DEBRA CLAFFEY
Selected Solo Exhibitions
New Works, Hebrew Rehabilitation Center, Boston, MA, January 2002
New Works, East Gallery, Robert Lincoln Levy Gallery, Portsmouth, NH, June 2001
New Works, Southern Vermont Arts Center Gallery, Manchester VT, August 2000
Contemplating Still Life, Southern Vermont Art Center, Manchester, VT, December 1997
Jazz, Gargoyle’s Restaurant Gallery, Somerville, MA, September 1997
Improvizations, Arts Alive, Baystate Medical Center Galleries, Springfield, MA, 1992
Selected Exhibitions
The Museum School Art Sale, School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, December 2010
Biology, Geometry, Morphology, Debra Claffey and Soosen Dunholter, The Robert Lincoln Levy Gallery, Portsmouth, NH September 2010.
The Luminous Landscape, The John Stobart Gallery, Edgartown, MA, September 2010.
The Luminous Landscape, Kensington Stobart Gallery, Salem, MA June 2010.
New England Wax at the Fairfield Arts Council, Fairfield, CT, May - June 2010. Curated by Laura Einstein.
Contemporary Women Artists XV: Art as Activism, The Foundry Art Centre, St. Charles, MO. March 2010. Juried by Yolanda Lopez.
Hues and Views: A Collaborative Journal Exchange, NH Institute of Art, Manchester, NH, October 2009
The Luminous Landscape Invitational, Montserrat Gallery of Art, Beverly, MA, June 2009
Ancient Medium, N.E.W. Terrain, Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA, May 2009. Juried by Craig Bloodgood, curator.
Heat Stroke, Saco Museum, Saco ME, April 2009. Juried by Katherine French, Danforth Museum of Art.
17th Annual Winter Exhibition, Southern Vermont Art Center, Manchester, VT, January 2009
Figure It Out, NH Institute of Art, Manchester, NH January 2009 Juried by Patrick McCay.
Altered Images, Robert Lincoln Levy Gallery, Portsmouth, NH, January 2009
61st Annual Currier Museum of Art NHAA Juried Exhibition, January 2009. Juried by Trevor Smith, Curator of Contemporary Art, Peabody Essex Museum.
Biennial Regional Jurors' Choice, Thorne-Sagendorph Gallery, Keene, NH, January 2009
In Flat Fields, River Tree Center for the Arts, Kennebunk, ME, June 2008, Juried by Shawn Hill, Montserrat College of Art.
The Diptych Project: a Collaboration in Wax, Whitney Art Works, Portland ME, April 2008,
Steamboat Springs Arts Council, Steamboat Springs, CO, Nov. 2008
New England Wax: Encaustic II, The Galletly Gallery, New Hampton, NH April 2007
59th Annual Currier Museum of Art NHAA Juried Exhibition, NH Art Association, Paul Creative Arts Center, UNH, Durham, NH, January 2007. Juried by Karen Burgess Smith, Lamont Gallery, Phillips Exeter Academy
Biennial Regional Jurors’ Choice, Thorne-Sagendorph Art Gallery, Keene, NH, January 2007. Juried by Catherine French, Danforth Museum, Gerry Bergstein, and Mary Minifie.
15th Annual Winter Members’ Exhibition, Southern Vermont Art Center, Manchester, VT, January 2007
Annual Members’ Exhibition, Sharon Arts Center, Peterborough, NH, January 2007
December Sale and Exhibit, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1985-2007
Hip to be Square, Expressions Gallery, Milford, NH, October 2006
Inaugural Exhibition, Bennett Redmond Gallery, Dublin, NH, September 2006
From the Garden, Coolidge Center for the Arts, Portsmouth, NH, June 2005
Works on Paper, Coolidge Center for the Arts, Portsmouth, NH, August 2004
On The Table, Coolidge Center for the Arts, Wentworth-Coolidge Mansion, Portsmouth, NH, July 2003
55th Annual Exhibition, The Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH, January 2003. Juried by Joanna Soltan
December Sale and Exhibit, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1985-2003
Interiors, Hole in the Wall Studioworks at Davidson & Daughters Gallery, Portland, ME, July 2000
Sanctuary, WCA Boston and Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Cambridge, MA, March 2000
Here and Now: New Hampshire Women Artists, WCA Juried Exhibition, Saint Anselm College, Manchester, NH, February 2000
52nd Annual Members' Exhibition, Sharon Arts Center Gallery, Peterborough, NH, January 2000
43rd National Fall Juried Open, Southern Vermont. Art Center, Manchester, VT, September 1999
Women in the Arts, WCA-NH Juried Exhibition, Taylor Gallery, Meriden, NH, November 1999
Prescott Park Arts Festival Juried Exhibition, Portsmouth, NH, July 1999
Women's Caucus for Art Invitational, The Open Studio, Bow, NH, March 1999
Arts Auction '98, Peterborough Town House, Peterborough, NH, February 1998
Juried Show, The N.H. Art Association Annual Fair, Sunapee, NH, August 1997
Tend Your Garden, Ashwell Gallery, Beverly, Mass., July 1997
Women's Caucus for Art – NH, Covered Bridge Gallery, Contoocook, NH, April, 1997
5th Annual Winter Exhibition, Southern Vermont Art Center, Manchester, VT, Jan. 1997
50th Annual Exhibition, The Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH, November 1996 Juror: Jeffrey Keough, Director of Exhibitions, Mass. College of Art
19th Annual Juried Show, Killian Gallery, Sharon, NH, October, 1996 Jurors: Inez McDermott and James Locke
Potpourri, The Covered Bridge Gallery, Contoocook, NH, September 1996
New Hampshire Art Association Annual Fair, Sunapee, NH, July 1996
10th Annual Omer T. Lassonde Exhibition, Juried Show, NHAA, Portsmouth, May 1996
The Art of Music, The Ashwell Gallery, Beverly, Mass., June 1996
December Sale and Exhibit, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1985-1996
Art Auction, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, 1990-95
Twice is Warm, Two-person exhibit, Brickmill Gallery, Ware, MA, 1994
Private Choices: Still Life Paintings, The Artist's Son Gallery, Cohasset, MA, 1993
First Anniversary Show, Gallery Equus, Boston, MA, 1993
Group show, Gallery on the Green, Lexington, MA, 1993
Recent Landscapes, Group show, Gallery Equus, Boston, MA, 1992
Mixed Media & Purists, Gallery Equus, Boston, MA, 1992
Summer Salon Show, Gallery on the Green, Lexington, MA, 1991
Art Market '91, Juried show sponsored by the Springfield Library and Association, Springfield Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, MA 1991
Second Annual Juried Exhibit, Zullo Gallery, Medfield, MA, 1990
Corporate Art Buyers Sale, Worcester Artist Group, Inc. and the North Worcester Business Association, A Juried Exhibition and Sale. Worcester, MA, 1990
New England Women, A Juried Exhibition, Valley Women Artists/Women's Caucus Art, Northampton, MA, 1990. Juried by Howardena Pindell
Art Auction, Jamaica Plain Arts Council, Jamaica Plain, MA, 1989
Melrose Jazz Festival, Jazz Festival Gallery, Melrose, MA, 1989
Andover Art-in-the Park, Andover, MA, 1989, 1990, 1992
Group Show, Design Studio A, Boston, 1988. Juried exhibit.
All That Jazz, Boston Visual Artists Union Gallery, Boston, March 1986. Curated by Charles Giuliano, Art New England.
Works Under $1000, Francesca Anderson Gallery, Boston, 1985. Juried competition. Judges: Loring W. Coleman and Bernard H. Pucker.
Paperworks, The Loading Dock Gallery, Boston, 1984
The First Annual Arts Lottery Festival, City Hall Gallery, Boston, 1983. Juried show.
60 Boston Artists, City Hall Gallery, Boston, 1983. Juried Show. Sponsored by the South End Artists Association
Seventh Annual Show, Juried show sponsored by the Cooperating Colleges of Greater Springfield, Springfield, MA, 1979
Awards
Bank of New Hampshire Award, Ann's Garden, No. 12, 50th Annual Exhibition,
The Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, NH, December 1996
Honorable Mention. The 13th Annual Omer T. Lassonde Memorial Juried Exhibition,
The Robert Lincoln Levy Gallery, Portsmouth, NH, May, 1999
Honorable Mention. The Creative Hand II, The Robert Lincoln Levy Gallery, Portsmouth, NH, Sept., 1998
Commissions
Painting, Ann's Garden, James and Ann Lawson, Cambridge, MA
Painting, Turner's Turners, The Baltimore Plaza Hotel, Baltimore, MD
Monoprint Series, The Marriot Hotel, Orlando, Florida
Monotype illustration for article, The Christian Science Monitor, "The Home Forum",
February 10, 1986
Monotype illustration for article, The Christian Science Monitor, "The Home Forum",
December 31, 1985
Articles and Publications
Laura Pope, “Colorful, Lush Still Lifes Mark Claffey Exhibition”, NH Weekend, The Union Leader, June 14-17, 2001
C. J. King, “Childhood Fun Helps Create New Solo Shows”, Manchester Journal, Manchester, VT, August 2000.
Dustan Knight, Review of the Sharon Arts Center 51st Annual Members' Exhibition, Peterborough, NH, Nov. 1999
Donald Rosenthal, Review of The Currier Gallery of Art, NHAA 50th Annual Exhibition, Art New England, Manchester, NH, May 1997
New American Paintings, Open Studios Press, Needham, MA, 1993
Edward Strickland, "Open Studios Event at 59 Amory Street shows diversity in JP",
Jamaica Plain Gazette, November 22, 1991
Meredith Fife Day, Review of the Summer Salon Show, Gallery on the Green,
Art New England. October-November 1991
Linda Coventry, "The Art of Amory Street", Jamaica Plain Art News, November 8, 1989
Jeanne Belovitch, "Another Medium: Novelesque Images", The South End News,
December 29, 1983
Education
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Tufts University, Medford,
B.F.A. Painting, 1981
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