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Lydia Martin


Professor of Foundation Studies

Phone
(617) 994-4288

Email
lmartin@suffolk.edu

Courses

Foundation Drawing I & II, Painting

Professional Membership

Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Arts Club

Pastel Painters Society of Cape Cod

Fellowship of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts                      

DeCordova Museum’s Corporate Art Loan Program, Lincoln, MA

Education

1999: Massachusetts College of Arts, MA. Master’s Independent Study with artist, Janet Monafo.

1984: Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, PA. Masters of Fine Arts Equivalent, major: painting and drawing.

1980: West Chester University, PA. Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, major: fine arts, minor: art history.

Teaching Appointments

Professor, NESAD, Suffolk University, Boston, MA, 2006-present
Associate Professor, NESAD/SU, Boston, MA, 2001-2006
Assistant Professor, NESAD/SU, 1997- 2001
Instructor, NESAD/SU, Boston, MA 1989-1997

Art Director and Instructor, Museum of Science, Boston, MA: created, directed and taught Italian Renaissance artisan workshops during the Leonardo Da Vinci Exhibition, 1998.

Exhibitions

Bennington Center for the Arts, VT, American Artists Abroad 2005

Associated Artists of Winston-Salem, NC, Dimensions 2005

Visual Artists Center, Punta Gorda, FLA, National Exhibition juried by renowned painter, Daniel Greene, 2004.

Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY, Re-Presenting Representation V, invitational contemporary realism exhibition, 2002.

Lyman-Eyer Gallery, Provincetown, MA, New Works, solo show, 2002

National Arts Club, NYC, Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Arts Exhibition, 2002

Attleboro Museum, Attleboro, MA, Small Works, national exhibition, 2002

Butler Institute of American Art, OH, Midyear Museum Exhibition, 2001

Arts Center, Chatham, MA, Pastels Only, Pastel Painters Society of Cape Cod’s annual juried exhibition, 2001

Coutt’s Museum, El Dorado, KS, Living on the Praire, Living on the Plain, national juried exhibition, 2001.

Pastel Society of America, National Arts Club, NYC, 28th Juried Show juried by portrait painter, Raymond Kinstler, 2000.

Powell Street Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Realism, 3 artists invitational show, 2000.

Museum of Amercian Art, Philadelphia, PA, The Unbroken Line, international centennial exhibition for the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Fellowship. juried by figurative painter, Philip Pearlstein, 1997.

Chase Gallery, Boston, MA, The Still-life: A Modern View, invitational exhibition of 5 artists, 1995.

James A. Michener Museum, Doylestown, PA, National Exhibition, 1991

First Street Gallery, NYC,  The Figure, national exhibition juried by artist, Jack Beal, 1989.

Awards

Sara Lee Painting Prize, Associated Artists of Winston-Salem, NC, Dimensions 2005 national exhibition.

Salmagundi Prize for oil painting, Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Arts Club’s international Millenium Exhibition, 2000.

Gerdine Prize for Portrait Painting, St. Louis Artists’ Guild, MO, Portrait Exhibition, 2000.

10 year service Award, NESAD/Suffolk University, Boston, MA, 1999

Finalist, Artists’ Magazine’s painting competition, 1991 & 1992.

First Place in Painting, Harvard University’s Arnold Arboretum Spring Art Exhibition, 1991.

Publications

Book Cover image, artist’s oil painting entitled, "The Border"   for

Secrets in the Sand: The Missing Women of Ciudad Juarez by Chilean poet, Marjorie Agosin and translation by Celeste K. Cooperman, White Pine Press, NY, 2006.

Encyclopedia of Drawing Techniques by Hazel harrison, Quarto Publications, London, UK and Running Water Press, Philadelphia, PA, USA, 2004. Artist’s pastel drawing, "Popcorn" pictured.

Capturing Texture in Painting and Drawing by Michael Warr, North Light Books, Cinncinatti, OH, 2002. Artist’s paintings, "Early Winter" and "Anticipation" pictured.

Masterstrokes: Pastel by Hazel Harrison, Quarto Publications, London, UK, 1999. Artist’s pastel drawing "On the Porch" pictured.

200 Great Painting Ideas for Artists by Carole Katchen, North Light Books, Cinncinatti, OH, 1998. Trompe l’oeil painting, "Shelves" pictured.

Women Artists Calendar, Cedco Publications, San Rafael, CA 1998 & ’99.

Who’s Who in America and American Women, 1998-2007.