Lynn Imperatore
lynnimp@gmail.com
EDUCATION
2009 - present PhD Student/School of Creative Arts/University of the West of England, Bristol, UK
1999 MFA/Visual Art Drawing /Painting Vermont College of Norwich University
1985 BA/ Humanities Gallatin School/New York University, NYC
1983 Certification/Art Therapy New School for Social Research, NYC
1979 Printmaking Francoise Bricaut Atelier Gravure, Paris, France
1978-79 Drawing/Printmaking School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Boston
1970-1973 Art History University of Maryland, College Park, MD
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2007
Dark Side of the Moon, Gallery in the Woods, Brattleboro, VT
2005
Recent Work, Francis Colburn Gallery, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT
2002
Seasoned Greetings, Amy Tarrant Gallery, Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, Burlington, VT
the ages of anxiety, Doll-Anstadt Gallery, Burlington, VT
altar/pieces, Marlboro College,Wm. Holland Drury Gallery, Marlboro, VT
2000
the sacred and the mundane, Doll-Anstadt Gallery, Burlington, VT
Featured Artist, Chaffee Center for the Visual Arts, Rutland, VT
1999
MFA Thesis Exhibition, Vermont College, T.W. Wood Gallery, Montpelier, VT
Story Lines, T.W. Wood Gallery, Montpelier, VT
Near Occasions of Soul, McAuley Arts Center/Trinity College, Burlington, VT
1998
Souvenirs of Forgotten Journeys, Doll-Anstadt Gallery, Burlington, VT
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED)
2011
DRAW 11, the 90th Annual Open Exhibition of the Society of Graphic Fine Art, Menier Gallery, London, UK
FIRST: The Drawing Exhibit, Chestnut Farm Studio, Cheddar, Somerset, UK
Sideshow, Part II, F-Block Gallery/Bower Ashton Campus, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK
Sideshow, Part I, The College @ Artspace/Lifespace, Bristol, UK
Space, Place, & Spectral Trace, Gallery @ BV Studios, Bristol, UK
2010
158 Autumn Exhibition, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, UK
2008
Exposition: Peintres & Sculptures, Musée de la Chateau de Rochefort-en-Terre, Brittany, France
2005
Three Women, Gallery in the Woods, Brattleboro, VT
2004
Exposing Scarlet: A Visual Response to The Scarlet Letter, Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA
Exposition: Peintres & Sculptures, Musée de la Chateau de Rochefort-en-Terre, Brittany, France
2003
National Affiliate Members, SOHO20/CHELSEA Gallery, NYC
Portrait of My Mother...Things Left Unsaid, Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento, CA
Contemporary Drawing 2003, T.W. Wood Gallery, Montpelier, VT
2002
Clean Your Plate, Studio Place Arts, Barre, VT
National Affiliate Members, SOHO20/CHELSEA Gallery, NYC
Red Hot: Heated Works, Studio Place Arts, Barre, VT
2001
12th Annual National Affiliate & Women’s Invitational, SOHO20 Gallery, NYC
Mapping New Directions, ArtWorks! at Dover Street, New Bedford, MA Jurors: Christopher Gustin & Nancy Train Smith
Narration: Emblem & Sequence in Contemporary Art, (Honorable Mention), Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT, Juror: Robert Taplin
New England/New York/New Talent 2001 Hampden Gallery, UMass/Amherst, MA, Juror: Jeanette Ingberman, Co-Founder/Director: Exit Art/The First World, NYC
2000
Works on Paper, South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA, Juror: Howardena Pindell
Death Penalty Show (Vermont Int’l. Film Festival) Flynndog Gallery, Burlington, VT Curator: G. Roy Levin: Prof. Emeritus & Founding Dir., MFA/VA, Vermont College
Annual Juried Exhibition (First Place Award), South End Art Hop, Burlington, VT Juror: Frank Owen, Professor of Art, University of Vermont
Faculty, Alumni & Founder: Vermont College MFA/VA, T W. Wood Gallery, Montpelier,VT
Vital Signs: Drawing as Inquiry” Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT Juror: Robert Reed, Professor of Art, Yale University
Side Show, Flynndog Gallery, Burlington, VT
Vernissage 2001, Doll-Anstadt Gallery, Burlington, VT
1999
Front Line: Contemporary Draughtsmen in New England, Boston Athenaeum, Boston, MA, Curators: Hope Barkan (Guest) & Michael Wentworth (Curator of Painting & Sculpture)
Vernissage 2000, Doll-Anstadt Gallery, Burlington, VT
1998
Stratton Arts Festival, Stratton, VT
Vernissage 1999, Doll-Anstadt Gallery, Burlington, VT
1994
Transformations, Frog Hollow/Vermont State Craft Center, Burlington, VT
RESIDENCIES/FELLOWSHIPS/AWARDS
2008
Maryland Institute College of Art/Artist Residency Program in Rochefort-en-Terre,
Rochefort-en-Terre, Brittany, France
2006
Venice Printmaking, Venice, Italy
2004
Maryland Institute College of Art/Artist Residency Program in Rochefort-en-Terre,
Rochefort-en-Terre, Brittany, France
2002
Visiting Artist, Marlboro College, Marlboro, VT
2001
Honorable Mention: Narration: Emblem & Sequence in Contemporary Art, Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT
Fellowship/Residency: Vermont Studio Center, Johnson , VT
2000
First Place Award/Annual Juried Exhibition: South End Art Hop, Burlington, VT
1997
Vermont Arts Council/Art in State Office Buildings Competition Award
EMPLOYMENT
2000-2008
Instructor/Fine Arts Dept., Community College of Vermont, Burlington, VT (2-D Design, Drawing, Studio Art)
Lecturer/Graduate School of Education, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, VT (Drawing & Painting)
Instructor/Fine Arts Dept., Community College of Vermont, Montpelier, VT (Drawing)
Instructor Burlington City Arts/Firehouse Center for the Arts, Burlington, VT (Drawing/Figure Drawing)
2000-2002
Lecturer/Fine Arts Dept., St. Michael’s College, Colchester, VT (Drawing & 2-D Design)
2000-2001
Instructor, Shelburne Craft School, Shelburne, VT (Drawing)
1996-1997
Instructor, Vermont State Craft Center/Frog Hollow, Burlington, VT (Painting)
1987- 1997
Decorative Painter/NY, NY & Vermont.
1987- 1989
Decorative Painter/Eon Arts Inc. NY, NY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2005
Susan Boulanger, “Tempted by a Dream: Luminous Shadows Cast by The Scarlet Letter”, Art New England., Dec/Jan 05.
2004
Cate McQuaid, “Red-letter Days at the BCA reveal society’s secrets” , Boston Sunday Globe, 10/10/04.
Exposing Scarlet: A Visual Response to The Scarlet Letter (catalog) Mills Gallery, BCA , Boston, MA
Kimberly Potvin , “Exposing Scarlet @ The Mills”, Big, Red & Shiny, Issue 12, 2004.
Nona Roberts “Exposing Scarlet: A Visual Response to the Scarlet Letter @ BCA”, Some Other Magazine, 9/04, Vol. 2.
Thos. Garvey “Written in Scarlet”, South End News, 10/14/04 (Vol. 25, No. 39)
“Artistes americains et francais exposent au musee”, Ouest France (Vannes), 6/21/04
2003
Featured Artist, Hunger Mountain: The Vermont College Journal of Arts & Letters Spring Issue ‘03.
“Auckland to Vermont”, Neochroma: The Magazine for Whitecliffe College of Arts & Design (NZ), Mar 03.
2002
Eve Thorsen, “Religion, personal experience, art collide”, The Burlington Free Press, 12/05/02.
“Renaissance Woman?”, Seven Days, (Burlington,VT) 12/04/02.
Anne Galloway, “Clean Your Plate: 20 artists respond to food” Times/Argus (Barre/Montpelier,VT) 11/08/02.
“Artistic Anxieties”, The Burlington Free Press, 10/03/02.
2001
William Zimmer, “Creative Works With a Political Edge”, The New York Times, 6/24/01.
“Narration’ teems with stories well told”, New Haven Register, 6/3/01.
2000
“Hop Art”, Seven Days, (Burlington,VT) 9/13/00.
“Headshrinker Blues”, The Burlington Free Press. 8/31/00.
William Zimmer,“Among a Show of Drawings, Looking for Ones With Bite”, The New York Times, 5/14/00.
Vital Signs: Drawing as Inquiry”, The New Haven Advocate, 5/15/00.
Judy Birke, “Questions raised but left unanswered in “Drawing as Inquiry’”, New Haven Register, 5/14/00.
Vital Signs: Drawing as Inquiry (Catalog). New Haven, CT: Creative Arts Workshop.
1999
Christine Temin, “Athenaeum show celebrates low-tech art of the line”, The Boston Globe, 5/12/99.
Front Line: Ten Contemporary Draughtsmen in New England (Catalog). Boston, MA: The Boston Athenaeum.
COLLECTIONS
Robert Hull Fleming Museum, Burlington, VT
COMMISSIONS
1997
Vermont Arts Council/Art in State Office Buildings Competition Award
1999
Installation: Mural Artwork for State Office Building, Springfield, VT
1989
Edinburgh Fringe Festival/Edinburgh, Scotland:
Set design for festival production of “The Return of Archie Major”