Rachel Gordon Bernstein
EDUCATION
- Brooklyn College of the City University of New York City, MFA degree
- Art Students League, New York City (NYC)
- Boston University School for the Arts (BU), Boston, MA
- New York Studio School, NYC
- Santa Reparata Graphic Art Center, Florence, Italy
- Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, BA degree, Fine Arts Major
HONORS
2013
Solveig Stromsoe Palmer Memorial Award for Portrait, National Association of Women Artists, Inc. (NAWA)
1987
Honorable Mention, Pindar Gallery National Juried Competition, NYC Juror: John I. Baur, Curator Emeritus, Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC
1985
Silver Medal of Honor, Knickerbocker Artists 35th Annual Exhibition, NYC. Juror: Aaron Shikler, N.A.
1985
First Prize for Portrait, Beaux Arts Finale, Eastchester Library Gallery, Eastchester, NY
1985
First Prize for Portrait, Women’s Club 32nd Annual Art Exhibit, The Gallery, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY
1984
First Prize for Watercolor, Women’s Club 31st Annual Art Exhibit, The Gallery, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY
1981
Watercolor reproduced in 1981/82 Art Students League (ASL) Catalog
1980
George A. Redling Memorial Scholarship for Merit in Painting – ASL
1976
Laura Goldenberg Memorial Scholarship for Merit in Sculpture – BU
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2014
First Street Gallery, New York NY
2012
Gallery on Cedar, Dobbs Ferry, NY
2012
RiverArts Studio Tour, White Plains, NY
2008
Gold/Smith Gallery, Boothbay Harbor, Maine
2007
Arts in the Barn, Cushing Historical Society, Cushing, Maine
2006
Rivertowns Arts Council Artists’ Studio Tour, White Plains, NY
2003
Conservation Center, Concord, NH
1998
Viridian Artists, Inc., New York City
1997
MacDonald Gallery, Dobbs Ferry, NY
1992
First Street Gallery, New York City
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019
“Vacationland,” curated by Marcia Stremlau, Blue Hill Public Library, Blue Hill, ME
2019
DIAA Gallery, Deer Isle, ME (two shows)
2018
“Paint the Peninsula,” Blue Hill Public Library, Blue Hill, ME
2018
Gallery on Cedar, Dobbs Ferry, NY
2018
DIAA Gallery, Deer Isle, ME (two shows)
2016
DIAA Gallery, Deer Isle, ME
2015
“Paint the Farm,” The Falcon Foundation, Damariscotta, ME
2012
“Lois Dodd and Her Students,” The Falcon Foundation, Damariscotta, ME
2011
“Focus on the Figure,” Edward Hopper House Art Center, Nyack, NY
2011
First Street Gallery, New York City
2009
National Association of Women Artists, New York City
2007
Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland, ME
2007
“Made in the USA,” Blue Hill Art & Cultural Center, Pearl River, NY
2006
Biennial Juried Exhibition, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME
2006
National Association of Women Artists, Goggleworks Art Center, Reading, PA
1998
McGowan Fine Art, Concord, NH
1995
Graduate Art Faculty Show, College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, NY
1993
“Enchantment,” Connoisseur Gallery, Rhinebeck, NY
1987
Invitational exhibition “Four Women: Four Visions,” Dutchess County Art Association, Poughkeepsie, NY (13 paintings)
1987
Pleiades Gallery, NYC. Juror: Donald Kuspit, Critic/Historian
1987
“Contemporary Portraits from the Northeast,” Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT. Juror: Philip Pearlstein, Artist.
1984
Hudson River Museum (HRM), Yonkers, NY. 69th Annual Exhibition. Laura Rosenstock & Carolyn Lanchner, Curators of Painting and Sculpture, MOMA
REVIEWS
Cathy Sears, “Natural Light Sustains Painter’s Landscapes,” The Rivertowns Enterprise,” Friday, June 1, 2012
William Zimmer, “That Abiding Favorite, the Hudson River,” The New York Times, Sunday, June 16, 1991
TEACHING
1982-1991 Taught studio art at the following institutions:
College of New Rochelle, Graduate Art Department, New Rochelle, NY — painting; Mercy College, Dobbs Ferry, White Plains and Yonkers, NY — drawing, two-dimensional design; Iona College, Yonkers, NY — painting; New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, NY — watercolor painting.