Colleen Deery
Colleen Deery · Source: New York Artists Circle · Rights retained by the original rights holders
- Medium
- Acrylic Paint, Oil Paint, Oil Pastel/Crayon, Pencil/Colored Pencil
- Based in
- New York City
- Practice
- Drawing, Painting
Colleen Deery is a New York City-based painter working in oils and acrylics, with a concentration on landscapes. Her work has been included in various group exhibitions in New York City and state, New Jersey, and Massach… Full biography
Biography
Colleen Deery is a New York City-based painter working in oils and acrylics, with a concentration on landscapes. Her work has been included in various group exhibitions in New York City and state, New Jersey, and Massachusetts, including at the Cork Gallery at Avery Fischer Hall, the Cape Cod Museum of Art, the Queens College Art Center, and, most recently at LABSpace, Hillsdale, NY. Colleen’s most recent solo exhibition was Homecoming: Irish Landscapes, curated by Veronica Kurian, at the Dobbs Ferry Public Library Gallery, Dobbs Ferry, NY in 2015. She exhibited as part of the Hullaballoo Collective from 2012 – 2014, and as part of The Women Artist Team in 2017, including internationally at Na Gallery, Chungcheongnam-do, South Korea. One of her landscape paintings is on permanent display at Foras Cultuir Uladh (The Ulster Cultural Institute) in Gleann Cholm Cille, County Donegal, Ireland. In 2013, Colleen was awarded a commission to design a mural for the Woodside branch of the Queens Public Library as part of the Greening Libraries Initiative in Western Queens. She holds a Bachelor of Science Cum Laude in Visual/Fine Arts from the State University of New York at New Paltz.
Artist statement
In nature, I find solace and artistic inspiration. The locations and compositions that I choose for my work are those that capture my soul and imagination, as well as my eye…places where I do not feel that the land is simply beneath my feet, but is also within me.
