Drawing

Painting

Contact Information

1627 N. Second Street
Philadelphia, PA 19122
tel: 215-829-0480
e-mail:
www.barbaraschaff.com
Please contact artist for purchases, commissions, etc.

Artist Statement

Truth resides in the spontaneity of Nature. In my search for this truth, I try to give myself over to the subject, trusting my instincts in the gesture, the color, and the line. I seek a pathway beneath the surface of things to discover the simplicity of what connects us to our world and to each other.

My goal is to merge with the creative process and allow the spontaneous rendering to discover the unknown. By keeping my mind open to all possibility of what the work will be, I hope to enter into a silent dialogue with the creative forces and become receptive to its counsel.

Education

1994
China National Academy of Fine Art, Hangzhou, China
Fellowship

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Certificate Degree

Selected Awards and Honors

2005
Newark Museum Purchase Award, Perkins Center for the Arts, Newark, NJ

Works on Paper, Perkins Center for the Arts, Moorestown, NJ
Jurors Award

2004
Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship

1985
New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship

1996, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011
Residency Fellowship, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

Professional Experience

2007 – present
Artist Advisory, Louise Nevelson Foundation, Philadelphia, PA

2006 – present
Advisory Board Member, Coalition Ingenue, Philadelphia, PA

2005 – 2008
Member, Fellows Council, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, VA

Lectures and Talks

2006
Slide Presentation, The Expressive Line, Perkins Center for the Arts, Moorestown, NJ

Selected Collections

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

Newark Museum, Newark, NJ

Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art at Ursinus College, Collegeville, NJ

Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA

Associated Dry Goods, New York, NY

Cephalon Inc, PA

Chubb Corporation ,World Headquarters, Warren, NJ

Wall Street Digest, Princeton, NJ

WHYY and 91 FM, Philadelphia, PA

Newark Museum, Newark, NJ

New Jersey Musem, Trenton, NJ

Marriot Corporation, Princeton, NJ

McGraw Hill Publishers, New York, NY

Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts School print collection, Philadelphia, PA

Memorial Sloan Kittering Hospital, Basking Ridge, NJ

Temple University Beasley School of Law, Philadelphia, PA

Phizer International, New York, NY

Selected Exhibitions

Solo

2010
Sande Webster Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2006
N’est ce Pas, Bahdeebahdu, Philadelphia, PA

2003
Recent Work, Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ

1999
Recent Work, The Museum Restaurant, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA

Group

2010 – 2011
Directors Choice, Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art at Ursinus College, Coillegeville, PA

Artists We Admire, William Penn Foundation, Philadelphia, PA

2010
Art on the Square, Sande Webster Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2009
A Cause for Art, Sande Webster Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Works on Paper, Perkins Center for the Arts, Collingswood, NJ

2008
Big Work, Perkins Center for the Arts, Collingswood, NJ

2007
Gallery Saint Martin, Philadelphia, PA

Pink at Perkins, Perkins Center for the Arts, Moorestown NJ and Collingswood, NJ

2006
From the Studio III, Center for Emerging Visual Artists, Philadelphia, PA

66th Annual Juried Exhibition, Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA

Black and White, Projects Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Works from the Permanent collection, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA

2005
6th Biennial Exhibition, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY

From the Studio II, Center for Emerging Visual Artists, Philadelphia, PA

Works on Paper, Perkins Center for the Arts, Moorestown, NJ

2004
The Expressionist Gesture, Berman Museum of Art, Collegeville, PA

Other

2011, 2006, 2005
Philadelphia Open Studio Tours, Philadelphia, PA