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@frankiegardiner
Born in 1949 in Beverly, Massachusetts, USA, Frankie Gardiner now lives in Vermont. She received a BAA from Boston University in 1981 and an MFA from The School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts in 1996. She has shown her work all over the United States and Canada, and her work is in private collections in the USA, Canada, France, Portugal, Belgium and the UK. She is currently being represented by Galerie LarocheJoncas in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
EXHIBITIONS
2020
Art Toronto, Galerie LarocheJoncas, online
Window Mood, DISTANCE Gallery (Curator Brit Pruiksma), online
From There to Here @ La Shed, Galerie LarocheJoncas, Gabarus, Nova Scotia
Sand Between My Teeth, TSA PDF Series, Tiger Strikes Asteroid Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (curator Adam Lovitz), online
Flatfile, flatfile.gallery, online
Shelf Life, Jake's One Market, Burlington, VT (curator Martin Bromirski) SOLO
Helen Day Art Center Members Show, Stowe, VT
2019
So So Hot: Dreaming of Walking on Blue Blue Water, Catamount Arts, St Johnsbury, VT (curator Katherine French) SOLO
On Paper: Frankie Gardiner and Axel Stohlberg, City Center, Montpelier, VT
Fifth Annual Arts Connect Show, Catamount Arts, St Johnsbury, VT (juror Katie Wood Kirchhoff)
Helen Day Art Center Members' Show, Stowe, VT
Dark Matter, The Space Gallery, Burlington, VT (juror Christy Mitchell)
The New Land Show: Bascha Mon and Invited Artists, The Center for Contemporary Art, Bedminster, NJ
The Annual Big Red Barn Show, Lareau Farm, Waitsfield, VT
The 10th Annual Juried Exhibition, Galatea Fine Art., Boston, MA (juror Katherine French)
Winter Juried Exhibition, Blue Mountain Gallery, NY, NY (juror Elisa Jensen)
Fourth Annual Arts Connect Show, Catamount Arts, St Johnsbury, VT (juror Nick Capasso)
2018
Members' Show, Helen Day Arts Center, Stowe, VT
Dark Matter, The Space Gallery, South Burlington, VT (juror Christy Mitchell)
27th Annual Juried Competition, Bowery Gallery, New York, NY (Juror Karen Wilkin)
Hide and Seek, Vivid Space SD Gallery, San Diego, CA (curator Katie Ruiz) (juror Rachel Rickert)
Aporia, M David Studio, 56 Bogart Street, Brooklyn, NY (curator Mary DeVincentis)
Third Annual Arts Connect Show, Catamount Arts, St Johnsbury, VT (juror John Stomberg)
2017
Group Show, Axel's Gallery, Waterbury, VT
Members' Show, Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, VT
26th Annual Juried Competition, Bowery Gallery, New York, NY (juror Kyle Staver)
ARA Group Show, Kellogg Hubbard Library, Montpelier, VT
ARA Group Show, TW Wood Gallery and Museum, Montpelier, VT
Aporia, curated by Mary DeVincentis, Curating Contempoary, Online Exhibition
Second Annual Arts Connect Show, Catamount Arts, St. Johnsbury, VT (juror Andrea Rosen)
New Paintings: Frankie Gardiner and Beth Kendrick, The Sweet Spot, Waitsfield, VT
Frankie Gardiner, The Project Room, Galerie Cerulean, online exhibition
2016
Art Hop, SEABA Gallery, Burlington, VT (juror Joe Amrhein)
The Big Red Barn Exhibition, Lareau Farm, VT
SEABA Members Show, SEABA Gallery, Burlington, VT
Members' Show, Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, VT
2015
Mountain Reveries Et Cetera, The Provinical, Kaleva, MI SOLO
Lost Cat, Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA (curated by Susan Carr and Betty Carroll Fuller)
Going Big, Central Booking, New York, NY, (curated by Susan Carr and Suzan Shutan)
ARA Group Show, T. W. Wood Gallery, Montpelier, VT
Big Red Barn Exhibit, Lareau Farm, Waitsfield, VT
2014
Perilous Passages, Birds of Vermont Museum, Huntington, VT
Art Hop, SEABA Gallery, Burlington, VT, (juror Joy Glidden)
Art Hop, VCAM, Burlington, VT
Big Red Barn Exhibit, Lareau Farm, Waitsfield, VT
2013
Summer Show, AVA Gallery, Lebanon, NH
First 50, Main Street Landing, Burlington, VT
ARA Members Exhibit, City Center, Montpelier, VT
Big Red Barn Exhibit, Lareau Farm, Waitsfield, VT
2012
20 Years of SEABA Show Winners, R. L. Photo, Burlington, VT
Group Show, S.P.A.C.E. Gallery, Burlington, VT
ARA Members Exhibit, City Center, Montpelier, VT
2011
Chandler Center for the Arts, Randolph, VT
ARA Members Exhibit, City Center, Montpelier, VT
2000-2010
Art Hop Show, Burlington, VT
SEABA Show, Burlington, VT, (juror Sarah Chaffee)
City Center, Montpelier, VT
Big Red Barn, Lareau Farm, Waitsfield, VT
Chandler Center for the Arts, Randolph, VT
Capital Grounds, Montpelier, VT solo
Issues of Vulnerability, Palmer Barn, Waitsfield, VT
River Gallery, Ipswich, MA
Artisans’ Gallery, Waitsfield, VT
Essex County Greenbelt Association, Essex, MA
1990-99
Hobson’s Gallery, Ipswich, MA
Green Mountain Cafe, Waitsfield, VT solo
Canyon Crossing Gallery, Brattleboro, VT
Essex County Greenbelt Association, Essex, MA
Corine’s Objects d’Art, Waitsfield, VT
1369 Coffeehouse, Cambridge, MA, Solo
MFA Show, Koppelman Gallery, Tufts, Medford, MA Solo
Works on Paper, Berkshire Museum, MA, (juror Jerry Saltz)
Concord Art Association, Concord, MA
Nicole C. Gallery, Boston, MA
Federal Reserve Bank Gallery, Boston, MA
Kingston Gallery, Boston, MA
University Place Gallery, Cambridge, MA
Artists’ Foundation Gallery, Boston, MA
Union Street Restaurant, Newton, MA Solo
Primal Forces, Cooper Union, New York, NY
1983-88
Christ Church, Hamilton, MA Solo
Boston City Hall, Boston, MA Solo
Tufts University, Medford, MA Solo
M.S. Gallery, Hartford, CT
Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA
Provincetown Museum, Provincetown, MA
Cyclorama, Boston, MA, (jurors Carl Belz and Jon Imbers)
Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA
Millhouse-Bundy Arts Center, Waitsfield, VT
Boston University Union Gallery, Boston, MA
CURATORIAL AND COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS
2020 Warren Prayer Flag Display, Warren, VT
2019 River of Light Lantern Parade, Waterbury, VT
2016 Open Pomegranate, Curating Contemporary, Online Exhibition
2003 Issues of Vulnerability, Palmer Barn, Waitsfield, VT
1983 Four Artists, Boston University Union Gallery, Boston, MA
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2020 Brian Frink, A Conversation with Frankie Gardiner
2020 Polston, Pamela, m.sevendaysvt.com/vermont/art-gets-shelf-life-at-jakes-one-market/Content?oid=30517283&fbclid=IwAR0eo9hVxPxpCc1806wanfhr3qJmja5yGVB0kpy1-w3NAHfEDCffPC1_HpQ
2019 Bromirski, Martin, http://www.twocoatsofpaint.com/2019/09/frank-gardiner-painting-the-unknown.html?fbclid=IwAR2cpMFWXxumxcyQWsr_PMpNsnZVfGNy5gOiCxyvjI8YMyoIpgMIVi91XPc
2019 French, Katherine, http://www.catamountarts.org/visual-art/rankin-gallery-at-catamount-arts/frankie-gardiner-so-so-hot-dream-of-walking-on-blue-blue-water?fbclid=IwAR0O0CzOmnQEgdPg_7jpJHFo-NuoHcKVyqZ8m_wIHeLGS6DF0TdO8Col0qQ
2017 DeVincentis, Mary. Aporia Exhibtion Statement, www.curatingcontemporary.com
2015 Edmonds, Brian. Current Exhibition: Lost Cat @ The Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA, Dec 29,
2015
http://curatingcontemporary.com/blog/
2015 Crawford, Helen Ferguson. Going Big: a survey and opening night, Aug 11, 2015
http://helenfergusoncrawford.blogspot.com/2015/08/going-big-survey-and-opening-night.html?m=1,
2015 Parke, Melanie. Frankie Gardiner: Mountain Reveries et Cetera, Apr, 2015
http://theprovincial.net/frankie-gardiner-1/
2014 Kevin J. Kelley, Art Hop Juried Show: SEABA Gallery, Sept 17, 2014
http://www.sevendaysvt.com/vermont/art-review-art-hop-jurie/Content?oid=2441411
2012 Kevin J. Kelley, The Art Hop carries on with Juried Shows Past and Present, Sept 19, 2012
http://www.sevendaysvt.com/vermont/the-art-hop-carries-on-with-juried-shows-past-and-present/Content?oid=2185181
2009 Kevin J/ Kelley, Art, Vermont Style, Sept 16,
2009
http://www.sevendaysvt.com/vermont/art-vermont-style/Content?oid=2138315
EDUCATION
1996 MFA, The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
1981 BAA, Boston University, Boston, MA
AWARDS
2016 Annual Art Hop Show, Honorable Mention, Burlington, VT
2009 Annual Art Hop Show, second place winner, Burlington, VT
1994 Dana Pond Painting Award, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA