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Elise Siegel

Curriculum Vitae

Education

Emily Carr College of Art, Vancouver, BC, BFA & Post-graduate study in sculpture

University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

 

Selected Exhibitions

2010           make ̷ believeSolo exhibition at Dubhe Carreño Gallery, Chicago, IL

2008           Confrontational Ceramics, Westchester Arts Council’s Arts Exchange, White Plains, NY (curated by Judith Schwartz) 

                   Voices, NCECA Invitational Exhibition, Pittsburgh, PA (curated by Holly Hanessian and Kate Lydon)

2008           Wired, Ernest Rubenstein Gallery, Educational Alliance, New York, NY

2007           I am what is around me, solo exhibition, Nancy Margolis Gallery, New York, NY

2005           Trans-Ceramic-Art, 3rd World Ceramic Biennale, Icheon, Korea

2004           Twenty-one Torsos and Twenty-four Feet, solo exhibition, Garth Clark Gallery, Long Island City, NY

                   Inter/Views, New Jersey Center for Visual Art, Summit, NJ

2003           From the Neck Up, Garth Clark Gallery, New York, NY

2001           Into the room of dream/dread I abrupt awake clapping, solo exhibition

                   Jane Hartsook Gallery, New York, NY, Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan Univeristy, 2001

2000           Scarecrows/Higher Elevations, a project of College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, ME

1997          Work In Progress: Elise Siegel, The Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MI

1995          The Outer Layer, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ

                  A Distinct Grace, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO, travels to Firehouse Art Gallery,

                  Nassau Community College, Garden City, NY, 1996, and to Hollins College Art Gallery, Roanoke VA, 1998

                  Material Identities - Elise Siegel, Claude Simard, Carolee Thea, Nicholas·Alexander Gallery, New York, NY

                  Fashion is a Verb, The Museum at FIT, New York, NY

1994           Disembodied: Recent Sculpture by Lesley Dill, Leslie Fry and Elise Siegel, Robert Hull Fleming Museum, Burlington, VT

                   (curated by Janie Cohen)

1993           Second Skin, solo exhibition, Halsey Gallery, School of the Arts, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC (curated by Rene Paul Barilleaux)

                  Empty Dress - Clothing as Surrogate in Recent Art, traveling exhibition circulated by Independent Curators Inc, opening at

                   the Neuberger  Museum, Purchase, NY (curated by Nina Felshin)

                  The Rag Trade (right off the rack), InterArt Center, New York, NY (curated by Saul Ostrow)

                  Aiming, The Shooting Gallery, New York, NY

                  1920, The Subtlety of Subversion, The Continuity of Intervention, Exit Art, New York, NY

                  American Art Today - Clothing as Metaphor, Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami, FL (curated by Dahlia Morgan)

1992          The Forceful Gesture - Contemporary Drawings, Valencia College, Orlando, FL (curated by Judith Page)

                  Fashion, Trenkmann Gallery, New York, NY

                  War, Trenkmann Gallery, New York, NY

1991          CoVariants: Abstract Painting & Sculpture, Tribeca 148 Gallery, Organization of Independent Artists, New York, NY

1989          Emerging Sculptors, Sculpture Center, New York, NY

                  Made In New York: Encounters with Contemporary Sculpture, Williams Center for the Arts, Lafayette College, Easton, PA  (curated by Judd Tully)

1988          Black, Gray and White, Henry Feiwel Gallery, New York, NY

                  Nomadic Visions, Art Gallery, Southeastern Massachusetts University, North Dartmoth, MA  (curated by Lasse Antonsen)

1987          Solo exhibition, Laurie Rubin Gallery, New York, NY

                  Alternative Supports, David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence RI (curated by Judith Tolnick)

1986          Transformations, Richard Green Gallery, New York, NY  (curated by Stephan Westfall)

 

Awards

2007           New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship

1988           New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship

                   MacDowell Art Colony Fellowship

1986           Yaddo Art Colony Fellowship

1982           Canada Council Art Bank Purchase

1981           Canada Council Grant

 

 

Bibliography

Antonsen, Lasse.  Nomadic Visions.  Art Gallery, Southeastern Massachusetts University,
North Dartmonth, MA, 1988  (catalog)

Barrileaux, Rene.  Work in Progress: Elise Siegel.  Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MI, Oct.  1997 (brochure)

Cohen, Janie.  DisembodiedRobert Hull Fleming Museum, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, March 1994 (brochure)

Day, Geffery.  The State.  Columbia, SC, Nov 1993

Felshin, Nina.  Art Journal.  Spring 1995

Felshin, Nina.  Empty Dress.  Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY, 1993 (catalog)

Felshin, Nina.  Second Skin.  Halsey Gallery, College of Charleston, SC, 1993 (brochure)

Montvidias-Kutkus, Kristina.  Charlston Arts.  Dec 1993

Princenthal, Nancy.  Into the room of dream/dread I abrupt awake clapping.  Jane Hartsook Gallery, New York, NY, 2001 (brochure)

Princenthal, Nancy.  Art in America.  March 2005, Scott, Sue.  Art Papers.  Jan-Feb 1994

Shuster, Robert.  The Village Voice.  May 1, 2007

Sofer, Ken.  Art News.  May 1987

Taplin, Robert.  Art in America.  December 2001

Tolnick, Judith.  Alternative Supports.  David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI, 1987  (catalog)

Tully, Judd.  Made in New York, Williams Center for the Arts, Lafayette College, Easton, PA, 1989  (catalog)

Welch, Adam.  Elise Siegel: The psychoanalytic construction of the work of art, Clay in Art International, 2005/2006

 

Teaching Experience

2008-          Pratt Institute – Undergraduate & graduate ceramics

1985-          Greenwich House Pottery

1984-99      Marymount Manhattan College - Undergraduate & continuing education

1987-88      Teachers and Writers Collaborative - Artist in Residence

1979-82      Emily Carr College of Art - Outreach Faculty