Discipline: Visual Art – painting

Paula Stark

Discipline: Visual Art – painting
MacDowell Fellowships: 1994

Paula Stark has had solo exhibitions of landscape paintings throughout the United States. She has been favorably reviewed in the New York Times, ARTNews, and the Artist’s Magazine. She has received support from the Helena Rubenstein Foundation and from M. Grumbacher, Inc. Since 1989, she has had five solo shows at the Prince Street Gallery in SoHo, New York. She has also had on person exhibitions of her work in Asheville, NC, Williamsburg, VA, on Martha’s Vineyard, at Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH, in Greenwich, CT, and in Charlottesville, VA.

She has studied with the Leland Bell, Paul Resika, John Heliker, and Sigmund Abeles. Her work is included in numerous public and private collections including the Asheville Museum of Art, Western North Carolina University, State Museum of Pennsylvania, the Neuberger Collection in New York, and the William and Utendale Scott Memorial Study Collection at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania.

She received a M.F.A. from Parsons School of Design and a B.F.A. from the University of New Hampshire. She is currently represented by the following galleries: Etherington Fine Art, Vineyard Haven (Martha’s Vineyard), MA, Artspace 129, Montclair, NJ and Soprafina Gallery Boston, MA and Wynn Bone Gallery Annapolis, MD.

Studios

Cheney

Paula Stark worked in the Cheney studio.

Cheney Studio was given to MacDowell by Mrs. Benjamin P. Cheney and Mrs. Karl Kauffman. Like Barnard Studio, Cheney is a low, broadly massed bungalow. Sited on a steep westward slope, its porches are supported on wooden posts and fieldstone with lattices. Although it still retains its appealing character, the original design of the shingled building…

Learn more