Illusive Balance:Transcendental Pattern & Layered Surface

Marsha Goldberg, Nicole Ianuzelli, Lisa Pressman, and Debra Ramsay

March 17 - June 7, 2010

Mary H. Dana Women Artist SeriesDouglass Library Galleries, Mabel Smith Douglass Library

8 Chapel Drive, New Brunswick, NJ 08901Gallery Hours: M - F 9am - 4:30pm; Weekends by Appointment

THE INSTITUTE FOR WOMEN AND ARTThe vision of the Rutgers Institute for Women and Art (IWA) is to transform values, policies, and institutions, and to insure that the intellectual and aesthetic contributions of diverse communities of women in the visual arts are included in the cultural mainstream and acknowledged in the historical record. The mission of the Rutgers Institute for Women and Art is to invent, implement, and conduct live and virtual education, research, documentation, public programs, and exhibitions focused on women artists and feminist art. The IWA strives to establish equality and visibility for all women artists, who are underrepresented and unrecognized in art history, the art market, and the contemporary art world, and to address their professional development needs. The IWA endeavors to serve all women in the visual arts and diverse global, national, regional, state, and university audiences.

Founded in 2006, the Institute for Women & Art is actively engaged in: •Exhibitionsandpublicprogrammingorganizedbytheaward-winningandnationallyrecognizedMaryH.DanaWomenArtistsSeries,founded in 1971 by Joan Snyder, and other sponsored events through the US and abroad. (http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/exhibits/dana_womens.shtml). •EducationalandcurriculardevelopmentledbyTheFeministArtProject(TFAP)websiteandFARE:FeministArtResourcesinEducationfor, K-12, college students and their teachers. (http://feministartproject.rutgers.edu/).

•ResearchanddocumentationfacilitatedbytheGettyandNewJerseyStateCouncilontheArts-fundedWomenArtistsArchivesNational Directory: WAAND, as well as the archival collections found in the Miriam Schapiro Archives on Women Artists at the Rutgers University Libraries (http://waand.rutgers.edu).

IWA Staff:Ferris Olin and Judith K. Brodsky, directors, Institute for Women and Art and curators, Dana Women Artists SeriesNicoleIanuzelli,projectmanager,DanaWomenArtistsSeriesandInstituteforWomenandArtConnieTell,projectmanager,TheFeministArtProject Special Thanks:EileenBehnke,IWAGraduateAssistantLeigh-Anya Passamano, IWA Graduate AssistantKelly Worth, Administration, Rutgers University LibrariesWhitneyWright,DouglassCollegeExternTamiyah Yancey, IWA Undergraduaute Assistant

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Introduction

We are pleased to present this group show that includes the work of four emerging artists. These women were among more than300whosubmittedworkforconsiderationbyourjuryofvisualartsprofessionals.ThejurywascomprisedofSherylConkelton, Marilyn Symmes, and Daniel Veneziano. They found each of their portfolios very compelling and suggested to us thatwemountthisshow.Init,wewantedtodemonstratehowabstractionisbeingportrayedinthefirstdecadeofthe21stcentury.

Lisa Pressman and Debra Ramsay work in encaustic, primarily; while Marsha Goldberg and Nicole Ianuzelli use oil and acrylic astheirmedium.Ineachoftheirworks,wefindabeautyofgeometry,line,composition,andcolorthatisinconversationwiththeir series as well as with each other’s works. In addition, all four artists work large and small and this led us to select works on paper as well as on canvas and in several sizes to be on view in the Douglass Library Galleries.

Marsha Goldberg (BFA, Boston University. Highland Park, NJ) and Nicole Ianuzelli (South Bound Brook, NJ) are graduates of Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers, and work in oil and acrylic. In Goldberg’s paintings and drawings, she uses calligraphic lines as gestural marks. She explores the experience of mark-making as a language that is seemingly accessible but ultimately elusive. Ianuzelli’s paintings play with atmospheric color, solid form, and compressed space; simultaneously suggesting and denying the viewer the perception of spatial shift and distance, within the solid and atmospheric patterns of the foreground and background.

Lisa Pressman (West Orange, NJ) and Debra Ramsay (New York City, NY) work primarily in encaustics. Lisa Pressman is a graduate of Douglass & Bard Colleges. Her paintings and drawings are process-oriented and each mark, color, word, and gesture are a response to earlier marks made. She allows for a relationship between intentional and accidental mark-making to unfold as she discovers her images. Debra Ramsay is a graduate of Oregon State University and Brooklyn College. Ramsay uses formal means, (such as mathematical equations), to restrict herself in her art-making process. She believes this grants her the freedom to explore the concept of perfection, the intrinsic beauty of two equal parts and visualize the complexities of balance.

The internationally reknown and award-winning architect, Zaha Hadid, in a recent New Yorkerprofile,hassaidthatforher“Abstraction opened up the possibility of unfettered invention.” With Illusive Balance: Transcendental Pattern and Layered Surface, we see evidence of how this notion is expressed in two dimensions.

Judith K. Brodsky and Ferris Olin

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Artist Statement: Marsha Goldberg

The calligraphic lines in the paintings are made with an attitude of free association, often in response to music. The marks seem accessiblebutarefinallyelusive,anexperiencecomparabletowhatonemayhavewhentravelinginaforeigncountry,feelingas if one could read the language but ultimately only understanding it as a picture or decorative line. That the mark is made withintheconfinesofruledlinesincreasesitsresemblancetotextandlanguage.Theworkalsomakesreferencetogesturalpainting—the gestural mark in these paintings is reiterated, and sometimes canceled, by tracing it or painting the negative space around it. This slow and considered method of presenting the initially spontaneous mark is a meditation on the art-making process.

In the drawings, marks are made on both sides of translucent synthetic paper. Colored pencil is used to measure space and restrain the mark. The lines that are drawn with brush and ink are, in places, presented from the reverse side of the paper or scraped—further means for reconsidering the intuitive gesture.

Another idea underlying much of this work concerns the concept and reality of borders. I have lived and traveled in the Middle East,whereenteringaneighboringstatecanbelike“passingthroughthelookingglass”forthewaysinwhichlandscapeandpeople are both like and unlike. In some of this work, the image surface is divided into two spaces that are related yet distinctly separate.

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Marsha Goldberg, Free Zone, 2009, oil on canvas, 48 x 48 inches Marsha Goldberg, Six Suites, 2009, oil on canvas, 42 x 42 inches

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Marsha Goldberg, Fadeout, 2009, oil on canvas, 60 x 30 inches

Marsha Goldberg, Double Double, 2009, oil on canvas, 42 x 42 inches

Marsha Goldberg, Full Twist, 2009 oil on canvas, 42 x 42 inches

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Marsha Goldberg, Lost Language, (left to right) #’s 8, 16, 17,18, 22, 33, 34, 35, 2009, ink and colored pencil on Yupo9 x 12 inches

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Marsha Goldberg, In E Flat, 2009 oil on canvas, 20 x 20 inches

Marsha Goldberg, Swingtime, 2009 oil on canvas, 20 x 20 inches

Marsha Goldberg, In F, 2009, oil on canvas, 20 x 20 inches

Marsha Goldberg,Turnaround, 2009, oil on canvas, 20 x 20 inches

Marsha Goldberg

Education MFA Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University BFA Painting, Boston University Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Brandeis University

Solo Exhibitions 2010 Between the Lines: New Paintings, PrograminWomen&GenderStudiesExhibitionSpace,PrincetonUniversity,Princeton,NJ2009 Marsha Goldberg: Paintings & Drawings, Beard and Weil Galleries, Wheaton College, Norton, MA2008 Paintings & Works on Paper, Nancy Dryfoos Gallery, Kean University, Union, NJ2004 MFA Thesis Exhibition, Mason Gross Gallery, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ1992 Paintings and Prints, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH Travelers, Rugg Road Gallery, Somerville, MA1990 Paintings and Drawings, Somerville Museum, Somerville, MA1985 Recent Work, Mills Gallery, Boston, MA1983 Paintings, Mills Gallery, Boston, MA

Selected Group Exhibitions2010 Illusive Balance: Transcendental Pattern and Layered Surface, Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series, Douglass Library Galleries, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ2009 Adjunct Faculty Exhibition, James Howe Gallery, Kean University, Union, NJ Undercover: Disguise and Deception in (Some) Contemporary Art, Arts Guild of Rahway, Rahway, NJ Dead of Winter, StudioTheatreGallery,MiddlesexCollege,Edison,NJ Artists at Work, StudioTheatreGallery,MiddlesexCollege,Edison,NJ2008 Then and Now, Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, MA Painting as Presence, Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT Field Report: Work by Members of The Boston Printmakers, TravelingExhibition2007 The Nature of Duality, Brennan Gallery, Jersey City, NJ New Jersey Arts Annual, Noyes Museum of Art, Oceanville, NJ2006 Studios @35, Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA Adjunct Faculty Exhibition, James Howe Gallery, Kean University, Union, NJ2005 American Impressions: Contemporary American Printmaking, Ben Shahn Center, William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ2004 Works on Paper, Visceglia Gallery, Caldwell College, Caldwell, NJ2003 Works by Women from the Collection of the Boston Public Library, Wiggin Gallery, Boston, MA Fall 2003: Faculty and Student Exhibition, Mason Gross Gallery, Rutgers University, NJ 2002 Generations III, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY2001 Cycles, Ceres Gallery, New York, NY2000 Art at Steepletop, Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY1998 Paths to Abstraction, Butler Gallery, Marymount College, Tarrytown, NY

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1996 Summer Group Show, Andrea Marquit Fine Arts, Boston, MA Tucson Collection ‘96, Davis Dominguez Gallery, Tucson, AZ1995 13th Biennial Invitational, Dinnerware Gallery, Tucson, AZ1991 Tree as Image, Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA Boston Printmakers 43rd North American Print Exhibition, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA1989 Tira Tutti: A Collaborative Installation, Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, MA1987 Figures in a Landscape, a collaborative installation, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA The Subject is Water, Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI1986 Works on Paper, BerkshireMuseum,Pittsfield,MA1984 A Sense of Place, Montserrat School of Visual Art, Beverly, MA1983 Art of the State: 1983, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA

CollectionsArt Complex Museum, Duxbury, MABoston Public Library, Boston, MABristol-Myers Squibb Company, New Brunswick, NJFogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MAWheaton College, Norton, MANumerous Private Collections

Awards and Professional Experience2004-10 MemberofBostonPrintmakersatEmmanuelCollege1992 Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant recipient, Somerville Arts Council1991 Fellowship recipient, Ucross Foundation Residency Program, Ucross, WY1990 Massachusetts Arts Lottery Grant recipient, Somerville Arts Council1989 Residency at Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY1987 Residency at Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, VA1983 Finalist in Painting at the Massachusetts Council for the Arts Fellowship Program

Selected BibliographyParks, Addison, “ Art Now: Gestures of Trees, the Paintings of Marsha Goldberg,” Dec. 16, 1990, Christian Science Monitor.Taylor, Robert, “Art of the State: 1983,” July 3, 1983, Boston Sunday Globe.Temin, Christine, “Shades of Bali and Varied Prints at Brickbottom,” Sept. 16, 1992, Boston Globe.

Linksafonline.artistsspace.org/view_artist.php?aid=8425flatfiles.pierogi2000.com/index.php?ar=612www.drawingcenter.org/viewingprogram/portfolio.cfmwww.skowheganart.org/?page=art-registry&art_work_selected=2549

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Artist Statement: Nicole Ianuzelli

My paintings are contemplative works that play with atmosphere, solid form, and compressed space. I use vivid, saturated transparent and opaque colors in concert with subconsciously familiar hard-edge patterns and deadpan structures. The veils of transparent color that serve as the ground in the works contrast and interact with the opaque forms that serve as the foreground- invoking sublime shifts of scale, but not of depth, within the picture plane. This in turn simultaneously suggests and denies the viewer the perception of spatial shift and distance, creating a visual mid-ground between two- and three-dimensional space and form.

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Nicole Ianuzelli, Corridor (Empress), 2008, latex & oil on canvas, 36 x 36 inches Nicole Ianuzelli, Corridor (Enchantress), 2010, latex & oil on canvas,

48 x 36 inches

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Nicole Ianuzelli, Grave, 2007, latex & oil on canvas, 22 x 30 inches

Nicole Ianuzelli, Ground Shift, 2007, latex & oil on canvas, 22 x 30 inches

Nicole Ianuzelli, Corridor (Untitled), 2009, pen and & oil on board, 7.125 x 7 inches

Nicole Ianuzelli Melon, 2009, latex & oil on board,6 x 6 inches

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Nicole Ianuzelli, Death Leap 3, 2010, latex & oil on canvas, 6 x 12 inches

Nicole Ianuzelli, Rose, 2009, latex & oil on board, 7.25 x 6.25 inches

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Envelope 2, 2007, latex & oil on canvas, 32 x 36 inches Envelope 3, 2009, latex & oil on board, 7.25 x 6.25 inches

Nicole Ianuzelli

Education2006 BFA Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ2003 AssociatesinVisualArt,MiddlesexCountyCollege,Edison,NJ

Group Exhibitions

2010 Illusive Balance: Transcendental Pattern & Layered Surface, The Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series, Douglass Library Galleries, Rutgers University2006 Clysmacaña,BFAThesisExhibition,MasonGrossSchooloftheArtsGalleries,RutgersUniversity2005 BFA Annual Open, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University2003 Annual Exhibition, Middlesex County College

Awards and Professional Experience

2007-Present ProjectManager,theMaryH.DanaWomenArtistsSeries&theInstituteforWomenandArt, Rutgers University2008 Lost and Found: Black and Blue, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY (Installation assistant)2006 BenandEvelynFoundationAwardforOutstandingAchievementinPainting,RutgersUniversity2006 Clysmacaña, BFA thesis installation committee, Mason Gross School of the Arts Galleries, Rutgers University2005 More, More, More, Recitation Gallery, Delaware State University (Installation assistant)2004 Mason Gross School of the Arts Galleries, Rutgers University, (Installation assistant)2003 ExcellenceinArtAward,MiddlesexCountyCollege

Linkshttp://iwa.rutgers.edu/http://afonline.artistsspace.org/view_artist.php?aid=5001http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/exhibits/dana_womens.shtmlhttp://www.facebook.com/pages/Institute-for-Women-and-Art/120126454691

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Artist Statement: Lisa Pressman

My paintings are motivated by the images and experiences that signify evidence of time and change. Shadows on a wall, tar marksonthestreetandthecolorsoffallenleavesarejustafewoftheconnectionsthatenterintothestudio.

Theprocesscontinueswithamark,acolor,aword,ajournalpage,agesture.Iaminterestedinallowingarelationshipbetweenintent and accident to unfold. Playing translucent and opaque layers of pigmented beeswax against each other, drawing, layering, covering up, sanding, and scraping leads to the discovery of the image.

The history of the process then becomes inseparable from the exploration, through image, of time and memory. The paintings become an abstract story that cannot be read literally. I am interested in the not knowing.

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Lisa Pressman, Whirlwind 1, 2009, encaustic & oil on panel, 24 x 24 inches

Lisa Pressman, The Other Side, 2009, encaustic & oil on panel, 24 x 24 inches

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Lisa Pressman, Below the Surface, 2009, encaustic & oil on panel, 24 x 24 inches

Lisa Pressman, Whirlwind 2, 2009, encaustic & oil on panel, 24 x 24 inches

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Lisa Pressman, Transparent Thinking, 2009, encaustic & oil on panel, 24 x 24 inches

Lisa Pressman, Element of Air, 2009, encaustic & oil on panel, 24 x 24 inches

21Lisa Pressman (left to right) #’s 10, 5, 9, 8, 7, 1, 2, 4, 6. 2009-10, encaustic on paper, 12 x 12 inches each

Lisa Pressman

Education 1983 Masters of Fine Art, Painting, Bard College, Annandale-on-the-Hudson, NY1979 BFA in Fine Arts Douglass College, Rutgers, New Brunswick,NJ

Solo Exhibitions2011 Rosenfeld Gallery, Philadelphia, PA2010 Center for Visual Art, Summit. NJ2009 Jack Meir Gallery, Houston, TX2007 Block Gallery, Montclair, NJ2007 New Work, CDF Gallery, Maplewood, NJ2005 Introductions, Jack Meier Gallery, Houston, TX2004 New Work, Classic Design Gallery, Maplewood, NJ2003 Time Will Tell, Pierro Gallery of South Orange, South Orange, NJ2002 Midwinter Show, Sharon Gill, Montclair, NJ2001 New Work, Simon Gallery, Morristown, NJ1996 Recent Work, Watchung Arts Center, Watchung, NJ1995 Images, Marks, Dreams, and Words, MCA, Rutherford, NJ

Two-Person Exhibtions2008 Jack Meier Gallery, Houston, TX 2007 Jack Meier Gallery, Houston, TX2005 Seton Hall University School of Law, Newark, NJ1998 Simon Gallery, Morristown, NJ1997 Postcards, Chubb Group of Insurance, Warren, NJ

Selected Group Exhibitions 2010 Little Gems, Butters Gallery, Portland, OR2010 Illusive Balance: Transcendental Pattern and Layered Surface, Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series, Douglass Library Galleries, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ2009 Recent Encaustic Painting, USC Upsate Gallery, Spartanburg, SC Gaelen Gallery, West Orange, NJ Encaustic Wax, An Ancient Medium Rediscovered, Watchung Ar Center, Watchung,NJ Connections, George Segal Gallery, Montclair, NJ2008 Bennet Gallery, Atlanta, GA Small Works, Rosenfeld Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Rye Art Gallery, Rye, NY New Talent, Rosenfeld Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Bee-ing, Arts Guild of Rahway, Rahway, NJ

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2007 Encaustic Show, Montclair Library, Montclair,NJ2006 Small Jewels, L Ross Gallery, Memphis, TN Local Color, Art Space 129, Montclair, NJ Navigation, Art Gotham, New York, NY Beneath the Surface, Art Forms Gallery, Red Bank. NJ About Drawing, Montclair Library, Montclair, NJ2004 Drawing Show, Beshert Gallery, Montclair, NJ Synopsis @10, Pierro Gallery of South Orange, South Orange, NJ2003 Color & Concept, Seton Hall University School of Law, Newark, NJ2002 ConfidentGallery,StPetersburg,FL Fredrich Clement Gallery, Montclair, NJ2001 When Two Becomes One, curator: Peter Tilgner, City Without Walls Gallery, Newark, NJ CWW 25th Anniversary Show, curator: Stephen Sennot, Seton Hall University School of Law, Newark, NJ1998 Works on Paper, Simon Gallery, Morristown, NJ Heart Works, curator: Sharon Gill, Gallery R, New York, NY Dark, curator: Joan Vaccaro, City Without Walls Gallery, Newark, NJ1997 Simon Gallery, Morristown, NJ1996 Colors and Conundrums, curator: Stephen Sennot, Seton Hall University School of Law, Newark, NJ 1993 Janus: God of the Doorway,RegionalJuriedExhibition,curator:StephenSennot,WilliamsCarlosWilliamsCenterfortheArts,Rutherford,NJ

Selected Corporate Collections EvergreenSpotTradingCorporation,NYHarvest Group, Post 390 Restaurant, Boston, MAHyatt Regency, Atlanta, GAHyatt Regency, Chicago, ILMcKinsey Financial Corporation, NYOmni Hotel and Resort, Champions Gate, FLPierre’s Restaurant, Monmouth Junction, NJ Restaurant Serenade, Chatham, NJRumson International, NJSun Chemical Corporation, Parsippany, NJVatche Simonian, Inc., Morristown, NJZais Group, Red Bank, NJ

Related Activities2010 Presenter, The Encaustic Studio: A Digital Look into Artist’s Studios from Around the Country,TheFourthAnnualConferenceofEncausticPainting Beverly, MA

LinksR&F Artist of the Month / Lisa Pressman, http://www.rfpaints.com/index.php?option=com_morfeoshow&task=view&gallery=50&Itemid=58West of Chelsea: Lisa Pressman, http://maplewood.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/24/west-of-chelsea-lisa-pressman/

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Artist Statement: Debra Ramsay

We seek balance in our lives. It can involve seeking literal balance, which consists of two things being equal. More subtle is a balancereachedbythepartsbeingincorrectproportiontoeachother,whichisasubjectivething(homeostasisisanexampleofthis…thepartsarenotallpresentinequalamounts,there’sadynamicfluxthatkeepsthesystemworking). “Calculated Perceptions” is a series of my work that examines perceived and measured balance. In Other Words is a work involvingsubjectivebalanceandincorporatestheelementofchanceinitsmaking.Foreachofthe17panels,adiewasrolledtoselect answers from 6 questions I wrote in advance. The number on the die corresponded to an answer possibility for each of the questions, thus determining how each panel would be created (102 die rolls). One question addressed bringing an aspect from the previous panel forward to the next panel. That question rotated through the list of possibilities, i.e. sometimes it was the size of the panel, next it was the dimension of a segment of the previous panel, etc. The die also determined when there would be a “stop” in the question sequence and a return to question 1 would occur. This is evident where the alignment of the panels shifts from top to bottom edges aligned. Other questions/aspects that the die chose are: panel size, size of surface area covered in eggshell or paint, color, and eggshell fragment size.

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Debra Ramsay, In Other Words: An Installation of Chance, 2008, wax and eggshell on birch panels, 17 panels, about 22 inches x 24 feet

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(Details) Debra Ramsay , In Other Words: An Installation of Chance, 2008, wax and eggshell on birch panels, 17 panels, about 22 inches x 24 feet

(Details) Debra Ramsay, In Other Words: An Installation of Chance, 2008, wax and eggshell on birch panels, 17 panels, about 22 inches x 24 feet

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28Debra Ramsay, Calculated Perception : 8 Forms, 2009, wax and graphite on paper, 8 pieces, each 8 inches x 5.5 inches

Debra Ramsay

Education Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR B.A., Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

Selected Solo Exhibitions2009 Balancing Act, Blank Space, NY, NY 2008 Boundary, eo Art Lab, Chester, CT2007 Opening to Perception, Franklin 54, New York, NY2003 Seeds of Origins, Arsenal Gallery, New York, NY Group Exhibitions2010 Illusive Balance:Transcendental Pattern and Layered Surface, Mary H. Dana Women Artist Series, Douglass Library Galleries, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ Encaustic Invitational, Westchester Community College Center For The Arts, White Plains, NY 2009 32nd Small Works,juror:DanielFerris,NewYorkUniversityWashingtonSquareEastGallery,NewYork,NY In the Middle, Push & Pull, Give & Take, eo Art Lab, Chester, CT Stayin’ Alive, Metaphor Contemporary, Brooklyn, NY2008 Small Packages 14, Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, TN Group Experiment, eo Art Lab, Chester, CT Art: Mathematics in the Visual Field,curator:VirginiaButera,PhD,MaloneyGallery,CollegeofStElizabeth,Morristown,NJ2007 12 x12, Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson, AZ Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, TN Mostly White, Franklin 54 Gallery, New York, NY From Minimum to Maximum, Lascano Gallery, Great Barrington, MA National Encaustic Conference, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA 2nd Annual Encaustic Invitational, Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson, AZ2006 Lascano Gallery, Great Barrington, MA2005 Incognito, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA Franklin 54 Gallery, New York, NY Rochford & Messick Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM Haddad Lascano Gallery, Great Barrington, MA Sara Nightingale Gallery, Water Mill, NY Hudson Opera House, Hudson, NY 2004 Haddad Lascano Gallery, Great Barrington, MA Looking In Looking Out, Paul Mellon Arts Center, Wallingford, CT Abstraction, Graphics Gallery, New York, NY

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Bibliography Ed McCormack, Gallery & Studio Magazine, February/March 2007. Ramsay, Debra, “Crossing,” Calyx: A Journal of Art and Literature by Women, vol. 22, no.3, summer 2005, p. 42.

Selected Collections9/11 Memorial Museum, New York, NYAlliance Bernstein, New York, NYMandarin Oriental Hotel, Atlanta, GANorth Plains Public Library, North Plains, ORQueens Hospital Center, Queens, NYRitz-Carlton, DubaiSt. Francis Hotel, San Francisco, CATyra Banks, Private CollectionWillRamsay,CEOPulseContemporaryArtFairs,London,England

LinksCoincidentally: Ramsay and Mann, http://joannemattera.blogspot.com/2009/10/coincidentally-ramsay-and-mann.htmlDebra Ramsay’s Art Influences, http://lisapressman.blogspot.com/2009/10/debra-ramsays-art-influences.htmlR&F Artist of the Month / Debra Ramsay, http://rfpaints.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=332%3Adebra-ramsay&catid=301%3Ainstructors

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This exhibition has been organized by the Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series, a program of the Rutgers Institute for Women and Art (IWA) in partnershipwiththeRutgersUniversityLibraries.TheIWAoperatesasacenteroftheOfficeoftheAssociateVicePresidentforAcademic&PublicPartnershipsintheArts&Humanities.Seriesco-sponsorsinclude:AssociateAlumnaeofDouglassCollege,BrodskyCenterforInnovativeEditions,InstituteforResearchonWomen,OfficeoftheDeanofDouglassResidentialCollegeandDouglassCampus,TheFeministArtProject,Womenand Gender Studies Department, and the Women Artists Archives National Directory. These events are made possible in part by funds from the NationalEndowmentfortheArtsandtheNewJerseyStateCouncilontheArts/DepartmentofState,aPartnerAgencyoftheNationalEndowmentfor the Arts.

ThisexhibitionismadepossibleinpartbyfundsfromtheEstelleLebowitzMemorialFund.EstelleLebowitz(1930-1996)wasbornandraisedinNewYork. She attended the High School of Music and Art and Brooklyn College. Her work has been exhibited in Sommers Town Gallery, Sommers, NY; Coster’s Gallery, Highland Park, NJ; The Gallery at Busch Campus Center, Piscataway, NJ; and the Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series, New Brunswick, NJ;ArtLibraryatRutgers,NewBrunswick,NJ.Inherartist’sstatementshewrote,“Mywork(s)maybedescribedaswomen’sfeminineobjectswithovertonesofnature.Theyaresemi-abstractimagesthataremostlyfantasies,influencedoriginallybeImpressionismandbroughtintoModernismbymy own style and technique. Light and color are very important in my work...and they each mean something.”

Lebowitz Lectureship:2010-2011: Joan Snyder2009-2010: Cecilia Vicuña2008-2009: Renée Cox2007-2008: Berni Searle2006-2007: May Stevens2005-2006: Molly Snyder-Fink2004-2005: Miriam Schapiro2001-2002: Hung Liu2000-2001: June Wayne, Siri Berg1999-2000: Carolee Schneemann

EstelleLebowitz,1992,Untitled

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