Eileen Dawn Skretch
Oil on Wood
Born: Southampton, NY
Education: Montserrat School of Visual Art. And following artists:Terry Elkins, Marjorie Cagiano, Lucille Berrill Paulsen, Dinah Maxwell Smith
Solo Shows: "East End Escapes" West Hampton Beach Performing Arts Center, WHB, NY, 2019
"Beach Light" Southampton Historical Museum Sayre Barn, Southampton NY 2016
"East End Landscapes" Lieb Cellars Tasting Rooms, East Hampton & Cutchogue, 2012-2015
“Southampton Landscapes”, Southampton Historical Museum, Southampton, NY 2012
“East End Landscapes”, The South Street Gallery, Greenport, NY 2010
“Visual Escapes: Long Island Landscapes”, Harbor Light Images, Huntington, NY 2009
“Thin Places, Serene East End Landscapes”, The South Street Gallery, Greenport, NY 2007
Selected Group Shows: "Viewed From an Artist's Perspective" The south Street Gallery, Greenport, NY 2017
"Hamptons Plein Air Invitational" Ashawagh Hall, East Hampton, NY 2017
"East End Collected3, Southampton Arts Center, Southampton, NY 2017
"Plein Air Peconic X", Ashawagh Hall 2015
"People, Places, Things", Ashawagh Hall, East Hampton 2014
“Light By The Water”, Sag Harbor Whaling Museum, Sag Harbor , NY 2012
“Four Views-Landscape” Mills Pond House Gallery, St James, NY 2012
“CLWAC Members Show”, The Salmagundi Art Club, New York, NY 2012
“Plein Air Peconic, VI”, Ashawagh Hall, East Hampton, NY 2011
“Our Farming Heritage”, Bridgehampton Historical Society, Corwith House, Bridgehampton NY 2011
“Open Spaces III, Beaches, Bays & Back Roads”, Ashawagh Hall, East Hampton,NY 2011
“Big Views/Small Paintings”, Ashawagh Hall, East Hampton, NY 2010
“Gems of the Hamptons”, Tiffany East Hampton, 2010
“Saving Our Landscape Heritage” PAP, Southampton Historical Museum, NY 2010
“Plein Air Peconic III, IV, Grenning Gallery, Sag Harbor, NY 2008,09
“Winterscapes of the Hamptons”, Quogue Library Gallery, Quogue, NY 2009
“Light of the South Fork”, Ashawagh Hall, East Hampton, NY 2008
“Open Spaces II”, Ashawagh Hall, East Hampton, NY 2008
“Plein Air Peconic II”, Wallace Gallery, East Hampton, NY 2007
“3 Artists/3 Perspectives”, Ashawagh Hall, East Hampton, NY 2007
“Landscapes of the East End”, Ashawagh Hall, East Hampton, NY 2005, 2006, 2007,2008
“Of Scenes & Structures”, Levitas Center for Art, Southampton, NY 2007
“Visual Escapes/South Fork Landscapes”, Water Mill Museum Gallery, Water Mill, NY 2007
“In The Beginning”, South Street Gallery, Greenport, NY 2007
“The Big One”, Silas Marder Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY 2007
“The Artists Within”, The Ross School Parent-Faculty Show,East Hampton, NY, 2000
Juried Shows: “X Marks the Spot, Discovering LI’s Treasured Places”, STACARTS,St James, 2010
110&111,112,113 Annual Exhibitions, CLWAC, New York. 2006, 07, 08, 09
“By The Shore”, EEAC, Riverhead, NY, 2006
“Member & Associate Juried Exhibition”, CLWAC, Water Mill, 2006
“Preserving The Land”, EEAC, Riverhead, NY 2005 “Savor Long Island”, EEAC, Riverhead, NY 2004
“Earth Prayers”, St. Catherine’s Gallery, Siena Spirituality Center, Water Mill, NY 2004
“Canvassing Riverhead”, Paint-out, EEAC, 2004, Calendar Selection
“Annual Juried Show”, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY, 1980
Awards: HM, “Wainscott Pond, Sunrise”, STACARTS, St James, NY 2010
Charlotte Dunwiddie Memorial Award, “Hedges Lane Potato Field”, CLWAC 111th Annual Open Exhibition, New York, NY 2007
1st Place, “Napeague Dunes”, SAA, Memorial Day Show, Southampton, NY 2003
3rd Place, “Wainscott Pond”, EEAC, Preserving The Land”, Riverhead, NY 2005
HM, “Town Lane Field”, EEAC, Preserving The Land, Riverhead, NY 2005
Affiliations: Artist Alliance of East Hampton, Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, East End Arts Council Guild Hall, Southampton Artists
Association, Water Mill Museum, Plein Air Peconic original member
Publications: Dan's Paper, May 31,2019, Cover Art(Overlooking Creek), Interview by Lee Mayer
Dan's Paper, June 16, 2017, Cover Art(Smiling Boat), Interview by Brian Cudzilo
The New York Times, Metropolitan, July 1, 2012, Painting and Conservation, by Karin Lipson, on site photos & interview.
The Hamptonian, premier issue, May21-June 3, 2009, cover & article, Painting En Plein Air by Eileen Casey
Vox Hamptons, Spring 2008 ,Under an Open Sky by Tricia Rayburn, Plein Air Peconic Celebrates the East End’s Natural Inspiation
Dan’s Paper, May 11, 2007 cover art(Northwest Harbor), interview by Marion Wolberg Weiss
House,Design Architecture Lifestyle, Vol .25, No.4, July/August 2006, column by Natalie Weinstein, Preseving our Heritage-Peconic Land
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