Contact Information: dmfbeach@aol.com


EDUCATION:

MFA Painting and Drawing, New Jersey City University, NJ 1996

MA Fine Arts Education, Kean College, Union, NJ 1995

BA Studio Arts, Monmouth College, West Long Branch, NJ 1971

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: Professor of Art/Coordinator of Fine Arts,

Holy Family University, Philadelphia 1999-present

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS and PUBLICATIONS:

Presentation: Virus of Violence, Virtual discussion on gun violence, Camden Fireworks, NJ

Presentation: Considering Harm: The Exhibit, 10/13 Holy Family University, PA

Selected Participant- College Art Association, 2/07, NYC.

Paper: Going Beyond the Studio Walls/A Liberal Arts Partnership

Selected Participant-International Symposium on the Arts and Society 2/07, NYC

Paper: The Making of an Artist: Building On Past Practices While Looking to the Future.

Published in: The International Journal of the Arts in Society

Selected Participant- Holy Family University Scholarship Conference 2010

Paper: Uncovering the Process

Work Included In: Best of America: Mixed Media, Kennedy Publishing, 2007

GRANTS

2006 Puffin Foundation Grant -Project: Road Shrines: A Peripheral Blur

ARTIST HAND MADE BOOKS

Three Green Rocks, Distributed- Printed Matter, NY, NY

duel duty, T 3, Distributed Printed Matter, NY, NY

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:

2024 Ceres Chcago, ARC Gallery Chicago group exhibit

2024 ReFocus, City Hall Philadelphia, WCA group exhibit

2024 8th annual WFA, Pictor Gallery, NYC

2024 Ceres Annivesary Celebration NYC group

2023 The Space Between, Project Gallery on line, ARC SF.

2023 Flushing Bank selected exhibit, Brooklyn, NY

2023 WCA group exhibit at ArtWorks Trenton

2023 One person exhibit Facing Time at Grace UMC and Mariposa Arts, DE

2023 One person exhibit and presentation-Considering Harm at Cranaleith, PA

2023 Women Rising, Ceres NYC group

2023  NAWA Annual Group, One Art Space, NYC

2023 Black and White Thinking, group exhibit, Ceres Gallery, NYC

2022 NAWA Annual Group, One Art Space, NYC

2022 What is Ours, Group WCADC, Sandy Springs Museum, MD

2022 To The Next Level, Group NAWA Exhibit, Beamesderfer Gallery, NJ

2022 Then and Now, Group NAWA Exhibit, Monmouth Museum, NJ (second place award)

2022 Avante Garde WCA group exhibit, Henry Gallery, PA

2022 5th Annual World Fine Arts, Pictor Gallery, NYC

2022 Facing Time, one person exhibit, Ceres Gallery, NYC

2021 Look Forward Juried, Carter Burden Gallery, NYC

2021 132nd Annual Members Exhibition National Association of Women Artists,

One Art Space. NYC

2021 Deadlocked and Loaded: group exhibit, Art Rage Gallery, Syracuse, NY

2021 Resilience of Grief, National Association of Women Artists, group virtual exhibit, honorable mention

2021 Black and White, ArtRoom Gallery, virtual exhibit

2021 Outside my Oeuvre, Group exhibit, Ceres Gallery, NYC

2020 Life as it is Now, group Member Exhibit, Ceres Gallery, NYC

2020 Virus of Violence, Virtual Covid-19 Exhibit, Camden Fireworks, Camden , NJ

2020 Three Women group exhibit, The National Association of Women Artists, NYC.

2020 Abstractions/Metaphors five artists, DACIA Gallery, NYC.

2019 A Something in a Summer’s Day, Group Exhibit Pleiades Gallery, NYC

2019 State of the Arts 2019, Group Member Exhibit, Studio Montclair Gallery, NJ

2019 Bud Studies, Windows at Studio Montclair, NJ

2019 Balance, one person exhibit, Ceres Gallery, NYC

2018 Floral Entities, one person exhibit, Up Stairs Gallery, Ridgefield Guild of Artists, CT

2018 Shelter, Group Exhibit, Da Vinci Art Alliance / Philadelphia Sculptors, Philadelphia, PA

2018 Lazy Susan Gallery, NYC group exhibit NYC Phoenix Art Collective

2018 One person exhibit Basil Yoga Gallery, Ridgefield, CT

2018 Dirty Little TRUMP Group Show, IMPeRFeCT Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2017 Out of Context, one person exhibit, Arts Center East, Vernon, CT

2017 Considering Harm, one person exhibit, Hudson Pride, Jersey City, NJ

2017 Gritty in Pink Group Exhibit, Bailey Contemporary Art, Pompano Beach, FL

2017 Bud Studies, one person exhibit, Tiny Gallery, Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT

2016 Considering Harm, one person exhibit , ArtWorks Trenton, NJ

2016 Considering Harm, one person exhibit , Kelli Copeland Lofts, Orange, NJ

2016 Impending After, one person exhibit , Phoenix Gallery, NYC

2015 Considering Harm, one person exhibit , Convergence Gallery, Alexandria, VA

2015 Voices: An Artist's Perspective, online gallery http://issuu.com/karengutfreund/docs/voices_catalog_for_issuu

2014 Forget-Me-Not, one person exhibit, Phoenix Gallery, NYC

2014 Best of 2014 WCA National, ARC Gallery, Chicago

2014 Visual AIDS Postcards From the Edge, NYC

2013 Considering Harm/Maryland, one person exhibit , The Delaplaine Visual Arts, MD
2013 Small Shrines, Sweetwater Center for the Arts, Sewickley, PA

2013 Violence, SPP Galleries, Conshohocken, PA

2013 Invitational, Monmouth University, NJ

2013 Considering Harm, one person exhibit , A Seed on Diamond Gallery, Philadelphia
2013 Demarcation, one person exhibit, Jed Williams Studio, Philadelphia
2012 "There's No Racism in America", The Imperfect Gallery, Philadelphia
2012 Woman + Body Exhibition, Kepco Plaza Gallery Museum in Seoul,
South Korea, Gwangju Cultural Foundation’s MediaCube Gwangju, South Korea,

2012 Considering Harm, one person exhibit, Phoenix Gallery, NYC

2012 Gender Issues, International House, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

2012 Making HerStory, Center for Green Urbanism, Washington DC

2012 In Liquid Benefit V.12, Philadelphia, PA

2011 Stretching the Medium, Arizona State University School of Art

2011 Impact, Swing Space Gallery, Ohio State University

2011 Women and Water, International House, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

2011 Demarcation, one person exhibit , Phoenix Gallery, NYC

2010 SEPCHE Group Faculty Exhibition, Chestnut Hill College, PA

2010 Road Shrines: A Peripheral Blur, one person exhibit, East Gallery, William Paterson University, NJ

2010 Wall to Wall, City Without Walls, Newark, NJ

2010 The Lens Based Image, Desotorow Gallery, Savannah, GA

2010 Quintet, Phoenix Gallery, NYC

2010 Women, International House, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

2009 Four Cultural Stories, Pierro Gallery of South Orange, NJ

2009 SEPCHE Group Exhibition, Rosemont University, PA

2009 Projection Show, Artist Unite, NYC

2009, 2010 Wish You Were Here, AIR Gallery, NYC

2009 Road Shrines: A Peripheral Blur, one person exhibit, Phoenix Gallery, NYC

2009 A.C.E., Program for the Homeless Auction, NYC

2009 Ponderings, one person exhibition, Plastic Club, Philadelphia

2009 Freedom, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY (best 2-d in show award)

2009, 2010, 2011 Visual AIDS Postcards From the Edge, James Cohan Gallery, NYC

2008 Think Tank, Eagle Art Gallery, Murray State University, KY

2008 Road Shrines: A Peripheral Blur, one person exhibit, Brookdale Community College, Lincroft, NJ

2008 Artists Unite Live, Our Savior's Atonement's Cornerstone Center, NYC

2008 Environmental Distress, Louis Redding City Building, Wilmington, DE

2008 Space Place Life, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY

2008 Generations VI, Invitational, A.I.R.Gallery, NYC

2008 Making Marks, Brookdale Community College, NJ

2009, 08, 07, 06, 05 Invitational Small Works, New Arts Program, Kutztown, PA

2007 Visual AIDS Postcards From the Edge, James Cohan Gallery, NYC

2007 Ponderings, one person exhibition, Monmouth University, NJ

2007 Ponderings, one person exhibition, Phoenix Gallery, NYC

2006 Continuing contributor to Artist Unite/Now Hear This,

http://www.artistsunite-ny.org/onlinegallery/gallery-index.html

2006 Dada Domestique, Cazenovia College, NY

2006 Generations 5, AIR Gallery

2006 The Space In Between, Bruce Gallery, one person exhibition, Endinboro University, PA

2005 My America, Gallery 125, Trenton, NJ

2005 Making History: Then and Now, WCA Members, Highwire Gallery, Philadelphia, 2005 Self-Portraits: Inside and Out, Ayer Lofts Gallery, Lowell, MA

2005 Testifyin’ 2005, Rosenthal Gallery, Fayetteville State U, NC

2004 The Space In Between, one person exhibition, Phoenix Gallery, NYC

2004 Multeity, WCA Group Exhibit , Zonk Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2004 Salon de Expace #2, About Glamour, Brooklyn, NY

2004 Dream WCA Group Exhibit, B Square Gallery, Philadelphia. PA

2004 Invitational Small Works, New Arts Program, Kutztown, PA

2004 Masquerade, Mills Pond House Gallery, St. James, NY

2003 Douglas Dibble Memorial Art Auction, Hunter College, NY, NY

2003 Backroads and Boulevards International, The Printmaking Council of NJ, touring

2003 Documenting Women’s Lives, WCA-DC, touring exhibition

2003 TechArt, South Shore Art Center, MA

2003 The Photographic Process V International, Period Gallery, www.periodgallery.com

2003 Spring Forward, Fall Back, Gallery Mia Tyson, Wilmington, NC

2003 5”x5”x5”, Ladyfest, Philadelphia, PA

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:

Ceres Gallery, NYC

The National Association of Women Artists-exhibiting member

NYC Phoenix Art Collective

Women’s Caucus For Art

College Art Association

International Sculpture Center

ArtFare