Florence Neal

“Totem 2” and “Autotroph”
Colored pencil and graphite on paper, 2009

Biography

Florence Neal, printmaker, sculptor, painter, curator and graphic designer, has exhibited her work in local, national and international venues including: Hermit Symposium, Plasy, Czech Republic; L5 Kunstinitiatief, Roermond, Holland; BIS Kulturzentrum, Mönchengladbach, Germany; Hanalei Gallery, Hawaii; The North Dakota Museum of Art; National Ornamental Metal Museum, Memphis, TN; and White Columns, New York. Florence’s current work focuses on prints, drawings and installations. Her interest in public art has led to commissions such as the steel wind sculpture Dance of Life at the University of Alabama in Birmingham. She has collaborated with writer Wendy Walker on a number of print/text projects including Screen Memories at Brooklyn Public Library and ...a different forest , a public art commission for Omaha Public Library. She is the recipient of a Pollock Krasner fellowship and numerous residencies including Fundación Valparaíso, The Banff Centre, Women’s Studio Workshop and Hambidge Center for the Arts. Florence founded Everglade Press (1985) in her Brooklyn waterfront studio.  She is the co-founder (1990) and director of a non-profit gallery dedicated to contemporary drawing and work on paper, the Kentler International Drawing Space in Red Hook, Brooklyn.  In an upcoming project she will to create her second set design for a chamber opera by composer Michael Kowalski.  

 

Solo exhibitions

2009 "Out of the Woods", Drawings, prints and photographs, Corridor Gallery Project Space, 334 Grand Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
2006 "Scrying " - Prints, Sunny's, 253 Conover Street, Brooklyn, NY
2005 "Surfacing " - Drawings, prints and sculpture installation, Anthony Giordano Gallery, Dowling College, Idle Hour Blvd., Oakdale, NY
2003 "... a different forest ” -Public Art Commission by Art Omaha, Text by Wendy Walker, 20 Print Banners 2 x 7'; Omaha Public Library, Omaha, Nebraska
2002 "Screen Memories" - Print installation and collaboration with writer, Wendy Walker; Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn, NY
1996 Monoprints - Krakov Cultural Center, Prague, Czech Republic
1995 Stopwatch 95 - "Connections", Installation, L5, Roermond, The Netherlands
1994 Worlds Apart - Watercolors, Shreveport, Louisiana
1993 “Dance of Life ” - Wind sculpture commission, Univ. of Alabama, Birmingham, AL
1993 “Out of the Catacombs ”- Block print installation, Ridge Street Gallery, NYC
1992 Images & Editions - Block prints & monoprints, Skep Gallery, 527 Broome St., NYC
1992 Aquarelle - Watercolors, 254 Court St., Brooklyn, NY
1990 "Four winds" - Outdoor wind sculpture installation, downtown Omaha, Nebraska, commissioned by Art Omaha
1988 Florence Neal - 55 Mercer Street Gallery, NYC
1987 Art Exchange - Erie Art Museum, Monoprints/Art Works Gallery, Residency, lectures & exhibition
1986 “Niagara Falls & Fossil Fuels” - paintings & monoprints, The Bronx Museum of the Arts/Con Edison Satellite Gallery, Bronx, NY
1985 International Fireworks - One person block print show, Hanalei, Hawaii
1985 “As the Wind Blows” - Trophy Room Installation in the Arch at Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, NY
1982 Small Paintings - Flowers Building, 1200 1st Ave., Columbus, GA
1981 Paintings, Florence Neal - White Columns, 325 Spring St., NYC

Brooklyn bridge

Founded

1990 Kentler International Drawing Space

, 353 Van Brunt Street, Red Hook, Brooklyn, NY, 11231

Co-founder, Executive Director of Exhibitions since 1992.

1985 Everglade Press, Brooklyn, NY

Hallets Cove Welded and cut steel, wind sculpture mounted on a pier post in Hallet's Cove. Part of the inaugural exhibition at Socrates Sculpture Park, 1986

Related experience

2007 Panelist: NYC Percent for Art Selection Panel, New York, NY
2007 Lecture: "The Artist as Activist: Creating Space", Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa
2007 Panelist: "The Artist and Social Sculpture", TriBeca Performing Arts Center, New York, NY
2007 Artist Talk and Presentation: "The Fireworks Series and Public Art Works", Columbus Public Library, Columbus, Georgia
2007 Lecture: "Contemporary Drawings in Alabama and New York", Jule Collins Smith Museum, Auburn, AL
2007 Artist Talk and Slide Presentation: Auburn University Art Department, Auburn, AL
2006 Juror, "Drawings on Alabama", A state-wide juried drawing exhibition, hosted by Biggin Gallery, Auburn University, AL
2006 Panelist: "How to Get into a Gallery", Pratt University, Brooklyn, NY
2005 Instructor, Monoprints & Block Prints, Il Chiostro, Tuscany, Italy
2001-2003 Exhibitions Coordinator, Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn, NY
2000 - 2003 Exhibitions Curator: The Art Lot, Outdoor Sculpture exhibition space in Brooklyn New York
1998 Set Design - "Fraternity of Deceit" - Chamber Opera by Composer Michael Kowalski, Eden Arcade Theatre, NYC
1980 - 2000 Graphic Design: Arts, Parks, Book Cover Designs
1994 Slide Lecture - University of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama
1992 Instructor, Waterbase Monoprinting - Lower East Printshop, 59-61 East 4th St., NYC
1992 Artist Talk on Art - Panel discussion, representing Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn NY
1990 Slide Lecture - School of Visual Arts, Art Education Dept., NYC
1988 Slide Lecture - Clarion University of Pennsylvania, Clarion, PA
1987 Arts Exchange - Erie, PA, lectures and demonstrations

Reviews & articles

THE NEW YORK TIMES, Arts & Leisure , “The New Bridge and Tunnel Crowd: by Holland Cotter, March 13, 2005
DIMANCHE.CH Cahier Special, “Les Artistes entre documentation et activisme”, by Maria-Pia Mascaro, 8.9.02
BROOKLYN WOMAN, "Florence Neal Opens Her Studio", by Christine Stenstrom, Volume 1, Number 4, July 1994
THE NEW YORK TIMES, Style, "An artist’s colony grows in Red Hook, Brooklyn", by John Marchese, May 8, 1994
OMAHA WORLD-HERALD, "Flaglike Art Gets Feet Wet", by Kyle Mac Millan, Nov. 5, 1990
BRUTUS - "New York Art Scene is a Survival Game", by Yoshiko Ebihara, Japan, August, 1989
THE DETROIT NEWS, ART by Joy Hakanson Colby, February 14, 1988

Treequina

Catalogs & publications

MARGINALIA, Cover block print "Under the Microscope", Marginalia, Porcupine Press LLC, Pitkin, CO
MOCKERY, A portfolio trubute to Richard Mock- Published by Cannonball Press, 2007
MARGINALIA, Six block prints included in Volume II Issue 3, Fall 2006, Marginalia, Western State College of Colorado, Gunnison, CO
DIALOGUE - New York /Paris Printmakers /Exhibition Catalogue, Curated by Maddy Rosenberg, New York and Le Trait Association Committee, Paris, October, 2005
“Distant Flames”, Artist Book, Edition: 5, Poetry by Abdelkrim Tabal, Translated by Wendy Walker and Rabia Zbkh
“Cycles” Artist Book, Edition: 16
“Usage” By Tom LaFarge, Block print and book cover design.
"Stalking" - Print collaboration with writer, Wendy Walker, for CHAIN 8 publication, Spring, 2001
"Connections" - Artist Book, Three Artists,Three Printmaking Techniques, 1995, edition of 36, Everglade Press.
HERMIT, LETOKRUHY/GROWTHRINGS - Symposium Catalog, Monastery Plasy, Czech Republic, 1993
THE MACHINE IN THE GARDEN, REVISITED - Exhibition catalog, Kingsborough Community College CUNY, Brooklyn, NY 1993
CROSSINGS -Published by the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Spring 1991, 1992, 1995
125 monoprints for art magazine "Crossings", 1995
Block print Cover Design for "Crossings", Edited by Neddi Heller, 1992 Copies included in the collection of MOMA, Stedlijk Museum in Amsterdam, Brooklyn Museum Archives, Franklin Furnace Archives
CAMPUS SCULPTURE EXHIBIT / TOUR V - Exhibition catalog, Cleveland State Community College, Cleveland, Tennessee, 1990
SCULPTURE TOUR - Catalog, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, 1989
SUPLUS: TODAY'S ART IN AN OVERPOPULATED CITY - Catalog, Exit Art, March 28 - April 20, 1986
SOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK - Inaugural exhibition catalog, PO Box 6259, LIC, NY 11/06, 1986
ABC NO RIO DINERO, THE STORY OF A LOWER EAST SIDE GALLERY - Edited by Alan Moore & Marc Miller, published by ABC No Rio & Collaborative Projects, 1985
ARTWORKS IN CITY SPACES - Catalog, Tweed Court House, May, 1986
10 PAINTERS - Exhibition Brochure, text by Greta Gundersen, January, 1985
INTUITION & THE BLOCK PRINT - Catalog, John Nichols Printmakers & Publishers, 1984

 

Grants / awards

2009 Fundación Valparaíso, Mojácar, (Almeria) Spain
2009 Women's Studio Workshop, Printmaking Residency, Rosendale, NY
2008 The Banff Centre, Leighton Artists' Colony , Banff, Alberta, Canada
2007 Nominee - Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award
2007 Hambidge Residency, Rabun Gap, Georgia
2004 Woodstock School of Art Residency, Woodstock, NY
2003 Platte Clove Residency, The Catskill Center, Platte Clove, NY
1990 Pollock-Krasner Foundation
1988 Avocet, Silkscreen Print Studio, Art Awareness, Lexington, NY
1988 NYSCA Honoraria from Prospect Park Alliance, Brooklyn, NY
1987 Mid-Atlantic Arts Consortium, Arts Exchange & Artist in Residence, Erie, PA, April
1984 Sculpture Space, Sculpture Work Residency, Utica, NY

Public collections

The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn NY
Chattahoochee Valley Regional Library, Columbus, GA
Hofstra Museum, Hempstead, NY
Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art, Auburn, AL
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
New York Public Library, Department of Prints, Fifth Ave., & 42nd St., New York, NY
Omaha Public Library, Omaha, NE
University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL