April 2018 Exhibition link
About the Artist:
"Although I've been drawing and designing and fabricating artwork of one kind or another for most of my life, I'm primarily a painter. My work is exhibited around Buffalo, NY, in Manhattan, and in other locations in the Northeast as well as the Southeast. I was born in Baltimore in 1940 and grew up in Maryland, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. I studied painting at Cornell University, Penn State, the Maryland Institute College of Art, and SUNY Buffalo, and I have worked as a graphic designer and artist. After leaving college, I raised six children and painted sporadically over a span of twenty-odd years in Maryland, finding small daily ways to stave off my hunger for making visual art, showing in regional galleries and shows and grateful for the occasional sale. The next thirteen years as a single mother in Western New York were a difficult but exciting period of growth that sealed my creative determination. I did salaried and freelance graphic work, painted more and even showed again. I've lived in Western New York for over 20 years now, currently south of Buffalo with my husband Dwight, with whom I share a large combined family. Major influences on my work are apparent: love of the outdoors, especially rolling farmland and upland woods; a strong spiritual life; and a lifelong fascination with textiles. I enjoy the work of many painters; I am moved also by land art and much three-dimensional work."
Artist Statement:
"I am concerned with the possibility of routes for our universal journey, in particular those which provide accessibility to the Sacred. I happen to see and feel those routes and paths and ways most clearly in the natural world and so express them visually in landscape.
The works are based on actual sites; in the beginning I make visits; site drawings and photographs, and start from those references. As I work, each piece grows beyond the sketches and references, morphing in response to both my expressive and formal concerns. The finished piece is seldom quite what I intended; I just keep trying."
Chronology with Selected Exhibitions:
1940- Born, Baltimore, MD.
1958-61- Studied at Cornell University, BFA candidate, Ithaca, NY.
1959- Studied at Pennsylvania State University, with Elaine de Kooning, University Park, PA.
1973- Studied at the Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD.
1990-92- Studied at S.U.N.Y. at Buffalo, Art Department, Buffalo, NY.
1999- Exhibited, group show, Art Dialogue Gallery, Western New York Artists Group, Members Show, Buffalo, NY. Exhibited at the Niagara Frontier Art Exhibit (juried), Kenan Center, Lockport, NY. Exhibited at the Western New York Artists Regional Exhibit (juried by Douglas Schultz), Art Dialogue Gallery, Buffalo, NY.
2000- Exhibited, group show (juried), Art Dialogue Gallery, Western New York Artists Group, Buffalo, NY. Exhibited at the Chautauqua Center for the Visual Arts, annual Juried Members Show, Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, NY.
2001- Exhibited, group show (juried), Art Dialogue Gallery Western New York Artists Group, Buffalo, NY. Exhibited at Impact Gallery Associate Members Show, Buffalo, NY. Exhibited at Big Orbit Gallery Members Show, Buffalo, NY. Exhibited at the Albright-Knox Rental/Sales Gallery, Buffalo, NY.
2003- Exhibited, group show, Western New York Artists Group Exhibition (Award-1st Place Perry Award), Buffalo, NY.
2004- Exhibited at Viridian Artists, Inc., NYC. Exhibited at the Kenan Center 36th Annual Niagara Frontier Exhibition (Award of Excellence), Lockport, NY.
2005- Exhibited at the Western New York Artists Group Exhibition (Award), Buffalo, NY. Exhibited at the 70th National Juried Show, Cooperstown Art Association, Coopertown, NY. Exhibited at American Landscapes, Maryland Federation of Arts, Annapolis, MD.
2006- Exhibited at the Albright Knox Art Gallery, Collectors Gallery, Buffalo, NY. Exhibited at Big Orbit Gallery, Buffalo, NY. Exhibited at Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, 2006 Members Exhibition, Buffalo, NY. Exhibited at "The Aureality Show: Whose Reality", Viridian Artists, Inc., NYC.
2007- Exhibited, group show, "Member's Exhibition 2007: Traditional Works", juried by Robert Scalise, Art Dialogue Gallery, University of Buffalo Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, NY. Exhibited at Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY. Exhibited, Viridian Artists Gallery, NYC. Exhibited at "Trilogies XVIII-The Work of Three Artists: Nancy Treherne Craig, Lawrence Kinney and Alejandro Gutierrez", Art Dialogue Gallery, The Western New York Artists Group, Buffalo, NY.
2008- Exhibited at Art Dialogue Gallery, Buffalo, NY. Exhibited, solo show, "Stalking The Gaps", Meibohm Fine Arts, East Aurora, NY. Exhibited, solo show, "Stalking The Gaps", Viridian Artists Gallery, NYC.
2009- Exhibited, group show, Art Dialogue Gallery, Buffalo NY.
2010- Exhibited, group show, Hallwalls, Buffalo NY. Exhibited, group show, "Landscapes: Works by Neil Berger, Nancy Treherne Craig & Richard Henry", Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn NY.
2012- Exhibited, group benefit show, "Mill Road Scenic Overlook Benefit Exhibition", Meibohm Fine Arts, East Aurora, NY. Sept. 14 - Oct. 13, Exhibit, two-person show, "Nancy Treherne Craig & Jane Foley Ferraro: Recent Works", Meibohm Fine Arts, East Aurora, NY.
2015- May 30-July 18, exhibition, group show, “The Ridge: Benefit Exhibition for the Chestnut Ridge Conservancy” (CRC), which supports the restoration and preservation of the rich natural, recreational and historic resources of Chestnut Ridge Park, Meibohm Fine Arts, East Aurora, NY.
2017- June 10-July 29, exhibited, group show, "Benefit Exhibition for the WNY Land Conservancy: The Art of Native Plants", Meibohm Fine Arts, East Aurora, NY.
2018- April 27-May 26, exhibition, solo show, "Eyes Open", Meibohm Fine Arts, East Aurora, NY.
Awards: Award, Western New York Artists Group Exhibition, 2005, Buffalo, NY; Award of Excellence, Kenan Center 36th Annual Niagara Frontier Exhibit, 2004, Lockport, NY; First Place Perry Award, Western New York Artists Group Exhibition, 2003, Buffalo, NY.
Associations: Western New York Artists Group, Buffalo, NY;
Galleries: Meibohm Fine Arts, Inc., East Aurora, NY; Albright-Knox Sales and Rental Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Art Dialogue Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY; Viridian Artists Gallery, NYC.
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(Rewritten & compiled chronologically by Mark Strong of Meibohm Fine Arts, Inc., East Aurora, NY, meibohmfinearts.com, sources: Furnished upon request.)
