My work is about the way visual diagrams present information that describes how something is made or the way it is. I am interested in drawing and collaging multiple layers of information that refer abstractly to maps, architectural drawings and blueprints or patterns and structures found in such things as roller coasters, power lines and fences. I use gouache and collaged paper in a series of layers that are a visual and ideological response to the previous layer to define my pictorial space. For each piece I create a set of rules to follow about the use of a limited palette, a grid format, opacity of paper and whether a piece may include curving lines or maintain a rectilinear structure. Mixed Media Artist Statement – Fall 2022These mixed media works on paper evoke imagined places and invented structures and plans that suggest foundation walls of buildings or a path through a city plan. Like some of my earlier work, they are intensely intricate and incorporate gouache, acrylic, pen, graphite, ink, and color pencil, and have an underlying structure of a loose or meandering grid. Each one utilizes an invented system: the number of lines that are drawn in in a square, a pattern of alternating colors or the flow of the meandrous grid.Paper Sculpture – Fall 2022These works are constructed of hand-painted, encaustic soaked paper that I stitch together to form multiple quirky or similarly shaped components. The individual pieces are then stacked and stitched together to form either free-standing or wall-hung works.The semi-translucency of the paper is created with the use of wax and gives them a sense of weightless instability and fragility. Yet, the wax also lends rigidity and strength to paper, an otherwise flexible and yielding material. They all appear ready to disassemble and fall apart or fall over. I enjoy this apparent contradiction that is created. The process of working with hand stitched paper soaked in wax allows me to explore my ongoing interest in the sense of touch and the way that it embeds itself in, and indelibly records, human involvement in an object’s making. EDUCATIONMaster of Fine Arts in PaintingBard College 1986Bachelor of Science in Art HistoryState University College at New Paltz 1977Additional Study: New York Studio School (Drawing Marathons)Columbia University, School of ArchitectureWomen’s Studio WorkshopTEACHINGProfessor of Studio Art, Department of Art and Art History, Marist College, Poughkeepsie, NYCoordinator, Interior Design Program, Florence, Italy campus1992-presentAWARDSNYFA Fellowship in Painting 2018Invitational Award for Outstanding Contemporary Talent,University of Bridgeport, CT 2000Purchase Prize, “11th National Juried Exhibition”College of Notre Dame of Maryland, Baltimore 1999First Prize, “Women in the Visual Arts ‘95”Erector Square Gallery, New Haven, CT 1995Joseph A. Cain Memorial Purchase Award for SculptureDel Mar College, Corpus Christi, TX 1994Honorable Mention, “National Juried Exhibition”University of Bridgeport, CT 1993Individual Artists Fellowship in SculptureDutchess Arts Fund 1992/93Tallix, Morris, Singer Internship in SculptureTallix Foundry, Beacon, NY 1990/91MEMBERSHIP Royal British Society of Sculptors SELECTED JURIED/INVITATIONAL EXHIBITIONS2020“edu: Art Faculty of the Hudson Valley”, Hudson Valley MOCA, Peekskill, NY2019“Contemporary Abstraction”, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY“Mixed Media”, SITE Gallery, Brooklyn, NY2018“JuxtaPositions”, The Painting Center, New York, NY“Peculiar Rarities”, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY2017“Interlock: Color and Contrast in Abstraction”, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY“Donise English: Encaustics”, Catskill Art Society, Livingston Manor, NY2016“Let’s Stay in Touch”, Howard County Center for the Arts, Ellicott City, MD“Under, Over, After Over”, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY2015“Off the Grid”, Arts & Culture Program, Albany International Airport, Albany, NY“Gridspace”, KMOCA, Kingston, NY“Abstraction”, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY“Assuming Identity”, NY Institute of Technology, New York, NY2013“Modern Artists”, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY“Artists of the Mohawk-Hudson Region”, The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NYStone Canoe/Community Folk Art Center, Syracuse, NY2012New York Institute of Technology, New York, NY“Contemporary Painters (Who Just Happen To Be Women)”,Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY“Strange Glue: Collage at 100”, Cambridge School, Weston, MA“Dear Mother Nature”, Dorsky Museum, SUNY New Paltz, NY“Fresher Paint”, Rockland Center for the Arts, Nyack, NYCourthouse Gallery, Lake George Arts Project, Lake George, NY2011“Process+Content: Donise English”, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY “Donise English-Paintings”,Orange County Community College,Newburgh, NY“Gender Matters/Matters of Gender”, Freedman Gallery,Albright College, Reading, PA2010Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY“Encaustics: Wax and Image”, Westchester Community College,White Plains, NY“Dots, Lines and Figures”, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY“Spring Awakening”, NY Institute of Technology, New York, NY“Clay City Dreams”, NY Institute of Technology, New York, NY“Texture,Pattern, Fragment”, Krause Gallery, Moses Brown School,Providence, RI2009“Collage”, NY Institute of Technology, New York, NY“Working in Wax”, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA“Encaustic 2009”, College of New Rochelle, NY“Three Artists”, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY“Convergence: The Human Experience”,Howard County Center for the Arts, MD2008“Suckers and Biters: Love, Lollipops, and Exquisite Corpse”Chashama Gallery, New York, NYCarrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson NY2007“Patterns and Light”, Blue Hill Gallery, Blue Hill, ME“Suckers and Biters”, AG Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2006“100 Artists, 100 Watercolors”, Jeannie Freilich Fine Art,New York, NY“On/Of Paper”,Kirkland Art Center, Clinton, NY“The Love Show”, Manchester Community College, Manchester, CT2005The Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN“Small Tales”, Valdosta State University, GeorgiaNational Juried Exhibition,Art Institute and GallerySalisbury, MD, Juror: Stephen Haller“Greed, Envy, Jealousy, Fear”, TSL Warehouse, Hudson, NY2004“Women in the Middle: Borders, Barriers, Intersections”University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee“Girl Art Now”,Hera Gallery, Wakefield, RI3 Person Exhibition, Monterey Peninsula College, Monterey, CA“The Feminine Eye”, Bradley University, Peoria, IL “Women Painting Women”, McNeese State University, Lake Charles, LA “Thought Patterns”, Kent Place Gallery, Summit, NJ “Surface, Matter and Artifice”, Dutchess Community College Art GalleryPoughkeepsie, NY2003“Beefcake/Cheesecake”,Orange County Center for Contemporary Art,Santa Ana, CA,Juror: Jamie Wilson, CuratorHalpert Bienniel, Appalachian State University, Boone, NCJuror: Jeff Fleming, Senior Curator, Des Moines Art Center “The Great White Oak”, Garrison Art Center, Garrison, NY Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY2002“Cat Calls”, Red Clay Arts, Brooklyn“Hudson Valley Regional”, SUNY New PaltzJuror: Sydney Jenkins, Director, Ramapo College Art Galleries2001One-Person Exhibition, Davis and Hall Gallery, Hudson, NY “Beyond the Surface”, Womanmade Gallery, ChicagoOne-Person Exhibition, Garrison Art Center, Garrison, NY2000“Vision 2000” University of Bridgeport, CT, Juror: Ursula von Rydingsvard(Invitational Award for Outstanding Contemporary Talent)“Labyrinths and Mazes”, The Loft, San Pedro, CA1999“Instinct”, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CAJuror: Patrick Merrill, Director, Kellogg UniversityArt Gallery, CalPoly, San Luis Obispo, CA“National Juried Exhibition”, College of Notre Dame of Maryland, Baltimore, MDJuror: Jan Howard, Curator, Baltimore Museum of Art“Gridworks”, Hera Gallery, Wakefield, RIJuror: Maureen O’Brien, Curator, RISD Art Museum1998“From Form to Function”, College Art Gallery, SUNY New PaltzJuror: Betty Wilde-Biasiny, Curator, Bronx Museum of Art1997“Texas National ‘97”, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, TX Jurors: Doug and Mike StarnCatalogue published“Pulp”, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA1996“Metaphor for the 20th Century”, Hera Gallery, Wakefield, RIJuror: Rachel Rosenfield-Lafo, Curator, DeCordova Museum of Art “Hudson Valley ‘96”, College Art Gallery, SUNY New Paltz Juror: Linda Weintraub1995“Influenced by Nature”, Gallery at Hastings, NY“Artist as Curator, Curator as Artist”, Bergen Museum of Art, Paramus, NJ Catalogue published“National Drawing and Sculpture Show”, Del Mar College, Corpus Christi, TX Catalogue published“Hope”, Peconic Gallery, Suffolk Community College, Riverhead, NY & Rathbone Gallery, Sage College, Albany, NY“Women in the Visual Arts ‘95”, Erector Square Gallery New Haven, CT(First Prize)1994“New Directions ‘94”, Barrett House Galleries, Poughkeepsie, NY Juror: Brooke Kamin-Rapaport, Curator, Brooklyn Museum“Threadlore”, NY Open Center, New York, NY“Culture and Agriculture”, New Visions Gallery, Marshfield, Wisconsin“National Drawing and Sculpture Show”, Del Mar College, Corpus Christi, TX (Purchase Prize)“Juried Show ‘94”, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ Juror: Robert T. Buck, Director, Brooklyn Museum“X-Sightings”, Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, NY1993“The Turn Around Year”, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY Juror: Lowery Sims“Beauty and the Beast”, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin “Halpert Biennial”, Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina “National Juried Exhibition”, University of Bridgeport, CT (Honorable Mention) Juror: Elizabeth Sussman, Curator, Whitney Museum“Architecture: Artists’ Interpretations”, Southern Utah University, Cedar City, Utah “Image and Soul”, ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL“Imagination”, Peconic Gallery, Riverhead, NY1992“Invitational”, Atlantic Gallery, New York, NYArt-Eco: Contemporary Artists and the Environment”, College Art Gallery, SUNY New Paltz, NY, Jurors: Norton Batkin, Patricia C. Phillips1991“Myth, Spirituality and Culture”, College Art Gallery,SUNY New Paltz, NY, Jurors: Connie Butler, ArtistSpace, Gary Sangster,New Museum“Tallix Artists”, Garrison Art Center, Garrison, NY1985“Image, Surface”, The Terminal, Brooklyn, NY1985Two-Person Exhibition”, Blum Art Institute, Bard College,Annandale-on-Hudson, NY1980“Hudson River Contemporary Artists, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY1979Group Exhibition, Seaport Gallery, New York, NY