Grace DeGennaro

Artist Works

Indigo Series 6 - 2009
30 x 20 inches Gouache on paper

Artist Bio

EDUCATION

MFA Columbia University, New York, NY
BS Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2008 "To Infinity and Beyond: Mathematics in Contemporary Art," Heckscher Museum, Huntington, NY. Curated by Lynn Gamwell and Elizabeth Meryman.
2008 Solo Exhibition, Aucocisco Gallery, Portland, ME
2007 "Salon Show," Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA
2006 "Bridge Miami," Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts, Miami, FL
2006 "Beaded," Aucocisco Gallery, Portland, ME
2006 "Art (212) Contemporary Art Fair," Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts, New York, NY
2006 "The Portland Show," Greenhut Gallery, Portland, ME
2006 "The Maine Print Project," Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland, ME
2006 "The Line of Beauty," Kathleen Cullen Fine Art, New York, NY
2006 "Order(ed)," Gallery Siano, Philadelphia, PA
2005 "Dreambody," Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA
2005 "Transcribing Time," Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME
2004 "Paintings and Drawings," Icon Contemporary Art, Brunswick, ME
2004 "Works on Paper," Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA
2004 "Spiritual Geometry," New Art Center, Newton, MA
2002 "Six Select Six," University of New England, Portland, ME
2002 "Fall Invitational," The Painting Center, New York, NY
2002 "Summer Invitational," Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
2001 "The Drawing Show," Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA
2001 "New Work," Zero Station, Portland, ME
2000 "Vesicas," Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA
1999 "Hand-colored Drypoints," New England Foundation for the Arts, Boston, MA
1999 "Selections," University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, MA
1998 "Maine Biennial," Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
1997 "Works on Paper," Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA
1995 "Winter"s Work," Frick Gallery, Belfast, ME
1993 "Dreams: Poetic Memory," University of Southern Maine, Gorham, ME

AWARDS

2005 The Drawing Center Slide Registry, New York, NY
2004 Good Idea Grant (GIG), Maine Arts Commission
1998 Individual Artist Grant, Work on Paper, New England Foundation for the Arts

COLLECTIONS

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
Goldman Sachs, New York, NY
Capital Group, CA
Gund Collection, Boston, MA
Fidelity Investments, Boston, MA
Mintz, Levin Associates, New York, NY

PUBLICATIONS

2006 New American Paintings, Open Studio Press, Boston, MA
2004 Cate McQuaid, Symmetry and Asymmetry, Boston Globe, March
2003 Edgar Allen Beem, Maine in the Abstract, Down East Magazine, August
1998 Maine Biennial, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
1993 Patricia Reis, Dreams: Poetic Memory, University of Southern Maine

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2004 Visiting Artist, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME
2002-1998 Studio Instructor, Graduate Studies, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME

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Grace DeGennaro is fluent in the visual languages of oil, gouache and watercolor paints. 
Her technically proficient paintings on both canvas and paper are tranquil, minimal compositions based on traditional symbols and sacred geometry. DeGennaro’s rendering of cubes, diamonds, tongues, pyramids, fountains, rivers and the vesica piscis are meditative in process as well as in observation.  Fueled by conscious pattern, concentration on ritual and observance of the passage of time, DeGennaro’s paintings are as spiritual to the viewer as they are to the painter. 
DeGennaro earned her MFA at Columbia University.  Her work has been shown at Icon Contemporary Art, The New Art Center, The Portland Museum of Art, The Center for Maine Contemporary. Her work is included in the important exhibition "To Infinity and Beyond: Mathematics in Contemporary Art," Heckscher Museum, Huntington, NY. Curated by Lynn Gamwell and Elizabeth Meryman.   Her work is included in numerous private collections.


Visit Grace DeGennaro"s website at:
http://gracedegennaro.com