Artist Statement

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.

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Awards & Honors

2011
2011 New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship for Painting

2000
Fleisher Challenge, Philadelphia, PA

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Bibliography

Caparella, Kitty, “Dolores Poacelli: 315 works, 4 shows, 1 artist,” artblog, November 25, 2015

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Publications

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

Navigating Elements, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ

2017
Sonesta Hotel Art Bar, Philadelphia, PA

Park Towne Place in Phila, Philadelphia, PA

2015
Old Enough to Know Better: Women’s Caucus on the Arts, Crane Arts, Philadelphia, PA

First Street Gallery, New York, NY

Black & White, Trenton Museum at Ellarslie, Trenton, NJ

2013
Cellular/Molecular Exhibition, Esther M. Klein Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Library of Life Exhibition, Art in City Hall, Philadelphia, PA

Meridian Hotel, Philadelphia, PA

2012
/adaptations/, Provenance Architecturals part of Design Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA

2011
Fall Art Exhibit, Gloucester County College, Deptford, NJ

Color by Numbers, James Oliver Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

REAL Abstract, Hopkins House Gallery of Contemporary Art, Collingswood, NJ

Art in the Open Exhibition, Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia, PA

Art in the Open, Philadelphia, PA

Annex Exhibit, James Oliver, Public Ledger Builing, Philadelphia, PA

2010
Redux/8 NJ Artists, Stedman Gallery, Rutgers University, Camden, NJ

the Architect Show, James Oliver Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2008
The Green Exhibit, Art in City Hall, Philadelphia, PA
Juried Exhibition

2007
Room 414, Westin Hotel, Philadelphia, PA
Sponsored by uwishunu
Curators: Eileen Tognini and RJ Thornburg

2006
Metalic Exhibit, Bahdeebahdu, Philadelphia, PA
Invitational

The Pressed Image, Art in City Hall, Philadelphia, PA
Juried Exhibition

Art in The Garden, Hawk Mountain, PA
Juried Exhibition

Gallery RoCa, Havre de Grace, MD

QBix Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2005
Anniversary Exhibit, Art in City Hall, Philadelphia, PA
Juried Exhibition

International Art Competion, Agora Gallery, New York, NY

2003
Delaware Center for Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE
Juried Exhibition

2002
Non-objective Painting and Sculpture, Art in City Hall, Philadelphia, PA
Juried Exhibition

Absence of Color, Art Forms Gallery, Manayunk, PA
Juried Exhibition

2001
8 Women, Inliquid at DiPalma, Philadelphia, PA

2000
Wind Challenge, Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA

Agora Gallery, New York, NY

Chamber of Commerce, Philadelphia, PA

1999
Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA