKS ON PAPER, Simon Gallery, Morristown, NJ

1998  HEART WORKS, Gallery R, New York, NY, Curator: Sharon Gill

1998 DARK, City Without Walls Gallery, Newark, NJ, Curator: Joan Vaccaro

1996 COLORS AND CONUNDRUMS, Seton Hall University School of Law, Newark, NJ, Curator: Stephen Sennot

1993 REGIONAL JURIED EXHIBITION, “JANUS, God of the Doorway,” Williams Carlos Williams Center for the Arts, Rutherford, NJ, Curator: Stephen Sennot

1992 ELLARSLILE OPEN XL, Trenton City Museum, Trenton, NJ

1992 WOMEN IN ABSTRACTION, Broadway Mall Gallery, New York, NY Curator: Michelle Bonelli

1991 GEOMETRIC ABSTRACTION/MASKED MEDIA, City Without Walls Gallery, Newark, NJ, Curator: Deborah Swack

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2013  Introduction to Encaustic, Penland, North  Carolina

2011/2012 Painting and Mixed Media, R&F Handmade Paint, Kingston, NY

2011 Approaching Abstraction in the Landscape, Art In the Frame, Cortona , Italy

2011 Using Mixed Media to Discover Your Voice, Truro Canter for the Arts at Castle Hill, Truro, MA

2011 Beginning Encaustic, Snow Farm, Williamsburg, MA

2011 Experimental Drawing Workshop, Visual Arts Center of NJ, Summit, NJ

2007-present Beginning Encaustic Class, Visual Arts Center of NJ, Summit, NJ

2007-present Advanced Encaustic Class, Visual Arts Center of NJ, Summit, NJ

2007-present Beginning and Advanced Encaustic Workshops, Visual Arts Center of NJ, Summit, NJ

2010 Encaustic Intensive, Peter’s Valley Arts and Crafts Center, Layton, NJ

2010 Beginning Encaustic Workshop, Old Church School, Demarest, NJ

2010 Pigment Stick Workshop, Visual Arts Center of NJ

2010 Encaustic Workshop, Printmaking Council, Somerset, NJ

2010 Pigment Stick Workshop. Newark Museum, NJ

2009 Encaustic Workshop, Printmaking Council, Somerset, NJ

2009 Pigment Stick Workshop. Newark Museum, NJ

2009 Encaustic 3d Workshop, Newark Museum, NJ

2009 Encaustic Intensive, Peter’s Valley Arts and Crafts Center, Layton, NJ

RELATED EDUCATION ACTIVITES

2011 PRESENTER, The Encaustic Studio A digital look into artist’s studios from around the country.

2010 PRESENTER, The Encaustic Studio A digital look into artist’s studios from around the country.

The Fourth Annual Conference of Encaustic Painting Beverly, MA

2010 JUROR, Member Show, West Orange Arts Council, West Orange, NJ

2009-10 Encaustic Demonstration, R & F Handmade Paint, NJCVA, Summit NJ

2008 Encaustic Demonstration, Jerry’s Art Supply, West Orange, NJ

2008 JUROR Member Show Edison Arts Society, Edison, NJ

Visiting Artist Lectures

2012, Artist Talk, WAX: MEDIUM MEETS MESSAGE, Morean Arts Center, St Petersburg, Fl

2010, Artist Talk, KINDRED SPIRITS, Schiltkamp Gallery, Clark University, Worcester, MA

2010 Artist Talk, ILLUSIVE BALANCE: Transcendental Pattern and Layered Surface, Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series,

New Brunswick, NJ

2009, Who Does She Think She is? Panel Discussion about movie by Pamela Tanner Bell, St. Elizabeth’s College, Madison NJ

Bibliography

May 2012, Institute for Women and Art, 40 years of Women in Art at Douglass Library,

http://iwa.rutgers.edu/programs/mary-h-dana-women-artists-series/40-years-of-women-artists-at-douglass-library/

March, 2012 Tampa Bay Art, “Wax is Hot,” Randy Allen

http://tampabayart.com/2012/03/wax-is-hot-and-memberships-are-back-at-the-morean-arts-center/

March 2012 Art Taco, “Wax: Medium Meets Message at the Morean Arts Center,” Luis Gottardi,

http://art-taco.blogspot.com/2012/03/wax-medium-meets-message-morean-arts.html

January 2011, PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, Edith Newhall, Meticulous and Abstract, they’re back on the Scene

March 2010, PARK PLACE MAGAZINE, Susan Brierly. The Art of The Party

December 2010,  John Seed’s Studio Visits, published in the Huffington Post,

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-seed/10-great-paintings-10-stu_b_790487.html#s184879&title=Lisa_Adams_In

November 2009, R&FHANDMADE PAINTS, R&F Artist of the Month, Interview with R&FHandmade Paints, http://www.rfpaints.com/

August 2009, THE NEW YORK TIMES, Nancy Tobin, West of Chelsea: Lisa Pressman

http://maplewood.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/24/west-of-

July 2009, Contemporaries-eleven abstract painters on slideshare.net

June 2002,WESTFIELD LEADER, Michelle H. LePoidevin,“The Franks Flourish”

February 1998, STAR LEDGER, Dan Bishoff,“Art”

December 1996, NEW JERSEY MONTHLY, Cara Birnbaum, “Out & About”

December 1996, DAILY RECORD, Marion Filler,“Get Close to Work of 4 Artists”

December, 1996, DAILY RECORD, Press release, Simon Gallery, “Spotlighting Four Women Artists”

July 1995, STAR LEDGER, Eileen Watkins, “Art”

July 1995, STAR LEDGER, Joan Devlin, “In the Towns”

July 1995, STAR LEDGER, Eileen Watkins, “Art”

December 1992, ART SPEAK, “Women Assume Their Place”, Meredith Hall

EDUCATION

1983 MFA, Painting, Bard College, Annandale-on-the-Hudson, NY

1979 BA, Fine Arts Douglass College, Rutgers, New Brunswick, NJ

REPRESENTED BY

Susan Calloway Fine Art, Washington, DC

Butters Gallery, Portland Oregon

Rosenfeld Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Anele Gandelman Gallery, Larchmont, NY

Jack Meier Gallery, Houston, TX

Allyn Gallup Contemporary