About Celeste

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Originally from Greenwich Village, NYC-I grew up around a vibrant diverse community where my mother owned a vintage clothing store for 40 years. Being in that environment, influenced my aesthetic. I make images often nostalgic, brightly colored, using vintage fabric and juvenile in style. I am very interested in how things look from being decayed, aged and worn.

I taught art in kindergarten for 16 years and the looseness, naivety and freedom of the children's art made a big impression on my style of work.

Throughout my childhood I spent a lot of time sewing alongside my mother and her seamstresses that were continuously making clothes from recycled vintage and antique clothing. This has stayed with me through my art and now my “Bathing Beauties” on vintage linen.

I work in a variety of mediums: printmaking, sculpture, painting, sewing and drawing. I am constantly making images.


EDUCATION

1990-93 San Francisco Art Institute-MFA, San Francisco, CA

1985-88 School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA BFA

EXHIBITIONS

2020

PANDEMIC TIME OUT- I SPENT MY TIME WITH MY FAMILY AND MAKING NEW WORK, I DIDN’T EXHIBIT

LAUNCHED MY LINE OF BARBIE BULBS CHRISTMAS ORNAMENTS

SCHOOL OF THE MUSEUM SCHOOL/TUFTS WINTER SALE-ONLINE

2019

PRIED

SOCIETY OF ARTS AND CRAFTS BOSTON, MA

HARRY KEMP 125TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION GROUP SHOW

JULIE HELLER GALLERY, EAST PROVINCETOWN, MA

2019 WINTER JURIED SHOW 2018 @ DUXBURY ART COMPLEX DUXBURY, MA

2018

FEBRUARY 3-APRIL 21 2018

ART AT PLAY-A MULTI MEDIA GROUP EXHIBIT OF PLAYFUL AND HUMOROUS ART

HIGGINS GALLERY @ CAPE COD COMMUNITY COLLEGE,

BARNSTABLE, MA

JANUARY 29-FEBRUARY 26

SMALL WORKS @ PAAM-PROVINCETOWN ARTIST ASSOCIATION MUSEUM PROVINCETOWN, MA

2017

CATALYST: CRAFT AND SOCIAL CHANGE

NAVE GALLERY

HANDLED-CURATED BY PAT FALCO GALLERY 263-CAMBRIDGE, MA

THE NEW NORMAL-CURATED BY CHUCK MCNALLY SWEETTREE INK GALLERY-GROUP SHOW, WATERTOWN, MA MAY 2017

SMACK MELLON—DUMBO BROOKLYN, NY,

BENEFIT AUCTION FOR THE WOMEN ARTIST’S RESIDENCY PROGRAM APRIL 2017

NASTY WOMAN-KNOCKDOWN CENTER-BROOKLYN, NY BENEFIT AUCTION FOR PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEBRUARY 2017

PAAM (PROVINCETOWN ART ASSOCIATION MUSEUM) MEMBERS EXHIBITION FEBRUARY 2017

THE SEX SHOW— SWEET TREE INK GALLERY-GROUP SHOW, WATERTOWN, MA OCTOBER 2016

1993

CACA @ KIKI— KIKI GALLERY-GROUP SHOW , SAN FRANCISCO, CA CURATED BY NAYLAND BLAKE MAY 1993

PRO ARTS GALLERY-OAKLAND, CA-SAVE THE PENIS-GROUP SHOW CURATED BY THE GUERILLA GIRLS

ANON SALON-GROUP SHOW, SAN FRANCISCO, CA GROUP SHOW 1993

1990

DIEGO RIVERA GALLERY-GROUP SHOW, SAN FRANCISCO ART INSTITUTE, CA 1990

MAKESHIFT GALLERY-GROUP SHOW, PROVINCETOWN, MA 1990