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Mary
LaGreca,
an award-winning visual artist (see awards/press),
specialized in watercolors, pastels, and graphic arts. Her subject matter ranges
from traditional florals, landscapes and portraits to mixed media, collage, photography,
and abstract works.
A resident of Scarsdale, NY and Westhampton Beach, NY, LaGreca had been active in numerous art organizations. For ten years she was the Director of the Village Art Gallery in Bronxville, NY where she taught watercolor and curated numerous exhibitions and artist receptions. From 1996 to 2000, she served as the President of the Hudson Valley Art Association in Westchester.
She held memberships in the Salmagundi Club and the National Arts Club in Manhattan, the National League of American Pen Women (see article in awards/press), the American Artist Professional League, as well as the Scarsdale Art Association, Mamaroneck Artist Guild, the New Rochelle Art Association, the Greenwhich Art Society, and the Art Society of Old Greenwich.
LaGreca grew up in Middletown, New York, At 17 she moved to Manhattan where she attended Hunter College before switching to nursing. She graduated from the Lenox Hill School of Nursing and practiced in New York City where she met her husband, Angelo, a physician. LaGreca first pursued an art career in 1975 when the youngest of her three children was nine. She enrolled in art classes at the College of New Rochelle and studied privately with internationally know watercolorists. Two years later she had her own show. Since 1978 her work has been exhibited in numerous solo and juried shows (see below).
Mary LaGreca was born on September 15, 1933 and passed away on March 24, 2001. She was 67.
If you wish
to make a tax-deductible donation in Mary's honor, please send it to: The Ursuline
Arts Center, 1354 North Avenue, New Rochelle, NY, 10804.
Her work is held in numerous private and corporate collections throughout the United States and abroad.
For more information or to purchase works of art by Mary LaGreca, please click here
SELECTED
JURIED EXHIBITIONS
Knickerbocker
Artists - New York, NY
Lever House - New York , NY
Audubon Artists - New York City
Faber Birren Color Exhibit - Stamford, CT
Cork Gallery/Avery Fisher Hall - New York, NY
Northeast Watercolor Society - Goshen, NY
Hudson Valley Art Association - Hastings-On-Hudson, NY
Charles Sumner Museum - Washington, D.C.
Salmagundi Club - New York, NY
Jacob Javits Art Center - New York, NY
Westbeth Gallery - New York, NY
Fordham University Gallery - New York, NY
Pelham Arts Center - Pelham, NY
Potter Gallery - Greenwich, CT
Guild Hall - Easthampton, NY
Macy Gallery/Westchester Medical Center - Valhalla, NY
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Village
Art Gallery - Bronxville, NY
Lifetime Television/Executive Offices - New York, NY
Weil, Gotschal & Manges/Law Offices - New York, NY
Mamaroneck Artists Guild - Mamaroneck, NY
Burke Rehabilitation Center - White Plains, NY
Bronxville Womans Club - Bronxville, NY
Bronxville Library - Bronxville, NY
Lawrence Hospital - Bronxville, NY
Florence Jurth Gallery - Ridgefield, CT
Virginia Beach Arts Center - Virginia Beach, VA
Larchmont Art Gallery - Larchmont, NY
Manor Club of Pelham - Pelham, NY
MEMBERSHIPS AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
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Director and Instructor - Village Art Gallery; Bronxville, NY (1984-1994)
- President - Hudson Valley Art Association; Hastings-On-Hudson, NY (1996-2000)
- Member of the Board of Directors - Scarsdale Art Association; New Rochelle Art
Association
- Resident Artist: The Salmagundi Club - New York, NY
- Resident Artist: American Artist Professional League -
- Resident Artist: The National Arts Club - New York, NY
- Westchester Watercolor Workshop; Mamaroneck Artists Guild
- Scarsdale Art Association; New Rochelle Art Association
- Greenwich Art Society; Art Society of Old Greenwich
- Judge for several Art Associations and Beaux Arts shows in Westchester/ Greenwich
- Curator of "Art To Heart" exhibition at Lawrence Hospital, Bronxville,
NY
Village Art Gallery, Bronxville, NY
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