DAN FINALDI
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Inspiration for what I do is based upon an intuitive and emotional response to what I am seeing.  Painting figures and portraits  invigorate me and continue to be a focal point in my compositions. 

The people that I choose are in my life and environment; my family, my students and friends, my colleagues.   Tackling larger compositions with the people sitting for me in a space or outdoors is an extraordinarily exciting prospect.   I paint from life and most often complete the entire process directly in front of my subject. 

While I do not have any prejudice against photographic references, I value painting directly and I have found it has many benefits for me.  I see more information while in front of my subject.  I am inspired to change things and I have an urgency to capture what is flowing from reality.
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Daniel Finaldi

Exhibitions , Social Media

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Exhibitions:

​2019 "Lois Dodd and friends" Romano Gallery, Blair Academy, Blairstown NJ

2019 "Mel Leipzig and Friends" 

Cape Cod Museum of Art, off Route 6A, 60 Hope Lane, Dennis
https://www.ccmoa.org/

2017  Summer Group Exhibition Dacia Gallery, NYC,  NY

2015  "Trio" Mel Leipzig, Linda Pochesci and Dan Finaldi paintings from Cape Cod and beyond, Cape Cod Cultural Center,  South Yarmouth MA

2015 USA Embassy in Praia Cape Verde Africa

2014 "Capturing Life in The Studio", Solo exhibition, Edward Williams Gallery, Farleigh Dickinson University

2014 Selected for the Art In Embassies Program, Three paintings exhibited in the American Embassy in Djibouti, Africa

2014  Contemporary Cape Cod, People and Places, Cultural Center of Cape Cod, South Yarmouth
2013 Romantic Realism, The Center for Contemporary Art, Bedminster, New Jersey

2013 People In My Life, Solo Exhibit, The Chapin School Gallery, Princeton, New Jersey

2012 Lois Dodd and Her Students, The Firehouse Center for the Falcon Foundation, Damariscotta, Maine

2012 Trenton Makes, A Trenton and New York City Show curated by Gerard Haggerty, Prince Street Gallery and the Ellarslie Museum

2011 From New Jersey to the Cape, exhibition Leipzig, Finaldi, Pochesci, The Cape Cod Museum, Dennis, Massachusetts

2011 The Influence of a teacher, Mel Leipzig and Proteges, West Windsor Art Center, West Windsor New Jersey

2011 Focus On Princeton, An exhibition featuring the latest works of the Princeton Artists

2011 Alliance Montclair State University Galllery, George Segal Gallery

2010 Portraits and Landscapes, Rizzo Fine Art, Princeton, New Jersey

2010 Intimate Portraits, One Person Show, The Nassau Club, Princeton, New Jersey

2010 Religion and Art, Ellarlsie Museum

2009 Vision and Voice, Princeton Art Alliance

2009 Realism Unbound, Noyes Museum

2009 New Jersey Arts Annual, Morris Museum

2008 One Person Show, Romano Gallery, Blair Academy, Blairstown, New Jersey

2008 One Person Show, People and Places, Johnson and Johnson Headquarters, One
Johnson Drive, New Brunswick, New Jersey

2008 A Matter of Perspective, Our Personal Landscape. Marie L Mathews Gallery,

2008 Princeton New Jersey The Way Home, Pierro Gallery of South Orange New Jersey

2007 Ellarslie Open Juried Show

2006 Walker Kornbluth Gallery, From the Country to the Shore New Jersey Center for Visual Art

2006 International Juried Show, Summit, New Jersey

2005 Noyes Museum, A Sense of Place

2005 Ellarslie Open  Juried Show

2004 Two Person Show, Rider University Gallery (catalog)

2004 One Person Show, Mercer Gallery, Rochester, New York

2004 Exhibition of Recent Paintings, Walker Kornbluth Fairlawn, New Jersey

2002 Group Exhibition, The New Jersey Landscape, The Dutot Museum, Water Gap, Pennsylvania

2001 One Person Exhibit, Walker Kornbluth Gallery, Fairlawn, New Jersey

2001 The Contemporary New Jersey Landscape, Romano Gallery, Blair Academy, Blairstown, New Jersey

2001 Earthline/Landscape, An Exhibition of Selected Artists Painting the New Jersey Landscape, The Gallery of South Orange, South Orange New Jersey (catalog)

2000 The Painted Gift, Hubert Gallery, New York City

1999 The Painted Gift, Hubert Gallery. New York City

1999 New Jersey Landscapes, curated by Lois Dodd, Rider University Art Gallery, Lawrenceville, New Jersey (catalog)

1998 Group Exhibit of New Jersey Landscape Painters, The Firehouse Gallery, Bordentown, New Jersey

1998 The Painted Gift, Hubert Gallery, New York City

1998 5th Annual Juried Competition for publication in Manhattan Arts International Magazine

1998 One-person show of landscape and still life, Mercer Gallery, Monroe Community College, Rochester, New York

1993 13th Annual Ellarslie Open juried competition at the Trenton City Museum at Ellarslie

1993 Selections, a juried competition at Schering Plough Corporation, Madison, New Jersey (catalog) National Juried Competition, Bowery Gallery, New York City, Juror

1993 Louis Finkelstein 167th Annual Exhibition for Painting and Sculpture, National

1993 Academy of Design, New York City

1993 14th Annual Juried Exhibition for Painting and Sculpture, Juror John Russell, New
York Times Art Critic, Ridgefield Art Guild, Ridgefield, Connecticut

1993 The Artist's Personal Metaphor, juried exhibition at Ellarslie City Museum of Trenton, Trenton, New Jersey

1993 TAWA and Aljira collaborative exhibit, The Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, New Jersey

1990 National Juried Competition, Juror Lennart Anderson, First Street Gallery, New York City

1990 National Juried Competition, Juror Phillip Pearlstein, Creative Arts Workshop Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut

Collections

Messiah College

Rider University

St. Paul the Apostle Church

Grants and Fellowships
 2009 Gerald R. Dodge Fellowship Grant Recipient

Education

Master of Fine Art 1987 Brooklyn College, Brooklyn New York

Bachelor of Fine Art, 1984 S.U.N.Y at New Paltz, New Paltz, New York

Residencies:
Vermont Studio Center 1988



Collections
Messiah College

Rider University

St. Paul the Apostle Church

Grants and Fellowships
 2009 Gerald R. Dodge Fellowship Grant Recipient

Curatorial  

1994 
Co-Curator
 The Noyes Museum, Realism Unbound, An Exploration of Representational Painting by New Jersey Artists.

2009
    
Co-Curator 
The Noyes Museum, A Sense of Place.

Teaching
1992       
Adjunct Brooklyn College Painting
1991/92 

Adjunct Mercer Community College

Drawing
2001-present

Teacher of Fine Art
Freehold Borough High School

Publications

United States Art in Embassies Exhibition: Embassy Djibouti
United States Art in Embassies Exhibition: Embassy Praia
Lois Dodd and Her Students, catalog

Contemporary Cape Cod Artists: People and Places,  by Deborah Forman

Reviews


2019 Create Magazine, Interview, Intuitive Portaits from Life
2013 Packet Publications Time Off, Anthony Stoeckert 
2013 Romantic Realism 
2012 Princeton Packet Show at Chapin School
2010 The Artful Blogger: Ilene Dube Review
2010
 RoseNet TV, An Internet Television Interview
2009
 Central Jersey.com, Ilene Dube, Art and Soul Review
2008 
Essex Journal, Bergen Record, Jessica Marlowe
2008
 Time Off, Princeton Packet Online, Illene Dube
2006 The Star Ledger, Daniel Bischoff
2006 New York Times Fred Adelson
2004 The Trenton Times, Janet Purcell
2004 The Democrat and Chronicle, Rochester, New York
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