about the artist
self portrait, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. October 30, 2018
Joyce Audy Zarins attended Massachusetts College of Art, the University of New Hampshire, and completed her degree at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and Tufts University, Boston. She wrote and illustrated children’s books and educational materials professionally, exhibited paintings to explore visual metaphors and a vocabulary of symbols, and produced site-specific environmental art. In 1996 she discovered a passion for three-dimensional work in metal and has been working in three dimensional media ever since. In addition to fabricated steel and bronze sculpture she explores non-traditional materials creating abstract, conceptual, and realistic works that often refer to natural phenomena. Her work has been exhibited by museums in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Florida and at galleries and other exhibit venues in Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Washington, D.C., Virginia, and New England.
She has a passion for the outdoors and travels to experience the world, which reflects in her work.
She has a passion for the outdoors and travels to experience the world, which reflects in her work.
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E X H I B I T I O N S / Solo
2008 Elizabeth A. Beland Gallery, Essex Art Center, Lawrence, MA 2002/03 Twenty Holgas, office of Mayor David Hildt, Amesbury, MA. 2000 Sculpture at 125 Summer St, Boston. Curated by Creiger-Dane Gallery. 1999 Pentucket Arts Center, Haverhill, MA. 1994 McQuade Gallery, Merrimack College, No Andover, MA. 2 Person / Group: 2018 Grounds for Play, Fuller Craft Museum, NESA exhibit, Brocton, MA. Interpretations of Form, Flatrocks Gallery, Gloucester, MA. Curators: Pat Lowery Collins, Joreen White. 2002-06, 2008-12, 2015, 2017, 2018 Maudslay Outdoor Sculpture, Maudslay State Park, Newburyport, MA. Coordinator: Bert Snow 2017-18 Range Light Community Sculpture Garden, NAA, Newburyport, MA 2017 Power of Place Wells Reserve at Laudholm, Wells, ME. Curator: June LaCombe. Gifts from the Garden at Elm Bank, Mass. Horticulture Society, Wellesley, MA. NESA. 2009 - 2017 Meadlowlark Botannical Garden Outdoor Sculpture, Vienna, VA. Permanent. 2015 Flying Horse Outdoor Sculpture Exhibit, Pingree School, So. Hamilton, MA. Curator: Judith Klein. 2015, 2010 Sanctuary Arts Sculpture Garden, Eliot, Maine. Curator: Christopher Gowell. 2013 Nara Park, Acton, MA,. public art commission. 2012, 2011, 2009, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2002 Invited New England Sculptors, The Barn Gallery, Ogunquit, ME 2011 Listed: Transparent, Conley Harris Studio, Boston, MA, Curator: Joseph Carroll and Sons Gallery Small Obsession, Somerville Museum, Somerville, MA, Curator: Carolyn Wirth. 2010 NESA Exhibit, State Transportation Building, Boston. Curator: Karen O’Hanley. SculptureNow in Lee, MA 2010, Curator: Ann Jon. Simple Gifts: Contemporary Artists Explore the Shaker Legacy, Hancock Shaker Village, MA 2007/10 Boston Drawing Project, Carroll and Sons Gallery, Boston, MA. Sculpture drawings. 2008/2009 Art in Place, Charlottesville, VA 2006/08 Brock Commons Outdoor Sculpture, Longwood Center for Visual Arts, Farmville, VA 2006/07 6th Annual Florida Outdoor Sculpture Exhibit, Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL. Jack Becker, Forcast, juror. 2007 3rd Annual Open Juried, Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport, CT. Bill Arning, List Visual Art Center, juror. Honorable Mention Imagining Somerville: Discovering a City Through Art, Somerville Museum, Somerville, MA. Where Nature and Culture Meet, Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, Boothbay, ME, 2006 Sculpture at U Mass, Boston, New England Sculptor's Association Exhibit,Boston, MA Micro-Monumental, Flashpoint Gallery, Washington, D.C. Juror: Kristen Hileman, Assistant Curator, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Micro-Monumental, Xavier University Art Gallery, Cincinnati, OH. ISC Symposium event. 2005/06 SOWA Artwalk, 500 Harrison Ave., Boston, MA. Invitational. 2006, 2002, 2001 Millbrook Gallery and Sculpture Garden, Concord, NH. Invitational. 2005/06 Ourchitecture, Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI. Curator: Elizabeth Keithline. 2003/06 Wandell Sculpture Garden, Meadowbrook Park, Urbana, IL. 2005 Touchstones, Blum Gallery, College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, ME. Curator: June LaCombe. Artecology Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, Cazenovia, NY. Residency and exhibit. Small Works, Upstream Gallery, Dobbs Ferry, NY. 2004/05 VaVa Va Vomb: Victory, Vaginas and Valentines, Newburyport, MA. Women’s Crisis Ctr. 2004 Sculpture for This Animate Earth. June LaCombe/SCULPTURE. Pownal, Maine. Invitational. Mail-Stamp-Art-Project Europe 2003+, Czech Republic. Invitational. 2003 World Trade Center Site Memorial Competition, New York City. Competition. Navy Pier Walk, Chicago 3D, Chicago, IL. Juror: David Pagel, Los Angeles. Navy Pier Walk Maquette Exhibit, Gallery 37, Chicago, IL. Sculpture, The Multiform Art, Attleboro Museum, Attleboro, MA. Curator: Dore Van Dyke. 2000/02 Contemporary Outdoor Sculpture, Moses-Kent House Museum, Exeter, NH. Invitational. 2002 N. E. Sculptor’s Assn. Exhibition, New Bedford Art Museum, MA. Juror: Mark Hruby. Outdoor Sculpture Exhibit, Millbrook Gallery & Sculpture Garden, Concord, NH. Juror: Katherine W. Hart, Curator, Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, NH. Sculpture in the Commons, Pentucket Arts Center, Haverhill, MA. Best of Show award. NAA Winter Juried I, Newburyport, MA. Juror: Jennifer Moses, MFA Painting, Indiana Univ. NAA Winter Juried II, Newburyport, MA. Juror: Christopher Gowell, sculptor. Honorable Mention. 2001 The Abstracted Image, Women’s Caucus for Art Juried Exhibit, Firehouse Center for the Arts, = = Newburyport, MA. Juror: Elaine Bravos Geist, Director, Bravos Art Gallery. Outdoor Sculpture Exhibit, Millbrook Gallery & Sculpture Garden, Concord, NH. Juror: Philip Andrew Spahr, Curator, The Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, NH. 3rd Annual National Small Works Exhibition, Gallery on the Green, Canton CT. Juror: Richard Klein, Assistant Director, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, CT. Counterpoint, Imagine Studios, Amesbury, MA, two person show with Kai Vlahos. 2000 Sanctuary. Maurine and Robert Rothschild Gallery, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Cambridge, MA. Women’s Caucus for Art. Lone Piper Gallery, Rowley, MA. two person show with Paula Estey. Newburyport Art Association, Newburyport, MA. two person show with Audrey Bechler. 1999 Lone Piper Gallery: Inaugural Exhibit, Rowley, MA. 1997-8 Art at the Prudential Center, Prudential Center Exhibit Space, Boston. Curator:Creiger-Dane Gallery. 1997 Fusion, Harbor Art Gallery, U MA Boston. Juried. Women's Caucus for Art. Two Artists, Piper Gallery, Lexington, MA. Group Exhibit, Grossman Gallery, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Black, White and Shades of Grey, South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA. Juror: Carl Belz, Director, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University. EDUCATION: 1997 BFA School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA. 1994 University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH. 1968 Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA. COLLECTIONS: Spain, Iceland, Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts, California, Arizona, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Georgia, Virginia, Maryland, Texas. GRANTS / AWARDS: 2007 HONORABLE MENTION. 3rd Annual Open Juried, Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport, CT. Bill Arning, List Visual Art Ctr, juror. 2005 Residency. Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, Cazenovia, NY. 2004 Johnson Award - “Recognition of Excellence in and Contribution to Visual Arts in Greater Newburyport.” Firehouse Center for the Arts, Newburyport, MA. 2002 Best of Show award. Sculpture in the Commons, Pentucket Arts Center, Haverhill, MA. Honorable Mention. NAA Winter Juried II, Newburyport, MA. Juror: Christopher Gowell. 2000 Haverhill Council on the Arts, an agency of the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Purchase of a sculpture for the City of Haverhill. 1995 NH STATE COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS/ NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS. Funding fora three day interactive multi-media environmental art event I designed, coordinated, and participated in. CURATORIAL: 2016-18 Range Light Community Sculpture Garden Committee, Newburyport Art Association, MA 2014, 2015 Scholastic Art Awards juror 2003-2005 Sole curator for inaugural two years, Somerby’s Landing Sculpture Park, Newburyport, MA |