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EDUCATION
1993 Master of Science in Painting, Illinois State University, Normal,
IL
SELECTED ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2001 Blue Ridge Art Center, Seneca, SC
Aliya Gallery, Atlanta, GA
1999 Red Door Gallery, Anderson, SC
1998 Tryon Fine Arts Center, Tryon, NC
1997 Masterguild Gallery, Punta Gorda, FL; Kirkland Fine Arts Center,
Millikin University, Decatur, IL
1996 Stroblen Gallerie, Springfield, IL
Mc Lean County Arts Center, Bloomington, IL
1995 Illinois Department of Transportation, Springfield, IL (1990,89,87)
1993 Chicago Street Gallery, Lincoln, IL; Southern Illinois School
of Medicine, Springfield, IL
1992 Up Front Gallery, Bloomington, IL
1991 Springfield College in Illinois, Springfield, IL (1986)
1990 State Street Gallery, Jacksonville, IL
1989 300 Gallery, Bloomington, IL; Mobil Art Gallery, MacMurray
College, Jacksonville, IL
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2001 3rd Annual Summer Landscape Exhibition, Aliya Gallery, Atlanta,
GA
26th Annual Juried Exhibition, Anderson County Arts Center, Anderson,
SC
Art at the Mill Show, Millwood, VA (2000)
10th Annual Juried Exhibition, Blue Ridge Arts Center, Seneca, SC
2000 Southern Caroline State Museum Traveling Exhibition; Southern
Caroline State Fair 2000 Fine Arts Exhibition, Columbia, SC; Art
at the Mill Show, Millwood, VA
1999 Pickens County Museum 22nd Annual Juried Arts Competition,
Pickens, SC; Downtown Artists, Phoenix Gallery, Bloomington, IL
1998 Mid-States Art Exhibition, Evansville Museum of Arts and Sciences,
Evansville, IN (1989,88); Professional Art Exhibition, Illinois
State Fair, Springfield, IL (1997,96,92,91,90,88,87); Arts in Celebration,
Biennial Regional Juried Exhibition, Carbondale, IL (1996,94)
1997 National '93 Small Works Exhibition, Cobleskill, NY (1995,92)
1996 Eight Decades of Teaching at the Springfield Art Association,
Springfield, IL
1995 New Year/New Art, Illinois State Muesum, Springfield, IL; Southern
Illinois Artist Exhibition, Mitchell Museum, Mt. Vernon, IL
1991 Forty-Eight Miles, Gallery Nine, University of Illinois, Urbana,
IL; San Diego Art Institute National Juried Art Exhibition, San
Diego,CA; 11th Annual National Small Oil Painting Exhibition, Wichita,
KS
1990 Graduate Student Biennial, Illinois State University, Normal,
IL; Illinois Trade Show, Barcelona, Spain; Pastel 90 Invitational
Exhibition, West Bend Gallery of Fine Arts, West Bend, WI; Pastels
'90, Midwest Pastel Society, Chicago, IL; Art and Ecology: The Artist's
Response, Up Front Gallery, Bloomington, IL; Aesthetics '90, McPherson
College, McPherson, KS (1989); Pastel Society of West Coast National
Open, Carmichael, CA (1989,88)
1989 Pastel Society of America Annual Open Exhibition, New York,
NY; Group Exhibition, 300 Gallery, Bloomington, IL; 2D at r100,
Up Front Gallery, Bloominton, IL; 22nd Bradley National Print and
Drawing Exhibition, Peoria,IL
1988 Group Exhibition, 300 Gallery, Bloomington, IL; Kansas Pastel
Society Annual International Exhibition, Wichita, KS; Midwest Pastel
Invitational Exhibition, Evanston, IL; Midwest Pastel '88, Midwest
Pastel Society, Arlington Heights, IL; Annual Tri-State Juried Art
Show, Quincey, IL; Oil Pastes Association International Juried Exhibition,
New York, NY
SELECTED AWARDS
2001 Honorable Mention, 57th Street Art Fair, Chicago, IL
Merit Award, The Old Capitol Art Fair, Springfield, IL
Artist-in-Residence, Poinsett State Park, SC
2000 First Place (Painting), Third Place and Purchase Award (Drawing)-South
Carolina State Fair 2000 Fine Arts Exhibition, Columbia, SC; First
Place, Carmel International Arts Festival, Carmel, IN; Second Place,
Sugar Creek Arts Festival, Normal, IL; First Place (Oil/Acrylic)
and Civic Purchase Award, The Old Capitol Art Fair, Springfield,
IL
1999 Best of Show, Sugar Creek Arts Festival, Normal, IL; First
Place, (Oil/Acrylic), The Old Capitol Art Fair, Springfield, IL
1998 First Place (2D), Peoria Art Guild Fine Art Fair, Peoria, IL;
Best of Show, Sugar Creek Arts Festival, Normal, IL
1997 Purchase Award (Amoco), North Shore Art League, Northbrok,
IL
1996 Purchase Award, Arts in Celebration, Biennial Regional Juried
Exhibition, Carbondale, IL; Award of Excellence, Old Orchard Art
Festival, Skokie, IL-jurors: Timothy Bargard, Assoc. Curator, Fogg
Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA & Charles Wylie,
Asst. Curator of Contemporary Art, St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis,
MO; Second Place, Sugar Creek Arts Festival, Normal, IL
1994 Purchase Award, Arts in Celebration, Biennial Regional Juried
Exhibition, Carbondale, IL: Second Place, Sugar Creek Arts Festival,
Normal, IL
1991 Elizabeth Stein Scholarship, Illionis State University, Normal,
IL
1990 First Place, Art and Ecology: The Artist's Response, Up Front
Gallery, Bloomington, IL: Sierra West Developers Award, Pastel Society
of the West Coast National Open, Carmichael, CA; Artist Advancement
Award, Springfield Area Arts Council, Springfield, IL
1989 Herman Moore Purchase Award, Mid-States Art Exhibition, Evansville,
IL-juror: Richard Muhlberger, Vice Director of Education, Metropolitan
Museum or Art, NY, NY; Third Place, Pastel Society of the West Coast
National Open, Carmichael, CA; Artist Advancement Award, Springfield
Area Arts Council, Springfield, IL; Best of Show, Sugar Creek Arts
Festival, Normal, IL
SELECTED PUBLIC AND CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
Lincoln Library, Springfield, IL
Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield, IL
Sorling, Northrup, Hanna, Cullen and Cochran, Ltd., Attorneys at
Law, Springfield, IL
Feirich, Mager, Green, and Ryan, Attorneys at Law, Carbondale, IL
First Citizens Bank, Columbia, SC
Amoco Corporation, Chicago, IL
Polo Ralph Lauren, New York, NY
Illinois State Library, Springfield, IL
Evansville Museum of Arts and Science, Evansville,IN
Barnes and Thornburg, Attoryneys at Law, Indianapolis, IN
Growmark Corporation, Bloomington, IL
Bone Student Center, Illinois State University, Normal, IL
University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal, IL
Richland Community College, Decatur, IL
GALLERY AFFILIATIONS
Aliya Gallery, Atlanta, GA
McLean County Arts Center, Bloominton, IL
Red Door Gallery, Anderson, SC
Walnut Street Gallery, Springfield, MO
Lakeview Museum, Peoria, IL
Peoria Art Guild, Peoria, IL
Horizons Gallery, Durham, NC
Masterguild Gallery, Punta Gorda, FL
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
Although my paintings present the landscape, I do not paint nature
in an attempt to duplicate what the eye sees. I explore landscape
imagery for its expressive potential, its unique emotional language.
I seek to discover the poetry in a solitary tree or a passing cloud
and to communicate that poetry in paint.
-Gerard Erley
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