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Florence Putterman



Statement
Putterman, who was awarded a National Endowment Grant in 1979, has been featured in many solo and group exhibitions in the United States and Europe. Her works have received numerous awards and accolades including the Distinguished Alumni Award from Pennsylvania State University. Her painting and prints can be seen in many museum and corporate collections including: Metropolitan Museum of Art and Brooklyn Museum, New York; Chicago Art Institute, Chicago; and Jacksonville Museum, Polk Museum, and Gulf Coast Museum in Florida. Putterman is listed in Who's Who in American Art, Who's Who in American Women, and Who's Who in America.

"My paintings and works on paper have long explored how to develop a modern visual equivalent to the deeply felt interrelationship of earth and cosmos sacred to primitive cultures. I work with thick broad shapes and strong vivid colors and sensuous surfaces to create dense symbol-filled pictures. They do not always depict a certain event, but suggest. They don't speak directly but presuppose in the mind knowledge of an event or fact. In the process of working these symbols together, sometimes narratives emerge, but are not planned at the outset."

"I examine the world through my painting and my work usually springs from an actual experience visually recalled and made permanent. They can also be a sort of reverie bringing back many recurring memories from earlier works involving the non-verbal communicative symbols of early man studied during my National Endowment grant in 1979, mingled with childhood visions and dreams. My themes and images are concerned with man, his environment and his interrelationships with all living creatures."

"My canvases are painted on a textured surface of crushed shells and sand. These are prepared with coats of gesso and then the sand is applied and allowed to harden. This surface is then encased with several more coats of gesso and an acrylic medium. This is set aside to dry for a few weeks and then the canvases are ready to receive paint."

Themes of good and evil, comedy and tragedy, philosophical and global concerns on the fate of the earth and the species that inhabit it, are all evident in these works.

Profile

Education
Penn State University, State College, PA. Master of Fine Arts degree. 1973.
Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA., Graduate Studies. 1963-70.
New York University, New York, NY. Bachelor of Science degree. 1947.

Solo Exhibitions
2000
Spartanburg County Museum, Spartanburg, SC.
Saginaw Art Museum, Saginaw, MI. 
1999
Ellen Noel Museum, Odessa, TX.
Walter Wickier Gallery, New York, NY.
Galerie Lumiere, Savannah, GA.
1998
The Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA.
Lighthouse Gallery, Tequesta, FL.
Burroughs-Chapin Museum, Myrtle Beach, SC.
Ziegenfuss Gallery, Sarasota, FL.
1997
Walter Wickier Gallery, New York, NY.
Grand Central Gallery, Tampa, Fl.
1996
The Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA.
Hodges-Taylor Gallery, Charlotte, NC.
Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York, NY.
Donn Roll Gallery, Sarasota, FL.
Capitol Building, Tallahassee, FL.
1995
Grand Central Gallery, Tampa, FL.
 
Selected Group Exhibitions
2000
Ann Norton Sculpture Garden Palm Beach, FL.
Florida Printmakers, Miami, FL.
Black & White, Sande Webster Gallery, Philadelphia, PA.
Sarasota Biennial Ringling Museum, Sarasota, FL.
Southern Graphics Traveling Exhibition
Recent Acquisitions, Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, GA.
1999
Works on Paper, Valdosta State University, Valdosta, GA.
Sarasota Visual Arts Center Invitational, Sarasota, FL.
Printmaking Council of New Jersey Silver Anniversary, Newark Museum, NJ. Artists Equity Exhibition, Berman Museum, PA.
1998
Del Mar College Drawing Annual, Corpus Christie, TX.
26th Biennial, Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA.
Surface & Diversity, Housatonic Museum of Art, CT.
Stockton National Exhibition, Haggin Museum, Stockton, CA.
University of Texas, “Across the Grain,” Tyler, TX.
Florida Artists Annual, Jacksonville Museum, FL.
Florida Printmakers-Lemoyne Foundation, Tallahassee, FL.
Florida Printmaking Society, Lee County Art Center, Ft. Meyers, FL.
1997
Del Mar College, Corpus Chirstie, TX.
From Acconci to Wucick, Albany Museum, Albany, GA.
From Acconci to Wucick, Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, GA.
1996
10th Biennial Print Show, Moravian College, PA.
La Grange National Biennial, La Grange, GA.
East West Exchange, 479 Gallery, New York, NY.
Haggin Museum,Stockton, CA.
Monoprint, Monotype University Museum, Indiana,PA.
Maryland Federation of Art, Annapolis, MD.
U.S. Embassies, Sri Lanka & Benin.
Kala Institute, Berkley, CA.
Olive Hyde Art Gallery, Fremont, CA.
Urban USA Portfolio. Old Print Club, NY.
Urban USA Portfolio, Baker College, Chicago, IL

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