Elizabeth Sheehan
VITAE
Galleries
2024 ''Textures", Solo Show", The Firehouse Center of The Arts, Newbury, MA
2024 "Contextures", Semi Solo Show," Gallery Z, Lowell, MA
2023 "Creative Gifting" ALL Gallery, Lowell, MA
2023 ''Holiday Show", Gallery Z, Lowell, MA
2023. " Red, Blue, and White Exhibition'', All Gallery, Lowell, MA
2023 '' Earth-scape Exhibition", Gallery Z, Lowell, MA
2023 " Abstract Expressions 'Exhibition", Gallery Z, Lowell, MA
2023 " We Are the Faces of Creativity", All Gallery, Lowell, MA
2023 " Membership Exhibition", Gallery Z, Lowell, MA
2002 ''Holiday Show", Gallery Z, Lowell, MA
2022 " Printmaking: from Silly Putty to Silkscreen Exhibition, All Gallery, Lowell, MA
2022 "Unity", Members Exhibition, Gallery Z, Lowell, MA
2022 "Tiny but Mighty", Group Exhibition, Gallery Z
2022 '' Art for Ukraine'' Group Exhibition, donated artwork for a relief fund for Ukraine, Gallery Z, Lowell, MA
2022 '' Bright, Group Exhibition, Gallery Z, Lowell, MA
2021 ''100 and Below", Group Exhibition, All Art Gallery, Lowell, MA
2021 ''Greenwald Inspirations" ALL Arts Gallery, Lowell, MA
2021 "Summer", Gallery Z, Lowell, MA
2021 "Functional Art", Gallery Z, Lowell, MA
2021 "Earthly Elements", Gallery Z, Lowell, MA
2021 " Colors of Spring", Gallery Z, Lowell, MA
2021 "Abstract Exhibition"', Gallery Z, Lowell, MA 2019 "Abstraction Exhibition", Gallery Z, Lowell, MA 2018 "Exhibition, Exhibition", Salem Art Association, Salem, MA 2018 "Go Away - It's about the Journey Not the Destination", Arcworks, Community Art, Peabody, MA
2017 "Not for the Faint of Heart", Salem Art Association, Salem, MA
2017 The Abstracted View", Arcworks, Community Art Center, Peabody, MA
2016 Impressions of Salem, Salem, MA, Salem Art Association,
2016 Arcworks, May 26 -June, Spring Fling Exhibition, Peabody,MA
2016 Winter Wonders Exhibition, Arc Works Community Center, Peabody, MA
2016 Variations II, New England Regional (Open), Marblehead Arts Association Gallery, Marblehead, MA
2016 House of Seven Gable En Plein Air Painting, The Hopper House, House of Seven Gables, Salem, MA
2016 En Plein Air Artist Residency, The House of Seven Gables through Salem Arts Association, Salem, MA
2016 "Beyond Words", A Salem Arts Association Mixed Media Event in Celebration with The Mass Poetry Festival. Salem Arts Center, Salem, Ma
2016 House of Seven Gables Artists in Residence, Group Works, The Salem Arts Center, Salem, MA
2015 Flux Exhibition – 9th Annual Peabody Essex Museum inspired by the Exhibition Strande Salem Arts Center Salem, MA
2015 Hallspace Drawing Project, Hallspace Gallery, Dorchester, MA
2015 "Light, Space and Time," Abstracts Art Competition (Special Merit Certificate for "Harmony in Blue")
2015 "Light, Space and Time Online Gallery," Abstract Art Competition (Special Recognition for Orange and Blue" – Part of the Horizon Series)
2014 "Totems: What Guides Us," Inspired by Peabody Essex Museum’s Exhibition Raven’s Many Gifts: Native Art of The Northwest Coast, Sept 6 -28, 2014, Salem, MA
2014 "Spirits of The Season Exhibition," Salem Arts Association Gallery, Salem, MAa
2014 "From The Earth Exhibition," Salem Arts Association Gallery, Artist’s Row, Salem, MA
2013 "Artists and Authors Winter Exhibition," Nathaniel Hawthorne Hotel, Salem, MA
2012 "Salem Collective of Artists and Musicians," Artist’s Row, Salem MA
2012 "Off The Top of Your Head: An SAA Exhibition Inspired by Peabody Essex Museum’s Hats: An Anthology by Stephen Jones, 2011 -2012," Salem, MA
2011 "Just add water", A Compliment Show to Peabody Essex Museum Exhibition "The Ripple Effect: The Art of H20", Salem, MA
2011 "Photography 2011", Salem Arts Association Gallery, Salem, MA
2011 "Destinations: Famous Places and Intimate Spaces", Still Point Gallery, Brunswick, ME
2011 "Frozen", Salem Arts Association Gallery, Salem, MA
2011 "A Guild for Artistic Sorts", GASworks, Salem, MA
2010 '' Membership Exhibition", 119 Gallery, Lowell, MA
2010 "From Darkness to Light: Rites and Rituals of Transcendence", Caladan, Cambridge, MA
2010 "Flow", Caladan Gallery, Cambridge, MA
2010 The Art Market Gallery, Boston, MA
2010 "Dorchester Artists", The Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, Boston, MA
2009 "Intermingling Senses", Caladan Gallery
2007 "Summer Group Show", Bakk Gallery, Cambridge, MA
2003 " Malden Art Now", Art Space @ 16, Malden, MA
2001 "Altered Fields", Johnson’s Art Gallery, Newbury St., Boston, MA
2001 "Out of Uniform", Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA
1999 "Fantasy, Myth, and Metaphor", Greenville Gallery, Catskill, NY
EXHIBITIONS
2022 Art in City Hall, Lowell City Hall, Lowell,MA
2010 Scenes of Salem, Old Town Hall, Salem, MA
2010 AHHT FOR PEEPS, Old Town Hall, Salem, MA
2010 Dame: Fine Vintage and Independent Design: Guest Artist of Month (Aug), Jamaica Plain, MA
2010 Salem Art Association: AHHT FOR PEEPS, at Salem Old Town Hall: Oct15-17, Salem, MA
AWARDS
2008 Second Place Landscape, The Boston Home " At Home With The Arts", Annual Sale and Exhibition, Boston, MA
2018 Third Place, Artworks, The Electric Landscape, Community Art Center, Peabody, MA
Judge's comment for Azores IV Landscape for The Electric Landscape: '' Done in intimate scale the painting Azores IV, Portugal is lush and free. The sky is not done in the safe pretty blue, but rather with a gray sky, which relay moodiness and dark possibilities.''
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BENEFITS
2015 ''Art Speak: Walk with Me", an event to help stop human trafficking in The North Shore
area, Highrock Church, Salem, MA
2007 "Illuminations Retrospective" (2001-2006), MGH Cancer Foundation, Boston, MA
2007 "At Home with the Arts", Annual Sale and Exhibition, The Boston Home, Boston, MA
2008 "At Home with the Arts" Annual Sale and Exhibition" (2nd place Landscape), The Boston Home, Dorchester, MA
2006 "Illuminations", MGH Cancer Foundation, Boston, MA
2004 "Linking the Arts and Health Care", MGH Breast Cancer Foundation, Boston, MA
2002 "Charity Benefit", Dorchester High School Library, Dorchester, MA
OPEN STUDIOS
2009 Dorchester Open Studios, First Parish Church, Dorchester, MA
2008 Dorchester Open Studios, First Parish Church, Dorchester, MA
2007 Somerville Open Studios, Mad Studio, Somerville, MA
2007 Dorchester Open Studios, First Parish Church, Dorchester, MA
2006 Dorchester Open Studios, First Parish Church, Dorchester, MA
2005 Dorchester Open Studios, First Parish Church, Dorchester, MA
and many paintings in private collections around the United States ​
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MEDIUMS
Oil, Acrylic, and Charcoal
MEMBERSHIPS
Artists League of Lowell: ALL Gallery
Gallery Z, an Artist Co-op, Lowell, MA
Education
B. A. in English, Eastern Nazarene College
B.F.A, in Painting, Mass College of Art
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EDUCATION
BFA in Painting, Massachusetts College of Art -- Boston, MA
BA in English, minor in Psychology, Eastern Nazarene College -- Quincy, MA