BIOGRAPHY
Artist’s Statement
'Coming of age as an artist in late 1970’s Boston, I painted my way into the contemporary art scene. Punk reigned supreme, performance and conceptual art began to highlight the forgotten role of women in the arts. I soaked it all in while maintaining my own ideas for working. Today, I paint abstract qualities found in painting nature and the human experience.'
- Lully Schwartz 2023
Biography
American b. painter Lully Schwartz creates work relating to life experience, inspired by humankind, the natural world and her place in it. She is a graduate of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston where she focused on studio art and art history. Lully’s career practice emerged in the early 1980’s Boston. Her early experiences in the city coupled with her rural upbringing continues to shape her artwork. Since the early 90’s Lully has been the subject of 18+ solo exhibitions. And, included in a variety of group exhibitions. Schwartz’ art has a national audience in corporate and private collections.
Exhibition history includes; Atlantic Wharf Gallery; Boston, MA; Prince Street Gallery, NY,NY; Johnson & Johnson headquarters Gallery, New Jersey; The French Cultural Center, Boston, MA, Multicultural Center for the Arts, Cambridge, MA; Nantucket Stock Exchange, MA; Studio 8 Gallery, Newburyport MA; Breakwater Gallery, Maine; Thos. Moser Showroom Gallery, Boston, MA; National Art Club, New York, New York; Cornell Museum of American Art and Culture, West Palm Beach, FL; Armory Art Show, Delray, FL; Coral Springs Museum, Florida; Multicultural Arts Center, Cambridge, MA; Goetemann Visiting Artist Exhibition, Rocky Neck Art Colony, Gloucester, MA; Gateway Gallery, Portsmouth, NH; Riverside Millworks Showroom Gallery, Auburn, Maine; New York Public Library, New York, NY; Rocky Neck Cultural Center, Gloucester, MA; Martha Moore Gallery, RAA Museum, Rockport, MA; 400 Tech Sq. Cambridge, MA and more. Among her awards, Lully received numerous awards for painting at Rockport Art Association & Museum, Florida’s Armory Art Show during Art Basel and more. An inducted member of the National Association of Women Artists, Inc. (N.A.W.A.) headquartered in New York, Lully served as founding vice president for N.A.W.A. MA Chapter from 2013-15. Today, Lully dedicates her time to her art in her North Shore studio.
Art Process
by Lully Schwartz 2022
I am a painter, and I work with the glorious substance of oil paint. I favor this medium since oil absorbs and reflects light, moves like soft butter, is brilliant for its flexible nature, and offers endless possibilities for color mixing. My process for painting is straight-forward. I start with pre stretched linen canvas; however, my largest paintings (typically 60 x 60 inches) are stretched by me. My palette consists of approximately 10 colors for mixing an endless range of colors. I mix color directly on a long narrow table which gives me ample room.
I work from source materials including sketches, imagination, life, and digital images. Currently, my art is imagined and often my source material is my memory.
I love the creative process, and if I’m not painting, I’m thinking about it. The physical process of painting is an all-day in the studio activity, much like anyone who goes to a nine to five job, with one exception: I may paint for six hours with the light of day and then break only to return to ‘tweek’ it during the evening hours.
The process of painting is an out-of-body experience for me, at times when all is going as I want. There are painstaking moments, deliberating what stroke is working and what has to go. Again, the flexibility of oil paint invites changes if changes are required.
I’m a painter of color and light, painting the real with abstract forms. It’s how I see the world with all its complexities, moments of joy and pain, fear, and conquests. It is my art world.
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Education
1977 - 83 School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, DIP
1974 - 77 Mount Ida College, Associate of Art Degree
Solo Exhibitions
2022 RAA & Museum, Rockport, MA
2009 - 20 Riverside Millworks, Auburn, ME
2018 PEG Gallery at VASA, Salisbury, MA
2017 Studio 8 Gallery, Newburyport, MA
2015 L'Iconographie Francaise, French Cultural Center, Boston, MA
2015 Midcareer Retrospective, Gateway Gallery, Portsmouth NH
2013 Miracle Wall Exhibit, CMN, Newburyport, MA
2012 Smith Cove, V. Artist Exhibition, Gloucester, MA
2010 Thos. Moser Gallery Showroom, Boston, MA
2010 Firehouse Center for the Arts, Newburyport, MA
2009 Breakwater Gallery, Eastport, ME
2009 Peter Remis Gallery, Byfield, MA
2007 Empirex Corporation, Bedford, MA
2006 The Tannery, Newburyport, MA
2004 Djin Maxx Atelier, Bevery, MA
2003 Studio 5 Gallery, Newburyport, MA
2003 Hills Gallery, Newburyport, MA
2002 Hyperbole Gallery, Newburyport, MA
1999 Sargent Gallery, Newburyport, MA
Museum Group Exhibitions
2023 School of the Museum of Fine Art, Boston, MA
2023 RAA & Museum, Rockport, MA
2022 Summer Show I & II, RAA & Museum, Rockport, MA
2021 RAA & Museum, Rockport, MA
2020 RAA & Museum, Rockport, MA * award
2019 RAA & Museum, Rockport, MA
2018 Tufts at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2018 RAA & Museum, Rockport, MA
2017 RAA & Museum, Rockport, MA
2016 Grossman Gallery, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2016 Summer Show II, Museum at RAA, Rockport, MA
2016 Summer Show I, Museum at RAA, Rockport, MA
2015 Stroke of Genius, Museum at RAA, Rockport, MA
2014 Glenn Magna, Danvers, MA
2014 Whistler House Museum, Lowell, MA
2014 School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2014 Marco Island Center for the Arts Museum, FL
2014 Coral Springs Museum of Art, FL
2013 Marco Island Center for the Arts Museum, FL
2013 Coral Springs Museum of Art, FL
2013 School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2012 Cornell Museum of Art & American Culture, FL
2010 Lowell’s Boat Museum, Point Shore, MA
2009 Historic Museum of Olde York, ME
2006 Seacoast Science Center Museum, Rye, NH
2000 Customs Maritime Museum, Newburyport, MA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 Mosesian Center for the Arts, Watertown, MA
2023 Wedeman Gallery, Newton, MA
2023 One Art Space Gallery, NAWA 134th, NYC*Award
2023 RAA & Museum, Summer I , Rockport, MA
2022 RAA & Museum, Rockport, MA
2022 Atlantic Wharf Gallery, Boston, MA
2021 JBL, Newbury Street, Boston, MA
2021 Art in Giving, Cambridge, MA
2021 Rockport Art Association (RAA) & Museum, Rockport, MA
2020 RAA & Museum, Rockport, MA
2020 Art in Giving, Cambridge, MA
2019 Seaport District, Moakley Building, Boston, MA
2019 400 Tech Square, Cambridge, MA
2019 Rocky Neck Art Center, Gloucester, MA
2019 SoWa District, Boston, MA
2019 JLB, Newbury Street, Boston, MA
2019 Piano Factory Gallery, Boston, MA
2018 Christie St. Gallery, New York City
2018 Junior League of Boston (JBL), Newbury St.
2018 PEG Gallery, Newburyport, MA
2017 Alpers Gallery, Andover, MA
2017 Rockport Art Association, Rockport, MA
2017 Prince Street Gallery, New York, New York
2016 Fountain Street Gallery, Framingham, MA
2016 Breaking Ground, Endicott College, Beverly, MA
2016 Current Vision, SSCA, Cohasett, MA
2015 Stroke of Genius, RAA, Cambridge, MA
2015 Sylvia Wald & Po Kim Gallery, East Village, NYC
2015 Multicultural Center for the Arts, Cambridge, MA
2015 RAA, Rockport, MA
2015 Rocky Neck Art Colony, Gloucester, MA
2014 Quincy Market N.A.W.A. Gallery, Boston, MA
2014 Martha Moore Gallery, RAA, Rockport, MA
2014 National Association of Woman Artists Gallery, NYC
2014 Rocky Neck Center for the Arts Gallery, Gloucester, MA
2014 Sylvia Wald & Po Kim Gallery, East Village, NYC
2014 Bass Rock, SeArts, Gloucester, MA
2013 Mill Pond Gallery, Long Island, NY
2013 Bass Rock, SeArts, Gloucester, MA
2013 Goggleworks Center for the Arts, Reading, PA
2013 GardensArt, Palm Beach Gardens, FL
2013 Johnson & Johnson World Headquarters, NJ
2012 Sylvia Wald & Po Kim Gallery, East Village, NYC
2012 New York Public Library, NYC
2011 The Armory Exhibition, West Palm Beach, FL * award
2011 Sylvia Wald & Po Kim Gallery, East Village, NYC
2011 Peter Remis Gallery, Governor’s Academy, Byfield, MA
2010 National Art Club, New York, New York
2010 Hunter Fishbach, New York Public Library, NYC
2010 Ten Park Plaza, Boston, MA
2009 National Association of Woman Artists, Fifth Ave. Gallery, NYC
2009 Nantucket Stock Exchange, Newburyport, MA
2009 Hills Gallery, NAA, Newburyport, MA
2008 Crossing Gallery, Rye, NH
2008 Nantucket Stock Exchange, Newburyport, MA
2007 Sargent Gallery, NAA, Newburyport, MA * award
2006 Hills Gallery, NAA, Newburyport, MA *award
2005 Harston Gallery, NAA, Newburyport, MA *award
2004 Peter Remis Gallery, Byfield, MA
2003 Hartson Gallery, NAA, Newburyport, MA
2002 Hyperbole Gallery, Newburyport, MA
2001 Sargent Gallery, NAA, Newburyport, MA *award
1999 Hills Galllery, NAA, Newburyport, MA *award
A complete list of exhibitions is available upon request.
Honors & Memberships
2023 One Art Space Gallery, NAWA, NYC, Award Recipient
Elizabeth Stanton Blake Memorial Medal of Honor* in Painting
2020 RAA & Museum, Excellence in Painting, Karl Bronk Memorial Award*
2020-09 National Museum of Women in the Arts, Inc., NYC
2013-15 Vice President, MA, National Association of Women Artists, Inc.
2014 Rockport Art Association, Juried Artist Membership
2011 Palm Springs, FL, Armory Art Exhibition, Painting Award *
2009 Induction National Association of Women Artists, Inc., NYC
2007,06,05,01,1999 NAA, Newburyport, Excellence in Painting & Drawing Awards*
Curation
2016 Centennial Gallery Exhibition, Peabody, MA
2015 Centennial Gallery Exhibition, Peabody, MA
2014 Art in Season, Lobby for the Arts Exhibition, Amesbury, MA
2013 North Shore Atelier Exhibition, Celebrations Gallery, Beverly, MA
2012 Painting with Panache, Peter Remis Gallery, Newbury, MA
2010 Educators Exhibition, Park Plaza Gallery, Boston, MA
Press/Publications
Artscope, American Art Review, Maine Home & Design, ArtNews, Art in America, Boston Globe, The Wire, Jam Magazine, Gloucester Times, Portfolio Magazine, Art New England, Publications, National Association of Women Artists, Inc., Archives Smithsonian Institute, Good Morning Gloucester