FLORENCE NEAL
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FOUNDED

1990 Kentler International Drawing Space, 353 Van Brunt Street, Red Hook, Brooklyn, NY, 11231
Co-founder, Executive Director of Exhibitions

1985 Everglade Press, Brooklyn, NY

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2005 "Surfacing" - Installation, Anthony Giordano Gallery, Dowling College, Idle Hour Blvd., Oakdale, NY 11769
2003"... a different forest" -Public Art Commission by Art Omaha, Text by Wendy Walker, 20 Print Banners 2 x 7'; Omaha Public Library, Omaha, Nebraska
2002 "Screen Memories" - Print installation and collaboration with writer, Wendy Walker; Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn, NY
1996 Monoprints - Krakov Cultural Center, Prague, Czech Republic
1995 Stopwatch 95 - "Connections", Installation, L5, Roermond, The Netherlands
1994 Worlds Apart - Watercolors, Shreveport, Louisiana
1993 “Dance of Life” - Wind sculpture commission, Univ. of Alabama, Birmingham, AL
1993 “Out of the Catacombs” - Block print installation, Ridge Street Gallery, NYC
1992 Images & Editions - Block prints & monoprints, Skep Gallery, 527 Broome St., NYC
1992 Aquarelle - Watercolors, 254 Court St., Brooklyn, NY
1990 "Four Winds" - Outdoor wind sculpture installation, downtown Omaha, Nebraska, commissioned by Art Omaha
1988 Florence Neal - 55 Mercer Street Gallery, NYC
1987 Art Exchange - Erie Art Museum, Monoprints/Art Works Gallery, Residency, lectures & exhibition
1986 “Niagara Falls & Fossil Fuels” - paintings & monoprints, The Bronx Museum of the Arts/Con Edison Satellite Gallery, Bronx, NY
1985 International Fireworks - One person block print show, Hanalei, Hawaii
1985 “As the Wind Blows” - Trophy Room Installation in the Arch at Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, NY
1982 Small Paintings - Flowers Building, 1200 1st Ave., Columbus, GA
1981 Paintings, Florence Neal - White Columns, 325 Spring St., NYC

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2005

New York/Paris DIALOGUE Paris/ New York Atelier Lacouriere-Frélaut, 11, rue Foyatier, 75018 Paris,
Curated by Maddy Rosenberg, New York and Le Trait Association Committee, Paris.

"Distant Flames" & "Cycles"/ Two Artist's Books included in the NYC / Paris Printmaking Project,The Center for Book Arts Gallery, 28 West 27th Street, New York, NY

Cycles, DIALOGUE/ New York /Paris Printmakers, Abrons Arts Center, Henry Street Settlement, 466 Grand St., New York, NY

2004

Relief Prints in Woodstock, Curated by Kate McGloughlin, Kleinert/James Arts Center, Woodstock, NY

Balancing Act, Curated by Rene Lynch, Henry Street Settlement, New York NY

2003

Event Horizon, A Drawing Show, Alley Culture, Detroit, MI

"On TheEdge" Curated by Margaret Neill, Print Installation Meta-Forest, Bern Dibner Library of Science & Techonology, Polytechnic University. Brooklyn, NY

Toy Theater Festival, "Two Sisters" Maquette for Chamber Opera, HERE Art Center, New York, NY

2001

RealityBytes Gallery.com Religious Imagery Exhibition on the Web, organized by Claudia Nagy

Avocet Portfolio - Silkscreen Prints, Bronx River Art Center and Gallery, Bronx, NY

2000

River Festival Exhibition - Monoprints, "The Southern Series", Columbus, Georgia1999

Print Council Exhibition - Prints/ Everglade Press, Columbia University, New York, NY

1998

Brooklyn Impressions - Print Shops in Brooklyn, /Everglade Press, Brooklyn Brewery, Brooklyn, NY

1997

D.O.K. U. 1. Dortmunder Kunstsupermarkt "Knot Marks Prints", edition of prints for benifit exhition, Dortmund, Germany

1996

About Time - Monoprints, Trumbull Campus of Kent State University, Ohio

1995

Page 22 - Artists Books, 540 Bway Gallery, NYC

1994

Sculpture Survey - Window installation, One Main Street, Brooklyn, NY

1993

The Machine in the Garden, Revisited - Outdoor sculpture, Kingsborough Community College, CUNY, Brooklyn, NY

1992

4 x Hoogdruk - Block Print installation, Galerie Catacombe, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

1991

Mental Metal II - Outdoor sculpture installation, National Ornamental Metal Museum, Memphis, TN

1990

Vital Signs, Artists Respond to the Environment - Henry St. Settlement, 466 Grand St., NYC

1989

Tools as Art - Brody's Gallery, 1706 21st St. Washington, D.C.

1988

Right About Now - Mock, Neal, Pfaffman, Willis Gallery, Detroit, MI

1987

Outside In - Socrates Sculpture Park exhibition, Department of Cultural Affairs, NY

1986

8 Women Sculptors - ClaySpace Gallery, Erie Art Museum, Erie, PA

1985

ABC No Rio - The First Five Years - Department of Cultural Affairs, 2 Columbus Circle, NYC

1984

Intuition and the Block Print - John Nichols Printmakers, 83 Grand St. NY & Gallery 72, Omaha, NE

1983

Postmodern Man - Curated show /paintings, PS 122, 409 E. 9th St., NYC

Terminal New York - Group show, Brooklyn Army Terminal, 58th St. & 1st Ave., Brooklyn, NY

1982

Collaborative Projects Artist Show - Collab group show at the Randolf St. Gallery, Chicago. ILL.

1981

The Portrait Studio Show - ABC No Rio, 156 Rivington St., NYC

1980

Animals Living in Cities - ABC No Rio, 156 Rivington St., NYC

RELATED EXPERIENCE

2005 Instructor, Monoprints & Block Prints, Il Chiostro, Tuscany, Italy
2001-2003 Exhibitions Coordinator, Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn, NY
2000 - 2003 Exhibitions Curator: The Art Lot, Outdoor Sculpture exhibition space in Brooklyn New York
1998 Set Design - "Fraternity of Deceit" - Chamber Opera by Composer Michael Kowalski, Eden Arcade Theatre, NYC
1980 - 2000 Graphic Design: Arts, Parks, Book Cover Designs
1994 Slide Lecture - University of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama
1992 Instructor, Waterbase Monoprinting - Lower East Printshop, 59-61 East 4th St., NYC
1992 Artist Talk on Art - Panel discussion, representing Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn NY
1990 Slide Lecture - School of Visual Arts, Art Education Dept., NYC
1988 Slide Lecture - Clarion University of Pennsylvania, Clarion, PA
1987 Arts Exchange - Erie, PA, lectures and demonstrations


REVIEWS
BROOKLYN WOMAN, "Florence Neal Opens Her Studio", by Christine Stenstrom, Volume 1, Number 4, July 1994
THE NEW YORK TIMES, Style, "An artist’s colony grows in Red Hook, Brooklyn", by John Marchese, May 8, 1994
OMAHA WORLD-HERALD, "Flaglike Art Gets Feet Wet", by Kyle Mac Millan, Nov. 5, 1990
BRUTUS - "New York Art Scene is a Survival Game", by Yoshiko Ebihara, Japan, August, 1989
THE DETROIT NEWS, ART by Joy Hakanson Colby, February 14, 1988

CATALOGS & PUBLICATIONS
"Stalking" - Print collaboration with writer, Wendy Walker, for CHAIN 8 publication, Spring, 2001
"Connections" - Artist Book, Three Artists,Three Printmaking Techniques, 1995, edition of 36, Everglade Press.
HERMIT, LETOKRUHY/GROWTHRINGS - Symposium Catalog, Monastery Plasy, Czech Republic, 1993
THE MACHINE IN THE GARDEN, REVISITED - Exhibition catalog, Kingsborough Community College CUNY, Brooklyn, NY 1993
CROSSINGS -Published by the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Spring 1991, 1992, 1995
125 monoprints for art magazine "Crossings", 1995
Block print Cover Design for "Crossings", Edited by Neddi Heller, 1992 Copies included in the collection of MOMA, Stedlijk Museum in Amsterdam, Brooklyn Museum Archives, Franklin Furnace Archives
CAMPUS SCULPTURE EXHIBIT / TOUR V - Exhibition catalog, Cleveland State Community College, Cleveland, Tennessee, 1990
SCULPTURE TOUR - Catalog, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, 1989
SUPLUS: TODAY'S ART IN AN OVERPOPULATED CITY - Catalog, Exit Art, March 28 - April 20, 1986
SOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK - Inaugural exhibition catalog, PO Box 6259, LIC, NY 11/06, 1986
ABC NO RIO DINERO, THE STORY OF A LOWER EAST SIDE GALLERY - Edited by Alan Moore & Marc Miller, published by ABC No Rio & Collaborative Projects, 1985
ARTWORKS IN CITY SPACES - Catalog, Tweed Court House, May, 1986
10 PAINTERS - Exhibition Brochure, text by Greta Gundersen, January, 1985
INTUITION & THE BLOCK PRINT - Catalog, John Nichols Printmakers & Publishers, 1984

GRANTS / AWARDS
2004 Woodstock School of Art Residency, Woodstock, NY
2003 Platte Clove Residency, The Catskill Center, Platte Clove, NY
1990 Pollock-Krasner Foundation
1988 Avocet, Silkscreen Print Studio, Art Awareness, Lexington, NY
1988 NYSCA Honoraria from Prospect Park Alliance, Brooklyn, NY
1987 Mid-Atlantic Arts Consortium, Arts Exchange & Artist in Residence, Erie, PA, April
1984 Sculpture Space, Sculpture Work Residency, Utica, NY

COLLECTIONS
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
New York Public Library, Department of Prints, Fifth Ave., & 42nd St., New York, NY
Alliance Capital Management Corporation, New York, NY
Hofstra Museum, Hempstead, NY
The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn NY
Readers Digest, Pleasantville, New York
Art Advisory Services, New York, NY
Morgan Guaranty, New York, NY
Art Planning Consultants, New York, NY
University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL
Omaha Public Library, Omaha Nebraska