Professional Artist Resume’ CV Link
Linda Bigness AAS, BFA, MA
Studio 245
Delavan Center
509 West Fayette Street
Syracuse, New York 13204
[email protected]
SELECTED ONE AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITS:
Solo exhibit "Spring Thaw" Vandervort Gallery, The View Art Complex, Adirondacks, New York Curator John Gardner 2018
One person exhibit "Urban Beat" Tyler Art Gallery, Metro Ctr., SUNY Oswego, 2016 (Review) (Video Artist Talk) Grant 2017
Quintus Gallery, Abstract and Beyond, Watkins Glenn, NY 2016
Beyond the Pale, Edgewood Gallery, 2014 (Review)
Cultural Reflections, SUNY Empire College Gallery, Feb-March 2014
Abstract Retrospective, Rome Art Center, Nov-Jan. 2014
Three Form Expression, Edgewood Gallery, May & June 2011, (Reviews)
One person exhibit: "Color Remembered" Limestone Art Gallery, Fayetteville, NY 2008 (Review)
One person exhibit: “Along the Way”, Arts Center/Old Forge, The Adirondacks, NY 2003 (Grant)
One person retrospective: “Looking Back-Moving Forward “Rome Art Center, October 2001 (Grant).
One person exhibit Artifice Gallery, Syracuse, New York March 1999 (Review)
One person exhibit: Chapman Cultural Center, Cazenovia College, N.Y. November 1996 (Review)
One person exhibit: Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, N.Y. March 1996
One person exhibit: Rome Art Center, Rome, N.Y. January 1996 (Review)
Two person exhibit:Kirkland Art Center, Clinton, N.Y. March 1994 (Review)
One person exhibit: Taste of Arts Gallery, Syracuse, N.Y. November 1991 (Review)
One person exhibit: Roberta Wood Gallery, Fayetteville, N.Y. May 1993 (Review)
One person exhibit: Browse About Gallery, Syracuse, N.Y. December 1991 (Review)
One person exhibit: Manlius Library Gallery, Manlius, N.Y. May 1987 (Review)
One person exhibit: The Wedge Gallery, Rochester, N.Y. March 1986
One person exhibit: The EOC Gallery, State University of N.Y., Syracuse, N.Y. 1984
SELECTED NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITS
10th International Encaustic Conference Provincetown, MA 2016
9th International Encaustic Conference Provincetown, MA. 2015
Stories We Tell, National Juried Exhibit, Women's Caucus for Art, Juror, Jessica Porter, Porter Contemporary Gallery, NYC (catalog)
1001 Reasons to Love the Earth, Traveling exhibit, The Netherlands, Seoul Korea, 2002, 03 (Publication) (see collections below, the Stichting (Foundation)
http://www.h7l.com/1001-reasons-to-love-the-earth
Women’s Art Works 6, S. Sterling, Curator, National Women's Museum of Art, Rochester, N.Y. (1996)
Cooperstown National Juried Exhibition, Cooperstown, N.Y. (1988 &1993 Juror Ivan Karp, OK Harris
Gallery, NYC) 1998 Award, 65th National 2000, Juror: Jerome Witkin 2002
National Women Artists of America, Chautauqua Art Center, Chautauqua, New York (1990)
Chautauqua National exhibition, Chautauqua Art Center, New York (1990 &1995)
SELECTED JURIED EXHIBITS
Restart, Tyler Art Gallery at SUNY Oswego, Juror: Helaine Posner, Chief Curator Neuberger Museum of Art,
Purchase College, State University of New York. (Catalog) 2016 (Press)
Made in New York, Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, NY Jurors: Ann Clarke and John von Bergen 2016
Made in New York, Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, N.Y. Jurors: Thomas Piche’, Curator
Everson Museum of Art (1997)
Large Scale Art, CRC John H. Mulroy Civic Center, Juror: Jack White, Syracuse, N.Y. (1997)
Large Scale Art, CRC John H. Mulroy Civic Ctr., Juror: Sandra Trop, Director Everson Museum of Art (1996)
Fifth Annual Chapman Foundation Exhibition, Cazenovia College, New York (1996)
Essential Art-Fourth Annual Regional Art Show, Cooperstown, N. Y. (1995)
Canastota Canal Town Annual Small Scale Art Exhibit, Canastota, N.Y. (1989, 91, 92, 93, 95)
Clement Greenberg, Juror Award: (monetary and medal)
CNY Artists juried exhibition: Mary Murray, Curator, Munson Williams Proctor Institute, Museum of Art Utica, N.Y. (1995)
Fourth Annual Chapman Foundation Exhibition, Cazenovia College, New York (1995)
Kirkland Art Center Juried Exhibit, Clinton, New York (1988, 89, 93)
Print Exhibit, Memorial art Gallery, University of Rochester, N.Y. (1993)
Print Exhibit, Foyer Art Gallery, Nazareth College, Rochester, N.Y. (1992)
The 24 Collection, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, N.Y. (1988-1991) Awarded first monetary award in Painting
Skaneateles Art Expo, Skaneateles, N.Y. (1990)
Women Artists Exhibition, Munson Williams Proctor Institute, Museum of Art, Utica, N.Y. (1987)
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITS
Selected Gallery Artists, Nan Miller Gallery, Rochester, NY 2016-17
Art off the Wall, Invitational exhibit featuring wearable and sculptural artwork, Quintus Gallery, Watkins Glenn, NY 2016
In Love with Art, Nan Miller Gallery, Rochester,NY 2016
Abstract Views Nan Miller Gallery Rochester,NY 2015
9th International Encaustic Conference Provincetown, MA. 2015
Quintus Gallery, Exhibit in the Finger lakes, Watkins Glen, NY 2015
Art Exchange, College Art Association Annual Conference, NYC 2013
Mentors, 4 Influential Women Artists, Tech Gardens, Syracuse, NY 2013
Celebration of the Arts, an Invitational, St. David’s Galleries, Dewitt, NY 2012,13,14,15
Gallery Artists at the Nan Miller Gallery, Rochester, NY 2012
In the Abstract, Szozda Gallery, Syracuse, NY 2011
The Holiday Show:, Nan Miller Gallery, Rochester, NY. OCT-NOV 2003
Hudson Opera House Gallery, selected Abstract works, Hudson, NY. September/October 2003
Delavan Group Exhibit, Delavan Art Gallery, Syracuse, NY, September 2003
The Painter's Canvas, Nan Miller Gallery, Rochester, NY. OCT-NOV. 2001
Collage, Collage, Collage, Three collage artists. Artifice Gallery, June through August 2000 (review)
Artist as Shaman: A Group Exhibit of Artists using the Art of Healing in their work. Rosemary Court Gallery, Sarasota, Florida April and May 2000.
Four for the Millennium, National First Night Artists’ Showcase, Syracuse, N.Y. (1999) Grant
In, On, Above, Beside and Beyond-Artist views from the Fingerlakes, Auburn, N.Y. (1995)
In the “Face if A.I.D. S.”traveling exhibit, David Kwasigroh, Curator, Rochester, N.Y.
The Philadelphia Show, to benefit the Children’s Hospital, Nan Miller Gallery, (1991, 1992, 1998)
Made in New York, Nan Miller Gallery, Rochester, N.Y. (1991)
Six Painters/Abstract Vision, Uptown Gallery, David Kwasigroh, Curator, Rochester, N.Y.
Common Thread Exhibit, Schweinfurth Memorial Center, Auburn, N.Y. (1990)
Triple Encounter, Community Folk Art Gallery, Herb Williams, Curator, Syracuse, N.Y. (1985)
RECOGNITION:
AWARDS AND HONORS:
Numerous awards and honors have been received for work exhibited since
1982, the most recent being “The Grumbacher Award,”Gold Medal, received for the nationally exhibited
GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS:
Artist's Talk, Tyler Art Gallery, SUNY Oswego
Residency Grant received in (1995) for the Vermont Studio Center in
Johnson, Vermont.
New York State Council for the Arts: Grant to give workshop: Paint It, Tear It, Create It. Seneca Falls
Art Council, Seneca Falls, N.Y. 2000
SOS Grant: NYSCA 2001 for one -person retrospective at the Rome Art & Comm. Ctr. Oct.2001
SOS GRANT 2003, One person exhibit, Along the Way, Adirondacks, NY
SELECTED REVIEWS:
Syracuse Post Standard: Stars Magazine: “Edgewood exhibit features different approaches to similar ideas” Published: Sunday, June 12, 2011 By Katherine Rushworth , Critic and former director of the Michael C. Rockefeller Arts Center (State University College at Fredonia) and of the Central New York Institute for the Arts in Education.
“Artistic Triangle” Review published in Syracuse New Times, June 15, 2011 by Carl Mellor, Writer
Syracuse Post Standard Magazine: “ARTIST OFFERS PLENTY OF EDGE” KATHERINE RUSHWORTH ART CRITIC, August 28, 2008
Observer -Dispatch, Sunday, Oct. 21, 2001, Art Exhibit features colorful interpretations of Mozart’s musical masterpieces. Jonas Kover, critic.
Syracuse New Times: “Get Your (Glue) Gun”, Carl Mellor, Arts Critic, June 21, 2000
Syracuse New Times: “Let It Al Hang Out” Carl Mellor, Arts Critic, March 31, 1999
Stars Magazine, Syracuse Herald American, “Linda Bigness’ oils, mixed-media works are haunting, powerful. Sherry Chayat, Art Critic, Author, Nov. 17, 1996
Syracuse New Times, “ART Fantasy Land, Linda Bigness takes her landscapes through the looking glass. ”Alis Wintle Sefick, Writer, Critic.
Utica Observer, “Main Attraction, “Jonas Kover, Art Critic 1/96
Utica/Albany Observer Dispatch, “Galleries Take On A Feminine Introspection,”3/27/94
Syracuse New Times, “Twin Bill-Revitzky and Bigness…,”5/26/93
Syracuse New Times, “Painting on Several Levels,”12/25/91
Eagle Bulletin, Fayetteville, N.Y., “Passing In Review,”Sallie Bailey, Writer
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY:
The Adirondacks Magazine: Picture with bio, April 2003
Images Everything, “Gallerie Portfolio “, Bethel, CT., Volume I, 1998
Stars Magazine, Syracuse Herald American, “Grumbacher Award, ” 7/98
Post Standard, Syracuse, N.Y., “Taste of the Arts,” 11/23/93
Times Union, Rochester, N.Y. “Show in Public Space,”7/91
Everson Museum of Art Bulletin, Syracuse, N.Y. 2/90
Post Standard, Syracuse, N.Y., “Cazenovia College Art Review,”10/4/87
Post Standard, Syracuse, N.Y., “Award Winners for WCNY-24 Collection,”12/88
Selected Private and Public Collections
Mural: Miami, Florida, (1995
Bausch & Lomb Corp. (1995)
Merrill Lynch Corp. (1997)
Stickley Contemporary (1998)
Haylor, Freyer and Coon (2002)
Turning Stone Resort (2005)
Corporate Woods (2005)
“A Call to Prayer” Mural painting for the Temple B’rith Kodesh
Rochester, New York 2003
Upstate Medical Cancer Center 2014
The European Arts Embassy© the Stichting (Foundation) European Arts Embassy in The Netherlands.
President: Frans H.J. van der Beek 2000
John Lippa and Stanley Kreher collection 2015
Rochester Regional Health 2016
Gamma Knife Center-Oswego, New York 2019
See on-line web site http://www.bignessart.com for Portfolio and commission work.
Professional employment, lectures, and workshops see CV curriculum vitae
E D U C A T I O N
Syracuse University
AAS Degree, Majored in Studio Arts and Art History College of Visual and Performing Arts
BFA Degree, Majored in Painting and Art History College Visual and Performing Arts
SUNY Empire College
MA Degree, Focused on the Creative Arts, College of Liberal Arts (Interdisciplinary Studies)
Professional Affiliations and Memberships:
Columbia College, Adjunct Professor of Art
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY, Artists Member 2012
College Art Association, New York, NY, Professional Member 2012
MOMA, New York, NY, Artist Member 2012
Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Artist Member 2012
National League of American Pen Women, Washington DC, Artist Member, Past President
Current Public Relations and Newsletter Editor, CNY Branch 2012
Kirkland Art Center, Clinton, NY, Exhibition Committee Member, 2000-2012
Rome Art and Community Center, Rome, NY, Workshop Instructor, 2012 Regional Art Exhibit Juror
Cazenovia College, Cazenovia, NY, Department of Extended Learning, Adjunct Professor, 2012
Scholastic Junior High and High School Award and Exhibition: Juror
SOS Grant Panelist New York Foundation of the Arts
Rome Art and Community Center, Juror of Awards, Membership Exhibit 2012
Redhouse art is in the house, Artist member: 2012-13-16
Surface Design Association Member 2016
Gamma Knife Center-Oswego, New York 2019
PUBLICATIONS
Paint It, Tear It, Create It, The Art of Collage and The Evolution of a Painting, Linda Bigness, Blurb Publication 2008
The Artist and the Patron, Linda Bigness, CNY Art Showcase Magazine 2012 Edition
CURATORIAL EXPERIENCE in a PROFESSIONAL VENUE
Kirkland Art Center,NY. A Long Long History Cut Short, A Survey of Contemporary Printmaking Practices from Syracuse University Students/Faculty, Curator of selections and exhibit, 2015
Kirkland Art Center, Clinton, NY, Luminous Journeys Through the Abstract, Curator of Exhibit, selections, and workshops, (Grant recipient and Review) 2014
Gallery 320, Montgomery St., Syracuse, NY 1987-1991 Director and Curator for 12 exhibits a year, Selected artists, reviewed artists submissions, designed show layout and focus, wrote grant proposals for exhibit expenses and visiting artist funding, designed invitations and wrote press releases.
Rome Art and Community Center, NY, "The Art of the Shoe" Invitational 2002, Curated a group exhibit of selected artworks centered around the theme of shoes. Designed layout of show, selected artists, wrote and published a catalog and designed a slide exhibit of the exhibit for an on-line presence. Exhibit was partially funded by a grant submitted to the New York State Foundation of the Arts.
Rome Art and Community Center, NY, "Artist's Books" Invitational 2003, Curated a group exhibit of selected artworks with the focus on the book as art. Designed layout of exhibit, catalog and on-line slide show of the exhibit. Exhibit was funded in part by the New York State Foundation of the Arts. Reviewed by the Utica Observer art critic: Jonas Kover
Cazenovia Counterpoint: Curator of Art Exhibit with featured exhibit at the Chapman Art Center, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007
Syracuse Stage: Curator of Main Gallery Art Exhibit: Invitational: Portraits and Paintscapes, 1997
Galleries at Mohegan Manor: Baldwinsville, NY, on site Curator of six week exhibits featuring local and international artists. Artists selection, presentation and reception. Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/GalleriesAtMoheganManor?ref=hl
On-going 2012-2013
PROFESSIONAL WRITING: PUBLISHED AND UNPUBLISHED
"Finding Meaning in Abstract Painting"
As Interpreted by the Artist, the Viewer, and the Writer, Linda Bigness (2012) http://studio245.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/linda_bigness_final_lit-review-publication-on-blog.pdf
"The Artist and the Patron", Linda Bigness, CNY Art Showcase Magazine (2012)
http://studio245.wordpress.com/the-artists-pen-published-articles/
"Paint It, Tear It, Create It, The Art of Collage and the Evolution of a Painting, (2000)
http://store.blurb.com/ebooks/60256-paint-it-tear-it-create-it
Curriculum Vitae
