RESUME
EDUCATION
1987 MFA, The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA 1981 BFA, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
GALLERY AFFILIATION
Mixx Atelier, Telluride, CO SlipStitch Studio, Seattle, WA Bee Street Gallery, Dallas, TX Cortile Gallery, Provincetown, MA Yard Dog Art, Austin , TX
ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2024 “Neon Wanderlust: Americana Reimagined”, SlipStitch Studio, Seattle, WA 2010 Three Graces Gallery, Portsmouth, NH 2008 Three Graces gallery, Portsmouth, NH 2006 Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA 1999 Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA 1997 Rice Polak Gallery, Provincetown, MA 1996 Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA 1995 Paris, New York, Kent Gallery, Kent, CT Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA 1994 Amos Eno Gallery, New York, NY 1993 Winfisky Gallery, Salem State College, Salem, MA 1992 Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA 1991 Truchas Gallery, Eureka, CA 1990 Zoe Gallery, Boston, MA Mincher/Wilcox Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1988 Zoe Gallery, Boston, MA 1987 Gallery Eleven, Tufts University, Medford, MA The Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Mass Art Auction, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA Way Out West: Rachel Paxton & Will Berger, Yard Dog Art, Austin, TX 2023 Spaces/Places, Mixx Atelier, Telluride, CO Icon(ic), Mixx Atelier, Telluride, CO 2022 Art Comes Alive, Art Design Consultants, Cincinnati, OH 2021 Women in Abstraction, New Art Center, Newton, MA Collages and Constructions, Menino Arts Center, Hyde Park, MA 2019 Mass Art Auction, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA 2017 Environmental Textures: Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Exhibition, Mass Convention Center Gallery, Boston, MA 2015 Paper Cut, The Contemporary Collage Show, Wedeman Gallery, Newton, MA 2013 Color, Spirit and Form: Paintings by Amanda Barrow, Sasja Lucas & Rachel Paxton, U-Mass Student Union Gallery, Amherst, MA 2012 New Media/Fresh Paint, The New Art Center, Newtonville, MA 2005 Allyn Gallop Gallery, Sarasota, FL Longstreth/Goldberg Art, Naples FL 2003 New Work, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA In Good Company, Boston Art, Boston, MA 2002 Art in Bloom, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA 2001 White, Sailors Valentine Gallery, Nantucket, MA 2000 More Unique Seats, The Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA Fine Arts Downtown, New Bedford Art Museum. New Bedford, MA Awake, The Harbor Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Boston, Boston, MA 1999 Weatherburn Gallery, Naples, FL Cavalier Gallery, Greenwich, CT Rice Polak Gallery, Provincetown, MA The Craven Gallery, West Tisbury, MA 1998 Collage, Main Street Gallery, Nantucket, MA Gay Head Gallery, Aquinnah, MA Altars & Icons, New Art Center, Newton, MA 1997 The Drawing Show, Mills Gallery, Boston Center For The Arts, Boston, MA Black and White Exhibition, Art & Interior, Limited, New York, NY 1995 Collage, The Frick Gallery, Belfast, ME 1985 Massachusetts Artists Foundation Grant Recipients, The Federal Reserve Bank, Boston, MA 1994 The Quiet Passion of the Still Life, Monserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA Jamaica Plain Artists: Untold Mastery, Gallery, Jamaica Plain, MA Confluence, Cornwall Gallery, Jamaica Plain, MA 1993 Art About Architecture, Boston Architectural Center, Boston, MA 1992 New England/New Talent, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA 1991 Of Nature and the Human Spirit, Daniel Saxon Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Gallery Artists/Celebrate Boston Now, Zoe Gallery, Boston, MA 1990 Paxton, Hampson & Beaudet, The Art Center, Eureka, CA The Humboldt Cultural Center, Eureka, CA 1989 The Last Picture Show, Julia Saul Gallery, Sudbury, MA 12 X 12: RISD Small Works, Woods Gerry Gallery, RISD, Providence, RI Common Roots/Diverse Objectives: RISD Alumni in Boston, Brockton Art Museum, Brockton, MA 1988 Boston Now - Works on Paper, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA Summer Review/Gallery Artists, Zoe Gallery, Boston, MA Works on Paper, Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA 1987 New Talent, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA The Fifth Brockton Triennial, Brockton Art Museum, Brockton, MA Expressive Systems/Eloquent Voices, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 1986 Dana Pond Painting Exhibition, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA 1985 Harcus Gallery, Boston, MA Four In/Out, The Chapel Gallery, Newton, MA
AWARDS
2019 Westport Fine Arts Festival, Award in Painting 2017 Bruce Museum Fine Art Festival, Award in Painting 2013 South Shore Art Festival, Best in Show 1986 Dana Pond Painting Competition, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA 1985 Boit Competition, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA 1984 The Artist Foundation Grant, Massachusetts Council of the Arts & Humanities, Finalist Boit Competition, The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
1992-00 University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, Dartmouth, MA 1992-96 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI 1992-93 Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA 1991-98 Emerson College, Boston, MA 1991-94 The Art Institute of Boston, Boston, MA 1990-91 Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA 1989 Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA 1988-89 Emerson College, Boston, MA
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2002 Budris, John, Vineyard Style 2000 Daniel, Seth, Jamaica Plain Gazette MacQuarrie, Brian, The Boston Globe McQuaid, Cate, The Boston Globe 1998 Toale, Bernard, Stuff Magazine Bell, Ben, Jamaica Plain Arts News 1997 Preview, Museum of Fine Arts Magazine 1996 McQuaid, Cate, The Boston Globe Hummel, Helen, Jamaica Plain Arts News 1995 Donker, Peter P., The Worcester Telegraph Unger, Miles, Art New England Silver, Joanne, Boston Sunday Herald Temin, Christine, The Boston Globe 1994 Clark, Elisabeth, The Beverly Times Gardener, Renee, New York Newsday 1993 Galiga, Deborah, Jamaica Plain Arts News 1992 Carlock, Marty, Wayland/Weston Town Crier 1990 Bonetti, David, San Francisco Examiner Sherman, Mary, The Boston Globe 1988 Bonetti, David, The Boston Phoenix Kort, Carol, The Boston Ledger Temin, Christine, The Boston Globe 1987 Day, Meredith F., Century Newspaper Carlock, Marty, The Sudbury Town Crier Narrett, Eugene, New Art Examiner Stoops, Susan, Brandeis University Catalogue Taylor, Robert, The Boston Globe
CITATIONS IN BOOKS
2009 Studio Visit, volume five, pp. 132,133. 1999 New American Paintings, Number 20, The Open Studios Press 1996 Atkinson, Jennifer, Collage Art, Rockport Pub., Inc
COLLECTIONS
Add Inc., Cambridge, MA I.B.M., Hartford, CT Corroon and Black, Boston, MA Continental Illinois National Bank & Trust, Chicago, IL Bank of Boston, Boston, MA Brigham & Woman’s Hospital, Boston, MA First Option Mercantile, Chicago, IL Lochridge & Co., Boston, MA Swanledge Corp., Boston, MA Hyatt Regency, Palm Springs, CA Grand Hyatt, Wialea, HI Plamer & Dodge, Boston, MA Fidelity Management, Boston, MA CSC/Index, Chicago, MA Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA Frisbie Memorial Hospital, Rochester, NH Emerson Hospital, Concord, MA Dartmouth Hospital, Dartmouth, NH Valley Hospital, Ridgewood, NY