About the Artist

Solo and Two Person Exhibitions:

• 2012        Elizabeth Torak solo exhibition, Tilting at Windmills Gallery, Manchester, Vermont
• 1998, 2000,’01,’03, ’04, ’06,’08  Tilting at Windmills Gallery, Manchester, VT
• 1995-’99     G.C. Lucas Gallery, Indianapolis, IN
• 1995        Southern Vermont Art Center, Manchester, VT
• 1993        Capricorn Gallery, Bethesda, MD
• 1992        The New Jersey Museum of Agriculture, New Brunswick, NJ

Selected Awards:

• 2010        Macowin Tuttle Memorial Award – Salmagundi Club 127^th Annual Members’    Exhibition, Salmagundi Club, New York, NY
• 2009        Second Prize -  Portrait Theme Show, Salmagundi Club, New York, NY
• 2009        Georgie Read Barton Memorial Award - Hudson Valley Art Association 78th Annual Exhibition,  Ridgewood Art Institute, Ridgewood, NJ
• 2008        Anna Hyatt Huntington Horse’s Head for Best Painting - - Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club Members Exhibition, Broome Street Gallery, New York, NY
• 2007        Audubon Artists Silver Medal of Honor - Audubon Artists 65th Annual Exhibition, Salmagundi Club, New York, NY
• 2006        The John Young-Hunter Memorial Award - Allied Artists of America 93rd Annual Exhibition, National Arts Club, New York, NY
• 2005        First Award for Oil - Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club Members Exhibition, Broome Street Gallery, New York, NY
• 2004        Frank C. Wright Memorial Award - American Artists Professional League 76th Grand National Exhibition, Salmagundi Club, New York, NY
• 2002        The American Artists Professional League Award for Traditional Realism - Allied Artists of America 89th Annual Exhibition, National Arts Club, New York, NY
• 2001        Dumond Memorial Award for Best Light and Atmospheric Effect - Hudson Valley Art Association 70th Annual Exhibition - Newington-Cropsey Foundation Gallery, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY

Selected Group Exhibitions:

• Arcadia Gallery, New York, NY
• Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, TX
• Bergstrom-Mahler Museum, Neenah, WI
• Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
• Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL
• Michael Ingbar Gallery, New York, NY
• Museum of Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
• John Pence Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• Principle Gallery, Alexandria, VA
• San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA

Bibliography:

• Robert K. Carsten, Feast of Venus, Revisited and Revised, The Artist’s Magazine, October 2012
• M. Stephen Doherty, Making Emotional Connections With Your Subject”, American Artist Workshop, Winter 2009
• Susanne Washburn, “Give Me the Colors”, Stratton Magazine, Winter 2009
• Clara Rose Thornton, “Summer Inspiration”, Southern Vermont Arts & Living, Summer 2009
• “Blogs Give Painters a New Way to Sell Art”,  Boston Globe, July, 2, 2007
• Biographical Encyclopedia of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers of the U.S.: Colonial to 2002
• M. Stephen Doherty, “Painting Luminous Veils of Color”, Creative Oil Painting, Rockport Publishers, Inc.
• Suzanne Martinucci, “Upholding the Classical Tradition”, American Artist Magazine, August 1994
• Who’s Who in the World 2006

Education:

• The Art Students League of New York
• B.S., The University of Chicago
• The Brearley School, New York, NY