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Treacy Ziegler
Artwork
B. 1956
Treacy Ziegler, an exhibiting artist who has shown her art in Canada and United States, works in the mediums of paintings, sculpture, and printmaking. She is the recipient of two Puffin Foundation awards for art in social justice, the Constance Saltonstall grant, Community Art Partnership grants, New Hampshire Percent Grant for the Arts and other awards. Ziegler has had several solo museum exhibitions including the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Cornell University, Ithaca; Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY; Morris Graves Museum of Art, Eureka, California; Massillon Museum, Massillon, Ohio.
Most recently, Ziegler had a year-long solo exhibition of bronze and paper cast animal sculptures at the Erie Art Museum, Erie PA (September 2020 through August, 2021). This exhibition, expanding several galleries within the museum and two floors, presented a 12-foot paper cast giraffe.
Ziegler is currently participating in the traveling exhibition first presented at the MoMA PS1 in New York City. This exhibition, “Marking Time, Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration,” will travel to numerous venues over the next three years. She is the volunteer art director for the Prisoner Express and has taught art in prisons for the past 10 years.
Ziegler received a Certificate of Fine Art from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Phila, PA. Prior to studying at PAFA, Ziegler received a MSW from University of Pennsylvania and a BS in mental health from Drexel University, PA.
www.treacyzieglerfineart.com
ARTIST STATEMENT:
I have been making art for the past 25 years. Trained at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, for 4 years, I initially worked in painting and printmaking. At the Academy, I developed monoprints incorporating lessons I learned through painting; thus allowing the prints to have the saturated color of painting.
For the past 20 years I have lived in upstate New York on 85 wooded acres surrounded by nature with my husband, son, two parrots, and two dogs. Animals are a large part of my life. In addition to a taxidermy collection in my own studio, I have spent hours drawing at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and various natural history museums. Drawing is crucial in the development of art – observing the world and developing a dialogue with it through art.
I am fortunate to have a studio large enough to work in the multi-medias of printmaking, painting, and sculpture; including two large presses and a bronze foundry. I began working in sculpture about three years ago. After drawing from life on a regular basis (and experiencing the roundness of living) my hand wanted to take a turn off the 2-dimensional world of painting into three dimensions of clay sculpture. I cast the clay into bronze myself, taking the process through every step of foundry – mold making, wax, ceramic shell, pouring the bronze, welding and patina.
Before art school, I received a Masters in Social Work from the University of Pennsylvania. Nine years ago I began exhibiting my art and volunteer teaching in maximum-security prisons. In addition to teaching in-prison, I volunteer as the program director for the Prisoner Express, a through-the-mail distant learning program for prisoners. In this voluntary capacity, I develop art curriculums for 4000 prisoners across the United States representing every state and about 700 prisons.
SOLO INSTALLATION:
2014 Installation: “Without The Wall.” Philadelphia City Hall, Philadelphia, PA
Installation: “Art, Alibi, And Anonymous We.” Rosenfeld Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2012 “From Confinement/The Waiting” Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2016 Morris Graves Museum, Eureka, CA.
2015 Chase Young Gallery, Boston, MA.
2014 New Work, March Rosen field Gallery, Philadelphia, PA.
2013 Odon Wagner Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Chase Young Gallery, Boston, MA.
Rosenfeld Gallery, Philadelphia, PA.
Chase Young Gallery, Boston, MA.
Rosenfeld Gallery, Philadelphia, PA.
2010 Chase Gallery, Boston, MA.
Gallery 71, New York, NY.
2009 F.A.N. Gallery, Philadelphia, PA.
2008 Principle Gallery, Alexandria, VA.
Chase Gallery, Boston, MA.
2007 Odon Wagner Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
2006 Principle Gallery, Alexandria, VA.
F.A.N. Gallery, Philadelphia PA.
2005 Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
2004 Odon Wagner Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
2003 Principle Gallery, Alexandria, VA.
F.A.N. Gallery, Philadelphia, PA.
2002 Odon Wagner Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Chase Gallery, Boston, MA.
Principle Gallery, Alexandria, VA.
2001 F.A.N. Gallery, Philadelphia, PA.
2000 Chase Gallery, Boston, MA.
1999 F.A.N. Gallery, Philadelphia, PA.
Odon Wagner Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Chase Gallery, Boston, MA.
1997 Ibel-Simeonov Gallery, Columbus, Ohio.
F.A.N. Gallery, Philadelphia, PA.
1996 Odon Wagner Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, CA.
1995 George Waters Gallery, Elmira College, Elmira, NY.
F.A.N. Gallery, Philadelphia, PA.
1994 Odon Wagner Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
1993 F.A.N. Gallery, Philadelphia, PA.
1992 F.A.N. Gallery, Philadelphia, PA.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2019 Color Play, Newbury Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Spring Into Color, Newbury Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2018 Contemporary Storytelling, Newbury Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2017 The 106TH Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art: “Carceral States,” Maier Museum of Art,
Lynchbrook, VA
2014
Art in Embassy, American Embassy, Kuwait.
2013 West End Gallery, Corning, NY.
2011 Harriott Collection, Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Ithaca, NY.
Principle Gallery, Alexandria, VA.
2009 Chase Gallery, 4 Person Show, Boston, MA.
2001 World Bank, Washington, D.C.
West End Gallery, Corning, NY.
2000 Saltonstall Recipients, State of the Art Gallery, Ithaca, NY.
1999 West End Gallery, Corning, NY
1995 Re-presenting Representation, Invitational Show, Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY.
Entropic Zones: Buildings and Structures of the Contemporary City, Rider University Gallery, and Lawrenceville, NJ.
Art Miami, Miami, FL.
1994 The Union League Club, Chicago, IL.
1993 West End Gallery, Corning, NY.
Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY.
1991 Myriad Fine Art, Atlanta, GA.
Mitchner Art Museum, Doylestown, PA.
1990 City of Camden, Camden, England.
MUSEUM AND SELECTED COLLECTIONS:
Maier Museum of Art, Lynchbrook, VA
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY
Rider College, Trenton, New Jersey
College Board, New York, New York
Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY
GRANTS/AWARDS:
2016 SOS, Grants for the Arts, Tompkins County, NY
2013 Puffin Foundation, Ltd. Grant
2011 Puffin Foundation. Ltd. Grant
2008 Tompkins Community Art Partnership Painting Grant
2001 Tompkins Community Art Partnership Printmaking Grant
1999 Saltonstall Grant
1989 Henry Scheidt European Travel Grant
1988 City of Camden Printmaking Award
Daniel Garber Drawing Award
Morris Blackbum Printmaking Award
Pratt Memorial Graphic Award
Philadelphia Drawing Award
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Rachel Heidenry, “Review of Without the Wall, for the Artblog”
Odon Wagner Gallery, Catalogue, Points of Compass; Treacy Ziegler.
Melissa Tuckney. “Tenuous Chapel.” Collection of Poems, Cover. ABZ Press. 2013.
American Art Collector, September 2010.
Robin Rice, “Life as a House”, Citypaper, November 18, 2009
Andrew Mangravite, “A Psychic Drama About to Unfold,” Broad Street Review, November 14, 2009
Chase Gallery Catalogue, Treacy Ziegler: Migration
Odon Wagner Gallery catalogue, 2007; “Treacy Ziegler, An Open Window.”
Deborah Cummins. “Counting The Waves.” Collection of Poems, Cover. Word Press. 2006
Andrew Mangravite. “Treacy Ziegler: Film Noir in Living Color.” Broad Street Review. February 2006
Odon Wagner Gallery, catalogue 2004, Treacy Ziegler; Shadow Play.”
The Georgia Review “Fables of Lights.” Featured Artist.
Winter 2003, Vol. LVII. No. 4.
EPOCH Magazine. V52. NO. 1
R.B. Strauss, “The New Reality of Treacy Ziegler’s Realm.” Art Matter, May 2003
EPOCH Magazine, V.51, NO. 2, Series Cover 2003
Cate McQuad, “Shades of Loneliness,” review, The Boston Globe, December 21 2002
EPOCH Magazine, V.51, NO. 2, Series Cover 2002
Odon Wagner Gallery, Catalogue, 2002, “Treacy Ziegler: Out of Darkness”
Gettysburg Review, 14, Images, Featured Artist. Winter 2001
EPOCH Magazine, V.50, Number 3, Series Cover 2001
Edward J. Sozanski, “Light & Enlightenment,” review, The Philadelphia Inquirer, January 2002
Jane Holtz Kay. “Urban Landscape, The Geography of Inequity.” Designer/Builder. Journal of the Human Environment. March 2001
Cate McQuad, “Shades of Loneliness,” review, The Boston Globe, December 21 2002
Gerald Brown, “Ziegler is Haunted by Absences,” review, The Boston Globe, January 21, 1999
Andrew Mangravite, “Haunted Houses,” Philadelphia Forum, May 15, 1997
Odon Wagner Gallery, Catalogue, 1996, “Treacy Ziegler”
Edward J. Sozanski, “Gallery Review,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, March 1995
PRESENTATIONS AND PAPERS:
Teaching Art in Prison: Artist’s Talk, Morris Graves Museum, Eureka, CA, July 2016
Haunted by Presence: Artist’s Talk in Conjunction with Premier Video, Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY, April 2016
Crossing the Border: Essay for Rejoinder Journal. Rutgers University, Institute of Research for Women.
Light and Shadow In A Prison Cell: Paper Presented at “Marking Time.” Conference, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, October 2014
Disembodiment: Living in Solitary Confinement, View Through Art. Paper Presented. Interdisciplinary Coalition of North American Phenomenologist, Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ, May 2013
“Art and Social Activism”: talk, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, March 2013
“Rethinking Art in Prison,” Conference on “Rethinking Prisons”, Paper Presented at Vanderbilt University, May 2013
“Phenomenology of Art and Landscapes in Prison,” paper for Interdisciplinary Coalition of North American Phenomenology
“Bob Ross in Prison,” talk presented to Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA, 2011
“Equal Access to Art”: Talk Presented to Tompkins County Bar Association, Ithaca, NY 2011
“Landscapes of Confinement”: Talk Presented to Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Ithaca, NY 2011
“Phenomenology and Function in Art Education” Paper Presented at Hawaii International Conference of Education, Honolulu, HI 2012
“Memory and Space in a Landscape Confinement” Paper Presented at Association of Literature, Environment, and Culture, of Canada Conference, Okanagan, British Columbia, 2012
Primer of Drawing For The Confined, in Conjunction with Cornell University, Durlands Alternatives Library
Monthly Essay on Art in Philadelphia online Art Journal, Broad Street Review
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
Visiting Artist: Rinehart School of Sculpture, Maryland Institute College of Art, December 2014
PRISON ART VOLUNTEER TEACHER:
2014: Workshop in Drawing, Grafton Correctional Institute, Minimum Security Prison for Men, Grafton, Ohio
2011-2014: Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center, Super-Maximum Security Prison for Men, Shirley, MA
2011-2015: Norfolk Correctional Center, Medium Security Prison for Men, Norfolk, MA
2010-2011: Five Points Correctional Facility, Maximum Security for Men, Romulus, NY
2010-2012: Trumbull Camp, Minimum Security Prison for Women, Leavittsburg, Ohio
2009 - Present: Trumbull Correctional Institute, Closed Security prison for men. Leavittsburg, Ohio
EDUCATION:
1985-1989: Penna. Academy of Fine Arts, 4-year Program in Painting and Printmaking
1977-1980: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, and M.S.W.
1974-1976: Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, and B.S.
AFFILIATION:
Center For Transformative Action, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
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