RICHARD CASTELLANA
EDUCATION
Harvard College, B.A. in Biology, cum Laude, 1962
Art Students' League, 1964 (Studied with Edwin Dickinson)
New York Studio School, 1964-66 (Studied with Estaban Vicenti, Charles Cajori,
Mercedes Matter, Sidney Geist, George Spaventa)
Queens College,1968 (Studied with Louis Finkelstein, James Brooks, Elias
Friedenson, John Ferren in the MFA program)
New School for Social Research, M.A. in Political Economy, 1976;
Ph.D. in Economics, 1987.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2001 Bowery Gallery, NYC1999 Bowery Gallery, NYC
1997 Mallette Gallery, Garden City, NY
1996 Bowery Gallery, NYC
1995 Maples Gallery, Fairleigh Dickinson University
1994 Becton Hall Gallery, Fairleigh Dickinson University
1994 Edward Williams Gallery, Fairleigh Dickinson University
1990 Educational Alliance, NYC
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
(* indicates juried exhibition, ** indicates invitational)2000 "Portraits," Bowery Gallery
2000* "On the City: Urban Realities and Fantasies, juried by Irving Sandler, New York Studio School
2000 "The Street Painters," Cork Gallery, Lincoln Center, NYC
1999 "Bisbing and Castellana," Mallette Gallery, Garden City, NY (May)
1999 "Landscape Painting: An Enduring Tradition, 7 Artists from the Bowery Gallery," Moll Art Center, Anna Maria College, Paxton, MA
1998 "The Street Painters," Cork Gallery, Lincoln Center, NYC
1998 "Castellana, Culp & Staver," Washington Art Assoc. Gallery, Washington Depot, CT
1998 "Painterly Visions," Broome St. Gallery
1997** "Holiday Invitational," Broome Street Gallery, NYC
1997 "Still Life," Mallette Art Gallery, Garden City, Long Island
1997** "Street Painters and Friends," Cork Gallery, Lincoln Center, NYC
1997 "Small Works,", Mallette Gallery, Garden City, Long Island
1997* "First Look - Downtown Arts Festival," Dean and Delucca, NYC
1997* "Audubon Artists," 55th Annual Exhibition, Salamagundi Club, NYC
1997** "4th Annual Small Works Invitational," Blue Mountain Gallery, NYC
1996 "People, Places and Things: An Exploration of the Portrait," New York Studio School, NYC
1995 "Founding Students 1964-1965 Celebrating the Vision that Created the NYSS," New York Studio School, NYC
1993 "Random Reflections, Ordered Dreams," Westbeth Gallery
1993 "Love in Bloom," Brooklyn Botanical Gardens
1993 "Earth, Wind, and Fire, "NY Academy of Sciences, NYC
1993* "Nature Morte: A Current View," curated by Judi Rifka, NYSS
1993* "3rd Annual National Competition," Bowery Gallery, NYC
1992* "2nd Annual National Competition," Juried by Louis Finkelstein, Bowery Gallery, NYC
1991* "1st Annual National Competition," Juried by Nell Blaine, Bowery Gallery, NYC -
1990* "165th Annual Juried Exhibition," National Academy of Design
1990** Terry Chassman Associates, NYC
1989** "89 FOR '89," G.W. Einstein Gallery, NYC
1983 "Union Square Artists Open Studios"
GRAPHICS
1978 Rozinante, #1 (Cover drawing for poetry magazine)
REVIEWS AND NOTICES
- Joy Walker, "New York Gallery Walking,", in Next: Trimestrale di arte e cultura,
- Anno XIII - N. 38 - Primavera 1997, p. 111, Roma, Italia, 2
- Cory Mac a´Ghobhainn, , "Union Square Artists Open Their Studios," Villager
- November 17, 1983
- "Castellana Works on Display at Two FDU Galleries," Suburbanite, February 2,
- 1994, NJ (Photo)
- Sun-Bulletin, NJ. February 4, 1994
GRANTS/AWARDS/HONORS
2001 Full Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center
1999 Vermont Studio Center Grant
1998 Fairleigh Dickinson University Grant-in-Aid
(for project entitled "Paintings of the Newfoundland Coast")
1997 Fairleigh Dickinson University Grant-in-Aid
(for project entitled "Paintings: Focus on Landscape")
1997 Vermont Studio Center Grant
1968 Queens College Art Department Fellowship
1965 New York Studio School Scholarship
RESIDENCIES
1999,97 Vermont Studio Center
1998 Pouch Cove Foundation, Newfoundland
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