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American born Treacy Ziegler was educated at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, and the University of Pennsylvania where she received a Master’s Degree in 1980. Ziegler has been represented in group exhibitions since 1986, and solo exhibitions since 1991. She is the recipient of various grants and awards, including the Philadelphia Drawing Award.Ziegler’s prints have been described as confronting the drama of the human condition through symbols of our short earthly passage – the dwellings we inhabit, the chairs we occupy, the churches where we worship, the factories in which we work, the boats in which we sail. Her symbols are mostly vacant structures, but still bear the mark of the hand and spirit of man. These objects stand, as do Ziegler’s other favourite theme, chairs, as manifests of a human presence. Ziegler’s chromatic palette is spare, intense and unmistakably personal, dominated by passages of yellow, which vary from a pale mimosa to an intense mustard. These brightly lit passages are played against contrasting masses of intense black or dense greens, violet and browns. Her conjunction of colours is challenging and often on the edge of a litmus-like acidity. Each of Ziegler’s colours has a satiny density, its brilliancy being achieved by a highly complex technique that demands hours of labour for each completed print. Each impression of her prints in her small editions of ten is unique.She combines a preparatory etched zinc tonal plate with subsequent colour impressions using museum board plates. She often manipulates the final pre-press layers of ink with manual strokes of a brush. Much of the glowing coalescing of colours in Ziegler’s images is the result of printing each colour upon the next “wet in wet” so that the mutual saturation of the pigments results in a rich chromatic density. Excerpts from “Treacy Ziegler: The Lights of Passage” by Paul Duval |
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Education 1985-89 Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Philadelphia, PA 1978-80 MA - University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA Selected Solo Exhibitions 2008 Migration, Chase Gallery, Boston, MA 2007 F.A.N. Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 2007 Odon Wagner Gallery, Toronto, ON 2006 Principle Gallery, Alexandria, VA 2006 F.A.N. Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 2005 Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 2004 Odon Wagner Gallery, Toronto, ONT. 2003 Principle Gallery, Alexandria, VA 2003 F.A.N. Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 2002 Odon Wagner Gallery, Toronto, ONT 2002 Chase Gallery, Boston, MA 2002 Principle Gallery, Alexandria, VA 2001 F.A.N. Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 2000 Chase Gallery, Boston, MA 1999 F.A.N. Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 1999 Odon Wagner Gallery, Toronto, ONT 1999 Chase Gallery, Boston, MA 1997 Ibel-Simeonov Gallery, Columbus, OH 1997 F.A.N. Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 1996 Odon Wagner Gallery, Toronto, ONT 1995 George Waters Gallery, Elmira College, Elmira, NY 1995 F.A.N. Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 1994 Ibel-Simeonov Gallery, Columbus, OH 1994 Odon Wagner Gallery, Toronto, ONT 1993 F.A.N. Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 1992 F.A.N. Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 1991 Kirkbride Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Selected Group Exhibitions 2009 New Work, Four Person Show, Chase Gallery, Boston, MA 2001 World Bank, Washington, D.C. 2001 West End Gallery, Corning, New York Saltonstall Recipients, State of the Art Gallery, Ithaca, NY 1999 West End Gallery, Corning, New York 1995 Re-presenting Representation, Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY, (Invitational) 1995 Entropic Zones: Buildings and Structures of the Contemporary City, Rider University Gallery, 1995 Art Miami, Miami, FL 1994 The Union League Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL 1993 West End Gallery, Corning NY 1993 Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY 1992 F.A.N. Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, (winter group exhibit) 1992 F.A.N. Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, (summer group exhibit) 1991 Myriad Fine Art Gallery, Atlanta, GA 1991 Mitchner Art Museum, Doylestown, PA 1990 City of Camden, Camden, NJ 1990 Perkins Center for Arts, Morsetown, NJ 1989 Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA, (juried exhibit) 1986 Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA Selected Collections Bayerishe Landesbank, New York, NY Slipstream Investment Inc, Toronto, ONT Van Sciver Corporation, Cherry Hill, NJ Artistic Greetings, Inc, Elmira, NY Philadelphia Stock Exchange, Philadelphia, PA South Jersey Arthritis Foundation Marie McKee, President, Trustee, Corning Glass Museum, Corning, NY Grisham Riley, President American Museum, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts The College Board, New York, NY Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY South Jersey Arthritis Foundation, NJ Rider College, Lawrence, NJ Luther Consulting, Corning, NY Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, New York Awards and Prizes New York Partnership Printmaking Fellowship (2001) Saltonstall Grant (1999) Henry Scheidt European Travel Grant (1989) Barnes Foundation Fellowship (1988) City of Camden Printmaking Award Daniel Garber Drawing Award Morris Blackburn Printmaking Award Pratt Memorial Graphic Award Philadelphia Drawing Award Publications Deborah Cummins. “Counting The Waves.” Collection of Poems, Cover. Word Press. 2006 Andrew Mangravite. “Treacy Ziegler: Film Noir In Living Color.” Broad Street Review. February, 2006 Odon Wagner Gallery catalogue, 2004, “Treacy Ziegler: Shadow Play.” The Georgia Review “Fables of Lights.” Featured artist. Winter 2003, Vol. LVII. No. 4 . (9 images) EPOCH Magazine, V.52, No. 1. . R.B. Strauss, “The New Reality of Treacy Ziegler’s Realm.” Art Matter, May 2003. EPOCH Magazine,, V. 51, No. 2 series cover, 2003 MultiFaith Calendar: “Night Vision, 2003” Cover and July. Vancouver, B.C. Cate McQuaid, “Shades of Loneliness,” review, The Boston Globe, December 20, 2002 EPOCH Magazine, V.51, Number 2, series cover, 2002 Odon Wagner Gallery, catalogue, 2002, “Treacy Ziegler: Out of Darkness” Gettysburgh Review, 14, images, “Treacy Ziegler”. Featured artist. Winter 2001 EPOCH Magazine, V.50, Number 3, series cover, 2001 Edward J. Sozanski, “Light & Enlightment,” review, The Philadelphia Inquire, Jan, 2002 Jane Holtz Kay. “Urban Landscape. The Geography of Inequity.” Designer/Builder. Journal of the Human Environment.. March, 2001. Cate McQuaid, “Ziegler is Haunted by Absences,” review, The Boston Globe, January 21, 1999 Gerard Brown, “Color/Form,” review, Philadelphia Weekly, May 14, 1997 Andrew Mangravite, “Haunted Houses,” Philadelphia Forum, May 15, 1997 Odon Wagner Gallery, catalogue, 1996, “Treacy Ziegler: The Lights of Passage” Edward J. Sozanski, “Gallery Review,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, March, 1995 Jaqueline Hall, “Ambiguity, Mystery Permeate Exhibit,” review, The Columbus Dispatch, October 2, 1994 Andrew Mangraveite, “Treacy Ziegler: Dream, Light and Loneliness,” Philadelphia Weekly,, April 2, 1992 Edward J. Sozanski, “Prints With Layers of Colors And Layers of Meaning,” review, The Philadelphia Inquirer,April 2, 1992 |
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