Resume

EDUCATION: 

1980 Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA MFA in Printmaking 1976 Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, PA BFA in Painting and Drawing

Faculty at PAFA Since 1993  Pastel, Oil, Acrylic, (Studio Classes, Plein Air, Travel)

 SOLO EXHIBITIONS: (Selected)

2023 Images By The Sea The Gallery at Ferry Park, Cape May, NJ. Aug.4 to Aug.20

2022 Nocturnes, Cerulean Gallery, October 12 to 31, 2022
2022 Church Street Gallery , March 11 to April 2, 2022

2016 Beach Paintings, May 31 To June 24 2017 Gallery 222 Malvern, PA

2013 Joseph Sweeney, New Work Bermuda, Masterworks Museum, Bermuda

2012 Summer Paintings of Joseph Sweeney, Thos. Moser, Wayne PA

2011 Sailing, The Corinthian Yacht Club, Essington, Pa Trees, Haverford College Arboretum, Haverford, PA Along the Coast, Peninsula Gallery, Lewes, Delaware

2010 Plein Air Paintings, Carbon County Cultural Project, Jim Thorpe PA

2009 New Pastels (Rowing) Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 2007 Summer Paintings, Carbon County Cultural Project, Jim Thorpe PA

2006 Pastels, Carbon County Cultural Project, Jim Thorpe PA Rivers, Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia.

2002 The Irish Coast, Paintings from Donegal, Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia.

2000 New Work, Cabrini College. Radnor PA

2000 Farms and Fields/Central PA. Wayne Art Center, Wayne PA

1999 Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

1998 Art & Ayrshires, Plum Bottom Farm, Belleville, Pa

1991 Joseph Sweeney, Helio Gallery, New York City

GROUP EXHIBITIONS: (Selected)

2021 The Art Gallery at Devon-Devon Horse Show and Country Fair, Devon, PA  2021 Seaside Garden Show Gallery222 Malvern, PA 2021  Back to Nature, a Landscape Painters Invitational, Wayne Art Center, Wayne PA  2021 Plein Air Invitational, Mainline Art Center, Haverford, PA  2021 New Work, SOMA art Gallery, Cape May, NJ 2021 Close to Home Gallery222 Malvern.PA 2021 Ice Festival Artists’Emporium Havre de Grace, Maryland 2020 “101 Artists” Show Gallery222 Malvern.PA 2019  2020 Water Works, Long Beach Island Foundation of Arts and Sciences, Love Ladies, New Jersey. 2020 Summer Scenes Online Show, Malvern PA https://www.gallery222malvern.com/summer-scenes 2018 For the Love of the Sea, Square Pear Gallery, Kennett Square PA  2016 Art of the State: Pennsylvania 49th year, Harrisburg, PA 2016  153rd Annual Exhibition of Small Oil Paintings Ph. Sketch Club Philadelphia, PA Medal-Honorable Mention  2013 150th Annual Exhibition of Small Oil Paintings Ph. Sketch Club Philadelphia, PA 

2013 Mood Indigo, Salmagundi Club, New York, NY 2012  The Romantic Impulse: Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia.  2011 Drawn to the Water, Independence Seaport Museum, Philadelphia, PA  2010 Plein Air for Camphill, Rosenfeld Gallery, Philadelphia, PA  2010 Surviving Ourselves: Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA  2010 Fall Group Exhibition, PETER McPHEE Gallery, Stone Harbor, NJ  2010 147th Annual Exhibition of Small Oil Paintings Ph. Sketch Club Philadelphia, PA Best Landscape 2010 147th Annual Exhibition of Works on Paper Phila. Sketch Club Phila, PA Second Place  2009 146th Annual Exhibition of Small Oil Paintings Phila. Sketch Club Phila, PA 2008 Summer Exhibition Anthony Rudisill, Joe Sweeney PETER McPHEE Stone Harbor, NJ Art of the State: Pennsylvania  2008, State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA   2007 Pennsylvania Landscape Colonial to Contemporary Haverford College, Haverford, PA (Catalog)  2006 ART in Embassies Program. U.S. Dept. of State, Washington D.C. Oct.  2006 And Port-of Spain Trinidad and Kigali Rwanda  The Fellowship Show, 109th Annual Exhibition at the Plastic Club Philadelphia, PA  “Art of the State”: Pennsylvania 2006, State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA  Masters in Montana, Chaparral Gallery, Bozeman, Montana  Works on Paper Show, The Philadelphia Sketch Club, Philadelphia, PA  2005“Old School, New School, No School. Carbon County Cultural Project. Jim Thorpe PA. Juror  2003 The Fellowship of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. 106th Annual Exhibition Chester Springs, PA  The Unbroken Circle, Wayne Art Center, Wayne PA  2002 Works on Paper Show, The Philadelphia Sketch Club, Best in Show, Philadelphia, PA  Fellowship of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Catherine Gibbons Granger Award for Landscape, Chester Springs, PA  The Gamble Mill Show, Bellefonte, PA  Landscapes-Mindscapes Exhibition, LBI Foundation, Long Beach Island, NJ  139th Annual Exhibition of Small Oil Paintings, Phila. Sketch Club, Philadelphia, PA Woodmere Art Museum  62nd Juried Exhibition, Philadelphia, PA Juror: John Yau 2001  Pennsylvania Center for Landscape Painting Group Show (Scapes and Scrapes) Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA (A show for students of the Center)  2000 Philadelphia: A Crossroads for American Art, 1750-2000. The Union League Club. New York, NY and Debra Force Fine Art, Inc.  1998 98th Anniversary International Exhibition of Works on Paper, Phila Water Color Club. Atlantic City, NJ. & Krasdale Gallery, New York, NY Award, Best of Show  101st Annual Juried Members’ Exhibitions, Fellowship of the PAFA, Yellow Springs PA  Images ‘98” Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts, State College, PA Juror: Sarah Sargent. Award: Best of Show  “Through the Heart of the City”. Philadelphia Art Alliance. Philadelphia, PA  “Works on Paper 1998” Juror: Mark Rosenthal Curator, S.R. Guggenheim Museum NY. Beaver College Glenside, PA  1997 “Mainly Maine” Sherry French Gallery New York, NY  “Bianco Galley Annual Juried Exhibition”, Buckingham, PA Marguerite & Gerry Lenfest Award  "Scenic River Days", Juried Show, Reading, PA AWARD 1st Place  "The Art of Sport", Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY Sechuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongging, China Printmaking East/West Exchange, Tianjun, China  161st Annual Exhibition - National Academy of Design, New York, 

ASSOCIATIONS AND MEMBERSHIPS: (Selected) Gross McCleaf Gallery, 127 South 16th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102 PH: 215-665-8138  Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 118 N. Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102 Instructor (Currently)  Wayne Art Center, 413 Maplewood Avenue, Wayne, PA 19087, Instructor (Currently)  Woodmere Art Museum, 9201 Germantown Ave. Philadelphia, PA 19118 Instructor (Formerly)  University of the Arts, Broad and Pine Streets, Philadelphia, PA 19102 Instructor  The Nature Conservancy Fund Raiser 

Bibliography For the Love of the Sea' is a perfect summertime show | Chester County Press John Chambless July 2018 An Artist capitalize Changes Mediums, Nancy Bea Miller Fine Art Connoisseur, May/June 2011  Capturing Fleeting Scenes in Pastel, Plein Air Magazine, EDEC. Summer 2011 M.S. Doherty  ART in Embassies Prog. U.S. Department of State, Washington D.C. Oct. 2006  Chester County Town & Country Living CATHY VIKSJO Fall 1999  The Philadelphia Inquirer, Mary Ann Janco, The Arts, Main Line Neighbors section December 22, 2002  American Artist, Joseph Sweeney, On Pastels, August, 2000 (Cover)  The New York Times, Sunday, Fred B. Adleson, Art Review, October 18, 1998  The Philadelphia Inquirer, Victoria Donohoe, “The Arts” August 2, 1998  The Philadelphia Inquirer, Ed Sozanski, "Art", May 29.1998  The Baltimore Sun, John Dorsey, August 7, 1994  "Art In Sport" , M W. Schantz, Ph.D., Woodmere Art Museum, October 1990  The Evening Sun, Mike Giuliano, March 29, 1990 (Baltimore)  New York Times, Vivian Raynor, May 21, 1990  Artforum, Ronny Cohen, September 1989  The Philadelphia Inquirer, Ed Sozanski, "Art", November 1, 1984  

Commissions: (Selected)

2007 Pennsylvania Lumbermen’s Mutual Insurance  1995 Deloitte & Touche, World Financial Center, New York, NY  1995 The Marriot Corporation, Philadelphia International Airport, Philadelphia, PA Consultant Joan Swensen  1995 Glenmede Trust Company, Philadelphia, PA Consultant Galman/Lepow  1995 Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Phila, PA Consultant Connie Vick  1991 3M Corp., St. Paul, MN, Consultant Bonnie Sussman  1991 Seven Large Paintings for Riverview Entertainment Complex,  1987 Evan Randolph Portrait, Philadelphia, PA 19102  1986 E. Digby Baltzel & Jane Piper, Philadelphia, PA 19102  1985 T.S.O. Financial, Horsham, PA, Consultant Galman/Lepow  1984 Reliance Insurance Company of America, Philadelphia, PA,  1983 Smith Kline Corporation, Philadelphia, PA, Consultant Carolyn D'Alfonso 

COLLECTIONS: (Selected) 

ARA Services, Philadelphia, PA  ATOCHEM Elf Aquitaine, Philadelphia, PA  AT&T, New York, NY  Bank of Tokyo, New York, NY  Bryn Mawr College Collection, Bryn Mawr, PA  CIGNA Museum, Philadelphia, PA  Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA  Glenmede Trust Company, Philadelphia, PA  Independence Seaport Museum, Philadelphia, PA  Johnson & Johnson Inc., New Brunswick, NJ  Mrs. John B. Kelly, Philadelphia, PA  3M Corporation, St. Paul, MN  Manufacturers Hanover, New York, NY  The Pew Trust, Philadelphia, PA  Philadelphia Free Library Print Collection, Philadelphia, PA  Pierson Collection, Thornton, PA  The State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA  Southern Allegheny Museum of Art  State Department of the United States, Washington DC  Squibb Museum, Princeton, NJ  Vanguard Group, Malvern, PA  Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA 

Reviews

Joe Sweeney’s pastels of Boathouse Row, a subject with which he has become identified, are often frontal views that exaggerate the tonal contrast between the sun washed facades and the umbral darkness of the park behind...they apotheosizes Sunday -in-the-park- Philadelphia.THE INQUIRER, Ed Sozanski, "ART", (Philadelphia) Nov.1, 1984

Joseph Sweeney’s oil County Airport (1986) is a dramatic landscape composed of a series of horizontals: a dark border of green fields in the foreground, beyond which is a sliver of dazzling sunlight on a strip of land which includes a group of low buildings, then a hill stretching across the scene, topped off by a cloud- filled sky occupying three quarters of the painting.The Daily Record, Bernard Perlman, Dec.13, 1988 (Baltimore)

Joe Sweeney...”Prize Winners”, is a snappy work...He prefers a more swinging and resonant network of pastel strokes! The Inquirer, Victoria Donohoe,(Philadelphia) June 2 1989

In Painterly realism, unlike Photographic realism, the brush strokes and tactile surfaces become important! Estelle Gross speaking about the work of Joe Sweeney.THE ILLUSTRATED, Palm Beach, Candyce H. Stapen, Regional Artists. Fall 1989, (Palm Beach)

Joe Sweeney’s Pastels,...Sparkling Impressionistic Images! New York Times, Vivien Raynor, May 21 1989

Joe Sweeney ...He has a sharp eye for the beauty of nature, which he finds in quiet and tranquil scenes showing nature existing in deepest harmony with man.ARTFORUM , Ronny Cohen , Sept. 1989 (USA)

Sweeney whose pastels are particularly notable, convey the darkness and coldness of water, the bite of fresh air, the brilliance of sunlight, and an atmosphere that evokes youth, energy and clarity!The SUN ,John Dorsey, March 29, 1990,(Baltimore)

This quiet, orderly landscape still looks essentially as it did in the late 19th century. Placing himself within that “urban pastoral” tradition, Sweeney fortunately is no mere copycat.THE EVENING SUN, Mike Giuliano, March 29, 1990. (Baltimore)

His long, horizontal views of the Schuylkill and its boaters have garnered him critical acclaim, loyal buyers and placement in dozens of prestigious collections.Daily Local News, John Chambless, August 7, 1993 (West Chester)

The award for best of show was given to a truly exquisite pastel, "Jack's Mountain," by Joseph Sweeney. This picture of farmland in central Pennsylvania is a panoramic view (more than four feet wide) capturing the natural effect of early-morning light. Mr. Sweeney's carefully observed cloud-filled sky recalls those by' Constable in-his 19th- century English landscapes. The richly colored strokes of greens and blues with subtle touches of yellow appear as smooth as Bassett's ice cream. (Review of the Philadelphia Watercolor Club Works on Paper Show).The New York Times, Sunday, October 18 1998 Fred B. Adelson

Joe Sweeney unostentatious landscape painter, follows his own expressive needs which in this case is contemporary realism. Sweeney show a deep receptivity to his source scene, yet manages not to end up with a reportorial look so much as an icon. The Philadelphia Inquirer, Sunday, July 18, 1999 Victoria Donohoe The Arts MD4

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