Donna Quinn is a Philadelphia painter whose abstract work is inspired by themes central to relationships, space, and the passage of time. Exploring harmony and imbalance, her surfaces recall abandoned spaces with an impreciseness that often accompanies faded memories. She uses a materials-driven process to create layers of paint and mixed media on paper to evoke the passage of time, a sense of loss, and reverence for the past. The result is a highly textured and muted palette etched with organic lines, intuitive marks, and repetitive shapes.
Artist Biography
Donna has widely exhibited her work throughout the U.S. She has received several grants and was a recipient of the Fellowship Award in Painting from the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts. Her work is held in numerous private collections. She is a graduate of Moore College of Art & Design in Philadelphia, PA.
Education
Moore College of Art & Design, Philadelphia, PA BFA
Awards & Honors
2009 Stanley Becker Memorial Award & Dr. Faiga Rubinstein Memorial Award, MCGOPA Annual Spring Show
2008 Fellowship Recipient, Pennsylvania Council of the Arts
2007 Honorable Mention, All Media Open Juried Show, Plastic Club, Philadelphia, PA
Best Abstract Award, 144th Annual Exhibition of Small Oil Paintings, Philadelphia Sketch Club, Philadelphia, PA
1994 Brett Taylor Memorial Award Recipient, Annual Awards Painting Exhibition, Cheltenham Center for the Arts, Cheltenham, PA
1992 Board of Directors Award, Juried Exhibition, Wayne Center for the Arts, Wayne, PA
1990 Fine Art Achievement Award, Binney & Smith Corporation, Annual Painting Competition, Easton, PA
Collection
Windsor Hotel, Philadelphia, PA Binney & Smith Corporation, Easton, PA Penn Medicine, Philadelphia, PA Cira Center, Philadelphia, PA Numerous Private Collections
Exhibition
Solo
2019 Silent Parade, Solo Show at Boston Street Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2014 New Acrylic Paintings, Rosenfeld Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2011 New Acrylic Paintings, Rosenfeld Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2005 Café Lift, Philadelphia, PA
Group
2022 You Are Seeing, Mini MAC Mount Airy Contemporary, Philadelphia, PA
2021 Incubations The Gallery at Scotts Mills, Philadelphia, PA
2020 USPS Art Project Park Towne Place, Philadelphia, PA
USPS Art Project Art Gym, Denver CO
Quaranzine Artspace, Philadelphia, PA
2019 POST20 Open Studio Tours
Your Plus One, 10th Anniversary Show Mount Airy Contemporary, Philadelphia, PA
Visual Democracy Art in City Hall, Philadelphia, PA
Silent Parade Solo Show at Boston Street Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
The Canvas Project Brooklyn Art Library, Brooklyn, NY
CUnbound: Works on Paper Stanek Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2018 Perennial Visions: Member Exhibit DVAA, Philadelphia, PA
Pure Abstraction Stanek Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Achromatic Barbara Crawford Art Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
InLiquid Exhibit Ludlow at East Market
Dear Fleisher, 4 x 6 Inches of Art Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA
Benefit for the Rail Park Philadelphia, PA
Moore College of Art + Design Annual Alumni Exhibit Philadelphia, PA
Kind of Blue Artspace at 1241 Carpenter Street, Philadelphia, PA
GoggleWorks 12th Annual Juried Exhibition Reading PA
Personally Speaking DaVinci Art Alliance at IHP, Philadelphia, PA
2017 Achromatic, Mount Airy Contemporary, Philadelphia, PA Spring Gala Exhibition Main Line Art Center, Haverford, PA Art in the Age of Injustice Women's Caucus for Art at DaVinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA
A Celebration of Life Exhibit Penn Medicine, Philadelphia, PA
4th Biennial SnowFlake Invitational Artspace:1241, Philadelphia, PA
2016 Aqua Art Miami Projects Gallery, Miami, FL
Outside/In: Women's Caucus for Art Scotts Mills Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Dear Fleisher, 4 x 6 Inches of Art Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA
Home: Design Philadelphia 2016, Park Towne Place, Philadelphia, PA
Celebration of Life Exhibit, Penn Medicine, Philadelphia, PA
Annual Alumni Exhibit, Philadelphia, PA Moore College of Art + Design
Art of the State: Pennsylvania 2016, The State Museum of Pennsylvania , Harrisburg, PA
