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Statement:
For a long time I have been traveling toward a clear
vision of the interdependence between the landscapes
and how people use them. I have learned to listen to
the water that springs from the rocks and seeps from
the soil into pools everywhere in the Catskills. I have
come to understand the profound connections between
the forest that envelope these mountains, the valleys
that meet them at the forest edges, and the sunlit fields
and barns designed to serve our needs. The Noble Barn
commemorates the mutually beneficial co-existence between
nature and the work of human hands revealed through
this artistic journey.
I use the voluptuous Catskill landscape to counterpoint
the barns' submission to nature which allows the quality
of light to dramatize the architecture and fuse the
barns with the natural world. In some paintings, the
architecture of the barn intrudes in a muscular fashion
into the calming softness of the sky. Others show old
barns echoing the contour of the mountains. As the barns'
endurance and their markings of age begin to break down
they humanizes their own shape. My paintings employ
a romantic expressionism, evoking natural forces and
contemplative quietism.
Selected Exhibitions:
Journeys 2006
Chace-Randall Gallery, Andes, NY
The Last Barn 2004
The Hunting Tavern Museum
The Noble Barn 2002
Roxbury Arts Group, Roxbury, New York
Natural Elements 2000
Upstate Art Gallery, Phoenicia, New York
Water Should 1999
Erpf Center Gallery, Arkville, New York,
Kaatskills On My Mind 1998
Kicking Stones, Margaretville, New York
Blue Heron & Friends 1997
El Paso Museum of Fine Arts, Texas
Intimate Life 1994
University of Texas, Permian Basin Art Gallery
Intimate Life 1994
Women and Their Work Art Gallery, Austin, Texas
Intimate Lives 1993
B.U.G. Metrotech, New York
Point of View 1992
C.W. Post/Long Island University, New York
Adios Columbus 1992
Art in General, New York
Layers 1991
NYNEX, New York
EB International Art Gallery, New York
The Arthur Ross Gallery, New York
Vistas Latina, Part 1 1990
ABC No Rio, New York 1985
Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Arts, New York 1985
Nexus Gallery, Philadelphia
North of the Border 1985
Kenkeleba Gallery, New York
Works of the Americas 1984
Hamilton College, Bristol Campus Center, New York
Mares 1983
Central Hall Gallery, New York
Latin American Women Artists 1981
City Gallery, Equitable Life Insurance, New York 1980
Rutgers University, New Jersey 1980
Two indoor murals commissioned by community centers,
Bronx, Brooklyn, New York 1980
Pratt Institute, New York 1979
INTAR, New York
Oceania 1979
Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York
Set for a play entitled, Becca 1978
55 Mercer Street Gallery, New York
Space Matter
Interart Gallery, New York
Three New York Artists 1976
Artists' Space, New York 1976
Aldrich Museum, Connecticut
Contemporary Reflections 1975
Department of Cultural Affairs, New York
Women Choose Women 1973
Public Arts Council and New York Department of Cultural
Affairs
Commission for 25' x 12' outdoor sculpture, "Walking
Pineapple" 1972
"X12" , First feminist exhibition in New York
City at MUSEUM 1970
Awards:
Roxbury Arts Group-NYSCA Decentralization Grant 2000
Roxbury Arts Group-NYSCA Decentralization Grant 1998
CAPS (Creative Artists Public Service), sculpture 1978
CETA Award 1978 - 1979
National Endowment for the Arts, sculpture 1977
Vogelstein Foundation, New York, painting 1977
CAPS (Creative Artists Public Service), sculpture 1973
CINTAS Foundation Fellowship 1970 - 1971
Interdisciplinary Arts:
" Book Cover, The Table Magazine, New York 2005
" Book Cover, Margaretville, New York, published
by: MTC 2001
" Book Cover, Eduardo Machado, Four New Plays,
published by:
The Theater Communications Group, New York 1991
" Book Cover, On New Ground, published by:
The Theater Communications Group, New York 1988
" Graphic Designs, Posters for John F. Kennedy
Center for the Performing Arts,
Lambs Theatre, Theatre for a New Audience, Interart
de St. Amand Gallery,
Duo Theatre, Everyman Theatre, Greenwich Mews Theatre
and WOW Café 1978
" Directed "My Sister in This House"
by Wendy Kesselman, Second Stage Theatre,
New York (OBIE Award Winner) 1981
" Set and/or Costume Design
Brooklyn Academy of 1970 Music, Women's Interart
Westside Actors, Greenwich Mews Theatre 1968
Related experience:
Director 2001 - Present
ERPF Gallery
The Catskill Center for Conservation and Development
Arkville, New York
Platte Clove Artists-in-Residence, New York
Gallery Director 1979 - 1994
INTAR Gallery, New York
Director/curator for more than 250 exhibitions, including:
Lydia Cabrera: An Intimate Portrait (first retrospective
on the life and work of the leading authority on Afro-Cuban
culture; a three-part Afro-Cuban music series and lectures
accompanied this exhibition) (1984)
Chicano Expressions: A New View in American Art (first
comprehensive exhibition of Chicano art in the Northeast;
more than 50 artists represented in conjunction with
two symposia) (1986)
Autobiography: In Her Own Image (traveling exhibition
of 18 Hispanic, African American, Asian American and
Native American visual artists) (1988)
Another Face of the Diamond: Pathways Through the Black
Atlantic South, (traveling exhibition of 11 outsider
artists) First exhibit NY, 1989
Curator of Exhibitions 1982 - 1984
Interart de St. Amand Gallery, New York
Exhibitions included:
Women of the Southwest (15 women artists)
W.A.R.M. Show (first New York showing by the Women's
Collective of Minneapolis
Consumer/Beware (15 artists chosen to develop a piece
about consumerism)
Curator/Co-Curator: 1994
Inquisitive Arts,
Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College,
Portland Oregon
Rejoining the Spiritual: The Land in Contemporary Latin
American Art 1994
Maryland Institute of Art
Ponder These Things 1994
New York State Museum, Albany
Engaged Cultures 1993 - 1995
Gallery Association of New York State (traveling exhibit)
Rediscoveries: The Mythmakers 1992
Jamaica Arts Center, New York
Curator/Co-Curator:, cont'd.
Latin America: New World Mestizaje 1992
Galeria de la Raza, San Francisco
Migrations of Meaning (9 Hispanic, Black, and Native
American visual artists 1992
Exploring the theme of creolization in their work) (traveling
exhibit)
Exhibition of Hispanic Artists 1990
Richmond, Virginia Art Council
American Artists of Hispanic Heritage 1990
State University of New York, Binghampton
Latin American Artists of the Southeast 1998
Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans
Mira III (29 Latin American artists; traveling exhibit)
1998
Outside Cuba 1986 - 1987
Zimmerli Museum, New Jersey (traveling exhibit)
Luis Monje: New Works 1987
Ollantay Center for the Arts, New York
Poetic Visions 1987
REAL ART WAYS, Hartford, Connecticut
Hispanic Artists in New York, Seventh Annual Hispanic
Arts Festival 1982
Representing 8 New York visual arts organizations
Lecturer:
Inquisitive Art 1995
Montclair State University, New Jersey
Journeys of the Imagination 1994
Cornell University, New York
Establishing Conceptual Parameters and Articulating
the Challenges of
Latino Arts and Culture for Art Education 1993
Columbia University Teachers College, New York
Neuberger Museum, State University New York, Purchase,
New York
Visiting Artist Lecture Series 1993
Pluralism: Who Gets Seen, What Gets Heard, What Gets
Said? 1991
The American University, Washington, D.C.
Studio Critiques 1991
Twenty Latin American Artists 1990
University of Southern Maine
Rethinking 1940s Conceptions of Latin American Art;
A Past Shadowing,
Contemporary Definitions 1989
Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Arts
A Generation Apart, The Differences 1989
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Introduction to the Interdisciplinary Arts 1979 - 1980
Richmond College, Brooklyn, New York
Panelist/Juror:
NYSCA Upstate Decentralization Program 2003
Women Studio Workshop's 25th year celebration 1995
New York State Council on the Arts: Visual Arts Program
1994
NYSCA Upstate Decentralization Program 1993
Panelist/Juror:, cont'd.
Walter and Elise Hass Foundation, Creative Fund 1994
Guadalupe Art Center, San Antonio, Texas 1994
Mass Transit Authority, Art for Transit 1993
Jerome Foundation, Minneapolis, Minnesota 1990, 1992
Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest International Artist Panel
1992
Ohio Arts Council, Columbus, Ohio 1990, 1992
National Endowment for the Arts:
Policy-making panel, Visual Arts 1992
New Forums Initiative 1990
Overview Panel 1988
Auditor for multi-arts and visual arts organizations
1984 - 1988
Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans 1990
State of Washington Arts Commission, Art in Public Places
Program 1990
Columbia University, Center for American Culture Studies
1989
ARTS Midwest, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Visual Art Panel
1988
Department of Cultural Affairs, New York:
Committee of Artists Certification 1988
Percent for the Arts 1987
New York Council for the Humanities 1987
Massachusetts Arts Council, Drawings/Prints 1987
Michigan State Arts Council, Visual Arts Panel 1987
New Jersey Arts Council, Interdisciplinary Art Panel
1987
Consultant/Advisor:
AT&T New Art/New Visions International Program 1994
Creative Time, New York, Interdisciplinary Art advisor
1987
Art in Public Places, Miami, Florida 1987
Bronx Council of the Arts, New York, muralist 1979 -
1980
Creative Artists Public Service 1975
National Conference on Parks Department, Philadelphia,
1972
Sculptor consultant
Member:
National Association of Artists' Organizations
Executive Board 1987 - 1990
President 1988 - 1990
About (a narrative):
Inverna Lockpez, painter, was born in Habana, Cuba,
where she attended medical school at the University
of Habana, studied painting and sculpture at the National
Academy of San Alejandro, and printmaking at Taller
de Grabado, both in Habana.
She came to the United States in the late sixties and
traveled throughout the country until settling in New
York, where she attended the School of Social Work at
Columbia University. In the early seventies, sculpture
being her predominant medium of expression, Ms. Lockpez
won a major outdoor competition in New York under the
auspices of The Municipal Art Society. Her piece was
a 25-foot sculpture entitled "Walking Pineapples".
New York aesthetics were dominated by minimalist and
conceptual art at the time, and the New York City Art
Commission objected to her design. The controversy of
Ms. Lockpez was followed for months in the New York
Times and the national media. After a long debate the
piece was built, making her first American experience
of negotiation and compromise rather painful.
In the late seventies, Inverna became involved with
a series of political shows — "Women Artists
in Revolution (WAR)" at Museum, "Women Choose
Women" at the New York Dept. of Cultural Affairs,
and "Erotic Garden" at the Women's Interart
Center. These first exhibits were a commitment to social
justice for all artists. These were followed by a series
of exhibits focusing on national and international politics.
During these years, Ms. Lockpez's career was making
waves. She received various grants from The National
Endowment for the Arts (NEA), Creative Artists Public
Service (CAPS), CINTAS Foundation, Vogelstein Foundation,
and a CETA award. Her graphic design posters were published
by the John F. Kennedy Center in Washington, book covers
by the Theatre Communication Group, sets and costumes
built by various theaters. In New York, Inverna directed
My Sister in This House, a play by Wendy Kesselman.
By the eighties, Inverna returned to painting focusing
in themes that related to ecology and the environment.
She studied film, video, and computer graphics at the
School of Visual Arts in Manhattan. She became the director
of INTAR (International Arts Relation) Gallery where
she curated more than 100 exhibitions, introducing themes
and artists shown in New York for the first time. Selected
by the magazine Art in America under her direction,
INTAR Gallery became one of the best 15 galleries in
the country for more than seven years.
In 1985 when Inverna bought a house and studio in Delaware
County, she was overwhelmed by the lusciousness of the
land and for the first seven years she only painted
in black and white. Her series, "Markings of the
Land", were full of bold mountains and animal iconography.
In 1988 Ms. Lockpez became the president of the National
Association of Artists' Organizations (NAAO) in Washington,
DC, presiding during the controversial years of the
Maplethorpe and Serrano exhibition in which the U.S.
government wanted to cut funds from the National Endowment
of the Arts (NEA). During the same period, Ms. Lockpez
was also curating and lecturing in universities, visual
art centers, and museums throughout the United States,
and became a consultant and panelist for more than 15
different agencies.
In the nineties, her work had already been part of
more than 80 exhibits around the country when she began
incorporating a wider palate and pastoral themes into
her ecological concerns, receiving two NYSCA Decentralization
grants for her work.
In 2001 she became the director of the Catskill Center's
Erpf Gallery in Arkville, and its Platte Clove residency.
Her research and tribute to the symbols of farm life
were first exhibited in 2002 in Roxbury, New York, with
a show entitled, "The Noble Barn".
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