Paintings and Drawings by Michelle Soslau

Michelle Soslau's career as a visual artist and art education included an extensive exhibition record and faculty positions with museum, college and community programs. To date, Ms Soslau has had ten solo exhibitions in the Philadelphia/Central New Jersey area including the Ellarslie Museum, Trenton, NJ, the Cerulean Gallery in Philadelphia and the highly respected Artist House, a Philadelphia gallery known for featuring graduates of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (PAFA) from where Ms Soslau holds an M.F.A. Her work has been included in over twenty juried exhibitions and reviewed in the Philadelphia Inquirer, Princeton Weekly Newspaper, and Packet on Line, also out of Princeton. Aside from her inclusion of her work in private collections along the East coast of the United States, Soslau's work is also included in the corporate collections of the Bell Atlantic Telephone Company and the Safeguard Corporation in Wayne Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Print Collection. Ms Soslau served on the faculty of the Guggenheim Museum's Learning Through Art Program, Women's Studio Workshop in New York, La Salle University, Holy Family College and the Philadelphia Cultural Program. In addition to earning her M.F.A. from PAFA, Michelle studied for several years at the Barnes Foundation courtesy of the Violet de Mazia Trust, and earned a B.F.A from Arcadia University and an M.S. in Education at the NY State University at Brockport.

Solo Exhibitions
2017   Cerulean Gallery , Philadelphia PA September
2014   Cerulean Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Fall
2011   Cerulean Gallery, Philadelphia PA May
2008 Cerulean Gallery, Philadelphia PA July - August
2006   Pagus Gallery, Norristown, PA
2004   Pagus Gallery, Norristown, PA New Works on Paper
2000   Artist’s House,  Phila. PA
2000   Multiple Choice Gallery, Montgomery County Community College, PA
1999   Ellarslie Museum, Trenton Artists Workshop, Trenton, NJ
1993   Skippack Gallery of Contemporary Art, Skippack, PA

Selected Juried Exhibitions
2023, Powell Lane Arts, Collingswood, New Jersey , The Marvelous and Unusual Exhibition
2022 Powell Lane Arts, Collingswood, New Jersey Small Works Show
2022 Powell Lane Arts, Collingswood, New Jersey Annual Juried Exhibition
2022 Powell Lane Arts , Collingwood New Jersey, Paper Show
2022 Powell Lane Arts, Collingswood New Jersey,
2022 Plastic Club, Philadelphia PA. Small Works
2022 Plastic Cub, Philadelphia PA
2021 Gross Mc Cleaf  Gallery, Philadelphia, Pa. Fellowship of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
2021 art629 Gallery, Asbury  Park, New Jersey Small Works Show
2021 The Davis Art Center, Ft Myers, Florida Partners in Painting
2020    Abington Art Center Juried Show, Abington, PA
2019    McLean Project for Arts, "Strictly Painting", McLean VA
2019    FAME, Fellowship of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Annual Juried Alumni Show, Hot Bed Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2018    Pushing 40, Trenton Art Museum, Trenton, NJ
2017    Ocean County Artists, Toms River, NJ
2015    Bucks County Community College 50 Anniversary Alumni Invitational
2013    Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Alumni "12x12" Exhibition
2009    Artists House, Philadelphia, PA
2009    Gallery 125, Trenton New Jersey
2008    Trenton City Museum, Trenton New Jersry April -June
2008    Gallery 125, Trenton, New Jersey

2007 Alumni Artwoks Exhibition, Trenton New Jersey

2007 Dangerous Women Two, Mercer County Community College, New Jersey

2007 Trenton City Museum, Trenton, New Jersey

2007 Artworks, Trenton New Jersery

2006   Gallery 125, Trenton New Jersey
2006   Gallery 125, Trenton New Jersey
2005   Gallery 125, Trenton, New Jersey
2005 Trenton City Museum, The Best of Mercer County
2005   Gallery 125, Trenton, New Jersey

2004 Mercer County Community College, Portrait Exhibition, NewJersey

2004 Gallery 125 ,Trenton, New Jersey

2003 "Break the Blackout", Kensington Rights Welfare Union, The Rotunda, University of Pennsylvania

2002 New Jersey Center for the Visual Arts International Juried Exhibition, Summit, New Jersey

2001 Work on Paper, Perkins Center for the Arts, Morristown, New Jersey

2000 Boxes Inside Out-A View in Trenton, Collaboration at Artworks, Trenton, NJ

Education
Pennylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Master of Fine Arts in Painting
Drawing Workshops with Timothy Hawkesworth, Norristown Arts Building, Norristown, Pennsylvania
Barnes Foundation Seminars with Barton Church and Fredrick Osbourn (courtesy of the V. De Mazia Trust)
Arcadia University (Formerly Beaver College), Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting, Bucks County Community College, Newtown, PA
New York State University at Brockport, Masters of Science in Education, and Bachelor of Science in Education

Experience
2005            Faculty, Mercer County Community College, Continuing Education
1999-2000 Faculty, Guggenheim Museum, Learning Through Art, Trenton Public Schools
1999            Faculty, Womens Studio, Summer Institute, Rosendale, New York
1998-2000 Faculty, Artworks, Trenton NJ, Design by Collage, Drawing and Painting, Advanced Painting, Master Critique and Issues of Contemporary Painting
1987-1998 Faculty, Holy Family College, Drawing, Painting, Design, Art Education
1994-96    Faculty, La Salle University, Art History and Art Appreciation
1987-89    Faculty, Abington Art Center, Drawing and Painting
1989-90      Lecturer, Northeast Philadelphia Cultural Council on the Arts
1989            Lecturer, Abington Art Center Symposia, Painting as Process

Collections
Safeguard Corporation, Wayne, Pennsylvania
Bell Atlantic Telephone Company, Philadelphia, PA
Dr.Mrs J. Friedlander, Bryn Mawr, PA
Mrs.Patricia Dunne, Philadelphia PA
Mrs. T. Cristofaro, Boston Massachusetts
Private Collections in Connecticut, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art Print Collection

Selected Articles
Philadelphia Inquirer-May 16, 2004
Princeton Weekly Newspaper, Town Topics, June 25, 2003
Packet On Line, Princeton, N.J. Janury 21, 2000

Michelle Soslau

Figurative and Surreal