ISABELLE GARBANI

 

Solo Exhibits

2011

24 Hours in the Subway. BoxHeart Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA

 

Women’s Month. Con Edison Exhiting Space, Brooklyn, NY

2008

Artist in Transition. Earlville Opera House, Earlville NY. November 17th to January 12th

 

 

Public Art

2012

Invasive Species. Cheng-Long Wetlands International Environmental Art Project, Taiwan

 

Knit for Trees. Huntington, NY. Public Art Initiative (scheduled June 2012)

2011

Invasive Species I. Open Source Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

 

Forces of Nature. Carving Studio & Sculpture Center, West Rutland, VT

 

Knit For Trees. Figment Sculpture Garden, Governors Island, New York, NY

2004

Big Apple Fest. “All the Little Apples”: Public art project celebrating New York City.
Apple displayed on 46th St. & Lexington Ave.

 

Selected Group Exhibits

2012

Curate NYC. Online exhibits from guest curators Deirdre Scott and Hoong Yee Lee Krakauer

2011

Take Home a Nude. Fund raising at Sotheby's to benefit the New York Academy of Art, New York, NY

 

Single Fare 2, Swipe Again. Alix Sloan Gallery, New York, NY

 

SpringzHere. Wilson & Geary Contemporary, New York NY

 

11th Anniversary Exhibition, BoxHeart Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA

2010

Plastic, Eyedrum, Atlanta, GA6th

Younger Than Moses: Idle Worship, Benrimon Contemporary, New York, NY

Single Fare. Grand St Studio

 

10th Anniversary Exhibition, BoxHeart Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA

2009

Take Home a Nude. Fundraising event at Sotheby's to benefit the New York Academy of Art, New York, NY

Third Annual Summer Exhibition (Juried), New York Academy of Art, New York, NY. Jurors: Eric Fischl, Matthew Flowers and Anne Strauss

 

Trans-Positions Along the Queensboro Bridge, Packard Square Gallery, Long Island City, NY

 

9th Anniversary Exhibition, BoxHeart Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA

 

Real Art Ways Slide Slam, Hartford CT

 

New York Academy of Art Alumni Association at The Cupping Room. New York, NY

 

New York Academy of Art Alumni Association. Studio 7 Gallery, Bernardsville, NJ

2008

Sketch Night Exhibit. Society of Illustrators, New York, NY

 

Allied Artists of America - 95th Annual Exhibition, New York, NY

 

Free Fall. Brooklyn Waterfront Artist Coalition. Brooklyn, NY

2007

Night of 1,000 Drawings. Artists Space, New York, NY

 

Fall 2007 Art Show. Merge 360, New York, NY

Art Students League exhibit. Bronxville Public Library, Bronxville NY

Winter 2007 Art Show. Merge 360, New York, NY

 

New York Academy of Art Alumni Exhibition. (Juried show) . Figureworks, Brooklyn, NY

2006

Open Performance. "The Muse" Dance Theater Workshop. New York, NY

 

Arte! Beaux-Arts! Kunst! Moravian College, Payne Gallery. Bethlehem PA

 

Group Show. Merge 360, New York, NY

 

ACFDance Quitennial. Life cast during dance performance. DiCapo Opera Theater, New York, NY

2005

Take Home a Nude. Fundraising event at Phillips de Pury & Company to benefit the New York Academy of Art, New York, NY

Group Show. Merge 360, New York, NY

The Drawing Show. Gallery 402 (Organization of Independent Artists), New York, NY

Out of the Academy: Three artist exhibit at the Art Lab, Snug Harbor, Staten Island, NY

 

Big Apple Fest . All the Little Apples: Public art project celebrating New York City.
Apple displayed on 46th St. & Lexington Ave

2004

MFA show. New York Academy of Art, New York, NY

Art Lab Open 2004: Group show at the Art Lab at Snug Harbor, Staten Island, NY

 

 

Bibliography

“Eco-Art Installations Sprout in a Taiwanese Village”, treehugger.com, May 12, 2012

“It Takes a Village”, Taipei Times, May 4, 2012

Isabelle Garbani's 24 Hours offers one painting for each hour in the day of the life of a subway stop”, Pittsburgh City Paper, by Christopher McGinnis, August 4, 2011

“Big Apple, small canvas”, Pittsburgh Trib Live, July 27, 2011

La isla de los delirios”, El Mundo, June 14, 2011

Knitted Tree Accessories”, GreenMuze.com, June 9, 2011

“Neighborhood Beat Studio Interview”, Brooklyn Community Access Television. May 2011

“Art of the MetroCard, Unlimited”, City Room Blog, New York Times Online, May 2010

“Happenings”, Whirl Magazine, April 2010

“Into The Night”, Radio Interview for KHND1470 AM, March 4, 2010

“Summer Art Shows in Queens”, Video Interview for Ins & Outs/LIC Magazine, July 2009

"Studying Form and Motion". Syracuse Post Standard. Katherine Rushworth, December 23, 2007

Neighborhood Beat "Interview at Figureworks", Brooklyn Community Access Television (Williamsburg and Greenpoint). Debut 2/15/07.

"GIRDLING THE GLOBE". Morning call online. November 9, 2006

 

"Tossing old rules 'Out of the Academy' ". Staten Island Advance. Friday May 20, 2005.

 

"The Big Apple Fest brings artsy apples to New York City". The ticker (Baruch college, CUNY). 11/1/04

 

 

 

Lectures

“Artist Talk: Trans-Positions Along the Queensboro Bridge”, Citi gallery, Long Island City, NY. July 22, 2009

"Through the Eyes of an Immigrant". Moravian College, Bethlehem PA. November 1, 2006.

   
 

Collections

 

718 Hotel, Brooklyn, NY

 

Private collections New York City, Pittsburgh, PA, Morristown, NJ.

   

 

Curatorial Experience

 

AANYAA Holiday Exhibit. November 29 to December 23, 2007. Merge 360, New York, NY.

 

Out of the Academy: Three artist exhibit at the Art Lab, Snug Harbor, Staten Island, NY. May 7 to May 30

   
 

Affiliations

 

BoxHeart Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
Board member of the Alumni Association of the New York Academy of Art 2006-8

 

 

 

Education

New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
MFA in Sculpture, May 2004.
Merit Scholarship September 2002 to May, 2004.

Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
BS in Speech, March 1990.