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JUNE AHRENS
140 Franklin Street 4B, New York, NY 10013 / 66 Ash Tree Lane, New Canaan,
CT 06840
junebug62@yahoo.com
EDUCATION:
1988 SUNY Purchase, Purchase, New York, BFA (Summa Cum Laude)
1982-85 Yale University, Advanced Seminars New Haven, CT
ONE PERSONS SHOWS:
2009
* Today's Tomorrow, Trustman Gallery, Simons College, Boston, MA
2008
Hiding in Plain Site, Silvermine Guild of Artist, New Canaan, CT
2007
Revealed/Concealed, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, Scotland
2005
The Loudness of
Silence, Branchville Gallery, Branchville, CT.
2004
The Healing Heart Project:
Washington Square Park, Supreme Court Building, Ground Zero, Marriott
Financial Center, New York, NY,
and S. Labriola’s Frame Shop, Stamford, CT
2002
The Healing Heart Project:
Washington Square Park, Supreme Court Building, Wagner Park at BPC, New
York, NY, and Cove Island Park, Stamford Government Center, Stamford, CT
2000
Personal Affects: Wishes and Dreams, Marist College of Art Gallery,
Poughkeepsie, NY
1999
*
Personal Affects: Wishes, and Dreams, Housatonic Museum of Art,
Bridgeport, CT
1997
Sculpture 2x2x, Art Space, New Haven, CT
Who Will Remember…..Eastern State University, Willimantic, CT
Bedtime Stories, Collaboration, SOHO 20, New York, NY
1994
Watch your Step, Green Street Windows, New York, NY
1993
Silent Voices, Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT
Unclaimed Memories, Hera Gallery, Wakefield, RI
Bedtime Stories, Collaboration, Silvermine Gallery, New Canaan, CT
SELECTED
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2011
Recent Acquisition, Curator, Barbara O’Brien, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
Recycled Objects, Curator, Laura Einstein, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT
2010
Fresh Pictures, Curator Camilla Cook, Ridgefield, Arts Guild, Ridgefield, CT
2009
Space is the Place, Curated by Denise MarkonishChesterwood Sculpture Park, Stockbridge,MA
H20o Film on Water, Curated by Cynthia Reeves, New Port Mills Gallery, New Port, New Hampshire
Big Pictures issues sent slow-mail/scrolls from around the world, The ARTS, St. Marks Garage, Honolulu, Hawaii
Formative Lines: Working in Drawing and Sculpture, Governors Island, New York NY
Bridge Art Fair, New York NY
2008
In-Site, Sculpture Guild, Governors Island, New York, NY
In the Windows, Saks 5th Avenue, New York, NY
Ides of March, ABC NO Rio 5th Biannual, New York, NY
Self-Contained, Supermarket Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
2007
The Elements of Air, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sacred Heart University,
Fairfield, CT
2006
Original Repetition,
Silvermine Galleries of Art, New Canaan, CT
Current Abstraction, Black Rock Art Center, Bridgeport, CT
*
Some Assembly Required; Cumulative Visions, Mead Museum of Art, Amherst,
MA
Directors Choice; June Ahrens, Silvermine Gallery, New Canaan, CT
2005
Branchville Gallery, Branchville, CT. Two person show
Original Repetition, G.E. World Wide Headquarters, Fairfield CT
2004
Object Endowment, New Space, Manchester Community College, Manchester, CT
Uncommon Portrait, Uncommon View, Contemporary Gallery of Art, Sacred
Heart University, Fairfield, CT
2003
*
Call and Response, Holy Cross College, Worcester, MA, Curator, Barbara
O’Brien
Word and Image, Westport Art Center, Westport, CT
2001
Reactions, Exit Art, New York, NY,
Williams Gallery, Pasadena, CA, Library of Congress, Washington, DC
*
Site Specific 01, Islip Art Museum, Islip, NY
Connecticut Commission on the Arts Fellowship Gallery, Hartford, CT
Revealed….Artist, Silvermine Galleries, New Canaan, CT
2000
A Retrospective and Beyond: Women in The Visual Arts
1998
Regeneration: Reconstruction in a Torn Society, United Nations, New York,
NY
All the Symptoms of an Artist, Curator, Cynthia Roznoy, Whitney Museum of
Art
National Museum of Health and Medicine Gallery, Washington, DC
Museum of Science, Philadelphia, PA
Four Winners Show, Stamford Museum, Stamford, CT
1996
25 Years of Visual Arts at Purchase, Neuberger Museum, Purchase, New York
1994
All of a Piece, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY
1993
Something Lost, Something Gained, Henry Street Settlement, New York, NY
Women in the Visual Arts, Erector Square Gallery, New Haven, CT
1990
Connecticut Sculptors, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
1987
State of the Artists, Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT
1987-99
New Haven, CT Cultural (Ex)Change, Curator, Cynthia Roznoy, Whitney Museum
of Art,
Silvermine Gallery, New Canaan, CT
COMMUNITY OUTREACH AND COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS:
2007
The Cradle Project, Albuquerque, NM
2000 to present
Horizons Inner City Program, New Canaan, CT
2000
I Have a Dream Foundation, Stamford, CT
Horizons Inner City Program, New Canaan, CT
1997
Celebrating the Arts in Stamford, Urban League Project. Sponsor, Whitney
Museum Stamford, CT
1995-6
The Healing Wall, Liberation Program, Sponsor, Whitney Museum, Stamford,
CT
1992
Eliminate Hunger, Not Humans, Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT
VISITING ARTIST AND LECTURER:
2003
The Wishbone Project, The College of The Holy Cross, Worcester, MA
2002
Panelist WTC 9/11, Quinnipiac College, Hamden, CT
The Healing Heart Project, CT Art Teachers State Conference, Madison, CT
2001
Retrospective 1990-2001, Manhattanville College, New York, NY
2000
The Wishbone Project: Wishes and Dreams, Marist College, Poughkeepsie, NY
1997
Transitions, SUNY Purchase Visiting Artist Lecture Series, Purchase, NY
Who will Remember, Eastern Connecticut State University, Willimantic, CT
Exploration, Institute for Visual Artists, Silvermine Gallery, New Canaan,
CT
1995
Bedtime Stories, SUNY Westbury, Westbury, NY
SELECTED GRANTS AND AWARDS:
2000
Connecticut Commission on the Arts Individual Artists, Hartford, CT
1999
Connecticut Commission on the Arts Distinguished Advocates for the Arts,
Hartford, CT
1998
Sculpture Award, Four Winners, Stamford Museum, Stamford, CT
1996/93
Duracell International Grant, Bedtime Stories, CT/NY
1993
Polaroid Foundation Grant, Bedtime Stories, CT/NY
1991
National Endowment of the Arts, Real Art Ways, Media Residency, Hartford,
CT
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY:
2009
Cate McQuaid, "A hint of danger", The Boston Globe, Trustman Art Gallery, Simmons College, MA.
Christine Temin, "Space is the Place", Sculpture Magazine, Chesterwood, Stockbridge MA.
Cate McQuaid, "Shimmering downriver", The Boston Globe, H20 Film On Water, Newport Mill, Newport NH.
Marcia Morse, "It's the news, see?", Honolulu Weekly, Artists at Marks Garage, Honolulu Hawaii
Gayle Hedrington, "H20 Film on Water", Sunacom Croydon Column, Newport Mill, Newport NH.
2007
Sarah Urwin Jones, "Material Gains", Andrew Grant Gallery, Edinburgh
College of Art, Edinburgh , Scotland
2006
Arlene Distler, "Some
Assembly Required", Mead Art Museum at Amherst College, Amherst, MA
Art New England, August/September
2005
L.P. Streitfield,
Spotlight reviews, CT June Ahrens and Chris Joy, Art New England, Dec/Jan,
L.P. Streitfeld, Americans and Security: wanting our cake and eating it.
The Advocate, Stamford, Sept. 18, ART
Fran Sikorski, June Ahrens at the Branchville Gallery: The Loudness of
Silence, The New Canaan Advertiser, Sept. 22
2004
Talisman Brolin, Giving out hearts in Washington Sq. Park,
The Villager, New York, Vol. 74, No 20 Sept.15-21
Uncommon Portraits, Uncommon Views , Art New England, Brighton, MA , May
/June
Local Artists Featured at Sacred Heart , The New Canaan Advertiser,
January 15
2003
L.P. Streitfield, Creating New Cosmologies At Westport Art Center, The
Advocate, Dec. 14
Benjamin Genocchio, To Understand These Pictures....., The New York Times,
December 21
2002
Downtown Express, New York, NY They Beat as One, Sept.10
Laurel Graeber, Family Fare, Creative Central, Non Stop Art, The New York
Times, May 31
The Healing Heart Project, The Battery Park City Broadsheet, Sept. 5
Brooke Arthur, Seeking healing through the arts…., The New Canaan
Advertiser, Sept. 12
Ray Hogan, 9-11-01 Remembered, The Stamford Advocate, Sept. 8
Harold F, Cobin, Names and hearts help……, The Hour, Norwalk, CT
2002
Judith Wilson, Healing Hearts Made Valentine’s Day Special, The Ark,
Tiburon, CA, Feb. 20
Jonathan Wills, From the Heart, The Advocate, Stamford, CT March 4
Grand Rapids, MI Jan Holst, .....Students Join National Healing Hearts
Project, Kentwood Advance, Feb. 12
Sharon M. Pennell, Hearts Project Lets Students Reach….., The Community
News, Grand
Rapids,
MI Feb. 28
L.P. Stretfield, Love Stories at Silvermine, The Advocate, Stamford, CT
Thomas, Meliana, New Canaan artist gets to the heart of the WTC matter,
The Advocate, Stamford, CT
2001
Helen A. Harrison, Emerging Artist, Emerging Visions,.... Islip Museum,
The New York Times, July 15
2000
Fergus Mc Caffery, June Ahrens Housatonic Museum of Art, Sculpture
Magazine, April
Michael Rush, June Ahrens-Personal Affects: The Wishbone Project and the
Pillow Project, Art New England, Feb.
1999
Ray Hogan, Tapping the healing powers of wishbones, and pillows, The
Advocate, Stamford, CT Nov 21
Linda O’Connell, Connecticut Comm. on the Arts Distinguished …..Arts
award, The Stamford Advocate, Stamford, CT
Mark Daniel Cohen, Four Winners, Art New England, Brighton, MA, Feb/March
1998
Carolee Ross, Concepts come clear in New Art Annual, The Advocate,
Stamford, CT Nov. 8
Jennifer Darr, All the Symptoms of an Artist, Philadelphia City Paper,
Philadelphia, PA June 11-18
1997
Steve Starger, Most Memorble Art Exhibits of the Past Year, Journal
Inquirer, Hamden, CT, Dec. 26
1996
William Zimmer, 3 Shows Focus on College’s Past, The New York Times, Oct.
13
1995
Vivien Raynor, A Satirical Portrayal….The New York Times, June 18
Jude Schweindenwien, Bedtime Stories, Art New England, Brighton, MA, Vol.
16 Feb/March
1994
Jude Schwendenwien, June Ahrens Silent Voices…..Homelessness, Art New
England, Brighton, MA, March/Apr
Jude Schwendenwien, Reviews, Sculpture Magazine, New York, NY, March
April
1991
Bill Van Siclen, Hera faces grief head on….., The Providence Journal
bulletin, Providence, RI, Nov. 22
PUBLIC
COLLECTIONS:
Trustman Gallery, Simmons College Boston MA., Housatonic Museum of
Art, Bridgeport, CT, Akus Gallery, Eastern State Connecticut University,
Willimantic, CT Contemporary Gallery of Art, Sacred Heart University,
Fairfield, CT Masterson Rothberg Advertising, New York, NY Southern New
England Bell, CT First National Bank, CT
* = Exhibition Catalogue
Available
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