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Professional Background

Education

  • Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
  • Additional studies at The Montclair Art Museum School of Art, Montclair, NJ
  • Foundation for Arts and Sciences, Loveladies, NJ
  • Studied with numerous painters, including Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr., Tom Vincent and Istvan Valohovícs.

Current Galleries

Invitational Juried Shows

During 15 year painting career in New Jersey included in part:

  • Sydney Rothman Gallery, Barnegat Light, NJ
  • Foundation for Arts and Sciences, Loveladies, NJ
  • Art Association of West Essex, NJ
  • Art Center of NJ Regional Show, East Orange and Summit, NJ

Recently, my work has been accepted into shows including:

  • AVA Annual Juried Show 2009, 2010
  • "Art for Caring" exhibit/auction, Montclair, NJ; ArtSpace214 Gallery, Montclair, NJ
  • Women Artists of the Upper Valley, Pegasus Gallery, Quechee, VT.
  • Twice-yearly shows at Chaffee Center for Visual Arts, Rutland, VT.

Solo Exhibitions

  • New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Newark, NJ
  • Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH, March, 2007
  • Featured artist at Woodsum Gallery, Warner, NH, September, 2007
  • Featured artist at Chaffee Center for Visual Arts, December, 2007

Dual Exhibitions

  • Wall Street Gallery, Madison, CT
  • The Artery, Caldwell, NJ
  • Co-op Café Gallery, Lebanon, NH, May 2005
  • Pegasus Gallery, Quechee, VT, October, 2006

Group Exhibitions

Participated in numerous New Jersey group exhibitions prior to move to Vermont.

After 2000, work was included in shows including:

  • Co-op Gallery, Lebanon, NH, 2004 (four artists).
  • ARTWORKS Strafford Holiday Exhibits 2003, 2004, 2005
  • Strafford ARTWORKS Town House Gallery Exhibits 2003, 2004, Strafford, VT
  • Galleries in the Gardens, 2004
  • Pegasus Gallery, Quechee, VT, 2005, 2006
  • Woodsum Gallery, Lake Sunapee, NH and Warner, NH, 2005, 2006, 2007
  • Montana Gifts and Gallery, West Yellowstone, MT, 2005
  • Chaffee Center for the Arts, member exhibits, 2007, 2008
  • Tang Museum Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, spring, 2008
  • East End Gallery, Nantucket, MA, spring and fall, 2009, 2010
  • Gilded Edge Gallery, Hanover, NH, fall, 2009.

Commissions

  • Three works included in Parks Portrayed in Pen and Paint, a book of poetry and art portraying three National Parks -- Yellowstone, Yosemite and the Grand Canyon -- published spring, 2005
  • llustrations for French from Four to Seven by Barbara Hippel Kodjak.
  • Extensive portrait work is by commission.
  • Work featured in Lifelines magazine of the Arts, Dartmouth Medical School, spring, 2006.

Awards

  • Best in Show, Autumn Exhibit, Washington, NJ
  • Commendation, Art Center of NJ Regional Show
  • Purchase Award, "Art for Caring" exhibit/auction, Montclair, NJ, 2005

Collections

  • Work has been purchased to be hung at the Senior Care Facility in Montclair, NJ and in the NJ Division on Aging, Trenton, NJ.
  • Exhibited in the corporate workplace, including The DMGroup, New York, NY; McCaffrey McCall Direct, New York, NY; Young & Rubicam, New York, NY.
  • Hangs in numerous private collections.

Press

  • Times Argus and Vermont Today staff writer Anne Galloway describes Reese’s works as “gems,” saying “Her spare, impressionistic style gives the layered patches of snow, tufts of grass and ridge lines emerging in the background an authentic naturalism.”
  • Marc Awodney, Art Critic for Seven Days, Vermont’s Alternative Weekly: "The show's other noteworthy works are modest in scale, (including) two horizontal triptychs by Deborah Frankel Reese, oil landscapes on which layers of tissue paper provide skin like textures and deep strata of color.”
  • Eileen Watkins, Art Critic, Newark Star Ledger: “Reese shows she is adept at animal forms, even while she presents them as dreamlike, fading into their surroundings… Her satisfying, strong figure work shows she is adept at composition.”

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