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The work of Sandra Caplan is about still life; a central focus of flowers and various objects, fruits or vegetables, sometimes accompanied by a figure or animal and most recently by architectural forms. The still life table top is often set against a window or opening through which one might look at a view of rolling sunlit hills, or the open sea off the Adriatic coast in Italy or it might be surrounded by densely patterned fabrics found within the studio. In some of these arrangements there are detailed studies of villas dating from the early part of the 20th century in the so called “Liberty style”, or Art Nouveau.
No matter how casual these compositions appear at first glance, there is a formality to them that is the culmination of acute observation and a highly developed and personal colour sense. “The viewer should be able to enter the world of these objects, walk through and absorb the visual delights the paintings offer”. (from a review in Art and Antiques magazine, April 1989.)
Caplan studied art in her native Canada, Boston University and Yale University. She attended the Provincetown Workshop, the Yale-Norfolk Summer Program, the MacDowell Colony and spent a year in Rome, Italy on a Canada Council grant. She now divides the year working in Italy and New York. She has shown in group and solo exhibitions, to name some: at the Winnipeg Art Gallery in Canada, theQuan Scheider Gallery, Toronto, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, the Cooperstown Art Association, the Cast Iron Gallery, the First Street Gallery, the Atlantic Gallery, Fordham University, Farleigh Dickinson University, the Art in Embassies Prograam and the Fortezza di Civitella in the Abruzzo, Italy.
Her work is in various private collections in the U.S.A, Italy and Canada.
Education
University of Manitoba, Canada, B.F.A.,
Boston University, Boston, Mass., M.F.A.,
Yale University, New Haven, Conn., M.F.A. graduate program
Selected Solo and Group Exhibitions
2005 Solo – “Opere 2002 – 2005”, Fortezza di Civitella del Tronto, Italy
2003 Solo – “Then and Now”, Westbeth Gallery, New York, NY
1997 Solo - “Reflections of Nature”, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Brooklyn, New York
1996 Solo – Cooperstown Art Association, Cooperstown, New York
1994 Solo - Cast Iron Gallery, New York, N.Y.
1989 Solo - First Street Gallery, New York, N.Y.
1985 Solo - Atlantic Gallery, New York, N.Y.
1974 Solo – The Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
2003 “Moveable Feast” A Still Life Collaboration by Zeuxis, Westbeth Gallery
2002 AIR Gallery, NY – Invitational, Atlantic Gallery, NY - Invitational
1998,97 “Artists Equity” – Invitational, New York City
1997.95 Lizan-Tops Gallery – East Hampton, N.Y.
1997,93 "Gardens”, Pioneer Gallery, Gallery 53, Cooperstown, N.Y.
1992 National Juried Show, Cooperstown Art Association, Cooperstown, N.Y.
1990 Women’s Caucaus for Art, New York City, Quan Scheider Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
1988 “Contemporary Landscape and Still Life”, Gallery 53, Cooperstown, N.Y.; “Three Painters”, Bank Street School, New York City “Sixteen Artists”, Oneonta, N.Y.
1987 Viewpoint Gallery, New York City; “Members”, First Street Gallery, New York City; Kornbluth Gallery, Fairlawn, New Jersey
1985 Sibley Gallery, Nantucket, Mass; “Three Person”, Waverly Gallery, New York City; “Invitational”, Prince Street Gallery, New York City
1984 “Womens Caucus, National Juried Exhibition”, Lehigh University, Pa., (cat.); “Award Winners”, Woodstock Art Association, Woodstock, New York; “Art in Embassies Program”, Dept. of State, Washington, D.C. Works on loan to U.S. Embassies in West Germany and Costa Rica.
1982 “Views by Women Artists”, Fordham University, New York City (cat.)
1981 “Watercolour, A Contemporary View”, Farleigh Dickinson University,
1978 “118 Artists”, Landmark Gallery, New York City
1976-79 Maine Coast Artists, (summer shows), Rockport, Maine
1975 Glenbow Alberta Art Institue, Ontario, Canada; Prince Street Gallery, Landmark Gallery, New York City
1970 “Alumni”, Boston University Gallery, Bosotn, Mass.
1961 “Giovani Stranieri Artisti a Roma”, Galleria San Luca, Rome
Awards, Grants and Scholarships
1994 The Town School travel grant to Italy
1992, 1994 Cooperstown Art Association, second prize, painting
1986 Lenox School award for excellence
1987 Woodstock Art Association, Rose M. Rome award
1965 The MacDowell Colony residency
1959 Yale-Norfolk residency, (summer residency granted by Yale University).
1960,61 The Provincetown Workshop summer residency, The Canada Council (Canadian Govt.) Award to Rome, Italy
Professional Teaching
2001-present The School of the National Academy of Design, 5 East 89th Street, New York City, NY, Still Life Painting
2002,03 Horace Mann School, Riverdale, New York,
Ceramics – Upper School – 8th to 12th grades
1989–2001 The Town School, N.Y City N.Y. Upper School Art Teacher and Arts Enrichment Assembly Director
1979-1989 Lenox School, New York, N.Y., Middle and Upper School, Art Teacher
1969-1979 Village Community School, New York, N.Y., Lower and Middle School Art Teacher
1967-1971 The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, N.Y., art instructor in museum workshop program for Junior and Senior High School students
1965-1970 Museum of Modern art, New York, N.Y., art instructor to Children’s and Parents and Children’s classes. Workshops for High School students in painting, sculpture and puppetry.
1955-57
The Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, art instructor, Saturday classes for school children
Selected Collections
The Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Boston Mutual Life Insurance Co. Boston, Mass
Bellevue Hospital Centre, New York City
Dewey Ballantine Inc., New York City
The Town School, New York City
Connor Clark Ltd., Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Investors Group, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
The MacAuley Collection, Winnipeg Manitoba, Canada
Mr. and Mrs Gianfranco Ruffini, Florence, Italy
Mr. and Mrs. M. Lager, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Mr. Mark Pedrotti, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Dr. and Mrs. J. Kramer, New York City
Selected Bibliography
Web site, (www.paintingsdirect.com) 25 images, artist’s statement and biography
Hudnut, Penny, “Sandra Caplan Ciarrochi: An Artist in the Classroom”, The Town School Currents, Spring, 1996
“Caplan Exhibit at the Cooperstown Art Association”, Freeman’s Journal, April 10, 1996
“Caplan, B. Dr., “Letters, Sandra Caplan Ciarrochi”, Alumni Journal, The University of Manitoba, Volume 56, No. 3, 1996
Artist Avenue, CD-Rom, K Street Systems, Denver Colorado, 1992
Road Jigsaw Puzzle Collection, Tokyo, Japan
Daniel, David, “In the Galleries”, Art and Antiques, 1989
Review, Artspeak, 1989,1986
Levine, M. “Translucency/Transparency:Women Working in Watercolour”, (cat.), 1982
Perrault, John, “Summer Reviews”, Village Voice, 1980
Goetz, W., “Sandra Caplan, Pastel drawings”, Winnipeg Art Gallery Bulletin, 1975
Who’s Who in American Art, listed
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