Theresa DeSalvio

Allegorical and Narrative Paintings

 
 
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Museum Exhibitions:

2021  Forever Young, Islip Museum, virtual exhibition presented by AARP, Islip, NY, Holly Gordon, curator, Waldo Cabrera, video editor

2021-2022  January and October Virtual Exhibition, Hammond Museum & Japanese Stroll Garden, North Salem, NY, Bibiana Huang Mattheis, curator

2020-2021 August and October Virtual Exhibition, Hammond Museum & Japanese Stroll Garden, North Salem, NY, Bibiana Huang Matheis, curator

2019   Art & Healing: expressions of trauma and gratitude, Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, NJ, Karen Starrett, curator

 

Solo Exhibitions:

2024     A Picture Book Deconstructed – Mama Loon and Mister Dale by Theresa DeSalvio, Cornwall Public Library, Cornwall, NY in conjunction with a lively reading of Mama Loon and Mister Dale at Good Books, Cornwall, NY
2022    Life Patterns, Croton Free Library Ottinger Room, Croton-on-Hudson, NY, Mary McFerran, curator
2020   Home – An Exhibition of Paintings, Croton Free Library Ottinger Room, NY online

2019  The Life and Times of the Blue Fairy, C.J. Gallery at Paul Robeson Galleries, Express Newark, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ. Exhibition and artist talk.

2017   Other Stories, Alexander Heath Contemporary, Roanoke, VA

          Inside China, Essex County College, presented by the Honors Program, Newark, NJ

2015   Looking Inward/Looking Out, Johnson & Johnson World Headquarters, New Brunswick,NJ, Heather Cammarata-Seale, curator

2014    Inside China, Edward Williams Gallery, Fairleigh Dickinson University, NJ

2012     Inside China, The Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts, NY

2011    Inside China, Passaic County Community College Broadway and LRC Galleries, NJ, Jane Haw, curator

           East Meets West: The Influence of China, Clifton Arts Center, NJ with Beijing artist, Liu Guo Ping (Two person exhibition), Roxanne Cammilleri, curator

2009     Family & Friends, Through the Purple Door, NJ

           Wild Things-Twenty-Five Years of Animal Art, The Chatham Day School, Chatham, NJ, catalog

2007     The Swimmers, Lake Placid Center for the Arts, North Gallery,Lake Placid, NY

2003     Metamorphosis, a four-window, installation of up-cycled materials that were used to create an environment that included butterfly masks. The Count Basie Theater, Red Bank, NJ

2003      Breaking Through, pastels, The Gallery at Glen Ridge Community Center

2002     Cadence Paintings” & “Garden of Butterflies, The McGraw Gallery, Newark Academy

1998     Mushroom and Fungi Paintings” & “Butterfly Masks, James A. McFaul

  Environmental Center, Mahwah, NJ

1997       A Decade of Paintings, Belleville Public Library and Information Center, NJ

1996       Eight Owls That Live In New Jersey, paintings - Hackensack Meadowlands Development Commission’s Environmental Center

Masks and Body Wear, created of reused material - The Trash Museum, HMDC Environmental Center. Interviewed by “Jersey’s Talking” host Lee Leonard, channel 12

1984     Folding Screen, Broome Street Workshop window, NYC

1982     Thesis Exhibition, Hunter Gallery, Hunter College, NYC

 

Group Exhibitions:

2023  The Big Small Show, Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ, curator Anne Trauben
         
           Food,
 Wallkill RIver Center for the Arts, Montgomery NY, Honorable Mention, Jen Dragon, juror
           
           Art in Bloom, Delaware Valley Arts Alliance, Narrowsburg, NY, curator Jane Luchsinger

2022  NYAE Members Invitational, New York Artists Equity Gallery, NY, NY

2021  America the Beautiful: The Real and the Imagined, Williamsburg Art & Historical Center,
         Brooklyn, NY, in conjunction with Smithsonian Magazine's Museum Day: "Experience America!" 
           juried    by Joel Simpson and Larry Szycher

          5th Patterns Exhibition, Light Space and Time, special recognition, virtual exhibition

          Group Show, Gallery 5, Shrine Gallery Digital Exhibition, New York, NY

          Drawing Challenges XXI, XXII, and XVII,  online exhibition, Jason McCoy Gallery, New York, NY,  
          Featured Artist, Artsy

2020  Works Created During the Lockdown Period, WAH Center, Williamsburg Art & Historical Center,             Brooklyn, NY, Curator, Yuko Nii, Juror, Paulina Pobocha, curator Museum of Modern Art, catalogue. Awarded “Honorable Mention”

            Shelter in Place III, Studio Place Arts, Barre, VT, online         https://www.studioplacearts.com/history.html

           21st WAH Salon Show, Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn, NY, Yuko Nii, curator, catalogue

2019   Small Works Online Gallery, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

            WAH 20th Salon Show, Williamsburg Art & Historic Center, Brooklyn, NY

2018    By Chance, Studio Montclair, The Montclair Public Library, NJ

            Girlhood” Howland Cultural Center,Beacon, NY, Bibiana Huang Matheis, curator

           State of the Art 2018, Studio Montclair, SMI Gallery at Academy Square, Montclair, NJ

           WAH 19th Salon Show, Brooklyn, NY

2017    Self Portraits, a digital exhibition, www.janechafinofframp.com

           The Comforts of Winter, Zufall Health Center, Dover, NJ, Amanda Barron, curator

           WAH Celebrates Volunteers, Williamsburg Art & Historic Center, Brooklyn, NY

           WAH 18th Salon Show, Williamsburg Art & Historic Center, Brooklyn, NY

2016     Celebrating Sports in Art,  Theresa Maloney Gallery, College of Saint Elizabeth, NJ, Dr Virginia Butera, curator

            Summertime, Zufall Health Center, Dover, NJ,  Amanda Barron, curator

WAH 17th Salon Show, Brooklyn, NY

2015     Big Small Show, The Drawing Rooms, Victory Hall, NJ

Celebrity Portraits, Holy Family University, Philadelphia, PA, Pamela Flynn, curator

            People and Places That Inspire, Zufall Health Center, Dover, NJ

Heroes & Villains- exploring archetypes through art, Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center, MD

           Bodies & Soul”, Studio Montclair, Montclair Public Library, NJ

           Childhood Memories, Zufall Health Center, Dover, NJ

           Folktales & Legends: An Exhibition Without Borders, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, WI

           Travel with Art, Metuchen Inn, Edison Arts Society, NJ,Patricia Rubin, juror

            Endangered, Hamilton Gallery, NJ

           Figuratively Speaking, Delaware Valley Arts Alliance, NY, Rocky Pinciotti, curator

2014     The Big Small Painting Show, Victory Hall The Drawing Rooms, NJ

            Dealing with Trauma through Art Making,  Holy Family University, Philadelphia, PA, Pamela Flynn, curator

             Stone Canoe/Vein 8, ArtRage Gallery, Syracuse, NY publication/exhibition,

2013      The Big Small Painting Show, Victory Hall The Drawing Rooms, NJ

             Adorn,  Hamilton Gallery, NJ

             Contemporary Art Fair, Red Wall Gallery, Jacob Javits Center, NYC

             Renacimiento!”, St. Paul’s Lutheran Church“, Brooklyn,

             Friendly Gestures (Namaste), Queens College Art Center Rosenthal Library, NY

             Art in Bloom, Delaware Valley Arts Alliance, NY

             Qualms Wake Up Oddities, presented by Montclair Art Museum’s Young Curators, Pierrro Gallery, NJ

2011      Joy, Grace Institute, NYC

2010      Passport to the Arts, Clifton Art Gallery, NJ, Roxanne Cammilleri, curator

2007     Homegrown, The Women’s Club of Glen Ridge, NJ

2006     NJ/NY Double Exposure, Atrium Gallery, The Courthouse, Morristown, NJ

            Art at First, First Presbyterian Church, NYC

2006     Color” Inaugural exhibition of Art at First, First Presbyterian Church, NY, NY, Barbara Sherman, curator

2005     Summer Salon Show, Griffin Gallery, NJ

2004     The Matzo Files, Streits Matzo, NYC

2004     At the Court House, The Atrium Art Gallery, The Court House, Morristown, NJ

2013,2008,2007,2005,2004,2003    Summer Group Show, The Gallery at Glen Ridge

Community Center, NJ

2003     Creative Perspectives - Celebrating Italian American Women in Art, Literature & Society, Sponsored by The Center for Italian & Italian American Culture and The NJ Italian American Heritage Commission, Dept. of Education, Oakside Cultural Center, Bloomfield, NJ

2002     The Gallery at Glen Ridge Community Center – Inaugural Exhibition

2001     Against the Current, four-person exhibition, Belleville Public Library and Information Center, NJ

  • Masks: Magic or Menace-, City without Walls, Newark, NJ, catalogue

       Reviewed in The Star Ledger, Friday July 28, 2000, Dan Bischoff

1999     200 x200 Confronting the Millennium, SASH Gallery, Glen Ridge, NJ

  • Multi-Dimensional Women, SASH Gallery, Glen Ridge, NJ

1996     Beyond Boundaries, SASH Gallery, Glen Ridge, NJ

1997     Beyond Boundaries, The Women’s Club of Glen Ridge, NJ

1996     The Montclair Artist Studio Tour, Montclair Arts and Cultural Alliance, NJ

  • The Montclair Artist Studio Tour, Montclair Arts and Cultural Alliance, NJ
  • The Decade Exhibition, Hunter College Galleries, NYC, catalogue
  • Opening Exhibition, Trading Places Gallery, Ware, Herts, England
  • The Christmas Show, Sue Williams Gallery, Portobello Road, London

1987  Out on Their Ears – Past and Present Species of New York City, Henry Street Settlement, NYC
      Winging It, Artists for All Species, Minor Injury Gallery, NYC
Art Store, 36 Store Street, London, England

  • Animals and…, Artists for All Species - The Arsenal Gallery, Central Park, NYC
  • Artists for All Species, Ten Windows on Eighth Avenue (10 on 8) – NYC
  • Project America,S. Customs Building, Federal Plaza, NYC
  • Artists at Northside, Arts Industries, Brooklyn, NY
  • New York Loft Tenants, Office of the Governor – World Trade Center, NYC
  • Artists for All Species, Bronx River Art Center and Gallery, Bronx, NY
  • Art Against Apartheid, Harlem School of the Arts Gallery, NYC

1984    All Species in Support of A Nuclear Free Harbor, Ten Windows on Eighth Avenue – 10 on    8,NYC

  • The Natural Site/Landscapes Now, Park Avenue Atrium, NYC

1983,1982  Mimes and Miniatures,  Brooklyn Downtown Cultural Center, Brooklyn, NY

  • Art Biz, Just Above Midtown/Downtown Gallery, NYC
  • Art and Ecological Issues,Hunter College Galleries, NY, NY, Robert Huot, curator

1981     The Print Show, Hunter College Galleries, NYC

  • Drawings/Fall Invitational, 22 Wooster Street Gallery, NYC

 

Featured Artist:

2015     “Heroin Addiction Art Exhibition” Project Gateway, Newark, Drug Enforcement Agency

2015    “Paint your Pain” Overlook Medical Center, Pain Management Center, Summit NJ 

 

Permanent Collections:

2018     Expressions of Clinician Well-Being Digital Art Gallery, National Academy of Medicine permanent online gallery, http://nam.edu/expressclinicianwellbeing/#/artwork/125

2016     True North, permanent collection of the Fortune Society, LIC, NY, Mary Pinto, curator

2009   A Very Remarkable Book, the Kentler International Drawing Space Collection – A collaborative book initiated and conceived of by artist Robin Ross, with forty-eight participating artists

 

Set Design:

2015     Verdi’s Nabucco, The Opera Theater of Montclair, in collaboration with Joyce Korotkin

 

Films:

2020 Visit to Thailand – Land of Smiles (running time 19:35) Selection of the Tagore International Film Festival, West Bengal, India, Winner Best Travel Film, Critics Choice Award Documentary Educational and Debut Filmmaker

2016     Tales: A Cautionary Story about Heroin Addiction (running time 17:17)

Selection of The Brightside Tavern Shorts Festival, the Hudson Valley International Film Festival, the Great Lakes International Shorts Festival, Erie International Film Festival, Impact Docs Awards, Hang Onto Your Shorts Film Festival, Royal Starr Film Festival

Article “A dark story of Heroin addiction” The Star-Ledger, Mark Di Ionno, 3/11/18

Article “Theresa DeSalvio: Local Artist with a Message” The Montclair Dispatch, Rosemarie Salvatore, 12/8/2016

Guest on The Bill Russo Show, City World Radio 11/28/16

2015              In Treatment (Working Toward the Cure)  (running time 4:54)

Hang Onto Your Shorts Film Festival

 

Book Publication:

2015  Tales: A Cautionary Story about Heroin Addiction

Funded through Kickstarter.

The Glen Ridge Paper “Local artist publishing book about heroin addiction,” Daniel Jackovino, November 12, 2015

Glen Ridge Voice, “Glen Ridge artist illustrates effects of addiction,” Erin Roll, November 19, 2015

 

Commissions, Collaborations, Publications, Projects:

2018   Writing Maps The A3 Review Issue 9, The Circles Issue, Oct, 2018, Painting Bike Riding, 2nd Prize Winner”

2017 The Stone Canoe # 11, YMCA of Greater Syracuse, painting Pinocchio in a Heap

2014  Stone Canoe/ Vein 8, Syracuse University publication of painting The Wait . Exhibition at ArtRage Gallery, Syracuse, NY

2010  And Then, Volume 15, 2010, page 42, Hold On (for G&G), oil paint on Arches paper, 2009, 40x25 3/4

2009   A Very Remarkable Book, the Kentler International Drawing Space Collection – A collaborative book initiated and conceived of by artist, Robin Ross, with forty-eight participating artists

2003    “Visual Arts Journal”, School of Visual Arts Alumni magazine/Summer 2003, b&w

      Reproduction of painting “La Violine”

2002    “Visual Arts Journal”, School of Visual Arts Alumni magazine/Summer 2002, b&w       reproduction of butterfly mask.

  • “Outreach” magazine, Newark Academy/Fall 2001, Color reproductions of painting and butterfly mask.

1996    The New York Times, September 15, 1996, New Jersey section, article “6 Ways of Saving  a Blackbird (or a Hawk, a Robin or an Owl),” b&w reproduction of painting “Snowy Owl/Beautiful Predator”

1988     Through the Break, Sheba Press London, England.  Painting “Birth of Phoenix” reproduced as cover.  Book was short-listed as one of the year’s “10 Best” non-fiction and the cover was reproduced as postcard.

1986,1987  Assembling 12  and Assembling 13  artwork included in this Independent press published at Rutgers University

1980  Commissioned by film maker Bill Brand to paint all of the images for Masstransiscope, a  300 foot painting consisting of 228 panels which give the illusion of an animated movie to passengers on the Q and B trains going from Brooklyn into NYC. Received an award from the Municipal Arts Society, NYC; Documented in the New York Times, Village Voice, SoHo News, Smithsonian Magazine and on National Network News.  Masstransiscope can be viewed in online at www.BBOptics.com. Masstransiscope was restored in 2009 and can be viewed from the Manhattan bound B and Q trains

 

Professional Affiliations:

New York Artists Circle, WAH Salon Artist, Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Hammond Museum and Japanese Stroll Garden

 

Public Collections:

Yuko Nii Foundation, Brooklyn, NY

The Fortune Society, Queens, NY

Hon. Mr. Havel, President of Czech Republic

Hackensack Meadowlands Development Commission’s Environmental Center, NJ

College of Mount St. Vincent, Riverdale, NY

 

Teaching:

2005-2011         Monmouth Academy, Howell, NJ   Primary Art, Middle and Upper School Art

2008                 School of Visual Arts, New York, NY – International Student Summer program, drawing and painting

1991-2007         Art For Kids Workshops.  This program developed by the artist as small group classes for children ages 6-teens.   Techniques include drawing, painting, collage, and air-dry clay and puppetry. 

2001-2003         Monmouth County Arts Council, Redbank, NJ - Visual Thinking, Arts Education Program

1980-1985         Taught art workshops for organizations throughout New York City including: Hospital Audiences Inc. (HAI), Center for Inter-American Relations, The Elder Craftsman, and Presbyterian Senior Services

Education:

1978-1982        CUNY Hunter College, NY, NY, M.F.A. (painting, printmaking)

1972-1976         School of Visual Arts, NY, NY, B.F.A.    

 






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