About

I am a visual artist and art educator. I live and make my art in NJ. I am an exhibiting member of the Phoenix Gallery, NYC.

My visual images have always been grounded in issues from living the day-to-day. I see the visual world as a mirror of human priorities. My work is meant to initiate an examination of the inherent responsibility that goes with living.

EDUCATION:
MFA Painting and Drawing, New Jersey City University, NJ 1996
MA Fine Arts Education, Kean College, Union, NJ 1995
BA Studio Arts, Monmouth College, West Long Branch, NJ 1971

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: 1999-present Professor of Art, Holy Family University, Philadelphia

PRESENTATIONS and PUBLICATIONS:
Selected Participant- College Art Association, 2/07, NYC.
Paper: Going Beyond the Studio Walls/A Liberal Arts Partnership
Selected Participant-International Symposium on the Arts and Society 2/07, NYC
Paper: The Making of an Artist: Building On Past Practices While Looking to the Future.
Published in: The International Journal of the Arts in Society
Selected Participant- Holy Family University Scholarship Conference 2010
Paper: Uncovering the Process
Work Included In: Best of America: Mixed Media, Kennedy Publishing, 2007

GRANTS
2006 Puffin Foundation Grant -Project: Road Shrines: A Peripheral Blur

ARTIST HAND MADE BOOKS
Three Green Rocks, Distributed- Printed Matter, NY, NY
duel duty, T 3, Distributed Printed Matter, NY, NY

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
2011 Women and Water, International House, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
2011 Demarcation, Phoenix Gallery, NYC
2010 SEPCHE Group Faculty Exhibition, Chestnut Hill College, PA
2010 Road Shrines: A Peripheral Blur, East Gallery, William Paterson University, NJ
2010 Wall to Wall, City Without Walls, Newark, NJ
2010 The Lens Based Image, Desotorow Gallery, Savannah, GA
2010 Quintet, Phoenix Gallery, NYC
2010 Women, International House, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
2009 Four Cultural Stories, Pierro Gallery of South Orange, NJ
2009 SEPCHE Group Exhibition, Rosemont University, PA
2009 Projection Show, Artist Unite, NYC
2009, 2010 Wish You Were Here, AIR Gallery, NYC
2009 Road Shrines: A Peripheral Blur, Phoenix Gallery, NYC
2009 A.C.E., Program for the Homeless Auction, NYC
2009 Ponderings, Plastic Club, Philadelphia
2009 Freedom, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY (best 2-d in show award)
2009, 2010 Visual AIDS Postcards From the Edge, James Cohan Gallery, NYC
2008 Think Tank, Eagle Art Gallery, Murray State University, KY
2008 Road Shrines: A Peripheral Blur, Brookdale Community College, Lincroft, NJ
2008 Artists Unite Live, Our Savior’s Atonement’s Cornerstone Center, NYC
2008 Environmental Distress, Louis Redding City Building, Wilmington, DE
2008 Space Place Life, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY
2008 Generations VI, Invitational, A.I.R.Gallery, NYC
2008 Making Marks, Brookdale Community College, NJ
2009, 08, 07, 06, 05 Invitational Small Works, New Arts Program, Kutztown, PA
2007 Visual AIDS Postcards From the Edge, James Cohan Gallery, NYC
2007 Ponderings, one person exhibition, Monmouth University, NJ
2007 Ponderings, one person exhibition, Phoenix Gallery, NYC
2006 Continuing contributor to Artist Unite/Now Hear This,

http://www.artistsunite-ny.org/onlinegallery/gallery-index.html

2006 Dada Domestique, Cazenovia College, NY
2006 Generations 5, AIR Gallery
2006 Bruce Gallery, Endinboro University, PA
2005 My America, Gallery 125, Trenton, NJ
2005 Making History: Then and Now, WCA Members, Highwire Gallery, Philadelphia, 2005 Self-Portraits: Inside and Out, Ayer Lofts Gallery, Lowell, MA
2005 Testifyin’ 2005, Rosenthal Gallery, Fayetteville State U, NC
2004 the space in between, one person exhibition, Phoenix Gallery, NYC
2004 Multeity, WCA Group Exhibit , Zonk Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2004 Salon de Expace #2, About Glamour, Brooklyn, NY
2004 Dream WCA Group Exhibit, B Square Gallery, Philadelphia. PA
2004 Invitational Small Works, New Arts Program, Kutztown, PA
2004 Masquerade, Mills Pond House Gallery, St. James, NY
2003 Douglas Dibble Memorial Art Auction, Hunter College, NY, NY
2003 Backroads and Boulevards International, The Printmaking Council of NJ, touring
2003 Documenting Women’s Lives, WCA-DC, touring exhibition
2003 TechArt, South Shore Art Center, MA
2003 The Photographic Process V International, Period Gallery, http://www.periodgallery.com
2003 Spring Forward, Fall Back, Gallery Mia Tyson, Wilmington, NC
2003 5”x5”x5”, Ladyfest, Philadelphia, PA

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:
Philadelphia Chapter –Women’s Caucus For Art
College Art Association
Phoenix Gallery, NYC Exhibiting Member, Exhibition Coordinator, Executive Board
International Sculpture Center

dmfbeach@aol.com