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Born in New Haven, Connecticut
EDUCATION
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M.F.A. in Studio Art, School of the Museum of Fine Arts / Tufts University, Boston, 2006
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1998
A.B. in Comparative Literature and A.M. in English, Brown University, Providence, 1989
Additional studies in Art History at Yale University and the University of Madrid Complutense
Additional arts training at RISD, New York Studio School, and The Art Students League of New York |
SOLO & TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
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2011
2010
2007
2006
2005 |
Diane Birdsall Gallery, Old Lyme, CT (planned)
"Days of Hope and Bandages", Flanagan Campus Gallery, Community College of Rhode Island, Warwick, RI
"Belles Heures", Danese Gallery, New York, NY
“Arlan
Huang and Karen Schiff: Recent Work,” Jason Rulnick Gallery,
Chelsea, NYC.
“Residual
Markings: Tracing a Map / Mapping a Trace,” with Armando
Miguelez. Waypoint Gallery, Marfa, Texas (during
Open House weekend).
“From
Here,” MFA Thesis Exhibition, Tufts University Art Gallery.
“water
marks” film, Kingston Gallery, South End artists’ district, Boston.
Part of Mary Lang’s exhibition, “groundless: photographs
of water.”
“Traces: The
Agnes Martin Obituary Project,” 511 Gallery, Chelsea, NYC.
“Opening
Lines,” bf ANNEX, South End artists’ district, Boston. |
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
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2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002 |
Drawn/Taped/Burned: Abstraction on Paper, Katonah Art Museum, Katonah, NY
Art = Text = Art, University of Richmond Art Museum, Richmond, VA
Works on Paper II, Danese Gallery, New York, NY
It's a Fine Line: Between Obsession and Will, dm contemporary project room, New York, NY
Annual Invitational Benefit Exhibition, Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY
Sweetcake Enso, traveling exhibition, zendos and retreat centers in New York and San Francisco
Works on Paper, Danese Gallery, New York, NY
Papel(es), Galería Astarté, Madrid, Spain
Paperworks, b. j. spoke, Huntington, NY
Sweetcake Enso, traveling exhibition, Zen Centers in New York and California
Alumni Exhibition, Educational Center for the Arts, New Haven, CT
New York, New Drawings, 1946-2007, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Esteban Vicente, Segovia, Spain
Strange Loops, Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA
Orchard Street Shul Cultural Heritage Artists Project, John Slade Ely House, New Haven, CT
Drawings that Work, Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA (Juror: Andrew Stein Rafferty, Rhode Island School of Design)
Crossing Borders, Björn Ressle Gallery, New York, NY
Private Preview, dm contemporary, New York, NY
Beatrice Mandelman and Louis Ribak: Selected Paintings, 203 Fine Art, Taos, NM
Art of the Northeast regional juried exhibition, Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, CT (Juror: Douglas Dreishpoon, Chief Curator, Albright-Knox Art Gallery), won juror's prize.
small works, 80 Washington Square East Gallery, New York, (Juror: Daniel Ferris, Director, Stephen Haller Gallery)
Annual AIDS Benefit Invitational Exhibition, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston
Winter Salon: Works on Paper, Björn Ressle Gallery, New York, NY
22nd International Juried Show, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ (Juror: Carter Foster, Whitney Museum of American Art)
New Art national juried exhibition, MPG Contemporary, Boston, MA (Juror: Rachel Rosenfield Lafo, DeCordova Museum of Art), won Gallery Honorable Mention
"4th
Anniversary Exhibition", dm contemporary, Mill Neck NY
Art
Now Fair NY, 30/30 Hotel – dm contemporary
Art
Now Fair Miami – dm Contemporary
“Drawing
Now: An Exploration,” DM Contemporary, Mill Neck, NY.
“New
Directions ’07,” Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY (Juror: Jose Luis
Blondet, Dia Art Foundation)
“small
works,” Washington Square East Gallery, New York (Juror: Jim Kempner,
Jim Kempner Fine Arts)
“Graphite,” Main St. Gallery, Chester, Connecticut. Exhibition
with: Elizabeth Gourlay, John Lavertu, Janet Passehl,
Jeremy Ziemann.
“Dyscalculia” print portfolio, Southern Graphics Print Council.
“Art As Process,” LynnArt, Inc., Lynn, Massachusetts.
erArts Festival, Boston (“water marks” film projected onto library
window at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, on a Saturday
night)
“Boston
Young Contemporaries,” 808 Gallery, Boston University (Jurors:
Kiki Smith, Gideon Bok, Laura Donaldson)
“Drawing
Now,” 511 Gallery, Chelsea, NYC.
AIDS
Benefit Invitational Exhibition, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston.
Annual
Holiday Postcard Exhibition, Main St. Gallery, Chester, Connecticut.
“Calm,”
Lillian Immig Gallery, Emmanuel College, Boston.
“ARTcetera”
biannual juried auction to benefit AIDS research, Boston Center for the Arts.
“Visible
Invisibles,” Student Courtyard Gallery, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Visual
AIDS Benefit Exhibition, Sikkema Jenkins Gallery, Chelsea, NYC.
AIDS
Benefit Invitational Exhibition, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston.
“The
Dictionary Project,” Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville , Massachusetts.
“Affirming
The Hand: Contemporary Drawing,” Student Courtyard Gallery Museum of
Fine Arts, Boston.
Student
Annual exhibition, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Jurors: Barbara
Krakow, Vicki Goldberg, and Steven Nelson).
Annual
juried Drawing exhibition, School of the Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston (Jurors: SMFA Drawing faculty). Won a
jurors’ prize.
“Repeat
After Me,” Museum of Fine Arts Library, Boston.
First
group show of future exhibitors, bf ANNEX, Boston.
“New
Directions ’04” national juried show, Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY
(Juror: Tina Kukielski, The
Whitney Museum).
Juried
exhibition/auction to benefit the Boston Architectural Center, Boston.
Graduate
Student juried exhibition, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Juror: Laura
Donaldson, Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts).
“New
Art ’04” national juried show, Kingston Gallery, South End, Boston (Juror: Ann
Wilson Lloyd, Art in
America and The New York Times).
1st
Annual Exhibition of Somerville/Medford Artists, Aidekman Arts Center, Tufts
University (Juror: Amy Ingrid Schlegel,
Gallery Director).
Installation
and images, in two shows organized by the Tufts Hillel Center.
Annual
juried Drawing exhibition, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Jurors: SMFA Drawing faculty).
Graduate
Student juried exhibition, School of the Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston (Juror: Francine Koslow Miller, Artforum and Art
on Paper ).
“Voyage”
invitational exhibition, Sun Trust Bank Plaza, Atlanta, GA.
“To
Your Credit” regional exhibition, Eastern New Mexico University
at Roswell. Piece won Roswell Award for
“Most Cosmic in Show.” |
COMMUNITY ART PROJECTS
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| “God’s Eyes Over the Chapel,” a community art
project for the Andover-Newton Theological School, 2006-07. Led
seminary students in learning about the traditions behind God’s
Eyes and weaving fluorescent versions using construction materials. Over
a dozen God’s Eyes were mounted on the poles of the fence surrounding
a chapel construction site, to “watch over” the building project
throughout its duration. Imagined and executed project
from start to finish. |
ARTIST'S RESIDENCIES
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Artist in Residence, Wesley Theological Seminary, Washington, DC, Spring 2008
Edward F. Albee Foundation Fellow, residency in Montauk, NY, September 2007
Artist in Residence, Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, NM, Spring 2007
Visiting Artist, Andover-Newton Theological School, Newton Centre, MA, 2005-2007
Jentel Arts Foundation Fellow, residency in Sheridan, Wyoming, July 2006
Vermont Studio Center, Artist's Fellowship, June 2004 |
ARTIST'S PUBLICATIONS
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2007
2006
2004
2002
2001 |
“Taking on the Cosmos: Roberta Paul at
Allston Skirt,” <bigredandshiny.com>, issue 65, June
2007.
“Internal Structures: Laurie Reid at osp gallery,” <bigredandshiny.com>,
issue 54, January 2007.
“Eva Hesse Haunts New York,” <bigredandshiny.com>, issue
44, June 2006.
“Fragment Fiesta! Abigail Child at Agassiz House, Radcliffe
Institute,” <bigredandshiny.com>, issue 42, April 2006.
“Social Action and Meditation: Do Be Do Be Do.” Shambhala
Center of Boston Newsletter. Fall 2004. 4-5,
12.
Book review, Virginia Woolf in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, ed.
Pamela Caughie. In Clio: A Journal of Literature,
History and the Philosophy of History. 31:2 (Winter
2002), 209-15.
Conference review, “Art History / Aesthetics / Visual Studies”
at the Clark Institute of Art, Williamstown, MA, 4-5 May 2001. arthist.net
“The Undisciplined: Institutional Structures for
‘In-Between’ Subjects.” inventio: creative
thinking about learning and teaching. Spring 2001 special issue
on “Interdisciplinarity.” |
REVIEWS & PROFILES
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“Artist Karen Schiff Hosts Open Studio,” The
Taos News (Tempo magazine section), 19 April
2007: S20-22. http://taosnews.com
“Obits
Turned to Art,” The Taos News (Tempo magazine
section), 22 March 2007: S20-22.
“Divine Inspiration,” Lisa Kozan, artMatters (SMFA alumni
magazine), Fall 2006: 10-11.
“Emerging Talent: Boston Young Contemporaries,” James Foritano, artscope, July
- August 2006: 27.
“Mary Lang: groundless and Karen Schiff: water
marks,” Susan Mulski, Art New England (April/May
2006): 36.
“Three Shows Shake Up Summer Art Doldrums,” Cate McQuaid, Boston
Globe (Aug. 20, 2004): C14.
“International Hootenanny!” Kate Ledogar, Weekly Dig (Aug.
11-18, 2004): 18.
“New Art ’04 at the Kingston Gallery,” Cas Taddeo, someothermagazine.com (click
on “more art articles” and scroll down right column until you
see this title).
“Gallery presents juried exhibition of local talent,” Tufts
Journal, June 2004.
“House of Books,” Robin Rice, City Paper (July 24–31,
1997): 22. See also http://citypaper.net/articles/072497/article002.shtml
“Text
Blocks,” Gerard Brown, Philadelphia Weekly (July 22,
1997): 24-25. |
PRESS
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Javier Rubio Nomblot, "De la cosa a la trama," ABC (Spanish weekly; week of March 20-26, 2010).
Interview with Wynn Kramarsky, Kunstforum International, April-May 2009.
Articles in Spanish newspapers about New York, New Drawings exhibition in Spain, January 2009.
Detail of drawing reproduced in Gallery Guide, New York/New England edition, November 2007: 111.
"Artist Karen Schiff Hosts Open Studio," The Taos News (Tempo magazine section), 19 April 2007: S20-22. (See <taosnews.com/weekly> to link to the archives.)
"Obits Turned to Art," The Taos News (Tempo magazine section), 22 March 2007: S20-22.
Drawing catalogued in Desenhos [drawings]: A–Z, Coleccao Madeira Corporate Services, December 2006: 231.
Lisa Kozan, "Divine Inspiration," artMatters (SMFA alumni magazine), Fall 2006: 10-11.
James Foritano, "Emerging Talent: Boston Young Contemporaries," artscope, July-August 2006: 27.
Susan Mulski, "Mary Lang: groundless and Karen Schiff: water marks," Art New England (April/May 2006): 36.
Cate McQuaid, "Three Shows Shake Up Summer Art Doldrums," Boston Globe (Aug. 20, 2004): C14.
Kate Ledogar, "International Hootenanny!" Weekly Dig (Aug. 11-18, 2004): 18.
Cas Taddeo, "New Art '04 at the Kingston Gallery," <someothermagazine.com>
"Gallery presents juried exhibition of local talent," Tufts Journal, June 2004.
Robin Rice, "House of Books," City Paper (July 24–31, 1997): 22. http://citypaper.net/articles/072497/article002.shtml
Gerard Brown, "Text Blocks," Philadelphia Weekly (July 22, 1997): 24-25. |
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
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2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002
2001
2000
2000
1999 |
Slide lecture, Harwood Museum of Art, Taos,
NM, (opening event for the Harwood Museum’s annual Agnes Martin
birthday weekend), March 2007 (Agnes Martin’s birthday).
“water marks,” studio panel about light on water, CAA annual
conference, NYC, February 2007.
“Tracings and Rubbings as Manifestations of Mourning.” Conference
on Constructions of Death, Mourning and Memory, Woodcliff Lake,
NJ, October 2006.
Slide lecture at a donor function, Museum of Fine Arts (MFA Program
representative), March 2006.
“Ritualistic Reinscriptions: Tracing and Rubbing as Artistic Practices.” Andover-Newton
Theological School, Newton Centre, MA, February 2006.
Guest lecturer, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Post-Baccalaureate
program, April 2005.
Panelist, Todd Solondz screening and discussion, Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston, March 2005.
Visiting Artist (slide lecture and student consultations), Simmons
College, Non-Representational Painting class, December 2004.
“The Art of the Story in Sheherezade: A Flip Book.” NEMLA,
Boston, March 2003.
Respondent, panel on “Book Arts: The Artist as Writer /
The Writer as Artist.” CAA annual conference, University
of the Arts, Philadelphia, February 2002.
“Modernism in Book Design: Vanessa Bell’s Decoration of
Virginia Woolf’s Kew Gardens (1927).” SHARP Annual
Conference, College of William and Mary, July 2001.
“Composing Pages: The Visual Study of Ostensibly Verbal
Materials.” Part of panel “Blindness or Insight? Studying
Visual Culture in Departments of English.” W.J.T. Mitchell, respondent. MLA
annual conference, December 2000.
“Displaced Prefaces: The Original Marbled Page in Tristram
Shandy in Historical and Narrative Contexts.” Conference
on “Material Cultures: The Book, the Text, the Archive,”
Centre for the History of the Book (Edinburgh, Scotland),
July 2000.“Page Composition from Gutenberg to Contemporary Artists’
Books.” Invited to conference on “The Once and Future Book: Reconsidering
Books and Reading in the Electronic Age,” Ben Gurion University
of the Negev (Beer Sheva, Israel), January 1999. |
CURATING
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2000
1999
1997
1996
1995 |
“Watermark,” April 2000. Two-week outdoor
site-specific dance residency with Philadelphia’s Leah Stein
Dance Company, at Clemson University, Clemson, SC.
Site-specific performance piece, Leah Stein, Brooks Center
Courtyard, Clemson University, April 7-10, 1999. Weekend
event in conjunction with a conference on “Creativity and Values.”
Curator, “ARCHItextURE: Experiencing Books as Buildings.” Philadelphia
Art Alliance, 18th and Rittenhouse Square, July 12 ‑ August 24,
1997. Organized a panel discussion called “The Writing
on the Wall: Words in Art and Architecture” with artists
from two local shows.
Production Assistant, annual Bloomsday Celebration, Philadelphia,
PA, June 16, 1996.
Curatorial Assistant, “Doing Time: Creative Responses
to Incarceration by Philadelphia‑Area Inmates.” Levy Gallery,
Moore College of Art and Design. Philadelphia, September
1995 (Winnet Internship in Community Service). Richard
Torchia and Todd Gilens, Curators. |
COLLECTIONS
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MCS Collection of Contemporary Drawing, Portugal
The Drawing Center Slide Registry, New York
Werner H. Kramarsky, New York
Lucy Lippard, New Mexico
Frank and Joy Purcell, California/New Mexico (Board of Directors,
Tamarind Institute)
Joanna Weber, Ringling Museum of Art, Florida
Thomas Smith, Kidder-Smith Gallery, Boston
Ted Kooser, Lincoln, Nebraska (former U.S. Poet Laureate)
Robert Attanassio, Brooklyn
Private collections in Boston, Munich,
New Haven, New York, Palo Alto, and Providence
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AWARDS AND GRANTS
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Juror's Award, "Art of the Northeast," Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, CT, June 2009
(Juror: Douglas Dreishpoon, Chief Curator, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY).
Gallery Honorable Mention, "New Art 2008," MPG Contemporary, Boston, January 2008.
Bartlett Travel Grant (to New Mexico), School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Summer 2006.
Drawing Award, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, 2005.
Roswell Award for "Most Cosmic in Show," "To Your Credit" regional exhibition, Eastern New Mexico University at Roswell, Spring 2002. |
WRITINGS ABOUT ART
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Catalogue entries for Sol LeWitt, Stefana McClure, and Edwin Rudl, Drawn/Taped/Burned: Abstraction on Paper, <www.aboutdrawing.org/drawntapedburned>, January 2011.
Review of Sarah Sze's "Notepad," <caareviews.org>, October 2010.
"Elsewhere and Otherwise: The Conceptual Strategy of the Cultural Heritage Artists Project," catalogue essay for an exhibition at the John Slade Ely House, New Haven, CT, 2009.
"Letter from Segovia," The Brooklyn Rail, May 2009, page 44 (see www.brooklynrail.com/2009/05/artseen/letter-from-segovia).
Catalogue entries for William Anastasi, Agnes Martin, and Marjorie Welish, New York, New Drawings, 2009.
"A Richter in the Corner, in a Corner of the Fogg," <bigredandshiny.com>, issue 84, June 2008.
Letter to the Editor, The New York Times, Arts & Leisure section (Sunday, 1/6/08, p. AR2), in response to Roberta Smith's article, "What We Talk About When We Talk About Art" (Sunday,12/23/07).
"'When You Lean Too Hard on Anything, It Breaks': Peter Schejldahl at Boston University's Speaker
Series," <bigredandshiny.com>, issue 71, November 2007.
"Taking on the Cosmos: Roberta Paul at Allston Skirt," <bigredandshiny.com>, issue 65, June 2007.
"Internal Structures: Laurie Reid at osp gallery," <bigredandshiny.com>, issue 54, January 2007.
"Eva Hesse Haunts New York," <bigredandshiny.com>, issue 44, June 2006.
"Fragment Fiesta! Abigail Child at Agassiz House, Radcliffe Institute," <bigredandshiny.com>, issue 42, April 2006.
"When Thought Becomes Crime," Editor, for Critical Art Ensemble (Steve Kurtz), published in 2005 in Scotland in conjunction with a CAE exhibition, and reprinted in Marching Plague: Germ Warfare and Global Public Health (2006, Autonomedia and Critical Art Ensemble) and The
Uncertain States of America Reader, (London, New York, and Berlin, 2006).
Conference review, "Art History / Aesthetics / Visual Studies" at the Clark Institute of Art, Williamstown, MA, 4-5 May 2001. Go to <www.arthist.net/WSearch.html> and select May 2001. |
ART FAIRS
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Armory Show (NYC, 2010, 2011)
Hamptons Art Fair (Bridgehampton, Long Island, 2010)
Bridge (NYC, 2009)
Red Dot (NYC, 2008)
Palm Beach Contemporary Art Fair (West Palm Beach, Florida, 2005) |
COLLECTIONS
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Public:
MCS Collection of Contemporary Drawing, Portugal
Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine
Brown University, David Winton Bell Gallery, List Art Center, Providence, RI
Boston Public Library
The Drawing Center Viewing Program, New York
Lourie & Cutler law firm, Boston
Private:
Werner H. Kramarsky, New York
Lucy Lippard, New Mexico
Frank and Joy Purcell, California/New Mexico (Board of Directors, Tamarind Institute)
Thomas Smith, Kidder-Smith Gallery, Boston
Ted Kooser, 2006 U.S. Poet Laureate
Private collections in Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Munich, New Haven, New York, Palo Alto, Providence, and Taos
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