EDUCATION:

1973 BFA - Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, PA

 

GALLERY REPRESENTATION:

Fleischer/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

BigTown Gallery, Rochester, VT

ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS (* denotes catalogue or brochure)

2009-10 “Back Through Black,” Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, VT*

2007 “Deep Breath,” Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2005 “One Thousand Subtractions,” Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

1997 “Short Stories,” Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

“Photographs Dreaming,” University Gallery, Amherst, MA

1994 “Photographs Dreaming,” Janet Fleisher Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

1991 "Abilities and Disabilities," Williams College Museum, Williamstown, MA

1990 "Belief in the Underground," DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA (traveled to University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA)*

1989 "Being Here Only," Janet Fleisher Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

1987 "Transparent Being," Cavin Morris Inc., New York, NY

1986 "Inside Looking In," Janet Fleisher Gallery, Philadelphia, PA*

1983 "Marcy Hermansader-Drawings," Morris Gallery, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

Janet Fleisher Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

1982 Brattleboro Museum, Brattleboro, VT

1981 Eric Makler Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

1980 Eric Makler Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

1978 Bethel Gallery, Bethel, CT

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2007 "Portland Museum of Art Biennial," Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME

2006 “Rock, Paper, Scissors: American Collage Now,” Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2004 “The Drawn Page,” The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT

2002 Art in Embassies Program, Montevideo, Uruguay

2000 “The Likeness of Being: Contemporary Self-Portraits by Sixty Women,” curated by Judith Stein, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY

“Fantastica: Flora and Fauna,” Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

1998 “Mindscapes: Extending the Limits of Reality,” Noyes Museum of Art, Oceanville, NJ

1996-98 “Objects of Personal Significance: Women Stretching the Definition of Still Life,” Tarble Art Center, Charleston, IL, (traveled to Texas Tech., Lubbock TX, Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN and Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, TN)*

1997 “Dream Botanicals,” Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA

1994 “Body and Soul, Contemporary Art and Healing,” DeCordova Museum, Lincoln MA (traveled to Samuel P. Harn Museum, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL)*

1991 "Visionary Healing-Contemporary Saints," Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Wilmington, DE

"The Expressive Moment," Sharadin Art Gallery, Kutztown, PA

"Transformations," Pat Adams, Gregory Gillespie and Marcy Hermansader, Brattleboro Museum, Brattleboro, VT*

1990 "Insider Art," Vermont travelling exhibition*

1989 "Book in Hand," Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, Arvada, CO

1987 "Neo-Alchemy," Janet Fleisher Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

"Art & the Law," The West Publishing Company, St. Paul, MN*

"New England Now: Contemporary Art from Six States," DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA (travelling exhibition)*

"The Atlanta Biennale," Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA

"Neo-Alchemy," Cavin Morris Inc., New York, NY

1986 "Philadelphia Collects: Art Since 1940," Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA*

"Timeless Tables: A Still Life Exhibition," Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA*

"Real Surreal," Park Avenue Atrium, New York, NY

Inaugural Exhibition, Cavin Morris Inc., New York, NY

"Letters," Women's Caucus for Art, The Clocktower, New York, NY

1985 "RAPE," Gallery of Fine Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH*

"Poet-Artist Collaboration," Robert Hull Fleming Museum, Burlington, VT*

"An Inside Place," The Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ*

"Curators Choice," The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY*

1984 "The Myth of the Bride," San Antonio College Galleries, San Antonio, TX

"Domestic Tales," University Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA*

"Contemporary New England Still Life," DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA (traveled to Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI)*

Invitational Drawing Exhibition, Art and Architecture Gallery, University of Tennessee, Knoxville (traveled to The Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, TN)*

1984 "Imagists of the Eighties," Humanities Center Gallery, Wabash Gallery, Wabash College, Crawfordsville, IN

1983 "The Horse Show," Robert Freidus Gallery, New York, NY

1982 "Folk, Fantasy and Expressionism," Silvermine Art Center, New Canaan, CT

"Women's Art-Women's Lives," Brattleboro Museum, Brattleboro, VT

1981 "A Class Portrait," Brattleboro Museum & Robert Hull Fleming Museum, Burlington, VT*

1980 "Art Materialized: Selections from the Fabric Workshop," Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, PA (travelling exhibition, organized by Independent Curators, Inc., New York, NY)*

1979 "Illuminated Thoughts" (traveling exhibition organized by Vermont Council on the Arts)

AWARDS AND HONORS

2009 Creation Grant, Vermont Arts Council

2007 Acadia Summer Arts Program, ME

2004-05 Acadia Summer Arts Program, ME

2003 Creation Grant, Vermont Arts Council

1996-02 Acadia Summer Art Program, ME

2001 Blue Mountain Center, NY

1994 Blue Mountain Center, NY

Acadia Summer Art Program, ME

1993 The Vermont Community Foundation Grant

1992 Vermont Council on the Arts Fellowship

1985 Blue Mountain Center, NY

1982 Windham County Arts Council Grant

1982 Genesis Project, Ossabaw Island, GA

1979 Artist in Residence, The Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, PA

1979 Vermont Council on the Arts Fellowship

1977 Fellowship in Painting, NEA

SELECTED PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS

Alexander Cockburn

Dechert, Price and Rhoads, Philadelphia, PA

Decordova Museum, Lincoln, MA

Mark Di Suvero

Helen W. Drutt English

Robert Hull Fleming Museum, Burlington VT

Wolf Kahn and Emily Mason

Kraft Dairy Group

Mr. and Mrs. B. Herbert Lee

Vincent Lim and Robert Tooey

The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA

Ann Percy and Dixon Stroud

Ralph David Samuel

Theodore E Stebbins, Jr. and Susan Ricci Stebbins

Judith Stein

Marion Stroud Swingle

Vermont Council on the Arts