STATEMENT
My artistic endeavors have intention but are interpretive and ask the viewer to simply pause, to identify and to think what the surface, the textures, the negative space means for them.
My intention celebrates magic and the challenges of juxtaposition or duality while offering a memory pulled from organic images resonating deep within. Words, impossible to identify and say, can be felt.
Mary Alice Orito/MAO
maryalice.orito@gmail.com
www.maryaliceorito.com
Biography:
An extensive art and design career includes twenty-five years as a moderate price sportswear designer, international design teacher and a Local Union 829 Costume Designer for Broadway stage, music and TV. Preferred media sculpture and mixed media. |
Design Educator:
Marist College, Fashion Program: Poughkeepsie, NY 1991-1993. Adjunct teacher; International Design. |
Education:
1996 | New York University, Masters in Social Work |
1993 | Marymount Manhattan College, Bachelor of Arts |
1997 | New School |
1964 | Parsons School of Design, Certificate of Design |
1961 | Kansas State Teacher’s College, Studied under Mary Kretsinger, Emporia, Kansas and Margaret Moore, New York, NY Ann Roth, New York, NY |
Non-profit Administrator:
National Association of Women Artists, 80 Fifth Ave, NY, NY. Board member eight years: Two term President, Vice President, and Awards Chair for the Annual Members and outside exhibitions since 2009. Certificate of Recognition from the Mayor of New York City, Bill de Blasio, for eight (8) years/1,000 + hours of volunteer efforts at NAWA. |
Affiliations:
Ceres Gallery, 547 West 27th Street, New York, NY 10001 | |
National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) 1250 | |
New York Ave NW, Washington DC 20005 | |
National Association of Women Artists (NAWA) 315 W 39 St, NYC, NY 10018 | |
NAWA Massachusetts Chapter | |
Studio Montclair, 108 Orange Rd, Montclair, NJ 07042 |
Awards:
Shirley and Barnett Helzberg Foundation, $5,000.00 Gift given to NAWA in Honor of Mary Alice Orito | |
‘Agenda’, Juror’s Choice Award, Nancy Stula, Executive Director of William Benton Museum of Art, Arts Center East, Vernon, CT CWA National Open Juried Show | |
‘Green Words’, Merit Award 2014. Sarah Hall, Dir. of Curatorial Affairs Frick Art, ‘Visions & Revelations ‘, Point Park University, Point Park, PA | |
‘Eva, Joan and Mary-K’, Elsie G. Hammond Memorial Award 2014 (for Works on Paper), Buel Ecker Juror , Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, NJ | |
‘Hera: God of the Starry Nights’, David Antar Memorial Award 2014 (for sculpture), Sylvia Wald & Po Kim Gallery Annual exhibition N.A.W.A., NY, NY | |
Shared Daytime Emmy Award, 1988 “Encyclopedia: HBO”, Public Television, 825 Eighth Avenue, New York, NY 10019 |
Published Articles:
Red Hook: Star Review, 06/02/19, BWAC Annual Juried Exhibition 2019 | |
Montclair Local: 06/27/19: Culture in Brief: State of the Art 2019 | |
Town-Village: 12/04/18. Sabina Mollot. Cauz for Pawz’s Animal Art Show | |
Thompson Gallery Catalogue: 12/16/17. “With Eyes Open” | |
Artscope: Sept/Oct 2016, J. Fatima Martins, “Feminine Influence: N.A.W.A. at Endicott” | |
Artsy.net: 01/2014, “Visions & Revelations”, Point Park University | |
Art World Beat: 2014. International Art Festival. Graphic Drawing | |
Art House, LLC, 2010, Brooklyn Library Sketchbook Project |
Corporate Collections:
2013 | 2013 Helzberg Hall; Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, Kansas City, MO (2 Mixed Media pieces) |
2009-2020 | Twenty-nine private collections |
Solo Exhibition:
2022 | Ceres Gallery, ‘Other Worldly’, NY, NY |
2018 | Pop Up Gallery/Caul for PawZ, fundraiser for animals featuring ‘my menagerie’, animal collage, NY, NY |
2012 | National Association of Women Artists Gallery ‘Whimsy & torn paper’, NY, NY |
Group Juried Exhibition:
2022 | Ceres Gallery, ‘Hysterical’, NY, NY |
2021 | Marblehead Arts Association, “WOMXN”, Marblehead, MA Les Femmes Follies: Feminists Connection Exhibition, Morgantown, WV Ceres Gallery/Artsy Online: “Resolutions”, New York, NY National Association of Women Artists, “Winter Small Works”, New York, NYC Ceres Gallery, “Outside my Oeuvre”, New York, NY National Association of Women Artists, Online: “Cold”, Exhibitions, New York, NY Ceres Gallery, “Exposure”, New York, NY |
2020 | National Association of Women Artist, Small Works Online Exhibitions, New York, NY The Art Center, “LOVE”, Highland Park, IL 60035 Atlantic Wharf Gallery, “She/He”, Boston, MA The Hopper Mansion, “Mirror Image”, Marblehead, MA Grosse Pointe Artist Association, “Brotherhood”, Grosse Pointe, MI Studio Montclair, Online: “State of the Art 2020”, Annual Member exhibition, Montclair, NJ National Association of Women Artists, Online: 131st Annual Members exhibition, New York, NY Ceres Gallery, Online: “Life As It Is Now” New York, NY |
National Association of Women Artist, Small Works Online Exhibitions, New York, NY The Art Center, “LOVE”, Highland Park, IL 60035 Atlantic Wharf Gallery, “She/He”, Boston, MA The Hopper Mansion, “Mirror Image”, Marblehead, MA Grosse Pointe Artist Association, “Brotherhood”, Grosse Pointe, MI Studio Montclair, Online: “State of the Art 2020”, Annual Member exhibition, Montclair, NJ National Association of Women Artists, Online: 131st Annual Members exhibition, New York, NY Ceres Gallery, Online: “Life As It Is Now” New York, NY | |
2019 | Ceres Gallery, “Exposure 2019”, New York, NY Edward Williams Gallery, “Joyous Light”, Hackensack, NJ Paul Nigra Center for Creative Arts, “Fall Art Show: 2019”, Gloversville, NY Arts Illiana Gallery, “RED”, Terre Haute, IN Studio Montclair, “Inspired by…Quilt Collection Montclair History Center”, Montclair, NY Rocky Neck Art Colony: “Extremes and In-Betweens”, /NAWA/MA, Gloucester, MA Studio Montclair, Annual Members Art Exhibition, Montclair, NJ Salmagundi Gallery, Annual GNA Juried Art Exhibition, New York, NY NAWA Gallery, “Line and Shade”, Juried Art Exhibition. New York, NY BWAC: 40th Annual Exhibition: “Wide Open 10”, Juried Art Exhibition, Brooklyn NY The Brush Art Gallery & Studios, “Breaking Point”, Lowell, MA Grand Central Library, NYPL, “Visual Biography: Women’s Narrative” NAWA Gallery, “The Art of Layering”, New York, NY Arts Club of Washington, “Transparency”, Washington, DC AlteRnaTive Art Space, “Places and Space”, Boston, MA |
2018 | South Gallery, Annual exhibition National Association of Women Artists/NAWA, New York, NY CWA National Open Juried Show: Barnes-Franklin Gallery, Farmington, CT ‘Ivory and Lead’ Online Artist Competition, Jamesville, NY Beamesderfer Gallery, “Sea and Sky”, Highland, NJ NAWA Gallery, Small Works Summer Exhibition, New York, NY GNA Annual exhibition, Salmagundi Gallery, New York, NY Gallery Main Street, ‘Elephant in the Room Group Exhibition’, Tyler, Texas Sylvia Wald & Po Kim Gallery, Annual exhibition National Association of Women Artists/ NAWA. New York, NY |
2017 | NAWA, Annual 5×7 Postcard Exhibition, New York, NY Thompson Gallery, “With Eyes Open”, Weston, MA NAWA Gallery, “Art Angels”, Juried exhibition, New York, NY Imago Foundation for the Arts, 11th Annual Juried National Exhibit, ‘Art of Protest’, Warren, RI Paul Nigra Center for Creative Arts, ” The Art of Disguise”, Gloversville, NY BWAC, “Really Affordable Art Show”, Curator, Fritz Weiss. Brooklyn, NY Studio Montclair, Inc. “20x 20”, Curator, Pamela Moore, Montclair, NJ CWA National Open Juried Show: Juror’s Choice Award, Nancy Stula William Benton Museum of Art, Vernon, CT Sylvia Wald & Po Kim Gallery, Annual Exhibition National Association of Women Artists/NAWA, New York, NY Mulberry Street Library, NYPL, “Away”, New York, NY Charles Fine Arts, “Women”, Gloucester, MA NAWA Gallery, Juried exhibition, “Small Works”, New York, NY |
2016 | Armory Art Center, “Crossing Boundaries”, West Palm Beach, FLA Harlem School of the Arts, Violence Transformed/NAWA, “Shelter”, New York, NY Mansion at Strathmore, “Rise Up”, North Bethesda, MD Sylvia Wald & Po Kim Gallery, Annual Exhibition National Association of Women Artists/NAWA, New York, NY NAWA Gallery, “Art Angels”/Open House, New York, NY Fountain Street Fine Art Gallery, “Continuum: Tradition Meets Innovation”, Framington, MA NAWA Gallery, “Small Works Exhibition”. Juried Exhibition, New York, NY Walter J. Manninen Center for the Arts, “Breaking Ground”, Beverly, MA Crayola Gallery at the Banana Factory, “The Creative Muse”, Bethlehem, PA Point Park University, “in-Visible Exhibition”, School of Art at Carnegie Mellon University, PA Riverside New York Public Library. “Ev(e)olutions”. BOLD Exhibition. Juried exhibition, New York, NY National Arts Club (Annual GNA Exhibition) Jury selection, New York, NY A.I.R. Gallery, “Generations X” Biennial Benefit Exhibition, Brooklyn, NY Sylvia Wald & Po Kim Gallery, National Association of Women Artists/NAWA, New York, NY |
2015 | Sketchbook Project, “Self Portrait”, Brooklyn Art Library, Brooklyn, NY Ground Floor Gallery, “You’ve Got Mail”. Annual Postcard Exhibition, Brooklyn, NY A.I.R. Gallery, “Wish You Were Here”, Annual Postcard Exhibition, Brooklyn, NY CCM Visual Arts Gallery, “Art of Transformation”, Randolph, NJ Arts Club of Washington, DC, “Portraits: Interior and Exterior”, Washington, DC National Arts Club (Annual GNA Exhibition) Jury selection, New York, NY National Association of Women Artists Online Juried Exhibition, “Daring to Defy the Medium: Collage”, New York, NY Sylvia Wald & Po Kim Gallery, Annual Exhibition National Association of Women Artists/NAWA, New York, NY |
2014 | Riverside New York Public Library. “Celebrate”, Juried exhibition, New York, NY NAWA Gallery, Small Works Juried Summer Exhibition, New York, NY Point Park University, “Visions & Revelations”, Merit Award, Sarah Hill, Dir of Curatorial Affairs Frick Art, Point Park, PA Riverside New York Public Library. “Ev(e)olutions”. BOLD Exhibition. Juried exhibition, New York, NY National Arts Club (Annual GNA Exhibition) Jury selection, New York, NY National Association of Women Artists Online Juried Exhibition, “Divas”, New York, NY Whistler House Museum of Art, “A Current Vision” Juror Esther T. Thyssen, PhD, Lowell, MA Monmouth Museum, Elsie G. Hammond Memorial Award, Juror Buel Ecker, Lincroft, NJ Sylvia Wald & Po Kim Gallery, David Antar Memorial Award, National Association of Women Artists/NAWA, New York, NY |
2013 | National Arts Club (Annual GNA Exhibition), New York, NY National Association of Women Artists, “D.I.V.A.’s” (Online exhibition) New York, NY Google Works, ‘Women of NAWA Exposed’, Reading, PA National Association of Women Artists Gallery ‘Clothing Optional’, New York, NY Sylvia Wald & Po Kim Gallery, National Association of Women Artists/NAWA, New York, NY |
2012 | National Arts Club (Annual GNA Exhibition), New York, NY NAWA Gallery, Small Works Exhibition, New York, NY A.I.R. Gallery, ‘Wish You Were Here” Annual Postcard Exhibition, Brooklyn, NY Ev(e)olution, Riverside Public Library (NAWA jury selection), New York, NY Sylvia Wald & Po Kim Gallery, National Association of Women Artists, Inc. New York, NY Pen and Brush Gallery, People Choice Exhibition, New York, NY SOHO20 Gallery, “Backlash”, New York, NY The Armory Art Center, “Vernissage Des Femmes Artistes” West Palm Beach, FL |
2011 | First Summer Showcase Exhibition, National Association of Women Artists, New York, NY Sylvia Wald & Po Kim Gallery, National Association of Women Artists/NAWA, New York, NY National Arts Club (Annual GNA Exhibition) Jury selection, New York, NY Ev(e)olution, Riverside Public Library (NAWA jury selection), New York, NY |
2010 | National Arts Club. Annual Exhibition, National Association of Women Artists/NAWA, New York, NY Art House, LLC; Brooklyn Library Sketchbook Project National Arts Club (Annual GNA Exhibition), New York, NY |
2009 | National Arts Club (Annual GNA Exhibition), New York, NY |
Private Collections:
2019 | Victor Lee/Kirkwood Taylor, New York, NY/Los Angeles, CA Amaryllis Betancourt, New York, NY |
2018 | “my menagerie’’, Multiple Print Collectors at Fundraiser for CauZ for PawZ, New York, NY |
2017 | Shirley Bush-Helzberg, Kansas City, MO Barbara O’Brien, Milwaukee, WI Fatima Surmelioglu, New York, NY/Los Angeles, CA Doreen Murphy, Los Angeles, CA Lisa Tierney-Keogh, Dublin, Ireland Merry Waldrip, Shawnee Mission, KS Rae Sedgwick, PhD, ESQ, Bonner Springs, KS Patti Tock, Blue Springs, MO |
2014 | Ms. Laurie Lattimere, Long Island, NY |
2013 | Ms. Debbie Elbin, Berlin, Germany |
2012 | Mr. & Mrs. Barnett Helzberg, Kansas City, Kansas Mr. Mark Sallinger, Brooklyn, NY Mr. Victor Lee, Brooklyn, NY Mr. Carmen Cacatorie New York, NY Mr. Jeff Hall New York, NY Mrs. Laura Schmitt New York, NY Mrs. Crimilida Inclan New York, NY Ms. Barbara Quinn Riverdale, NY |
2010 | Private Collection, Washington, D.C |
Work Experience:
1961-1964 | Margaret Moore Jewelry; New York, NY Assistant Jewelry Designer |
1965-1987 | Mary Alice Orito, Inc.; Sportswear designer and consultant of moderate price clothing |
1974-1988 | Costume designer for stage, music industry and television |
1988-2006 | Stuyvesant Square/Beth Israel Medical Center, Counselor / Supervisor/ Manager |
1996-2019 | Mary Alice Orito Psychotherapy Licensed Clinical Social Work PLLC |