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Kathleen McDonald has exhibited in over 100 venues in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, California and Florida, and abroad, most notably in Charentes, France and the Czech Republic. Her paintings hang in many private and corporate collections, including Johnson & Johnson and Nabisco. She has been a finalist in numerous art competitions and juried exhibits, including First Prize at the 2001 Women Contemporary Artists Exhibition at Ringling School of Art, the Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club at the New York Arts Club in New York City, sponsored by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Asian Exhibition of Prints in Wakayama, Japan. She is a member of many professional art organizations and serves on the boards of the Sarasota Branch of National League of American Pen Women, Women Contemporary Artists and Art Center Sarasota. Her nature photographs can be seen in Sarasota: A Photographic Portrait and in Key West: A Photographic Portrait.

“Painting is the solitary use of my mind and emotions, the silent expression of inner feelings. Landscape is my genre. I need to walk the beaches and breathe the air, climb the rocks and smell the flowers, feel the earth and absorb the atmosphere, before I can paint the place. Each piece is full of sensory emotion and intimate memories. The oil paint is thickly laid, the brush strokes are bold and the colors are bright. I’m impatient. I want to see something on the canvas fast, and I want it to be exciting. My monotypes are painted in the same style, quick and free, bold and bright.”
Artist’s Statement

Kathleen teaches printmaking at the Venice Art Center. Her work can be seen locally at Artemisia Gallery in Venice, FL and at Art Center Sarasota Sales Gallery.

Selected Solo Exhibitions
3/06 Unitarian Universalist Gallery, Sarasota, FL
6/04 Jacaranda Trace, Venice, FL

5/04 Venice Art Center, Venice, FL
4/04 Caldwell Trust Gallery, Venice, FL
11/02 Unity Gallery, Sarasota, FL
2/01 Venice Wine and Coffee Co., Venice, FL


Selected Group Exhibits
4/05 Margaret Harwell Art Museum, Poplar Bluff, MO
3/05 Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, FL
3/05 Gulf Coast Foundation Spring Exhibit, Venice, FL
1/05 Venice Art Center, Venice, FL
10/04 Art Center Sarasota, Sarasota, FL
5/04 Sarasota Artists Gallery, Sarasota, FL
4/04 Suncoast Artists Showcase, Venice, FL
3/04 Pen Women, Art Center Sarasota, Sarasota, FL
7/03 Sarasota Film Festival Art Auction, Sarasota, FL
4/03 Sarasota County Arts Council, Sarasota, FL
5/01 Women Contemporary Artists, Selby Gallery, Sarasota, FL
5/97 Asian Exhibition of Prints, Wakayama, Japan
4/97 Cork Gallery, Lincoln Center, NY
3/97 Morin-Miller Gallery, W. 57th St., NY
3/97 Nathan Gallery, West Paterson, NJ
2/97 Blackwell Street Center for the Arts, Dover, NJ
11/96 Johnson & Johnson Corp, New Brunswick, NJ
8/96 Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
2/96 Bloomfield College Gallery, Bloomfield, NJ
6/95 Community College of Morris, Morristown, NJ Group/
4/95 State Capitol Rotunda, Trenton, NJ
3/95 Nabisco World Headquarters Gallery, NJ
11/94 Oil Pastel Society Exhibition, Nyack, NY
10/94 Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Juried Show, NY

Publications
Sarasota: A Photographic Portrait, published by Twin Light Publishers, Rockport, Mass., November, 2000.

Nature’s Palate, published by The International Library of Photography, Owings Mills, MD, October, 2001.

Key West: A Photographic Portrait, published by Twin Light Publishers, Rockport, Mass., January, 2003.

Selected Corporate and Museum Collections
Johnson & Johnson New Brunswick, New Jersey
Lowe Museum of Art University of Miami, Miami, Florida
Union Camp Wayne, New Jersey
Nabisco Corporation Paramas, New Jersey
Louny Regional Museum Louny, Czech Republic
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, CR Prague, Czech Republic
Lynn University Old Forge, New York
St. Barnabas Hospital Livingston, New Jersey
Office of U.S. Surgeon General Washington, D.C.
St. Mary’s College South Bend, Indiana