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Erwin has a studio in Louisville and teaches at the Allen R. Hite Institute at the University of Louisville. Many of Erwin's paintings are self-portaits, with visual references to medieval paintings of martyrs. Erwin's website, with images http://www.ket.org/painting/erwin.htm#biography Solo Exhibits Painting by Gaela Erwin, Gallery of Art, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga 2006 J.B. Speed Museum; Louisville,Kentucky., Gaela Erwin: Facing the Subject 2003 Lamar Dodd Art Center; LaGrange, Georgia; Self-Portraits as Saints 2003 Gescheidle Gallery; Chicago, Illinois; Gaela Erwin: Self-portraits as Saints 2002 Ogunquit Museum of American Art; Ogunquit, MA, Gaela Erwin: Self-portraits, 2002 Huntsville Museum of Art; Huntsville, Alabama, Encounters 1999 Lyons-Wier Gallery; Chicago, Illinois, Gaela Erwin:Self-portraits 1999 B. Deemer Gallery; Louisville Kentucky, Pastel Self-Portraits: Gaela Erwin 1996 University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, Tennessee; Gaela Erwin, Paintings 1995 Images Freidman Gallery, Louisville, Kentucky; Recent Paintings 1991 Oberpfalzer Kunstlerhaus, Schwandorf, Germany; Malerei, Zeihnung Ogunquit Museum of American Art; Ogunquit, MA, Gaela Erwin: Self-portraits Group Exhibits 2008 Georgetown College, Georgetown, Kentucky, Metamorphisis of Identity 2006 Evansville Museum, Evansville, Indiana 2005 Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA, Joseph D. Carrier Gallery, Toronto, Canada, Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont,Texas, (two year traveling exhibition), A Broken Beauty: Figuration, Narrative, and the Transcendent in North American Art. 2000 Allan Stone Gallery, New York, New York, TALENT 1999,2000 1998 Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, Alabama; Red Clay Survey 1997 Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, West Virginia; Exhibit 280 1996 Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, Alabama; Southeastern Juried Exhibition 1996 Awards and Grants 2008 National Portrait Gallery, Semi-finalist for the 2009 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition 2007 Kentucky Arts Council, Al Smith Fellowship, 2000, 1991 Kentucky Foundation for Women, Artist Enrichment Program Grant, 1991, 1995 2000 Camargo Foundation Fellowship, Artist-in-residence in Cassis, France 1997 The Tyrone Guthrie Center at Annaghmakerrig, Ireland;U.S.-Ireland Exchange Program The Mac Dowell Colony; Artist residency 1995 Artist’s Fellowship Inc.; New York, New York; Grant 1993 Yaddo, Artist’s residency 1991 Oberpfalzer Kunstlerhaus; Kebbel Villa Schwandorf-Fronberg; U.S.- Germany Exchange Program Collections Muscarelle Museum of Art, Williamsburg, Virginia Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, Maine Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, Alabama Evansville Museum of Arts and Science, Evansville, Indiana University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington, Kentucky Centre College, Danville, Kentucky Eckert, Elkorn, Goering, Madison, Indiana Consolidated Chemical Works, Chicago, Illinois Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, Ohio Bravura Corporation, Louisville, Kentucky Brown Forman Corporation, Louisville, Kentucky Education 1988 Studio Art School of the Aegean, Samos, Greece 1983 M.A.; University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky 1973 B.F.A.; Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, Ohio Bibliography: Gaela Erwin, Paintings, exhibit catalog, 2001 Kentucky Women Artists: 1850-2000 - Owensboro Museum of Art - KY - (catalog) - 2001 |