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Jody Primoff I’ve been painting my whole life. Growing up in Utica, NY I was lucky enough to attend Saturday art classes for children at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, with William Palmer and Edward Christiana as teachers.  After I graduated from Syracuse University I moved to New York and there studied at the Art Students’ League with Reginald Marsh. While living in New York I often went to museums and galleries, falling in love with such painters as Monet, Bonnard, Rothko, Diebenkorn and Wolf Kahn.
After I married and raised my three children I lived for many years in New Rochelle, where I taught special education, while continuing to paint whenever I could. I established a gallery connection in North Carolina which has been maintained for many years. Currently, I am retired from teaching and my husband and I maintain two homes. We spend summers in the Catskill Mountains and winters on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. In both locations, I paint full time, inspired constantly by two very different but equally beautiful types of scenery. Landscape is my primary subject. I move back and forth among different mediums and material, painting in watercolor, acrylic and pastel, combining them with pen and ink and collage in mixed media pieces. The style of my paintings varies as well. I am seduced by the beauty of reality, but also love the surprises that lie in the abstract and semi-abstract. To me the most important element in painting is color, which I use to express my feelings about the natural world in which we live. I am a member of three galleries: The Artisans’ Guild in Oneonta, NY, The Smithy-Pioneer Gallery in Cooperstown, NY, and The Island Art Gallery in Manteo, NC. Art organizations I belong to include the Central New York Watercolor Society, The Chestertown Arts League in Chestertown, MD and the Working Artists Forum in Easton, MD. |
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RECENT JURIED SHOWS AND AWARDS
2009 Adkins Arboretum Art Competition - Marion Price Award Erpf Gallery of the Catskill Center, Arkville, NY - One person show titled: Jody Primoff, John Burroughs and Woodchuck Lodge 2008 The Chestertown Arts League 60th Juried Show: Award of Excellence Gallery 333, Annapolis, MD (One person show) Adkins Arboretum Art Competition 2007 Chestertown Arts League Members Show - Best in Show Award Frank Cyr Gallery of Mural - Stamford, NY (One person show) Chestertown Arts League Open Juried Show - Juror’s Choice Award Adkins Arboretum Art Competition 2006 Kent Island Federation of Art Open Juried Show - Second Prize in pastel Smith-Pioneer Gallery, Cooperstown, NY - (One person show) Essential Art Show, Cooperstown, NY - Honorable Mention 2003-2005 Chestertown Arts League Open Juried Show - Second Prize in painting and mixed media Roxbury Arts Group - Roxbury, NY (Three person show) The Clubhouse at Gibson Island (One person show) UCCCA Gallery, Oneonta, NY (Two-person show) Group Juried Shows: Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, NY Kirkland Art Institute, Clinton, NY SUNY College of Technology, Utica, NY Southern Vermont Art Center, Manchester, VT Schenectady Museum, Schenectady, NY Hartwick College Museum, Oneonta, NY And others Corporate Collections: IBM Traveler’s Insurance Nynex Erbamont Seidman and Seidman Datalogix Deloitte & Touche Worldwide Computer Services Many private collections |