About the Artist

Wendy Isler Alvarez

Exhibitions

2024
Winter Show – Live for 4 Gallery, Pawling, NY
Spring Show – Live 4 Art Gallery, Pawling, NY
Animal Magnetism – Putnam Arts Council

2023
Patterns of Life – Liliana Washburn Fine Art, Poughkeepsie, NY
Story Tellers – Live 4 Art Gallery, Pawling, NY
Members Show, Putnam Arts Council

2022
Winter Show – Live 4 Art Gallery, Pawling, NY
Kindreds in Hopewell, The Gallery @ Hopewell Animal Hospital

2021
Holiday Show – Live 4 Art Gallery, Pawling, NY
Re-Opening – Common Threads, Live 4 Art Gallery, Pawling, NY

2020
“Her Nature Revival” Studio Around the Corner, Brewster, NY

2019
“Play’s the Thing” KMA Juried show at the Schoolhouse Theater Gallery, North Salem, NY, Juror Peter Reginato
Annual Juried Show, Putnam Arts Council, Mahopac, NY, Jurors Barbara Smith Gioia and Margaret Zeitlin
“Humanity”, Mahopac Library, Mahopac, NY

2017
Annual Juried Show, Putnam Arts Council, Juror Jill Enfield
The Alternate Self, Blue Door Art Center, Yonkers, NY
Far and Wide, the Ninth Annual Regional Juried Exhibit, Woodstock Artists Association and Museum, Woodstock, NY, Juror Bruce Weber

2016
Artist of the Month, Kent Public Library, Kent Lakes NY
“Her Nature” at the Ossining Library Gallery, Ossining NY
“Spring Fever” Juried Show The Gallery at Eastern Hay, Pawling NY, Juror Liliana Washburn
Annual Juried Show, Putnam Arts Council, Juror Tom Christopher

2015
“Feeding our Passions” The Gallery at Eastern Hay, Pawling NY, Curated by
Liliana Washburn
“Her Nature” at Ward Pound Ridge Reservation, Cross River NY
“Her Nature” at the Mahopac Library, Mahopac NY
“Close to the Edge” Juried Show, Pound Ridge Library, Pound Ridge NY, Juror, Catherine Vanaria
Annual Juried Show, Putnam Arts Council, Juror Anne Johann

2014
“Earthly Beings” Two-Woman Show, Marina Gallery, Cold Spring NY
“Natural Instincts” Juried Show, Ward Pound Ridge Reservation, Cross River NY, Juror Kenise Barnes
“Her Nature II”, Studio Around the Corner, Brewster NY

2013
“Her Nature, 4 Artists Interpret the Natural World”, Belle Levine Art Gallery at
Putnam Arts Council, Mahopac NY
“Elements”, Hammond Museum Juried Show, Juror Jennifer McGregor
“Nature/Culture” Juried Show, Front Street Gallery, Patterson NY, Juror Terry
Ariano
“Lost and Found in Yonkers”, Blue Door Gallery, Yonkers NY, Curated by Arlé Sklar-Weinstein and Luis Perelman
Putnam Arts Council Members’ Show, Mahopac NY

2012
Fall Members Art Show, Arts on the Lake, Kent, NY
Small Works, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY
Annual Juried Show, Putnam Arts Council, Juror Don Alter
KMA Members Show, Putnam Arts Council, Mahopac NY
Spring Members’ Art Show, Arts on the Lake, Kent NY
Putnam Arts Council Members’ Show, Mahopac NY

2011
Katonah Museum of Art, Members’ Show, Katonah NY
Annual Juried Show, Putnam Arts Council, Juror Randy Williams
Katonah Museum of Art, Small Works, KMA Artists’ Association
“A Spin on Green”, Juried Show, ArtsWestchester, Juror Rick Rogers
Spring Members’ Art Show, Arts on the Lake, Kent, NY
A.R.T.S. Gallery, Curated Group Show, Croton Falls, NYv

2008-2010
Spring and Fall Members’ Art Show, Arts on the Lake, Kent, NY

Professional Experience
2010 – Present – Full-Time Mixed Media Artist
1990-2010 – Art Teacher: Katonah-Lewisboro School District, Katonah NY
1978-1983; 1989-1990 – Art Teacher: Bedford Central School District, Bedford NY

Education
University of “Native American Experience”, Studies on Art, Place and Spirit with Gratitude to Navajo, Apache and Hopi Artists
College of New Rochelle, MA Art Education
Manhattanville College, Sculpture with Lou Trakis
University of Denver, BFA

Memberships
Putnam Council on the Arts
Arts on the Lake, Kent, NY
Blue Door Gallery, Yonkers NY
Westchester Arts Council
Woodstock Artist Association
Katonah Museum of Art Artists’ Association, Advisory Board, 2011-2014