Helene Brier
EDUCATION:
New York University, 1969-1974
Degree Granted: B.S. Magna Cum Laude 6/6/1974
Recipient: Founder’s Day Award for consistent scholastic achievement.
University of Bridgeport, 1961 – 1964, Q.P.R. 4.0
Columbia University, 1942
Studied: National Academy of Design, New York, NY
Art Student’s League of New York
Instructor: Taught courses in Basic Design I and II
Drawing at the University of Bridgeport, CT
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2006 P.H. Miller Studio & Gallery “The Beach Series – Time Was Time Is”, Woodbury, CT
2004 P.H. Miller Studio & Gallery “Inside Out”, Woodbury, CT
1998 Fairfield University, “Nature’s Gift”, Fairfield, CT
Silvermine Guild, “Then and Now”, New Canaan, CT
1997 Picture This, Romantic Oils and Monotypes, Westport, CT
1992 Munson Gallery, Oils and Monoprints, New Haven, CT
1991 Museum for Art’s Sake, New York, NY Curated by Barbara Ingber
1990 Bronx Museum, Satellite Gallery, Summertime with Helene Brier, Bronx, NY
1988 Nardin Fine Arts, Cross River, NY Art/Place, Southport, CT
1985 Lyman Allyn Museum, New London, CT
1984 Slater Memorial Museum, Norwich, CT
Silvermine Guild Center for the Arts, New Canaan, CT
1979 Nardin Galleries, 25 East 73rd St. New York, NY
Lockwood-Matthew Mansion Museum, Norwalk, CT
Darien Library, Darien, CT
Housatonic Community College, Bridgeport, CT
Bell Gallery, Greenwich, CT
1978 Silvermine Guild Center for the Arts, New Canaan, CT
1968 Silvermine Gild Center for the Arts, New Canaan, CT
1967 Grand Central Modems Gallery, New York, NY
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2010 Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum, Norwalk, CT
2008, 2006, 2004 International Art Exhibit, Kyota, Japan
2004 Connecticut Treasures: Artists in their 80’s, University of CT, Stamford Art Gallery,
Stamford, CT
Left of the Bank Fine Art Gallery, Two person exhibit, Old Greenwich, CT
2003 Beaux Arts Gallery, A Gathering of Artists, Woodbury, CT
2002 Printmakers from Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT
1998 Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum
1996 Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts, Juried Exhibition Hartford Gallery Art School,
Hartford, CT
Discovery Museum, “Translations”, Bridgeport, CT
1995 Fairfield Library, “Seven Printmakers”, Fairfield, CT
1991 Print Club, Philadelphia, PA
1990 The Connecticut Gallery, Marlboro, CT
1989 Hermitage Foundation Museum, Norfolk, VA
Museum of Art, Science and Industry “Art Place”, Bridgeport, CT
“Four Women”, Munson Gallery, New Haven, CT
“Black and White”, Vassos.Gallery, Silvermine, New Canaan, CT
Connecticut Gallery, Hartford, CT
Festival ’89, Metro Gallery, Stamford, CT
1988 “Sails”, Danbury Public Library, Danbury, CT
“By the Beautiful Sea”, Left Bank Gallery, Norwalk, CT
Munson Gallery, Chatham, Cape Cod, MA
“A Room with a View”, Munson Gallery, New Haven, CT
1987 “Liskov Collection”, University of Bridgeport-Carlson Gallery, Bridgeport, CT
“In the Country”, Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY
“A Generation of Vision”, Fairfield Art Collection, Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT
“Survival of the Fittest”, Ingber Gallery, SoHo, New York, NY
1985 Munson Gallery, New Haven, CT
1984 Ingber Gallery, SoHo, New York, NY
1984, 1983 “Collection”, Richardson-Vicks, Wilson, CT
1983 “Art of the Northeast”, Juror: Susan Delehanty, New Canaan, CT
1982 “Man and Woman”, Housatonic Museum, Bridgeport, CT
1979 “People: Four Points of View”, Bell Gallery, Greenwich, CT
1979, 1978 Munson Gallery, Cape Cod Chatham, MA
President’s Office, University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT
1979, 1978, 1977, 1971, 1969 “New England Annual Exhibition”, Silvermine Guild Center for the
Arts, New Canaan, CT
1978, 1977, 1976 Faculty Show, Carlson Gallery, University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT
1978 Mayor’s Office, New Haven, CT
1971 “Three Artists”, Carlson Gallery, University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT
1970 Fairfield Art Collection, Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT
1969 “Art of Today Show”, University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT
1968, 1967, 1964, 1963 Museum of Art, Science, and Industry, Bridgeport, CT
1967 Carroll Reece Museum, East Tennessee State University
Grand Central Modern, New York, NY
Berkshire Museum, MA
Springfield Art Show, Springfield, MA
Fairfield Art Collection, Fairfield, CT
Dr. James P. Ward
Westport Art Collection
Westport County Federal Bank, Westport, CT
Mr. Joseph J. Ziluca
PUBLICATIONS:
2008, 2006, 2004 Catalog, International Art Exhibit, Kyota, Japan
2004 Waterbury Republican American, CT, Tracey O’Shaugnessy
1998 Catalog “Then and Now” Martha B. Scott
CT Magazine, Full Page Colored Photo of Painting “Snails”
1997 Fairfield Minuteman, Betty Tyler
1995 Fairfield Citizen News, Translations, Kate Jennings
1989 Fairpress, Westport, CT Kate F. Jennings
New Haven Register, New Haven, CT, Maxine Olderman
1988 Fairfield County Woman, CT Joan Honig
The Middletown Press, CT Bernard Hanson
New York Times Eleanor Charles
New York Times, William Zimmer
1985 Hartford Courant, CT, Bernard Hanson
1984 Sunday Post, Betty Tyler
Fairfield Citizen, CT, Nancy Serrell, “Interior Landscape”
Listed in Who’s Who in American Art
1980 House Beautiful from Burr Homestead, Fairfield, CT
1979 Fairpress, Norwalk, CT, Review by Mia Breck
1978 Fairfield County magazine, August Covet, Painting by Helene Brier, Fairfield, CT
Vassos Gallery, Silvermine Guild Center for the Arts, Review by Virginia Mann,
Exhibition Director, Art Resources, New Haven, CT
Sunday Post, Review by Martha Scott, Bridgeport, CT
1970 State Department Traveling Kefauver Exhibition throughout Europe, sponsored by the
late Nancy Kefauver
1967 Park East Review by Jane Jaffe Young, New York, NY
Arts Magazine, September/October Issue, Review by Gregory Battock, New York, NY
1966 Sunday Post, “Windows”, Review by Martha Scott
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:
Silvermine Guild Center for the Arts, New Canaan, CT
New Haven Pain and Clay Club, New Haven, CT
Art Students’ League of New York: Life Member
Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts
LECTURE DEMONSTRATION:
1988 Monoprints, The Institute for Visual Arts, Silvermine Guild Center for the Arts, New
Canaan, CT
1966 Greengross Gallery, New York, NY
AWARDS:
Represented in the archives of the Library and Research Center of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.
1978 New England Annual Exhibition, Silvermine Guild Center for the Arts, New Canaan, CT
Juror: Thomas Hess, Chairman of the Art Department of the Metropolitan Museum of
Art, New York, NY
1975, 1970, 1969, 1967 Invitation of Fairfield Art Exhibit, Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT
1970 New England Annual Exhibition, Silvermine Gild Center for the Arts, New Canaan, CT
1969, 1967, 1966 New Canaan Outdoor Art Exhibit, New Canaan, CT
1969 State Department Traveling Exhibition throughout Europe, sponsored by Nancy
Kefauver
1966 New Haven Festival of the Arts, Yale University New Haven, CT Jurors: Richard
Anuskiewicz, John Bauer
1965, 1964, 1963 Museum of Art, Science and Industry Barnum Festival, Bridgeport, CT
1965 Westchester Art Society Annual Juried Exhibit, White Plains, NY Juror: Lloyd
Goodrich, Director, Whitney Museum, New York, NY
Greenross Gallery Group; Exhibit Award Winner, New York, NY Juror: Lawrence Alloway,
Curator, Solomon Guggenheim Museum, New York
COLLECTIONS:
Mary Ellen Berlin, daughter of Irving Berlin
Dr. and Mrs. Ron Nudel
Bayer Corporation, New Haven, CT
Dr. & Mrs. M Blaustein
Dr. & Mrs. Maxwell Bogin
Robert DeNiro, Actor
F.D. Rich & Company, Stamford, CT
Dr. Richard Gabel
Housatonic Community College Art Collection, Bridgeport, CT
Barbara Ingber, Ingber Gallery, New York, NY
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Adelyn & Sanford Libow
Mr. & Mrs. Sam Liskov
Lyman Allyn Museum, New London, CT
Mr. August Madrigal, Professor, University of Bridgeport
New York University Art Collection, New York, NY
Notre Dame Art Gallery, University of Notre Dame, Indiana
Dr. Harvey Samowitz
Martha B. Scott
Slater Memorial Museum, Norwich, CT
Dr. & Mrs. Jay Stubenhaus
Supreme Court Judge & Mrs. George Starke, New York, NY Town of
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