EDUCATION                 

Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, BFA   1981

  

PUBLIC/CORPORATE COLLECTIONS

RB Properties, Inc., Washington, DC

The Lombardy Hotel, Washington, DC

The Potomac Group, Washington, DC

Mine City, Mine, Japan

Mino City Ceramics Collection, Mino Japan

Applied Planning International, Annapolis, MD

TKF Foundation, Annapolis, MD

The Kerns Group Architects, Arlington, VA

Lucas and Associates, AIA, Baltimore, MD

Yashiro City, "Stellar Park", Yashiro, Japan

Huneke & Associates, Seattle, WA

Fortune Design, Seattle, WA

A.G. Edwards, Edmonds, WA

Quiet Waters Park, Annapolis, MD

Morgan/Gerard, Anapolis, MD

 

COMMISSIONS Private/Public

Nancy and David Hughart, Seattle, WA 2010

ABODE/ Fern Santini, Austin, Texas, 2009

RB Properties Inc., Lombardy Hotel, Washington, DC 2006, 2007, 2008

Spring Hill College, Mobile, Alabama, 2004, 2005

Saint Bede Church, Williamsburg, VA, 2003

Marian House, Baltimore, MD, 2002

John and Mary Lou Barter, Kiawha Island,  SC  2001

The Holton-Arms School,  Bethesda, MD, 2000

Holy Trinity Church, Washington, DC, 1999

Holy Redeemer College, Washington, DC 1997

 

PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS

“Fragments”, Darnell Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM 2010

“Muses and Initiates”, Darnell Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM, 2009

“Claire McArdle Sculpture w Frank Sampson Painting”, Canyon Gallery, Boulder, CO 2009

“Myth and Mystery”, Darnell Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM, 2008

“Myth and Mystery: Sculpture and Drawings”, Old Firehouse Art Center, Longmont, CO 2008

"Spirits Rising: An Evening of Dance / Sculpture / Poetry",Word Dance Theater, choreography by Ruth St. Denis, Isadora Duncan, Cynthia Word, Sculpture by Claire McArdle, poetry by Sappho and Dance with Ingrid Zimmer, Historic Dumbarton Church, Washington, DC, 2007

“Featured Sculpture”, Harbor Square Gallery, Rockland, ME 2007

“The Horse”, International Visions Gallery, Washington, DC  2006

“Passages”, Carla Massoni Gallery, Carla Massoni Gallery, Chestertown, MD  2004

“New Work: Musica Ricercata”, Carla  Massoni Gallery, Chestertown, MD  2003

"Fire and Earth", International Visions Gallery, Washington, DC  2000

Keith Lipert Gallery, Washington, DC 1997

Ludmilla Baczynsky, Gallery, New York, NY 1996

 Ira Pinto Gallery, Annapolis, MD  1997

West Annapolis Gallery, Annapolis, MD  1995

Claire McArdle Gallery, Galleries 1054, Washington, DC  1995,1994, 1993,1992

Zenith Gallery, Washington, DC 1992

 

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

 

2011

Spring Exhibition, Massoni Art, Chestertown, MD

Gallery Artists “Small Works”, International Visions, Washington, DC

 

2010

“Fall into Summer”, , Carla Massoin Gallery, Chestertown, MD 

“Into the Light”, Carla Massoni Gallery, Chestertown, MD

Gallery Artists group show, International Visions, Washington, DC

Gallery Artist, Thomas Deans Fine Art, Atlanta, GA

 

2009

“Gallery Artists”, International Visions Gallery, Washington, DC

“Everchanging”,  Carla Massoni Gallery, Chestertown, MD

“Gallery Artists”, Martin Gallery, Charleston, SC

 

2008

“24/7 The Creative Challenge”, Carla Massoni Gallery, Chestertown, MD

Gallery Artists, Darnell Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM

Gallery Artists, Telluride Gallery of Fine Art, Telluride, CO

Gallery Artists, International Visions-The Gallery, Washington, DC

Sculpture on the Blue, Breckenridge, CO

Gallery Artists, Martin Gallery, Charleston, SC

 

2007

“Ten”, International Visions Gallery, Washington, DC

"Dwell", Carla Massoni Gallery, Chestertown, MD

"Lifelines: Vessels", Carla Massoni Gallery, Chestertown, MD

“Sculpture on the Blue”, Public Art,   Breckenridge, CO

Gallery Artists, Martin Gallery, Charleston, SC

Gallery Artists, Telluride Gallery of Art, Telluride, CO

 

2006

Gallery Artists, Telluride Gallery of Fine Art, Telluride, CO

“Sculpture on the Blue” Public Art, Breckenridge, CO   Best in Show Award

“Sequences and Consequences”, Carla Massoni Gallery, Chestertown, MD

“Hermandades Escultoricas” Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Atenea de  Yucatan, Merida, Mexico

Gallery Artists, Martin Gallery, Charleston, SC

Gallery Artists, Harbor Square Gallery, Rockland, ME

 

2005

“Particles and Passions: The Art of Clay”, Academy Art Museum, Easton, MD

“Other Dimensions”, Carla Massoni Gallery, Chestertown, MD

Gallery Artists, Martin Gallery, Charleston, SC

Gallery Artists, Harbor Square Gallery, Rockland, ME

 

2004

 “Faces and Figures”, International Visions Gallery, Washington, DC

Gallery Artists, Martin Gallery, Charleston, SC

Gallery Artists, Harbor Square Gallery, Rockland, ME

 

2003

 “Art and Dance”, International Visions Gallery, Washington, DC

Gallery Artists, Martin Gallery, Charleston, SC

Gallery Artists, Harbor Square Gallery, Rockland, ME

Gallery Artists, Carla Massoni Gallery, Chestertown, MD

“10 th Anniversary”, Carla Massoni Gallery,  Chestertown, MD

"Collection 2001", International Visions Gallery,  Washington, DC

Gallery Artists, Martin Gallery, Charleston, SC

Gallery Artists, Harbor Square Gallery, Rockland, ME

 

2000

"Landscapes 2000", Carla Massoni Gallery, Chestertown, MD

Gallery Artists, Martin Gallery, Charleston, SC

Gallery Artists, Harbor Square Gallery, Rockland, ME

 

1999

" Ireland in Washington, 7 Artists", International Visions Gallery, Washington, DC

Gallery Artists, Carla Massoni Gallery, Chestertown, MD

Gallery Artists, Martin Gallery, Charleston, SC

Gallery Artists’ Harbor Square Gallery, Rockland, ME

 

1998

Gallery Artists, International Visions Gallery, Washington, DC

Gallery Artists, Harbor Square Gallery, Rockland, ME

Galerie fur Gegenwartskunst, Bonstetten , Switzerland

 

1997

Gallery Artists, Yellow Dog Gallery, Charleston, SC

Gallery Artists, Harbor Square Gallery, Rockland, ME

"Sculptors' Plans, Drawings, Maquettes, 505 Gallery,  Washington, DC

"Sculpture Now", Cade Gallery, Annapolis, MD

Wilhelmina’s Art Gallery, Seneca Falls, NY

"DC Unite Chicago ", Washington, DC

"Sculpture Now '98”, Washington Square, Washington, DC

Ira Pinto Gallery, Annapolis, MD

Gregory Gallery, New York, NY

 

1996

Mine Cultural Center, Mine, Japan

Gregory Gallery, New York, NY

Michele Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY

The National Museum for Women in the Arts, Annual Auction, Washington, DC

 

1994

"International Women in Art", The World Bank, Washington, DC

"Across Borders", The Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, DC

 

1993

Capital Arts Spring Show, Washington, DC

 

1992

Gallery Mack, Seattle, WA

"The Gallery Garden ", Campbell & Ferrara  , Alexandria , VA 1991

 

1990

Gardens of Art, Bellingham, WA

Washington Horticultural Society, NW Stone Sculptors, Seattle, WA

"Women Sculptors in Italy ", Livorno, Italy

'L Grup, La Galleria d'Arte Contemporania, Colonnata, Italy

 

 

 

 

 

 

 LECTURES/VISITING ARTIST/TEACHING EXPERIENCE

“Dances with Muses” with Word Dance Theater , Santa Fe, NM 2009

Blessed Sacrament School, Chevy Chase, MD 2007

“Spirit in Stone: A Sculptor’s Vision”, Spring Hill College, Mobile, AL 2005

“The Spirit Within" Academy of the Holy Cross, Kensington, MD  2004

The National Museum for Women in the Arts, Washington, DC  2001