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= Corliss Cavalieri =

Early Life & Education
Corliss Cavalieri is a visual artist is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was born and grew up in Altoona, Pennsylvania. Cavalieri earned his BFA in Painting from Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in 1981 and his MFA in Painting from Tyler School of Art in 1989.

As an undergraduate at MICA, Cavalieri befriended abstract expressionist Grace Hartigan. His correspondence with Hartigan is included in Hartigan’s archives, which are housed at Syracuse University in New York. Other mentors include Phillip Mendlow, his instructor at the Ivy School of Professional Art in Pittsburgh, where Cavalieri also met Keith Haring. As a result, Cavalieri is featured as a source in Brad Gooch’s Radiant: The Life and Line of Keith Haring, published by HarperCollins in 2024. Another early mentor of his was Sgt. Frederick Alan Counsel.

He has exhibited within the tristate area of New York, Maryland, and Pennsylvania. In Philadelphia, he has exhibited at Pageant: Soloveev Gallery and was a member of the co-operative space Zone One, where he exhibited, as well as curated, exhibitions. Regionally, Cavalieri has shown his work at the Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art; he was a member of 55 Mercer Street Gallery in New York, exhibiting regularly for 12 years, with the last exhibition being at their hybrid space in New York’s Chelsea neighborhood in 2013; and has been curated into numerous group exhibitions in Baltimore; Washington, D.C.; Philadelphia; and Pittsburgh. Among numerous other exhibits, Cavalieri was selected as an artist in Philadelphia’s Fleisher Art Memorial’s 40th Wind Challenge Exhibition 2017 – 2018. An extended list of exhibitions is included below.

Cavalieri also has work in public and private collections, including a long-term loan in the Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce Offices.

Work
Using the materiality of his media and language of representation, Cavalieri lends identifiable qualities and the sense of animation to the elements of his composition. Relying on our internalized sense of gravity, Cavalieri creates landscapes in which the liquid nature of paint viscerally registers the up-and-down of spatial logic, slyly lending mass and weight or their opposite to his sensual, absurd fabrications. Cavalieri partners with the materiality of paint. He celebrates its fluidity and drippiness, such that there are gestures and directional signals that read as descending. He can work with this or against this in his imagery, as in the case of strokes registering as some sort of downfall or conversely of balloon shapes ascending. Dimension is not a matter of rendering but of strata. Loving to scrape into his pigments, the surface is at once emphasized and a portal to the depths beneath. What initially appears to be simply ground between figures is filled with the traces of Cavalieri’s activity, and the seemingly elementary gives way to enhancement born of the artist’s process. As with our internal picturing, the vivid becomes elusive, and we seek with our mind’s eye to call up our thoughts, memories, and dreams.

Scholarships & Residencies

 * MacDowell, Residency in Painting, Robert and Stephanie Olmstead Fellow, winter – spring, 2020
 * Jentel Residency Program, Residency in Painting, August – September 2015
 * Virginia Center for the Arts, Residency in Painting, May 2010
 * Yaddo, Residency in Painting, April – May 2009
 * Vermont Studio Center, Residency in Painting, July 2007
 * Vermont Studio Center, scholarship participant, Residency in Painting, July 2006
 * Vermont Studio Center, scholarship participant, Residency in Painting, July 1996
 * Mütter Museum, Disaster Preparedness/Mitigation Workshop, September 1995
 * University of Delaware, scholarship participant, National Endowment for the Humanities, Collection Care Workshop, July – August 1995

Select Solo Exhibitions

 * George’s Orchard, NoHo M55 Gallery, New York, New York, 2024
 * “Imagine That …”, Rosemont College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, 2022
 * Paintings and Drawings, 1241 ArtSpace+, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2021
 * Unrolled / Unstretched, 1241 ArtSpace+, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2018
 * Wind Challenge Exhibition, Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2017 – 2018
 * Paintings and Drawings 2009 – 2012, NOHO Gallery, New York, New York, 2013
 * Recent Works, 55 Mercer Gallery, New York, New York, 2006
 * Baroque Cabinet, Pageant Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2006
 * Commuter Drawings, Southern Alleghenies Museum, Altoona, Pennsylvania, 2002
 * Recent Works, 55 Mercer Gallery, New York, New York, 2005
 * Recent Works, 55 Mercer Gallery, New York, New York, 2004
 * Paintings 2002, 55 Mercer Gallery, New York, New York, 2002
 * New Work, 55 Mercer Gallery, New York, New York, 1999
 * Recent Paintings and Drawings, 55 Mercer Gallery, New York, New York, 1997
 * Vermont: A Culmination, Bound Book Art Gallery, Bound Brook, New Jersey, 1996
 * Recent Paintings and Drawings, Zone One Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1993

Select Group Exhibitions

 * Ripple Effect, Fairmount Park Waterworks Site, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2022
 * 15th Annual LGBTQIA+ Exhibit, William Way Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2021
 * Stonewall@50, Drexel University Pearlstein Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2019
 * Art of the State 2018, The State Museum, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 2018
 * CFEVA Regional Artist Exhibition, Commerce Department of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2017 – 2018
 * Of House and Home, The Whole Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland, 2011
 * Recent Works, 55 Mercer Gallery, New York, New York, 2006
 * Small Works, Millennium Gallery, East Hampton, New York, 1999
 * Dreamscapes, Walt Whitman Cultural Center, Camden, New Jersey, 1995
 * Influences, Zone One Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1992
 * Selected Masterpieces, Zone One Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1991
 * Selected Regional Artists, Westmoreland Museum, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, 1985
 * Four Unrelated Artists, Barbara Fiedler Gallery, Washington, D.C., 1978

Select Publications

 * Binstock, Jonathan, juror. New American Paintings, Vol. 57. Washington, D.C. 2005.
 * Contemporary Art. Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 2005.
 * Fuoco, Robin. Art Matters. Philadelphia. June 1990.

Select Collections
Cavalieri’s work is in collections including those of Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, Pennsylvania; Natasha and Richard Belcher, Anatole Poholenko, and Bonds and Moran in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Stephanie Lewis in Roslyn, New York; and Scott and Erin Rishell in Salem, New York.

Professional Experience
Cavalieri served as gallery director of Paul Robeson Art Gallery at Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey, from 2000 to 2004. He also was the curatorial museum supervisor for the World’s Fairs and Expositions collection of the Civic Center Museum in Philadelphia from 1993 to 1996, and the curator of the Port of History Museum in Philadelphia from 1989 to 1993.

Selected Curated Exhibitions

 * New Jersey Turnpike: 15E, Contemporary Art and the New Jersey Turnpike, 2004
 * Stephen Hendee: Lost Vehicles, 2002
 * Visual AIDS: Selections from the Archive Project, 2000
 * Columbian Iconography: Imagining the New World, 1992
 * Ligurian Exhibition: The Road to the Americas, 1992
 * Aosta: Two Thousand Years of History and Architecture, 1992
 * Abstracting the Landscape: A.E. Bye, 1992
 * Mapuche: The Seeds of the Chilean Soul, 1992
 * Art Around the Edges II, 1992
 * International Lathe-Turned Objects, 1991 – 1992
 * Josef Koudelka: Exiles, 1990
 * Traditional Japanese Ceramics, 1990
 * Make a Joyful Noise, 1990
 * Florence with a View, 1989 – 1990