Barbara Siegel’s biographical installations document and explore the lives and accomplishments of exceptional individuals. Subjects of previous installations are Coney Island’s renowned food sign painter, Hector Wallace, 19th century and contemporary bearded ladies, and side show performer, Melvin Burkhardt, known professionally as “The Human Blockhead.”

Siegel’s current body of work, *ROCK STARS,* is inspired by the life and work of mineralogist extraordinaire Clifford Frondel (1907-2002). Frondel was curator of the Mineralogical Museum at Harvard, named 48 species of rocks, and was an expert in kidney stones, moon rocks, and the mineral patinas on ancient sculptures. Four large mixed media wall hangings based on the model of early classroom science charts each represents one of four rock specimens, Hendricksite, Cliffordite, Fondelite, and Whitlockite, closely associated with Frondel during his time at the American Museum of Natural History. The large installation, Forty-Eight is a collection of 48 drawings of rocks and minerals lent by Siegel’s friends and colleagues and chosen because of each rock’s personal and compelling significance to the lender. Although here the imagery is more personal than scientific, the title, “Forty-Eight” and configuration of 48 rock “portraits” hanging behind a small antique school desk, refer to the exact number of new mineral species Clifford Frondel named over the course of his long and varied career. Wonder Cabinet is a repository of materials Siegel collected while researching Frondel’s career from the American Museum of Natural History in New York City to the Mineralogical Museum at Harvard and to the Franklin Mine Museum in Franklin, New Jersey. Stone Books (1-5) is a collection of five hand-made artist books, each representing works of a different poet or musician who writes about stones. Herself a connoisseur of unusual collections and the fascinating and timeless museums that house them, many of Siegel’s current installations such as Forty-Eight and Wonder Cabinet incorporate old display tables and cabinets to invoke such venues.

barbara.siegel22@gmail.com

SELECTED MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS
Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY, Summer 2002
Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY, January 2000
Carriage House Project Space, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, New York, 1996
Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY, 1982
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE, 1981
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ, 1979
Newark Museum, Newark, NJ, 1977
Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT, 1974
New Britain Museum of Art, New Britain, CT, 1974

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Sideshow, AIR Gallery, NYC, October 2006.
Lehman College Art Gallery, Lehman College, CUNY, Bronx, NY, 2002
The Gallery of South Orange, South Orange, NJ, 2001
Lehman College Library, CUNY, Bronx, NY, 2001
Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, N.Y., 1999
Hartnett-Murray Gallery, NYC, 1999
Art in General, NYC, 1997
AIR Gallery, New York City, 1997
Parsons School of Design, Gimbel Library, NYC, 1996
Tribeca 148 Gallery, Art Initiatives, NYC, 1993
Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY, 1987
University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT. 1987
Marilyn Pearl Gallery, NYC, 1979, 1981, 1984, 1986
Leighton Gallery, Bluehill, ME, 1986
Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY, 1983
Briarcliff College Museum of Art, Briarcliff Manor, NY, 1975

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Michael S. Currier Center Gallery, Putney, VT, 2007
AIR Gallery, NYC, 2007
2B Gallery, Budapest, Hungary, 2006
AIR Gallery, NYC, 2006
AIR Gallery, NYC, 2005
AIR Gallery, NYC, 2004
Mount Desert Symposium in the Arts, Mount Desert, ME, 2003
Kristen Frederickson Gallery, NYC 2003
Kristen Frederickson Gallery, NYC, 2002
5+5 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2002
Eastern Shore Art Center Galleries, Fairhope Ala., 2002
College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, ME, 2000
Hartnett-Murray Gallery, NYC, 1999
Parsons School of Design, NYC, 1999
Elsa Mott Ives Gallery, YWCA, NYC, 1997
WCA Exhibition, Phoenix Gallery. NYC, 1997
Nabisco Corporation Gallery, East Hanover, NJ, 1995
Richard Gasperi Gallery, New Orleans, LA, 1989
Pratt Institute Gallery, NYC, 1981
Marilyn Pearl Gallery, NYC, 1980
Rosa Esman Gallery, NYC, 1979

MAJOR COLLECTIONS
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Amerada Hess Corporation, NYC
Brown University, Providence, RI
Chase Bank, NYC
City University of New York, Lehman College, Bronx, NY
Home Box Office Corporation, NYC
Marvin and Ruth Sackner, Miami, FLA
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
Newark Public Library, Newark, NJ
Prudential Life Insurance, Newark, NJ
Reed College, Oregon
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
University of Delaware
Vera List, NY, NY
Yale University, New Haven, CT

REVIEWS AND ARTICLES
Art in America, Carl Little, review of “Sideshow,” February 2007
Tribeca Tribune, Arts, Etc.;“Wally’s World,” Carl Glassman, October 2006
Meridian, Vol. 41 No.1, Davina Sukumar, September 2002
Bronxnet TV, Interview on BronxTalk AM with Gary Axelbank, September 2002
Art on Paper, Nancy Princenthal, review of “The Lint Collection,” July/August 2002
myprimetime.com, “Artist of the Month,” Beth Lewis, March 2000
Tribeca Tribune, Jeanne Wilkinson, May 1999
CNN-TV, Jeannie Moos, June 12, 1997
The New York Times, Helen Harrison, August 1996
Arts Magazine, Greg Masters, April 1986
Artnews Magazine, Ronny Cohen, December 1984
The Buffalo News, Anthony Bannon, March 1983
Artnews Magazine, Sarah Cecil, October 1981
Arts Magazine, Susan C. Larsen, September 1979

TEACHING
Parsons, The New School of Design, NYC, Adjunct Drawing Faculty, Core Studies Department, 1983- present.