Statement/Bio/Selected Shows
Surrealism Combining Art and Science
… Man’s Technological Integration…
My
background as a former blood laboratory technician has been instrumental in
shaping the direction of my work on an atomic level, yet also in ways that draw
me to the dimensional or faceted aspect of everything that I experience.
By combining scientific elements, symbolic object replication, and dream imagery
into a sector of my work, each piece takes on a life form similar to that of a
nucleus, and the expansion of it as an infinite fractal. Connected to this
dimensionally expanding state is the symbolism within my work where the human
figure partially transforms into his own technologically created machine.
Man by his own design continues to create more highly sophisticated
technological devices whereas a metamorphosis occurs when man and technology
seem to slowly integrate together. There is both a serious as well as a
whimsical element to this in the sense that man becomes vulnerable to the very
creation which he has designed.
The connection of the mysteries of
Science combined with the subconscious nature of Surrealism is rooted deeply
within each painting that I create. The subconscious holds keys to many doors. Caplyn Dor
Awards/Honors/ Selected Exhibitions and
Publications
2005-06
“Area Artists Collection” – Collector’s Gallery - Albright Knox Art Gallery,
Buffalo, New York
2004-05 “Area
Artists Collection” – Collector’s Gallery - Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo,
New York
2003-04 “Area Artists Collection”
– Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New
York
“Selected Works II” – Albright Knox Art Gallery.
Director, Louis
Grachos
2003
DeLynn’s Gallery – Franklinville, NY
2003
International Elite Artists - ABS Gallery and Literary
Site
2002 INPAKU –
Internet Fair by the Japanese Government.
Japan
2001 XI
Biennial Intl. - Science, Art, Technology, Vila Nova de Cerviera –
Portugal
2001
Art Dialogue Gallery – Buffalo,
NY
2000 Harappa
Festival – Tokyo, Japan
2000
Cork Gallery - Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center in NYC
"Digitalism" – Intl. Exhibition
2000
Guest Artist Speaker - Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY.
"Fractals" - Art and
Science.
1999 R2001 Intl. Group -
"0 and 1"; Keio University, Shonan Fujisawa Campus - Keio,
Japan
1998 Country Without
Boarders - R2001 Group Show - Abraham Lubelski Gallery -
NYC
1998 Trans-Hudson
Gallery - NYC. International Group Show with R2001
1993 Art Expo - Jacob
Javitz Center - NYC
1992
Art Avenue Gallery – Hamburg, New
York
1992
The Franklin Street Gallery – Ellicotville, New
York
1992
Benjaman’s Art Gallery – (2 Person Show); Buffalo, New
York
1992
Clary-Miner Gallery – Art and the Woman
Artist
1992
Metro Toronto Convention Center – Del Bello
Gallery
1991
Del Bello Gallery – Toronto, Canada
and
others..
Solo Shows
J.C.
Mazur Gallery - Buffalo, New York
Hilbert
College - Hamburg, New
York
Arts Council in Buffalo and Erie County – Buffalo, New York
M.
Waligur Doering Gallery – Hamburg, New York
Castellani Art Museum -
Niagara University Campus; Niagara Falls, New York
Awards/Honors
2001 MOCA –
Museum of Digital Art - Awarded "Donnie Award": 2nd Prize and Honorable
Mention
1999 Judges Choice Award - Winter Art
Competition; Austin, Texas
1998 Artistic
Excellence Achievement Award - "TINT" Magazine, Austin,
TX
1998 Best of Show Award - Artistic Impressions
Spring Art Competition, Austin, TX
1998 Intl. (Gold)
C.A.P.I. Award of Excellence - Motion Picture Industry, Burbank,
CA
1997 Honorable Mention - Art Calendar's
"Crabbie Awards Competition"; Maryland
1992
Creative Artist Fellowship - NYS Council on the Arts in New York State and
Erie
County
1992 SoHo International Art Competition -
NYC
1990 SoHo International Art Competition - NYC
Publications
2004 Heldref
Publications – (Cover Art) ; “Beta Cell III”; ReVision Journal,
2003 Salamander Review Magazine, Los Angeles,
CA - “Cellular IV” (cover art)
2000 OutsideiN
Publication – “Realm of Knowledge”
1999
Massurrealism Society – (interview); Surrealism vs
Massurrealism
1999 TFTN Magazine - Fractal Translight
Newsletter; Cover Art
1999 Tint Fine Art Magazine –
(interview and images); “Hieroglyphics of Thought”;
1999
McMillan Publishing - Imagine It! SciFi CD Rom (Cover and
Inside)
1999 Jupiter’s Freedom Magazine -
“Architecture in Art”
1999 TINT Fine Art Magazine –
“Contemporary Surrealism”
1999 TFTN Magazine –
“Experimenting with DHTML Code”
1999 TFTN Magazine – “Inner
Chamber of Fractal Generator”
1997 ArtCalendar; The
Business Magazine For Visual Artists
Marquis Who's
Who: In America, In the World, In the East, Who’s Who of American
Women
2006 - 07, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001,
2000
International Biographical Centre - Cambridge,
England.
2000, 1999 Outstanding
Women of the 20th Century, Outstanding Intellectuals of the 20th Century,
Outstanding
Scholars of the 20th Century, Outstanding Artists and Designers of the 20th
Century, Outstanding People of the 20th Century.
Selected Museum Shows - Museum Collections
The
43rd and 44th Western New York Exhibitions - Albright-Knox Art
Gallery, Buffalo, NY
"Area Artists Collection" of the Collector’s
Gallery - 1992, ‘03, 2001, ’02, ’03, ’04, ’05 ‘ 06 -
Albright-Knox Art Gallery Museum, Buffalo, NY
Castellani Art Museum – (Solo) Niagara University,
Niagara Falls, New York
Theodore Roosevelt Museum - Buffalo, NY
- Juror; Douglas Schultz; Director; Albright-Knox Art
Gallery
Jurors for Selected Museum
Shows
Lois
Grachos
Director, Albright-Knox Art Gallery (museum), Buffalo, NY
Charlotta
Kotik
Curator of Contemporary Art at the Brooklyn Museum in New York City;
Barbara
Haskell
Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the Whitney Museum in New York
City;
Susana Torruella Leval Chief
Curator of El Museo del Barrio Museum in New York City