Info
Studio: 2120 E. Westmoreland Street
Philadelphia, PA 19133
Email: nicoledonnellyart@gmail.com
BIO
Nicole Donnelly is a Philadelphia-based visual artist and has studied, lived and worked in various locations across the United States, Canada and Mexico. She received her MFA from the University of Iowa and her BA from Bennington College. She loves her bicycle and believes it will be the only method of cross country travel left to the masses soon.
STATEMENT
My work plays between the material and the immaterial, the substantial and the impermanent, as it seeks to transcend the expectations of perception. My desire to deconstruct is equally met by a desire to mend, often resulting in a holistic or cyclic process, a kind of conservation of material. Each medium builds a larger object/image, the potential source for another work. I am concerned with the malleable relationship of the object and the image, of depth and surfaces, the creation of two-dimensional sculpture and three-dimensional drawings, paintings and prints. Paper and its innate properties form the crux of this pursuit at present as I strive for the dissipating monument, the authorless mark. The resulting imagery is as much a response to the materials as to my ongoing concerns about the natural world, its ephemerality and its conservation. Phenomena of the natural world, the way light shapes what the eye sees and the subsequent knowledge that is drawn from these fascinates me. My greatest desire is for my artwork to stir in the viewer some of these same critical or poetic thoughts and questions, to become aware of the act of perceiving and valuation.
Can truth lie in a poetic reconstruction/simulation, or does it only exist in the realm of the real?
The material holds the answer.
CURRICULUM VITAE
EDUCATION
| 2009 | MFA in Painting and Drawing, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA |
| 2008 | MA in Painting and Drawing, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA |
| 2002 | BA in Visual Arts and Japanese Language, Bennington College, Bennington, VT |
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
| 2010 | place : memory : here, Warehouse 414, Topeka, KS |
| 2009 | Stories of Waterfalls, MFA exhibition, Arts Iowa City, Iowa City, IA |
| New Paper Works, Byron Burford Gallery, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA | |
| 2008 | To Make the Connection, Byron Burford Gallery, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA |
| New Drawings, Eve Drewelowe Gallery, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA | |
| 2007 | Where the Light Falls, Byron Burford Gallery, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA |
| Unobstructed Views, Byron Burford Gallery, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA |
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
| 2010 | Oblique Patience, SCENE Metrospace, East Lansing, MI |
| After Christmas Slasher Sale & Fundraiser, Public Space ONE, Iowa City, IA | |
| 2009 | Paper Works!, juried by Winifred A. Lutz, Art in City Hall, Philadelphia, PA |
| Asian Persuasion, Salt Art Gallery, Philadelphia, PA | |
| Puppets, Stages, Parades & More, Session II of the ICSA Residency, shadow puppet performance of “Anna Pesa: The Story of My Great Grandmother,” Burford Gallery, Iowa City, IA | |
| The Great Art Scavenger Hunt, Session I of the ICSA Residency, collaborative sculpture installation with Caleb Engstrom, Iowa City, IA | |
| University of Iowa MFA Show, Studio Arts Galleries, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA | |
| Asa Nisi Masa, an expanding group show, Frontier Logic, Iowa City, IA | |
| Dance and Shadow Puppetry, shadow puppet performance of Woody Guthrie’s “Dust Bowl Ballads,” Arts Iowa City, Iowa City, IA | |
| 2008 | Recent Works, Graduate Painting Group Show, Studio Arts Gallery, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA |
| Your Silver Lining, dual exhibit with printmaker Nicole Pietrantoni, Studio Arts Gallery, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA | |
| Removed Landscape, a collaborative dance work, John Ryan Theatre, DUMBO Arts Festival, Brooklyn, NY | |
| Instructions 12, a group show about following the rules, Arts Iowa City, IA | |
| Works in Progress, shadow puppet performance of “Why Mosquitoes Buzz,” Stone Depot Dance Lab, Brooklyn, NY | |
| Memorial for Gelsy Verna, Portico Gallery, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA | |
| Jakobsen Conference, Blank Honors Center, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA | |
| 2007 | AIDS Benefit Auction, Chait Gallery, Iowa City, IA |
| Echoes and the Existential, curator and participant, Portico Gallery, Iowa City, IA | |
| Art & War, juried group show, Art Gallery West, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA | |
| Obscenity on the Wall, juried group show, Eve Drewlowe Gallery, Iowa City, IA | |
| 2006 | Works on Paper, juried group exhibit, Art Gallery West, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA |
| First Annual Trenton Avenue Arts Festival, Philadelphia, PA | |
| A Show of Hands: 15th Annual Art Auction, benefiting MANNA (Metropolitan AIDS Neighborhood Nutrition Alliance), Moore Art Gallery, Philadelphia, PA | |
| Brad Carney and Nicole Donnelly, dual exhibit, North on South, Philadelphia, PA | |
| Double Takes, group exhibit, Double Shots Cafe, Philadelphia, PA | |
| 2005 | Mural Artists Juried Exhibition, Mural Arts Program, Thomas Eakins House, Philadelphia, PA |
| A Square Foot, juried group exhibition, Afif Gallery, Philadelphia, PA | |
| 2004 | Mural Arts Program Big Picture Winter Art Exhibit, a group show of instructor artworks, Thomas Eakins House, Philadelphia, PA |
| 2003 | SWARM Tour, dual exhibit with photographer Alexandra DiezBarroso, Bfly Atelier, Vancouver, BC, Canada |
| Woman: In the Eye of the Artist, a juried group show for International Women’s Day, Bfly Atelier, Vancouver, BC, Canada |
RESIDENCIES
| 2011 | Vermont Studio Center |
| 2010 | Women’s Studio Workshop |
| 2009 | Iowa City Summer Arts Residency, Sessions I & II |
AWARDS
| 2011 | Vermont Studio Center Grant |
| 2010 | Art in Education Fellowship, Women’s Studio Workshop |
| 2008-09 | Mildred Pelzer-Lynch Fellowship |
| 2007-08 | School of Art and Art History Scholarship, University of Iowa |
| 2006-08 | Graduate Teaching Assistantship Tuition Award, University of Iowa |
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
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Basic Drawing Instructor, Painting & Drawing Department, School of Art and Art History,
University of Iowa (Aug. 2007 – present). Supervised by Sue Hettmansperger and Susan White. - Visual Art Instructor for Arts Share’s Summer Arts Camp, University of Iowa (June 2007). Supervised by Leslie Finer, children ages 5-12.
- Area Teaching Assistant, Painting & Drawing Department, School of Art and Art History, University of Iowa (Aug. 2006 – May 2007). Supervised by Susan White for the painting and drawing classes of Ronald Cohen, David Dunlap, Michael Perrone, Margaret Rochelle and Susan White.
- Assistant Instructor for the Big Picture Program, Mural Arts Program, Philadelphia, PA (Oct. 2004 – Dec. 2005). Supervised by Lisa Murch and taught with Brad Carney, children ages 10-15.
PRESS
“Nicole Donnelly: Falling Water,” an interview with Steven Anderson for the Women’s Studio Workshop http://blog.wsworkshop.org/?p=495#more-495
“Works made of paper bring fragile technique to a show at City Hall,” Philadelphia Inquirer by Victoria Donohoe
http://www.philly.com/inquirer/weekend/20091023_Works_made_of_paper_bring_fragile_technique_to_a_show_at_City_Hall.html
“Too Many Moving Parts?” OFFOFFOFF.com by Quinn Batson
http://offoffoff.com/dance/2009/raw_material_2009.php
“Downtown Iowa City March 6, 2008 Gallery Walk” in Iowa City/Coralville Calendar
http://www.iowacitycoralville.org/calendar_details.asp?SubmitButton=print&R=123985
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