S h e i l a G r a b a r s k y

NEWS

Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award, Marquis Who’s Who in American Art, 2017

Williams Sonoma Catalogue of Home Decor, Fall, 2019

Became Signature member New York and SC chapters of National Association of Women Artists, July, 2020

Ten paintings installed for exhibition in Commerce Building, Columbia, SC, via NAWA SC

Five  paintings installed, Rowan University Rutgers-Camden Board Joint Health Sciences Center, Camden, NJ, March, 2020

Feature article in LonelyOceanArt.com, 12/29/19

ArtExpo, Las Vegas, NV, Spring, 2019

Art Santa Fe Expo (Art Works Gallery, Booth 114), July 12-15, 2018, Santa Fe, NM

Included in New Jersey Masters: A New Legacy of Visual Art,  by Tova Navarra, to be published 

Inclusion in Woven Tale Press Art Magazine, fall, 2018

2017 recipient of the A. Nelson Marquis Who’s Who Lifetime Achievement award.

Seven paintings included in movie, American Pastoral, based on the novel of the same name by Philip Roth. 

Interviewed by Calvin Schwartz, NJ Discover, “A Night in the Art Gallery”  2/16

CURRENT REPRESENTATION 
Beauregard Gallery, Rumson, NJ
Boxheart Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
Werring Contemporary, Phoenixville, PA
William Ris Gallery, Jamesport, LI, NY

Broward County for the Arts, FL
Elizabeth Sadoff Art Representation, NYC
The Artists Circle Agency, No. Potomac, MD
Integrated Art, LLC, Chicago, IL

UGallery.com
Zatista.com

INVITATIONALS
Columbia Dept. of Commerce, Columbia, SC 6/24-9/24
“Visual Conversations: Our Voices”, USCBeaufort, SC 10/22-12/13/21
Studio Montclair, “Making as Thinking”, Montclair, NJ 2/18-3/18/20
Stanek Gallery, Southern NJ Artists, Phila., PA 10/16-12/16
Park Ave. Club 15^th Anniver., Prior Art Winners, Florham Park, NJ  9/16-1/1
Wrote back cover endorsement for Leaves of Absence: An Illustrated Guide to  Common Garden Affections, Sally Deskins and Laura Madeline Wiseman,published 11/15 by Red Dashboard Books
International Society of Acrylic Painters(ISAP) Online/Signature Members, 10/14 “Artists in Their Studios” featured artist on artsyshark.com
Online blog: Les Femmes Folles: Celebrating Women In Art by Sally Deskins                        femmesfollesnebraska.tumblr.com/post/87788661037/sheila-grabarsky-artist
Noyes Museum Signature Artists, Oceanville, NJ (Annually)
Noyes Museum Gift Shop, Hammonton, NJ
“Artists for a Shore Cause” auction, for Hurricane Sandy victims M.T.Burton Gallery,     Surf City,NJ
ISAP Invitational/Signature Members, Online 2012, 2013
ISAP Special Invitational –  Signature Members –  Paso Robles,CA 9-10/11
Abstract Art’s Passionate Freedom, Cape Fear Studios, Fayetteville, NC 9-10/11 Selected Artist-of-the-Month Statewide, JerseyArts.com
Tuckerton Seaport Invitational, Tuckerton, NJ, 2007, 2006
Background Art for Panel Discussion –
Collaborative Video  (Rutgers University/Johnson & Johnson):“IMPACT OF  DISASTER ON CHILDREN IN OUR SCHOOLS, a program for school nurses”, 2002

AWARDS AND HONORS
Second Prize, NAWA, Tomayko Foundation, Pittsburgh, PA  4/24
First Prize, NAWA, We See: Creating From Verse,
Burroughs-Chapin Museum, Myrtle Beach, SC  4/23
28^th Annual Guild of Creative Art, Fred N. Biello Memorial for Abstract, Shrewsbury, NJ 10/20
Manhattan Arts Int’l., Resilience, Award of Excellence, 6/20
Society of Bluffton Artists, Annual Juried Exhibition, First prize/Acrylics. 3/20
LightSpaceTime.com, Botanicals, 5/20, Special Recognition 
Artiststableonline.com, HerStory, Royces’ Choice, 6/18
Manhattan Arts Int’l., HerStory, Award of Excellence, 6/18
International Society of Acrylics Painters, Juried Signature/Masters Exhib.,
       Cheap Joes’ Art Award, 6/18
Nelson Marquis Who’s Who Lifetime Achievement award
Best  in Show Overall – Trenton Mus. Soc., Ellarslie Open 33, Trenton NJ, May,2016
Special Recognition, All Women Online Exhibition, lightspacetime.art, 1/18
Color: Bold/Subtle Int’l Juried, 2016, Special recognition
4th Place Award, Intl Society of Acrylic Painters Intl. 7^th Online Juried Open, 2016
Special Merit Award Light, Space & Time Online Gallery,  “Abstract Arts”, 3/16
Special Recognition Award Artquenchgallery.com 2014 Juried International , “Matters of the Heart”, 2/14
Special Recognition Award Upstreamgallery.com 6^th Annual Color: Bold/Subtle Int’l Juried, 2012
Honorable Mention Award Tuckerton Seaport Art Show, Tuckerton, NJ, 2009
Daler-Rowney Award Int’l. Society of Acrylic Painters, 2008
2nd Place Acry/Oils Ocean County Artists’ Guild State-Wide Juried, Island Heights, NJ 2005
Award of Excellence Manhattan Arts Int’l.-HerStory 2004, New York, NY/online
Merion Award for Acrylic Use, 3^rd Street Gallery National Juried, Phila, PA 2002
Townsend Award, Art Alliance State-wide Juried Red Bank, NJ
Best Art, Tulane U. Annual Literary Review Nat’l Juried Vol. XII / Issue I New Orleans, LA 2000
Best in Show – Northern California Arts, Inc. International Juried Show “Bold Expressions”1999
Judge’s Choice Award Ocean County Artists Guild 11th State Juried, Island Heights, NJ1998
Certificate of Excellence – Montserrat Gallery NY-Soho Intl. Art competition NYC, NY 1992
Best in Show  – Hudson Artists, Inc. 36th Regional Exhibition Bayonne, NJ 1989
First Prize Hudson Artists, Inc. 36th Regional Exhibition, Bayonne, NJ 1988
Honorable Mention Barron Arts Center, Woodbridge, NJ 1988
Honorable Mention – Bergen Museum, 3rd Open Juried Paramus, NJ 1985

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Columbia Dept. of Commerce, Columbia, SC  6/24-9/24
Idiosyncrazies, Pt. Pleasant, NJ August, 2014
Park Avenue Club, Florham Park, NJ April 19-Sept. 13, 2010
Jerseyarts.com Artist of the Month (online), September, 2008
Ocean County Artists Guild, Island Heights, NJ October, 2007
Atlantic City Arts CenteIr, “Synapses”, Atlantic City, NJ July, 2007
Johnson & Johnson World Hqtrs. New Brunswick, NJ, 2002
Artspirit Intl. Gallery, Marlborough, MA 1997
Monmouth University800 Gallery,”Solus”,
W. Long Branch, NJ 1994
Oakeside-Bloomfield Cultural Ctr. Bloomfield, NJ 1989

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Hilton Head Art League, ongoing
Tomayko Foundation, Pittsburgh, PA March-April, 2024
“Visions of Joy and Peace”,Flushing Bank, Brooklyn, NY Dec. 2023-March, 2024
2023
Call & Response, WCAC collab with AL WCA, Lowe Mill Gallery, Huntsville, AL/NC June-July
NAWA 134th Annual Members Exhibition, Tribeca, NY
We See: Creating From Verse, NAWA online poetry collab, March-May 
NAWA From Landscapes to Mindscapes April, 2023
Dynamic 2023, VIVID, d’art Center, Norfolk, VA January
Changing Directions, NAWA, Fl, Art Alliance, Ft  Myers, Fl, January
2022
Acting Out: Visual Responses to a Changing World, WCACarolinas  Wilmington, NC  9/12-11/4/22
Spring Fusion: Renew and Reinvent, NAWA South Carolina, Aiken, SC     3/31 – 5/6/22
2021
“Visual Conversations: Our Voices”, USCBeaufort, SC 10/22-12/13/21
132nd Annual Natl. Assoc. of Women Artists Annual Members Exhibition, 10/21
“Moments Like This”, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL 8/21
Piccolo Spoleto, Charleston, SC   5/21
2020
131st Annual Natl. Assoc. of Women Artists Annual Members Exhibition, 10/20

2018
Immersion in Abstraction,Ellington-White Gallery, Fayetteville, NC 8/18
Her Story (Award), Artisttableonline.com, 6/17
ISAP, Signature Masters (Award)(7-10/18), Cathy Kline Gallery, Parkland, MO 
Herstory 2018, Manhattan Arts International Online Juried (6-9/18)     
All Women Online Exhibition (Special Recognition), lightspacetime.art
State of the Art 2018, Studio Montclair (2/18)
Making as Thinking, Studio Montclair Invitational,  (2/18-5/18)
2017
Intl. Society of Acrylic Painters,2nd Intl. Online Juried Members (10/17) isap-online.com
G Gallery25N, “Flowers, Plants & Gardens at  http://Gallery25N.com (6/17)
Herstory 2017, Manhattan Arts Online Juried (4/17)         
30^th September Competition Juried, Alexandria Museum, Alexandria, LA (6/2-9/22/17)
JAM Gallery, Malvern., PA (5/17-7/17)Gallery25N, “Flowers, Plants &    Gardens at  http://Gallery25N.com (6/17)
Studio Montclair Viewpoints 2017, Aljira, Newark, NJ ( 6/17)
Herstory 2017, Manhattan Arts Juried Online (5/17)
30th September Competition Juried, Alexandria Museum, Alexandria, LA (6/2-9/22/17)
Women’s History Exhibition, Rotunda Gallery, City Hall, Jersey City, NJ (3/17)
Belmar Arts, 13th Juried, Belmar, NJ (3/17)
“Compulsion”, Sweetwater Center for the Arts, Sewickley, PA (1/17)
JAM Gallery, Malvern, PA  (5/17-7/17)
2016
Noyes Museum Signature Artists (10/16-12/16)
COLOR: Bold/Subtle, Upstream People Online Gallery, Special recognition, 6/16
Intl. Society of Acrylic Painters –  Intl. 7^th Online Juried Open, 2016
Trenton Museum Society 33rd Statewide Juried, Ellarslie Mansion, Trenton, NJ (5/16)
Belmar Arts Council 12th Statewide Juried, Belmar, NJ (3/16)
Light, Space & Time Online Gallery, Abstract Arts-Special Merit Award  (3/16)
Monmouth County Arts Council 37th State Juried, Monmouth Museum,
Brookdale College, Lincroft, NJ (1/16)
2015
Intl. Society of Acrylic Painters, FL – 10th annual juried,
St. Petersburg, FL (10/6-10/29)
8th Annual ISAP Signature Member Online (11/15)
The Haggus Society, “Edges & Curves”, LA, CA (7/1-9/30/15)
Noyes Museum Signature Artists, Oceanville, NJ (9/15-11/15)
Torche’ Gallerie, Summer Exhibition, Belmar, NJ (6-9/15)
Wheelhouse Gallery, Santa Fe, NM (2/7- 3/4/15)
Les Femmes Fatales: TALES, Monongalia Art Center, 107 High Street, Morgantown, WV (5/8-30/15)
Torche’ Gallerie, 2 year Anniv. Exhibition, Belmar, NJ (4-5/15)
6th Annual ISAP International Open Online Show 2015 (4/15)
2014
Woman Made Gallery, Oil & Water, Chicago, IL (11-12/14)
7th Annual ISAP Signature Members Online ShowNoyes Museum Signature Artists , Oceanville, NJ (10/14 – 11/14)
Celebrate the Healing Power of Art 2014, Int’l Juried Online Manhattan Arts International juried member (5/17-7/17/14)
Musical Heritage Foundation, Asbury Park, NJ (3/29-5/30/14)
ALFA Gallery,Eclectic Aesthetics,New Brunswick,NJ  (4/1-4/30/14)
Arts Coun., Belmar,NJ10th Ann. NJ Shore Juried (4/8-4/11/14)
Artquenchgallery.com Juried Intl“Matters of the Heart”, 2/14  
Art Alliance, Red Bank, NJ 27th Annual State Juried Exhibition (11/13 – 12/13)
6th Annual ISAP Signature Member Online 2013
“Force of Nature”, Artscenetoday.com 10/13
Upstreampeople.com “special recognition” award:15th Ann.l Contemp. Art Juried Online Intl.
Noyes Museum Signature Artists Exhibition (9/13)
3^rd Street Gallery Associate Members Exhibition, OPUS MOVUM, Phila., PA (4/13)
Monmouth County Arts Council 34th State Juried, Monmouth Museum, Brookdale College, Lincroft, NJ (2/13)
2012
Selected for inclusion: 365 Days tribute to artists – ArtfulVagabond.com
Audubon Artists 70^th Annual Juried Exhibition
5th Annual ISAP Signature Members Online Show (11/12)
3^rd Street Gallery Phila. POST Exhibition (10/12)
3^rd Street Gallery Phila. Community Exhibition (2/12)
Noyes Museum Signature Artists I, Oceanville, NJ
ISAP Signature Members Exhibition, CA 9/12
Upstreamgallery.com “6^th Annual Color: Bold/Subtle Int’l Juried
2011
Upstreamgallery.com 11th Annual Summer All Media Juried Online International
Brainstorm 2011 National Juried Art Show Governors State University, University Park, IL   (5 21/- 6 25/11)
Cape Fear Studios, 3^rd Annual National Exhibition, Fayetteville, NC (6 -7/11)
ISAP, 14^th Annual International Exhibition, Santa Cruz, CA (7/1 – 7/31/11)
Farmington Museum, Farmington, NM, Gateway to Imagination National Juried (5/6-7/9/11)
Caladangallery.com, “Hidden and Exposed”, (4/10 – 5/9/11)
Studio Montclair, “ViewPoints”, aljira, A Ctr. for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ (6/1 -6/25/11)
2010
Upstreamgallery.com 12th Annual Abstraction Juried Online International Upstreamgallery.com 6^th Annual Color: Bold/Subtle Int’l JuriedFredericksburg Ctr./Creative Arts, ‘FORMS IN MOTION” National Juried, Fredericksburg, VA
Ellarslie Open XXVIII State-Wide Juried, Trenton Museum
Monmouth County Arts Council 31st State Juried, Monmouth Museum, Brookdale College, Lincroft, NJ
Upstreamgallery.com 6^th Annual Color: Bold/Subtle Int’l Juried /special Recognition Award
Daniel North Studio/Gallery, “SPACE” Cut Bank, MT
2009
Abstract Expressions Gallery, Mt. Hiolly, NJ – Two-person exhibition
George Segal Gallery, Montclair State University, “Art Connections 5/National”
Monmouth Festival of the Arts, Tinton Falls, NJ
Tuckerton Seaport, Tuckerton, NJ, “The Bay @ PLÀ”
2008
ArtistsEmerge.org (online), “Expressions”
Monmouth County ArtsCouncil 29^th Statewide Jur., Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, NJ
Ocean County Artist Guild Annual Statewide Juried, Island Heights, NJ
ISAP, 11^th Annual International Exhibition, Santa Cruz, CA
Noyes Museum Signature Artists, “Beneath the Surface, Oceanville, NJPark Avenue Arts Club State-Wide Juried “The Blues”, Florham Park, NJ
2007
Ocean County Artists’ Guild State-Wide Juried, Island Heights, NJ
Ocean County Artists Guild, Juried Members, Island Heights, NJ
“Elements of Art “, Frame It Up, Medford, NJ
Noyes Museum Signature Artists II, Oceanville, NJ
Noyes Museum Signature Artists I, Oceanville, NJ
Noyes Museum Biennial Juried, Oceanville, NJ
“East Meets West”, Frame It Up, Medford, NJ
Tuckerton Seaport Invitational – “Seasons, Cycles and Circles” Tuckerton, NJ
2006
Park Avenue Arts Club, State-Wide Juried Florham Park, NJ
Edison Arts Society “There’s a Song in my Art” State-Wide Juried, Raritan Ctr, NJ
Ocean County Artists’ Guild, 20^th State Juried Exhibit, Island Heights, NJ
Tuckerton Seaport Invitational – “By the Water’s Edge” Tuckerton, NJ
Artspace 129 – “Winter Salon” Montclair, NJ
2005
Ocean County Artists’ Guild State-Wide Juried, Island Heights, NJ
Noyes Museum South Jersey Artists Oceanville, NJ
Montpelier Cultural Arts Center, Laurel, MD
2004
Manhattan Arts Int’l.-HerStory 2004, New York, NY/online
2003
Fredericksburg Ctr./Creative Arts “Kaleidoscope of Color” Fredericksburg, VA
Havre de Grace Arts Commission National Juried, Havre de Grace, MD
2002
3^rd Street Gallery National Juried, Philadelphia, PA
Masur Museum of Art 29th Ann. Intl. Juried Competition, Monroe, LA
Art Alliance State-wide Juried Red Bank, NJ
2001
Gallery 212 “Subversive Influences” Ann Arbor, Mi
Period Gallery Contemporary Art III 2001 Intl. Juried Omaha, NE
John Nichols Gallery “The Look of Love” National Juried Santa Paula, CA
2000
Tulane Univ. Professional Annual Literary Review Nat’l Juried – Volume XII / Issue I New Orleans, LA
Lexington Art League Loudon House“ The Nude 2001” Nat’l Juried, Lexington, KY
Northern California Arts, Inc. International Juried Show “Bold Expressions”

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Marquis Who’s Who in American Art, Recurring

New Jersey Masters: A New Legacy of Visual Art, Tova Navarra, publ: 2019

Woven Tale Press Art/Literary Magazine, September, 2018

American Pastoral movie, background art for gallery scene, 2017

Marquis Who’s Who in America, Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award, 2017

DISCOVERTV, NIGHT AT THE GALLERY, INTERVIEW, CALVIN SCHWARTZ, PRODUCER, 2016

Trenton Times, Laura Purcell, May 18, 2016

Leaves of Absence: An Illustrated Guide to Common Garden Affections,
​Sally Deskins, Laura Madeline Wiseman, 2015, back cover testimonial

Artists in Their Studios featured artist on artsyshark.com, 2015

Les Femmes Folles: Celebrating Women In Art. Sally Deskins, 2014

Les Femmes Folles: The Women 2014, Sally Deskins, 3/15, pp.46-47 (full spread)

Art In Full Bloom, Renee Phillips, Luxe Beat Magazine, 2014

Manhattan Arts Blog Featured Artist, Manhattan Arts International, 4/30/15

Professional Artists Magazine, The Art of Upcycling, Annie Strack, 4-5/14,  p.63

Making Cancer History, Art & Healing Permanent Collection,

​MD Anderson Cooper Cancer Center, 2014, Camden, NJ, page 18

Eyes on: ABSTRACTS, Joe Guimera, page 48, 2012

World’s Best Artists/ Worldwide Abstraction, Kennedy Publishing, 2012


Art in America National Artists Directory, 2012

Trenton Museum Society Selected inclusion in 2011 Ellarslie XXVIII calendar, 6/12

Marquis Who’s Who of American Women, 2010

Marquis Whos Who in American Art Gallery Showcase, 2009

Pleasure of Looking at Art-TuckertonSeaport, Pat Johnson,  Sandpaper, 4/09 Section Two, p18

Signature Artists TranscendTheme at Noyes Museum, Pat Johnson,Sandpaper 4/08, Sec2, p43

Abstract Artist Takes the Inside Track to Discovery, (feature), The Sandpaper, 2006

JerseyArts.com, Selected Featured Artist of the Month, September, 2008

Fusion Magazine of South Jersey, Color Your World, Julie Bassello–Holt,, 2006

Collaborative Video (Rutgers/J&J), “IMPACT OF DISASTER ON CHILDREN IN OUR SCHOOLS”Background Art/ Panel Discussion– 2002 ​

New Art International, 2002 

ArtNews Magazine, Artist Directory, Summer, 2002


Tulane University Review (won sole art award), Vol. XX!!, Issue 1, 2000

CD Cover: “Life’s Tango”, by Rae Perrigoe, Toronto, CA, 2000​

Direct Art Magazine, Grabarsky’s Effusion of Emotion, 2000

The Herald Newspaper, “Breathing Life Into the Canvas” featured, Paul Haupt, 1995

Manhattan Arts Magazine, Artists in the 1990’s, 1991

Manhattan Arts review, 1990

Illustrated Survey of Contemporary Artists, 1990’s

New York Art Review, 1990’s

 RELATED
Artists for Shore Cause auction to benefit Sandy Victims, 6/13, M.T.BurtonGallery, SurfCity, NJ
Art in the Embassies Program, Washington, DC, 1990’s

EDUCATION
“An Alternative Art School Year” – online course with Eric Maisel, PhD (creativity coach and author of more than 30 books)
Syracuse University, Crouse College of Art, Syracuse, NY
Newark School of Fine and Industrial Arts, Newark, NJ
Riker Hill Art Park, Livingston, NJ
Union County Vocational School, Scotch Plains, NJ (graphic design)
Studied with Philip Sherrod/Street Painters Group (1978-1990), Art Students League Instructor, NYC, NY

MEMBERSHIPS & AFFILIATIONS (past and present)
American Women Artists
Art C of Southern NJ Artists
Art Alliance, Red Bank, NJ
Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, NYC
City Without Walls, Newark, N 
Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts
International Society of Experimental Artists
International Society of Acrylic Painters / Signature Artist Membership
International Society of Acrylic Painters / FL
 Jersey Artists Registry
Manhattan Arts International Membership, Renee Philips, NYC
Society of Painters in Casein and Acrylics
Noyes Museum of Art of Stockton University, NJ  Signature Artist
National Museum of Women in the Arts                   
National Association of Women Artists, NY and SC chapters             
National Oil and Acrylic Painters’ Society
National Society of Painters in Casein/Acrylic
Ocean County Artists Guild, Island Hts., NJ
Organization of Independent Artists, NYC
Philadelphia Museum of Art                                       
Pinelands Art Association, NJ
Society of Bluffton Artists, Bluffton, SC
South Carolina Watermedia Society, SC
Shrewsbury Artists Guild, Shrewsbury, NJ
Studio Montclair, NJ
Womens Caucus for Art (SC and National)
Women in the Arts Foundation

Current Representation 
Beauregard Gallery, Rumson, NJ
Boxheart Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
Lori Austin Gallery, Sebastopol, CA

CharlotteFineArt.com
UGallery.com
Zatista.com

Elizabeth Sadoff Art Representation, NYC
The Artists Circle Agency, No. Potomac, MD

Paintings in Private and corporate collections

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