3943 Riverview Blvd. West

Bradenton, Florida 34209      

941.746.7258

doenecke@ncf.edu

doenecke@verizon.net

Education:  BFA - School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1964.

"My medium is pastel and my work is essentially figurative. But my influences come from many places: travel, myth, literature, old movies, documentaries."

 

"Lay Offerings at Her Feet"

Carol Doenecke has had 6 one woman exhibits on the west coast of Florida. (All Angels Gallery, Longboat Key, FL, January 3- 26, 2005; Harmony Gallery, Beatrice Friedman Symphony Center, Sarasota, FL, Layers of Vision, September 30 - October 28, 2004; The Gallery at the Education Center, Longboat Key, FL, "Inner Journeys”, February 8 - 19, 1999; Fine Arts Gallery, Jane Bancroft Cook Library, New College of the University of South Florida, Sarasota, FL, May 14 - 27, 1991; Arts Center at Maas Brothers, St. Petersburg, FL, August 30 - November 20, 1990; Women's Resource Center, Sarasota, FL, March 5 - April 30, l987.) She participated in a two artist exhibit at Polk Community College, Winter Haven, FL, September 30 - October 27, 1991. She was invited to show seven of her works at a Figurative Show at the Ormond Memorial Art Museum, Ormond Beach, FL, September 15 - October 29, 2006.

Invitational group exhibits at the Florida Museum of Hispanic and Latin American Art (Miami, FL in 1994 and 1996); Center for the Arts which is now the Vero Beach Art Museum (Vero Beach, FL in 1990 and 1987); Galerie Montcalm (Hull, Quebec, CANADA, 1999), Ridge Art Association, Winter Haven, FL (1994) and the Swann Gallery (Detroit, MI, 1996) have included her work.

She has been selected to exhibit in juried group exhibitions at the Palm Springs Desert Museum (Palm Springs, CA, 2004; art materials award), Masur Museum of Art (Monroe, LA, 2000 and  2007), Center for the Arts, which is now the Vero Beach Art Museum, (Vero Beach, FL, 1997 and 1988), New Jersey Center for Visual Arts (Summit, NJ, 1995), Boca Raton Museum of Art (Boca Raton, FL, 1995); Pensacola Museum of Art (Pensacola, FL, 1992); and the Polk Public Museum, (Lakeland, FL, 1985).

Her work has been included in juried all media local, state, regional, national and international group exhibitions in galleries and art centers throughout the state of Florida [William R. Frizzell Cultural Centre, Ft. Myers, FL, Lee County Alliance of the Arts; Center for the  Arts, Bonita Springs, FL, Art League of Bonita Springs;  Bakehouse Art Complex, Miami, FL; Ridge Art Association, Winter Haven, FL;  The Arts Center, St. Petersburg, FL; Arts-on-the-Park, Lakeland, FL] and the United States. [Abernathy Arts Center, Atlanta, GA; Sacramento Fine Arts Center, Carmichael, CA (Merit Award); Franklin Square Gallery, Southport, NC; Eleanor Bliss Center for the Arts at The Depot, Steamboat Springs, CO (Honorable Mention);  Denver, CO, 43rd Biennial Juried Art Competition and Exhibition of the National League of American Pen Women, 2006; Fulton Street Gallery, Troy, NY; Northwest Art Center, Minot State University, Minot, ND; Artemesia Gallery, Chicago, IL; Coastal Center for the Arts, St. Simons Island, GA; West Bank Art Guild, New Orleans, LA; Louisiana Art and Artist's Guild, Baton Rouge, LA; Hilltop Gallery, Nogales, AZ; Art Today Gallery, Chicago, IL; Tennessee Valley Art Center, Tuscumbia, AL] Juried exhibitions of pastels in Florida, Georgia, Texas, New Mexico, Oregon, California, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Washington and Canada (Ottawa, Toronto, and Hull) have also included her work.

She is listed in Who's Who of American Women, 17th edition - present; Who's Who in America, 47th Edition, 1992- 1999; 2005, and in Who's Who in the World, 2006.

Her work is in private collections in Tampa, Sarasota, Bradenton, and Longboat Key in Florida, and in Denver, Colorado and Tsawwassen, Delta, British Columbia.