Stacey Clarfield Newman

Artist and painter, Stacey Clarfield Newman has developed a unique method of recycling ephemera to create striking hand-painted papers.  She then uses them as painterly "brushstrokes of paper" to produce lyrical collages containing abstracted "mindscapes" and whimsical social commentary.  Influenced by music, her love affair with color, life's events and her deep reverence for nature, the artist states "the planet Earth is a small green island- an emerald gem to be cared for and appreciated.  We must protect and nurture all the living beings who inhabit it."  In keeping with that philosophy and her conviction that artists have a responsibility to open a dialog with the viewer about life issues, she was commissioned to create a collage mural for the Albert Einstein Medical Outpatient AIDS Wing in 1992 entitled The Powers of Healing.
Most recently, Ms. Clarfield Newman spent two months living and working in Kolkata, India at the Udayan School, a welfare and rehabilitation school for children of leprosy patients.  There she taught her techniques of “painting with paper” collage to 300 children ages 4 - 18, living with the students in the girls dormitory, crossing cultural and language barriers through art.  In February of 2010, she c...

FACULTY APPOINTMENTS:

1973-1974: Greens Farms Art Center, Student Teacher, Art Enrichment Program, Grades K-5, Westport, CT
1996-1999: Scarsdale Adult Continuing Education School,
Teacher, “The Art of Collage”
2002-2003: Young At Art, Inc., Scarsdale, NY, Teacher, multi media,
Private art enrichment program, Pre-school; K-5,

2010: Artist in Residence, Udayan School, Kolkata, India
Two month volunteer position teaching 300 students ages 4-18;
Curator, final art exhibit of student’s collages at Bengal Chamber of Commerce, February 10, 2010

2010-2011: Artist in Residence, Green Chimneys Children Services, Brewster, NY
Volunteer position teaching young women ages 8 - 18.

STACEY CLARFIELD NEWMAN

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2010: “Art of the Heart”, Palladian Lounge, Kolkata, India; mentor, curator
2008: “Naked on the Wall”, Viridian Artists@Chelsea, Inc., New York, NY
2004: “Renewal”, Viridian Artists@Chelsea, Inc., New York, NY
2002: Viridian Artists@Chelsea, Inc., New York, NY
2001: Piermont Fine Arts Gallery, NY
“Life’s Pages”, Viridian Artists, Inc., New York, NY
1999: Studio 4 West, Piermont, NY
J&W Gallery, New Hope, PA
1998: Piermont Fine Arts Gallery, Piermont, New York
93 South Art Gallery, Nyack, NY
1997: Piermont Fine Arts Gallery, Piermont, NY
Manhattan Transfer, Inc., 545 Fifth Ave., NY
1988-1991: The Greenburgh Nature Center Gallery, Greenburgh, NY
The Bronxville Library Gallery, Bronxville, NY
1986-1987: The Quogue Gallery, Quogue, NY
The Scarsdale National Bank, Scarsdale, NY
The Church Street Gallery, White Plains, NY
SELECTED JURIED EXHIBITIONS:
2015 “Renewal”, Viridian Artists, New York, NY
2014 Acumen Gallery, Standard Motor Products Building, Long Island City, NY
2013 “Endings and Beginnings”, Viridian Artists,Inc. New York, NY
2012 Miami Red Dot Art Show, Miami, Florida
“Yin/Yang” Viridian Artists, Inc., New York, NY
2011: “Holiday Pr...