WENDY SELLER
www.wendyseller.com
risd connection: Bachelor’s of Art Education, 1975; Adjunct Faculty, Foundation Studies; at RISD since 1988
medium: allegorical paintings
special skill: Provocative yet whimsical and dense with information, Seller’s crisp and meticulous paintings invite interpretation on a variety of levels and inspire students to develop their own voices.
The house image has been used symbolically in Seller’s paintings for years. For her, houses reflect who we are and often emulate who we wish to be. Seller’s structures are characterized in varying contexts — as symbols of house/home, harbors from war and terrorism, metaphors for life choices, and personified personalities.
Seller’s studio is at the Claflin School Studios in Newtonville, MA, originally an abandoned elementary school redeveloped into artist live/work space in 1987. As one of the founding members, Seller designed and hand-built her studio over a period of six years. In 1994, The New York Times published a featured article on the development of her space entitled A Drill and a Dream Make a Gym a Home.
gallery affiliations
Caesarea Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
Lyman-Eyer Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Lenore Gray Gallery, Providence, RI
selected solo shows
Karen Lynne Gallery, Boca Raton, FL, 2006
Lenore Gray Gallery, Providence, RI, 2004, 2001
Nesto Gallery, Milton Academy, Milton, MA, 2003
Belenky Gallery, New York, NY, 2000, 1998
Virginia Lynch Gallery, Tiverton, RI, 1999; featured show, 1994
De Ville Galleries, Los Angeles, CA, 1998, 1997
Pepper Gallery, Boston, MA, 1995
Clark Whitney Gallery, Lenox, MA, 1993
Bannister Gallery, Providence, RI, 1990
Trustman Art Gallery, Boston, MA, 1990
selected group shows
Trustman Art Gallery, Boston, MA, 2004
Fidelity Investments, Boston, MA, 2004
Artcetera, Boston, MA, 2004/02/00/98
New Visions: Small Works from the Arthur S. Goldberg Collection, Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA, 2003
Dream Worlds: Surrealism in the Millennium, The Attleboro Museum, Attleboro, MA, 2000
Virginia Lynch: A Curatorial Retrospective, The Attleboro Museum, Attleboro, MA; 2000
Made in Massachusetts, The Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, MA, 1999
National Juried Competition, Bristol Art Museum, Bristol, RI, 1998
RISD on the Road, traveling exhibition [to four cities], 1997-98
Art of the 20th Century in Private Dessau Collections, Dessau, Germany, 1997
awards/grants
The John R. Frazier Award for Excellence in Teaching, RISD, 2005
Faculty Development Grant, RISD, 2000
Newton Arts Lottery Grant, Newton, MA, 1994, 1991
Artist-in-Residence Grant, Cultural Education Collaborative, Boston, MA, 1984
New England Multi-image Film Festival, Bronze medal for Inside Out, 1983
Residency, The Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY, 1983
Artist-in-Residence Grant, Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities, Boston, MA, 1978-79,1977-78
selected public collections
Arthur S. Goldberg Collection
Belenky Gallery, New York, NY
DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA
Fidelity Investments
Hasbro Children’s Hospital, Providence, RI
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Simmons College, Boston
education
University of Illinois, MFA, 1977
Rhode Island School of Design, BAE, 1975
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