TAWA at 45
The Exhibition
Dallas Piotrowski
Winter in the Pines
ink on paper, 2018; 29″h x 44″w
Dallas Piotrowski has been a professional artist since 1974 and was the curator for The Gallery at Chapin, Chapin School, Princeton, NJ from 2007 through 2014. She is a realist painter of all genres but is primarily known for her paintings of the natural world. She has an affection for nature that lives on in the hundreds of paintings she has created over the past 49 years. Scenes depicting birds, sunflowers, a gorilla, flower-filled fields, and even storybook characters like the inspired series of Alice in Wonderland for the Trenton Museum Society’s exhibit, Alice Revisited.
Her work is featured on the website of The Lewis Carroll Society of North America. Dallas has had 26 solo exhibits and has been in over two hundred juried exhibitions. Piotrowski received her AA from Mercer County Community College and studied at The College of NJ and Rider University. She also studied with Nelson Shanks, Mel Leipzig, Hiroshi Murata, and Elizabeth Ruggles. Selected solo exhibits include The New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ; Trenton City Museum, Trenton, NJ; and The Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA. Other exhibits include those at the Noyes Museum, Atlantic County, NJ; Monmouth Museum, Lincroft ,NJ; Center for Contemporary Art, Bedminster, NJ; Women Artists, Trenton Style, The Trenton City Museum; Ellarslie Open 36; Lovely as a Tree, Juried Exhibit at D&R Greenway; Airing Out the Attic, The Trenton City Museum; Ellarslie Open 35, Trenton City Museum; Alice Revisited, The Trenton City Museum; Ellarslie Open 32, Trenton City Museum; Mercer County Artists, Mercer County Community College Gallery; Earth/Fire Exhibit, D&R Greenway; Abbott Marshlands, More Than Meets the Eye; and The Curators Exhibit, The Gallery at Chapin School.
Her work is in the permanent collections of Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton Firestone Library Graphic Art Collection, Trenton City Museum, and Liquitex. Her work is also in the private collections of Joyce Carol Oates and Otto Penzler. Awards include Colart Americas, Inc.; Atlantic City Government; Black Entertainment Television (BET); Lehigh Portland Cement; St. Francis Medical Center; Helen Boehm; New York City Bus Co.; Yardley Art Center, Best in Show; Trenton City Museum, Best in Show; Trenton City Museum, Director’s Award for Runner Up, Painting; Phillips Mill; Crystal Springs Farm Award, Annual Exhibition 2013; Phillips Mill, Patron Award; Artsbridge, Best Painting Awards; Garden State Watercolor Society Signature Member Exhibit, Best in Show; National Society of Acrylic Painters Exhibit, Salmagundi Club; The Minnesota Center for Book Art; and the Trenton Museum Society, Purchase Award.