Bonnie Spiegel Paintings
I can hardly remember when I didn't want to be an artist.
My earliest art-related memory is of my older brother, Danny, drawing. I think I was about four. He looked like he was having fun, so I tried it too. That's when my obsession with art began.
Art class was always my favorite subject. While a senior in high school I got a scholarship to a painting program at New York University, and afterwards I won a place at the Cooper Union School of Art in New York City, a tuition free college, where I earned my BFA. A few years later, while my husband was in graduate school, I studied further at Boston University's School of Fine Arts.
My career began in New York City as a book designer at Random House and Alfred A. Knopf Publishers. When my children were born, I began freelancing. After moving to Cambridge, Mass., I continued to design books and book jackets. That led to a new focus, lettering for book jacket titles. And that in turn led to customized lettering assignments for ad agencies and corporate and private clients. Later moving up the coast to Portland, Maine, still freelancing, my focus gradually morphed from lettering back again to painting. While intellectually stimulating, the process of producing lettered headlines, logos and calligraphic pieces began to become routine. It wasn't enough. I wanted more.
That's why I paint too. Even when my main focus was freelancing as a calligrapher, I always found time to paint. But now things are reversed. Most of my time now is spent painting while occasionally I'll squeeze in a calligraphy assignment.
In addition to painting and calligraphy, I teach art. I lead classes and workshops for both children and adults. Listed as an Education Artist with the Maine Arts Commission, I was also juried into their MaineArtistAccess listing. For more than 30 years I taught at the University of Southern Maine's Center for Continuing Education, and for the last 28 years, privately at my studio.
Exhibiting here in Maine, across the country and Europe, my work has been collected by both private and corporate clients.
RESUME´
SOLO EXHIBITS
Couleur Collection, Falmouth, ME, 2004, 2005, 2006
Davidson & Daughters Contemporary Art, Portland, ME, 1996, 1998
Mad Horse Theater Company, Portland, ME, 1987,1993
Thomas Moser, Portland, ME, 1987, 1993
University of New England, Biddeford, ME, 1991
FACE TO FACE, DUAL EXHIBITS with Diane Dahlke
Chocolate Church, Bath, ME, 2007
The Maine Art Gallery, Wiscasset, ME, 2008
GROUP EXHIBITS, JURIED & INVITATIONAL
SELECTED LIST
Couleur Collection, Falmouth, ME, 2004, 2005, 2006
College of the Atlantic, Union of Maine Visual Artists Portrait Exhibit, Bar Harbor, ME, 2005
Hay Gallery, Portland, ME, 2003, 2004
Aucocisco/Eastland Gallery, Portland, ME, 2002
College of the Atlantic, Show Me Your Fish, Bar Harbor, ME, 2001
The Eastland Gallery, Portland, ME, 2000
Davidson & Daughters, Portland, ME, 1997, 1998, 1999
Maine Coast Artists, Sources of Inspiration, & Maine Annual Juried Show, Rockport, ME, 1993,1998
The Cooper Union, A Large Show of Small Works, New York, NY, 1996
Danforth Gallery, Maine Contemporary Landscape, & Maine Contemporary Drawing, Portland, ME, 1992, 1993
Greenhut Gallery, Portland, ME, 1993
Light Solutions East, 62/92 Exhibit, New York, NY, 1992
Federal Reserve Bank, Exhibit' 83 & Exhibit 92, Boston, MA, 1983, 1992
The Art Gallery At Deering Street, UMVA Juried Exhibit, 1987 & UMVA Juried Exhibit, 1990, Portland, ME
Farnsworth Art Museum, 40th Anniversary Juried Exhibit, Rockland, ME, 1988
University of Southern Maine, Maine Biennial, Works on Paper, Gorham, ME, 1988
Walt Kuhn Gallery, Summer Invitational, Cape Neddick, ME, 1988
Brockton Art Museum, Brockton, MA, 1987
Florida State University, Talahassee, FL, 1986
San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX, 1985
Grove Street Gallery, Worshester, MA ,1984
Rivier College Art Gallery, Nashua, NH, 1984
Master Eagle Gallery, New York, NY, 1983
JURIED TRAVELING EXHIBIT• NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT & WORLD PEACE, 1984
Cannon Rotunda, House of Representatives, Washington, DC; Sidwell Friends School, Washington, DC;
The Peace Museum, Chicago IL; San Francisco Public Library, San Fransisco, CA
TEACHING
The Studio, Portland, ME, 1981—present
University of Southern Maine Center for Continuing Education, Portland, ME, 1978—2009
Maine Arts Commission Education Artist 1988—present
Westbrook College Continuing Studies, Westbrook, ME, 1982, 1983
Colby College Summer Workshops, Waterville, ME, 1982, 1983
Portland School of Art Continuing Education, Portland, ME, 1982—1985
ARTICLES, REVIEWS & BOOKS
Maine Sunday Telegram, Maine Coast's 15th Annual Juried Show Strongest in Years, June 13. 1993
Eastland Gallery's Debut Exhibit Takes a Turn for the Elemental, July 30, 2000
Central Square Times, Bonnie Spiegel Artist, November 1996
Casco Bay Weekly, Watermark, July 21, 1997
The Courier-Gazette, MCA Shows Sources of Inspiration, March 19, 1998
Ellsworth Weekly, Something's Fishy at the Blum, 2001
The Ellsworth American, Fish Make Great Art at Blum Gallery, 2001
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Visible Language, Volume XVII, Gunnlauger SE Briem, Ed., 1983
Contemporary Calligraphy, Modern Scribes & Lettering Artists II, Taplinger Publishers, NY, 1986
The Creative Stroke, The Creative Stroke II, Richard Emery, Rockport Publishers, Rockport, MA, 1994
Words & Images, University of Southern Maine Publishers, 1999
Couleur Collection, Falmouth, ME, 2004, 2005
Davidson & Daughters, Contemporary Art, Portland, ME, 1996, 1998
Mad Horse Theater Company, Portland, ME, 1987, 1993
Thomas Moser, Portland, ME, 1987, 1993
University of New England, Biddeford, ME, 1991
Group Exhibits, Juried & Invitational,
Selected List
Couleur Collection, Falmouth, ME, 2004, 2005, 2006
College of the Atlantic, Union of Maine Visual Artists Portrait Exhibit, Bar Harbor, ME, 2005
Hay Gallery, Portland, ME, 2003, 2004
Aucocisco/Eastland Gallery, Portland, ME, 2002
College of the Atlantic, Show Me Your Fish, Bar Harbor, ME, 2001
The Eastland Gallery, Portland, ME, 2000
Davidson & Daughters Contemporary Art, Portland, ME, 1997, 1998, 1999
Maine Coast Artists, Sources of Inspiration, Rockport, ME, 1998
The Cooper Union, A Large Show of Small Works, New York, NY, 1996
Danforth Gallery, Maine Contemporary Landscape, Portland, ME, 1993
Maine Coast Artists, Maine Annual Juried Show, Rockport, ME, 1993
Greenhut Gallery, Portland, ME, 1993
Danforth Gallery, Maine Contemporary Drawing Exhibit, Portland, ME, 1992
Light Solutions East, 62/92 Exhibit, New York, NY, 1992
Federal Reserve Bank, Exhibit ’92, Boston, MA, 1992
The ArtGallery at Deering Street, Union of Maine Visual Artists Juried Exhibit, Portland, ME, 1990
Farnsworth Art Museum, Fortieth Anniversary Exhibit, Rockland, ME, 1988
University of Southern Maine, Maine Biennial, Works on Paper, Gorham, ME, 1988
Walt Kuhn Gallery, Summer Invitational, Cape Neddick, ME, 1988
The Gallery at Deering Street, Union of Maine Visual Artists Juried Exhibit, Portland, ME, 1987
Brockton Art Museum, Brockton, MA, 1987
Florida StateUniversity, Four Arts Gallery, Tallahassee, FL, 1986
San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX, 1985
Pensacola Junior College, Pensacola, FL, 1985
Grove Street Gallery, Worchester, MA, 1984
Rivier College Art Gallery, Nashua, NH, 1984
Federal Reserve Bank, Exhibit’83, Boston, MA, 1983
Master Eagle Gallery, New York, NY, 1983
Juried Traveling Exhibit, Nuclear Disarmament & World Peace, 1984
Cannon Rotunda, House of Representatives, Washington, DC
Sidwell Friends School, Washington, DC
The PeaceMuseum, Chicago, IL
San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco, CA
Teaching
The Studio, Portland, ME, 1981—present
University of Southern Maine Center for Continuing Education, Portland, ME, 1978—present
Maine Arts Commission Education Artist, 1988—present
University of New England Elderhostel Program, Biddeford, ME, 1995, 1997
Westbrook College Continuing Studies, Westbrook, ME, 1982, 1983
Colby College Summer Workshops, Waterville, ME, 1982, 1983
Portland School of Art Continuing Studies, Portland, ME, 1982—1985
Collections
United Technologies, Hartford, CT
The Cliff House, Ogunquit, ME
Private Collections—USA, Canada, England, Germany
Education
The CooperUnionSchool of Art, New York, NY, BFA 1966
Boston UniversitySchool of Art, Boston, MA, 1972—76
Books
Visible Language, Volume XVII,
Editor, Gunnlauger SE Briem, 1983
Contemporary Calligraphy, Modern Scribes & Lettering Artists II,
Taplinger Publishers, New York, NY, 1986
The Creative Stroke, Communicating with Brush & Pen in Graphic Design
Richard Emery, Rockport Publishers, Rockport, MA, 1992
The Creative Stroke 2, Communicating with Brush & Pen in Graphic Design
Richard Emery, Rockport Publishers, Rockport, MA, 1994
Words & Images,
University of Southern Maine, Publishers, 1999
Articles & Reviews
Maine Sunday Telegram, Review , Maine Caost's 15th Annual Juried Show Strongest in Years,"
Portland, ME, June 13, 1993
Central Square Times, “Bonnie Spiegel Artist,” Westbrook ME, November, 1996
Casco Bay Weekly, Review, “Watermark,” Portland, ME July 21, 1997
The Courier-Gazette, Review, “MCA Shows Sources of Inspiration,” Rockland, ME,
March 19, 1998
Maine Sunday Telegram, Review,” Eastland Gallery’s Debut Exhibit Takes a Turn
for the Elemental,” July 30, 2000
Ellsworth Weekly, Review, “Something’s Fishy at the Blum,” Ellsworth Maine, 2001
The Ellsworth American, Review, “Fish Make Great Art at Blum Gallery Show,”
Ellsworth, ME 2001
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