ABOUT
Flavia Bacarella was born in Brooklyn, New York. After receiving a Masters in anthropology from the New School she began studying art at the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting, and Sculpture. Later, she earned a Master of Fine Arts in painting from Brooklyn College. For twenty-one years she taught drawing, painting, and woodcut at Lehman College of the City of New York. In her last five years at Lehman she served as Chair of the Art Department.
Bacarella works primarily in painting and woodcut. She has shown her work throughout the New York Metropolitan area and regularly shows at Prince Street Gallery in Chelsea. She has been the recipient of grants from the Research Foundation of the City University of New York and a fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts. In 2006, her woodcuts illustrated a book of essays titled IT’S A LONG ROAD TO A TOMATO, published by Marlowe Books. A second edition with additional woodcuts was published in 2010 by The Experiment. Bacarella divides her time between New York City and the organic farm in Orange County where she lives with her farmer/writer husband.
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EDUCATION
Brooklyn College (CUNY), MFA, Painting, 1983
New York Studio School for Drawing, Painting & Sculpture, 1978-80
New School for Social Research, MA, Anthropology, 1975
ONE and TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2023 Flavia Bacarella & Katharine Butler, Prince Street Gallery, NYC
2018 Flavia Bacarella & Katharine Butler, Recent Work, Prince Street Gallery, NYC
2017 Woodcut Prints at the Grange, Warwick, NY
2015 Flavia Bacarella, Other Creatures, Amity Gallery, Warwick, NY
Flavia Bacarella & Katharine Butler, Prince Street Gallery, NYC
2013 Feathered Friends, Woodcuts, Kurt Seligmann Studio & Gallery, Sugar Loaf, NY
2011 Woodcuts, Drawings & Etchings, Prince Street Gallery (2 person show), NYC (Chelsea)
2010 Woodcuts, Shawnee-on-Delaware Gallery, Shawnee on Delaware, PA
2008 Making the Cut: Woodcuts & Collage, with Paula Stark, Blair Academy, Blairstown, NJ
2006 Woodcuts, IT’S A LONG ROAD TO A TOMATO, Lohin Geduld Gallery, NY
Drawing, Assemblage, Collage, Washington Art Association, Washington Depot, CT
2004 Landscapes, Maples Gallery, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Teaneck, NJ
2001 Landscape Exhibition, Sullivan County Museum, Hurleyville, NY
2000 Paintings, Sussex Community College, Newton, NJ
1999-1985 Landscape Paintings, Prince Street Gallery, NYC
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 Artists Choose Artists, Longyear Gallery, Margaretville, NY
Creatures Large and Small, Amity Gallery, Warwick, NY (Curator & Participant)
Nocturne, Prince Street Gallery, NYC (curator & participant)
Creativity in the time of Solitude, Amity Gallery, Warwick, NY
2021 Affinities: Lynn Kotula & Friends, Buster Levi Gallery, Cold Spring, NY
2020 Artists Choose Artists, Longyear Gallery, Margaretville, NY
2012 Prints at Prince, Prince Street Gallery, NYC
Drawn Together, Marina Gallery, Cold Spring, NY
Four Artists, Four Genres, Prince Street Gallery, NYC
2010 Portraits, Lohin Geduld Gallery, NYC
2009 Drawing Atlas, Pennsylvania College of Art & Design, Lancaster, PA
Artist Showcase (finalist), National Arts Club, Gramercy Park, NYC
Drawing Atlas, Lohin Geduld Gallery, NYC
2006 Two-Person Exhibit, Collages, Prince Street Gallery, NY
Six Perspectives, Prince Street Gallery, NYC
13th Anniversary Show, Painting Center, NYC
Catskill Farm, ERPF Gallery, Arkville, NY
2005 Small Works Invitational, Blue Mountain Gallery, NYC
Night of 1000 Drawings, Artists Space, NYC 2004
Artist of the Month, NEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS, April On-Line Feature, (NYFA recipient 1986)
American Impressions: National Juried Printmaking Exhibition, juror: Ben Shahn Center, William Patterson University, Wayne, NJ
New Jersey Landscape, Blair Academy, Blairstown, NJ
Orange County Artists, Citizens Foundation, Sugar Loaf, NY
2002 Face to Face, curated by Marietta Warner-Siegel, Merrick, NY
Plein Air Revisited, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA
The Hudson Valley, Star Gallery, Middletown, NY
2001 Power of the Seen, Painting Center, NYC
Beckoning Vision, curated by Karen Wilkin, New York Studio School, NYC
2000 Into the New Millenium, Artsforum, NYC
Landscape: Works by Flavia Bacarella, Diana Cabouli, and Beth Sutherland, Marymount College, Tarrytown, NYC
1999 Contemporary Artists Benefit, Aljira Gallery of Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ
In Nature, Hambletonian Fine Arts, Sugar Loaf, NY
Salon Show, Feral Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
1998 Night of 1000 Drawings, Artist's Space, NYC
Women of the Northeast, curator: Meredith Day, Fulton Street Gallery, Troy, NY
Grand Opening Exhibition, Flying Pig Gallery, Sussex, NJ
1997 Small Matters of Great Importance, juror: Richard Malazzo, Hopper House, Nyack, NY
National Competition, juror: Eric Brown, First Street Gallery, NYC
Small Works Invitational, Blue Mountain Gallery, NYC
1996 Portraits: People & Places, New York Studio School, NYC
Contemporary Landscape, Blair Academy, Blairstown, NJ
Small Works, Atlantic Gallery, NYC
1995 Earth and Sky: Three Perspectives, Trotters Museum, Goshen, NY
The Contemporary Landscape, Blair Academy, Blairstown, NJ
The Art of Italian-Americans: Is Ethnicity Relevant?, curators: Susan Hoeltzel and Sigmund Balka, Krasdale Foods, White Plains, NY
1994 Works by Women Artists, Selections from the William & Tytendale Scott Memorial Collection, Mangel Gallery, Bryn Mawr College, Philadelphia, PA
1993 The Seduction of Nature, Krasdale Foods, White Plains, NY
1992 National Competition, juror: Paul Georges, First Street Gallery, NYC
Prince Street Artists, Hutchins Gallery, C.W. Post College, Glen Cove, NY
1991 National Competition, juror: Nell Blaine, Bowery Gallery, NYC
Gabriel Laderman Selects, First Street Gallery, NYC
1989 Alumni Exhibit, New York Studio School, NYC
1988 Plein Air, curated by Millicent Radow, Castle Gallery, New Rochelle, NY
The Landscape, juror: Wolf Kahn, Creative Arts Center, New Haven, CT
Art Across America: Artists & their Students, curators: Moira Joiffrian & Selina Trieff
1987 Gallery Artists, Hoorn-Ashby Gallery, Nantucket, MA
1986 Small Works, juror: Geno Rodriguez, BACA, Brooklyn Arts & Cultural Assoc.
1984 4th Annual Miniatures Competition, juror: Dore Ashton, BACA, Brooklyn
AWARDS
2007, 2000, 1987 City University of New York Research Foundation Grant – Printmaking
1998, 1991 City University of New York Research Foundation Grant – Painting
1986 NEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS, Fellowship, Painting
1984 Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Fellowship
1982 Milton Avery Scholarship, Provincetown Museum School
PRESS
2015 Interview by Melissa Shaw Smith, Dirt Magazine, Warwick, NY
2011 Jason Newport, Finding the Light in the Grain: A Conversation with Flavia Bacarella, Interview with woodcuts CHAUTAUQUA JOURNAL (Issue 8)
2006 Richard Buttlar, “For Starters: Reading, Room, IT’S A LONG ROAD TO A TOMATO, HUDSON VALLEY MAGAZINE, Vol 35: July 2006
Collage, Drawing, Assemblage, BEST BETS: HOUSATONIC & LITCHFIELD LIFE, 1.
Juicy Reads, DALLAS MORNING NEWS, May 12, 2006.
2001 Flavia Bacarella, Landscape Paintings, CATSKILL ART SOCIETY NEWSLETTER, November 2001, COVER and article
Getting in Touch with Landscape Paintings, THE TMES HERALD-RECORD, GO Arts Section, p. 22, Nov. 9, 2001
1999 William Zimmer, Essay on FLAVIA BACARELLA PAINTINGS, Artforum Gallery, New York City
1995 Ruth Bass, New York, New York, ART-TALK, April/May 1995
Lifestyle: Among the Artists, NEW JERSEY HERALD, August 27, 1995
1991 Ruth Bass, New York, New York, ART-TALK, April/May 1991, p. 31
Bacarella Landscapes, Reproduction (Waterloo Mills), New York Post, November 8, 1991
1988 In New Rochelle, Plein-Air Tradition, review by Vivien Raynor, NEW YORK TIMES (W) JUNE 26, 1988, P. 28
PUBLICATIONS/REPRODUCTIONS
2014-1998 Drawings, prints, paintings for THE VALLEY TABLE: THE MAGAZINE OF THE HUDSON VALLEY—FARMS, FOOD, AND CUISINE
(includes Cover, Centerfold, Back Page & individual articles)
2011 O You Beautiful Doll, Collage, Cover, CHAUTAUQUA JOURNAL (ISSUE 7), MAY
Flavia Bacarella, The Farm as Art, VALLEY TABLE No. 51, Sept-Nov (essay + photos)
2010/2006 IT’S A LONG ROAD TO A TOMATO (50+ ILLUSTRATIONS), 1st & 2nd editions
2006 The Rural New Yorker CALENDAR, HOOUSATONIC LIVING, FEB. 3, 2006, P.3
1996 Cows in Moonlight, in HOW TO WRITE, RECITE & DELIGHT IN ALL KINDS OF POETRY. Connecticut: Millbrook Press, 1996, p. 51.
Mooncows, The WILLIAM AND MARY REVIEW, College of William and Mary, p. 60
1991 Going in at Night, reproduction, ARTWORLD, November 8, 1991
1988 ARTISTS ACROSS AMERICA: ARTISTS AND THEIR STUDENTS, catalog
Pink Cow, in WHOLLY COW, by Emily Gwathmey. NY: Abbeville Press
1985 Cows at Dusk, reproducton, NEW YORK POST, November 8, 1985
1984 Portrait of Anzia Yezierska, reproduction, DICTIONARY OF LITERARY BIOGRAPHY. Vol. 28: TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICAN-JEWISH FICTION WRITERS, Editor Daniel Walden, Detroit: Bruccoli-Clark, 1984.
COMMISSIONS
Catskill Merino Ram, Woodcut for Catskill Merino Sheep Farm, Warwick, NY 2020
Woodcut Illustrations, IT’S A LONG ROAD TO A TOMATO, by Keith Stewart, NY: Marlowe & Company, 2006, (now The Experiment, NY).
Greenmarket, NYC Pen & Ink, commissioned by Angelica Restaurant, NYC
Porcupine, Catskill Ctr. for Research & Development Newsletter, Arkville, NY, 1991
Frontispiece: Portrait of Anzia Yezierska, in ANZIA YEZIERSKA, by Carol Schoen, Boston: Twayne, 1982.
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Catskill Center for Research & Development, Arkville, NY
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, VA
Bryn Mawr College Fine Art Collection, Philadelphia, PA Arthur Andersen Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, MN
LECTURES
2002 PANELIST, Landscape, Artist Conversations, National Academy of Design, NYC
1986 Cows & Countryside, Artists & Audiences | New York Foundation for the Arts at Lehman College, Bronx
TEACHING
1995/2017 Professor Emerita, Art, Herbert H. Lehman College (CUNY)
1997/2000 Chautauqua Institution, Visiting Artist, Summer