Discipline: Visual Art

Gloria Greenberg

Discipline: Visual Art
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1965, 1973

Gloria Greenberg studied art at the Cooper Union Art School, Yale University, privately with Nicholas Marsicano, and the Brooklyn Museum Art School. She summered for a number of years as a member of the Woodstock Art Colony and was a recipient of a MacDowell fellowship.In 1953. She married Martin Bressler and for a number of years signed her works Gloria Bressler. She exhibited widely in such venues as: The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Society Beaux Arts Dordogne, France, Seven one woman shows at the Mercer Gallery in the Soho district of New York, Women’s International Art Center, New York, Weatherspoon Gallery, New York, Grey Art Gallery, New York, Women in the Arts –Traveling Show, What is Feminist Art, Los Angeles, Women invite Women, Minneapolis Museum of Art, Medal of Honor, Society Beaux Arts Dordogne, France, Museum of Modern Art. Her work is in numerous private and public collections. In 1972 Greenberg was commissioned to paint four panels (murals) for Kennedy Airport, New York City.

Studios

Firth

Gloria Greenberg worked in the Firth studio.

Originally a working barn perched atop the namesake hill of Hillcrest Farm, this building was converted to serve the arts in 1956. A grand set of windows was installed to make the large interior suitable for visual artists, bringing in abundant natural light from the north. The addition of a screened porch and accessible entrance ramp…

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