Relationships (I always say) are never easy: especially those between color, shape, texture, space . . . and tension. The relationship of the part to the part, the part to the whole and the relationship of the piece to the viewer . . . no matter what materials I use is all important. I use titles to emotionalize these abstract pieces to help communicate a connection between the individual and the universal whole.
In the metal pieces I use recycled aluminum printing press plates which I sand, cut and glue onto wood panels, they are about energy and light, patterns and motion, all influenced by the microcosm of life forms, biology, and a hint of satire.
Awards & Honors
2011 2011 New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship for Painting
Park Towne Place Catalog NJ State Council on the Arts, Fellowship catalog 2012 New Art International Q-Bix Gallery Magazine September 2006 issue Westin Hotel’s uwishunu “Room 414” catalog AxD Gallery catalog
Collections
SAP Software Corporation, Germany Bank of America, Wilmington, DE NY Presbyterian Children’s Hospital/Morgan Stanley, NY Cooper/Anderson Cancer Hospital, NJ Morgan Lewis Legal Firm, Princeton, NJ Liberty Properties, Malvern, PA Boston Consulting Group, Philadelphia, PA Jenkins and Martin L.L.P., Beaumont, TX Psychology Dept. Princeton University, NJ Park Towne Place, Philadelphia, PA Murano Condominium, Philadelphia, PA State of New Jersey
& many public & private collections
Commissions
Liberty Properties, Malvern, PA
Two posters for Fleisher Art Memorial (Philadelphia Museum of Art)
Section of Aids Quilt for Names Project
Design of Collingswood Centenial History Book
Four calendars for Borough of Collingswood
Design of T-Shirt for Rutgers University
Exhibitions
Solo
2020 Philadelphia Episcopal Cathedral, Philadelphia, PA
2018 BostonStreet Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
CFEVA at Sonesta Hotel, Philadelphia, PA
2017 Burgin Arts Center at Mercersburg, Academy, PA
2015 bahdeebahdu Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
George School, Newtown, PA
2013 Pennswood Gallery, Newtown, PA
2011 – 2012 Color on the Edge, Dalet Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2009 Mixed Metaphors, RoCa Gallery, Harve de Grace, MD
2006 Esquire Deposition, Inc., Philadelphia, PA
2005 Hypno Gallery, Moorestown NJ
Q-Bix Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1996 Main Line Unitarian Church, Devon, PA
1994 Pavilion Gallery, Burlington, NJ
Two-Person
2020 Lynn Dunham and Dolores Poacelli, InLiquid at East Market, Philadelphia, PA
2011 Resonance and Reflections, AxD Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2010 Fabricated Stories, AxD Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2009 Metamorphoses, Dalet Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2004 Opposites Attract, Perkins Center for the Arts, Moorestown, NJ Invitational, with Dallas Piotrowski
1997 Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Group
2018 Who. Are. You. : (Re)Presentation and Challenge, Atlantic Gallery, New York, NY
Dolores Poacelli and Gerri Spilka: Pieces, 990 Spring Garden Street, Philadelphia, PA