Terryl Best Lawrence
e-mail: terrylbl@bellsouth.net
EDUCATION:
Ed. D.!! ! Columbia University Teachers College, Fine Arts & Art Education
M.A.! ! ! Columbia University, painting and drawing
B.A. ! ! ! Brooklyn College, Art & Art History - studied with Ad Reinhardt,
! ! ! ! Jimmy Ernst, Burgoyne Diller, and Kurt Seligmann
Certificate in Design New York School of Interior Design
! I spent three years of intensive studio work at the National Academy of Fine Art in
New York, 1974-1977. I studied with Joseph Hirsch, Robert Phillipp, Moses Soyer,
Harvey Dinnerstein, Burt Silverman, Joseph Solman, Serge Hollerbach; and, two
summers drawing with Marshall Glaser at the Art Student’s League,1985 and 1986.
! At the International Center of Photography, I studied:
Gum Bichromate Printing with Judy Siegel -1994
Large Format Camera with David Meisel - 1990
Creativity with Art Kane - 1988
The Fine Print with George Tice - 1987
Color with Len Jenschel - 1980
WORK EXPERIENCE:
2014-! ! ! Adjunct Professor at Palm Beach State College, Lake Worth,
2005- Present! Professor at Digital Media Arts College, Boca Raton
2001 - 2006 ! Instructor at Florida Atlantic University, Art Department
2001- Present ! Instructor at Florida Atlantic University, Lifelong Learning Society
1991 - 2000! ! Instructor of Art and Art Education, C.W. Post College
1998 - 2000! ! Instructor in Art, SUNY Empire State College
1985 - 2001! ! Great Neck South High School, art and photography teacher
1980 - present! Fine Art Photographer for publications, galleries and museums
1978 - 1980! ! A & S Department Stores, Assistant Director of Visual
! ! ! Merchandising
1980 - 1984! ! Freelance Photographer, Public ServiceTelevision, Channels 13 &
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AWARDS:
1993! ! National Fellowship for Independent Study in the Humanities,
! ! ! Council for Basic Education
1987! ! First Prize, color photography, Wunsch Art Center
1984! ! Parrish Art Museum - one of five award winners, Annual Juried Show
! ! Heckscher Museum - photography award, HTAL Juried Show
1983! ! Planting Fields Arboretum - first prize, color photography!
! ! Smithtownship Art Council, photography award
! ! Salmagundi Club - Alice B. Reynolds, color photography award
1982! ! Medallion for Outstanding Service, Channel 13- for photography of
! ! New York’s outdoor sculpture - (televised during their art auctions)!
!
! ! Columbia University Gold Medal Recognition for photography of art
! ! objects
1980! ! International Institute of Photography, Anchorage Alaska -
! ! photography award of merit
1977! ! National Arts Club - one year fellowship in painting
! ! National Assoc. of Women Artists - Molly Canaday painting Award.!
EXHIBITIONS;
2011 - Spanish River Gallery, Library , October
2010 Max Powers Gallery - solo show, February
2009 EXOR Gallery, Boca Raton - solo exhibition, January 2009
! Art Expo - Javitts Center, NYC - March
2008 Delray Public Library, solo show, October - November
2008! BOLD Gallery, Delray Beach - solo show, February
2005! FAU MacArthur Library, Jupiter, Florida - solo show October - December
2001 Red Bicycle Gallery, Locust Valley, N.Y. , January - February (solo show)
2000! Elaine Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton - May
2000 Hutchins Gallery, C.W. Post Campus - January
l998 Mills Pond House, Tri’bute to Women - March
l997! Alfred Van Loen Gallery, So. Huntington Library, January and February(solo
show)
l996! Heckscher Museum, solo exhibition - Huntington - June and July
l994 and l995 - l999, B.J. Spoke Gallery, Huntington - color photographs
l99l! Neikrug Photographica, Manhattan - February
l990! Discovery Gallery, Glen Cove - photo show, September
! Elaine Benson Gallery, June
l988! Mills Pond House, “Women in the Arts” - March
l987! Elaine Benson Gallery - August
! Sabbeth Gallery, photography show - September
l986! Elaine Benson Gallery - August
! B.E.L. Gallery, Westport, Connecticut - (solo show) - March
l985! New Jersey State Department of Education - (solo show) - November
l984! Heckscher Museum - (solo show) paintings and photographs - September
! Firehouse Gallery, Nassau Community College - 10 photographers - June
! Smithtownship Arts Council - winners show, paintings - August
! Verzyl Gallery, Northport - (solo show) , paintings and photographs - April
l983! Verzyl Gallery, (solo show) - March
! Isis Gallery, Port Washington - summer show, July
! Artists’ Proof Galley, Easthampton - summer show - June and July
! Elaine Benson Gallery - September
! Louise Himelfarb Gallery, Southampton - December
l982! Verzyl Gallery, (solo show) - March
l98l ! Northport Gallery, (solo show) - April
! Artists’ Forum, Centerport - photography show - October
l980! Gallery 36; Foote, Cone & Belding Advertisting Agency, solo show of portrait
! ! photography - April
l976! Bloomingdale’s Art Gallery
! Gallery 9l, New York
l972 ! through l976, Stephen Haller Gallery, New York, affiliation
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JURIED SHOWS AND INVITATIONALS;
2003 Bonnet House Invitational, Ft. Lauderdale & Cornell Museum, Delray Beach
l988! Parrish Art Museum
l986! Fine Arts Museum of Long Island
l984! Parrish Art Museum
! Hudson River Museum
! Heckscher Museum Holiday Show
! Salmagundi Club Photography Exhibition
l983! Salmagundi Club Photography Exhibition
! Heckscher Museum Holiday Show
! Smithtownship Arts Coucil Photography Show
l982 !Salmagundi Club Photography Exhibition
! Nassau County Museum Celebration of the Arts
l981! East End Arts Council photography Show
l980 ! Gallery North, Setauket - Holiday Show
! Gallery Odin, Port Washington - Summer Show
l979 (l972 - l979) National Association of Women Artists Annual
l977! Audubon Artists at the National Academy
! Allied Artists at the National Academy
PUBLICATIONS;
“ARTWALKS” - a monthly article for The Parklander magazine, since May 2005.
Photography for two catalog raisonnes published in l994, works by Kerr Eby and
Emil Ganso.
The preface to THEO TOBIASSE; ARTIST IN EXILE , text by Chaim Potok,
published l986 by Rizzolli.
LENS ON CAMPUS, “dis locations”, October l984 issue.
GUEST LECTURER:
Vero Beach Museum of Art - Six Lectures - Paris and the Jazz age, 2012
The Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach - The Painter & the Photograph, 2007
Baker Library in Stuart - Three lectures on Modern and Extreme Architecture, 2006.
Baker Library - Three lectures: FOUR AMERICANS IN PARIS(TheSteins),2005.
PEGGY GUGGENHEIM; AND THE PAINTER AND THE PHOTOGRAPH. This is a
discussion of the changes in art that were created by the invention of the camera,
(based on the research in my doctoral thesis). 2005.
Boca Raton Museum of Art - two lectures for docent training on THE HISTORY OF
PHOTOGRAPHY, 2004.
Boca Raton Museum of Art, THERESA BERNSTEIN, 2003.
Art League of Long Island, PEGGY GUGGENHEIM, ART OF THIS CENTURY, 1999.
Art League of Long Island, FRIDA KAHLO AND THE SURREALISTS, l998.
NAEA Convention in New Orleans, THE PAINTER AND THE PHOTOGRAPH, 1997.
C.W. Post College, THE BLOOMSBURY GROUP, 1997.
The Hutton House Lectures, C.W. Post, CHARMED CIRCLES IN THE ARTS,
l900 - l945, l996.
American Association of University Women, FRIDA KAHLO AND THE SURREALISTS,
1995.
NAEA Convention, San Francisco, THE LIFE AND TIMES OF GERTRUDE STEIN,
1900 - l945, 1995.
Plainview-Bethpage Public Library, THE LIFE AND TIMES OF GERTRUDE STEIN,
l995.
South Huntington Public Library, THE LIFE AND TIMES OF GERTRUDE STEIN, (in two
parts), l995.
Port Washington Public Library, THE LIFE AND TIMES OF GERTRUDE STEIN, 1995.
Great Neck Public Library, THE LIFE AND TIMES OF GERTRUDE STEIN, (2X), l996.
American Assoc. of University Women, CHARMED CIRCLES IN THE ARTS, l994.
Jefferson Market Library, NYC, WALT WHITMAN & THE ART OF HIS TIMES, l992.
Great Neck Public Library, DIANE ARBUS AND HOWARD NEMEROV, l992.
Great Neck Public Library, THE PAINTER AND THE PHOTOGRAPH, l991.
C.W. Post College, PHOTOGRAPHY AND ART, 1991.
American Assoc., of University Women, PHOTOGRAPHY AND ART, l990.
The Heckscher Museum of Art, WOMEN ARTISTS, l5th - 20th Centuries,
! three lectures based on my own research and slides, 1985.
Heckscher Museum of Art, THE PAINTER AND THE PHOTOGRAPH, l986.
