ARTIST STATEMENT

"In their ebullience and unaffected optimism, the paintings of
Florence Putterman recall the free wheeling inventiveness of
the early Modernists. Having broken all the rules of painting,
those pioneers of abstraction fashioned a new artistic language
with which to express the remarkable changes sweeping in
with the dawn of the twentieth century."   F. Putterman 2007

RESUME

EDUCATION
New York University, New York
Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA
Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania (MFA)

AWARDS
2004 Daniel Serra Baduie Award, Society of American Graphic Artists
2002 Purchase Award La Grange National XXII Biennial, LaGrange, GA
2000 National Association of Woman Artists, Sarasota, Florida
1998 Stockton Print and Drawing Purchase Award, Stockton, California
1997 National Association of Women Artists, Palm Beach
1997 Purchase Award, Del Mar College Annual, Corpus Christie,TX
1996 Daniel Serra V Nevas Memorial Award-Audubon Artists
1995 Award for Excellence, Philadelphia Watercolor Club
1994 National Medal of Honor-National Association of Women Artists
1983 Fellowship, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
1988 Distinguished Alumni Award, Pennsylvania State University
1979-80 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2005
Allyn Gallup Contemporary Art, Sarasota, FL
2004
Walton art Center, Fayetteville, AK
Baisden Gallery, Tampa, FL
Pfenninger Gallery, Lancaster, PA
2003
Ten-Year Retrospective, Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, PA
2002
Walter Wickiser, New York, NY
Albany Art Museum, Albany, Georgia
Milton Hershey Art Museum, Hershey, PA
Texas A & M at College Station, TX
2001
Lancaster Museum of Art, Pennsylvania
Tampa International Airport, Terminal A
Maitland Art Center, Maitland, FL
Mira Mar Gallery, Sarasota, FL
2000
Art Museum, Northern Michigan University, Marquette, MI
Spartanburg Museum of Art, Spartanburg, SC
Saginaw Art Museum, Saginaw, MI
1999
Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York, NY
1998
Ziegenfuss Gallery, Sarasota., FL
1997
Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York, NY
Grand Central Gallery, Tampa.
1996
Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York, NY
Hodges-Taylor Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina
Donn Roll Gallery, Sarasota, Florida
State Capital, Tallahassee, FL
Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
1995
Grand Central Gallery, Tampa. Florida
1994
Gallery 10, Washington, D.C.
1993
Center Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA
1990
Palmer Museum, Penn State University, PA
1989
Polk Museum, Lakeland, FL

RECENT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007
Basel Art Fair, Miami, FL
Miami Art Fair, Miami FL
Chicago Art Fair, Chicago, IL
2005
Toronto Art Fair, Toronto, Ontario
2004
Poughkeepsie Art Museum, Poughkeepsie, NY
Chattahoochee Valley Museum, LaGrange, GA
2003
Appalachian Corridors, Charleston, WV
52nd Invitational, Boca Raton Museum, Boca Raton FL
2002
Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
La Grange National, Chattahoochee Valley Museum, La Grange, GA

INTERNATIONAL GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1997 Colour Graphique, Cracow, Poland
1993 Galeria Briz Prinz, Madrid Spain
1991
Print Exhibition Museum of Fine Arts of Hanoi
Spanish Embassy, Madrid Spain
1988 Art Made in the USA, Municipal Art Gallery, Regensburg, Germany

COLLECTIONS
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, N.Y.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA
Jacksonville Museum, FL
Grand Rapids Museum, Ml
Chicago Art Institute, IL.
Everson Museum, Scranton, PA
New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
Palmer Museum, Penn State ~Jniyersity
Polk Museum, Lakeland, Florida
Museum of Art, University of Arizona
Grunewald Collection, UCLA
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Oregon
Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL
Tampa Museum of Art, FL

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