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Donise English Mixed Media

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Donise English is a Poughkeepsie-based artist who received her bachelor of science from Art History State University College at New Paltz in 1977 and MFA from Bard College in 1986 and is currently a Professor of Studio Art at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, NY. English is interested in drawing and collaging multiple layers of information that refer abstractly to maps, architectural drawings and blueprints or patterns and structures found in such things as roller coasters, power lines and fences. She uses gouache and collaged paper in a series of layers that are a visual and ideological response to the previous layer to define her pictorial space. For each piece, English creates a set of rules to follow about the use of a limited palette, a grid format, opacity of paper and whether a piece may include curving lines or maintain a rectilinear structure. English has received numerous awards including a 2018 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Painting; the Invitational Award for Outstanding Contemporary Talent from the University of Bridgeport, Connecticut; Purchase Prize from the “11th National Juried Exhibition” at the College of Notre Dame of Maryland; 1st Prize, “Women in the Visual Arts,” Erector Square Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut; the Joseph A. Cain Memorial Purchase Award for Sculpture, Del Mar College, Texas, Honorable Mention and others.

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Artist: Donise English
Superman (Abstract Geometric Grid Painting in Light Grey & Blue, Framed)
By Donise English
Located in Hudson, NY
Detailed abstract geometric painting inspired by city grids in light grey and blue, with accents of black and white "Superman", made by Hudson Valley based artist, Donise English, in...
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2010s Abstract Geometric Donise English Mixed Media

Materials

Wood, Paper, Acrylic, Gouache, Pencil, Color Pencil

Fern (Botanical Still Life Encaustic Painting of Ferns on White, Framed)
By Donise English
Located in Hudson, NY
"Fern" — mixed-media painting of a fern isolated against a textural blue background by Donise English Oil and encaustic on paper Image size: 16 x 20 inches / Frame size: 21.25 x 25 ...
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2010s Contemporary Donise English Mixed Media

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Encaustic, Oil, Archival Paper

Play Tower #6 (Colorful Abstract Standing Sculpture in Blue, Fuchsia, & Green)
By Donise English
Located in Hudson, NY
Abstract, three-dimensional standing sculpture in colorful shades of aqua blue, blood orange, green, blue, yellow, and pink "Play Tower #6", made by Hudson Valley artist, Donise Engl...
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2010s Abstract Donise English Mixed Media

Materials

Wood, Wax, Archival Paper

Snakish (Curvy Abstract Minimalist Encaustic Wall Sculpture in Black and White)
By Donise English
Located in Hudson, NY
Abstract minimalist three-dimensional wall sculpture in black and white "Snakish II", made by Hudson Valley artist, Donise English, in 2022 hand-stitched paper, beeswax (encaustic) and thread 36 x 10 x 3 inches hangs with a small thread notch on back extremely lightweight, weighs no more than 1.5 lbs. Excellent condition and ready to hang This abstract minimalist three-dimensional wall sculpture was made by Hudson Valley artist, Donise English, in 2022. The playful motif of hand-stitched paper, layered with black and white acrylic paint and coated with encaustic, is inspired by the artist's interest in architecture and blueprint drawings. The winding segments of white and black encaustic layered paper are assembled in a curving, snake-like formation, which are then hand-sewn by the artist. The lightweight wall sculpture hangs with a small thread notch, installed by the artist on the back of the piece. About the artist: Donise English is a Poughkeepsie-based artist who received her MFA from Bard College and is currently a Professor of Studio Art at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, NY.Donise English has received numerous awards including a 2018 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Painting; the Invitational Award for Outstanding Contemporary Talent from the University of Bridgeport, Connecticut; Purchase Prize from the “11th National Juried Exhibition” at the College of Notre Dame of Maryland; 1st Prize, “Women in the Visual Arts,” Erector Square Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut; the Joseph A. Cain Memorial Purchase Award for Sculpture, Del Mar College, Texas, Honorable Mention; and others. Artist Statement: I am interested in drawing and collaging multiple layers of information that refer abstractly to maps, architectural drawings and blueprints or patterns and structures found in such things as roller coasters, power lines and fences. I use gouache and collaged paper in a series of layers that are a visual and ideological response to the previous layer to define my pictorial space. For each piece I create a set of rules to follow about the use of a limited palette, a grid format, opacity of paper and whether a piece may include curving lines or maintain a rectilinear structure. Resume: EDUCATION Master of Fine Arts in Painting Bard College 1986 Bachelor of Science in Art History State University College at New Paltz 1977 Additional Study: New York Studio School (Drawing Marathons) Columbia University, School of Architecture Women’s Studio Workshop TEACHING Professor of Studio Art, Department of Art and Art History, Marist College, Poughkeepsie,NY Coordinator, Interior Design Program, Florence, Italy campus 1992-present AWARDS Finalist, “Saatchi Showdown” 2010 Invitational Award for Outstanding Contemporary Talent, University of Bridgeport, CT 2000 Purchase Prize, “11th National Juried Exhibition” College of Notre Dame of Maryland, Baltimore 1999 First Prize, “Women in the Visual Arts ‘95” Erector Square Gallery, New Haven, CT 1995 Joseph A. Cain Memorial Purchase Award for Sculpture Del Mar College, Corpus Christi, TX 1994 Honorable Mention, “National Juried Exhibition” University of Bridgeport, CT 1993 Individual Artists Fellowship in Sculpture Dutchess Arts Fund 1992/93 Tallix, Morris, Singer Internship in Sculpture Tallix Foundry, Beacon, NY 1990/91 SELECTED JURIED/INVITATIONAL EXHIBITIONS 2016 “Let’s Stay in Touch”, Howard County Center for the Arts, Ellicott City, MD 2015 “Off the Grid”, Arts & Culture Program, Albany International Airport, Albany, NY “Gridspace”, KMOCA, Kingston, NY “Abstraction”, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY “Assuming Identity”, NY Institute of Technology, New York, NY 2013 “Modern Artists”, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY “Artists of the Mohawk-Hudson Region”, The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY Stone Canoe/Community Folk Art Center, Syracuse, NY 2012 New York Institute of Technology, New York, NY “Contemporary Painters (Who Just Happen To Be Women)”, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY “Strange Glue: Collage at 100”, Cambridge School, Weston, MA “Dear Mother Nature”, Dorsky Museum, SUNY New Paltz, NY “Fresher Paint”, Rockland Center for the Arts, Nyack, NY Courthouse Gallery, Lake George Arts Project, Lake George, NY 2011 “Process+Content: Donise English”, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY “Donise English-Paintings”, Orange County Community College, Newburgh, NY “Gender Matters/Matters of Gender”, Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, PA 2010 Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY “Encaustics: Wax and Image”, Westchester Community College White Plains, NY “Dots, Lines and Figures”, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY “Spring Awakening”, NY Institute of Technology, New York, NY “Clay City Dreams”, NY Institute of Technology, New York, NY “Texture, Pattern, Fragment”, Krause Gallery, Moses Brown School Providence, RI 2009 “Collage”, NY Institute of Technology, New York, NY “Working in Wax”, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA “Encaustic 2009”, College of New Rochelle, NY “Three Artists”, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY “Convergence: The Human Experience”, Howard County Center for the Arts, MD 2008 “Suckers and Biters: Love, Lollipops, and Exquisite Corpse” Chashama Gallery, New York, NY Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson NY 2007 “Patterns and Light”, Blue Hill Gallery, Blue Hill, ME “Suckers and Biters”, AG Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2006 “100 Artists, 100 Watercolors”, Jeannie Freilich Fine Art, New York, NY “On/Of Paper”, Kirkland Art Center, Clinton, NY “The Love Show”, Manchester Community College, Manchester, CT 2005 The Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN “Small Tales”, Valdosta State University, Georgia National Juried Exhibition, Art Institute and Gallery Salisbury, MD, Juror: Stephen Haller “Greed, Envy, Jealousy, Fear”, TSL Warehouse, Hudson, NY 2004 “Women in the Middle: Borders, Barriers, Intersections” University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee “Girl Art Now”, Hera Gallery, Wakefield, RI 3 Person Exhibition, Monterey Peninsula College, Monterey, CA “The Feminine Eye”, Bradley University, Peoria, IL “Women Painting Women”, McNeese State University, Lake Charles, LA “Thought Patterns”, Kent Place Gallery, Summit, NJ “Surface, Matter and Artifice”, Dutchess Community College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY 2003 “Beefcake/Cheesecake”,Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA,Juror: Jamie Wilson, Curator Halpert Bienniel, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC Juror: Jeff Fleming, Senior Curator, Des Moines Art Center “The Great White Oak”, Garrison Art Center, Garrison, NY Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY 2002 “Cat Calls”, Red Clay Arts, Brooklyn “Hudson Valley Regional”, SUNY New Paltz Juror: Sydney Jenkins, Director, Ramapo College Art Galleries 2001 One-Person Exhibition, Davis and Hall Gallery, Hudson, NY “Beyond the Surface”, Womanmade Gallery, Chicago One-Person Exhibition, Garrison Art Center, Garrison, NY 2000 “Vision 2000...
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2010s Abstract Donise English Mixed Media

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Wire

Play Tower #3 (Colorful Abstract Standing Sculpture in Blue, Beige, Red & Black)
By Donise English
Located in Hudson, NY
Abstract, three-dimensional standing sculpture in colorful shades of aqua blue, blood orange, green, black, gray, and beige "Play Tower #3", made by Hudson Valley artist, Donise Engl...
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2010s Abstract Donise English Mixed Media

Materials

Wood, Wax, Archival Paper

Play Tower #9 (Colorful Abstract Standing Sculpture in Sky Blue, Pink & Orange)
By Donise English
Located in Hudson, NY
Abstract, three-dimensional standing sculpture in colorful shades of sky blue, blood orange, green, yellow, and pink "Play Tower #9", made by Hudson Valley artist, Donise English, in...
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2010s Abstract Donise English Mixed Media

Materials

Wood, Wax, Archival Paper

Baby Face (Abstract Encasutic Mixed Media in Pale Blue, Orange, Charcoal)
By Donise English
Located in Hudson, NY
Baby Face (16 x 16), 2011 - Abstract Contemporary Painting on wood panel 16" X 16" , encaustic on board A pale blue encaustic painting with abstract white a...
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2010s Contemporary Donise English Mixed Media

Materials

Encaustic

Hostess (Contemporary Abstract Painting on Panel in Dark Brown with Orange Grid)
By Donise English
Located in Hudson, NY
16 x 16 x 2 inches encaustic on square wood panel HOSTESS is an abstracted painting in rich encaustic (pigmented wax) on wood panel. A dark, cross-hatched pattern is overlaid with ...
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2010s Contemporary Donise English Mixed Media

Materials

Wood Panel, Wax, Encaustic

Herd (Abstract Encaustic Painting Panel in Olive Green, Graphic Orange Circles)
By Donise English
Located in Hudson, NY
16 x 16 x 2 inches encaustic (wax) on wood panel HERD is a square, abstracted painting in rich encaustic (pigmented wax) on wood panel. The background is a creamy, olive green with...
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2010s Contemporary Donise English Mixed Media

Materials

Wax, Encaustic, Wood Panel

Stella (Contemporary Encaustic Painting with Dark Brown and Grey Stripes)
By Donise English
Located in Hudson, NY
22 x 22 x 2 inches encaustic on square wood panel Stella is an abstracted painting in rich encaustic (pigmented wax) on wood panel. Using a neutral palette of dark brown, light blu...
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2010s Contemporary Donise English Mixed Media

Materials

Wax, Encaustic, Wood Panel

Squeaky Clean
By Donise English
Located in Hudson, NY
encaustic on panel, 16 x 12 inches $1600 abstract encaustic artwork, organic shape, pink circles against grey About the work: These works on paper are about the way visua...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Donise English Mixed Media

Materials

Encaustic

Pink Stacks
By Donise English
Located in Hudson, NY
encaustic on panel, 16 x 16 $1800 This painting is offered by Carrie Haddad Gallery, located in Hudson, NY. square abstract encaustic artwork, faded pink and yellow About the work:...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Donise English Mixed Media

Materials

Encaustic

Yellow Stacks
By Donise English
Located in Hudson, NY
encaustic on panel, 16 x 16 inches $1800 square abstract artwork, yellow square abstract, bright yellow About the work: These works on paper are about the way visual diag...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Donise English Mixed Media

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Encaustic

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