Maxine Nodel is an award-winning, versatile artist who earned her B.F.A. from the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. She exhibits and sells her work nationally and internationally. In 2002, Maxine was awarded a Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation grant to create a visual art high school for economically disenfranchised students in the Bronx. In 2009, the school received the Lincoln Center Institute 1st-Place Award for Most Imaginative Curriculum in New York City. Maxine was also an art instructor at the National Art League in Douglaston, New York. She is a member of the Salmagundi Club and Edward Hopper House Art Center where she was named Artist of the Month in 2013 and later invited to give a public art talk about her design-based drawings. In 2021, Maxine's art was featured in the Italian Arts Journal, ilcentrotirreno.it when cultural journalist, Ippolita Sicoli, wrote an extensive review of her nature art.
StatementI enjoy using pastel to impressionistically interpret the nuanced and timeless beauty of nature. Depicting the intimate textures of color, light, and form allows me to invite the viewer to take a momentary respite from a destructive world and visit a place of celebratory calm and symbolic hope. - I also enjoy creating design-embedded multimedia drawings by fusing nature-based patterns with classical aesthetics to produce emotive metaphorical imagery.
CvExhibitions/Awards/Press:-
Expo Metro New York, Times Square - Collective Public Digital Exhibition Featured Work: Doodle of a Sad Girl ?2023Zapatos | The Story That Shoes Tell - Group Show - Blue Door Gallery, Yonkers, NY | She, He, They, We - Gender Identity in Art - Group Show - Blue Door Gallery, Yonkers, NY 2022 - Group Show | Queen City 15 Gallery, Poughkeepsie, N 2021 - Group Show | Mamaroneck Artists Guild Gallery, Westchester, NY 2021 | Featured Article Written by Italian Art Journalist, Ippolita Socoli Shine and Magic in Maxine Nodel's Hyperrealism- il Centrino Tirreno.it - Visioni dall'infinito. Lucentezza e magia nell’Iperrealismo di Maxine Nodel 18 March 2021 | 2020 - Gwynne Lennon Prize for Drawing - Annual Members Juried Exhibition -Salmagundi Club, NY 2020 | New Rochelle for Council for the Arts - Rotunda Gallery Black and White: The Absence of Color - Westchester, NY https://www.facebook.com/nrcarotundagallery/videos/843254083242021/https://youtu.be/oQikXkmlQgUhttps://artswestchester.org/events/virtual-exhibit-black-and-white/ | 2019 - Group Show - Annual Thumb Box Juried Exhibition - Salmagundi Club, NYC 2019 | Women's Group Show - River Front Art Gallery, Yonkers, NY?2019 | Annual Black and White Juried Exhibition - Salmagundi Club, NYC 2019 | Sales from Salmagundi Fall Auction - Salmagundi Club, NYC | 2018 -Invited by the Edward Hopper House to give a public art talk about my design-based drawing project: Eyes On America 2018 | Silver Medal Award - Annual Members Exhibition -National Art League, NY | 2017 - First Place/Gold Medal Award - Annual Juried Members Show -National Art League, NY - https://www.nationalartleague.org/2017-first-place-winners-show | 2016 - Best in Show/1st Place Award - Black and White Juried Exhibition -National Art League, NY | 2015 - Best In Show/1st Place Award - Annual Juried Member Exhibition -Blue Door Gallery, Yonkers, NY | Artist of the Month - Edward Hopper House, Nyack, NYhttps://nyacknewsandviews.com/2014/03/lai_maxine-nodel/ | 2013 - Exhibition - The Highline Loft Gallery, Chelsea, NYhttps://www.artslant.com/ew/events/show/375466-iaf-international-art-festival | 2013 - Honorable Mention - Small Matters of Great Importance International Juried Show -Edward Hopper House, Nyack, NY | Group Show - Catalyst Gallery, Beacon, NY | 2013-Present - Outdoor Public Installation - Beekman Street Banner Project - Beacon, NY 2012 | Group Show - Upstream Gallery, Dobbs Ferry/Hastings-On-Hudson, NY? ----- Art Educator Experience 2016-2023 - Adult Drawing and Painting Instructor - The National Art League, Queens, NY??????
StateNew York
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