Gladys Tietz Merciergtietz@tiemerc.org | |
| ARTIST STATEMENT My focus is a sense of place, my relationship to nature, landscape, animals and people. Patterns in nature provide formal structure, composition and color as well as endless subject matter. Each day brings a new vision and sensibility. My work is a visual journal of my experiences. As an artist, I am interested in a variety of media. Photography, digital printmaking, drawing, painting, collage, and graphic design consume most of my attention. As a photographer with a printmaking background I am very interested in the metamorphosis of an image. Each change of state adds a new dimension and direction. My pictures start in the camera; then I work through an evolutionary process using digital imaging software. A photo-work may be a combination of multiple images, a series of photographs, or a single print. The biggest challenge I face as a "realist" and photographer is how to make the ordinary, extraordinary. | |
ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS | |
| 2011 | AIR Gallery, Brooklyn, NY |
| 2002 | BroMenn Regional Medical Center Atrium, Normal, IL |
| 1988 | Port Washington Public Library (Media Port), Port Washington, NY |
| 1986 | Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY |
| 1982 | Simon Gallery, Montclair, NJ |
| 1981 | McLean County Arts Association, Bloomington, IL |
| 1987 | Governors' State University, University Park, IL |
| 1987 | St. Edwards College, Austin, TX |
| 2015 | Holiday Treasures, McLean County Art Center, Bloomington, IL |
| 2015 | Art in Nature, McLean County Art Center, Bloomington, IL |
| 2014 | Ecovision, McLean County Art Center, Bloomington, IL |
| 2014 | A.I.R. ReFreshed–a traveling exhibition,Ground Floor Gallery, Nashville, Tn |
| 2014 | Liminal Communities, National Members Exhibit, AIR Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Lucy Li |
| 2013 | Fragment, National Members Exhibit, AIR Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Jill Conner |
| 2013 | Define Drawing, McLean County Art Center, Bloomington, IL |
| 2013 | Holiday Treasures, McLean County Art Center, Bloomington, IL |
| 2012 | In Your Backyard, McLean County Art Center, Bloomington, IL |
| 2012 | Celebrating Kindred Spirits and Strange Bed Fellows, National Members Exhibit, AIR Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Catherine Morris |
| 2011 | A Woman's Work is Never Done, AIR gallery, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Susanne Altmann |
| 2010 | New and Exciting, McLean County Arts Center, Bloomington, IL |
| 2010 | and sweeps me away, National Members Exhibit, AIR Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Barbara O'Brien |
| 2009 | Contemporary Humanism, National Members Exhibit, AIR Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Rocio Aranda-Alvarado |
| 2008 | Circling the Globe Through Women's Lives, Mills Pond House, Stac, LI, NY |
| 2008 | Intergenerational Invitational, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY |
| 2008 | The Art of Art, Coral Springs Museum of Art, Coral Springs, FL, NAWA |
| 2007 | Impressions, Northwood University, Jeanette Hare Art Gallery, NAWA, West Palm Beach, FL |
| 2007 | Made in the USA, Blue Hill Cultural Center, Pearl River, NY |
| 2006 | Capital Gallery, NAWA, Tallahassee, FL |
| 2006 | The Depot, El Paso, IL |
| 2005 | NAWA Mask Show, New York, NY |
| 2005 | Florida International University, Mystery Artist Exhibit, Miami, FL |
| 2004 | A.I.R. Postcard National Invitational, New York, NY |
| 2002 | Animal Magnetism, McLean County Arts Center, Bloomington, IL |
| 2001 | Louisiana State University, Photography and Drawing National Invitational 2000 |
| 2000 | "Intergenerational Invitational," A.I.R., New York, NY |
| 1999 | "Portrait Show", McLean County Arts Center, Bloomington, IL |
| 1997 | Women of McLean County, McLean County Arts Center, Bloomington, IL |
| 1991 | Pathways and Passages, Gallery North, Setauket, NY |
| 1991 | Women Create Together, Manhasset Library Gallery, Manhasset, NY |
| 1990 | Long Island Network of Women Artists, Locust Valley, NY |
| 1989 | HTAL Show, Heckscher Museum, Huntington, NY |
| 1988 | Smithtown Arts Council, St. James, NY |
| 1988 | 3rd Annual Photo Salon, Nexus Gallery, Atlanta, GA |
| 1986 | Hutchins Gallery, CW Post, Brookville, NY |
| 1985 | S.U.N.Y. Collection Exhibition, Albany, NY |
| 1984 | Simon Gallery, Montclair, NJ |
| 1983 | Hills Gallery, Denver, CO |
| 1981 | Kathleen Ewing Gallery, Washington, DC |
| 1980 | Hudson River Museum, Riverdale, NY |
| 1978 | Larry Aldridge Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT |
| 1978 | Queens Museum, Flushing, NY |
| 2006 | Arney, Steve, Holiday Treasuresart center exhibit offers accessible art", Pantagraph, Bloomington, IL 11/16/2006 |
| 1990 | Braff, P., New York Times, "Paper Potpourri Offers Diversity," 11/22/1988 |
| 1989 | Lipson, K., Newsday, "Top of the Line Raw Materials," 5/26/1989 |
| 1988 | Smithtown Arts Council, Award of Merit, Smithtown, NY |
| 1987 | Purchase Award, Nassau Community College, Garden City, NY |
| Dunbar Breitweiser | |
| State University of New York | |
| Xerox Corp., White Plains, NY | |
| 2001 | Cornelia and Cornwell Cornasaurus, Corn on the Curb, city of Bloomington, IL |
| 2006 | Education consultant to The Freight House Exchange, El Paso, IL |
| 1999-2006 | Instructor, Design, Drawing, Photography, Painting, Lincoln College, Normal, IL |
| 1976 | Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY MFA Printmaking/ Painting |
| 1974 | Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY BFA Printmaking/ Art Education |
| 1971 | Traphagen School of Fashion, New York, NY Certificate |
| A.I.R. Gallery, National Member | |
| McLean County Arts Center Board Member | |
| NAWA NAWA-FLA National Association of Women Artists | |
| LINWA Long Island Network of Women Artists, Founding member | |