Josepha Gutelius

An award-winning poet and playwright, Josepha Gutelius made a radical switch to visual art in 2015. Born 1952, raised in Greenwich Village and Waccabuc, NY. A graduate of the Masters School, where she studied under painter Robert Arner, who became a lifelong friend and mentor. Attended Bard College as an art major and switched to Comparative Literature, eventually concentrating on German literature at Ludwig Maximillian University in Munich. Her first collection of poems, To the Perfect Love which Prepares a Table Beyond Us, was published by Rat and Mole Press in 1975. In 1971, she met her future husband in Cadaques, Spain, in the home of Salvador Dali. Moved to West Berlin in 1975, where she worked as arts correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor and published her second collection of poems, Rapt Meat, with original collages by the author. Returning to NYC in the late 70s, she became production editor for the Norton Anthologies of literature and simultaneously began playwriting. Plays staged in NYC and regional theaters include Schlag’s Atomica World Machine, Vaseline, Veronica Cory, The Age of Anxiety, Miracle Mile. In 1980, she and her husband made a permanent move to Saugerties where she began publishing short stories --...

Art Students League, Bard College, Ludwig Maximillian University of Munich

SOLO:
2017 “Illuminations,” 38 paintings and drawings, curated by Douglas Elliot, Dutch Ale House, Saugerties, NY
2016 “School Days,” 12 paintings, curated by Paul McMahon with Linda Montano, Woodstock, NY
2015 “Eight Paintings”, NOBO [North of Brooklyn] Gallery, Hudson, NY

Selected Juried Group Shows:
2018
“Changing Spaces,” a traveling show, Tivoli Artists Gallery, Tivoli, NY and Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY
“Exit 20,” Emerge Gallery, Saugerties, NY
“Art & Words,” Emerge Gallery, Saugerties, NY
Kiersted House Museum, Saugerties, NY
Opus 40, Saugerties, NY

Juried Group Shows:
2017
Arts Society of Kingston, Annual Regional Juried Show, juror Carrie Haddad, Carrie Haddad Gallery
“Exit 20,” Emerge Gallery, selected by Robert Langdon, Saugerties, NY
“Inner Journeys,” Lev Shalem Gallery, Woodstock, NY
“Art and Words: Ekphrasis,” Emerge Gallery, Saugerties, NY
“Dialogue with Self” online art contest
Opus 40 Museum, Saugerties, NY
2016
Annual International Juried Exhibition, Center for Contemporary Art, Bedminster, NJ
“Truth Out: current controversies, historical injustices,” curated by Rosary Solimanto and Jean Tansey, Unframed Artists Gallery, New Paltz, NY
“Director’s Choice,” digital presenta...