Lynn Imperatore

Lynn Imperatore began to draw before she’d had time to register any self-conscious around it - aided by a lucky combination (or curse) of strong short-sightedness and visual disturbances brought by migraine. Drawing always presented itself as an essential undertaking for mapping experience.

Lynn studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts, graduated from New York University, and received her Masters of Fine Arts in Visual Art from Vermont College of Fine Arts. She has taught university, post-graduate and adult drawing classes for a number of years in the United States. She relocated to the UK two years ago and is currently pursuing a practice-led PhD. at UWE/Bristol. Her research is focusing on certain areas of interplay between drawing and the imagination. Lynn is the Chair of the Postgraduate Associates of the Advanced Centre in Drawing (ACiD) at UWE, and has a studio in BV Studios, Bedminster.

For more information: www.lynnimperatore.co.uk

EDUCATION
2009-present PhD student School of Creative Arts/UWE, Bristol
2009 City & Guilds 7303 Workers’ Educational Association (WEA), Bristol
Level 3 /FE Teaching
1999 MFA/Visual Art Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier, VT
1985 BA New York University, NY, NY
1983 Certification/Art Therapy New School for Social Research, NY, NY
1978-79 Printmaking &Drawing School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Boston, MA

TEACHING
2000-2008 Instructor/Fine Arts Dept., Community College of Vermont/Burlington (2-D Design, Drawing, Studio Art)
Lecturer/Graduate School of Education, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, VT (Drawing & Painting)
Instructor/Fine Arts Dept., Community College of Vermont/Montpelier (Drawing)
Instructor, Burlington City Arts/ Firehouse Center for the Arts, Burlington, VT (Drawing/Figure Drawing)
2000-2002 Lecturer/Fine Arts Dept., St. Michael’s College, Colchester, VT (Drawing & 2-D Design)
1996-1997 Instructor, Vermont State Craft Center/Frog Hollow, Burlington, VT (Painting)

RESIDENCIES/AWARDS
2008 Maryland Inst. College of Art/Artist Residency Program in Rochefort-en-Terre, France
2006 Venice Printmaking, Venice, Italy
2004 Maryland Inst. College of Art/Artist Residency Program in Rochefort-en-Terre, France
2002 Visiting Artist, Marlboro College, VT
2001 Honorable Mention: Narration: Emblem & Sequence in Contemporary Art, Creative Arts Workshop, CT
Fellowship/Residency: Vermont Studio Center., VT
2000 1st Place/Juried Exhibition: Art Hop, Burlington, VT
1997 Vermont Arts Council/Art in State Buildings Competition

EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED)
2008 Peintres & Sculptures, Musée, Chateau de Rochefort-en-Terre, Brittany, France
2005 Colburn Gallery, University of VT, Burlington, VT
3 Women, Gallery in the Woods ,Brattleboro, VT
2004 Exposing Scarlet: A Visual Response to The Scarlet Letter, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA
Peintres & Sculptures, Musée : Chateau de Rochefort-en-Terre, Brittany, France
2003 Portrait of My Mother...Things Left Unsaid, CCA, Sacramento, CA
Contemporary Drawing , Wood Gallery, Montpelier, VT
2002 Clean Your Plate, Studio Place Arts, Barre, VT
National Affiliate Members, SOHO20/CHELSEA Gallery, NYC
Red Hot: Heated Works, Studio Place Arts, Barre, VT
Mapping New Directions, ArtWorks!, New Bedford, MA
Narration: Emblem & Sequence in Contemporary Art (Honorable Mention), CAW, New Haven, CT
New England/New York/New Talent 2001 Hampden Gallery, University of Massachusetts/Amherst
Flynn Ctr. for Performing Arts, Amy Tarrant Gallery, Burlington, VT
Drury Gallery, Marlboro College, VT
2001 12th National Women’s Invitational, SOHO20, NYC
2000 Works on Paper, South Shore Art Ctr, Cohasset, MA,
Vital Signs: Drawing as Inquiry” Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT
1999 Front Line: Contemporary Draughtsmen in New England, Boston Athenaeum, Boston, MA
Wood Gallery, Montpelier, VT
McAuley Arts/Trinity College, Burlington, VT
1998 Doll-Anstadt Gallery, Burlington, VT
Stratton Arts Festival, Stratton, VT
1994 Transformations, VT State Craft Center, Burlington, VT

Paris Water Dream, charcoal on paper, 132cm x 102

InsideOutside Dream, charcoal on paper, 132cm x 102

The Illuminated Sleeper
graphite & gouache on paper
142cm X 107cm

Sleeping/Around, 48” x 37”
Graphite, gouache & india ink on paper