|
Andrea Pacione (b. 1978) is an American contemporary oil painter and poet. She serves as an Adjunct Professor for the Arts and Communication Department at SUNY Orange and a Part-Time Oil Painting Instructor for the Adult and Continuing Education Department at Orange-Ulster BOCES. Andrea’s deep background in drawing, painting, research, writing and public speaking has prepared her for these teaching appointments, and for the establishment of her own art studio and gallery hybrid, Pacione Studio Gallery at 75 Broadway in Newburgh, New York. Pacione’s recent solo show, Hot Pink Getaway, debuted at the Mindy Ross Gallery in Kaplan Hall at the SUNY Orange Newburgh campus. This body of work is autobiographic in that it is addresses childhood trauma, chronic illness, the struggle of living with disability; and in the larger sense hopefully encompassing the psychological and spiritual triumph of self- actualization. Andrea graduated from SUNY New Paltz summa cum laude, with high honors. She also continued her scientific and mathematical passions through membership in the New Paltz Biology club and continues interdisciplinary research in her studio process. Andrea wrote the Randi S. Eisman Memorial Scholarship for SUNY Orange, the only scholarship tailored specifically for the visual arts majors.
|
"The difference between work and labor is that work is something we have to do out of obligation, such as the laundry, dishes, paying bills, etc., while labor is something we do as an act of gratitude towards developing a gift. Labor is the journey from the gift of talent in its naked, undisciplined form to one that is fully realized, and fully received. Labor is the expression of gratitude for the gift. Sometimes when I get to painting, it flows easily and doesn't feel like work at all. It is just an occurrence of my body, like breathing. But, sometimes it is laborious in that I have to work for awhile to get myself into that pure state. Sometimes it is just pushing paint until the right state is achieved. Maybe that moment I labor for is the moment when I am completely out of my own way, and the genie is out of the bottle, doing the work for me. My labor, in that sense, is the exercise of removing myself as the tree laying over the highway, and then the vehicle can just hit full throttle. I always feel extreme gratitude for the labor I put in to achieve that state of being, that feels like flying."
—Andrea Pacione |
|
Solo Exhibitions
2023 Hot Pink Getaway, Pacione Studio Gallery, Newburgh, NY 2022 Hot Pink Getaway, Mindy Ross Gallery, Newburgh, NY 2017 Toral Exchange: An Exercise in Coherence, Kurt Seligmann Center Gallery, Sugar Loaf, NY 2017 Heart Math, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, NY 2017 Toral Shapes, Greenwood Lake Public Library, Greenwood Lake, NY 2015 The Perfidy of Life: Je ne suis pas un artiste, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, NY 2014 - 2015 Private Collection, The House of Dr. Donald Christian, New Paltz, NY 2011 godfun, Upfront Exhibition Space, Port Jervis, NY Group Exhibitions 2019 Essence of Woman, Element Square Gallery, Middletown, NY 2018 CELEBRATION, Catalyst Gallery, Beacon, NY 2017 People's Choice, Greenpoint Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2017 PRESS:PAUSE, Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn, NY [Catalog] 2017 THE COMFORT OF STRANGENESS, The Lodge, Chester, NY 2016 SUNY Student Best of Art Show and Exhibit, New York State Museum, Albany, NY 2014 People's Choice, Greenpoint Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2012 Dreams, Stories, and Allegories, Orange Hall Gallery, Middletown, NY 2012 Re: Compositioning, Harriman Student Gallery, Middletown, NY Art Fairs 2014 Tri-State Chamber of Commerce Annual Arts Walk, Port Jervis, NY Publications 2022 "Mindy Ross Gallery Presents its Opening Exhibit," Hudson Valley Press, February 2, 2022. 2020 "Student Art Show is Virtual," Times Hudson Valley, May 27, 2020. 2018 "Orange County Arts Council Visits the Studio of Andrea Pacione," Orange County Arts Council, April 2018. 2017 Heart Math: MFA Thesis - Painting, SUNY Open Access Repository, May 2017. 2014 "Eve Kali-ing Out," Chronogram Magazine, 2014. 2012 "Restoring the Goddess," Academia.edu 2011 "Pacione to Read at Poetry on the Loose," Warwick Advertiser, September 29, 2011. 2011 "140 caractères pour s'illustrer," Le Monde, November 16, 2011. 2008 Narrative in Health Care: Healing Patients, Practitioners, Profession, and Community, James D. Engel, Radcliffe Publishing, print. 2004 Voices From Earth, James Miller, Trafford Publishing, print. An anthology featuring Einstein, Lao Tzu, Rilke, Goethe, Gibran, Ryokan, Tagore, Thoreau and Emerson. |
Education
2017 M.F.A. Painting-Drawing State University of New York at New Paltz, New Paltz, New York Research and Creative Projects Award Grant (2015 & 2016) Alex Martin Scholarship Sojourner Truth Fellow 3.6 2016 Study Abroad Summer Session Summer Studies in Art History: The Influence of the Ancient Greeks in Sicily and Southern Italy 🇮🇹 2016 Study Abroad Winter Intercession London Art Seminar London, United Kingdom 🇬🇧 2015 B.F.A. Painting-Drawing (These paintings live at College Hall, room 111, The Honors Center) State University of New York at New Paltz, New Paltz, New York Honors Program, Italian Club, Biology Club Celebrating New Paltz Regional Scholarship, 2012 3.7 2012 Summer Internship, Field Biology SUNY Purchase College, Purchase, New York Scientific research on the hydrogeomorphological effects of beaver dam building in the New York City Water sheds of Putnam County, NY 2012 A.A.S. Visual Communications/Graphic Design Orange County Community College (SUNY Orange), Middletown, NY Focus in oil painting Raymond Raimondi Alumni Memorial Scholarship, 2011 Phi Theta Kappa 3.9 Experience 2021—present Drawing & Painting Instructor, Pacione Studio Gallery, Newburgh, NY 2021—present Oil Painting Instructor, Orange-Ulster BOCES, Goshen and Newburgh, NY. Painting for Beginners, Drawning I & II. 2018—present Adjunct Professor, SUNY Orange. Middletown and Newburgh, NY. Figure Drawing I & II, History of Modern Art, Drawing I, Color Theory 2017—2018 Executive Director, Kurt Seligmann Center Gallery, Sugar Loaf, NY 2015—2016 Graduate Teaching Assistant, SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, NY. Drawing II, Digital Painting (graduate and undergraduate) |
