CCCA Artist Registry

Lora Shelley






2006


2007


2005


2005
 

 

LORA SHELLEY

 

 

SHELLEY RECEIVED HER BFA FROM THE RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN. SHE SPENT A YEAR ABROAD IN THE DISTINGUISHED EUROPEAN HONORS PROGRAM OF R.I.S.D. SHE IS KNOWN FOR HER PROVOCATIVE "DINER SERIES" -- AS WELL AS UNUSUAL PERSPECTIVES AND MIXED MEDIA TEXTURES. HER HONEST PORTRAYAL OF WOMEN IS AT ONCE BOTH PERSONAL AND UNIVERSAL.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITS

2009

2008

2004

Stuart Leshe Gallery, Millburn, NJ

The Arts Upstairs, Phoenicia, NY

Woodstock Artists Association, Woodstock, NY

2003

B.Beamesderfer Gallery, Highland Park, NJ

Coffey Gallery
, Kingston, NY

Half Moon Studio, Saugerties, NY

2001

Culinary Institute of America, Hyde Park, NY

2000

Self-Portrait Exhibit
State University of New York
Library Gallery, New Paltz, NY

B.Beamesderfer Gallery, Highland Park, NJ

1999

Art Society of Kingston, Kingston, NY

1998

Dragonfly Gallery, Martha’s Vineyard, Oak Bluffs, MA

Self-Portrait Exhibit
Joseph Domareki Gallery, Maplewood, NJ

1997

B.Beamesderfer Gallery, Highland Park, NJ

1996

Drug Enforcement Building, Philadelphia, PA

Joseph Domareki Gallery, Maplewood, NJ

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITS

 

2004

 

Gallery Diamante, Carmel, CA

1997-
Present

 

1997-

2008

The Copely Society of Art, Boston, MA

 

 

Dragonfly Gallery, Martha's Vineyard, Oak Bluffs, MA

Robin Hutchins Gallery, Maplewood, NJ

Half Moon Studio/Gallery, Saugerties, NY

2003

The Copley Society of Boston, Copley Printmakers

2002-4

Greenwich Arts Council, CT, Art to the Avenue

2001-2

Locus Media, NYC

The Copley Society of Boston, Small Works Show

2000

SUNY - New Paltz, Feminism in Popular Culture, Lecture Series and Exhibit

Seton Hall University, Walsh Library Gallery, South Orange, NJ

Arts Guild of Rahway, Rahway, NJ

1999

National Juried Exhibition, Fraser Gallery, Georgetown-Washington, DC

National Juried Exhibition, Ridgewood Art Institute, Ridgewood, NJ

1998

Objective Painting, Seton Hall School of Law, Newark, NJ

Simon Gallery, Morristown, NJ

1997

Sixteenth Annual Metro Show, City Without Walls, Newark, NJ

Positive-Negative, Printmaking Council of New Jersey, Somerville, NJ

NJ Center for the Visual Arts, Summit, NJ

Simon Gallery, Morristown, NJ

Viridian Gallery, NYC

WEB, City Without Walls

1996

New Members Show, City Without Walls

1995

New Arts Salon, Philadelphia, PA

ART ROMP, Washington, DC

Viridian Gallery, NYC

1994

Sarah Doyle Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI

1993

Piazza Cenci, Rome, Italy

SELECTED AWARDS AND HONORS

2004-7

Art in embassies Program,
Kinshasa, Dem. Rep. of Congo - Acquisition of Painting by American Ambassador

2001-3

Art in embassies Program, Lilongwe Malawi, Africa

2001

Woodstock Artists Association, Annual Print Award

2000

Woodstock Artists Association, Rudolph Galleries Award

1998

Artists Workspace Program, Fellowship/Residency, Woodstock School of Art

1997

RISD on the Road, Traveling Exhibit - San Francisco, Boston, Philadelphia, & RI

Eight National Juried Exhibition, Viridian Gallery, NYC, Curated by Thelma Golden of The Whitney Museum

1995

ART ROMP, Washington, DC, Show of New and Developing Talent - Curated by Molly Rupert, Sixth National Juried Exhibition.

Sixth National Juried Exhibition
Viridian Gallery, NYC,
Curated by Lisa Dennison of The Guggenheim Museum

1994

John Randallorth Memorial Award of Excellence, Rhode Island School of Design

Invitational Exhibit, The Woods Gerry Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design

EDUCATION

2001

Women's Studio Workshop
Color Woodcut - Large Format
, Rosendale, NY

1990-4

BFA-Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

1992-3

European Honors Program - RISD Year of Study & Travel in Europe Studio, Art History & Italian with both RISD & Italian Professors