Beth Racette

Installation Artist and Painter 

      

Resume

Madison, Wisconsin

Phone/Fax (608) 244-5071 email bracette@gmail.com

Personal: Woman, Born in Wichita, KS. USA August 7, 1960

EDUCATION

1989 MFA Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers, New Brunswick, NJ

1982 BA Rutgers University. Majors: History, Art

GRANTS AND AWARDS

1991 - 92 New Jersey State Council for the Arts Fellowship in Sculpture

1989 Seth Gopin Purchase Award

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2002 Without Liberty and Justice for All,  The Academy Gallery of Arts and Science, Madison, WI

2000  - Time 2000: The Millennium Show, DeRicci Gallery, Madison, WI

1998 Installation With 13 Names, ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL

1995 Towards an Integration of Work and Play Palmyra Gallery, Bound Brook, NJ

1993 Medical Paradigm, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA

1990 Authority of Refined Consumption, Artemesia Gallery, Chicago IL

1989 MFA Thesis, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers

1986 Exploited Garbage, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers NJ

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2007

Dendritic Visions: Peace by Piece, The Commonwealth Gallery, Madison, WI

2001

Starts - Artists for Social Change,  Commonwealth Gallery, Madison, WI

SUGAR, San Diego State University Gallery

1999

Queer Vision, Mason Gross School of the Arts, New Brunswick, NJ

1998

Woman on the Edge of Time, Commonwealth Gallery, Madison, WI

Beijing and Beyond: Women Artists Respond to the World Conference on Women

    Washington University Gallery

Diverse Origins: an Exhibitin of Cultural and Geographic Variety Core New Art Space, Denver, CO

1997

Change Becomes Us Commonwealth Gallery, Madison, WI

Beijing and Beyond: Women Artists Respond to the World Conference on Women

    Mills College,Oakland CA; ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL; HUB Gallery, Penn State;

25th National Anniversary Exhibition of the WCA, Artemesia Gallery, Chicago

1996

H x W x D, Visual Arts Program, St. Marks Church in the Bowery, NYC

Beijing and Beyond: Women Artists Respond to the World Conference on Women

Lever House, NYC; The United Nations, NYC; University of Texas at Dallas;

Omni Gallery, Long Island, NY

1995

Personal Narratives, NGO Forum, Beijing China

Global Sweatshop, Art In General, NYC 1994

Amendments, Hallwalls Contemporary Art, Buffalo, NY

Memory Revisited, Mercer College Gallery, NJ

Race and Gender, Mason Gross school of the Arts, NJ

Recycling With Imagination: Art From Detritus, at the National Recycling Conference, Portland, OR

Trenton Avant Guard Festival, Trenton, NJ

Site of Crisis, Works/San Jose, San Jose, CA

The Women's Health Show, NYC Director

Race and Gender, Raritan Valley Community college, NJ

    Chapter One Books, New Brunswick, NJ

1993

Breaching Containment, 30 Bond Street Gallery, NYC

Women's Art, Women's Lives, Women's Issues, Tweed Gallery, NYC

New Horizons, Long Beach Island Foundation, NJ

NJ Fellowship Recipients 91 - 93, Stedman Art Gallery, Rutgers Camden, NJ

1992

Big Art, Billboard in the Atlanta Arts Festival, Georgia

Materiality Revisited, Raritan Valley Community College, NJ

The New Jersey Project: Women Artists at NJ Colleges

Robeson Gallery, Rutgers Newark; Glassburo College;

Ramapo College; Calwell College; Stockton College

WAC - Women's Action Coalition, Creative Time's Art in the Anchorage, Brooklyn

1991

Community Artists Against Drugs, Mount Sinai Medical Center, NYC

Members Exhibition, A.I.R. Gallery, NYC

Choice, A.I.R. Gallery, NYC

Race and Culture, 494 Gallery, NYC; City College, NYC

Park and Ride, NJ Communities,

Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers, New Brunswick, NJ

Raritan Valley Community College, NJ

Death On Drugs, Taller Boricua Gallery, NYC

RVCC Faculty Exhibit, Hunterdon Art Center, Clifton, NJ

Visible for a Change, Harvard University, MA

1990

Points of Origin, City Gallery, NYC

Interactions, Raritan Valley Community College, NJ

Mayfair, Allentown, PA

Altarpiece, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers

Women in the Visual Arts 1990, Erector Square, New Haven, CT

1989

Inalienable Rights / Alienable Wrongs, Contemporary Art Workshop, Chicago, IL

The Jane Doe Show, Pyramid Gallery NYC

Rutgers/Yale Exchange, A&A Gallery, New Haven, CT

Summerfest, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

MFA Thesis, Zimmerli Museum, Rutgers University

Hunger Show, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers NJ

1988

Love and Sex Show, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers NJ

New Members, City Without Walls Gallery, Newark, NJ

Democracy, White Columns Gallery, NYC

1987 Prohibition, Hiro Cafe, NYC

Window Peace, Soho Zat, NYC

Women in Action, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers NJ

1985

Little Works By Big Thinkers, Bess Cutler Gallery, NYC

1982 -86

Graphics, Stage visual, and sound technician for the band FROZEN CONCENTRATE

1981

Birth Control and Dipety Doo, New Brunswick, NJ

1979 - 80 Sound Technician for the band CELIBATE SLUTS

TEACHING AND LECTURING

1997

Lecturer INSTALLATION ART COURSE Fall 97 University of Wisconsin, Madison

Visiting Artists Lecture INSTALLATION ART: FROM DADA TO PRESENT

University of Wisconsin, Madison, Arts Foundations Course

Visiting Artist Lecture; History of Installation Art

Purdue University, West Lafayette IN Visiting Artists Series

1996

Instructor of Drawing at the Atelier du Jazz and Art,

La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland

1993 - 96 Critic and Instructor of sculpture, Teen Arts Festivals of New Jersey

1990 - 96 Instructor of sculpture, 3D design and drawing,

Raritan Valley Community College, NJ

1995 Report from The 4th World Conference on Women, Beijing,

Lectures to New Brunswick Public Library; Raritan Valley Community College, NJ;

moderator of panel discussion at A.I.R. Gallery, NYC.

1992 Visiting Artist Lecture at Penn State University, State College, PA

1988 - 89 Instructor of sculpture and drawing

Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University

CURATORIAL

1992 Curator of Materiality Revisited, Raritan Valley Community College, NJ

1991 Curator of Park and Ride, New Jersey Communities,

Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers, New Brunswick, NJ

Raritan Valley Community College, NJ

1991 Director of Choice, A.I.R. Gallery, NYC

1989 Director of The Jane Doe Show, Pyramid Gallery, NYC

Director of Rutgers Yale Exchange, A&A Gallery, New Haven, CT

Curator of The Hunger Show, Mason Gross School of the Arts, NJ

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

1999 - 2000 WORT Community Radio, member of Creative Agenda

1995 -- 1998 Board of Directors / Chair of Exhibitions, National Women's Caucus for Art

1994 - 1996 Board of Directors, Women's Caucus for Art, New York City Chapter

1995 Delegate for the Women's Caucus for Art to the NGO FORUM,

4th World Conference on Women, Beijing China

1989 Founder BIOPHILIC ACTIVITIES

OTHER

1997-- current Community and Educational Programs, Assistant to the Director of Outreach and Development. The Madison Civic Center. Madison, WI Responsibilities include edit study guides for a children's performing arts series, design and oversee artist residencies and other community performing arts programs.

1995 -- 1999 Director of Beijing and Beyond: Artists Respond to the 4th World Conference on

Women Exhibited at the United Nations, NYC; Lever House, NYC; University of Texas at Dallas; Omni Gallery, New York; Traveling to Mills College, Oakland, CA;

Responsible for management of artistic, administrative and technical aspects of the traveling exhibition

1992 - 94 Director of The Women's Health Show, NYC

Project consisted of 5 gallery exhibition 2 community health center exhibitions, performance series, 3 video programs, 5 panel discussions etc. I spearheaded the program and oversaw fundraising, publicity, curatorial, including gathered and coordinated 30 volunteers to work together on the project

1989 - 92 Associate Director of INTAR Gallery, NYC

Staff position responsible for installing exhibitions, designing invitations, overseeing the publication of catalogues, updating databases, overseeing publicity, coordinating traveling exhibitions and handling all correspondence

1987 - 94 Editor of Heresies, Issue #25 "The Art of Education"

 

PUBLICATIONS

1998 Feminist Voices, Madison, WI

1997 Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies

1989 BIOPHILIC TRANSFORMATION, Author

1987 - 94 Heresies, Editor Issue #25 "The Art of Education

1986, 88, 90 Half Dozen of the Other, contributor of visuals and writings to volumes 1, 2 and 3

AFFILIATIONS

International Sculpture Center

The Women's Caucus for Art

National Association of Artists Organizations (NAAO)

Heresies

1990 - 94 Member of A.I.R. Gallery, NYC