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Artist’s Statement
I am constantly inspired by American Landscape and its artistic heritage. What excites me most in nature is the deeply profound moments, where there is a connection with a higher energy and one feels alive. My paintings are a response to those moments, an attempt to recreate the heightened visual and emotional drama. In these works I seek to transcend the landscape as mere subject matter, and use it as a tool to illustrate nature’s spiritual or emotional essence. In some pieces I use the composition or presentation of the image to further convey an iconographic quality. These paintings have progressively become less about documenting a particular place, but more about expressing a particular emotional memory or moment experienced in nature."
Jane Bloodgood-Abrams 2007
EDUCATION: Master of Fine Arts - Painting (cum laude) State University of New York at New Paltz 1988
Bachelor of Studio Arts - (cum laude) College of Saint Rose, Albany 1985
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2006 Mendenhall-Sobieski Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2006 Meyer East Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
DFN Gallery, New York, NY
2005 Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY
River Gallery, Chattanooga, TN
2004 Albert Shahinian Galleries, Poughkeepsie, NY
Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY
2003 Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY
Living Room Gallery, Kingston, NY
River Gallery, Chattanooga, TN
2002 Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY
2001 Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY
Artforms Gallery, Albany, NY
The Living Room Gallery, Kingston, NY
2000 Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY Mark Gruber Gallery, "Romancing the Landscape" New Paltz, NY
1999 River Gallery, Chattanooga, TN
1998 Alan Sheppard Gallery, Piermont, NY "New Traditions"
1997 Coffey Gallery, Kingston, NY
SELECTED JURIED AND INVITATIONAL GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2006 The Harrison Gallery, Williamstown, MA Nightscapes
Fletcher Gallery, Woodstock, NY
Meyer East Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Van Brunt Gallery, Beacon, NY
National Arts Club, New York, NY Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club Annual
Montana Trails Gallery, Bozeman, MT
2005 Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield MA, Power of Place: The Berkshires
DFN Gallery, New York, NY The Forest
Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, NY, Mohawk Hudson Regional
Living Room Gallery, Kingston, NY, Luminous Visions
Gallery 100, Saratoga, NY, Lake George Views
DFN Gallery, New York, NY, 10th Anniversary Exhibit
Haddad-Lascano Gallery, Great Barrington, MA, Landscapes
National Arts Club, New York, NY Pastel Society of America Annual
National Arts Club, New York, NY Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club Annual
2004 DFN Gallery, New York, NY, Skies
Albany Center Galleries, Albany, NY, Mohawk-Hudson Invitational
Segalas Gallery, Bernardsville, NJ
Haddad-Lascano Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
2003 Gallerie Abtei Brauweiller, Cologne, Germany
Mohawk-Hudson Regional, Museum at the State University at Albany, Albany, NY
Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, VT Envisioned in a Pastoral Setting
2002 National Arts Club, New York, NY Pastel Society of America Annual
National Arts Club, New York, NY Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club Annual
2001 Florence International Bienniale, Florence, Italy
Objects and Images, Bronxville, NY "The New Hudson River School
Edward Hopper Museum, Nyack, NY
Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, VT "Envisioned in a Pastoral Setting"
2000 The Austellung, Payerbach Austria "Sacred Visions"National Arts Club, New York, NY "Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club Annual" Jaqueline Casey Hudgens Center for the Arts, Duluth, GA "Southeast Pastel Society Annual"
Degas Pastel Society, New Orleans, LA
Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, VT "Envisioned in a Pastoral Setting"
National Arts Club, New York, NY "Pastel Society of America Annual"
1999 Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY
1998 New York State Biennial Invitational, New York State Museum, Albany, NY
1996 Trinity Arts Group, Atlanta, GA "Reflections of Nature"
1995 Marist College Art Galleries, Poughkeepsie, NY
Heritage Art Gallery Juried Competition, Poughkeepsie and Rhinebeck, NY
1994 Pennsylvania State University, PA "Images"
1993 Clermont State Historic Site, Clermont, NY "Young Artists of the Hudson Valley"
North Museum, Lancaster, PA "The Art of Nature"
Blue Mountain Gallery, New York, NY "Diversity and Vision"
PUBLIC AND CORPORATE COLLECTIONS (selected):
AIG Insurance, New York
Barclays Capital Inc., New York, NY
Federal Express Corporation, New York, NY
Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, NY
McGraw-Hill Books, New York, NY
First Albany Corporation, Albany, NY
OCI Industries, New York and Wyoming
Coca Cola Corporation, Atlanta, GA
Town of Washingtonville, NY
City of Edinburgh, Scotland
College of Saint Rose, Albany, NY
GRANTS, AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS:
2003 Rhine-Hudson Artist Exchange, Cologne Germany
2002 Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation Grant
2000 Guest Presenter, "Artists in the Tradition of the Hudson River School" Symposium,
New York Historical Society, New York, NY
1998 New York State Foundation for the Arts - Special Opportunity Stipend Award
Artist's Residency, Catskill Center Preserve, Platte Clove, NY
1987 State University of New York at New Paltz, Graduate Fellowship
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND REVIEWS:
Feature Article, Fine Art Connoisseur, February 2006
"Jane Bloodgood-Abrams: A Spiritual Connection with Her Home" Plein Air Magazine, April 2005
"Back to (the Hudson River) School," Artist feature, Hudson Valley Magazine, April 2002
"The Luminous Landscapes of Jane Bloodgood-Abrams," The Country, Nov 2000
"Luminist Paintings in Hudson", Northeast Art and Antiques, December, 1999
"Luminist Pleasure: A Marriage of Meteorology and Metaphysics", ARTideas, Vol. 5 No.3, 1998
MEMBERSHIPS:
National Association of Women Artists, Juried Member
Pastel Society of America, Signature Member
Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, Juried Member
Hudson Valley Pastel Society, Secretary and Founding Member
Woodstock Art Association - Juried Active Member
Artists Fellowship Foundation, Member
American Association of University Women, Member
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