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MARIA DRISCOLL MCMAHON

News

9/25/21 - 10/21/21 / Squishing out Breath / Loomis Gallery/Mansfield University/solo exhibition

11/12 /21 Unbalance of Power / Atrium Gallery/ Corning Community College / solo show I shared with 2X2 Collective

2022 March - May / Made in New York 2022 / Juried Exhibition / Schweinfurth Art Center / Auburn, NY

2022 July 18 - August 13 / Uillinn West Cork Arts Center/ REMOTE Residency/ Skibbereen, Ireland

Awards , Residencies

2022/ Uillinn West Cork Arts Center/ REMOTE Residency/ Skibbereen, Ireland
2015 / The New York State Council on the Arts' Artist’s Crossroads Grant / A Frost Hollow Class Reunion: Class of 1857 to 1938 / administered locally by The ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes

2012 / Shortlisted for Aljira Emerge Award for This Mad Attachment: The Burdocks Project

2012 / Jan/Feb / Sculpture Space / with 2x2 / Utica, NY

2011 / NYFA MARK’11, the New York Foundation for the Arts’ competitive professional development program for artists in New York State

2010 / The New York State Council on the Arts' Artist’s Crossroads Grant / This Mad Attachment: The Burdocks Project / administered locally by The ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes / for

2006 / The New York State Council on the Arts Decentralization program, administered locally by The ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes, held workshops in my studio and curated “Art on the Water, 2006” and “”X’s” held at Vanishing Point Studio and Art Gallery, Lockwood, NY

2005 / The New York State Council on the Arts Decentralization program, administered locally by The ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes, held workshops in my studio and curated “Art on the Water.

2003 / September / International Assemblage Exhibition, second place winner/ Gallery 24, Berlin, Germany

2001 / Arts Partnership Award presented by The ARTS of the Southern Finger Lakes
1994 / Susquehanna Regional Exhibition / Roberson Art Museum, Binghamton, NY Merit Prize Winner

Performances and Solo Shows:

9/25/21 - 10/21/21 / Squishing out Breath / Loomis Gallery/Mansfield University/solo exhibition

11/12 /21 Unbalance of Power / Atrium Gallery/ Corning Community College / solo show I shared with 2X2 Collective

2020 / By the Time You Cut Teeth You Are Already Ancient / Gallery Aferro, Newark, NJ

2016 / September / Too Soon for Dinosaurs / Collaborative Concepts / Garrison, NY

2014 / February / Elevator Music and Art Gallery / New Roots Charter School @ The Clinton House / Ithaca, NY

2013 / September / Blue / Performances on the Farm / Saunder's Farm / Garrison, NY

2013 / August / Performance at The Stanley Center for the Arts / Utica, NY

2013 Here and Now/ Exhibit A / Corning, NY.
2013 / Private Properties / Performance at Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art / Peekskill, NY

2012 / March / Burrtha Marches / Street Performance on Market Street, Newark, NJ, and in front of the Essex County Courthouse with The People’s Organization for Progress.

2012 / January / Burrtha goes to College / performance at Pratt @ Munson Williams Proctor Arts Institute / Utica, NY 2012 / February / Burrtha goes shopping / Utica, NY

2012/This Mad Attachment: The Burdocks Project/P&C Grocery Store, Sayre, Pa.

2010 / December / This Mad Attachment: The Burdocks Project / The Loom / culminating exhibition in fulfillment of a Crossroads Decentralization Grant through the ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes, for a multi-disciplinary art project including drawing,sculpture, video taped interviews and performances / Waverly, NY

2010 / October / This Mad Attachment: The Burdocks Project / S treet performance / Sparky’s Tavern, Waverly News, Broad Street, Waverly, NY

2008 / August / Still Life with Calving Iceberg / MFA thesis exhibition / Wood Gallery, Montpelier, VT,

Solo Shows with 2x2 Collective:

11/12 /21 Unbalance of Power / Atrium Gallery/ Corning Community College / solo show I shared with 2X2 Collective

2013 / October / Double Consciousness / The Arts Center of the Capital Region / with 2x2 / Troy, NY

2012 / March / S k i n H i d e s / Gallery Aferro / with 2x2 / Newark, NJ

2012 / Jan/Feb / Works in Progress Show / Sculpture Space / with 2x2 / Utica, NY

Selected Juried/Group Shows:

2022 March - May / Made in New York 2022 / Juried Exhibition / Schweinfurth Art Center / Auburn, NY
May 2020/ (s)mother, an exhibition curated by Anna Adler/ Bethany Community A Opening Reception: Friday, May 8, 6-8pm2019 / Invitation Former SOAG Members Show / State of the Art Gallery / Ithaca, NY
2018 / September / Ecstatic Beasts / curated by Thatiana Oliveira, VCFA College Hall Gallery, Montpelier Vermont 2016 / March / A New Light: A Spring Awakening / Studio 5404 Art Space / Massapequa, NY

2014 / November-December / Brains, Boobs and Backbones / curated by Carla Rae Johnson / Paramount Hudson Valley Theater Mezzanine Gallery / Peekskill, NY

2013 / November / Screening / This Mad Attachment: The Burdocks Project / Black Box Theater / The Arts Center of the Capital Region

2013 / October / Rude and Bold Women / Red Tent Studio / Binghamton, NY
2013 / The Body as Landscape / Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art / through July 18th / Peekskill, NY

2013 / April / Reach: One Minute Video Fest / screened at Popcorn Noir / Easthampton, MASS and at other venues during REACH.

2013 / In/Equality / 171 Cedar Arts Center, Corning, NY
2013 / Here and Now / Exhibit A / Corning, NY
2012 / November / Figure Show / Pratt at MWP, a division of the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute / Utica, NY

2012 / 5th Peekskill Project / Street Performance Opening Weekend / a citywide site-specific exhibition of cutting-edge contemporary art / Peekskill, NY

2012 / July / Backlash / On Women’s Basic Rights and Freedoms / Soho Chelsea / New York, NY

2012 / June / Paradoxes in Video 3 / The Garage 4141 / SanDiego, CA
2012 / January / Big Draw / Goggleworks / Cohen Gallery / Reading, Pa.
2011 / August / Nature Nourishes / Art Space Hartford / Hartford, CT

2010 / October / This Mad Attachment: The Burdocks Project / Street Performance with Cathleen Anne Mason Deery, Jesse Bennett, Aurelio Catano, Aileen McEvoy / (videotaped by Kayla Tunnicliff), / Broad Street, Waverly, NY

2010 / December / Invitational / State of the Art Gallery, Ithaca, NY
2010 / June / Borders / I Made An Art / with Marianne Darlin Solhaugstrand, Tanja Thorjussen, Anthony Cerretani / Red Hook, Brooklyn, NY

2009 / March / New Expressions / New Century Artists / with Mark Lerer, Linda Ganus, Linds Dujack, Fritz Ehrlmann / Chelsea NYC

2007 / Moving Possibilities / Corning, NY 2006 / August / Out of the Box / Corning, NY

2006 / December / Current / Art Mission / with Felix Eddy, Syau-Cen Lai, Maria Driscoll McMahon, Dan Root / Binghamton, NY

2006 / March / The Whimsical Dreams of August / Avenue Art Gallery / with Dianne Hodack, Siouxsie Grady, Mary Edwards, Yvonne Lucia, Chris Bahr / Endicott, NY

2006 / Outer Worlds, Interior Lives / Clinton House Art Space / with Mavin Staub Ambrose, Janet Sherman / Ithaca, NY

2003 / September / International Assemblage Exhibition, second place winner/ Gallery 24, Berlin, Germany
2003 / July / Cabaret of the Nameless / State of the Art Gallery, with Oreste and Dorothea Kirsch / Ithaca, NY
2003 / June / Past Tense, Present Perfect / Autumn Leaves Gallery, Ithaca, NY

2003 / May / Member's Show / State of the Art Gallery, Ithaca, NY

2003 / Women's Issues / Avenue Art Gallery, Endicott, NY

2001 / October / Bande / Orangery of the Bruhler Schloss, Cologne, Germany

2001 / September / Rude and Bold Women/ YWCA, Binghamton

1999 / January / Invitational / State of the Art Gallery, Ithaca, NY
1998 / George Waters Gallery / with Elizabeth Garrison and Ann Sullivan / Elmira, NY,

1998 / Three Views / 171 Cedar Arts Center / with Christopher Ellison and Daniel Swerdloff / Corning, NY 1998 / Invitational Show / State of the Art Gallery, Ithaca, NY
1994 / Susquehanna Regional Exhibition / Roberson Art Museum / Merit Prize Winner / Binghamton, NY

Curatorial

2006 / X's, with Chris Bahr, Jen Pawol, Janet Sherman, Dianne Hodack, Kim Miller / CAP GAllery, Ithaca 2006 / Outer Worlds, Interior Lives / Clinton House Art Space / with Mavin Staub Ambrose, Janet Sherman / Ithaca, NY 2003/2004/ Diversity! 1 and 2, Tombstone Cafe, Waverly, NY 2005/2006 / Art on the Water featuring the work of over 40 visual and performing artists, made possible through a NYSCA grant administered through the Arts of the Southern Finger Lakes.

Newspaper, Catalogs, Magazines, Blogs:

2016 / Time: A Vocabulary of the Present / Joel Burges, Amy Elias / NYU Press / Aug 2, 2016/ citing on footnote # 49

2014 / Here / zine publication of VCFA premiere issue / “Slow” /
2013 / On exhibit: 'Double Consciousness' explores race, gender, class / By Amy Griffin

/ Thursday, December 5, 2013 / http://www.timesunion.com/entertainment/article/On-exhibit-Double-Consciousness-explores-race-5038453.php#photo-55 56661

2013 / The Farm Project 2013 / Collaborative Concepts @ Saunders Farm Catalogue / Garrison, NY

2013 / Wall Street International / 2x2 Collective: double consciousness / http://www.wsimagazine.com/uk/diaries/agenda/arts/2x2-collective-double-consciousness_20131008150945.html#.Ul2-zCi aQTM

2013 / Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Artist Highlight blog / http://hvcca.blogspot.com/2013/05/peekskill-project-v-artist-highlight.html

2011 / Robeau, Lori & Talbot, Karen / Nature Nourishes Catalogue / Create Space / CT Art Connection / Hartford, CT / August

2010 / Hicks, Matt / Telling their Stories: The Burdocks Project profiles local lives / The Morning Times / Sayre, Pa., March 2009 / McCormack, Ed / Drawing Takes Center Stage in Chelsea Survey / Gallery & Studio / Vol. 11, No. 4, New York /

April/May
2003 / Solomon, Karey / United in Art: Three artists share a vision in new exhibit / Ithaca Times / J uly

2001 / Von Silke Riese / Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger (newspaper) / Zwischen Ernst Und Heiterkeit, Drei Kunstler wollen Seiten ihrer Seelenverwandtschaft zeigen (Between seriousness and mirth, three artists will show their affinity) / Bruhl, Germany

1998 / Innovative Women Artists to show work at Elmira College / The Star Gazette.

Panels and Lectures:

2014 / Looking to Read: Teaching Media Literacy in the Art Classroom / College Now workshop for teachers / Tompkins Cortland Community College

2013 / November / Arts Center of the Capital Region / Black Box Theater / screening and talk

2013 / August / Social Responsibility and Graphic Intervention / workshop for teachers in collaboration with Dianne Hodack, professor of Digital media / Tompkins Cortland Community College /

2013 / March / Teaching Social Activism in the Classroom Conference / Teaching Students to Imagine Social Change / chaired by Kat Schneck with Diedra Krieger, Maria Driscoll McMahon and Krisanne Baker / Museum of the City of New York

2012 / February / Artist’s Talk with Pratt @ MWP art students / Sculpture Space / Utica, NY

2013 / Peekskill Project V / Artists Andrea Bianconi, Astra Howard. Maria Driscoll McMahon and Lana Yu in conversation with Curator and Artist Marcy B. Freedman, HVCC / Peekskill, NY

Education:

MFA, Vermont College of Fine Arts, 2008

MA, Marywood University
BS, Kutztown University, summa cum laude

Teaching:

2016/2022 – Adjunct Faculty, Ithaca College, teach 1) Introduction to Drawing; 2) “Map It: Systems in Drawing;” 3) “The Ancient Art of Drawing in a Post Human World,” 4) "Triple Eye," Introduction to Drawing

2013/2022 - Adjunct Associate Professor, Tompkins Cortland Community College (TC3), teach Painting 1, Painting 2 and Drawing 1 and Drawing 2

2015/2021 - Adjunct Faculty, Corning Community College (CCC), teach Drawing 1, Painting 1, Painting 2, Mixed Media