RESUME
BETTE BLANK
SOLO SHOWS
* "Bette Blank: DAILY MIRROR,"
April 2005, Gallery Schlesinger, NY, NY
* "BETTE'S WORLD" The Robert Brown Gallery,
Washington, DC April 2003
* "BY HEART: Paintings by Bette Blank," Pierro
Gallery, Baird Center, South Orange, NJ, September 2003
* "WHAT I HAVE SEEN," New Jersey Center for
Visual Arts, October 2000
COLLECTIONS
* The Jewish Museum, NYC, acquired painting
"Kaddish" for permanent collection, October 2004
* Numerous Private Collections
ART SHOWS and AWARDS
* "ROAD WORKS," Adam Baumgold Gallery, NYC, NY
June 2008
* "A MATTER OF TIME," Andrea Meislin Gallery,
Chelsea, NYC, NY June 2008
* "TEXT MESSAGES," Adam Baumgold Gallery, 74
East 79 Street, NYC, NY, June 15 -August 15, 2007
* "STATE OF THE ARTS," NJN Public
Television, featured Bette Blank, June 22, 2007, 8:30 PM
* "2007 New Jersey Arts Annual," The NOYES MUSEUM,
Oceanville, NJ, 2007
* "BLANK CANVAS," Center of Visual Arts of NJ,
December 2006
* Painting "Kaddish,"
displayed 2006 -2007 in "Cluture & Continuity," The Jewish
Museum, NY
* "Inner Realities, Paintings from the Collection," The
Jewish Museum, NY, NY September 2005
* Ceres Gallery, 6th National Juried
Exhibition, NYC, Curator Feresteh Daflari,
Assistant Curator, MOMA, May 2004
* "NO SHOW" Gallery Schlesinger, Summer
2004
* "RENEWAL" Case Museum, Jersey City NJ, March
2004
* "SYNOPSIS 10" Pierro Gallery, South Orange,
NJ. March 2004
* "FIRST PERSON" Gallery Schlesinger, NYC,
December 2003
* "UNRELENTING STANDARDS" Gallery Schlesinger,
NYC, Summer 2003
* Pleiades Gallery, Annual Juried Exhibition,
Juror: Ann Umland, Curator MOMA, NYC, June 2003
* "OUTSIDER INSIDER" (three artists) Gallery
Schlesinger, NYC, December 2002
" New Jersey Center of Visual Arts, "INTERNATIONAL
JURIED SHOW," January 2003, Award in oil painting,
Juror: Ann Umland, Curator, MOMA, NYC,
* Synchronicity Fine Arts, NY, NY, Juried Show,
Jan 2003
* NJ Center of Visual Arts, merit awards
in oil, Spring 2001 and 2002
* New Jersey Center of Visual Arts, "INTERNATIONAL
JURIED SHOW" first prize in oils, 1972
* On file in National Museum of Women in the Arts,
Washington, DC and
American Museum of Folk Art,
NY.
EDUCATION
* Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA,
Painting: studied with Gregory Amenoff, Marjorie Portnow, Joel
Janowitz,Bert Yarborough. Stone Carving with Lauren Ewing; Monotype with Michael
Mazur
* NJ Center of Visual Arts, Painting with Phil
Scherrod
* Newark Museum School of Art, Methods and
Materials of the Masters
* Brooklyn Museum School of Art, Drawing and
Sculpture
* Richmond Art Center, Richmond California, Oil
Painting with Harry Lum
* Woodstock School of Art Watercolor with
Staats Fassoldt
* Alfred University School of Ceramics, BS & MS in
Ceramic Engineering
* University of California, Berkeley, PhD in Engineering
TEACHING
* Drew University, Madison NJ, Fairleigh Dickinson
University, Kean College, NJ
* Fairleigh Dickinson University, Madison,
NJ