Meridith Passabet currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Her work has been shown in galleries in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. Meridith received her MFA from Mason Gross School of Art, Rutgers, and her BFA from the University of Connecticut. She is an Image Editor in Catalogue Production at Sotheby’s Auction House.

Education

Mason Gross School of Art, Rutgers University, MFA, Art, 2005

University of Connecticut, BFA, Art, 2002

Exhibitions

Out Like a Lamb, A Group Show, The Church, Brooklyn, NY, 2007

Real Party Benefit Auction, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT, 2007

Sotheby’s Employee Show, Sotheby’s Auction House, New York, NY, 2006

New Prints Show, Curated by Kiki Smith, IPCNY, New York, NY, 2005

Fresh Meat, Shore Institute of Contemporary Art, Long Branch NJ, 2005

Benefit Auction, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT, 2005

MFA Thesis Exhibition, Mason Gross School of Art, New Brunswick, NJ, 2005

Night of 1,000 Drawings, Artists Space, New York, NY, 2004

Mason Gross Faculty/Grad Show, New Brunswick, NJ, 2004

One Inch Show, Jonathan Gabel Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2003

Slide Slam, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT, 2003, 2005

Annual Employee Show, Christie’s Auction House, New York, NY 2003

A Victorian on Lower Main, Six Emerging Artists, Windham Arts Collaborative, 2002

BFA Thesis Exhibition, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, 2002

Awards

Teaching Assistant Competitive Funds Award, 2004

Teaching Assistantship, Painting and Printmaking, 2004, 2005

Nominated for Joan Mitchell MFA Fellowship, 2005

Nominated for Dedalus Foundation Fellowship, 2004

Julia Ash Memorial Award, 2002

University of Connecticut Faculty Award for BFA Thesis Show, 2002

Connecticut Women’s Scholarship for Painting, 2001

Talent Scholarship, University of Connecticut, 2000, 2001

Publications

Painting featured on the cover of the Mason Gross School of Art Catalogue, 2004.

Print Collections

Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper

New York Public Library

University of Connecticut Print Shop

Artists Statement

My approach to painting is based on my interest in strong contrasts and odd juxtapositions . The formal elements and the content of my work demonstrate this awareness of opposites and unexpected connections. My paintings refer to conflicting emotional states, earthly instances of agony and euphoria, or spiritual ideas of heaven and hell as afterlife. Fun and disappointment, pleasure and pain, joy and sadness coexist together on each canvas, just as they often occur in life. I explore these ideas in my abstract world of paint through my use of color, form, and pictorial space.