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- 1. Deborah Rubin Portfolio Contents Introduction Paintings Resume
- 2. Three White Peonies 20 x 30 Watercolor
- 3. Potted Croton 40 x 76 Watercolor and Acrylic
- 4. White Tulips 22 x 30 Watercolor
- 5. Daffodils with Tulips 40 x 60 Watercolor
- 6. Autumn Leaves 20 x 70 Watercolor
- 7. Coconuts in Sunlight 40 x 60 Watercolor and Acrylic
- 8. Lilies with Hibiscus 40 x 40 Watercolor
- 9. Boats with Re鍖ections 24 x 40 Watercolor
- 10. Eleven Boats 18 x 30 Watercolor
- 11. El Cielo 12 x 12 Gouache
- 12. Yellow Cab 30 x 40 Gouache and Acrylic
- 13. Laguna Pottery 22 x 30 Gouache
- 14. DEBORAH RUBIN Studio at 143 Flat Hills Rd, Amherst, Massachusetts 01002 413-253-7922 deborahrubin@comcast.net www.deborahrubin.com Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of Illinois, 1970 Graduate study in painting, University of Minnesota, 1971 Solo Exhibitions R. Michelson Galleries, Northampton, MA, 1992, 1993, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005,2007 Coconut Grove Galleries, Miami, FL, March 21 April 16, 2002, October 28 November 11, 2004 Of鍖ce of State Senator Stan Rosenberg, December 1 January 15, 2003, Boston Statehouse, MA Loring Gallery, Shef鍖eld, MA, July 19-August 9, 1997, 2000 Capricorn Galleries, Bethesda, MA, 1985, 1987, 1990, 1993, 1995 Museum of Fine Arts, Sales and Rental Gallery, Spring鍖eld, MA, Garden Varieties April 10June 14, 1992 Sync Gallery, Northampton, MA, April 6May 13, 1989 Zimmerman-Saturn Gallery, Nashville, TN, December 5, 1986January 10, 1987 Museum of Fine Arts, Spring鍖eld, MD, September 23October 13, 1985 Quadrum Gallery, Chestnut Hill, MA, June 1125, 1982 W. P. A. (Washington Place Artists) Gallery, 715 Broadway, New York City, April 16May 10, 1981 Burnett Gallery, Jones Library, Amherst, MA, June, 1980 Bibos Gallery, Peoria, IL, February, 1978 Spring鍖eld Art Association, Spring鍖eld, IL, November, 1977 Someplace Unique Gallery, Monticello, IL, October, 1977 Juried Exhibitons Insight Suburbia, Sage College, Albany, NY; Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, September 7 February 17, 2008. Masters of Watercolor, New Bedford Art Museum, New Bedford, MA, September 28 December 31, 2006
- 15. Allied Artists, National Arts Club, New York City, November 9-26, 2002 American Watercolor Society, Salmagundi Club, New York City, April, 2000 Catherine Lorillard Wolfe 102nd Exhibition, National Arts Club, New York City, October 9-30, 1998, 2003, 2004 Spring鍖eld Art League National Exhibition, Spring鍖eld (MA) Museum of Art, 1985, 1988, 1994, 1995 Ridge鍖eld Guild of Artists 11th Annual Show, Ridge鍖eld, CT, November 18December 4, 1988 Works on Paper, Berkshire Museum, Pitts鍖eld, MA, October 931, 1982 New England Watercolor Society, North American Open Exhibition, Federal Reserve Bank, Boston, May October 9-30, 1998, 2003, 2004 Spring鍖eld Art League National Exhibition, Spring鍖eld (MA) Museum of Art, 1985, 1988, 1994, 1995 Ridge鍖eld Guild of Artists 11th Annual Show, Ridge鍖eld, CT, November 18December 4, 1988 Works on Paper, Berkshire Museum, Pitts鍖eld, MA, October 931, 1982 New England Watercolor Society, North American Open Exhibition, Federal Reserve Bank, Boston, May 10June 24, 1988, 1998, 1999 36th New England Exhibition of Painting, Drawing and Sculpture, Silvermine Guild Center for the Arts, New Canaan, CT, May 25June 21, 1985 Elements of Landscape, Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, November 17December 17, 1983 Works on Paper, Green鍖eld (MA) Community College Art Gallery, November 17December 9, 1983 National Society of Painters in Casein and Acrylic Annual Exhibitions, National Arts Club, New York City, 1982, 1983 Audubon Artists Award Winners Exhibition, Lotus Club, New York City, April 27May 11, 1982 Audubon Artists Annual Exhibitions, National Arts Club, New York City 1980, 1981, 1982 National Academy of Design 157th Annual Exhibition, New York City, February 28March 28, 1982 Kentucky Watercolor Society Aqueous Exhibitions, Kentucky Art Center, Louisville, KY, October 18
- 16. -November 21, 1980; Kentucky Historical Society, Frankfort, KY, 1981, 1986 Berkshire Art Association Exhibitions of Painting and Sculpture, Berkshire Museum, Pitts鍖eld, MA, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1998 Butler Institute of American Art Annual Midyear Show, Youngstown, OH, 1981, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1989 Watercolor USA, Spring鍖eld Art Museum, Spring鍖eld, MO, 1981, 1987 Valley Women Artists Annual Exhibitions, Hampshire College Gallery, Amherst, MA, 1980, 1981, 1983 Danco Art Gallery Open Juried Exhibition, Northampton, MA, December 1, 1980January 4, 1981 23rd Annual Chautauqua National Exhibition of American Art, Chautauqua, NY, June 20July 13, 1980 Spring鍖eld Art League 61st National Exhibition, G. W. V. Smith Art Museum, Spring鍖eld, MA, April 20May 18, 1980 1st Annual Spring Art Exhibition, Wistariahurst Museum, Holyoke, MA, April 12May 10, 1980 Milwaukee (WI) Art Museum, Cudahy Gallery Spring Show, Milwaukee,WI, April, 1979 Four Counties Exhibition, Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI, FebruaryMarch, 1979 Limited Group Exhibitions Blue Plate Special, Gallery 137, Indian Orchard, MA, June 2007 Transportation Cues, National Association of Women Artists Gallery, New York, NY, April 2006 Art League of Marco Island, Marco Island, FL, Feb. 3- 27, 2003 Ralls Collection, Washington, D.C. July 20 September 15, 2002 Pen and Brush Club, New York City, July 13 27, 2002 Spring鍖eld (MA) Museum of Fine Arts, Still Life for the 90s, June 26Sept 22, 1996 8th International Exhibition of Botanical Art and Illustration, Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, November 13, 1995 February 28, 1996 New England Watercolor Society Members Show, Attleboro, MA, 1988, Boston, 1992, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 Kennebunkport, ME, 1993, Rockport, MA, 1995
- 17. Sightlines, Double Door Gallery, Islesboro, ME, August 23September 3, 1994 Getting Real: 20th Century American Realism from the Philip Desind Collection, South Bend (IN) Regional Museum of Art, July 31Sept 11, 1994; Fitchburg (MA) Art Museum, January 29March 26, 1995 Facing Reality, Sharon Arts Center Invitational Show, Sharon, NH, June 19July 31, 1994 Styles, Strands, and Sequences: American Realist Paintings and Drawings from the Philip Desind Collection, University of FloridaGainesville, October 5November 4, 1990; Deland (FL) Museum of Art, May 10June 16, 1991; Tampa (FL) Museum of Art, July 12Sept 13, 1992 From the Garden, R. Michelson Gallery, Amherst, MA, April 530, 1991 Sync Gallery, Northampton, MA, Family and Friends, April, 1990 Sync Selects Seven, Sync Gallery, Northampton, MA, September 15November 15, 1988 Watercolor Now, Watercolor USA Honor Society Membership Exhibition, Spring鍖eld (MO) Art Museum, November 1December 27, 1987 Mainstream America: The Collection of Philip Desind, The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH, March 1April 5, 1987 Spring Landscapes, Thronja Gallery, Spring鍖eld, MA, April 5 May 3, 1986 The Past 100 Years, Karen Sprague/Esther Griswold Art Center, American International College, Spring鍖eld, MA, SeptemberOctober, 1985 Painting on Photographs/Paintings from Photographs, Project Community Arts Center, Cambridge, MA, March 25April 19, 1985 Women Artists in the Community, in conjunction with International Womens Week, Herter Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, March 116, 1983 University of Massachusetts Student Union Art Gallery, Amherst, February 22March 8, 1982 Zone Gallery, Spring鍖eld, MA, Valley Women Artists Group Invitational June 13July 14, 1981 Milwaukee (WI) Art Museum, Two-by-Two Invitational Show, December, 1980 Lane-Blackbourn Gallery, Janesville, WI, April, 1979 Wisconsin Fine Arts Association Exhibit, Ozaukee Art Center, Cedarburg, WI, MarchApril, 1979 Evanston (IL) Art Center, April, 1974
- 18. Permanent Collections Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ Easthampton Savings Bank, Easthampton, MA Harvard University Graduate School of Business, Cambridge, MA Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY Bridgestone, USA, Nashville, TN Cabot Corporation, Boston, MA Citizens Bank, Boston, MA City Savings Bank, Pitts鍖eld, MA PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Boston, MA Employers Mutual of Wausau, WI Farm Credit Bank of New England, Spring鍖eld, MA Fidelity Investments Management Corporation, Boston, MA Marine Bank of Milwaukee, WI Marriott Hotel Corporation Headquarters, Washington DC Massachusetts Financial Services, Boston, MA Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company, Spring鍖eld, MA Merrill, Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Spring鍖eld, MA Savings Bank Life Insurance, Woburn, MA MBNA Bank, Camden, ME Citizens Bank, Boston, MA Forbes Library, Northampton, MA Awards and Honors Artist-in-Resident, Acadia National Park, ME, May 9 29, 2004 Edgar A. Whitney Memorial Award, Catherine Lorillard Wolfe 107th Annual Exhibition, 2003, 2004, National
- 19. Arts Club, New York City Henry Gasser-Moses Worthman Memorial Award, Allied Artists Exhibition, Nov. 9 26th, 2002, National Arts Club, New York City Two Honorable Mentions, Pen and Brush Club, NYC, July 13 27, 2002 Painting used for St. Stephens Arts & Craft Festival, Coconut Grove, FL, February 2000 Bronze medal, New England Watercolor Society Members Show, Guild of Boston Artists, Boston, January 1999, 2000, honorable mention 2002 Best in Show Award, Spring鍖eld (MA) Art League 75th National Exhibition, April 10May 15, 1994 WGBYTV, public television in Spring鍖eld, MA, featured artist for the Annual Art Auction; Gallery 57 catalogue cover, February 11-12, 1994 The New York Art Review, 1990 Reference Book Marquis Whos Who of American Women First Place in Pastel, Ridge鍖eld Guild of Artists 11th Annual Show, Ridge鍖eld, CT, November 18 - December 4, 1988 New England Watercolor Society $200 Merit Award, North American Open Exhibition, Federal Reserve Bank, Boston, May 10 - June 24, 1988 Grumbacher Inc Gold Medallion and $300 prize, Spring鍖eld (MA) Art League 66th National Exhibition, April, 1985 Member: Watercolor USA Honor Society; New England Water Color Society, National Association of Women Artists Semi鍖nalist, Judith Selkowitz Fine Arts 1984 competition for Realistic Works on Paper in a Series, New York City Valley Women Artists Annual Exhibition, Hampshire College Gallery, Amherst, MA, Honorable Mention 1983 Works on Paper, $300 award, Berkshire Museum, Pitts鍖eld, MA, 1982 Audubon Artists Anniversary Award of $500, National Arts Club, New York City, 1982 Spring鍖eld (MO) Art Museum Cash Award at the Watercolor USA Exhibition, 1981 Watercolor USA Traveling Exhibition, October 1981 - October 1983 Anna N Mamonas Award for Watercolor, Berkshire Art Association Exhibition, Berkshire Museum, Pitts鍖eld, MA, 1979
- 20. Merit Award, Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI, 1979 City Savings Bank Purchase Award, Berkshire Art Association Exhibition, Berkshire Museum, Pitts鍖eld, MA, 1979 Membership New England Watercolor Society National Association of Women Artists Watercolor USA Bibliography Cover , New England Watershed Magazine. Summer, 2007 Amherst Artist Shows and Tells at R. Michelson Galleries, by Maggie Shader, Amherst Bulletin, July 1, 2005 , Daily Hampshire Gazette, July 7, 2005 Splash 8, Edited by Rachel Rubin Wolf, Northlight Books, 2004, p. 88. Ordinary Into Extraordinary . Catalog of paintings with text by Laura Holland. Marcus Printing, March 2003 Praise the Flag and Pass the Abstract, Washington Post, Washington, D.C., July 18, 2002 Bloom Still on Rose by Christina Barber, Daily Hampshire Gazette, Northampton, MA, May 29, 2001. Artist, Potter Find Beauty in Everyday Objects by Gloria Russell, Sunday Republican (Spring鍖eld, MA), April 20, 1997 Where Have All the Flowers Gone? by Bonnie Wells, Amherst (MA) Bulletin, April 11, 1997 Fresher Than a Daisy by Fred Contrada, Spring鍖eld (MA) Union-News, April 10, 1997 Exhibit a lush bouquet of botanical art by Donald Miller, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, December 2, 1995 Really real by Alice Field, Keene (NH) Sentinel, June 23, 1994 Art Leagues 75th Exhibition Awash in Color, Style by Gloria Russell, Sunday Republican (Spring鍖eld, MA), May 1, 1994 The Art of Watercolor by Laura Holland, in Art New England, February-March, 1994 Flowers Drenched in Sunlight by Christine Benvenuto, Amherst (MA) Bulletin, November 5, 1993 Valley Optimist (Northampton, MA) cover illustration, November 2, 1993 Art Views by Patricia Wright, Daily Hampshire Gazette (Northampton, MA),
- 21. April 23, 1992 From the Garden II by Jon Reed, Valley Optimist (Northampton, MA), with cover illustration, April 13, 1992 Styles, Strands, & Sequences: American Realist Paintings and Drawings from the Philip Desind Collection by John Ward (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1991), p. 18 When Paintings of Flowers Are More Than Pretty Pictures by Patricia Wright, Daily Hampshire Gazette (Northampton, MA), April 18, 1991 Her Flowers Bring Gardens to Galleries by Bruce Watson, Amherst (MA) Bulletin, March 27, 1991 American Artist magazine, selected work for article, Preserving Our Natural Resources, August 1990 Making the Ordinary Look Extraordinary by Stanley Marcus Watercolor 89, published by American Artist Magazine Rubin Takes More Risks With Work by Patricia Wright, Daily Hampshire Gazette (Northampton, MA), October 26, 1988 A Flowering of Watercolor by Maris Nichols, Amherst (MA) Bulletin, November 23, 1988 Arts Feature interview with Jim Weinberg, WPLN Radio, Nashville, TN, December 8, 1986 Gallery showcases paintings by Julie MacPherson, Nashville Banner, December 9, 1986 Seeing the familiar at close range by Patricia Wright, Daily Hampshire Gazette (Northampton, MA), October 9, 1985 Art Scene series under way at museums, October 6, 1985 and Four artists show varied works with theme of Spring, by Gloria Russell, Sunday Republican (Spring鍖eld, MA), April 20, 1986 Four Artists, Four Views by Nora Seton, Hampshire Life, Daily Hampshire Gazette (Northampton, MA), April 23, 1983 Women Artists Play It Safe by Robin Karson, Spring鍖eld (MA) Daily News, July 9, 1981 Beyond Photorealism by Nancy Stapen, The Villager, New York City, May 7, 1981 Women Exhibit Artworks by Robin Karson, Spring鍖eld (MA) Daily News, April 9, 1981 Delicate But Different by Lee Bramwell Roberts, Milwaukee Journal, April 8, 1979
- 22. From the Reviews The in鍖uence of the lush countryside is everywhere evident in her paintings, which are essentially graceful and sometimes brilliant testimonials to the expressive potential of nature. To say that Rubin is a photorealist, a watercolorist, a painter of foliage and 鍖owers, is to state the obvious but bypass the truth Those terms inevitably evoke myriad, sometimes deprecatory images, and in fact hold only a fragmentary relationship to the visual meanings of these paintings While Rubins technical pro鍖ciency recalls her photorealist concerns, the crystalline-yet-鍖uent quality of her images creates a depth of feeling and a strong concern with content and symbolic meaning. Rubin chooses small moments in nature, 鍖lling her canvas with the multitudinous patterns of leaves, 鍖owers, twigs, and berries as they respond to the pristine light of dappled forest clearings Closer viewing reveals a variety of soft and distinct focus, and varying intensities of value and hue, which in turn express a singular, carefully chosen, and 鍖eeting vision The concentration of that focus lends an extraordinary power to small things, to that which is usually unseen and unobserved. Nancy Stapen, The Villager, New York City, May 7, 1981 Deborah Rubins watercolors of 鍖owers combine a spectacular large scale with brilliant light and meticulous detail In one piece a row of yellow sun鍖owers marches across a 鍖ve-foot expanse of blue sky, with every petal, seed, stalk, and leaf illuminated by the glory of a late summers afternoon sun A similarly large-scale study of narcissus becomes a 鍖reworks display of foliage - stems, stalks, and blossoms explode up and out, while the orange edges of the petals vibrate with neon intensity. The in鍖uence of photography is clear in the cropped compositions, close-up imagery, attention to detail, and conscious play with depth-of-鍖eld and focus Rubin has a 鍖are for unusual angles that frame and thus de鍖ne the picture In more than one painting she chops off the tops of blossoms to make the tangle of greenery the subject. .. The best (renderings) reveal a strong painterly eye and intention Red Poppies captures beautifully the sunlit glow of colored petals in exquisite detail Yet the work also has a painterly, abstract quality in the patterned blurring of the background and the stylized rendering of the shade and shadows The image is an orchestrated series of visual contrasts: sunlight pierces shade; intense red petals 鍖ame from a jungle of myriad greens; sharp lines edge against a soft blur of color; and above all, a photographic reality vies with the edited reality of the artists eye that picks and chooses from the scene It is clear we are dealing with a carefully composed art, rather than randomly focused fragments of nature. Laura Holland, Deborah Rubin: The Art of Watercolor, Art New England, February/March 1994 Deborah Rubin has made her reputation, and it is national in scope, with images of 鍖owers In these watercolors she exchanges the traditional subtleties of poetic intimacy for the audacity of large-scale photorealism. . .
- 23. The huge Provincetown Dock is a virtuoso performance in trompe loeil rendering Ropes, ladders, gulls, pilings, signs, a 鍖shing boat alongside, ripples and sunbeams in the water all together perform the illusion of actuality Just as remarkable is the portrait of a farmhouse, White House with Red Door, its antique structure now 鍖tted with cheap window screens and an air conditioner unit, with plastic bucket and a garden hose reel. . . Yet somehow or other, tug at our eyes and hearts as does these isolated bits of everyday life, they are amusing more than sentimental Rubins close-up focus on the character of her subject, detaching the motif from a wider panorama, gives access to a catalog of things; it serves to monumentalize the subject, and to smile at the individuality and the fortitude dreary places can suggest, or at the very abundance of stuff that crowds our 鍖eld of vision, and that we take for granted. Gloria Russell, Sunday Republican, Reviewing Deborah Rubin: A New Point View, April 1997 Galleries R. Michelson Galleries, Northampton and Amherst, MA Coconut Grove Gallery, Miami, FL Cavalier Galleries, Greenwich CT, Nantucket Loring Gallery, Shef鍖eld, MA Jacqueline Becker Art Consultant, Newton, MA