ROSEMARY KAVANAGH O’CARROLL
"The Lady Who Paints"
Gallery/Studio
9A Bridge Street
Newport, RI 02840
Phone: 401-450-4791
theladywhopaints@hotmail.com www.theladywhopaints.com
SOLO SHOWS
2008 ‘Migrant Labor in America’ Artrom Gallery, Rome, Italy
May/2008 ‘Migrant Labor in America’ DeBlois Gallery, Newport, RI (3 person
exhibition)
October/ 2004 ‘A Piece of Cloth’‘ Afghanistan and Joan of Arc, Creole Gallery,
Lansing, Michigan
March/ 2002 ‘Child Labor in the 19th Century’ Creole Gallery, Lansing, Michigan
February/2001 “An Artists’ Collection of the Last Ten Years” Farmington Public
Library Farmington, CT
September/1999 “The Romonovs and the Russian Revolution” Farmington Public
Library, Farmington, CT
January/ 1991, ‘Landscapes ‘, Farmington Savings Bank, Farmington, CT
August/ 1991 ‘Paintings of the Poetry of Robert Service’ Farmington Public
Library, Farmington, CT
1990 “Ireland”, Farmington Public Library
August/ 1989, ‘Ancestors and Ghosts from Ireland and America’, Farmington Public
Library, Farmington, CT
September/1987, ‘The American Indian’ Farmington Public Library, Main Street
branch, Farmington, CT
April,/1984 ‘Irish Country Life’, Ballyseede Castle, and Siamsa Tire Gallery,
National Folk Theater of Ireland, Tralee, County Kerry, Ireland
1984, 83, 82 Solo Shows at Siamsa Tire Gallery, National Folk Theater of
Ireland, Tralee, County Kerry, Ireland
JURIED GROUP SHOWS
Featured artist in adoptadoctor.org Rickman Group Auction
-December 10th , 2009, Providence, RI
10/28/09 -11/09 South County Art Association, Helme House Kingston, RI ‘All
Media ‘ Juror : Peter Lutz
11/21/09 -12/19/09 ‘Portraits’ New York Law School, NYC OIA , opening December
2nd 6-8PM
10/29-11-2—9 SCAA All Media II
9/23/-10/10/09 Artprize.org, Art Critic Patulski’s Top 10% (132 out of 1632
entrants) of Artprize, Monroe Community Church , Grand Rapids MI- ‘Migrant Labor
in America’ copper pillow sphere installation
10/2009 10/09 Members Invitational, South County Art Association, Kingston,
Rhode Island juror Rhonda Shumaker
8/09 SCAA All Media, Juror Sean Thomas : Honorable Mention
1/7-5/25, 2009 Newport Art Museum , Newport, RI, Juror: Nick Capasso,Curator,
DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
10/23-11/15, 2008 SCAA All Media Open Juried II, Kingston, RI, Juror: Lloyd
Martin
2/15 to 5/11, 2008 Newport Art Museum , Newport, RI Juror: Michael Rush, Rose
Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
‘Migrant Workers, Homestead, Florida’
October 4-7/2007 ‘Art Off the Main’, Puck Building, NYC: Savacou Gallery, NYC
‘Columbus Villain or Hero? ‘
Juror: Loris Crawford
oil on copper, ‘Windshield Washer, Boston’
October /2007 Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, Illinois ‘In Praise of Physical
Labor’
Juror: Ursula Kammer-Fox ‘Migrant Workers, Homestead, Florida’ oil on canvas
August 1/07 Upstreampeoplegallery.com Omaha, Nebraska, Juror: Larry Bradshaw
‘7th Annual Summer All Media Art Exhibition’
April /07 Upstreampeoplegallery.com Omaha, Nebraska ‘Judeo Christian Exhibition’
Juror: Larry Bradshaw
January/07 Upstreampeoplegallery.com Omaha, Nebraska ‘All Media Exhibition’
March/06 Asociacion de la Plastica de Garza Garcia, Mexico, Jurors: Juan
Guajardo, Roico Castelo, Benjamin Sierra ‘Rome’ oil on copper
January/06 Upstreampeoplegallery.com ‘Faces” Juror: Larry Bradshaw
December/05 World Fine Art Gallery, NYC Miniature Artist’s Society of New
Jersey, Juror: Maria Coutinho
December/05 Gallery 402, OIA, 19 Hudson Street, NYC ‘4th Annual Juried
Exhibition’
‘Rome’ oil on copper
September /05 Omega Muse Corporate Exhibition, Omega Group Bryn Mawr, PA
‘A World Healed by Art to Increase the Intolerance of Inhumane Conditions’
Child Labor in the 19th century, oil on canvas
August/05 Upstreampeoplegallery.com ‘The Landscape” Juror: Larry Bradshaw
June /05 Upstreampeoplegallery.com ‘International Collage and Mixed Media Show’
Juror: Bonnie O’Connell
May/05 Studio Montclair, Gallery 214, New Jersey ‘Taboo’ Juror: Jerry Saltz, Art
Critic for Village Voice, NYC
March/05 Ayer Lofts Gallery, Lowell, MA ‘International Self Portrait Exhibition’
Jurors: Patrick Pierce, Maxine Farcus, and Brenda Pinardi oil on canvas
April/1995 Chosen by CCSU to exhibit paintings at Samuel Becket Theater Art
Gallery, NYC
1995-1993, Exhibited at Signature Gallery, Canton, CT
1993 Artworks Gallery ,Hartford
1991, Juried into Farmington Valley Art Center, Avon, CT
1991 Farmington Art Guild, Farmington, CT
1989-1986, Exhibited and sold through The Irish Club, Glastonbury, CT
1985, Killarney, Ireland
1979, Strawberry Beds, Dublin, Ireland, annual juried group exhibition
EDUCATION
5/2004 Central Connecticut State University BFA in Painting cum
Laude
76-78 Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York painting major Deans’ List
74-76 Maryville College of the Sacred Heart, St. Louis, Missouri painting major
1971 Bloomfield Hills Art Association 1st place scholarship, Bloomfield,
Michigan
1970 Olivet College 1st place summer art scholarship program, Olivet, Michigan
AWARDS
8/09 Honorable Mention, SCAA All Media
First Place, 10/23 2008, SCAA All Media Open Juried II Juror: Lloyd Martin
4/2007 Upstream People Gallery Special Recognition
3/06 Upstream People Gallery Director’s Recognition and Special Recognition
12/05 Miniature Art Society of New Jersey, Outstanding Excellence Achievement
Award
1/06 Upstream People Gallery, First Place Award of Excellence (monetary award)
1975 Michigan State Fair 1st place, Best of Show in professional division
(monetary award)
1970 1st place art award to attend Olivet College/ Scholarship (I was 15)
1971 Bloomfield Hills Art Association 1st Place Award and Art Scholarship
1978 Pratt Institute Art Award for sidewalk art
9/09 OIA Salon Show, St, Francis College,Brooklyn, New York
12/07 Artrom Gallery, Rome Italy
8/07 OIA Salon Show, St. Francis College, Remsen Street, Brooklyn, New York
2-4/07 Newport Art Museum Cushing Gallery Newport, RI
12/06 OIA, Gallery 402 NYC
Newport Art Museum Silent Auction and Live auction 2007, 2006, 05,04,03,02, 01
4/06 OIA Gallery 402, NYC
8/06 OIA Salon Show St. Francis College, Brooklyn, New York
5/1998 Members Show, Gallery on the Green
7/1998, New Members Work, Gallery on the Green, Canton, CT
December/1997, Gallery on the Green Holiday Show ,Canton, CT
Spring Bull Gallery ‘Fakes and Forgeries’, Newport, RI February/ 2008
Spring Bull Gallery, Newport, Rhode Island July 7-31/2007
‘Oil on Water’
Island Arts Gallery, Newport, Rhode Island July 14-23/2006
‘Cliché’
Solo show in Ireland once a year at Siamsa Tire Gallery, in Tralee, County Kerry, Ireland 1982-1986.