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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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