Platinum Sea (Marconi No.2) Painting

Edie Nadelhaft, b. Pittsburgh, PA, is a New York City-based artist and avid motorcyclist whose realist oil paintings and playful glass and mixed media sculptures explore the impact of digital culture on human experience, as well as the exhilaration and quiet drama of existing in a finite physical state. Her works have been exhibited at museums, art fairs and galleries throughout North America, and internationally in Taiwan, Shanghai and Basel, Switzerland. Recent exhibitions include Eat The Heat, FROSCH & CO, (NYC, 2025), Lucky, FROSCH & CO, (NYC, 2025), The Every Woman Biennial, La MaMa Gallery (NYC, 2024) Peaks, FROSCH & CO, (NYC, 2023), Love Junk at SPRING/BREAK (NYC, 2022), We Ain't Goin' Nowhere (solo, Kasper Contemporary, NY, 2022),Give Me Some Skin (group, Sugarlift Gallery, NYC, 2021), Evening in America (solo, Lyons Wier Gallery, NYC, 2020), One For The Road (2 person, Frosch & Portmann, NYC, 2018), and Surface Tension (solo, William Scott Gallery, Provincetown, MA, 2016), The Contemporary Realism Biennial (Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN, 2014), and Face to Face, Wall to Wall, a survey of trends in contemporary portraiture (Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, MT, 2014). Ms. Nadelhaft’s work is in the permanent collection of The Ford Foundation (New York, NY), The University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, (Albuquerque, NM) and Falconworks Theatre for Social Change, (Red Hook, NY). Her work has been published in The American Scholar (June 2017), Domino Magazine (Fall 2015), Juxtapoz (June 2014), Hi-Fructose (May 2014), The New York Times (July 2009), The Washington Post (October 2012) and Wall Street International (August 2014) among others. Awards & residencies include The Edward F. Albee Foundation Fellowship (summer 2024), The Artist in Residence at The Visible Vault, Yellowstone Art Museum, (Billings, MT, 2015), Platte Clove Artist-In-Residency, Catskill Center for Conservation and Development, (Platte Clove, NY, 2008), Fine Arts Painting Department Merit Award, Massachusetts College of Art, (Boston, MA, 1995) and the Combined Jewish Philanthropies Academic Scholarship, (Boston, MA, 1994). Born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA, Ms Nadelhaft studied painting and art history at SUNY Purchase and The School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and received her BFA with honors (painting, 1995) from The Massachusetts College of Art & Design.