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SELECTED ART EXHIBITIONS:
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2020
Here and Hereafter, Five Points Gallery, East Gallery, Torrington, CT (SOLO SHOW)
2019
The Big Show: All Animals Welcome, Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ
Animalia, Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh, NY
Figuration, Walter Wickiser Gallery, NYC
Home Sweet Home, Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh, NY
2018
Represented by Concepto Hudson Gallery, Hudson, NY
Las Gravitas, ODETTA, Brooklyn, NY
#Unload: Pick up the Pieces, Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT
UB and HCC Art and Design Faculty Show, Schelfhaudt Gallery, University of Bridgeport, CT
Internal Vision, Concepto Hudson, Hudson, NY (THREE PERSON SHOW)
Exchange, Utah Art Alliance, Salt Lake City, UT
Monster, Hans Weiss Newspace Gallery, Manchester Community College, Manchester, CT
Silence Breakers, Ely Center of Contemporary Art with Nasty Woman of CT, New Haven, CT
The Eighties, Concepto Hudson, Hudson, NY
Beautiful Minds, Pop-up Show, Arcilesci Homberg Fine Arts, NYC
Valentine, Concepto Hudson, Hudson, NY
2017
Playground, Walter Wickiser Gallery, NYC
Second Dream, Pop-Up Show, Spring Street Natural, Arcilesci Homberg Fine Arts, NYC
In Grace We Trust, Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT
Nasty Women, The Library Institute, New Haven, CT
Crossing Borders, Burt Chernow Galleries, Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport, CT
2016
The BIG small show, Victory Hall Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ
Child’s Play, ODETTA, Brooklyn, NY (FEATURED FLAT-FILE ARTIST)
One Late Night, Installation, Space B, Brooklyn, NY
Nation IV, Through the Rabbit Hole, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Aesthetic Allusions, Burt Chernow Galleries, Housatonic Museum of Art and Bridgeport City Hall,
Bridgeport, CT
2015
Small Work Sampler, Read’s Art Space, Bridgeport, CT
Parallels, Burt Chernow Galleries, Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport, CT
Reverance for Life, Albert Schweitzer Institute, Quinnipiac University, Hamden, CT
Sideshow Nation III, Circle the Wagons, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2014
Seeking Space, The Active Space, Brooklyn, NY
One Plus One, Schelfhaudt Gallery, University of Bridgeport, CT
Smackdown II Immersion Salon, Beechwood Arts, Westport, CT
(A)Muse, Burt Chernow Galleries, Housatonic Museum of Art and Bridgeport City Hall, Bridgeport, CT
Beauty and Wonder of Nature, Albert Schweitzer Institute, Quinnipiac University, Hamden, CT
Art/BPT/2014, City Lights Gallery, Bridgeport, CT
Sideshow Nation II at the Alamo, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2013
Home Sweet Home, Westport Art Center, Westport, CT
Alumni Exhibition, Power Art Center, William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ
On the Road, Burt Chernow Galleries, Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport, CT
Sideshow Nation, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2012
Thick to Thin, Brooklyn Fire Proof, Brooklyn, NY
MIC:CHECK (OCCUPY), Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
AiW Norwalk Art Commission Public Art, Norwalk, CT
A Collection of Dissimilar Things, Burt Chernow Galleries, Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport, CT
Animal Life, Blue Hill Art & Cultural Center, Pearl River, NY
2011
Splash, Housatonic Museum of Art, Burt Chernow Galleries, Bridgeport, CT
Evolution, Housatonic Museum of Art, Burt Chernow Galleries Bridgeport, CT
It’s All Good, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Seeing Trees, Blue Hill Art & Cultural Center, Pearl River, NY
Plein-air and Still life paintings represented by Geary Gallery, Darien CT
2010
Flower (RE) Power, Housatonic Museum of Art, Burt Chernow Galleries Bridgeport, CT
It’s a Wonderful 10th, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Plein-air and Still life paintings represented by Geary Gallery, Darien CT
2009
Art of the Bird, Blue Hill Art & Cultural Center, Pearl River, NY
Dem Bones, Dem Bones, Carriage Barn Art Center, New Canaan, CT (Curator and exhibiting artist)
Continuing Threads and New Voices, Ramapo College of NJ, Mahwah, NJ
2008
Fish, Carriage Barn Art Center, New Canaan CT
New Works, The Terrance Joyce Gallery, Greenport, NY (TWO-PERSON SHOW)
Journey: Stories My Mother Told Me, The Barnum Museum, Bridgeport, CT
Spectrum 2008, New Canaan Art Center, New Canaan CT
2007
Les Landes, Arts Alliance of Haverstraw, Haverstraw, NY (SOLO EXHIBIT)
Migration, Black Rock Art Center, Bridgeport, CT (TWO-PERSON SHOW)
Mixed Media @ Relish, Sparkhill, NY (SOLO EXHIBIT)
2006
First Look 2006 Emerging Artists Series, Visual Arts Center of NJ, Summit, NJ
Blank Canvas, Visual Arts Center of NJ, Summit, NJ
The Season, Arts Alliance of Haverstraw, Haverstraw, NY
Highlight Connecticut, Black Rock Art Center, Bridgeport, CT
Caressing Death (Ribcage) Installation, Warehouse Space, Garnerville Arts Project, Garnerville, NY
Rage Against the Machine, Spire Studios, Beacon, NY
Material Matters II, Power Art Gallery, William Paterson University, Wayne NJ
2005
Red is Everywhere, Sculpture Grounds, Rockland Center for the Arts, W. Nyack, N
Lydia Viscardi, 200 E. 36th St Gallery, New York, NY (SOLO EXHIBIT)
Reasonably Straight Digital Photography, Center Gallery at Old Church, Demarest, NJ
Material Matters: Sculpture, Ceramics, Wood, Power Art Gallery, William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ
Addendum, Ramapo College, Kresge/Pascal Gallery, Mahwah, NJ
2004
Selected Works in Oil and Mixed Media, Blue Heron Arts Center, NY, NY (SOLO EXHIBIT)
Selected Works, Pomona Cultural Center, Pomona NY (THREE-PERSON SHOW)
15th Annual Small Works Show, Center Gallery at Old Church, Demarest NJ
2003
14th Annual NJ Small Works Show, Center Gallery at Old Church, Demarest, NJ
Garnervillle Arts Expo, Garnerville Arts & Industrial Center, Garnerville, NY
New Work, Power Art Gallery, William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ
Birds II, an invitational, Edward Hopper House Art Center, Nyack, NY
2002
The Birds, An Invitational Center Gallery at Old Church, Demarest, NJ
Lydia Viscardi, Center Gallery at Old Church, Demarest, NJ (SOLO EXHIBITION)
Garnerville Arts Expo, Garnerville Arts & Industrial Exchange, Garnerville, NY
13th Annual NJ Small Works Show, Center Gallery at Old Church, Demarest, NJ
Glue Too, New Century Artists Gallery, NYC
2001
Small Matters of Great Importance, Edward Hopper Art Center, Nyack, NY
Contemporary Collage Now, Nexus Gallery, NYC
Getting It Together: Collage Assemblage Society, Center for Digital Art & Community Artists,
Times Square Gallery,NYC
Glue! Collage Assemblage Society, New Century Artists Gallery, NYC
2000
Lydia Viscardi, Arts Council of Rockland, Spring Valley, NY (SOLO EXHIBIT)
Lydia Viscardi, Rockland County Legislature, New City, NY (SOLO EXHIBIT)
Faculty Exhibit, Rockland Center for the Arts, W. Nyack, NY
Small Matters of Great Importance, Edward Hopper Art Center, Nyack, NY
Landscape – Fauna and Flora, Pomona Cultural Center, Pomona, NY
11th Annual Small Works Exhibit, Center Gallery at Old Church, Demarest, NJ
1998 -1999
Millennium Exhibit, Pomona Cultural Center, Pomona, NY
Nine Choose Nine, Rockland Center for the Arts, W. Nyack, NY
Focus on the Figure, Edward Hopper Art Center, Nyack, NY
1996 -1997
The Multi-Dimensional Shoe Show, Edward Hopper Art Center, Nyack, NY
Personal Mythology: Faculty Exhibit, Hudson Arts, Tomkins Cove, NY
If the Shoe Fits, FAO Gallery, NYC
1994 -1995
It’s Love, Rockland Center for the Arts, W. Nyack, NY
Functional Art, Tomkins Cove Art Center, Tomkins Cove, NY
Focus on the Figure, Edward Hopper Art Center, Nyack, NY
1982 -1983
Graphic Art, Burnside Gallery, Greenport, NY
Images of Spring and Summer, Burnside Gallery, Greenport, NY
Closeness and Clash in Art and Life, Terrain Gallery, NYC
Winter, Burnside Gallery, Greenport, NY
Graphics, Burnside Gallery, Greenport, NY
New Drawings in America, The Drawing Center, NYC
Three Artists, Burnside Gallery, Greenport, NY (THREE- PERSON SHOW)
1976 -1979
Previously Unseen, The Drawing Center, NYC
Annual Juried Exhibition, The Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY
AWARDS:
2nd Place: Journey: Stories My Mother Told Me, 2008
Barnum Museum, Bridgeport, CT, Exhibition funded by the National Endowment for the Arts
Creative Achievement in Visual Arts, May 2006
Honors College of William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ
Nomination: Aljira Emerge, Newark, NJ, December 2006
Nominated by Mari D’Allesandro, NJ Center for Visual Art, Summit, NJ
First Look Emerging Artists Series, 2005
New Jersey Center for Visual Art, Summit, NJ, Mari D’Allesandro, Exhibitions Director
Award for Excellence: 15th Annual NJ Small Works Show, 2004
Center Gallery, Old Church Cultural Center, Demarest, NJ
Juror: Anthony Grant, owner, Anthony Grant, Inc. Gallery, New York, NY
Recipient: Vermont Studio Center fellowship, 2003 (postponed)
Award for Excellence: 13th Annual NJ Small Works Show, 2002
Center Gallery, Old Church Cultural Center, Demarest, NJ
Juror: Robert Koenig, Director, The African Museum of the SMA Fathers, Tenafly, NJ
Honorable Mention Painting: 11th Annual NJ Small Works Show, 2000
Center Gallery, Old Church Cultural Center, Demarest, NJ
Juror: Jacquelyn Roesch-Sanchez, Director, Montclair Art Museum Yard School of Art
PUBLICITY:
CTPost - print and online by subscription, Sunday Arts & Style, Aug. 30, 2020 Confronting Our Mortality, Amanda Cuda
Waterbury's Republican American - print and online August 28, 2020 https://www.rep-am.com/
Voices, www.voicesnews.com, August 26, 2020: Newtown Artist showcased at Five Points Gallery
New Haven Register online, August 18, 2020: Five Points Gallery Show features work by Lydia Viscardi https://www.nhregister.com/entertainment/article/Five-Points-Gallery-show-features-works-by-Lydia-15493903.php
Torrington Register Citizen online 08/18/20 https://www.registercitizen.com/entertainment/article/Five-Points-Gallery-show-features-works-by-Lydia-15493903.php
https://artspiel.org/las-gravitas-at-odetta/
Connecticut Post, Art Bonanza at UB Gallery, Nov. 5, 2015
https://twitter.com/hyperallergic/status/473257044783669248
http://artsinbushwick.org/bos2014/directory/seeking-space/
CT Post-Chronicle, Arts & Leisure, “QU's Albert Schweitzer Institute exhibit to showcase 'Beauty & Wonder of Nature' ”, April 2, 2014
Articles.courant, http://articles.courant.com/2014-03-30/community/hcrs-87238-hamden-20140328_1_quinnipiac-faculty-quinnipiac-university-art-exhibit, |John Pettit, March 30, 2014
Balanced Rock: The North Salem Review of Art, Literature and Photography, Vol. I, 2013, Mouse that Flies, Concklin’s Orchard Southeast View
Mother-musing.com – Interview
http://mother-musing.com/blog/2012/08/11/lydia-viscardi-rooms-in-the-house/
(An Appropriate Distance) FROM THE MAYOR’S DOORSTEP, ‘The Latest Super Spectacular”, http://www.pirihalasz.com/blog.htm?month=2012-01, Piri Halasz,
Connecticut Post, Pulse, Re-energizing the Flower, Phyllis A.S. Boros, 2010
Newstimes.com, http://www.newstimes.com/default/article/Housatonic-Museum-re-empowers-the-flower-in-Bridgeport 520721.php, Phyllis A. S. Boros, June 11, 2010
Culture Catch, http://www.culturecatch.com/art/dem-bones, by Margaret Roleke, November 10, 2009
Rivertown, “Garnerville Arts Festival”, June 2006
Greater Haverstraw Happenings, “Gaga Arts Festival”, Caressing Death / Ribcage, Mixed media installation, 2005, June 2006, Vol. 4, No. 5
Dan’s Papers, “Lydia Viscardi at Blue Heron”, Jan.14, 2005
Bergen Record, Arts & Leisure, “Photography exhibit on display at the art school”, August 3, 2005
Northern Valley Suburbanite, “OCCC gallery hosts Viscardi exhibit”, Arrival and Departure, oil and collage on masonite, 2001, July 5, 2002
The Journal News, Small Scale, Self Portrait as Mary Cassatt, oil and collage on panel, 2001, Sept. 6, 2001
Arts Happenings, August Noon Heat, assemblage, 2000, Nov 2000, Vol. 25 – No. 11
Arts Happenings, Holy Moly, mixed media, 1999, Aug./Sept 2000 Vol. 25 – No. 8/9
Newsday, The Arts & Entertainment, Art Review, “Images of Spring and Summer”, June 14, 1983
The Sun, Arts/Entertainment, “Greenport’s Burnside Gallery: Images in a Variety of Media”, June 2, 1983
Art/World, New York Exhibitions, “Couples”, May 1983
The New York Times, “Images of the North Fork”, August 8, 1982
Sunstorm, “Savoring the North Fork”, Couch Series, silkscreen, 1974, Oct. 1981
The Suffolk Times, “Lively Arts: Burnside Show”, Sept 17, 1981
Newsday, Art Review, “ Prints of the Island”, Sept. 11, 1981
Manhattan Catalog, Art Review, “Three Artists”, 1980