Professional Background
Education: Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, with additional studies at The Montclair Art Museum School of Art, Montclair, NJ; Foundation for Arts and Sciences, Loveladies, NJ; plus study with numerous painters, including Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr., Tom Vincent and Istvan Valohovícs.
Galleries currently handling my work include Easy Street Gallery, Nantucket, MA; Pegasus Gallery, Quechee, VT; MyArtery Gallery, Grantham, NH; and Chaffee Center for Visual Arts, Rutland, VT; linked with Agora Gallery, New York, NY.
Invitational Juried Shows during 15 year painting career in New Jersey include in part Sydney Rothman Gallery, Barnegat Light, NJ; Foundation for Arts and Sciences, Loveladies, NJ; Art Association of West Essex, NJ; Art Center of NJ Regional Show, East Orange and Summit, NJ. Recently, my work has been accepted into shows including "Spring, 2008: Alumni Invitational Show" Tang Museum and Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NH; "Art for Caring" exhibit/auction, Montclair, NJ; ArtSpace214 Gallery, Montclair, NJ; Women Artists of the Upper Valley, Pegasus Gallery, Quechee, VT; and twice-yearly shows at Chaffee Center for Visual Arts, Rutland, VT.
Solo Exhibitions: New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Newark, NJ; Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH, March, 2007; featured artist at Woodsum Gallery, Warner, NH, September, 2007; and Chaffee Center for Visual Arts, December, 2007.
Dual Exhibitions: Wall Street Gallery, Madison, CT; The Artery, Caldwell, NJ; Co-op Café Gallery, Lebanon, NH, May 2005; Pegasus Gallery, Quechee, VT, October, 2006.
Group Exhibitions: Participated in numerous New Jersey group exhibitions prior to move to Vermont. After 2000, work was included in shows at the Co-op Gallery, 2004 (four artists); ARTWORKS Holiday Exhibit 2003, 2004, 2005; ARTWORKS Town House Gallery Exhibits 2003, 2004, Strafford, VT; ARTWORKS Galleries in the Gardens, 2004; Full Moon Community Café, South Strafford, VT, 2000, 2001; Pegasus Gallery, Quechee, VT; Woodsum Gallery, Lake Sunapee, NH and Warner, NH; Montana Gifts and Gallery, West Yellowstone, MT.
Commissions include three works included in Parks Portrayed in Pen and Paint, a book of poetry and art portraying three National Parks -- Yellowstone, Yosemite and the Grand Canyon -- published spring, 2005; illustrations for French from Four to Seven by Barbara Hippel Kodjak. Extensive portrait work is by commission. Work was also featured in Lifelines magazine of the Arts, Dartmouth Medical School, spring, 2006.
Awards: In NJ, Best in Show, Autumn Exhibit, Washington, NJ; Commendation, Art Center of NJ Regional Show. After 2000, Purchase Award, "Art for Caring" exhibit/auction, Montclair, NJ, 2005.
Collections: Work has been 1) purchased to be hung at the Senior Care Facility in Montclair, NJ and in the NJ Division on Aging, Trenton, NJ; 2) exhibited in the corporate workplace, including The DMGroup, NY, NY; McCaffrey McCall Direct, New York NY; Young & Rubicam, New York, NY; and; and 3) hangs in numerous private collections.
Press:
Times Argus and Vermont Today staff writer Anne Galloway describes Reese’s works as “gems,” saying “Her spare, impressionistic style gives the layered patches of snow, tufts of grass and ridge lines emerging in the background an authentic naturalism.”Marc Awodney, Art Critic for Seven Days, Vermont’s Alternative Weekly: "The show's other noteworthy works are modest in scale, (including) two horizontal triptychs by Deborah Frankel Reese, oil landscapes on which layers of tissue paper provide skin like textures and deep strata of color.”
Eileen Watkins, Art Critic, Newark Star Ledger: “Reese shows she is adept at animal forms, even while she presents them as dreamlike, fading into their surroundings… Her satisfying, strong figure work shows she is adept at composition.”
Membership: Slide Registry of NJ Women Artists, Rutgers University; NJ Art Index Slide Registry, Newark Museum; StudioMontclair; Vermont Arts Council; AVA Gallery; Access Arts® Network; Strafford ARTWORKS.