Artist Statement, Resume, Reviews

LISSA BOCKRATH

EDUCATION

EXHIBITIONS

2000 - Olga Dollar Gallery ‘Landscape, Cityscape,’ San Francisco, CA
1999 - Trias Gallery ‘Group Show,’ Toronto, Canada
1999 - Pentimenti Gallery ‘Smaller than a Foot” Philadelphia, PA
1999 - Olga Dollar Gallery ‘Alternate Forms of Photography,’ San Francisco, CA
1999 - Gallery 7  ‘Contact,’ Toronto, Canada                        
1999 - Franklin University solo exhibition, Columbus, Ohio  
1998-1999 - Agnon Invitational Exhibition, Beachwood, Ohio               
1998 - Canton Gallery ‘ Summer Landscape Show,’ Baltimore, Maryland                                                                     
1998-1999 - Art at the Powerhouse, Cleveland, Ohio
1998 - Chamot Gallery Jersey City, New Jersey
1998 - Chemeketa Community Art Gallery Salem, Oregon
1997 - Pentimenti Gallery Philadelphia, PA
1997 - Kirkland Art Gallery ‘Altered Images,’ Clinton, NY
1997 - Sinclair Community College solo exhibition, Dayton, Ohio
1997-1998 - Spaces Annual Members Show, Cleveland, Ohio
1996-1999 - Bockrath Gallery Cleveland, Ohio
1996 - Art at the Powerhouse Cleveland, Ohio
1995 - Brenda Kroos Gallery Cleveland, Ohio
1995 - Gallery 0022 line'>‘Dark and Mysterious,’ Cleveland, Ohio
1995 - Reinberger Gallery Senior BFA Exhibit, Cleveland, Ohio
1995 - Spaces Annual Members Show, Cleveland, Ohio
1995 - Elise Newman Gallery Cleveland, Ohio
1994 - Reinberger Gallery Fifth Year Painting Exhibition, Cleveland, Ohio
1994 - Reinberger Gallery Student Independent Juried Exhibition, Cleveland, Ohio
1993 - Karamu Gallery line'>Karamu Print Invitational Exhibition, Cleveland, Ohio
1993 - Reinberger Gallery Student Independent Juried Exhibition, Cleveland, Ohio
1993 - Contemporary Art Center Contemporary Art Center Juried Exhibition, Cleveland, Ohio   

GALLERY AFFILIATION

1999 - EDL and Associates, Atlanta, GA
1999 - Peter Bartlow Gallery, Chicago, ILL
1999 - Olga Dollar Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1999 - Trias Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1998 - Present - Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1998-1999 - Canton Gallery, Baltimore, MA
1995-present - Art at the Powerhouse, Cleveland, OH
1995-present - Toledo Museum of Art Store, Toledo, OH

 ACTIVITIES & HONORS

2000 - LecturerCleveland Public Library, Cleveland, Ohio
1996-present - Gallery Director Bockrath Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio
1998 - Judge Cleveland Photographic Society, Cleveland, Ohio
1997-1998 - Lecturer, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
1997 - Panel Discussion and Lecturer Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
1996 - Lecturer Ashland College, Ashland, Ohio
1995 - Fifth Year Painting Exhibition Coordinator, Cleveland Institute of Art Cleveland, Ohio
1994 - Fourth Year Painting Award, Cleveland Institute of Art Cleveland, Ohio
1994 - Grumbacher Painting Award, Student Independent Exhibition, Cleveland, Ohio
1994 - Ohio Designer Craft Award, Student Independent Exhibition Cleveland, Ohio
1992 - Third Year Painting Exhibition CO-Coordinator, Cleveland Institute of Art Cleveland, Ohio
1990 - Firelands Area Art League Scholarship, Sandusky, Ohio

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Ahold Inc. Washington DC, Virginia
Anderson Consulting, Cleveland, Ohio
Cleveland Art Association, Cleveland, Ohio
Fisher Price Buffalo, New York
Ireland Cancer Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio
SAS America Inc. Philadelphia, PA
Capital One Partners Cleveland, Ohio
Crawford Consulting Inc., Wakeman, Ohio
Boca Inc., Norwalk, Ohio
Lincoln National Corporation, Fort Wayne, Indiana
Metro Space Realty, Cleveland, Ohio
Seagate Investment, Cleveland, Ohio
Magic American Corporation, Cleveland, Ohio
Heffernan and Kuenzi, Cleveland, Ohio

PUBLICATIONS

Cleveland Free Times, Cleveland, Ohio “Spoon-fed Photos” January 26 - February 1, 2000
The Plain Dealer, Cleveland, Ohio “Finding inspiration in the city’s patchwork vistas” December 20,1999
Cleveland Free Times, Cleveland, Ohio “Land of the Giants” December 1-7, 1999
Cleveland Scene, Cleveland, Ohio “Factory Fresh” December 16-22, 1999
Cleveland Live, Cleveland, Ohio “Lissa Bockrath, New Paintings and Terry Slade, Glassworks” October 26,1997
Observer-Dispatch, Clinton, New York “5 photographers show you art of altering images” October, 17, 1997
The Observer, Cleveland, Ohio “Bockrath Gallery opens new painting and sculpture exhibit” October 3, 1997
Northern Ohio Live, Cleveland, Ohio “Which Came First- the Community or the Art?” June 1997
The Buffalo News, Buffalo, New York “Art Trek” June, 1997
In the Neighborhood, Cleveland, Ohio “Three art show spotlight local talent” December, 1996