MARSHA PELS

 

99 Commercial Street Brooklyn, NY 11222 USA

Cell: 347 432 5134 

E-mail: marshapels@gmail.com

website: www.marshapels.com

 

 

EDUCATION

 

Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY MFA Sculpture 1974

Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI BFA Painting 1972

Tyler School of Art, Rome, Italy Summer 1971

 

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

 

2008Dead Mother, Dead Cowboy, Schroeder Romero, New York

 

2004 The 9/11 Tablets, The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland 

BOOTY, Schroeder Romero , Brooklyn, NY 

 

2001   The Hitler Vitrines, Schroeder Romero, Brooklyn, NY 

The Hitler Vitrines & The Cleansing, Davis & Hall Gallery, Hudson, NY  

 

1996   Poupee, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY (catalogue) 

Poupee, List Gallery, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA 

 

1995   Terranova, The Sculpture Center, NY, NY 

  Vestige, A War Memorial, The Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 

Recent Sculpture, Dana Arts Center, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY 

 

1986   The Crucifixion Series, Oscarsson-Siegeltuch & Co., NY, NY (catalogue)

   Bronze Sculpture, Oscarsson Hood Gallery, NY, NY  

Sculpture in Clay, Steel & Bronze, Mercer-Price Gallery, Putney, VT 

Recent Sculpture, Dana Arts Center, Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, 

         PA 

 

1981   The Utica/Hudson River Landscapes, Oscarsson Hood Gallery, NY, NY            

 

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND INSTALLATIONS

 

2011  Lorne Sculpture Biennial, Sculpture Trail, Victoria, Australia

Chain Letter, Shoshana Wayne Galley, Los Angeles, CA

The Uncommon Thread, Front Room Gallery Brooklyn, NY

2010  Pavers, Shroeder Romero & Shredder, New York, NY

2009Momenta Benefit, Momenta Art, Brooklyn and Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York

2008Ship of Fools, Ship of Hope, One World, Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Victoria,

Australia; travelled to Ballarat Mining Exchange, Ballarat, Victoria,

Australia

2006    Transparency, Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, VT, travelled 

           to Corridor Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland

          Dieu Donne Paper Benefit, Gallery @ Metropolitan Pavillon NY, NY

2005    Outdoor Sculpture, Eliane Benson Sculpture Garden, Bridgehampton, NY

2004-5 Anthology of Art, (catalogue) curated by Atelier Gerz  travelled to: 

Martin Gropius-Bau, Berlin; Akademie du Kunste, Berlin; 

Bundeskunstehalle, Bonn; Zentrum fur Medienkunste, Karlsruhe

Decade, Schroeder Romero, Brooklyn, NY

2002   Momenta Benefit, White Columns, NY, NY

Drawings By Sculptors for Sculpture, Andrews Gallery, The College of William 

         & Mary, Williamsburg, VA; curated by Lewis Cohen

Made in Brooklyn; Selection One, Wythe Studio, Brooklyn, NY curated by 

         Phong Bui

"www.anthology of art-net",(catalogue) Braunschweig School of Art,   Braunschweig, Germany

Homage to Calder, Elaine Benson Sculpture Garden,Bridgehampton, NY

1999 Outdoor Sculpture Walk, Trenton Train Station, Trenton, NJ

         Outdoor Sculpture,  Connemara Conservancy,  Plano, TX (catalogue)

1998   The Theater of Cruelty, Cristinerose Gallery, NY, NY curated by Robert

  Boyd (catalogue)

Drawing From The Source, Hebrew Union College,  NY, NY (catalogue)

SLAG: Inaugural Exhibition, Chelsea Market, NY, NY 

Thapng International Workshop, National Museum,Gabarone, Botswana 

         Mujeras dePodera: Women of Power,  (catalogue) travelled to: 

Fondo Del Sol Visual Arts Center, Washington, DC; 

Museum of The National Center of Afro-American Artists, Boston, MA;

Kenkelaba House, NY, NY

Sculpture Space: 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Munson-Williams-Proctor 

Institute, Utica, NY (catalogue) curated by Mary Murray

Delving and Tinkering,  E.S. Vandam Gallery,  NY, NY curated by Tom Butter

I'm History, Susan Inglett Gallery, NY, NY

Work by Artists From 4 Brooklyn Spaces, Ronald Feldman Gallery, NY,NY

1993     Spring-Summer Exhibition, Grounds For Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ

    (catalogue) curated by Brooke Barrie

           93 NY 50, Socrates Sculpture Park, Astoria, NY curated by Eve

     Sussman

Living Rites, Carla Stellweg Contemporary & Latin American  

     Art, NY, NY

  Selected Sculpture & Drawings, Kouros Gallery, NY, NY

  Outdoor Sculpture, Kouros Sculpture Center, Ridgefield, CT

  Outdoor Sculpture Garden, Pavilion Galleries, Mount Holly, NJ

  Means To Ends: Process and Its Traces on Recent Sculpture,  The

Rockland Centre For The Arts, Nyack, NY, curated by Cynthia

Nadelman (catalogue)

23rd Annual Invitational Show, Ashawagh Hall, Easthampton, NY

           Gender; Personal View, Brooklyn Waterfront Museum,Brooklyn, NY

           Sculpture Garden, Burlington County College, Pemberton, NJ

        curated by Issac Witkin

1989   Home Sweet Home: Part II, Sally Hawkins Gallery, NY, NY

      Artists Working, Proctor Art Center, Bard College, Annandale-on 

                 Hudson, NY

Casting Sheet; Drawings for Sculptures, University Museum, 

   Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL, curated by Tom Walsh

1987   Faculty Show, Suzanne Usdan Gallery, Bennington College,

                 Bennington, VT

1986   A Contemporary View of Nature, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary

             Art, Ridgefield, CT (catalogue)

         Sculpture Outdoors, Beaver College, Glenside, PA

Triangle International Artists Workshop, Pine Plains, NY (catalogue)

         Annual Exhibition,  Academia Americana,  Rome, Italy (catalogue)

     Recent Trends at Sculpture Space,  Munson-Williams-Proctor

     Institute, Utica, NY (catalogue) 

1983   Sculpture Invitational, Oscarsson Hood Gallery, NY, NY

    Hudson River Update, The Gallery @ Hastings-on-Hudson, 

                Hastings-on-Hudson, NY

        Outdoor Sculpture, The Rotunda Gallery @ Cadmen Plaza, 

                 Brooklyn, NY, curated by The Public Art Fund (catalogue)

Visiting Artists: Spring 1982