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RESUME: SANDRA CORPORA |
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Artist’s Statement
The landscapes in this exhibition are motifs found
in Italy and Pennsylvania. Each landscape location
has a particular attraction and the challenge lies
in making the painting feel authentic to that. In
each location I was attracted by the specific light,
color and shapes unique to those places. Those elements
were created by the roll of the land, or time of
day, or the atmosphere that sharpened or softened
the colors. The still life paintings were mostly
inspired by the harvest of fruit, flowers and vegetables
grown in our garden. Being able to watch these subjects
grow and mature gave me a connection with them and
an anticipation of what I wanted to convey in painting
them.
About the Artist
Sandra Corpora received her BFA from Kutztown University,
with the award for top fine arts graduate. She worked
as an art teacher, creative director and home designer
before starting to paint full time. Since then, she
has received numerous painting awards and has exhibited
in many juried shows. She has received commissions
for landscapes and portraits. Ms. Corpora maintains
her studio in historic Bethlehem and paints on location
in the US, Canada and Europe. Her paintings are in
private and public collections in the United States,
Canada and Italy.
Selected Exhibitions / Juried Shows / Awards
2007 Solo Exhibition, Gross McCleaf Gallery, Recent
Work
2006 Bethlehem Palette Club Fall Juried Exhibition,
(Award)
 Allentown
Art Museum Designer Show House, Featured Artist
Lehigh
Art Alliance Fall Juried Art Exhibition, (Award)
2005 “A Moment in Time,” Juried Exhibition,
Payne Gallery, Moravian College
Bethlehem
Palette Club Exhibition, Rotunda Gallery City Hall,
(People’s Choice Award)
Bethlehem
Palette Club Juried Exhibition, Allentown Art Museum,
(Award)
“Allentown
Impressions: Views of City Parks,” Allentown
Art Museum
2004 Oil Painters of America Thirteenth Annual National
Juried Exhibition, (Award of Excellence)
2003 Historic Yellow Springs Annual Exhibition, PA
2002 “Best Loudoun County Artist” award
at Waterford Red Barn Art Exhibit, VA
Artist
in Residence, Inn at Spry Point, PEI, Canada
Gallery
222/Loudoun Academy of the Arts Foundation Juried
Show, VA
Historic
Yellow Springs Annual Exhibition, PA
Summer
New Works Exhibition, Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia,
PA
2001 Solo exhibition, Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia,
PA
American
Artist magazine, July article “The River as
Muse”
“Best
Loudoun County Artist” award at Waterford Red
Barn Art Exhibit, VA
Featured
workshop instructor, Lehigh River Sojourn 2001
Public
Commission, Castel di Lucio, Italy
2000 “Riverscapes: Paintings from Lehigh River
Sojourn 2000,”
Artist
in Residence Lehigh Valley Wildlands Conservancy,
Emmaus, PA
Bethlehem
Palette Club Juried Exhibition at the Allentown Art
Museum, PA (Award)
“The
Amazing Animal Show,” Salon des Amis, Valley
Forge, PA
Phillips
Mill 71st Juried Art Exhibition, New Hope, PA
Kutztown
University Invitational Alumni Show, Open Space Gallery,
Allentown
Philadelphia
Sketch Club, 137th Annual Exhibition of Small Oil
Paintings (Award)
1999 Featured Artist: Artists of the Lehigh Valley,
Lehigh Valley Hospital, Allentown
Invitational
Salon Exhibition of Small Works, New Arts Program,
Kutztown, PA
Phillips
Mill 70th Juried Art Exhibition, New Hope, PA
Yellow
Springs Art Exhibition/Sale, Historic Yellow Springs,
PA
Phillips
Mill 70th Juried Art Exhibition, New Hope, PA
Solo
exhibition: “Plein Air Paintings,” Northampton
Community College, PA
1998 Phillips Mill 69th Juried Art Exhibition, New
Hope, PA
Solo
exhibition: “Recent Paintings,” Bethlehem
City Hall Gallery, PA
1998-2007 Yellow Springs Juried Art Exhibition/ Sale,
Historic Yellow Springs, PA
1997 Featured Muralplatz Artist, Musikfest, Bethlehem,
PA
“River
Reflections: Images of the Lehigh in Art,” Sand
Island, Bethlehem, PA
Mayfair
Regional Art Exhibition, Allentown, PA
Art
Association of Harrisburg, 69th Annual Juried Exhibition,
Harrisburg, PA
Lehigh
Art Alliance, 62nd Annual Spring Juried Exhibition,
Mountain Top
Campus,
Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA (Award)
The
Philadelphia Sketch Club, 134th Annual Exhibition
of Small Oil Paintings, Philadelphia, PA
“The
3 of Hearts,” Juried Group Show, Artzon Coop
Art Gallery, Orefield, PA (Award)
Woodmere
Art Museum, 57th Annual Juried Exhibition, Philadelphia,
PA
“The
River As Muse” Juried Group Show by the Contemporary
Arts Corridor, at Williams Center for the Arts, Lafayette
College, Easton, PA
1996 The Baum School of Art, 7th Bi-Annual Juried
Painting Exhibition, Allentown, PA
Berks
Art Alliance 19th Regional Juried Exhibition at the
Reading Museum, Reading, PA
Tenth
Annual Art Exhibition & Sale, Lehigh Valley Hospital,
Allentown, PA
“Art
in the Garden,” Rodale Institute Research Center,
Kutztown, PA
Binney & Smith
Mural Competition for Three Rivers Landing, Easton,
PA, (Finalist and Second Prize)
Woodmere
Art Museum, 56th Annual Juried Exhibition, Philadelphia,
PA
1995 Faulty Beagle/Blue Orchid Invitational Fine
Art Exhibition, Mertztown, PA
The
Salmagundi Club 18th Annual Non-Member Juried Art
Exhibition, New York, NY
Mayfair
Regional Juried Art Exhibition, Allentown, PA
“Beginnings” Open
Juried Exhibition, Pearl S. Buck Foundation, Inc.,
Dublin, PA
Lehigh
Art Alliance 60th Annual Fall Juried Exhibition,
Bethlehem Rotunda, PA (Award)
“Art
in the Garden,” Rodale Institute Research Center,
Kutztown, PA
Ninth
Annual Art Exhibition & Sale, Lehigh Valley Hospital,
Allentown, PA (Purchase Award)
1995 Solo exhibition: “Figures & Landscapes,” Design
Accent Gallery, Allentown, PA
1994 Lehigh Art Alliance 59th Annual Fall Juried
Exhibition, Allentown Art Museum (Best of Show)
Eighth
Annual Juried Art Exhibition & Sale, Lehigh Valley
Hospital, Allentown, PA (Purchase Award)
Everhart
Museum, Nay Aug Park, Scranton, PA
39th
Hazleton Art League Open Juried Show, Hazleton, PA
“Visions
of the Landscape,” Kutztown, PA
“Art
in the Garden,” Rodale Institute Research Center,
Kutztown, PA
1991 Mayfair Regional Juried Art Exhibition, Allentown,
PA (Third place award)
Workshops and Demonstrations
2007 Parkland Art League demonstration: “Oil
Painting a Landscape”
2005 Bethlehem Palette Club Meeting: “Gold
Leafing made easy” demo and hands-on
2003 Artist-in Residence, Spry Point, Prince Edward
Island
2002 “Plein Air Painting,” 5 day workshop,
Spry Point, Prince Edward Island
2001 “Landscape Painting,” demo and one
day workshop, Nature Conservancy River Sojourn
1998 Wrote and taught a curriculum for a home schooled
high school student combining and interweaving Art
History, Art Principals, and Studio Art.
1997 “How to Gold Leaf,” guest art teacher
at Emmaus High School.
1996 “Paint the Landscape,” One day program
for Girls Club of Allentown during summer art camp
with 60 girls, ages 7 to 12 in West Park, Allentown. |
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