Resume
DEBRA CLAFFEY
603-487-3661
debclaffey@artist-services.com
Awards
Honorable Mention. The 13th Annual Omer T. Lassonde Memorial Juried Exhibition,
The Robert Lincoln Levy Gallery, Portsmouth, NH, May, 1999
Honorable Mention. The Creative Hand II, The Robert Lincoln Levy Gallery, Portsmouth, NH, Sept., 1998
Bank of New Hampshire Award, Ann’s Garden, No. 12, 50th Annual Exhibition,
The Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, NH, December 1996
Selected Exhibitions (* solo shows)
*New Works, East Gallery, Robert Lincoln Levy Gallery, Portsmouth, NH, June 2001
*Solo Exhibit, Southern Vermont Arts Center Gallery, Manchester VT, August 2000
Interiors, Hole in the Wall Studioworks at Davidson & Daughters Gallery, Portland, ME, July 2000.
43rd National Fall Juried Open, Southern Vermont. Art Center, Manchester, VT, September 1999
Women’s Caucus for Art Juried Exhibition, Taylor Gallery, Meriden, NH, November 1999
Prescott Park Arts Festival Juried Exhibition, Portsmouth, NH, July 1999
Women’s Caucus for Art Invitational, The Open Studio, Bow, NH, March 1999
December Sale and Exhibit, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1985-2000
*Contemplating Still Life, Southern Vermont Art Center, Manchester, VT, December 1997
*Solo Exhibit, Gargoyle’s Restaurant Gallery, Somerville, MA, September1997
Tend Your Garden, Ashwell Gallery, Beverly, MA, July 1997
50th Annual Exhibition, The Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, NH, November 1996
Potpourri, The Covered Bridge Gallery, Contoocook, NH, September 1996
10th Annual Omer T. Lassonde Exhibition, Juried Show, NHAA, Portsmouth, May 1996
The Art of Music, The Ashwell Gallery, Beverly, MA, June 1996
Commissions
Painting, Ann's Garden, James and Ann Lawson, Cambridge, MA
Painting, Turner's Turners, The Baltimore Plaza Hotel, Baltimore, MD
Articles and Publications
Laura Pope, "Colorful, Lush Still Lifes mark Claffey Exhibition", NH Weekend, The Union Leader Manchester, NH, June 14-17, 2001
C. J. King, "Childhood Fun Helps Create New Solo Shows", Manchester Journal, Manchester, VT, August 2000
Dustan Knight, Review of the Sharon Arts Center 51st Annual Members’ Exhibition, Peterborough, NH, Nov. 1999
Donald Rosenthal, Review of The Currier Gallery of Art, NHAA 50th Annual Exhibition, Art New England, Manchester, NH, May 1997
New American Paintings, Open Studios Press, Needham, MA, 1993
Edward Strickland, "Open Studios Event at 59 Amory Street shows diversity in JP",
Jamaica Plain Gazette, November 22, 1991
Meredith Fife Day, Review of the Summer Salon Show, Gallery on the Green,
Art New England. October-November 1991
Linda Coventry, "The Art of Amory Street", Jamaica Plain Art News, November 8, 1989
Jeanne Belovitch, "Another Medium: Novelesque Images", The South End News, December 29, 1983
Education
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston / Tufts University, Medford, B.F.A. Painting, 1981