About the Artist
Michelle Golias
Fine Arts
Michelle Golias was born and spent her early years in the American Midwest. For the last thirty years she has lived in New York City where she has established herself as an artist after study at the Art Students League and the School of Visual Arts.
Proficient and trained in figure painting and portraiture, in recent years Golias has turned her talents to include landscapes having been exposed to the countryside in and around Rockport, Massachusetts, over the course of several summers. The interplay of city life with her work in the landscape of New England has informed her artistic vision, "Painting from life is an amazing experience. It has opened new ways of observing nature and a more profound understanding of its beauty." Although she continues to do much of her work in the studio, plein air painting remains a guiding element in her inspiration. "The experience of the immediate environment has assisted not only my brushwork, but my ability to translate the experience of what I see onto the canvas."
Golias has stated that a primary goal as an artist is to relate, through the medium of a painting, a heightened sense of consciousness to the viewer. "Whether it is in color, mood or atmosphere, through a painting the artist can have a dialogue. The conversation is first with the painting itself, but the dialogue is then extended when it connects with the viewer. The attention of the viewer becomes part of the process. A painting can change not only the energy of an environment, it can also change the viewer. Art can be more than oil on canvas; it can be a tranquil beauty that enhances our lives"
In 2004, Golias' work was recognized in the awarding of a residency in Dinan, France by Les Amis de la Grande Vigne. A painting completed during her tenure was chosen for the permanent collection of the Chateau Museum after a special exhibition of her work.
A life member of the Art Students League and a member of the Artist Circle in New York, Golias exhibits her paintings in galleries and exhibitions in Massachusetts, New Jersey and New York.
Her work is also represented in numerous private collections both in the Untited States and abroad.
Artist Resume
Michelle Golias
Cell: 917 589-6726
email: [email protected]
www.michellegolias.com
Specialties: Oil painting, landscape, still life and portrait
Born: May 12, 1951 Cleveland, Ohio
Education:
Art Students League, New York, NY
School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
Exhibitions:
2006 Noah's Art Stonington, Connecticut
2004 Shakespere's Sister Brooklyn, NY
Group shows
2019 Automatic Studio DUMBO Brooklyn, NY
Small Works Exhibit Charles Fine Art Gloucester, MA
Special Exhibit Les Amis de la Grande Vigne Lehon ,France
2018 Knickerbocker Club Winter Exhibition
Conference Board New York, NY
2017 Chaffetz and Lindsey New York, NY
2016 Landscape Exhibition, Salmagundi Club NY
Salmagundi Club Annual Members Exhibit, NY
Annual Grand Central Social Services Benefit for the Homeless, NY
2015 Winter Exhibition, Knickerbocker Club, NY
Black and white Exhibition, Salmagundi Club, NY
Thumb box Exhibition, Salmagundi Club, NY
2014 Washington Square Art Exhibition, NY
Summer Exhibition, Salmagundi Club,NY
2013 Winter Exhibition, Knickerbocker Club, NY
Portrait Exhibit, Katonah Art Museum, Katonah, NY
2012 Sylvia Glesman Floral Exhibition, Salmagundi Club, New York, NY
Bloom Time Space RealtyGroup, Long Island City, NY
A well-traveled Landscape, Salmagundi Club, NY
2011 Arti et Amicitea, Amsterdam, Holland
Sylvia Glesman Floral Exhibition, Salmagundi Club, New York, NY
Spring Auction , Salmagundi Club, New York, NY
Scenes from Abroad Theme Exhibition Salmagundi Club, New York, NY
City Life Theme Exhibition, Salmagundi Club, New York, NY
2010 Manhattan Borough Presidents Office Gallery, New York, NY
2009 Lynda Anderson Gallery, Locust Valley, New York
2009 Mountain Art Show, Berneardsville, New Jersey
2008 Outback center, New Canaan, Connecticut
2006 Arch Space, New York, NY
2004 Mountain Art Show , Bernardsville, NJ
2002 Washington Square East Gallery, New York, NY
2001 Mill Atelier Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2001 Catherine Lorillard Wolf Art Club New York, NY
1999 Small Small World Gallery, Rockport, Ma.
1996 Madison Gallery, Morristown, NJ
Skylands Art Exhibit, Sussex County, NJ
St. James Art Festival, Hackettestown, NJ
Macculloch Historical Museum, Morristown, NJ
1995 Tewksbury Historical Society, Oldwich, NJ
St. James Art Festival, Hackettestown, NJ
Mountain Art Show, Bernardsville, NJ
1989 Chinoh Art Gallery, New York, NY
Hudson Valley Art Association, Westchester Co. NY
Salmagundi Club, New York, NY
Awards and Associations:
Washington Square Art Exhibit 2nd place in painting fall 2014 and spring 2015
Mountain Maryland 2014 "Plein Air" event Cumberland ,MD
Fredrick Church Award Salmagundi Club, NY 2013
Residency Le Grande Vigne, Dinan, France 2004
Mountain Art Show Award of Excellence 1995 and 2000
St. James Art Festival 1st place oils 1994 2nd place oils 1995
Washington Square Art Exhibit 2nd place oils 1996 and 2015
Life Member Art Students League
Resident Member of the Salmagundi Club NYC 2010-2016
National Association of Women Artists
Teaching Experience:
Private classes and Painting workshops
Plein Air Painting in Central Park
Mandalas for enhancing creativity A.R.E and Unity Center, NY
Painting Demonstrations- Painting from Life
Jackson Heights Art Club, Queens, NY
Collections:
Dinan, France Chateau Museum, Special exhibitions
Private collections in the States, Europe and Japan
