Angsting over starting a new series -thinking of isolation; thinking of the madness of the last three years; thinking of the insecurity of our future physically and politically. Wondering how to express doom in a way that uses intense colors and the power and simplicity of a single shape. After the first two pieces I realized that I was being influenced by one of my favorite painters Phillip Guston. He was a master of taking an extremely serious subject and expressing it in a cartoonish style - bringing us in with a pleasant color scheme and playful shapes and smacking us with reality. I entitled this series RUINS -the ruins created by climate change and denial. The pieces evolving by multi-layering with acrylic and oils building texture and expression. In four and a half months they became a series of forty pieces.
2011
New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship for Painting
2000
Fleisher Challenge, Philadelphia, PA
Caparella, Kitty, “Dolores Poacelli: 315 works, 4 shows, 1 artist,” Artblog, November 25, 2015
Park Towne Place Catalog
NJ State Council on the Arts, Fellowship catalog 2012
New Art International
Q-Bix Gallery Magazine September 2006 issue
Westin Hotel’s uwishunu “Room 414” catalog
AxD Gallery catalog
SAP Software Corporation, Germany
Bank of America, Wilmington, DE
NY Presbyterian Children’s Hospital/Morgan Stanley, NY
Cooper/Anderson Cancer Hospital, NJ
Morgan Lewis Legal Firm, Princeton, NJ
Liberty Properties, Malvern, PA
Boston Consulting Group, Philadelphia, PA
Jenkins and Martin L.L.P., Beaumont, TX
Psychology Dept. Princeton University, NJ
Park Towne Place, Philadelphia, PA
Murano Condominium, Philadelphia, PA
State of New Jersey
& many public & private collections
Liberty Properties, Malvern, PA
Two posters for Fleisher Art Memorial
(Philadelphia Museum of Art)
Section of Aids Quilt for Names Project
Design of Collingswood Centennial History Book
Four calendars for Borough of Collingswood
Design of T-Shirt for Rutgers University
2022
Rosemont College/Nugent Gallery, Rosemont, PA
Perkins Center for the Arts, Collingswood, NJ
2021
The Philadelphia Episcopal Cathedral, Philadelphia, PA
2020
Philadelphia Episcopal Cathedral, Philadelphia, PA
2018
BostonStreet Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
CFEVA at Sonesta Hotel, Philadelphia, PA
2017
Burgin Arts Center at Mercersburg, Academy, PA
2015
bahdeebahdu Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
George School, Newtown, PA
2013
Pennswood Gallery, Newtown, PA
2011 – 2012
Color on the Edge, Dalet Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2009
Mixed Metaphors, RoCa Gallery, Harve de Grace, MD
2006
Esquire Deposition, Inc., Philadelphia, PA
2005
Hypno Gallery, Moorestown NJ
Q-Bix Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1996
Main Line Unitarian Church, Devon, PA
1994
Pavilion Gallery, Burlington, NJ
2023
Paul Robertson Gallery, Princeton, NJ
2020
Lynn Dunham and Dolores Poacelli, InLiquid at East Market, Philadelphia, PA
2011
Resonance and Reflections, AxD Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2010
Fabricated Stories, AxD Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2009
Metamorphoses, Dalet Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2004
Opposites Attract, Perkins Center for the Arts, Moorestown, NJ
Invitational, with Dallas Piotrowski
1997
Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2023
Carter Burden Gallery, New York, NY
2019
Navigating Elements, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ
2018
Who. Are. You. : (Re)Presentation and Challenge, Atlantic Gallery, New York, NY
Dolores Poacelli and Gerri Spilka: Pieces, 990 Spring Garden Street, Philadelphia, PA
Navigating Elements, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ
2017
Sonesta Hotel Art Bar, Philadelphia, PA
Park Towne Place in Phila, Philadelphia, PA
2015
Old Enough to Know Better: Women’s Caucus on the Arts, Crane Arts, Philadelphia, PA
First Street Gallery, New York, NY
Black & White, Trenton Museum at Ellarslie, Trenton, NJ
2013
Cellular/Molecular Exhibition, Esther M. Klein Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Library of Life Exhibition, Art in City Hall, Philadelphia, PA
Meridian Hotel, Philadelphia, PA
2012
/adaptations/, Provenance Architecturals part of Design Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
2011
Fall Art Exhibit, Gloucester County College, Deptford, NJ
Color by Numbers, James Oliver Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
REAL Abstract, Hopkins House Gallery of Contemporary Art, Collingswood, NJ
Art in the Open Exhibition, Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia, PA
Art in the Open, Philadelphia, PA
Annex Exhibit, James Oliver, Public Ledger Builing, Philadelphia, PA
2010
Redux/8 NJ Artists, Stedman Gallery, Rutgers University, Camden, NJ
the Architect Show, James Oliver Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2008
The Green Exhibit, Art in City Hall, Philadelphia, PA
Juried Exhibition
2007
Room 414, Westin Hotel, Philadelphia, PA
Sponsored by uwishunu
Curators: Eileen Tognini and RJ Thornburg
2006
Metalic Exhibit, Bahdeebahdu, Philadelphia, PA
Invitational
The Pressed Image, Art in City Hall, Philadelphia, PA
Juried Exhibition
Art in The Garden, Hawk Mountain, PA
Juried Exhibition
Gallery RoCa, Havre de Grace, MD
QBix Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2005
Anniversary Exhibit, Art in City Hall, Philadelphia, PA
Juried Exhibition
International Art Competion, Agora Gallery, New York, NY
2003
Delaware Center for Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE
Juried Exhibition
2002
Non-objective Painting and Sculpture, Art in City Hall, Philadelphia, PA
Juried Exhibition
Absence of Color, Art Forms Gallery, Manayunk, PA
Juried Exhibition
2001
8 Women, Inliquid at DiPalma, Philadelphia, PA
2000
Wind Challenge, Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA
Agora Gallery, New York, NY
Chamber of Commerce, Philadelphia, PA
1999
Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA