Dale Appleman

Statement

Paint is my medium. Its flexibility offers abundant possibilities: thin translucencies, impastos, overlays-- layering that plays with dimension and depth. I know when an image is mine to translate. Some paintings are simple: I’m drawn to things like the biomorphic curves of overturned canoes, formations left by eroding cliffs near the ocean, lily pods, oyster mushrooms… I’ve had recurrent love affairs with imagery that moves me to think in metaphor. Some of these include boat forms that speak by their placement & proximity to mooring, pairing, launching, departure; tents— as protective enclosures as well as vulnerable shelters; landscape as still life; still life in motion; volcanoes harboring secret plumbing, their eruptions as frozen motion and outbursts of color. I like to mix it up —marry the objective and subjective, invite a conversation between figuration and abstraction.

And always: color is my painting’s engine— its nuance & emotion in 2 dimensions.

SELECTED RECENT EXHIBITIONS & AWARDS

2021 Selected for Artist Profile in the 2021 CollexArt Color Sense Showcase

2020 Selected for the Women Artist’s Challenge to post work for 7 days.

2019 Night, Honorable Mention, Mansion at Strathmore Hall, Bethesda, MD

2018 Latitude exhibition & catalog, Katzen Museum/ Alper Initiative for Washington Art

Small Wonders Circle Gallery, MFA Annapolis, MD. Juror : Susan Badder, MICA

2017 DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities, grant for acquisition of three paintings for the 2018 DC Art Bank

2016 Eighth National Juried Exhibition, Prince Street Gallery, NYC. Juror: Graham Nickson, painter & Dean of NY Studio School

Phantasmagoria, Idio Gallery, Brooklyn NY

2015 Faber Birren National Color Award Show, Stamford Art Association, Juror Anna Swinbourne, former MOMA painting curator & independent curator & art historian.

Absolutely Abstract, Philadelphia Sketchbook Club, juried Su Horty, Charles Kalick & Al Gury

Women Do It! United Nations’ Commission on the Status of Women Conference, NYC, & travelling across U.S.

Everyone We Know, The Art House Sketchbook Project, DC Museum of Contemporary Art; travelling show: Atlanta, Washington, DC, Brooklyn, NY

No Place Like Home, Art Scene Today, NYC Juror Kathleen Sowle

SOLO SHOWS

Heart & Soul, Foundry Gallery, Washington DC

Eruptions, Foundry Gallery, Washington DC

Works on Paper, Foundry Gallery, Washington DC

SELECTED GROUP SHOWS

Chrysler Museum Regional Show, Irene Leache Memorial Art Exhibition, Andre Emmerich juror,

Eruptions, Pace-Price Gallery, San Francisco, CA,

Works on Paper, Hood College, Md, Louis Andre, curator,

The Eye of Grace Hartigan, Grace Hartigan juror, WWAC, Washington DC

Dale Appleman & Eva Montville, Stuart Mott House, Washington DC

Phillips Collection Art Auction, Barbara Fiedler Gallery, Washington DC

DC Invitational Bicentennial Show, District Building, Alice Denny curator, Washington DC

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

2018 Latitude exhibition catalog, published by the Alper Initiative for Washington Art

2016 Challenging Abstraction: An Interview with Dale Appleman, AWT Magazine, NYC

http://bedfordandbowery.com/2016/01/pass-a-tortilla-factory-and-enter-a-phantasmagoria-of-art/

In Praise of Women Artists, one of 12 artists selected for 1981, Bo Tree Press, San Francisco, Hirshhorn Sales Gallery

Contemporary Women Artists, Bo Tree Press, San Francisco

Heart & Soul, Foundry Gallery, Washington DC Washington Review, Lee Fleming

Eruptions, Pace-Price Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Berkeley Gazette, Cathy Curtis

Landscape, The Arts Gallery, Baltimore The News American, Craig Hankin

COLLECTIONS [selected]

DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities/Washingtonia Collection, Medstar Washington Hospital Center, Hill & Knowlton Inc., Standard Oil of Ohio, MCI /VerizonCorp., Kress/Cox Architects, Alain deBerc/Gestam Corp (Paris), Guardian Federal S&L, sNJRA Architects Inc, Blue Circle Foods, sDavid Edwards Ltd, Baltimore, Novare Capital & many private collections

BIO

Grew up in New York City. High School of Music & Art, B.A., Skidmore College with honors in art and art history. Worked at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and as a graphic designer in Washington, DC. Exhibited in solo and group shows in Washington, New York, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Norfolk & Stamford, featured in publications & purchased for public, private and corporate collections.