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Shirley Wallitsch is a Wyoming-born painter who draws inspiration from nature to make experimental works that vary from abstract to representational. She began her art career in the 1980s with large-scale wood sculptures that were featured in the storefronts of Bonwit Teller (New York, NY), Saks Fifth Avenue (New York, NY), and Neiman Marcus (Chicago, IL). This work was ultimately featured in an exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York, NY). Wallitsch has since exhibited extensively across the US in Montserrat Gallery (New York, NY), and Agora Gallery (New York, NY), among others. Her work has been featured in publications such as The New York Times, New York Daily News, Hudson Valley Magazine, Gallery & Studio, and others. Wallitsch runs her own gallery for her art, the Wallitsch Art Gallery (Westfield, NJ), where she works closely with clients and collectors to build their collections and commission custom works.

solo exhibts

2016 LA Frame & Gallery, NJ

2014 LA Frame & Gallery, NJ

2004 Johnson & Johnson World Headquarters Gallery, New Brunswick, NJ

2000 City Heat, Lyman-Eyer Gallery, West Newton, MA

1999 Contemporary Urban Views, Parness Gallery, Westfield, NJ

1984 Neiman Marcus, Chicago, IL

1983 Saks Fifth Avenue, New York, NY

1983 Bonwit Teller, New York, NY

1983 Bijan, New York, NY and Los Angeles, CA

Group Exhibitions

2004 Art Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA

2004 Agora Gallery, New York, NY

2002-3 National Art Services, Houston, TX

2002 Boston Art, Boston, MA

2000 Montserrat Gallery, New York, NY

1998 Ambleside Gallery, Richmond, VA

1996 Nardin Gallery, Somers, NY

1995 Annual Faber Birren National Color Award Show, Stanford, CT

1994 Katonah Museum, Katonah, NY

1988-1992 Adele Lewis Showroom, New York, NY

1983 Flower Show, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Bibliography

2000 “Real Painters and Image Makers Dominate Several Soho Shows,” Gallery &

Studio, Spring/Summer

1999 The Journal, May 13

1999 “On The Towns; Going Out,” The New York Times, May 9

1999 The Westfield Leader, April 15

1999 The Westfield Leader, April 16

1999 The Record, April 15

1997 Victoria Magazine, October

1996 Hudson Valley Magazine, April

1995 The Lewisboro Ledger, November 9

1994 Merri Rosenberg, “Environmentalist Uses Vines as Art,” The New York Times,

July 3

1993 The Lewisboro Ledger, July 1

1983 Nancy Arumbedford, “Basket Maker Looks To Yard,” The New York

Times, December 18

1983 New York Daily News

Collections

Daughters of Miriam Center, Clifton, NJ

Dynamic-Soft, East Hanover, NJ

The Goryab Children’s Wing at Morristown Memorial Hospital, Morristown, NJ

New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ

RJO Group, New York, NY

Vonage, Holmdel, NJ

Education

1980-1985 Art Students League, New York, NY

1976-1979 Rochester Art Guild, Rochester, NY