Resume and Artist's Statement

Resume

Education

1994 – 1996 University of Pennsylvania, MFA
1989 – Dec. 1993 Massachusetts College of Art, BFA

Solo Exhibitions

2008 Bowery Gallery, Chelsea, New York City, “Images of Optimism”

2007 Washington Art Association, Washington Depot, CT

2006 Bowery Gallery, Chelsea, New York City, "Sex, Death, and the Spirit"

2005 Rochester Contemporary, Rochester, NY, “Women and Bulls”

2005 Roberts Wesleyan College, Davison Gallery, Rochester, NY
"Expressing Christian Imagery"

2004 Bowery Gallery; Chelsea, New York City
"Feminist Icons: Paintings, Drawings, and Prints"

2003 Bowery Gallery; Chelsea, New York City
"Paintings in Response to Sept. 11th; The Stations of the Cross"
2003 St. Andrew's Lutheran Church; Easton, PA
"The Stations of the Cross"
2000 Printmaking Council of New Jersey, North Branch, NJ
Bowery Gallery; SoHo, New York City
1999 Villanova University, Villanova, PA
1999 Johnson and Johnson World Headquarters;
New Brunswick, NJ

Group Exhibitions

2008  Memorial Art Gallery Faculty Exhibition at The Gallery at One Bausch and Lomb Place, Rochester, NY

2007-2008  Rochester Contemporary (RoCo) Members Exhibition

2007 Massachusetts State House, Boston, MA, “Violence Transformed”

2006 Episcopal Church 75^th National Convention, Columbus, OH,  “Visual Preludes”

2005 RoCo, Rochester, NY, "Unbound - Artist's Books", Jurors: Elizabeth Switzer, 

Director, and Mary Giehl, Professor of Art, Syracuse University

2005 Bowery Gallery, Chelsea, New York City, "Drawings"

2004 Wright State University, "Drawing from Perception V", Dayton, OH
Juror: Charles Cajori, artist, former Professor of Art at the NY Studio School

2004 The Cathedral Basilica, Covington, KY, "Visions VIII",
International Juried Show, Juror: John Begley, Director of the Hite Art Institute, Univ. of Louisville, KY

2004 High Falls Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Curator: Sally Winslow, Director

2004 Upstream Gallery National Juried Show, "Small Works", Dobbs Ferry, NY

2004 HallsWalls Art Center, Buffalo, NY

2004 Bowery Gallery, Chelsea, New York City, "Small Works"

2001 - 2003 William Paterson University, Ben Shahn Galleries,Wayne, NJ
"Life With Pocket Change and Other Pleasures" artists' books
Curator: Nancy Einreinhofer, Director
2002 "NorthEast Prints 2002", Juror: Ms. Judith Hecker, Assistant Curator, Department of Prints and Illustrated Books, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
2001 "NorthEast Prints 2001", Juror: Marilyn Symmes
Curator of Prints and Drawings, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution, New York, NY.

2002 - 2003 Hunterdon Art Center; Clinton, NJ
46th and 47th Annual National Print Exhibition
Juror: Lisa Mackie, Master Printer, Professor At Stony Brook and N.Y.U.
2003 Bowery Gallery: Group Show
2002 Artists and the Art of the Book, Traveling to the following locations: The Banana Factory, Bethlehem, PA; Artists' Image Resource Inc., Pittsburgh, PA; Contemporary Museum of Design and Art, San Jose, Costa Rica; Spaces Gallery, Cleveland, OH; Mexico City; Costa Rica, Chicago, University of Kyoto, Japan; University of Gloucestershire, England
Curator: Curlee Raven Holton, Experimental Printmaking Institute
2002 Bowery Gallery: Five Painters
2002 Lafayette College, Grossman Gallery:
Faculty Exhibition 

2001 Art Association of Harrisburg; Harrisburg, PA
Juror: Susan Cross
Assistant Curator, Guggenheim Museum, New York
2001 Boston University, 808 Gallery
The Boston Printmakers, North American Print Biennial; Juror: David Kiehl, Curator of Prints at the Whitney Museum of American Art
2000 Mountain Art Show; Bernardsville, NJ
Juror: Eileen Foti, Printmaker, Professor at Rutgers University
2000 Mesa Arts Center; Mesa, AZ
Juror: John Armstrong, Master Printer
2000 Wayne Art Center; Wayne, PA; Juror: Barbara Grossman, Artist/Critic – NY Studio School, Chattaqua
2000 Makeready Press Gallery; Montclair, NJ
Juror: Sid Sachs, Gallery Director, University of the Arts
1999 Printmaking Council of New Jersey; North Branch, NJ
"Responding to Chinese Printmaking"
1999 Brookdale Community College; Lincroft, NJ Faculty Exhibition

1998 Monmouth Museum; Lincroft, NJ - Annual Juried Show
1997 Washington Art Association; Washington Depot, CT
"Young Talent Juried Show"
1995 Gallery 37; Summit, NJ; Steamroller Gallery; Frenchtown, NJ


Awards

2002 Ben Shahn Galleries, William Paterson University,
Purchase Award, Juror: Ms. Judith Hecker, Assistant Curator, Dept. of Prints and Illustrated Books, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
2001 Harrisburg Art Association, 73rd Annual Juried Exhibition
Second Place, Juror: Susan Cross, Assistant Curator, Guggenheim Museum, NY
2001 New Jersey Medical Society Alliance Art Exhibition, First Place
2000 Mountain Art Show, Award of Excellence
2000 www.artadvocate.com, Curator's Choice
1996 University of Pennsylvania, Sewall Sillman Color Prize
1995 University of Pennsylvania, Angelo Savelli Painting Prize
1993 & 1994 Liquitex Excellence in Art Student Grant Competition 

Teaching Experience
2005 Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY; Intermediate Painting; Beginning, Intermediate, & Life Drawing 

2005 Irondequoit High School, Rochester, NY; Visiting Artist

2001-2003 Lafayette College, Easton, PA – Visiting Professor of Fine Arts
Courses: Principles of Studio Art, Drawing I, II

1996 – 1998 Brookdale Community College, Lincroft, NJ 

Adjunct Professor of Fine Arts
Courses: Basic Design, Color Theory, Drawing I,
Art History: Renaissance through Contemporary
1997 Printmaking Council of New Jersey, North Branch, NJ
Silkscreen workshop for parents and children

Private and Public Collections

Lafayette College, Easton, PA

William Paterson University, Ben Shahn Galleries, Wayne, NJ

St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, New Orleans, LA

Numerous Private Collections

Nicole Maynard: Artist's Statement

 "A summary of my artistic practice:

  I look out and in to paint the space in between."

  I make paintings, prints, and drawings.  Imagery varies but is mainly the landscape of Western New York where I live.  These landscapes often reflect architecture, especially windows (the edges of the picture are bracketed by what could be a window frame, curtains, or trees or all three simultaneously). It relates to the traditional idea of paintings being like windows and the image being outside the room.  These are domestic views, but are also influenced by driving through the landscape.  Then the countryside flanks the road and the edges of the windshield are in my peripheral vision.  In addition, this structure connotes a theatre stage, the curtains pulling back to instantly reveal fresh, new scenery, the world seen anew.  The space in the center of the picture, often a rectangle, sometimes appears to recede as well as advance in space.  Multiple functions can push metaphor.  This rectangle is the space we can move through or bask in; it comes forward to beckon, radiant.  It can be expansive or smaller, a tighter squeeze.  Central, it is the heart of tranquility.

  While these pictures are painted broadly, with large areas of color, I also do paintings composed of dots or filled circles.  They are Pointillist, but the dots are much larger than the traditional form.  They relate to contemporary media in resemblance to pixels.  Singular units making up a whole, they are each a moment in time.  They are like days making up a lifetime and are a meditation on the present.  Playful rhythms keep the work from being dry and redundant.  I work intuitively, enjoying the process yet also reflecting on the history of painting.

  I am interested in getting closer to the mystery in non-verbal experiences.  I am after what is intrinsic to the human condition; what can be sensed but is difficult to grasp.  I am seeking the temporal and the eternal.  I want my paintings to function like poetry and prayer, without words; to be objects for spiritual reflection and sensual experience.  The essence of something is conveyed through their substance, through their materiality, through the paint (there is nothing like paint, but paint can be like so much).  Optimism is present, but there is an underlying toughness, backbone that keeps these images from being overly romantic, offering credibility to redemption, harmony, and connection.  This intense presence is the unifying factor in everything I do.  At their best, I hope them to be ineffable and sublime.  They are evidence of ritual, icons of renewal made of color.

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