1953
Born Bronx, NY
Currently lives and works in New York City, NY
EDUCATION
1975
BFA State College of New York at New Paltz
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2007
Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY
2003
Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY
2000
Drawings, Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY
1999
Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY
1996
Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY
1994
Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY
Sandler Hudson Gallery, The Niche Gallery, Atlanta, GA
1991
David Beitzel Gallery, Project Room, New York, NY
1990
Art at the Edge, Curated by Carrie Przybilla, High Museum of Art traveled to Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY
1989
Bill Bace Gallery, New York, NY
1988
Luise Ross Gallery, New York, NY
1987
Bronx Museum of the Arts Satellite Gallery, Bronx, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2006
Some Assembly Required, Curated by Trinkett Clark, Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, MA
Threads of Memory, Curated by Margaret Mathews-Berenson, Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, NY
2005
New Art, New York: Reflections on the Human Condition, Curated by Margaret Mathews-Berenson, Trierenberg Headquarters, Traun, Austria
2004
New York Show, Opalousas Museum of Art, Opalousas, LA
2002
Accumulations, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY
Blobs, Wiggles and Dots, Webs and Crustillations, The Work Space, New York, NY
2000
As If Alive: Animate Sculpture, New Jersey Center for the Visual Arts, Summit, NJ
Palimpsest, Curated by Margaret Lanzetta, Chelsea Gallery, Hinds University Center, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC
1999
Common Threads, The Gallery on the Hudson, Irvington, NY
A Fine Line Between...New Drawings: Elegant Investigations by Nine Artists Fascinated with Abstraction, The Gallery on the Hudson, Irvington, NY
Waxing Poetic: Encaustic Art in America, The Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ & Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN
A Common Thread - Preconceived Notions about Sewing, Weaving, and Quilting, New Art Center in Newton, Newtonville, MA
1998
Form and Space: A Dialogue, Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ
Growing Obsession, Dorsky Gallery, New York, NY
Oud En Nieuw, Museum Voor Moderne, Arnheim, the Netherlands
Obsessive Compulsive Order, Hillwood Art Museum, Brookville, NY
1996
Paper in Disguise, Dieu Donne Papermill Gallery, New York, NY
Heat Exhaustion, Fine Arts Museum of Long Island, Hempstead, NY
Pulp Fusion, Columbia Art Center, Dallas, TX
1995
Workspace Program: 5 Years, Dieu Donne Papermill, Inc., New York, NY
In Making it Actual: Works on Paper by 5 Sculptors, Wheeler Gallery, Providence RI
January Exhibition, Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY
1994
Fabricated Nature, Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID (traveling)
D'Arrigo and McCurdy, Victoria Anstead Fine Art, New York, NY
1993
The Return of the Cadvre Exquis, The Drawing Center, New York, NY (traveling)
Paper Trails: The Eidetic Image, Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, NY
1992
Rubber Soul, LedisFlam Gallery, New York, NY
Fourteen Artists in Two Rooms, Michael Walls Gallery, New York, NY
Large Scale, Bill Bace Gallery, New York, NY
Beyond Relief, Selena Gallery, Long Island Unviersity, Brooklyn, NY
1991
Germans Van Eck Gallery, New York, NY
Covariants: Abstract Painting and Sculpture, OIA, Tribeca 148 Gallery, New York, NY
The Artist at Home, Bill Bace Gallery, New York, NY
The Artifacts of Thought; Sculptors' Drawings, Marymount College Gallery, New York, NY
1990
Working on Paper: Contemporary American Drawings, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Out of Abstraction, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, New York, NY
Image, Object Abstracted, OIA, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY
The New School Collects: Recent Acquisitions, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
1989
Made in New York, Encounters with Contemporary Sculpture, Lafayette College, Easton, PA
Lines of Vision: Drawings by Contemporary Women, Hillwood Art Gallery, Greenvale, LI traveled to Blum Helman Warehouse, New York, NY
1988
Sculpture 1988, White Columns, New York, NY
Back to Earth, Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York, NY
Natural Inflections: Inside/Outside, Sculpture Center, New York, NY
1987
Abstraction, Luise Ross Gallery, New York, NY
Biomorphic Sculpture, Art In General, New York, NY
1986
Square and..., Ruth Siegel Gallery, New York, NY
Natural Sources / Sculpture, PS 122, New York, NY
1985
Small Works by Big Thinkers, Bess Cutler Gallery, New York, NY
35 Under 35, Women's Interart Center, New York, NY
1984
Drawings, Sculpture Center, New York, NY
1983
Hundreds of Drawings, Artists Space, New York, NY
Ambiance / Stimuli, Alternative Museum, New York, NY
Icon and Environment, Women's Caucus on Art, New York, NY
1980
Directions, Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, NY
1979
Architecture for the Mind and Child, Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2004
Sheffield, Margaret, "Chaos and Containment: Elisa D'Arrigo," Sculpture, March, Vol. 23, no. 2, pp 20-21.
2003
Wei, Lily, "Elisa D'Arrigo - New York Reviews," Art News, May, p 153.
Princenthal, Nancy, "Elisa D'Arrigo at Elizabeth Harris," Art in America, May, pp141-2, ill. p 143.
Walentini, Joseph, "Elisa D'Arrigo," Gallery Views / Chelsea, Abstract Art on Line, Feb. 28, p 1-2.
Glueck, Grace, "Elisa D'Arrigo," Art in Review, The New York Times, Feb. 21, p E45.
2002
Harrison, Helen A., "More is More: Repetition Adds Dimension Patterns," The New York Times, L.I. Oct. 13, p 20.
1999
Goodman, Jonathan, "Reviews New York: Elisa D'Arrigo," Sculpture, September, pp 66-7.
Wilkin, Karen, "At the Galleries," Partisan Review, Summer 3, p. 490
1998
Dischoff Dan, "Sculptors Share Space at Museum," The Star Ledger, Newark, NJ
Marger, Mary Ann, "Not by Sculpture Alone...," St. Petersburg Times, St. Petersburg, FL, Sept. 4, p 24.
1996
Sheffield, Margaret, "Elisa D'Arrigo," Review, October 15, p 25.
1995
Faxon, Alicia Craig, "In Making it Actual," Art New England, August
1994
Raynor, Vivien, "Exhibit by Italian-Americans Poses Questions About Ethinicity," The New York Times, Dec. 25, p 14.
Naves, Mario, New York Review of Art, December, Vol. 1, No. 5
Melrod, George, "Elisa D'Arrigo," Sculpture, reproduction, September / October, p. 44
Glueck, Grace, "Gallery Watch," The New York Observer, June 13, p 17.
Cullum, Jerry, "Twosome Draws Beauty from the Disturbing," The Atlanta Journal / The Atlanta Constitution, reproduction, February 4, p 17.
Scott, Sue, "Group Show: Elizabeth Harris Gallery," Art News, reproduction, January, p 164.
1993
Naves, Mario, "Studio View," New Art Examiner, Summer
1992
Melrod, George, "Elisa D'Arrigo, David Beitzel Gallery," Art News, February
1991
Koplos, Janet, "Elisa D'Arrigo at Lehman College Art Gallery," Art in America, December.
Harrison, Helen A., "The Natural World and Its Mysteries," The New York Times (L.I.), August 11.
Smith, Roberta, "On Long Island, Photos, Portraits, Pollock and Stereotyping," The New York Times, August 9.
1990
Przybilla, Carrie, "Working on Paper: Contemporary American Drawings," catalogue essay, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA.
Fox, Catherine, "D'Arrigo Work on the 'Edge' of Surrealism," The Atlantic Journal and Constitution, Nov. 2.
Harrison, Helen A., "Blurring Artistic Distinctions," The New York Times (L.I.), July 8.
1989
Van Wagner, Judy K. Collischan, Lines of Vision: Drawings by Contemporary Women, Hudson Hills Press, 1989.
Harrison, Helen A., "Drawing: A Term Rich in Meaning," The New York Times (L.I.), June 11.
1987
Harrison, Helen A., "8 with Diverse Narrative Lines," The New York Times (L.I.), June 21.
Brenson, Michael, "Critic's Choices," The New York Times, Jan. 18.
1983
Speight, Charlotte F., Images in Clay Sculpture, Harper and Row, 1983.
SELECTED GRANTS AND AWARDS
2002
NYFA Fellowship Award for Works on Paper
1993
Work Space Program, Dieu Donne Papermill, New York, NY
1987
Artist in Residence, The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH
1986
Artist in Residence, The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH
1984
Grant, Ariana Foundation for the Arts, Inc.
COLLECTIONS
Amoco Corporation
AT&T
Best Products, Inc.
Bryn Mawr Library Collection, Bryn Mawr, PA
Dieu Donne Papermill, New York, NY
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Mead Art Museum, Amherst, MA
Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC
The New School for Social Research, New York, NY
The Prudential, Newark, NJ
