Tamara Elizabeth Krendel
www.tamarakrendel.com
Tamarakrendel@aol.com
Member of Blue Mountain Gallery
547 W 27th St. NYC
UPCOMING & CURRENT
The Maine Jewish Museum, (One-person show) The Fineberg Family Community Room
March 1- May 1st, 2026, Opening reception, Thursday: March 5th
The Rhode Island Watercolor Society’s National Juried Show, “Simply Watercolor”
Nov 9th – Dec 13th ‘24 Juror: Soon Y Warren, Opening reception Nov. 16th
EDUCATION, HONORS & AWARDS
RIWS 2023 National Juried all-medium Exhibition, “Into the Blue”, Juror: Shannon Ferrari,
Second Prize, December 16th – January 19th
RIWS 2022 National Juried all-medium Exhibition, First Prize -, Juror: Linnea Toney Leeming,
The Rhode Island Watercolor Society, October 22- November 18th 2022
RIWS 2022 National Watermedia Exhibition, Honorable Mention -, Juror: Irena Roman,
The Rhode Island Watercolor Society, June 4th – July 16, 2022
Drawing Challenge XXl , Featured Artist -, Jason McCoy Gallery NYC, New York, May 5- 31, 2021
It’s All About Color – Third Prize: Juror: Sam Allerton Green,
Rhode Island Watercolor Society, May 2020
Winner of Curatorial competition, (jurior Meredyth Hyatt Moses,) for exhibit Winged & Whispered,
Fort Point Arts Community Gallery, April-May 2006
The Royal Academy of Fine Arts 325th Commemorative Juried Show & David Teniers Prize Competition, Antwerp, Belgium, 1989
ZEBRA, (Designated Guest Artist), Copenhagen, Denmark, 1987
The Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp, Belgium, Independent Post-Graduate Studies,
Painting, September 1980-July 1981
The University of Pennsylvania, MFA, 1979, BFA, 1977
Fulbright Grant, Independent study in Belgium, 1980-1981
Belgian Ministry of Dutch Culture Grant, Independent Study in Belgium, 1980-1981
(Invitation to renew).
Yaddo Residency, (NEA and New York Council for the Arts), 1979
Skowhegan Summer School of Painting and Sculpture, 1978
Yale-Norfolk, Yale University Summer School of Music & Art, full fellowship 1976
Swarthmore Library Award for Excellence in English, 1971
ONE & TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
The Maine Jewish Museum, (One-person show),The Fineberg Family Community Room March 1- May 1st, 2026, Opening reception, Thursday: March 5th
The Station Gallery, Anne Oldach & Tamara Krendel (Two-Person Show), Greenville, DE, October 7 – 29, 2016
Illuminations, October 2012, Mass General Hospital, Mass General Illuminations Gallery
Henderson Hall Gallery, “Light in Shadow” (One-Person show) Middlesex Community College, Bedford, MA, 2008.
Soprafina Gallery, “Inside Out” Elizabeth Awalt & Tamara Krendel (Two-Person Show), Somerville, MA, 2003
The Andover Historical Society, “Inspired by Nature,” (one-person show), 2002, Delaware Center for Contemporary Arts, satellite gallery (One-Person Show), Wilmington, DE, 1996.
Arthur Hoyt Scott Foundation, (One-Person Show), Swarthmore College, PA 1990.
The Arnold Arboretum, (One-Person Show), Boston, MA.,1989 and 1985.
The Lane Art Gallery, (One-Person Show), Gordon College, Wenham, MA 1988.
The Cosmos Club, (One-Person Show), Washington, DC, 1986.
The Widener University Art Museum, (Two-Person Show), Chester, PA,1987.
The Cosmos Club, (One-Person Show), Washington, DC, 1986.
Faculty Club of the University of Pennsylvania of PA, (Two-Person Show),1985.
The Belgian Fulbright Commission, (One-Person Show), Antwerp, Belgium, 1982.
The Station Gallery, (Two Person Show), Wilmington, DE, 1980
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
RIWS National Juried Show, “Simply Watercolor” Juror: Soon Y Warren, Nov 9th – Dec 13th 2024
Earth, Wind, Fire, and Water -Blue Mountain Gallery at Marblehead
Aug 10 – Sept 21st, 2024, The Marblehead Art Association
The Rhode Island Watercolor Society’s National Juried Show, “Primary Colors” 2024
Juror: Arnie Casavant , July 27th – Aug 30th
RIWS National Juried Show, “Blossoms”, Juror: Bill Lane,
The Rhode Island Watercolor Society : April 20th – May 24th, 2024
Time & Space Limited, “A Fly on The Canvas”, curated by Harryet Candee
434 Columbia Street, Hudson, New York, April 13th – May 11th, 2024
RIWS National Juried Show, “Pattern and Abstraction”
Juror: Linnea Toney Leeming Exhibition Dates: February 17th – March 22nd, 2024
The Blue Mountain Gallery Winter Juried Show/ juror: Don Kimes, 547 W 27th St. NYC, 1/ 1 -27, 2024
RIWS 2023 National Juried all-medium Exhibition, (Second Prize), “Into the Blue”,
Juror: Shannon Ferrari, Dec. 16th – Jan. 19th
RIWS 2023 National Juried all-medium Exhibition, ‘Amazing Space’, Juror: Mark Fernandez
August 5th – September 1, 2023
The Mirror Blue Night, The Undercroft Gallery, curator: Patrick Neal, 1085 Fifth Ave. New York, NY,
Sept. 5 – Oct. 29th
RIWS 2023 National Juried all-medium Exhibition, “Lines”, Jurors: Karen Harris & Lois Harada,
July 8th– August 3rd, Opening reception: July 8th 1
RIWS 2023 National Juried all-medium Exhibition, ‘Nature’s Patterns’, Juror: Susan Aitcheson,
online exhibit, June 24th- July 28th
Small Works Invitational, Once in A Blue Moon, The Blue Mountain Gallery, 547 W 27th St. New York, NY, August 1 -19, 2023. Opening reception: Thursday, August 3rd, 5-8 PM
RIWS 2023 National Juried Watermedia Exhibition, Juror: Judy Metcalf,
The Rhode Island Watercolor Society, May 13 -June 23rd, 2023
RIWS 2023 National Juried Exhibition, “The Limited Palette” Juror: June Webster
The Rhode Island Watercolor Society, April 29th – May 26th, 2023
Above Us Only Sky ll, Curator: Erica Adams, Brickbottom Gallery, March 2 – April 1, 2023
RIWS 2023 National Juried all-medium Exhibition, ’Spring Break’, Juror: Kris Occhino,
The Rhode Island Watercolor Society, February 25 – March 24 2023
RIWS 2023 National Juried all-medium Exhibition, ’Winter Blues’ Juror: Yvonne Hemingway,
The Rhode Island Watercolor Society, January 21 – February 24, 2023
RIWS 2022 National Juried all-medium Exhibition, First Prize -Juror: Linnea Toney Leeming,
The Rhode Island Watercolor Society, October 22- November 18th 2022
RIWS 2022 National Watermedia Exhibition, Honorable Mention -, Juror: Irena Roman,
The Rhode Island Watercolor Society, June 4th – July 16, 2022
Above Us Only Sky, curator: Erica Adams, The Atrium Gallery, Moakley Courthouse, Boston, MA
April 1 -June 30, 2022
Celebrating Color: Juror: Judy Vilmain, Rhode Island Watercolor Society, Jan. 22nd-Feb. 25, 2022
Marking Lives Covid 19, Organizer: Elizabeth Awalt, The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard,
Cambridge, MA, Sept 27 – Nov 19, 2021
Drawing Challenge XXl , Featured Artist -, Jason McCoy Gallery NYC, New York, May 5- 31, 2021
Drawing Challenge XX, Jason McCoy Gallery, New York, New York, April 7th -30, 2021
Drawing Challenge XVll Jason McCoy Gallery,57th St., New York, New York, Jan. 7th-31st. 2021
RED, 2020, Cambridge Art Association, Nov 4 – Dec17, 2020, Juror: Layla Bermeo, Kristin and Roger
Servison Associate Curator of American Paintings, Boston MFA, Nov 4 – Dec 17, 2020
Beyond Likeness –Juror: Amy Sudarsky, The Rocky Neck Cultural Center,
Gloucester MA, June – July 2020
It’s All About Color – Prizewinner: Juror: Sam Allerton Green, Rhode Island Watercolor Society,
May 2020
Out of Place – International Juried show, Fountain Street Gallery: Juror: Jameson Johnson
Fountain Street Gallery, 460 Harrison Avenue, Nov. 2019-Feb. 2020
MCC Celebration of Art and Music, Lowell Center for the Performing Arts, April-May 2019
RED, CAA, University Place Gallery, Nov. 2018 – Jan. 2019
The Chandler Gallery, Small Works Salon 2016: “Thesis / Antithesis”; (Juror: Gerry Bergstein)
Maud Morgan Center for the Arts, Cambridge MA, (March 21 – April 21, ’16)
Wicked, 2014, (Jurors: Hope Turner & Zola Solamente),
Fountain St. Fine Art Gallery, Framingham, MA. Jan.30 -March 2, 2014
Animals Dreamed & Dreaming, The Concord Art Association, Oct. – Nov. 2013
Illuminations, Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Care Center, Oct. 2012-Jan 2013
Cat Show (Come to Mama!), The Knight Campus Gallery, Warwick, Rhode Island,
(curator: Viera Levitt), April 3 – April 24, 2012
For the Birds, The Brush Gallery, Lowell, MA (Juror: David Allen Sibley)
May 7 – June 18, 2011
Art and About, The Essex Art Center, Lawrence, MA. Oct. 23 -Dec. 4. 2009
Herding Cats, The Brush Gallery, Lowell, MA, (Juror: Erica H. Adams),
Sept 24 – Oct 25, 2009
Home is Where the Art Is Children’s Hospital’s Kent Street Project;
Boston Convention & Exhibition Center, Artists Reception, March 26, 2009
Insecta Poetica, The Essex Art Center, Lawrence, MA. March -May 1. 2009
Order Insecta, The Concord Art Association, Concord MA. June-Aug. 2008
Out of the Blue, Attleboro Arts Museum, (national juried competition,
Juror: Jennifer Wood-Patrick), Attleboro, MA. July 2008
Winged & Whispered, The Fort Point Arts Community Gallery,
(juried competition, Juror Meredyth Hyatt Moses,) for April-May 2006.
RED, University Place Gallery, (Juror, Nick Capasso), Nov. 2005 – Jan. 2006
Dreaming the Light/Unfolding the Dark, The Concord Art Association, Concord, MA. Dec. ‘05 Juried Holiday Show, Bromfield Gallery, Boston, MA 2004, 2005
Finned and Feathered, The Essex Art Center, MA 2004
Francis N. Roddy Competition, The Concord Art Association; 2003, 2004
(Juror: John Moore 2003; Juror: Rachel Rosenfield Lafo 2004), Concord, MA
The Essex Art Center’s 10th Annual Juried Show, 2003 (Juror: Jock Reynolds)
Penn MFA Alumni Exhibition; Kroiz Gallery, Phila. PA, 2003
(Jurors: Bridgette Mayer, Alex Baker, John Moore)
Fresh Paint, The Essex Art Center, Lawrence MA, (Invitational Paint in a day Auction Benefit.)
2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004,2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
A Show of Art by Women Artists. The Essex Art Center, Lawrence, MA, 2000,2002,2004.
Whistler House Museum of Art, Lowell, MA. 2001(A Show of Art by Women Artists), Hardcastle Gallery, Centreville, DE, Dec.1999 through Nov. 2000, (5 Group Exhibitions)
The Royal Academy of Fine Arts 325th Commemorative Juried Show
& David Teniers Prize Competition, Antwerp, Belgium, 1989
ZEBRA, (Designated Guest Artist), Copenhagen, Denmark, 1987
Cheltenham Art Center Annual Award Painting Exhibit, PA,1986 (Juror, Grace Glueck)
Small Works USA, Gallery 401, Providence, R.I., 1985
Woodmere Art Gallery Annual Juried Exhibition, Chestnut Hill, PA, 1982, 1985
The Boston Center for The Arts Annual Drawing Show, Boston, MA, 1983
The American Watercolor Society Annual Juried Exhibition, N.Y., N.Y 1980
TEACHING: ARTIST TALKS, PANEL DISCUSSIONS, WORKSHOPS
Concord Art Association, Designed, Lead & participated in Panel Discussion Group with exhibiting artists: “Behind the Scenes; What makes an Artist who devotes their entire life to their art -Tick: & Why” held in conjunction with her curated exhibit: Animals: Dreamed and Dreaming , 2013.
Illuminations, Opening Reception, Artist’s Remarks, October 23rd 2012, Mass General Hospital
Middlesex Community College: Instructor; (Painting 1 & 2, Drawing 1 & 2 & Independent Studies) 2008-2021
Cambridge College: Instructor; Introduction to Studio Arts, 2006, & Artist as Teacher, (2007-2008)
The Essex Art Center: designed & taught observational drawing &painting class for adults, (2009).
The Andover School of Montessori, designed and taught extensive arts program for kindergarten students. Andover, (1998-2000).
Recipient of an after-school grant to design and teach after-school art club at The Andover School of Montessori (Spring, 2000).
The Concord Art Association, Concord, “Order Insecta,” Artist’s Gallery Talk, ‘08
Henderson Hall Gallery, MCC Bedford “Light in Shadow” solo exhibit, Artist Gallery Talk, 2008.
The Andover Artists Guild, Guest Artist; Artist’s talk, slide presentation & master class, 2006.
The Andover Historical Society, “Inspired by Nature,” Artist’s talk and slide presentation, 2002.
The Whistler House Museum of Art, “Recurring Themes in My Work,” Artist’s talk & slide presentation, 2001
CURATING
Animals: Dreamed & Dreaming, The Concord Art Association, Concord, MA, Oct 19–Nov 24, 2013
Insecta Poetica, The Essex Art Center, Lawrence, MA. March–May 1, 2009
Order Insecta, The Concord Art Association, Concord MA, June–Aug 2, 2008.
Winged & Whispered, The Fort Point Arts Community Gallery, (juried competition, juror, Meredyth Hyatt Moses) April–May 2006.
Dreaming The Light/Unfolding The Dark, The Concord Art Association, Concord, MA. Dec. 2005.
Finned & Feathered, The Essex Art Center, 2004.
PRESS & REVIEWS
Alicia Faxon. “Animals: Dreamed & Dreaming,“ Art New England, January/February 2014
Cate McQuaid, exhibition tips, The Boston Globe, Oct. 24, 2013
Cate McQuaid, “Critters large and small – and no need for bug spray,” The Boston Sunday Globe, July 20, 2008
Kate Farrington, “Local Poetics, Winged & Whispered,” Art New England, August / September 2006.
“dig this”, Boston’s Weekly Dig, April 19, 2006.
Meredith Goldstein, “Quick Picks”, The Boston Globe, Dec. 9, 2005.
Meredith Fife Day, “Finned & Feathered”, Art New England, Aug/Sept 2004.
Christine Temin, “Critic’s Pick”, The Boston Sunday Globe, March 14, 2004.
Featured on “Write Now”, by Gayle Heney, Haverhill Public Television, May 2004.
Jan Hale, “Noted Massachusetts Artist Paints Pictures of Greenhouse Interiors,” Hobby Greenhouse, vol. 11, no 2, 1989.
Burton Wasserman, “Exhibitions in Sight,” Art Matters, vol. 6, no. 9, 1987.
Victoria Donohoe, “In Cheltenham, A Youthful Show at Middle Age,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, March 1, 1986.
Christine Temin, “Critic’s Tip,” The Boston Globe, August 8, 1985.
Robert Taylor, “Critic’s Choice,” The Boston Globe, May 10, 1985.
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The Greenhouse Group, Manchester, New Hampshire
Kent Street House Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA Enterprise Bank, Andover, MA
Enterprise Bank, Lowell, MA
Offices of Louis F. Rose & Associates, Philadelphia, PA
Wills Eye Institute, Private Office, Philadelphia, PA
Yale’s Summer School of Music and Art, Norfolk, CT
Corporation of Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY
Massachusetts General Hospital