CJ Lori
ARTIST STATEMENT
The desire to have another see through my eyes is a compelling motivation. To me, painting is a form of communication through which I try to convey my experience so that the viewer will see what I see and feel what I feel. I exaggerate or distort color, form and composition to emphasize sensations that are often contradictory: clarity and mystery, excitement and sorrow, beauty and decay.
In the “Trees Leaving” series, these contradictions also incorporate a touch of humor. They are part homage to Magritte’s floating men in bowler hats, part ecological statement and part allegory of loss, liberation and the yearning for escape.
I paint a landscape as a metaphoric portrait in which we can see ourselves. The shapes, gestures and surfaces of the trees reveal my affinity for anthropomorphosis. Despite its status as scientific taboo, I prefer to explore the empathic implications of humanizing the elements of landscape. By identifying with our environment, we are more likely to appreciate its significance and fragility, and to deepen our individual connections with it.
My primary medium is oil paint on canvas, wood or panel. Paint is applied in many layers, building and adding nuance through color and transparent glazes. I often work with tiny brushes for fine detail. I find satisfaction in intricacy, because it appeals to me viscerally, and because it parallels some of the complexities I am trying to capture and express in my work. Through my paintings, I try to simultaneously celebrate the splendor that surrounds us while acknowledging its inevitable ruin.
BIO
The desire to have another see through my eyes is a compelling motivation. To me, painting is a form of communication through which I try to convey my experience so that the viewer will see what I see and feel what I feel. I exaggerate or distort color, form and composition to emphasize sensations that are often contradictory: clarity and mystery, excitement and sorrow, beauty and decay.
In the “Trees Leaving” series, these contradictions also incorporate a touch of humor. They are part homage to Magritte’s floating men in bowler hats, part ecological statement and part allegory of loss, liberation and the yearning for escape.
I paint a landscape as a metaphoric portrait in which we can see ourselves. The shapes, gestures and surfaces of the trees reveal my affinity for anthropomorphosis. Despite its status as scientific taboo, I prefer to explore the empathic implications of humanizing the elements of landscape. By identifying with our environment, we are more likely to appreciate its significance and fragility, and to deepen our individual connections with it.
My primary medium is oil paint on canvas, wood or panel. Paint is applied in many layers, building and adding nuance through color and transparent glazes. I often work with tiny brushes for fine detail. I find satisfaction in intricacy, because it appeals to me viscerally, and because it parallels some of the complexities I am trying to capture and express in my work. Through my paintings, I try to simultaneously celebrate the splendor that surrounds us while acknowledging its inevitable ruin.
PHOTO David Weinberg
C. J. Lori is an oil painter living in Brookline, Massachusetts. Her work reflects her interest in literature, anthropology and psychology, as well as an abiding fascination with the natural world. Often called “Neo-surrealism” or “magic realism,” Ms. Lori’s paintings explore the complex relationship between humanity and the environment. She exaggerates or distorts color, form and composition to emphasize sensations that are often contradictory: clarity and mystery, excitement and sorrow, beauty and decay.
Ms. Lori’s artwork has been exhibited in solo and group shows throughout New England, and in New York and Chicago. She had a solo exhibition, Close to the Trees, in June, 2019 at Galatea Fine Art in Boston. Her work has been shown at the Danforth Museum in Framingham in OFF THE WALL, Community of Artists, and Figure, Fantasy and Illusion, Selections from the Arthur S. Goldberg Collection. In 2007, she won first prize in Paint!, a national exhibition juried by artist Gerry Bergstein at the South Shore Arts Center.
Committed to art activism, Ms. Lori served in 1997 as First Vice-President of the National Women’s Caucus for Art, and for several years as President of the Boston Chapter. She also served as Exhibitions Chair and Vice President at Galatea Fine Art in Boston from 2017–2020.
Ms. Lori is represented by 13 Forest Gallery in Arlington, Massachusetts, and Array Contemporary in Boston. Her work is also available on https://www.artsy.net/artist/cj-lori/works-for-sale. Her other interests include reading (especially Henry James), traveling, watching professional football, and hiking in the woods or by the sea.
Ms. Lori’s artwork has been exhibited in solo and group shows throughout New England, and in New York and Chicago. She had a solo exhibition, Close to the Trees, in June, 2019 at Galatea Fine Art in Boston. Her work has been shown at the Danforth Museum in Framingham in OFF THE WALL, Community of Artists, and Figure, Fantasy and Illusion, Selections from the Arthur S. Goldberg Collection. In 2007, she won first prize in Paint!, a national exhibition juried by artist Gerry Bergstein at the South Shore Arts Center.
Committed to art activism, Ms. Lori served in 1997 as First Vice-President of the National Women’s Caucus for Art, and for several years as President of the Boston Chapter. She also served as Exhibitions Chair and Vice President at Galatea Fine Art in Boston from 2017–2020.
Ms. Lori is represented by 13 Forest Gallery in Arlington, Massachusetts, and Array Contemporary in Boston. Her work is also available on https://www.artsy.net/artist/cj-lori/works-for-sale. Her other interests include reading (especially Henry James), traveling, watching professional football, and hiking in the woods or by the sea.
RESUME
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
UnEarthed, Brookline Public Library, Coolidge Corner Branch, Brookline, MA.
2019
Close to the Trees, Galatea Fine Art, Boston, MA.
2017
Come Fly With Me, Galatea Fine Art, Boston, MA.
2016
Art in Giving presents paintings by C. J. Lori, Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc., Boston, MA.
2015
C. J. Lori: LEAVING, Galatea Fine Art, Boston, MA.
2014
Wide Awake & Dreaming, Gallery 93, Brookline Senior Center, Brookline, MA.
2013
The Narrative Landscape, Galatea Fine Art, Boston, MA.
2012
Destinations & Departures: Paintings by C. J. Lori, Great Falls Discovery Center, Turner’s Falls, MA.
C. J. Lori: Parallel Landscapes, Muddy River Gallery, Brookline, MA.
2010
C. J. Lori: Seeing Through the Trees, Baak Gallery, Cambridge, MA.
2009
Ginza Japanese Restaurant, Brookline, MA.
2008
Out of Place, The Art Gallery at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education, Cambridge, MA.
2007
C. J. Lori: New Paintings, Baak Gallery, Cambridge, MA.
2001
UNEARTHED: The Personal Effects of Nature, Lyman-Eyer Gallery, West Newton, MA.
1998
Iron Lung Coffeehouse, 512A Park Drive, Boston, MA.
1992
Past Lives and Present Dangers, Ticknor Gallery/Boylston Hall, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
Affinities/Mysteries, Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, Commonwealth Ave., Boston, MA.
1991
Peering Into Paradise: Emerging Apparitions in Forest and Field, Street, Dartmouth St., Boston, MA.
1989
Faces Beyond Instinct, Bridgewater State College, Bridgewater, MA.
Ghost Stories, Gallery DV8, Landsdowne St., Boston, MA.
Primal and Pastoral Visions, Wellesley Design Center, Wellesley, MA.
Oil Paintings and Pastels, Aquinas Junior College, Newton, MA.
INVITATIONAL EXHIBITIONS
2024
Shared Habitat Earth, Wedeman Gallery, Lasell University, Newton, MA.
Climate Change: Creating Conversations on a Global Crisis, Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center, Cambridge, MA. Curated by Martha Heller and Adriana Pratt.
2023
In the Presence of Trees II, Munroe Center for the Arts, Lexington, MA. Curated by Robin MacDonald Foley.
Metamorphosis: Artistic Visions for a Resilient Planet, Scollay Square Gallery, Boston City Hall. Curated by Rebecca McGee Tuck.
Inspiring Change for the Climate Crisis: The Non-Human is Pushing Back, Piano Craft Gallery, Boston, MA. Curated by Jeffrey Nowlin, Michaela Morse and Adriana Pratt.
Inspiring Change for the Climate Crisis, CAA @Canal, Cambridge, MA. Curated by Adriana Pratt and Martha Heller.
Shared Habitat Earth, Belmont Gallery of Art, Belmont, MA.
Above Us Only Sky II, Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, MA. Curated by Erica H. Adams.
2022
Shared Habitat Earth, The Gallery at Atlantic Wharf, Boston MA. Curated by Barbara Eskin.
Meditations on the Climate Crisis, Honey Jones Gallery, Cambridge, MA. An I3c Artists exhibit curated by Adriana Pratt.
Shared Habitat Earth, Paula Estey Gallery and Center for Art and Activism, Newburyport, MA.
Shared Habitat Earth, Hopkinton Center for the Arts, Hopkinton, MA.
Above Us Only Sky, Moakley Courthouse, Boston, MA. Curated by Erica Adams.
In the Presence of Trees, Four-person exhibition at Kathryn Schultz Gallery, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA. Curated by Robin MacDonald-Foley.
Shared Habitat Earth, Conant Gallery of Lawrence Academy, Groton, MA. Curated by Barbara Eskin and Gillian Frazier.
2021
Meditations on Climate Change, Honey Jones Gallery, Cambridge, MA. Curated by Adriana Pratt.
Thoughts Produce Noise, Landau Gallery at Belmont Hill School, Belmont, MA. Curated by Steven Edson.
FPAC Lending Artists Showcase, Atlantic Wharf Gallery, Boston, MA.
WOMXN, a National Association of Women Artists MA chapter exhibition, Marblehead Art Association, Marblehead, MA.
The Future is Many Colors—Boston, an Array Contemporary exhibition at the Moakley Courthouse, Boston, MA.
2016, 2018/2019, 2019/2020, 2020/2021, 2021/2022, 2023/2024
Plenty, 13 Forest Gallery, Arlington, MA.
2020
Art & Activism, a National Association of Women Artists MA chapter exhibition in SoWa, Boston.
Art for the Heart, Galatea Fine Art, Boston, MA. Curated by Jane Paradise.
2019
Friends With…, Atlantic Works Gallery, East Boston, MA.
2016
Art in Giving/MBACC Collaborative Art Exhibit, Motherbrook Arts & Community Center, Dedham, MA.
C. J. Lori & Gay Korbet, New England Biolabs, Ipswich, MA.
2015
Double Vision, 13 Forest Gallery, Arlington, MA.
2013
Small(er) Works & Other Offerings, Annual Members’ Exhibition, Galatea Fine Art, Boston, MA.
Scheherezade, tell me a story, 13 Forest Gallery, Arlington, MA.
2012
JACOB COOLEY & C. J. LORI – New Landscapes, Lyman-Eyer Gallery, Provincetown, MA.
2011
Transfigurations: Surrealist Visions, Amazing Things Art Gallery, Framingham, MA.
Small(er) Works & Other Offerings, Annual Members’ Exhibition, Galatea Fine Art, Boston, MA.
2010
California Muse Gallery & Studio, South Natick, MA.
2009
Images of Brookline Past & Present, Brookline Town Hall and The New England Institute of Art Gallery, Brookline, MA.
Home is Where the Art is, Children's Hospital Kent Street Project, Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, Boston, MA; Brookline Public Library; Yawkey Family Inn, Brookline, MA .
Be Leave, two-person show, Diamond-Newman Fine Arts, 450 Harrison Ave., Boston, MA.
2008
Surrealism: Echoes of Past and Present, Diamond-Newman Fine Arts, 240 Harrison Ave. Suite #303, Boston, MA.
2007
Illuminations Retrospective Exhibition, Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, Boston, MA.
Diamond-Newman Fine Arts LLC, 450 Harrison Avenue, Suite #303, Boston, MA.
Lyman-Eyer Gallery, 432 Commercial Street, Provincetown, MA.
The Winners’ Circle, A three-person show of prize winners from the Member Exhibition, The Brush Art Gallery & Studios, Lowell, MA.
2006
Reveal, A five-person exhibition curated by Kathy A. Halamka, New Arts Center, Newtonville, MA.
Diamond-Newman Fine Arts LLC, 450 Harrison Avenue, Suite #307, Boston, MA.
2005
Overtures: An Exhibition of the Women’s Caucus for Art, Boston Chapter, Holyoke Gallery, Cambridge, MA.
2004
Two-Person Exhibition, Stuart Dunkel & C. J. Lori, Lyman-Eyer Gallery, Provincetown, MA.
Six Artists, Six Visions, Six Women at City Hall, Scollay Square Gallery, Boston, MA.
2003
Lyman-Eyer Gallery, Provincetown, MA.
Changing Seasons, Hess Gallery, Pine Manor College, Brookline, MA.
2002
Lyman-Eyer Gallery, West Newton and Provincetown, MA.
Tame and Wild: Celebrating Nature in our Neighborhoods, Hess Gallery, Pine Manor College, Brookline, MA.
2001
Deep Touch, The Gallery at Newbury College, Brookline, MA.
2000
A Gift of Art: Small Works, Lyman-Eyer Gallery, West Newton, MA.
Dreamworlds: Neo-Surrealism In The Millenium, Attleboro Museum, Attleboro, MA.
Lyman-Eyer Gallery, West Newton, MA.
Figure, Fantasy and Illusion, Selections from the Arthur S. Goldberg Collection, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA.
Forces of Nature: Fire, Water, Earth and Air, The Discovery Museum, Bridgeport, CT.
1998–2000
Visions of Green Community, Brookline GreenSpace Alliance & Coolidge Corner Theatre Foundation, Pine Manor College; Brookline Arts Center & Brookline Public Library, Brookline, MA.
1999–2000
Office of State Senator Cynthia Creem, Massachusetts State House, Boston, MA.
1993–2000
International Women’s Day Exhibition(s), Boston Chapter Women’s Caucus for Art, Maurine & Robert Rothschild Gallery, Bunting Institute at Radcliffe College, Cambridge, MA.
1999
Moments in Memory: Artists Celebrate Jewish Heritage, District Council 37, New York City, NY.
1998
Celebrating Our Past and Present, District Council 37, New York City, NY.
1997
Travels Near and Far, Cragin Fife Gallery, Brookline, MA.
1996
Layers, Atelier Gallery, Boston Architectural Center, Boston, MA.
Works in 3-D, Aidekman Arts Center Slater Concourse, Tufts University, Medford, MA.
1990–1995
Tyringham Art Galleries, Tyringham, MA.
1992
Altered States: A Journey Into Surrealism, Bentley College Art Gallery, Waltham, MA.
Juxtapositions II: Paint and Print Expressions, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College, Cambridge, MA.
1985–1991
Annual Art Exhibition, Temple Beth Am, Framingham, MA.
1989
Figures and Faces, Gary Wortzel Fine Arts, Boston, MA.
1988
The Fantastic Image, Richards Hall, Northeastern University, Boston, MA.
PHOTO Robert Zinck
SELECTED JURIED EXHIBITIONS
2023
BLUE, CAA University Place Gallery, Cambridge, MA. Juried by Abigail Ogilvy.
AWAKE: An Exhibition of Mindfulness and Presence in Art, Unbound Visual Art’s Overlook Gallery, Brighton, MA. Curated by Jack Energy.
AMBITION, An exhibition of the MA Chapter of the National Association of Women Artists, Wedeman Gallery, Lasell University, Newton, MA.
Members Exhibition, Mosesian Center for the Arts, Watertown, MA.
Points of Departure, South Shore Arts Center, Cohasset, MA. Juried by Dina Dietsch.
Welcome to the Symbiocene, ARTI Gallery, Marblehead, MA. Juried by Ties Jan de Blij.
CAA Members Prize Show, Kathryn Schultz Gallery, Cambridge, MA. Juried by Deborah Barlow.
The National, Cape Cod Arts Center, Barnstable, MA. Juried by Karen Blackwood, Marc Kundmann and David Mullen.
Shared Habitat Earth, QArts Gallery, Quincy, MA.
2022
Inspiring Change for the Climate Crisis, Belmont Art Gallery, Belmont, MA.
ILLUMINATIONS, Gallery Twist, Lexington, MA.
Figure in the Landscape, Sargent House Museum, Gloucester, MA.
National Prize Show, Cambridge Art Association Kathryn Schultz Gallery, Cambridge, MA. Juried by Barbara O’Brien.
Human/Nature, Mosesian Center for the Arts, Watertown, MA. Juried by Nathalie Miebach.
Changing Lives, Changing Future, Atlantic Wharf Gallery, Boston, MA. Exhibition of MA chapter of the National Association of Women Artists.
Nourishing the Senses, Wedeman Gallery, Lasell College, Newton, MA. Juried by Vladimir Zimikov. Exhibition of MA chapter of the National Association of Women Artists.
2021–2022
Arts Connect at Catamount Arts Juried Show, Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, VT. Juried by Katherine French.
MCA Members Exhibition 2021, Mosesian Center for the Arts, Watertown, MA.
REAL!, Arlington Center for the Arts, Arlington, MA. Juried by Phil Young, curated by Gwen Chasan & Dan Cianfarini.
2021
Manipulation is Art and Play, Piano Craft Gallery, Boston, MA. Exhibition of MA chapter of the National Association of Women Artists. Juried by Althea Bennett, Rebecca Rose Greene & Haley Neville.
All New England, Cape Cod Arts Center, Barnstable, MA.
The National, Cape Cod Arts Center, Barnstable, MA. Juried by Irena Roman, Mike Sleeper and Jody Regan.
Collective Consciousness, Beacon Street Gallery, Brookline, MA. Selections juried by Brookline Arts Center Gallery Committee.
Pivot, South Shore Arts Center, Cohasset, MA. Juried by Katherine French.
Spring Fever, Spring Bull Gallery, Newport, RI.
Habitat, 6 Bridges Gallery, Maynard, MA.
2020
The National 2020, Rockport Art Association & Museum. Juried by Cindy House and Bruce Herman.
Tipping Point, South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA. Juried by Gerry Bergstein.
New Futures, Atlantic Wharf Gallery, Boston, MA. Juried by Kimberly Barnes.
The Francis N. Roddy Annual Competition, Concord Art, Concord, MA. Juried by Lisa Crossman.
PRISM, Beacon Street Gallery, Brookline, MA. Juried by the Brookline Arts Center Gallery committee.
Members Prize Show, Cambridge Art Assn. Kathryn Schultz Gallery. Juried by Jessica Roscio.
2019
ILLUMINATION, Gallery Twist, Lexington, MA.
Blue, Cambridge Art Assn., Cambridge, MA. Juried by Sarah Montross.
New England Collective X, Galatea Fine Art, Boston, MA. Juried by Katherine French.
Off The Clock, Atlantic Wharf Gallery, Boston, MA. Juried by Kimberly Barnes.
Members Prize Show, Cambridge Art Assn. University Place Gallery. Juried by Lisa Crossman.
Art, Grief and the Land, Cambridge Art Assn. University Place Gallery. Juried by Patricia Miranda.
2018
In The Future…, Atlantic Wharf Gallery, Boston, MA. Juried by Mallory Ruymann.
The New England Collective, IX, Galatea Fine Art, Boston, MA. Juried by Marni Elyse Katz.
2017
The National, Cape Cod Art Association, Barnstable, MA. Juried by Beverly Carreiro, Carolyn Letvin & Amber Tourlentes.
Inter-Dimensional Ports of Whatsoever, Atlantic Wharf Gallery, Boston, MA. Juried by Anabel Vázquez Rodriguez.
Members Juried 1: Painting & Sculpture, Concord Art Association, Concord, MA. Juried by Joanna E. Fink.
2016
Out of Order, South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA. Juried by Nick Capasso.
All New England, Cape Cod Art Association, Barnstable, MA. Juried by Domonic Boretti, Jeff Lovinger & Geoffrey Smith.
Gravity, Brookline Arts Center, Brookline, MA. National exhibition juried by Katherine French.
Nowhere Everywhere, Red Wall Gallery, Cambridge School of Weston, Weston, MA. Juried by Todd Bartel.
Small Works Salon 2016: Thesis/Antithesis, Chandler Gallery, Maud Morgan Arts, Cambridge, MA. Juried by Gerry Bergstein.
All Cape Cod, Cape Cod Art Association, Barnstable, MA. Juried by Abby Lammers, David Lewis, and Ron Wilson.
2015
Blue, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA. Juried by Katherine French.
InVision: 2D & 3D Landscape, Davis Art Gallery, Worcester, MA.
All New England, Cape Cod Art Association, Barnstable, MA. Juried by Anne Heywood, Mark Chester & Paul Schulenberg.
The National 2015, Cape Cod Art Association, Barnstable, MA. Juried by Jenny Kelley, David Weinberg and Ginny Zanger.
OFF THE WALL, Danforth Art Museum, Framingham, MA. Juried by Katherine French.
2014
A Fine Line, Rocky Neck Cultural Center Gallery, Gloucester, MA. Juried by Al Miner.
Community of Artists, Danforth Art Museum, Framingham, MA. Juried by Katherine French.
Painting Intricacies, The Nave Gallery Annex. Juried by Resa Blatman.
WICKED, Fountain Street Fine Art, Framingham, MA. Juried by Hope Turner & Zola Solamente, Arden Gallery.
2nd Annual Juried Show, Gold Gallery, Boston, MA. Juried by Claire Carino & Adam Gold, Gold Gallery.
2013
14th Annual Francis N. Roddy Open Competition, Concord Art Association, Concord, MA. Juried by Nick Capasso, Director, Fitchburg Art Museum.
New England Collective IV, Galatea Fine Art, Boston, MA. Juried by Kaveh Mojtabai, Publisher & Brian Goslow, Managing Editor, of Artscope Magazine.
12th National Prize Show, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA. Juried by Toby Kamps, Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art, The Menil Collection.
2012
Regarding the Third Dimension: Real or Imagined, South Shore Art Center, Cohasset MA. National show juried by Camilo Alvarez, Sampson Projects.
Surreal Visions, Limner Gallery, Hudson, NY. Juried by Tim Slowinski.
NKG Group National Juried Exhibition, NK Gallery, Boston, MA. Juried by Natacha Sochat and Kathy Halamka.
2011
New England Collective II, Galatea Fine Art, Boston, MA. Juried by Joanna Mattera.
Women’s Caucus for Art: Boston Chapter Small Works Exhibition, Towne Art Gallery, Wheelock College, Boston, MA.
2010
OFF THE WALL, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA. Jurors: Jen Mergel and Helen Molesworth.
Northeast Prize Show, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA. Juried by Cheryl Brutvan.
2009
Color Matters, South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA. National show juried by Jen Mergel.
Massachusetts Artists 2009, The Brush Art Gallery, Lowell, MA. Juried by Nicholas Capasso.
2007
Paint! A national exhibition juried by artist Gerry Bergstein. South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA.>
2006
Inhabiting an Expansive Terrain: WCA Artists Explore Our Relationship To Place, Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston, MA.
Women's Caucus for Art New England Regional Chapters’ Group Exhibit, Bunker Hill Community College Art Gallery, Charlestown, MA.
L’Dor V’Dor: From Generation to Generation, a national exhibition of the Jewish Women Artists Network, Goldman Gallery at Hebrew College, Newton, MA. Juried by Deborah Davidson.
Brush Members’ Juried Art Show, The Brush Art Gallery & Studios, Lowell, MA. Juried by E. Linda Poras.
2005
Central Massachusetts Women’s Caucus for Art Juried Exhibition, Hampshire Art Gallery, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA.
Massachusetts Artists 2005, The Brush Art Gallery & Studios, Lowell, MA. Juried by Paul Master-Karnik, Director, DeCordova Museum.
Myth, Dream & Fantasy, Gallery 1581, Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis, Brookline, MA.
2004
Blue, University Place Gallery, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA. Juried by Rachel Rosenfield Lafo, Director of Curatorial Affairs, DeCordova Museum.
Changes: Landscape, Redbrick Gallery, Beverly, MA.
Women’s Prerogatives: Making Changes, ArtSpace Maynard Gallery, Maynard, MA.
2003
Brave Destiny, Williamsburg Art and Historical Center, Brooklyn, NY.
Boston Arts Festival, Christopher Columbus Waterfront Park, Boston, MA.
Running Hot and Steady, Tufts University, Medford, MA.
Illuminations, Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, Boston, MA.
Detachment, Tremont Gallery, The International Society, Boston, MA.
2002
Places of the Heart: Personal Landscapes, LynnArts Gallery, Lynn, MA.
Domestic Bliss, The Art Gallery at Bentley College, Waltham, MA.
Action/Reaction: Women’s Caucus for Art Juried Exhibition, The Art Gallery, Paul Creative Arts Center, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH. Juried by Rachel Rosenfield Lafo.
2000
Entitled/Untitled, Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, MA. Juried by Alicia Craig Faxon.
Revelation for Revolution, The Revolving Museum, Boston, MA. Juried by Rebecca Hoffberger.
Blue, University Place Gallery, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA. Juried by Cheryl Brutvan.
Artifact: Past, Present, Future, Arlington Center for the Arts, MA. Juried by Kathleen Bitteti and Shawn Hill.
ArtWorks! 2000, Dover Street Galleries, New Bedford, MA. Juried by George Ciscle.
1999
The New England Exhibition, Cape Cod Art Association, Barnstable Village, MA. Juried by Salvatore Del Deo; Roberta Feeney; Geoffrey Smith.
ENtitled/UNtitled, Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, MA Juried by Harriet Casdin-Silver.
Small Works: BIG IDEAS, Northeast Regional Juried Exhibition, The Discovery Museum, Bridgeport, CT. Juried by Benjamin Ortiz and Deborah Frizzell.
1997
Fin de Siecle, University Place Gallery, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA. Juried by Barbara Krakow.
Duxbury Art Association’s 23rd Annual Winter Juried Show, Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA. Juried by Laura S. Brown; Edward Minchin; Elizabeth Pratt; Doris Weiner; Susan White.
1996
Transforming Tradition: National Juried Exhibition of the Women’s Caucus for Art, 1996, Chinese Culture Institute, Boston, MA. Juried by Magdelena Campos Pons; Susan Fisher Sterling; Eugenie Tsai.
1996
Jewish Women Uncensored, Jewish Women Artists Network National Juried Exhibition, Cragin Fife Gallery, Brookline, MA. Juried by Rachel Rosenfield Lafo.
1992
Women and Surrealism: National Juried Exhibition of the Women’s Caucus for Art, 1992, 333 Wacker Street Gallery, Chicago, IL. Juried by Mary Jane Jacob.>
1990
The Environment Show, Boston Visual Artists Union (BVAU) Gallery, Boston, MA.
1989
In and Around Boston, Prudential Center Skywalk, Boston, MA.
EDUCATION
1980–1982 Boston Museum School of Fine Arts Continuing Education Program.
1975–1979 Boston University College of Communication, BS in Journalism, Concentration in Literature; Class of 1979, Magna Cum Laude.
COMMISSIONS
1999 Drawing for First Night 2000 button, Boston, MA.
1998 Iron Lung Coffeehouse, Boston, MA.
1997 Ms. Candace K. Nagle, Provincetown, MA.
1996 Brookline Farmer’s Market, Brookline, MA.
1995 Ms. Mary Alice Howard, Roslindale, MA.
1994 Mr. J. P. Goss, Boca Raton, FL.
1993 Mr. and Mrs. J. P. and Virginia Goss, Boca Raton, FL.
1988 Massbank for Savings, Reading, MA.
PUBLICATIONS, AWARDS & COLLECTIONS
DeCordova Museum Corporate Lending Program
Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA.
Arthur S. Goldberg Collection
2023
Second Prize, Points of Departure, South Shore Arts Center, Cohasset, MA. Juried by Dina Dietsch.
"This work captures the imagination and something of our magical thinking when it comes to nature and the natural world. Precise in its execution, this painting seems to nod to both dreams and hopes in a world that is falling away from us – literally and metaphorically."
— Dina Dietsch, Director of Tufts University Art Galleries on awarding “The Green Leaves in Summer” second prize in Points of Departure at the South Shore Arts Center.
2022
Second Prize, Changing Lives, Changing Future, Atlantic Wharf Gallery, Boston, MA. Exhibition of MA chapter of the National Association of Women Artists.
2020
Honorable Mention, Tipping Point, South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA. Juried by Gerry Bergstein.
Honorable Mention, Mary Schein Fall Salon, Cambridge Art Assoc., Kathryn Schultz Gallery.
2019
First Prize, Art Off the Wall, Brookline Arts Center, Brookline, MA.
2017
Honorable Mention, The National, Cape Cod Art Assoc. Juried by Beverly Carreiro, Carolyn Letvin & Amber Tourlentes.
2016
Second Prize, Small Works Salon 2016: Thesis/Antithesis, Chandler Gallery, Maud Morgan Arts, Cambridge, MA. Juried by Gerry Bergstein.
2015
Vernon Coleman Memorial Award, All New England, Cape Cod Art Association, Barnstable, MA.
People’s Choice Award, The National 2015, Cape Cod Art Association, Barnstable, MA.
2011
Featured in: Wild Apples, A Journal of Nature, Art, and Inquiry, Issue 8, Root/Trunk/Bough, Fall/Winter 2012
2009
Honorable Mention, Color Matters, South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA. Juried by Jen Mergel.
2007
First Prize, Paint! A national exhibition juried by artist Gerry Bergstein. South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA.
2006
Second Prize, Brush Members’ Juried Art Show, The Brush Art Gallery, Lowell, MA.
2004
Honorable Mention, Blue, University Place Gallery, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA. Juried by Rachel Rosenfield Lafo, Director of Curatorial Affairs, DeCordova Museum.
1999
Honorable Mention, The New England Exhibition, Cape Cod Art Association, Barnstable, MA.
Peoples’ Choice Award, Sanctuary, the Ninth Annual WCA International Women’s Day Exhibition.
Leadership Award, Women’s Caucus for Art, honoring northeast chapter leaders in the 1990s.
1996
Featured in: Different Minds, Different Voices, by Virginia Aronson. Paradux & Gossling.
EXPERIENCE
2017–2020 Vice President & Exhibitions Chair, Galatea Fine Art, Inc., Boston, MA.
1999–2007 Newsletter Editor, Boston Chapter Women’s Caucus for Art (WCA).
2002, ‘97–’00 Brookline Artists' Open Studios Brochure Chair, Brookline Council for the Arts & Humanities, Inc.
1997–1998 First Vice President, National Women’s Caucus for Art.
1996–1998 Public Relations Chair, National WCA. Coordinated design and production of new national logo and brochure.
1994–1997 President, Boston Chapter WCA.
1995–1996 Co-Chair, Transforming Tradition, the 1996 WCA National Conference Co-coordinated 4-day national conference of panels, exhibitions, performances, gallery tours and more.
1990–1992 Editor, BVAU NEWS, Boston Visual Artists Union.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
UnEarthed, Brookline Public Library, Coolidge Corner Branch, Brookline, MA.
2019
Close to the Trees, Galatea Fine Art, Boston, MA.
2017
Come Fly With Me, Galatea Fine Art, Boston, MA.
2016
Art in Giving presents paintings by C. J. Lori, Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc., Boston, MA.
2015
C. J. Lori: LEAVING, Galatea Fine Art, Boston, MA.
2014
Wide Awake & Dreaming, Gallery 93, Brookline Senior Center, Brookline, MA.
2013
The Narrative Landscape, Galatea Fine Art, Boston, MA.
2012
Destinations & Departures: Paintings by C. J. Lori, Great Falls Discovery Center, Turner’s Falls, MA.
C. J. Lori: Parallel Landscapes, Muddy River Gallery, Brookline, MA.
2010
C. J. Lori: Seeing Through the Trees, Baak Gallery, Cambridge, MA.
2009
Ginza Japanese Restaurant, Brookline, MA.
2008
Out of Place, The Art Gallery at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education, Cambridge, MA.
2007
C. J. Lori: New Paintings, Baak Gallery, Cambridge, MA.
2001
UNEARTHED: The Personal Effects of Nature, Lyman-Eyer Gallery, West Newton, MA.
1998
Iron Lung Coffeehouse, 512A Park Drive, Boston, MA.
1992
Past Lives and Present Dangers, Ticknor Gallery/Boylston Hall, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
Affinities/Mysteries, Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, Commonwealth Ave., Boston, MA.
1991
Peering Into Paradise: Emerging Apparitions in Forest and Field, Street, Dartmouth St., Boston, MA.
1989
Faces Beyond Instinct, Bridgewater State College, Bridgewater, MA.
Ghost Stories, Gallery DV8, Landsdowne St., Boston, MA.
Primal and Pastoral Visions, Wellesley Design Center, Wellesley, MA.
Oil Paintings and Pastels, Aquinas Junior College, Newton, MA.
INVITATIONAL EXHIBITIONS
2024
Shared Habitat Earth, Wedeman Gallery, Lasell University, Newton, MA.
Climate Change: Creating Conversations on a Global Crisis, Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center, Cambridge, MA. Curated by Martha Heller and Adriana Pratt.
2023
In the Presence of Trees II, Munroe Center for the Arts, Lexington, MA. Curated by Robin MacDonald Foley.
Metamorphosis: Artistic Visions for a Resilient Planet, Scollay Square Gallery, Boston City Hall. Curated by Rebecca McGee Tuck.
Inspiring Change for the Climate Crisis: The Non-Human is Pushing Back, Piano Craft Gallery, Boston, MA. Curated by Jeffrey Nowlin, Michaela Morse and Adriana Pratt.
Inspiring Change for the Climate Crisis, CAA @Canal, Cambridge, MA. Curated by Adriana Pratt and Martha Heller.
Shared Habitat Earth, Belmont Gallery of Art, Belmont, MA.
Above Us Only Sky II, Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, MA. Curated by Erica H. Adams.
2022
Shared Habitat Earth, The Gallery at Atlantic Wharf, Boston MA. Curated by Barbara Eskin.
Meditations on the Climate Crisis, Honey Jones Gallery, Cambridge, MA. An I3c Artists exhibit curated by Adriana Pratt.
Shared Habitat Earth, Paula Estey Gallery and Center for Art and Activism, Newburyport, MA.
Shared Habitat Earth, Hopkinton Center for the Arts, Hopkinton, MA.
Above Us Only Sky, Moakley Courthouse, Boston, MA. Curated by Erica Adams.
In the Presence of Trees, Four-person exhibition at Kathryn Schultz Gallery, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA. Curated by Robin MacDonald-Foley.
Shared Habitat Earth, Conant Gallery of Lawrence Academy, Groton, MA. Curated by Barbara Eskin and Gillian Frazier.
2021
Meditations on Climate Change, Honey Jones Gallery, Cambridge, MA. Curated by Adriana Pratt.
Thoughts Produce Noise, Landau Gallery at Belmont Hill School, Belmont, MA. Curated by Steven Edson.
FPAC Lending Artists Showcase, Atlantic Wharf Gallery, Boston, MA.
WOMXN, a National Association of Women Artists MA chapter exhibition, Marblehead Art Association, Marblehead, MA.
The Future is Many Colors—Boston, an Array Contemporary exhibition at the Moakley Courthouse, Boston, MA.
2016, 2018/2019, 2019/2020, 2020/2021, 2021/2022, 2023/2024
Plenty, 13 Forest Gallery, Arlington, MA.
2020
Art & Activism, a National Association of Women Artists MA chapter exhibition in SoWa, Boston.
Art for the Heart, Galatea Fine Art, Boston, MA. Curated by Jane Paradise.
2019
Friends With…, Atlantic Works Gallery, East Boston, MA.
2016
Art in Giving/MBACC Collaborative Art Exhibit, Motherbrook Arts & Community Center, Dedham, MA.
C. J. Lori & Gay Korbet, New England Biolabs, Ipswich, MA.
2015
Double Vision, 13 Forest Gallery, Arlington, MA.
2013
Small(er) Works & Other Offerings, Annual Members’ Exhibition, Galatea Fine Art, Boston, MA.
Scheherezade, tell me a story, 13 Forest Gallery, Arlington, MA.
2012
JACOB COOLEY & C. J. LORI – New Landscapes, Lyman-Eyer Gallery, Provincetown, MA.
2011
Transfigurations: Surrealist Visions, Amazing Things Art Gallery, Framingham, MA.
Small(er) Works & Other Offerings, Annual Members’ Exhibition, Galatea Fine Art, Boston, MA.
2010
California Muse Gallery & Studio, South Natick, MA.
2009
Images of Brookline Past & Present, Brookline Town Hall and The New England Institute of Art Gallery, Brookline, MA.
Home is Where the Art is, Children's Hospital Kent Street Project, Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, Boston, MA; Brookline Public Library; Yawkey Family Inn, Brookline, MA .
Be Leave, two-person show, Diamond-Newman Fine Arts, 450 Harrison Ave., Boston, MA.
2008
Surrealism: Echoes of Past and Present, Diamond-Newman Fine Arts, 240 Harrison Ave. Suite #303, Boston, MA.
2007
Illuminations Retrospective Exhibition, Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, Boston, MA.
Diamond-Newman Fine Arts LLC, 450 Harrison Avenue, Suite #303, Boston, MA.
Lyman-Eyer Gallery, 432 Commercial Street, Provincetown, MA.
The Winners’ Circle, A three-person show of prize winners from the Member Exhibition, The Brush Art Gallery & Studios, Lowell, MA.
2006
Reveal, A five-person exhibition curated by Kathy A. Halamka, New Arts Center, Newtonville, MA.
Diamond-Newman Fine Arts LLC, 450 Harrison Avenue, Suite #307, Boston, MA.
2005
Overtures: An Exhibition of the Women’s Caucus for Art, Boston Chapter, Holyoke Gallery, Cambridge, MA.
2004
Two-Person Exhibition, Stuart Dunkel & C. J. Lori, Lyman-Eyer Gallery, Provincetown, MA.
Six Artists, Six Visions, Six Women at City Hall, Scollay Square Gallery, Boston, MA.
2003
Lyman-Eyer Gallery, Provincetown, MA.
Changing Seasons, Hess Gallery, Pine Manor College, Brookline, MA.
2002
Lyman-Eyer Gallery, West Newton and Provincetown, MA.
Tame and Wild: Celebrating Nature in our Neighborhoods, Hess Gallery, Pine Manor College, Brookline, MA.
2001
Deep Touch, The Gallery at Newbury College, Brookline, MA.
2000
A Gift of Art: Small Works, Lyman-Eyer Gallery, West Newton, MA.
Dreamworlds: Neo-Surrealism In The Millenium, Attleboro Museum, Attleboro, MA.
Lyman-Eyer Gallery, West Newton, MA.
Figure, Fantasy and Illusion, Selections from the Arthur S. Goldberg Collection, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA.
Forces of Nature: Fire, Water, Earth and Air, The Discovery Museum, Bridgeport, CT.
1998–2000
Visions of Green Community, Brookline GreenSpace Alliance & Coolidge Corner Theatre Foundation, Pine Manor College; Brookline Arts Center & Brookline Public Library, Brookline, MA.
1999–2000
Office of State Senator Cynthia Creem, Massachusetts State House, Boston, MA.
1993–2000
International Women’s Day Exhibition(s), Boston Chapter Women’s Caucus for Art, Maurine & Robert Rothschild Gallery, Bunting Institute at Radcliffe College, Cambridge, MA.
1999
Moments in Memory: Artists Celebrate Jewish Heritage, District Council 37, New York City, NY.
1998
Celebrating Our Past and Present, District Council 37, New York City, NY.
1997
Travels Near and Far, Cragin Fife Gallery, Brookline, MA.
1996
Layers, Atelier Gallery, Boston Architectural Center, Boston, MA.
Works in 3-D, Aidekman Arts Center Slater Concourse, Tufts University, Medford, MA.
1990–1995
Tyringham Art Galleries, Tyringham, MA.
1992
Altered States: A Journey Into Surrealism, Bentley College Art Gallery, Waltham, MA.
Juxtapositions II: Paint and Print Expressions, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College, Cambridge, MA.
1985–1991
Annual Art Exhibition, Temple Beth Am, Framingham, MA.
1989
Figures and Faces, Gary Wortzel Fine Arts, Boston, MA.
1988
The Fantastic Image, Richards Hall, Northeastern University, Boston, MA.
PHOTO Robert Zinck
SELECTED JURIED EXHIBITIONS
2023
BLUE, CAA University Place Gallery, Cambridge, MA. Juried by Abigail Ogilvy.
AWAKE: An Exhibition of Mindfulness and Presence in Art, Unbound Visual Art’s Overlook Gallery, Brighton, MA. Curated by Jack Energy.
AMBITION, An exhibition of the MA Chapter of the National Association of Women Artists, Wedeman Gallery, Lasell University, Newton, MA.
Members Exhibition, Mosesian Center for the Arts, Watertown, MA.
Points of Departure, South Shore Arts Center, Cohasset, MA. Juried by Dina Dietsch.
Welcome to the Symbiocene, ARTI Gallery, Marblehead, MA. Juried by Ties Jan de Blij.
CAA Members Prize Show, Kathryn Schultz Gallery, Cambridge, MA. Juried by Deborah Barlow.
The National, Cape Cod Arts Center, Barnstable, MA. Juried by Karen Blackwood, Marc Kundmann and David Mullen.
Shared Habitat Earth, QArts Gallery, Quincy, MA.
2022
Inspiring Change for the Climate Crisis, Belmont Art Gallery, Belmont, MA.
ILLUMINATIONS, Gallery Twist, Lexington, MA.
Figure in the Landscape, Sargent House Museum, Gloucester, MA.
National Prize Show, Cambridge Art Association Kathryn Schultz Gallery, Cambridge, MA. Juried by Barbara O’Brien.
Human/Nature, Mosesian Center for the Arts, Watertown, MA. Juried by Nathalie Miebach.
Changing Lives, Changing Future, Atlantic Wharf Gallery, Boston, MA. Exhibition of MA chapter of the National Association of Women Artists.
Nourishing the Senses, Wedeman Gallery, Lasell College, Newton, MA. Juried by Vladimir Zimikov. Exhibition of MA chapter of the National Association of Women Artists.
2021–2022
Arts Connect at Catamount Arts Juried Show, Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, VT. Juried by Katherine French.
MCA Members Exhibition 2021, Mosesian Center for the Arts, Watertown, MA.
REAL!, Arlington Center for the Arts, Arlington, MA. Juried by Phil Young, curated by Gwen Chasan & Dan Cianfarini.
2021
Manipulation is Art and Play, Piano Craft Gallery, Boston, MA. Exhibition of MA chapter of the National Association of Women Artists. Juried by Althea Bennett, Rebecca Rose Greene & Haley Neville.
All New England, Cape Cod Arts Center, Barnstable, MA.
The National, Cape Cod Arts Center, Barnstable, MA. Juried by Irena Roman, Mike Sleeper and Jody Regan.
Collective Consciousness, Beacon Street Gallery, Brookline, MA. Selections juried by Brookline Arts Center Gallery Committee.
Pivot, South Shore Arts Center, Cohasset, MA. Juried by Katherine French.
Spring Fever, Spring Bull Gallery, Newport, RI.
Habitat, 6 Bridges Gallery, Maynard, MA.
2020
The National 2020, Rockport Art Association & Museum. Juried by Cindy House and Bruce Herman.
Tipping Point, South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA. Juried by Gerry Bergstein.
New Futures, Atlantic Wharf Gallery, Boston, MA. Juried by Kimberly Barnes.
The Francis N. Roddy Annual Competition, Concord Art, Concord, MA. Juried by Lisa Crossman.
PRISM, Beacon Street Gallery, Brookline, MA. Juried by the Brookline Arts Center Gallery committee.
Members Prize Show, Cambridge Art Assn. Kathryn Schultz Gallery. Juried by Jessica Roscio.
2019
ILLUMINATION, Gallery Twist, Lexington, MA.
Blue, Cambridge Art Assn., Cambridge, MA. Juried by Sarah Montross.
New England Collective X, Galatea Fine Art, Boston, MA. Juried by Katherine French.
Off The Clock, Atlantic Wharf Gallery, Boston, MA. Juried by Kimberly Barnes.
Members Prize Show, Cambridge Art Assn. University Place Gallery. Juried by Lisa Crossman.
Art, Grief and the Land, Cambridge Art Assn. University Place Gallery. Juried by Patricia Miranda.
2018
In The Future…, Atlantic Wharf Gallery, Boston, MA. Juried by Mallory Ruymann.
The New England Collective, IX, Galatea Fine Art, Boston, MA. Juried by Marni Elyse Katz.
2017
The National, Cape Cod Art Association, Barnstable, MA. Juried by Beverly Carreiro, Carolyn Letvin & Amber Tourlentes.
Inter-Dimensional Ports of Whatsoever, Atlantic Wharf Gallery, Boston, MA. Juried by Anabel Vázquez Rodriguez.
Members Juried 1: Painting & Sculpture, Concord Art Association, Concord, MA. Juried by Joanna E. Fink.
2016
Out of Order, South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA. Juried by Nick Capasso.
All New England, Cape Cod Art Association, Barnstable, MA. Juried by Domonic Boretti, Jeff Lovinger & Geoffrey Smith.
Gravity, Brookline Arts Center, Brookline, MA. National exhibition juried by Katherine French.
Nowhere Everywhere, Red Wall Gallery, Cambridge School of Weston, Weston, MA. Juried by Todd Bartel.
Small Works Salon 2016: Thesis/Antithesis, Chandler Gallery, Maud Morgan Arts, Cambridge, MA. Juried by Gerry Bergstein.
All Cape Cod, Cape Cod Art Association, Barnstable, MA. Juried by Abby Lammers, David Lewis, and Ron Wilson.
2015
Blue, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA. Juried by Katherine French.
InVision: 2D & 3D Landscape, Davis Art Gallery, Worcester, MA.
All New England, Cape Cod Art Association, Barnstable, MA. Juried by Anne Heywood, Mark Chester & Paul Schulenberg.
The National 2015, Cape Cod Art Association, Barnstable, MA. Juried by Jenny Kelley, David Weinberg and Ginny Zanger.
OFF THE WALL, Danforth Art Museum, Framingham, MA. Juried by Katherine French.
2014
A Fine Line, Rocky Neck Cultural Center Gallery, Gloucester, MA. Juried by Al Miner.
Community of Artists, Danforth Art Museum, Framingham, MA. Juried by Katherine French.
Painting Intricacies, The Nave Gallery Annex. Juried by Resa Blatman.
WICKED, Fountain Street Fine Art, Framingham, MA. Juried by Hope Turner & Zola Solamente, Arden Gallery.
2nd Annual Juried Show, Gold Gallery, Boston, MA. Juried by Claire Carino & Adam Gold, Gold Gallery.
2013
14th Annual Francis N. Roddy Open Competition, Concord Art Association, Concord, MA. Juried by Nick Capasso, Director, Fitchburg Art Museum.
New England Collective IV, Galatea Fine Art, Boston, MA. Juried by Kaveh Mojtabai, Publisher & Brian Goslow, Managing Editor, of Artscope Magazine.
12th National Prize Show, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA. Juried by Toby Kamps, Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art, The Menil Collection.
2012
Regarding the Third Dimension: Real or Imagined, South Shore Art Center, Cohasset MA. National show juried by Camilo Alvarez, Sampson Projects.
Surreal Visions, Limner Gallery, Hudson, NY. Juried by Tim Slowinski.
NKG Group National Juried Exhibition, NK Gallery, Boston, MA. Juried by Natacha Sochat and Kathy Halamka.
2011
New England Collective II, Galatea Fine Art, Boston, MA. Juried by Joanna Mattera.
Women’s Caucus for Art: Boston Chapter Small Works Exhibition, Towne Art Gallery, Wheelock College, Boston, MA.
2010
OFF THE WALL, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA. Jurors: Jen Mergel and Helen Molesworth.
Northeast Prize Show, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA. Juried by Cheryl Brutvan.
2009
Color Matters, South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA. National show juried by Jen Mergel.
Massachusetts Artists 2009, The Brush Art Gallery, Lowell, MA. Juried by Nicholas Capasso.
2007
Paint! A national exhibition juried by artist Gerry Bergstein. South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA.>
2006
Inhabiting an Expansive Terrain: WCA Artists Explore Our Relationship To Place, Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston, MA.
Women's Caucus for Art New England Regional Chapters’ Group Exhibit, Bunker Hill Community College Art Gallery, Charlestown, MA.
L’Dor V’Dor: From Generation to Generation, a national exhibition of the Jewish Women Artists Network, Goldman Gallery at Hebrew College, Newton, MA. Juried by Deborah Davidson.
Brush Members’ Juried Art Show, The Brush Art Gallery & Studios, Lowell, MA. Juried by E. Linda Poras.
2005
Central Massachusetts Women’s Caucus for Art Juried Exhibition, Hampshire Art Gallery, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA.
Massachusetts Artists 2005, The Brush Art Gallery & Studios, Lowell, MA. Juried by Paul Master-Karnik, Director, DeCordova Museum.
Myth, Dream & Fantasy, Gallery 1581, Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis, Brookline, MA.
2004
Blue, University Place Gallery, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA. Juried by Rachel Rosenfield Lafo, Director of Curatorial Affairs, DeCordova Museum.
Changes: Landscape, Redbrick Gallery, Beverly, MA.
Women’s Prerogatives: Making Changes, ArtSpace Maynard Gallery, Maynard, MA.
2003
Brave Destiny, Williamsburg Art and Historical Center, Brooklyn, NY.
Boston Arts Festival, Christopher Columbus Waterfront Park, Boston, MA.
Running Hot and Steady, Tufts University, Medford, MA.
Illuminations, Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, Boston, MA.
Detachment, Tremont Gallery, The International Society, Boston, MA.
2002
Places of the Heart: Personal Landscapes, LynnArts Gallery, Lynn, MA.
Domestic Bliss, The Art Gallery at Bentley College, Waltham, MA.
Action/Reaction: Women’s Caucus for Art Juried Exhibition, The Art Gallery, Paul Creative Arts Center, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH. Juried by Rachel Rosenfield Lafo.
2000
Entitled/Untitled, Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, MA. Juried by Alicia Craig Faxon.
Revelation for Revolution, The Revolving Museum, Boston, MA. Juried by Rebecca Hoffberger.
Blue, University Place Gallery, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA. Juried by Cheryl Brutvan.
Artifact: Past, Present, Future, Arlington Center for the Arts, MA. Juried by Kathleen Bitteti and Shawn Hill.
ArtWorks! 2000, Dover Street Galleries, New Bedford, MA. Juried by George Ciscle.
1999
The New England Exhibition, Cape Cod Art Association, Barnstable Village, MA. Juried by Salvatore Del Deo; Roberta Feeney; Geoffrey Smith.
ENtitled/UNtitled, Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, MA Juried by Harriet Casdin-Silver.
Small Works: BIG IDEAS, Northeast Regional Juried Exhibition, The Discovery Museum, Bridgeport, CT. Juried by Benjamin Ortiz and Deborah Frizzell.
1997
Fin de Siecle, University Place Gallery, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA. Juried by Barbara Krakow.
Duxbury Art Association’s 23rd Annual Winter Juried Show, Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA. Juried by Laura S. Brown; Edward Minchin; Elizabeth Pratt; Doris Weiner; Susan White.
1996
Transforming Tradition: National Juried Exhibition of the Women’s Caucus for Art, 1996, Chinese Culture Institute, Boston, MA. Juried by Magdelena Campos Pons; Susan Fisher Sterling; Eugenie Tsai.
1996
Jewish Women Uncensored, Jewish Women Artists Network National Juried Exhibition, Cragin Fife Gallery, Brookline, MA. Juried by Rachel Rosenfield Lafo.
1992
Women and Surrealism: National Juried Exhibition of the Women’s Caucus for Art, 1992, 333 Wacker Street Gallery, Chicago, IL. Juried by Mary Jane Jacob.>
1990
The Environment Show, Boston Visual Artists Union (BVAU) Gallery, Boston, MA.
1989
In and Around Boston, Prudential Center Skywalk, Boston, MA.
EDUCATION
1980–1982 Boston Museum School of Fine Arts Continuing Education Program.
1975–1979 Boston University College of Communication, BS in Journalism, Concentration in Literature; Class of 1979, Magna Cum Laude.
COMMISSIONS
1999 Drawing for First Night 2000 button, Boston, MA.
1998 Iron Lung Coffeehouse, Boston, MA.
1997 Ms. Candace K. Nagle, Provincetown, MA.
1996 Brookline Farmer’s Market, Brookline, MA.
1995 Ms. Mary Alice Howard, Roslindale, MA.
1994 Mr. J. P. Goss, Boca Raton, FL.
1993 Mr. and Mrs. J. P. and Virginia Goss, Boca Raton, FL.
1988 Massbank for Savings, Reading, MA.
PUBLICATIONS, AWARDS & COLLECTIONS
DeCordova Museum Corporate Lending Program
Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA.
Arthur S. Goldberg Collection
2023
Second Prize, Points of Departure, South Shore Arts Center, Cohasset, MA. Juried by Dina Dietsch.
"This work captures the imagination and something of our magical thinking when it comes to nature and the natural world. Precise in its execution, this painting seems to nod to both dreams and hopes in a world that is falling away from us – literally and metaphorically."
— Dina Dietsch, Director of Tufts University Art Galleries on awarding “The Green Leaves in Summer” second prize in Points of Departure at the South Shore Arts Center.
2022
Second Prize, Changing Lives, Changing Future, Atlantic Wharf Gallery, Boston, MA. Exhibition of MA chapter of the National Association of Women Artists.
2020
Honorable Mention, Tipping Point, South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA. Juried by Gerry Bergstein.
Honorable Mention, Mary Schein Fall Salon, Cambridge Art Assoc., Kathryn Schultz Gallery.
2019
First Prize, Art Off the Wall, Brookline Arts Center, Brookline, MA.
2017
Honorable Mention, The National, Cape Cod Art Assoc. Juried by Beverly Carreiro, Carolyn Letvin & Amber Tourlentes.
2016
Second Prize, Small Works Salon 2016: Thesis/Antithesis, Chandler Gallery, Maud Morgan Arts, Cambridge, MA. Juried by Gerry Bergstein.
2015
Vernon Coleman Memorial Award, All New England, Cape Cod Art Association, Barnstable, MA.
People’s Choice Award, The National 2015, Cape Cod Art Association, Barnstable, MA.
2011
Featured in: Wild Apples, A Journal of Nature, Art, and Inquiry, Issue 8, Root/Trunk/Bough, Fall/Winter 2012
2009
Honorable Mention, Color Matters, South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA. Juried by Jen Mergel.
2007
First Prize, Paint! A national exhibition juried by artist Gerry Bergstein. South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA.
2006
Second Prize, Brush Members’ Juried Art Show, The Brush Art Gallery, Lowell, MA.
2004
Honorable Mention, Blue, University Place Gallery, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA. Juried by Rachel Rosenfield Lafo, Director of Curatorial Affairs, DeCordova Museum.
1999
Honorable Mention, The New England Exhibition, Cape Cod Art Association, Barnstable, MA.
Peoples’ Choice Award, Sanctuary, the Ninth Annual WCA International Women’s Day Exhibition.
Leadership Award, Women’s Caucus for Art, honoring northeast chapter leaders in the 1990s.
1996
Featured in: Different Minds, Different Voices, by Virginia Aronson. Paradux & Gossling.
EXPERIENCE
2017–2020 Vice President & Exhibitions Chair, Galatea Fine Art, Inc., Boston, MA.
1999–2007 Newsletter Editor, Boston Chapter Women’s Caucus for Art (WCA).
2002, ‘97–’00 Brookline Artists' Open Studios Brochure Chair, Brookline Council for the Arts & Humanities, Inc.
1997–1998 First Vice President, National Women’s Caucus for Art.
1996–1998 Public Relations Chair, National WCA. Coordinated design and production of new national logo and brochure.
1994–1997 President, Boston Chapter WCA.
1995–1996 Co-Chair, Transforming Tradition, the 1996 WCA National Conference Co-coordinated 4-day national conference of panels, exhibitions, performances, gallery tours and more.
1990–1992 Editor, BVAU NEWS, Boston Visual Artists Union.
