Jane Smaldone
Artist Works
52 x 50 inches Oil on canvas
Artist Bio
Jane Smaldone was born in New York City, and currently lives and works in the Boston area with her husband Mark, and daughter Isabel, who has become one of her favorite subjects. She attended the State University of New York and attained her BFA in painting from the Massachusetts College of Art in 1976.
Smaldone's paintings combine her long-standing interest in landscape, still life and portraiture, interweaving the genres in a personal style inspired by art historical traditions as diverse as Chinese landscape painting, Surrealism and Folk Art.
She says about her work, "The Flowers, portraits and landscapes that I have been working on are inspired in part by a dialogue between the real and the imagined. My subjects tend to be those important to my life and evocative for me in a visual, emotional or psychic way.
Smaldone's work is included in many private, corporate and public collections internationally, including the Danforth Museum, the Peabody Essex Museum and Wellington Management. She has had numerous solo shows in the United States and Canada and participated in many group shows.
Solo Exhibitions
2006 Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
2005 Loch Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2003 “Portraits and Still Lifes,” Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
2002 “New Paintings,” Nancy Poole’s Studio, Toronto,
Ontario, Canada
2001 “Heroines and Saints,” Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
2000 Nancy Poole's Studio, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
1999 "New Paintings," Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
1998 Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
Nancy Poole’s Studio, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
1995 Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
1992 Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
1990 Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
1988 Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
1986 Zoe Gallery, Boston, MA
Group Exhibitions
2006 “Offspring,” Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, MA
“God Doesn’t Blink,” Destination Gallery, Long Beach, CA
2005 “Trees,” Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
“Portraits,” Kleinert / James Art Center, Woodstock, NY
2004 “Summer Invitational, “ Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
“March Heat,” Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
Toronto International Art Fair, Ontario, Canada
2003 Toronto International Art Fair, Ontario, Canada
Frey / Norris Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Nancy Poole’s Studio, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2002 “In the Spirit of Landscape VII,” Nielsen Gallery
“Portraits: More Than Skin and Bones,” Nielsen Gallery
2001 “In the Spirit of Landscape VI,” Nielsen Gallery
2000 "In the Spirit of Landscape V," Nielsen Gallery
1999 "Nielsen Gallery 35th Anniversary Exhibition: Part II -
New Work," Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
"Odyssey: A Journey into World Art," Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA
"From Boston to Boca," Elaine Baker Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
Exhibition in Tribute to Stephen D. Paine, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
The 1999 DeCordova Annual Exhibition, DeCordova
Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA
"In the Spirit of Landscape IV," Nielsen Gallery
1998 “In the Spirit of Landscape III,” Nielsen Gallery
“Invitational: Portraits,” Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
Boston International Fine Art Show, Boston, MA
“Dreamweavers: Symbolist Tendencies in Contemporary
New England Art,” Brush Art Gallery, Lowell, MA.
1997 “In the Spirit of Landscape II,” Nielsen Gallery
1996 “Animal, Mineral, Vegetable: A Painting Invitational,” The
Art Gallery, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
Awards
2000 Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Grant Recipient
1985 Recipient of the Massachusetts Artists Fellowship in
Painting, granted by the Council for the Arts and
Humanities.
Public Collections
DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
Fuller Museum, Brockton, MA
Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Wellington Management Company, Boston, MA
Women’s and Infant’s Hospital, Providence, RI