AMY COHEN BANKER
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2008 ‘Finding Beauty', two persons show, the Common Ground Gallery, sponsored by the World Monuments Fund, NYC, NY
Recent Paintings, JWS, Great Barrington , Solo Exhibition from Aug. – Sept., 2008
Private Roads, Prophetic Turns", small works exhibition, Le Petit Musee, Housatonic , MA
Private Solo exhibition (Jan 08 – ongoing), Gale Group, NYC
Copacetic Pictures, Dumbo, NYC (Jan 08 - ongoing)
Private exhibition, Hard Working Movies, Dumbo, NYC (Jan 08-ongoing)
2007 Monterey Pop inspired portraits (Kevin Kushel, Ovoworks curators) Billy Name and Warhol Factory, L'Univerre Gallery, 20 rue des Coutures Saint Gervais Paris, France .
Janos Gat Gallery, Amy Banker Now, Inspirations from Poetry of Harrison, Mandelstam, Shakespeare, Dante, Stevens, Jeffers. Feb 6 - Mar 3. - The Metaphor from Poetry to Paint.
Great Barrington Berkshire Coop, May - June, 2007, Years Around Here
Gallery Gora, Quebec , Montreal, Amy Banker Now, Inspirations from Poetry of Harrison, Mandelstam, Shakespeare, Dante, Stevens, Jeffers. The Metaphor from Poetry to Paint. June 19 to July 7, 2007 .
2006 Spring Joy, CVB Space, NYC; D'Ars Foundation, Milan , Italy ; Recent Drawings and Watercolors, National Association of Women Artists Gallery, NYC 2005 The Relicts Multi-Media Project, CVB Space, NYC; The Lady Who Felt the Earth, Eickholt Gallery, NYC; Dag Hammarskjold Lobby Gallery, NYC; Recent Paintings, CVB Space, NYC
2004 D'Ars Foundation, Milan , Italy ; Ezaire Gallery, NYC; Cadena Studios, NYC
2003 Ezaire Gallery, NYC; La Vuelta, Long Island City , NY ; Metropolitan Opera House Art Gallery , NYC
2002 J. Mavec & Company, NYC; Ezaire Gallery, NYC; Howland Art Center, Beacon, NY; La Vuelta, Long Island City, NY
2001 Juicy Art Gallery , Beacon, NY; Broome Street Art Gallery , NYC
2000 Kuwait Art Museum, Kuwait; So Hyun Gallery; NYC; Roslyn Grant Gallery, NYC;
Francis Goodwin Gallery, NYC; Loren Ellis Gallery, NYC; Kaminsky Gallery, Berlin, Germany
1999 Plaza Exchange, NYC; National Arts Club. NYC
1998 Janos Gat Gallery, NYC; Loren Ellis Gallery , NYC
1997 Trustees Hall, Cornell University , Ithaca , NY
1995 Gubala Fine Art Gallery . NYC; Stephen Gang Gallery, NYC; Cadena Studios, NYC
1993 Gubala Fine Art Gallery , NYC
1975 Residential College for the Arts, Cornell University , Ithaca , NY
1974 Residential College for the Arts, Cornell University , Ithaca , NY
1973 Residential College for the Arts, Cornell University , Ithaca , NY
1972 Residential College for the Arts, Cornell University , Ithaca , NY
1971 Rockland County Historical Society, New City, NY; Finkelstein Memorial Library, Spring Valley, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008
Palm Award, Leipzig,Germany, Art Domain Gallery
International Exhibition of Contemporary Art, L'Introd Dei Sogni, Culturale Laarca dei Folli. atalier
Annunzia, Cupra, Marittima, "Dream" (curated by Sabrina Mostre
Profiles Design and Decorating Gallery, New York City, ongoing representation from 08/08 on.
Lichtenstein Art Center, Pittsfield,MA, group show, Jewish Modern Art, 09/09
Mithologus Gallery(Portugal) show for Chinese Cultural Department, Beijing,China, 8/08-10/08
JWS Art Supply Store,8/08-0/9/08, solo show,Great Barrington,MASS
Art and Chocolates, Lenox,MA, group show with 12 pieces
International Art Media "OBjects of Sleep" show curated by Steffania Carrozini, 9/08-10/08, Beijing,China.
Gideon Stein Gallery, Southampton
International Exhibition of Contemporary Art, "L'EFFIGIE DELLA MUSICA", (THE IMAGE OF MUSIC), Genoa, Palace Spinola di San Luca (Ars Habitat), Genoa (GE) Italy.
New Haven Arts Gallery, multi-media presentation, Bronx, NY
Bowery Poets Club, multi-media presentation, NYC, NY.
Digital Art Expo International, Los Angeles, CA
Guild Hall Selected Members, Southampton, NYC
"Biography of Traveler", Primo Piano Livingallery, Arte Contemporanea, Lecce, ITALY
"EVA'S SECRET", Primo Piano Livingallery, Arte Contemporanea, Lecce, ITALY
The Sonic Self, Audio Video Immersions, 3 person collaboration multimedia presentation;
‘Benign and Terrifying Eternity’, Chelsea Art Museum, NYC, NY
Contemporary Art Center, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Small Works Show,
Vienna, Austria
Red Bank, New Jersey, Asher Neiman gallery group show, March 2008.
Gallery RFD, Classicism, Modernism and Beyond Lasting Traditions and Current Trends in Painting, Swainsboro, GA Urban identity - Video Art & Architecture event, Monkeytown, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY Massive Media - Video Art & Architecture, Winter Music Conference, Area 57 Studios, Miami, Florida Americas Museum, "Woman in the Arts". Exhibition by women artists celebrating the International Women Month, Miami, Fl. International exhibition organized by CRISOLART GALLERIES, Barcelona, Spain. ARTsMODERNE Gallery, Housatonic, MA Group Exhibition, Evelyn Luppi Gallery, Rhode Island
Group Show Theatre For The New City
Group Show NOHO Art Walk
Temple Emanu - El Art Fair
Indiana New Media & Video Exhibition, Indiana University Kokomo Art Gallery, Indiana
2007 Kasia Kay Art, Chicago, IL; HPGRP Gallery, NYC; Barcelona Museum, Film Festival, Barcelona, Spain; The London Jewish Museum of Art, London, UK; Tenth Annual New Marlborough Artists Show, Thee Meeting House/New Marlborough Village Association, Marlborough, MA; Adelphi University, Long Island, "Personal Totems - About, By, For and Of Woman Of Color". Faith Ringgold, National Association of Woman Artists, Joan Greenfield curator; In The Wake of Warhol - CVB Space - Group Exhibition including Billy Name, Kevin Kushel, Amy Cohen Banker and Cynthia von Buhler as curators; University of Pennsylvania, Pa, International Video and Multimedia Group Exhibition; Biennale Firenza; Blue Hill Gallery, Pearl River; Factory Craze Gershwin Hotel, NYC, NY.
2006 The London Jewish Museum of Art, London, UK; Ninth Annual New Marlborough Artists Show, Thee Meeting House/New Marlborough Village Association, Marlborough, MA; Bridges Over Cultures; The Masks Show, Reflections of the Skin, Venezuelan Consulate Gallery, NYC; The Circus, CVB Space, NYC; The Stilled Life, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY; Women and Spirituality, The Interchurch Center, NYC; Small Works, The Karpeles Library Museum, Newburgh, NY; Small Works, Port of Call Gallery, Warwick, NY; Large Works, Made in U.S.A, Blue Hill Gallery, Pearl River; Annual Oakes Park Art Exhibition, Old Tappan, NJ; Ryan Chelsea Clinton Medical Center, NYC; Tribes Gallery, NYC; Temporary Cities, Cultural Communications Center, Art Expo, Klaipeda, Lithuania; The Big Arts & Music Festival, Jersey City, NJ.
2005 AAF Contemporary Art Fair, AWOL Gallery, NYC; Square Foot Show, Art Gotham, NYC; Small Works, Robert Miller Gallery, NYC; Random Moments, Eickholt Gallery, NYC; The Spirit of the Moment, U Gallery, NYC; Spring Preview, CVB Space, NYC
2004 The Sky’s the Limit, The Blue Sky Emerging Arts, NY; Ben Uri’s International Competition, The London Jewish Museum of Art, London, UK; Washington County Museum, of Fine Arts, Hagerstown, MD; The Holocaust museum, Washington, DC; Theatre for the New City, NYC; The Ultra Violet Multi Art Project, NJCU, Jersey City, NJ; N.Y.C. Artists Inc. Traveling Exhibitions, Bern, Switzerland; MGCVB Space, NYC; Berkshire Art Center, Pittsfield, MA; Noho Community Art Walk, NYC
2003 Night of 1,000 Drawings, Artist’s Space, NYC, Exit Art, NYC; N.Y.C. Artists Inc. Traveling Exhibition, Geneva, Switzerland; Monique Goldstrom Gallery, NYC;
MGCVB Space, New York; The Sonic Self, Chelsea Art Museum, NYC; Geometric Show and Works on Paper, William Whipple Art Gallery, University of Southern Minnesota, Marshall, MN; Noho Community Art Walk, NYC
2002 Simple Pleasures, Dingle, Ireland; Re: Duchamp, Venice, Italy; Metropolitan Opera House Gallery, NYC; Photo District Gallery, NYC; The Global Response 9/11, Exit Art, NYC; Monique Goldstrom Gallery, New York; Salander O’Reilly, NYC; Small Works, United Nations Art Gallery, NYC, The Madison Avenue Art Walk, NYC
2001 White Box Gallery, NYC; Cedar Bar, NYC; Empty Set, Pittsfield, MA; New Marlboro Art Center, Southfield, MA; National Association of Woman Artists, NYC 2000 Baltimore Convention Center, Baltimore, MD; Centrum Art Center, Port Townsend, Washington; National Association of Woman Artists, NYC
1999 30 Artist Alumni-Best for 30 years, Art Student’s League, NYC; National Association of Woman Artists, NYC
1998 Waltech Gallery, JCC, Palisades, NJ; Old Church Cultural Center School of Art, Morristown, NJ; National Association of Woman Artists, NYC
1997 Arthur Ross Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; Gallery Alexis, Budapest, Hungary; Richard Anderson Gallery; New Marlboro Art Center, Southfield, MA
1996 Staff Exhibition, Museum of Modern Art, NYC; Cork Gallery, Lincoln Center, NYC; Andrus Gallery, Carnegie Hall, NYC; Tibetan Art Museum of Staten Island. NY; Chuck Levitan Gallery, NYC
1995 Isabel O’Neill School & Foundation, Sotheby’s, NYC; Small Works, NYU Galleries, NYC; West Beth Gallery, NYC; IMAJ, NYC; White Columns, NYC; Lobby Gallery, Deutsche Bank Building, NYC; National Arts Club Roundtable Exhibitions, NYC; Ceres Art Gallery for Women, NYC; Berkshire Art Center, Pittsfield, MA
1994 Isabel O’Neill School & Foundation, Sotheby’s, NYC; Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC; National Academy of Design, NYC; West Side Art Coalition, NYC
1993 Lever House Lobby Gallery, NYC; White Columns, NYC
1992 Cork Gallery, Lincoln Center, NYC; Brooke Alexander Gallery, NYC; Dieu Donne, NYC; Staff Exhibition, Museum of Modern Art, NYC; Milton Weil Gallery, 92nd Street Y, NYC; Denise Bibro Gallery, NYC
Art Fairs
2008 Las Vegas Art Fair, represented by AmericasMuseum,Miami,Florida, "Small Is Beautiful"
2007 Tompkins Square , Art Around The Park, NYC; HOWL Video Festival, NYC
2005 Armory Show, NY Arts Magazine Presentation, NYC; AAF Contemporary Art Fair, AWOL Gallery, NYC
Collections
Ben Uri, The London Jewish Museum of Art , London , UK
University of Southern Minnesota, Marshall, MN
Queensborough Community College, Queens, NY
University of Indiana, Sculpture Park, Bloomington, IN
Roosevelt Hospital, Oncology Department, NYC
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Urban Group Marketing, NYC
Warner Brothers, NYC
Fox Studios, NYC
Cooper Industries, TX
Creative Exchange Agency, NYC
Stone Age Murals, Jersey City, NJ
Yeshiva of Great Neck, Long Island, NY
H and M Corporation, NYC
Sciame Corporation, NYC
Israel Humanitarian Foundation for the Holocaust Museum, NY
Membership College Art Association, NYC
Women's Art Archives Research Council
Copacetic Pictures
Hard Working Movies
Aperture
CORO
Urban Groove
Awards and honors
Mozart Small Works Show, Vienna , Austria Goya Small Works Show, Barcelona, Spain
Member, New York Academy of Science
Cornell Women's Leadership Council
International Fulbright Scholarship Committee
Member, Board of Directors, The Educational Alliance, Arts & Humanities
National Arts Club
National Association of Women Artists
Women In The Arts
College Women of Japan
Who's Who in Executives and Businesses, Artists and Designers International
Gold Record of Achievement Award, International Biographical Institute.
College Art Association Member
Related work experience
Interviewed by Judith Rosley on WBCR-LP 97.7 radio
Member at Large Board of Directors Cornell University , Upstate NY and MA.
Hall of Science, Queens , New York Association Curator, Art Meets Science
Entrepreneurship@Cornell, Cornell University , Ithaca , NY
Book Cover for Larissa Shmailo Spring 2008 Book - ‘For way to prevent suicide'.
Mad Hatters Review, illustration for M. E. Parker, Penn Kemp & Chris Meloche Poetry.
National Association of Woman Artists, Gallery Director
National Association of Woman Artists, Exhibition Committee Member
The Dead Life, Project Coordinator for Ovo Works, Inc. and Ivy Nicholson
The Ultra Violet Arts Project Coordinator
Coordinator for Barbara Ingber, Artist's Museum of NYC
Lectures, Princeton University Art Museum
Museum of Modern Art, Membership and Education Departments
Harvard Program Development on Aesthetic Thinking ,with Project Zero
Program Development; Lincoln Center
Scholarship Committee for the Visually Handicapped College Women of Japan
Touch Tours, Art for the Blind ,Museum of Modern Art
Whitney Museum, Director's Council Member
Assistant to Knox Martin (teaching and research collaborator) ,painting assistant
Theatre set designs at The Medicine Show Theatre
Set design, La Mama Theatre Company
Coordinator for 250 volunteers and 100 international members and Japanese artists located in Japan
Education
Cornell University, B.S.; MS. I.L.R.
National Academy of Design
New York University
New School of Social Research
Parsons School of Design
Art Students' League
University of Pennsylvania
Temple University
Study in Japan, Indonesia, Thailand, Italy, France, Spain, and Ireland
Isabel O'Neill School & Foundation
ARTIST STATEMENT
I work in a variety of mediums:
acrylic, oil, pastels, aquarelle,
oil sticks, varnishes, glazes, finishing and surface techniques. I explore
the
basic issues of opacity, color,
form, depth, obfuscation and revelation in life, language and in art. I
cannot help
but be influenced by philosophy,
poetry, literature, psychological symbolism, fairy tales, music, myths,
conceits, and metaphors,
especially of strong feminist
models: women’s conflicting
roles in a changing time throughout
the centuries.
I am using background in design, two and three dimensional
techniques and aesthetics. My background is integrated with
my writing, psychology, my early childhood and life experiences
evolving as a woman and mother combining international study
to explore these issues in an organized but abstract way.
I tend to reinvent the same themes, work from a structure
and then proceed by distressing, demolishing, recreating and
conserving. My major themes are inner restoration and survival,
challenging always reality vs. myth.
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