C H R I S t i n ...C o u t u r e  

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Born : Springfield Massachusetts

BFA / Painting magna cum laude, University of Massachusetts, 1974

Brooklyn Museum School post graduate scholarship, 1974-1975

Boston Museum of Fine Arts HS scholarship, 1968

U Mass/Bologna, Italy summer 1972

Art Students' League, NYC summer 1973

S E L E C T E D   S O L O  E X H I B I T I O N S :

Greenfield Community College, MA "Valentine" Environment 1996

Galeria Arvil, Mexico City "Seducciones Nocturnas" 1988 travelling

Fauve Gallery, Amherst, MA "A Pastorall" 1987

Centro Cultural Vanguardia, Saltillo, MX , 1984

Galeria Arvil, Mexico City "Placeres Terrenales" 1983 travelling

Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York "Predellas" 1982

Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York , 1980

Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York, 1979

47 Bond Street Gallery, New York, 1978

Herter Hall Gallery, U.Mass, "Kinderhaus" Environment 1974

S E L E C T E D   G R O U P  E X H I B I T I O N S

Canal Gallery, Holyoke, MA "Maestros y Maestras" Homage to leonel Gongora, 2000

Sharon Arts Center, Peterborough, NH  "BIENNIAL" 2000

Westbeth Gallery, New York, "Private Mythologies" 1999 (curated by Elisa Decker)

The Brush Art Gallery, Lowell,MA "Dreamweavers" 1998-99 (curated by Francine Miller)

Galeria Jose Maria Velasco, Mexico City "Correspondence Lines" 1997

Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York "The Domestic Landscape" 1995

Museum Gallery, University of Maine, Orono "Migrant Within" 1994-5 travelling

Barn Gallery, Ogunquit, ME "Night Light" 1993

Mount Holyoke College Museum of Art, S.Hadley, MA "PictureThis, Imagine That" 1992

Staemfli Gallery, New York "The Art of Drawing IV" 1989

Oklahoma Art Center, OK City "Selections from the Westheimer Collection" 1988

One Penn Plaza, New York "Interiors in Paint" 1988 (curated by Gerrit Henry)

Monique Knowlton Gallery, NYC "The Romantic Landscape" 1986

Sioux City Arts Center, Iowa "New Talent/New York" 1984 travelling

PS 122, New York "Four Painters" 1984

University Gallery, U Mass, Amherst "Eleven Alumni"1983 (curated by Sam Hunter &Babara Haskell)

Monique Knowlton Gallery, NYC, "New Work" 1983

Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma, Norman "Points of View '82" 1982

Hecksher Museum, Huntington, NY "Kindred Spirits" 1981

Landmark Gallery, NYC "Drawings 1980" 1980

Foro de Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City "Eureka! 5 North American Painters" 1979

Monique Knowlton Gallery, NYC "American Landscapes" 1978

State House, Boston, MA "Western Mass Artists" 1976

Brooklyn Museum Art School "Student Show" 1975

A W A R D S  AND  F E L L O W S H I P S

Scholarship, Brooklyn Museum Art School 1975-76

McDowell Colony Artist in Residence 1980

Juror's Award (Holly Solomon) Small Works Show, NYC 1982

Fullbright Finalist, Canberra, Australia 1985

1st prize (Barbara Haskell) Valley Women Artists Show 1985

Yaddo Artist in Residence 1987

Fondation Karolyi Artist in Residence 1989

Millay Colony Artist in Residence 1995

S E L E C T E D   C O L L E C T I O N S :

Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma

Armando Colina, Mexico City

Stewart Mott, New York City

Jerome Westheimer, Oklahoma

Jose Ludlow, Mexico City

Monique Knowlton, New York City

Giancarlo Menotti, Italy

Dawn Gideon Associates, New York City

George Staempfli, Maryland

Michel Roux (Absolut Vodka), New Jersey

T E A C H I N G :

The Norman Rockwell Museum, Artists of the Berkshires Art Lecture series, 2000

Ashfield Art Lecture Series, 1997

ARTS Club/Guest Lecture,Greenfield Community College, 1996

Art Bank/Instructor, 1995-96

Instructor/Drawing Clinic( private), 1994

Centre d'Art, St. Georges de Beauce, Quebec /Visiting Artist Talk

Valley Women Artists/ Guest Lecture, 1986

Rhode Island School of Design/Guest Lecture/graduate critique,1985

The New School/ Guest Lecture, 1981

P R O J E C T S :

5 College DaDa/Surrealist Festival,asst. coordinator ,1971

EUREKA! Art/Performance Group, participant, Mexico City 1979

SALON DES REFUSEES/VWA, organizer, Amherst, MA 1980

47 UNION SQUARE OPEN STUDIOS, participant , NYC 1986

VALENTINE PERFORMANCE, AUDITORIO NATIONAL,participant, MEXICO CITY 1985

1 DAY HAPPENING/ART BANK, Shelburne Falls, MA, Organizer/participant, 1994
(over 30 artists doing site specific work in unrenovated building)

TEEN BOXCAR MURAL,Trolley Museum/ PAWM(Partnership for the Arts in Western Mass)
Organizer, 1995 (6 week project involving local teens)

RENAISSANCE BALL/PAWM, Co Chairman of gala fundraiser for new performance space,1996

MARDIJANTO/Indonesian Batik paintings,/PAWM,Organizer/curator,1997

SIROCCO/PAWM, Munson murals from the 40's,Middle Eastern performance, Organizer,1997

DAY OF THE DEAD/PAWM, Organizer/participant, Mexican altars by artists and high school students, 1997

TCHOCHKE HEAVEN /REDTIDE, Buckland Ritz, organizer,1st annual artists' tagsale, 1998

MAESTROS Y MAESTRAS,Canal Gallery, Holyoke, Co-Curator of Memorial exhibition, 2000
 

F U T U R E  P R O J E C T S :

"Toyz n' Totz''- a consideration of works relating to children & toys

"Monumental Intimacy"- art on a small scale with a big presence-from architectural models , sculpture, to jewelry

"Einstein's Dreams" (working title)- considerations of TIME in different forms and interpretations.

"The Antique Future" - work that encorporates both contemporary and ancient viewpoints

"Country Noire" - work focusing on the dark side of pastoral.

A F F I L I A T I O N S :

Western Massachusetts Illustrators' Guild

Friends of the Arms Library

Valley Women Artists/Women's Caucas for Art, Founding Member

Franklin Enterprising Women / FEW, Franklin County CDC

Partnership for the Arts in Western Mass/ Founding Member, Board member 1995-98

Redtide/Bluefire   -Founding Member

Mass MoCA  member

Volunteer/Community:

Mohawk Trail Concerts /Annual Cabaret fundraiser

Art Bank/ Board of Directors/ programming,fundraising,exhibitions committee

Arms Library /children's drawing workshop
 
 

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