Piety Choi, Maria DiMauro and Karen Steen:

Nature and Nurture
Three Women and the Art of Sustenance

Maria DiMauro

Statement

Give me clean floors, lentil soup, and a glass of dry red wine: Real art made outside the space of the page, within the margins of everyday life. I used to think that my work was about big themes -- Death and Resurrection, Transgression and Forgiveness. Lately I have come to realize it is about something else entirely, something little -- a single touch.

It is without doubt a woman’s touch, the kind that can distinguish the particular tactile quality of the abundant wavy tresses on each of my three children’s heads; the kind of touch that can reach across the years to remember what it was like to squeeze my mother’s hand. Art is, after all, the best sort of imitative magic. For a brief moment, one can believe, with absolute conviction, that it is possible to touch what cannot be seen.

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Education

2007: MFA, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2001: BFA, Arcadia University, Glenside, PA
1978: BBA, Marketing, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA

Professional Experience

2008-09: Consultant and writer. Assisted Art & Design Department chair with the school’s reaccredidation process for NASAD (National Association of Schools of Art and Design), Arcadia University, Glenside, PA
2001-05: Adjunct Professor, College of Fine Arts, Arcadia University, Glenside, PA

Awards

2008: Lancaster County Art Association, national juried exhibition, 2nd place, Other Media
2007: MFA Faculty Award, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2001: Emerging Artists Scholarship, ArtForms Gallery, Manayunk, PA
2001: Spruance-Daumier Award for outstanding performance in the Fine Arts, Arcadia University, Glenside, PA
2001: Ira A. Kraybill Award for Academic Achievement, Arcadia University, Glenside, PA
2000: Faculty Choice Award, Faculty Choice Student Exhibition, Arcadia University, Glenside, PA
1998: Faculty Choice Honorable Mention, Faculty Choice Student Exhibition, Arcadia University, Glenside, PA
1978: President’s Scholar, 1978 Marketing Award, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA

Exhibitions

2008: "Side by Side," group invitational exhibition, Highwire Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2008: Lancaster County Art Association, national juried exhibition, juror: Denise Green
2007:  "A Brief History of the Near Future," group exhibition, Blink Art Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2007: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Graduate Student Exhibition, Philadelphia, PA
2006: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Juried Student Exhibition, Philadelphia, PA
2005: Arcadia University, Faculty Exhibition, Glenside, PA
2003: Arcadia University, Faculty Exhibition, Glenside, PA
2002: "Half & Half," ArtForms Gallery, Manayunk, PA
2002: Members Exhibition, ArtForms Gallery, Manayunk, PA
2002: "No Color," ArtForms Gallery, Manayunk, PA
2002: "Reflect and Respond," Krasdale Gallery, Bronx, NY
2002: "Reflect and Respond," ArtForms Gallery, Manayunk, PA
2001: "Emerging Artists," ArtForms Gallery, Manayunk, PA

Publications

Art Matters, Philadelphia, August 2002

Significant Collections

Sigmund R. Balka, Director, Krasdale Gallery, Bronx, NY

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