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Tabitha Vevers


ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS

DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA. Tabitha Vevers: Narrative Bodies. (Catalogue) (Mid-career survey. Travels to Provincetown Art Association & Museum, Provincetown, MA.), 2009.
Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA. Moments of Being, 2009.
artSTRAND, Provincetown, MA. Lover’s Eyes, 2008.
artSTRAND, Provincetown, MA. Eden, 2007.
Pepper Gallery, Boston, MA. Distant Shores, 2006.
artSTRAND, Provincetown, MA. Curiosa, 2006.
artSTRAND, Provincetown, MA. Shell Series: The Water’s Edge, 2005.
Pepper Gallery, Boston, MA. Miniatures, 2004.
DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA. The Shell Series, 2004.
Kraushaar Galleries, New York, NY. Flying Dreams II, 2003.
DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA, The Yoga Series, 2003.
DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA, Flying Dreams, 2002. (Catalogue)
DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA. The Unicorn Series, 2001.
Kraushaar Galleries, New York, NY. Flying Dreams, 2000.
DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA. Lover’s Eye, 2000.
Gallery 57, Cambridge, MA. Monochrome, 2000.
DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA. Flying Dreams, 1999.
DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA. Women & Knives, 1998.
DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA. Transient Anatomies, 1997
Kraushaar Galleries, New York, NY. Torsos, 1997.
DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA. Skin, 1996.
Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA. Newest Work, 1996.
Babcock Fine Arts Center Gallery, Sweet Briar College, Sweet Briar, VA. Flesh Memories, 1995.
Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA. 1995.
East End Gallery, Provincetown, MA. Skin, Maps, Shields, 1995.
Kraushaar Galleries, New York, NY, 1994.
East End Gallery, Provincetown, MA, Flesh Memories, 1994.
East End Gallery, Provincetown, MA, 1993.
East End Gallery, Provincetown, MA. Do the Dead Remember Dying? 1992.
Kraushaar Galleries, New York, NY, 1992.
New East End Gallery, Provincetown, MA. New Paintings and Works on Paper, 1991.
Owen Patrick Gallery, Philadelphia, PA. New Paintings, 1991.
New East End Gallery, Provincetown, MA. New Paintings, 1990.
New East End Gallery, Provincetown, MA. At the Water's Edge: New Paintings, 1989.
J. Noblett Gallery, Boyes Hot Springs, CA. New Paintings, 1989.
David Brown Gallery, Provincetown, MA. New Paintings, 1988.
DeBerry Gallery, Provincetown, MA. New Icons: Framing a Feeling, 1987.
J. Noblett Gallery, Sonoma, CA. New Paintings on Cement, 1987.
DeBerry Gallery, Provincetown, MA. Secular Icons, 1986.
Bromfield Gallery, Boston, MA. New Paintings and Works on Paper, 1985.
Ellen Harris Gallery, Provincetown, MA. Fragments of Italy/Fragments of Provincetown, 1985.
Ellen Harris Gallery, Provincetown, MA. Fossils and Fragments, 1984.
Bromfield Gallery, Boston, MA. Walls: Recent Paintings, 1983.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS (all juried/invitational)

Francis M. Naumann Fine Art, New York, NY. The Visible Vagina. (Catalogue. Scheduled.), 2009.
Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA. Former Fellows, curated by Janice Redman. (Scheduled.), 2009.
Provincetown Art Association & Museum, Provincetown, MA. Castle Hill @ PAAM., 2009.
Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA. Float. Ferrin Gallery, Pittsfield, MA. WOMEN: Portrait + Figure. 2008.
Kunst und Gewerbeverein, Regensberg, Germany. Amerika trifft Bayern. (Catalogue), 2008.
Art Basel, Miami Beach, FL. Represented by Francis M. Naumann Fine Art., 2008.
Proteus Gowanus, Brooklyn, NY. MEND., 2008.
Cape Museum of Art, Dennis, MA. The Fortieth Anniversary Exhibition: Works by the Visual Arts Fellows of the Fine Arts Work Center., 2008.
artSTRAND, Provincetown, MA. Hopper Redux Portfolio Project., 2008.
artSTRAND, Provincetown, MA. Director’s Choice, curated by Sadie Bliss., 2008.
Red Dot Art Fair, Miami Beach, Florida. Represented by Pepper Gallery, 2007.
Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Ballycastle, Ireland. Images from North Mayo., 2007.
San Luis Obispo Art Center, San Luis Obispo, CA. The ART of Recycling, 2007.
artSTRAND, Provincetown, MA. Exhibition in a Box: Portfolio Project.
artSTRAND, 494 Commercial St, Provincetown, MA. 11+11, and Timelines, 2006.
Cushing Martin Gallery, Stonehill College, Easton, MA. She Is…Perspectives on Women, 2005. (Catalogue)
Schoolhouse Galleries, Provincetown, MA. A Drawing Show, 2005.
AAF Contemporary Art Fair, New York, NY. Represented by Kraushaar Galleries & Pepper Gallery, 2004, 2005.
Provisions Library, Dupont Circle, Washington, DC. Seizing the Myths: Arts of Rebellion, 2004.
Kraushaar Galleries, New York, NY. Summer for Some, 2004.
Addison Parks Gallery, Santa Fe, NM. It Figures, 2004.
DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA. Painting in Boston: 1950-2000, 2002-03. (Book)
Pepper Gallery, Boston, MA. Winter Salon, 2002-2003.
Cahoon Museum of American Art, Cotuit, MA. Mermaids: Muses of the Sea, 2002.
DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA. Alone: Images of Isolation from the Permanent Collection, 2002.
DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA. DeCordova Collects: Recent Acquisitions from the Permanent Collection, 2002.
Provisions Library, Dupont Circle, Washington, DC. Renegade Portraits, 2002.
Addison Gallery, Orleans, MA, 2002.
Key West Museum of Art & History, Key West, FL. Key West Collects: Damsels to Divas, 2002.
Cape Museum of Fine Arts, Dennis, MA. Fine Arts Work Center Former Fellows: 1985-2000, 2001.
Cahoon Museum of American Art, Cotuit, MA. Tell Me a Story: Narrative Art of the Cape and Islands, 2001.
MPG, Boston, MA. Prints & Drawings, 2001.
The New England Institute of Art & Design at Suffolk University, Boston, MA. Family Values: Tony Vevers, Elspeth Halvorsen, & Tabitha Vevers, 2001. (catalogue)
National Arts Club, New York, NY. The Collection of the Provincetown Art Association & Museum, 2000.
Provincetown Art Association & Museum, Provincetown, MA. The Art Colony’s First Century, Part III, 2000.
Higgins Art Gallery, W. Barnstable, MA. Generations, 2000.
Kraushaar Galleries, New York, NY. Selections: Recent Paintings by Gallery Artists, 1999.
The Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA. Immortalized: Artists’ Responses to Death & Loss, 1998.
Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA, 5 Artists Inspired by the Dunes, 1998.
Provincetown Art Association & Museum, Provincetown, MA. The Chalkboard Project, 1998.
DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA. Text, 1998.
The New Art Center, Newton, MA. The Newton-Provincetown Connection: The David Brown Gallery Revisited, 1997.
Chase Gallery, Boston, MA. Earth-Body-Spirit, three-person show, 1997.
Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island and Sweet Briar College Art Gallery, Sweet Briar, VA. Relatively Speaking:
Mothers and Daughters in Art, traveling exhibition, 1994-1997.
Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA, The Exquisite Corpse, 1996.
Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA. Pet Paintings, 1996.
Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH. 58th Annual National Mid-Year Exhibition 1994.
Boston Center for the Arts, Boston MA. Fantastically Real, 1994.
Hampden Gallery, UMass, Amherst, MA. Ideologies: 11 Women Artists, 1994.
Museum of Our National Heritage, Lexington, MA. Art from the Driver's Seat: Americans and Their Cars, 1993-1994.
DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA. 11 Artists / 11 Visions, 1993.
Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus, Schwandorf, Germany. Tabitha Vevers and Josette Urso, 1993.
Bromfield Gallery, Boston, MA. Beyond Dreams, 1993.
Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR. Collectors Exhibition, 1993.
Stadt Burglengenfeld, Burglengenfeld, Germany. Three American Artists, 1993.
Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA. 1993 Seventh Triennial, 1993.
Cape Museum of Fine Arts, Dennis, MA. Miniatures and The Theatre of Art, 1992.
Cahoon Museum of American Art, Cotuit, MA. Flowers of New England, 1992.
Chase Gallery, Boston, MA. People, Places, Faces, 1992.
Provincetown Art Association & Museum, Provincetown, MA. A WOMAN'S PLACE...Icons to Domesticity, 1992.
McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, TX. Collector's Show, 1991.
Rising Tide Gallery, Provincetown, MA. Four Generations, 1991.
Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA. An Artist's Eye: James Lechay Selects From The Permanent Collection, 1991.
Owen Patrick Gallery, Philadelphia, PA. Piccola Pittura, 1990.
Chase Gallery, Boston, MA. Small Works, 1990.
Yale University, New Haven, CT. Alumnae Art Exhibit, 1990.
East Hampton Center for the Contemporary Arts, NY. Crosscurrents: The New Generation, 1990.
Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA. Working in Provincetown, 1989.
Murray Feldman Gallery, Pacific Design Center, W. Hollywood, CA and Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA. Contemporary Provincetown, 1989.
KatzenBrown Gallery, New York, NY. Homage to Walter Chrysler, 1989.
Stadtische Galerie Regensburg, Regensburg, W. Germany. ART...made in USA, 1988.
The Art Corridor, Menlo Park, CA. Matrix of Time: Figures on Fragments, invitational, 1988.
Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY. Architecture as Image, 1987.
Provincetown Art Association & Museum, Provincetown, MA. Young Artists, 1979, 1980, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1987.
Recent Acquisitions, 1987.
Bromfield Gallery, Boston, MA. Painting, Sculpture & Relief, 1984.
Palazzo Casali, Cortona, Italy. Mostra, 1984.
Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA. Figuratively Speaking: 32 Contemporary Artists, 1984.
Viridian Gallery, New York, NY. Bromfield Gallery Artists, 1984.
Veerhoff Gallery, Washington, DC. Provincetown Painters, 1984.
Bromfield Gallery, Boston, MA. Seven Bromfield Artists, 1983.
Passepartout Gallery, Winooski, VT. Eight Boston Artists, 1983.
Hampden Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA. Smallworks '83, 1983.
Provincetown Art Association & Museum, Provincetown, MA. Six Artists Show Their Work and First Annual PrizeCompetition, 1983.

 

AWARDS AND HONORS

International Association of Art Critics (AICA New England Chapter) Best Monographic Show in a Commercial Gallery: First Place for Tabitha Vevers: Distant Shores (tie with Jenny Holzer)., 2007
The Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Ballycastle, Ireland. Painting fellowship, 2006.
The George & Helen Segal Foundation, New Brunswick, NJ. Grant Award in painting, 2005.
C-Scape Artists Residency, Cape Cod National Seashore, MA. Painting residency, 2005.
University of Rhode Island Visual Arts Sea Grant, Kingston, RI. Grant Award in painting, 2005.
Open Studio Press, Boston, MA. New American Paintings, featured artist, 2005. (Book)
Open Studio Press, Boston, MA. New American Paintings, featured artist, 2003. (Book)
Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA. Provincetown Print Project, 1998, 1999.
Outer Cape Artist in Residence Consortium, Provincetown, MA. Two week dune residency, 1998.
Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA. Seven month painting fellowship, 1995-96
Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus, Schwandorf, Germany. Seven week painting fellowship, 1993.
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, VA. Six week painting residencies: 1986, 1991, March 1993,October-November 1993.
Massachusetts Artists Foundation, Boston, MA. Finalist award in painting, 1987.
The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH. One month painting residency, 1983.
Yale University Scholarship to the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, 1978.
Yale University Scholarship, awarded for high scholastic achievement, 1976-78.

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

The Ballinglen Archive, Ballycastle, County Mayo, Ireland.
DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA
La Salle University Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA.
Provincetown Art Association & Museum, Provincetown, MA.
Wellington Management, Boston, MA.
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT.

EDUCATION

Yale University, New Haven, CT. B.A. cum laude, painting, 1978.
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME. Painting and fresco, 1978.

VISITING ARTIST / RELATED PROFESSIONAL

Art Institute of Boston, Boston, MA. Artist Mentor, MFA in the Visual Arts Program, 2009.
Co-founder of artSTRAND, Inc., Provincetown, MA, 2004.
Provincetown Art Association & Museum, Provincetown, MA. Exhibition Committee, 2004-present.
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, VA. Admissions slide review panel, 1995-present.
Castle Hill Center for the Arts, Truro, MA. Artists’ Advisory Board, 1998-present.
Castle Hill Center for the Arts, Truro, MA. Master Life Drawing Workshop, 1995-1996, 1998-2003.
New England School of Art & Design at Suffolk University, Boston, MA. Slide lecture, 2001.
Provincetown Art Association & Museum, Provincetown, MA. Slide lecture, 1997.
Institute of Art, Boston, MA. Slide lecture, 1996.
Sweet Briar College, Sweet Briar, VA. Life Drawing Workshop, 1996.
Provincetown Art Association & Museum, Provincetown, MA. Exhibition Committee, 1988-1991. Curated
Allegory, Couples, Tears and Laughter: A Show of Emotion, Words and Pictures, and Young Artists.
Provincetown Arts Lottery. Curatorial grant for Tears and Laughter: A Show of Emotion, 1988.
University of Georgia Studies Abroad. Cortona, Italy. Visiting artist, 1984.

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Cate McQuaid, “One Artist’s Feminist Mystique,” Boston Globe, March 6, pp G 24-25., 2009.
Charles Guiliano, “Tabitha Vevers at DeCordova Museum and Clark Gallery: Narrative Bodies A Retrospective,” Berkshire Fine Arts, February 19, 2009.
Charles Guiliano, “Tabitha Vevers Retrospective at DeCordova Museum,” Maverick Arts online #505, February 20, 2009.
Chris Bergeron, “Comprehensive Tabitha Vevers exhibit spans decades of observations,” The Daily News, February 1, 2009.
Cate McQuaid, “On the Surface and Beneath,” The Boston Globe, August 30, 2007.
Charles Giuliano, “Tabitha Vevers’s Eden at artStrand,” Maverick Arts (on-line magazine), September 6, Issue # 481, 2007.
Cate McQuaid, “From Ordinary to the Sublime,” The Boston Globe, October 26, 2006.
Andre Van Der Wende, “Viva the Vevers,” Cape Arts Review, August, pp 54-59, 2006.
Cate McQuaid, “Coming Out of Her Shell,” The Boston Globe, October 17, Sidekick p2, 2006.
Lise Motherwell, “The Eye of the Beholder: The Art of Tabitha Vevers,” Provincetown Arts, pp 51-53, 2004.
Andre Van Der Wende, “Paintings Draw Vevers’ Playfulness Out of its Shell,” Cape Cod Times, July 30-August 8, 2004.
Charles Giuliano, “Tabitha Vevers: Miniatures,” Big Red & Shiny, (on-line magazine), November 4, issue #14, 2004.
Staff Writer, “Tabitha Vevers,” The New Yorker, December 1, p 24, 2003.
Ann Wilson Lloyd, “The New Painting: A Widening Discourse in the Nineties,” Painting in Boston: 1950-2000, DeCordova Museum & Sculpture Park, 2002, p 195, 2003.
Mary Ann Caws, “Remembrance of Flying,” Tabitha Vevers: Flying Dreams, DNA Gallery exhibition catalogue, 2003.
Christopher Millis, “Imagination’s Shores: Sea and Sky in Provincetown, The Boston Phoenix, August 9, p 14, 2003.
Christine Temin, “Painting: the Town” The Boston Globe, September 13, p E13 & 16, 2003.
Stuard Derrick, “Portrait of an Artist: Tabitha Vevers,” Provincetown Magazine, Vol. 25.20, 8/15, p 51,62,65, 2003.
Eileen Kennedy, “Profile: One Marriage, Two Arts,” artsMedia, November 15–December 15, 2001.
Daniel Ranalli, Family Values: Tony Vevers, Elspeth Halvorsen, & Tabitha Vevers, The New England School of Art & Design at Suffolk University Exhibition Catalogue, 2001.
Ken Johnson, “Tabitha Vevers: Flying Dreams,” The New York Times, October 27, p B40, 2000.
Cate McQuaid, “Artist Carves Rare View of Women, Violence,” The Boston Globe, June 22, p E1 & 7, 2000.
Staff writer, “Tabitha Vevers,” The New Yorker, November 6. 1999 Cate McQuaid, “A Creative Pairing On and Off the Cape,” The Boston Globe, August 12, pp E1&7, 2000.
Raymond A. Liddell, “Season of Serious Art: Vevers Scrimshaw Has a New Twist,” Cape Cod Times, September 4-10, p 12, 1998.
Charlotta Kotik, Relatively Speaking: Mothers and Daughters in Art, Snug Harbor Cultural Center exhibition catalogue, 1994.
Cate McQuaid. “Visionaries: 11 Artists at the DeCordova,” The Boston Phoenix, July 23, p7, 1993.
Nick Capasso, 11 Artists/11 Visions: 1993, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park exhibition catalogue, 1993.
Harald Raab, “Amerikanerinnen in Schwandorf: Phantastische Welt,” Woche, Regensburg, Germany. July 8, p1, 1993.
Oliver Herwig, “Salonwand und Todpertinger,” Mittelbayerische Zeitung, Schwandorf, Germany July 13, 1993.
Edward J. Sozanski, “Alterpieces in a Contemporary Vein,” Philadelphia Inquirer, May 3, 1991.
Suzanne Horoshack, “Portrait of an Artist: Tabitha Vevers,” Provincetown Magazine, August 15 pp32-33, 1991.
B. H. Friedman and Christopher Busa, “East Hampton and Provincetown: Twelve Young Artists,” Crosscurrents: The New Generation, The East Hampton Center for Contemporary Art, pp 4-5, 1990.
Monique Brunet-Weinmann, “Provincetown: L’Éternité Menaceé,” Vie des Arts, Montréal, Canada, June, pp35-39, 1989.
Ann Wilson Lloyd, “Tabitha Vevers: The Fluidity of Truth,” Contemporary Provincetown, Provincetown Art Association & Museum exhibition catalogue, pp 34-35, 1989.
Cindy Nickerson, “Tabitha Vevers’ Paintings: Pigments of Her Imagination,” Cape Cod Times Magazine July 29, p10, 1988.
Tabitha Vevers, “A Conversation with my Father,” Provincetown Arts, Fall, pp 9, 16, 23, 1986.
Christine Temin, “Tabitha Vevers’ Dramatic Walls,” The Boston Globe, December 8, p103, 1983.