2011

Awards
North Bennington Plein Air Competition: People’s Choice Award for King’s Pines, Honorable Mention for Quick Draw Competition painting

Solo Exhibitions

• “Quiet Lifes” at the Bennington Museum, Bennington, Vermont (juried application)
• Recent works at Valley Artisans’ Gallery. Cambridge, New York, (juried application)
• Bricolage at the New EnglandTropical Observatory, Bennington, VT
• El Idioma de Mi Corazón at Coyote Flaco, Williamstown, Massachusetts (7 month solo exhibit)

 

Press

• Hektoen International (On line magazine) published Dancing with Dex poem and Self-Portrait after Chemo #2, December Issue, 2011.
• Into Plein Air, Bennington Banner, Arts & Entertainment, 3-4 September, 2011
• Painting in Open Air. . . and Doing it Fast!, Bennington Banner, 8 Moriarty Opens Museum Show Today, Bennington Banner, 7-8 May 2011
• Now Hold That Pose, North Adams Transcript, 20 July 2011

 

Public Speaking/ Teaching /On-air

• Bricolage:  The Highest Form of Creativity, A way of Art and a way of Life, public presentation of the my interview by Lea Newman sponsored by the American Assoc. of University Women, held at the NETC, Bennington, VT (filmed and shown on CAT-TV)
• Natural Instincts with Carol Tunney and Dr. John Hearst, WBTN, Sept 2011
• Willy and Guest, WBTN,   April 2011 and August 2011

Education

• Still life workshop with Jaye Fox
• Life drawing group, weekly, Williams College
• Beginning printmaking experimentation and tutorial with Sarah Pike (String Theory, Heartstring Theory prints resulted from these first attempts with the materials)
• Consultations with artist and curator, Sally Apfelbaum – I begin to see some things about exhibiting and about drawings differently.

Special Projects

• Waloomsac Farmers’ Market Poster, 2012 (Chiles)
• Live Your Life, new series of metastatic cancer related paintings
• Portrait of Emma Miller , commission for Savoy School District, Savoy, Mass.
• Ongong landscape project—one year at the old mill house in Shaftsbury.
• Breathing in Color Between My Eyes, Dance Lessons In Bennington, See You, Potato—revisions of poetry contained in all three collections resulting in one collection, See you, Potato

Note:  In August 2011 I was diagnosed with Stage 4 metastatic breast cancer, with multiple brain lesions, metastisis to the lymphatic systems, CNS, and around several organs.  In September  I completed full brain radiation (daily for three weeks).  During that time (with the help of my Mom) I also completed the 2011 North Bennington Plein air competition.

2010

 

Awards/Residencies/Invitational

• North Bennington Plein Air Competition (Invitational), North Bennington, Vermont. Spt 8-12
• Riverfest –Plein air invitational, Cole Field, Hoosic River, sponsored by HooRWA, 29 May 2010

Solo Exhibitions

• EL Idioma de mi corazón at Coyote Flaco, Williamstown, Massachusetts
• Recent Works (annual exhibit), South Street Café, Bennington, VT
• Los días de los muertos, Images Cinema, Williamstown, Massachusetts
• Nudes, Stone Soup, Adams, Massachusetts
• ‘Scapes, Wild Oats, Williamstown, Massachusetts
• Making our Bones, Bennington Arts Guild, Bennington, Vermont

Selected Group Exhibitions

• North Bennington Art Park, North Bennington, VT (Invitational)

Press

• Making Our Bones Show Opening at BAG, Bennington Banner, 18 Nov 2010
• Three Artists bring “Bones” together at BAG, by Stephanie Ryan, Bennington Banner, 20-21 Nov, 2010
• ‘Scapes Exhibit Opens at Wild Oats in Williamstown, by Telly Halkais, (cover article), Advocate, 9 Dec 2010
• Local Artist an Exhibitionist?, Bennington Banner, August 2010
• Bones continue to hang at Bag, Bennington Banner, 9 Dec 2010
• In Art from Bones, Hints of Death and Rebirth by Stacey Morris, Hill Country Observer, Dec2010 – Jan 2010

Public Speaking/Teaching/On-air

• Plein Air Painting, CAT TV with Judy Kniffin, Bennington, VT
• Willy and Guest, WBTN, Bennington
• Voices from Chernobyl, reading at the Unitarian Church for the Public

Education/Work  Experience

• Botanical drawing class with Ann Kremers, Clark Art Institute
• Figure  Drawing class with  David Lane, Clark Art Institute (First experiments with Conte crayones)
• Clark Art Institute Library workshop given by Richard Harrington
• Plein air Drawing (in graphite) Workshop with Jaye Fox at the Clark Art Institute,
• Copied (in oil)  Pissarro’s “Piet’s House at Montefocault” at the Clark Art Institute  19 Feb 2010
• First experiments with watercolor drawings from old photo from my childhood:  “At the Table”
• First experiments with micron pen and gray chartpack markers drawings at the beach

Special Projects

• Counting the Omer, 2010, Series of 7 oil paintings on refrigerator  doors, representing each of the seven weeks of the omer count, along with daily artworks (various media) totaling 49 works, one for each day of the omer counting period
• Breathing in Color Between My Eyes, Dance Lessons In Bennington, See You, Potato—first drafts written of poetry contained in all three collections

*Note:  At the end of 2010 began painting primarily with left hand, sometimes utilizing both (due to increasing neuropathy in both hands, but especially the right).  It was good friend Jonathan Burkhardt who made the recommendation while I was working on Pomegranate.

Between July and December 2010 two knee surgeries and severe osteoarthritis in my knees increasingly changed my way of painting from standing up, gross motor, to a sitting style of working (utilizing reducing glass and mirrors for reviewing).

2009

Solo Exhibitions

• Ex Voto Suscepto:  Prayers of Gratitude, at the Southern Vermont Medical Center, Cancer Center, Bennington, Vermont
• ExVotoSuscepto:  Prayers of Gratitude, Burgdorf Gallery, Southern Vermont College
• Alla Prima, South Street Café, Bennington, VT
• North Bennington Art Park (invitational)
• Blocks of Colour, Panda Garden, Manchester, Vermont
• Sketches in oil, Images Cinema, Williamstown, Massachusetts
• Sketches from the Train, Spiral Press Café, Manchester, Vermont

Selected Group Exhibitions

• Everyone we Know, The Sketchbook Project, Brooklyn, NY
• North Bennington Art Park, North Bennington, VT

Press

• From Crucible to Creation:  Bennington Artist Exhibits Retrospective on Surviving Breast Cancer by Telly Halkais, Advocate, 29January 2009
• Moriarty’s Blocks of Colour Opens, Bennington Banner, 9 July 2009
• Local artist and bc survivor opens exhibit January 16th, Bennington Banner, 2 January 2009
• Living works of Art, by Bob Stannard (column), Bennington Banner, 25-26 July 2009
• Life is short, Art is Long by Telly Halkais, Bennnington Banner  (front page) 31Jan-1Feb 2009
• Viola Moriarty’s “Alla Prima” Opens at South Street Café, Bennington Banner , 27 July 2009
• October 22 cover story benn banner arts weekend (blankets region)
• Alla prima Opens at South St Café, Advocate, 29 Jan 2009 and Bennington Banner 1-2 Aug 2009
• Viola Moriarty Blankets Region with Three Separate Shows, Arts Weekend, Bennington Banner, 22 Oct  2009 (cover story)

Public Speaking/Teaching/On -air

• May 1-3 ExVoto Suscepto, presentation at Weekend of Hope,  Stowe, Vermont.
• WAMC Public Radio, Breast Cancer Playing Cards Interview, Albany, NY
• Natural Instincts (as Guest), WBTN, BEnnington
• Willy and Guest, WBTN, Bennington
• Natural Instincts (as co-host with Carol TUnney, nine interviews)

Education

• Life drawing (nude model) weekly, Williams College
• Abstract painting workshops with Renee Bouchard
• Portrait life drawing, weekly, at the studio of Shelli DuBoff
• Portrait conference and membership in Portrait Society of America
• Attendance at NYC Comic Convention as Professional Creator
• Tutorials from Nick Garder on stretching canvas and materials

Special Projects

• The Adventures of My Left Breast, (Comic Book) under continued construction
• The Photograph by Anna Moriarty Lev, three sold out nights at Under ST Marks, NYC (First off-broadway theatre experience with acting—actually, first acting experience!)

2008

Awards/Publications

• Breast Cancer Playing Card Deck, 54 collage images, Production of 1000 decks sponsored by Barbara and Paul Dworkin of Niskayuna, NY.  Proceeds donated to To Life!

Solo Exhibitions

• ExVoto Suscepto- preview exhibition, South Street Café, Bennington, VT

Selected Group Exhibitions

• Bennington Center for the Arts, Bennington, VT

Press

• Winning Hand for Breast Cancer by Jennifer Huberdeau, North Adams Transcript, 29-30 Nov 2008
• ExVoto Suscepto Extends South St Run, Bennington Banner, 20-21 Sep 2008
• Breast Cancer Awarentess is (literally) in the Cards, Benniington Banner, 4 Dec 2008

Public Speaking/Teaching/On-air

• Willy and Guest, WBTN, Bennington

Education

• Attendance at NYC Comic Convention as Professional Creator—consulted with David Mack about The Adventures of My Left  Breast
• Poetry consultations with Marilyn Fontana
• Life drawing (nude model) weekly, Williams College

Special Projects

• Casting for reco very 2008—created fishing freshwater fly-fishing diary and donated a b/w executable version for future participants.
• Continued photographic, sketch and journal records of the cancer diagnosis and treatment process—collecting photos of the caregivers throughout

2007

Publications

• New England Diary,  by Marilyn Fontana (12 of my landscapes accompany 12 of her exquisite poems)

Press

• Through Phoebe’s Sapphire Gaze, by Telly Halkais, 12 April 2007, Bennington Banner and Advocate Weekly.
• Uncertain Viewpoints at SVC (Review) by Joshua Rupp, Bennington Banner, 7-8 April 2007
• Bennington painter opens a new exhibit by Joshua Rupp, Bennington Banner, 6 July 2007
• Support Your Local Artist, StreetTalk, Advocate weekly, 11 Jan 2007

Selected Group Exhibitions

• Art on a Limb, Windsor library, Windsor VT

Education

• Art therapy with Beth Newman while undergoing chemotherapy and radiation treatment
• Studied books on Art and Healing
• Read David Mack’s, Alchemy, a gift from Anna after she had seen the first drafts of Adventures of My Left Breast
• Life drawing (nude model) weekly, Williams College

Special Projects

• Photographic, sketch and journal records of the cancer diagnosis and treatment process—collecting photos of the caregivers throughout

*Note:   In February 2007 I was diagnosed with breast cancer and underwent chemotherapy and radiation treatment.  By April I was not able to work with my oil paints, but instead made dream journals, collage and mixed media works.

2006

Solo Exhibitions

• Painters, Poets and other Merry Pranksters, South Street Café, Bennington, Vermont
• People, Max’s , Brattleboro, VT
• La gente en el café latino and Salamanders 16 mont solo exhibit of two series on mass moca campus
• NINE, Kevin’s, North Bennington, Vermont
• Local Landscapes,  Kevin’s, North Bennington, Vermont
• Various collections of recent works, Brewhaha, North Adams, Massachusetts (over 2+ years)

Selected Group Exhibitions

• Integrative therapies
• June Arts Festival
• Bennington Arts Guild
• Artists in the Garden at Hildene, Manchester, VT

Press

• Portraits of a Community, Advocate, 2 Nov 2006
• Finding the Magnetic North in Paint by Joshua Rupp, Bennington Banner, 4-5  Nov 2006
• Hot Sauce (article featuring Café Latino with photos of my exhibit), Berkshire Living, p. 16, Mar-Apr 2006

Public Speaking/Teaching

• Willy and Guest, WBTN, Bennington, VT

Education

• Life drawing and painting class at the Vermont Arts Exchange with Reza Pike
• First experiments in making monotypes while quick sketching nudes at life-drawing (Steve Levin’s instruction)
• Began to carry small watercolors and moleskin everywhere for sketching (at suggestion of Sarah Pike).  I had never been comfortable with a pen or pencil at that point, but sketching with a brush became my constant activity!
• Imperial Academy of Art (Artists’ feedback group which met on Imperial Avenue)
• Good friend Joyce Kennedy comes onto my scene and I learn about the frame as the final stroke on the painting.  She is the only person I trust to frame my work from this point on.

*Note:  Severe reactions to turps, as well as to charcoal and pastel dust, caused me to cease working in those media.  Asthma becomes an increasing concern and I choose art materials more and more accordingly.

2005

Awards/Residencies/Invitational

• Studio Tour, Bennington, Vermont

Solo Exhibitions

• La gente en el café latino and Salamanders, Café Latino (on the Mass Moca Campus), North Adams, Massachusetts, (16 month solo exhibit of two collections in succession)
• Various collections of recent works, Brewhaha, North Adams, Massachusetts (over 2+ years)
• Los dias de los muertos, Burgdorf Gallery, Southern Vermont College
• Los dias de los muertos Café Latino
• La gente at the south st café, Bennington, Vermont
• Portrait Exhibit, Latchis’ Theatre, Brattleboro, Vermont

Selected Group Exhibitions

• Integrative Therapies, Southern Vermont Medical Center, Bennington, Vermont
• Here’s looking at you portrait exhibit, Gallery 51, North Adams, Massachusetts
• Imperial Academy of Art , South Street Café, Bennington, Vermont
• Old First Church Art Show, Bennington, Vermont
• June Arts Festival, Bennington, Vermont
• 76^th annual members exhibtrion, Southern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester, Vermont
• Artists in the Garden at Hildene, Manchester, VT
• Bennington Arts Guild, Bennington, Vermont

Press

• Los Dias de los muertos exhibition by local artist, Manchester Journal
• Novice artist looks to students for Inspiration, North Adams Transcript
• A Surprise Encounter by Telly’s Halkais, Bennington Banner 19-20 Nov 2005
• Making Her Bones by Hinda Mandell, Bennington Banner, 10 Nov 2005
• Admirer Views Artist, Paintings by Rebekah Garder, Bennington Banner 9-10 July 2005
• For Moriarty, Color is a Native Language by Lani Stack, Advocate, 10 Nov 2005

Public Speaking/Teaching /On-air

• Live Still Life Oil Painting Demonstration, June Arts Festival, Pea Pod, Main Street, Bennington, VT 3 Jun
• Willy and Guest, WBTN, Bennington

Education

• First bather painting (Robin Andrew, model)
• Imperial Academy of Art (Artists’ Feedback group)
• Consultations with artist, Nick Garder regarding paint, medium, and perspective
• Life drawing (nude  model), Williams College, weekly

Special Projects

• Mgillat Esther —Grogger project for Congregation Beth El, Bennington, VT
• Recent works (Annual Exhibit), South Street Café, Bennington, Vermont (Poetry also exhibited, first time)
• Portrait of Rita Sargoy, Hampton Bays, NY
• VAE Moose for Moosefest (group painting), North Bennington, VT

2004

Awards/Publication

• MaryJane’s Cabin, chosen for the cover of the local Staples’ Christmas Card

Solo Exhibitions

• Selected Works of Viola Moriarty (pastels and oils), Mynt Lounge, LODO, 1424 Market St, Denver, Colorado, June 2004
• Selected Works, Juice and Java, Lee, Massachusetts

Selected Group Exhibitions

• Artists in the Garden at Hildene, Manchester, VT
• June Arts Festival, Bennington, Vermont

Press

• Second Year of Funky Friday Features Local Artists and New Art Show at South Street –2 articles, Bennington Banner, 8 July 2004
• Local artist uses painting as Service, Bennington Banner,  12 July 2004

Public Speaking/Teaching /Demonstrations/On-air

• Pre-taught lessons on Nicaraguan mural painting and traveled with Mt. Anthony High School Interact club to sister city, Somotillo, Nicaragua, where we painted three full-wall murals together on the Social Comission office, and a wall in each of two elementary schools.
• June Arts Festival- Painted live model on Main Street with fellow drawing group members from the Tuesday group
• Willy and Guest, WBTN, Bennington

Education /Work Experience

• Worked in the studio of MaryJane SarvisPainting silk and velvet, fabric preparation and dye, sewing preparation.
• Worked with artist Brian Sweetland in plein air, the later painted him in my studio—letter exchange between us gave me my first lessons in art history, and a new way of looking at my own work.
• Life drawing (nude model), minimum of twice weekly, at the Vermont Arts Exchange and at the Tuesday group (studio of Ken Barry and/or Judy Kniffin)
• Consultations with artists Paul and Anima Katz, reinforcing direction of continuing to self-organize my art education

Special Projects

• North Berkshire Creative Arts, Board of Directors
• Painted Social Commission member portraits, Somotillo, Nicaragua
• One year on Berle Farm painting the barns en plein air
• Several new poems crafted, including Nigredo

2003

Awards/Residencies/Invitational/Competitions

• Vermont Artists’ Week, Vermont Studio Center,  Johnson, Vermont. (juried acceptance) April 28-May5 2003

Solo Exhibitions

• First Year, South Street Café,  Bennington, Vermont.
• Israel:  Oil paintings of People and Place , Window Works Project sponsored by the Vermont Arts Exchange (juried), Bennington, VT

Selected Group Exhibitions

• Artists in the Garden @ Hildene, Manchester, VT

Press/Interviews

• Storefront Exhibits Art, Bennington Banner, April 10, 2003
• Willy and Guest (First appearance), WBTN, Bennington, 23 Sept

Education/Work Experience

• Still life painting class with Stella Ehrich at the Vermont  Arts  Exchange
• Worked in the studio of designer MaryJane Sarvis for 1+ year painting silk and velvet, along with fabric preparation and dye/sewing preparation.
• Began to accept portrait commissions on a very limited basis
• First experiments with pastels

Special Projects

• First winter plein air paintings at Berle Farm, New York

2002

Selected Group Exhibition

• At the Train Station, North Bennington, Vermont

Education

• First painting, 2 June 2002: In plein air behind Powers Market at the suggestion of, and in the company of, my good friend and first art instructor/mentor, Stella Ehrich, and good friend and fellow artist, Sophia Warsh. That day changed my life forever. I changed the organization of my whole life, and continued to work in the studio with still life, live model, landscape in plein air and painted almost every day from that moment on. I continue to benefit from Stella Ehrich’s friendship as a fellow painter, and from consultations with her as a master painter on and off over the ensuing years. It is she who taught me how to gesso boards and gave me that first model for painting outdoors which has continued to inform all that I do. I am forever grateful.