Statement/Bio/Selected Shows
Surrealism Combining Art and Science
… Man’s Technological Integration…
My
background as a former blood laboratory technician has been
instrumental in shaping the direction of my work on an atomic level,
yet also in ways that draw me to the dimensional or faceted aspect of
everything that I experience. By combining scientific elements,
symbolic object replication, and dream imagery into a sector of my
work, each piece takes on a life form similar to that of a nucleus, and
the expansion of it as an infinite fractal. Connected to this
dimensionally expanding state is the symbolism within my work where the
human figure partially transforms into his own technologically created
machine. Man by his own design continues to create more highly
sophisticated technological devices whereas a metamorphosis occurs when
man and technology seem to slowly integrate together. There is
both a serious as well as a whimsical element to this in the sense that
man becomes vulnerable to the very creation which he has
designed.
The connection of the
mysteries of Science combined with the subconscious nature of
Surrealism is rooted deeply within each painting that I create. The
subconscious holds keys to many doors. Caplyn Dor
Awards/Honors/ Selected Exhibitions and Publications
2005-06
“Area Artists Collection” – Collector’s Gallery - Albright Knox Art
Gallery, Buffalo, New York
2004-05
“Area Artists Collection” – Collector’s Gallery -
Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New
York
2003-04 “Area Artists Collection” – Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
“Selected Works II” – Albright Knox Art
Gallery. Director, Louis Grachos
2003
DeLynn’s Gallery – Franklinville, NY
2003 International Elite Artists - ABS Gallery and Literary Site
2002
INPAKU – Internet Fair by the
Japanese Government. Japan
2001
XI Biennial Intl. - Science, Art,
Technology, Vila Nova de Cerviera – Portugal
2001
Art Dialogue Gallery – Buffalo,
NY
2000 Harappa Festival – Tokyo, Japan
2000
Cork Gallery - Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln
Center in NYC "Digitalism" – Intl. Exhibition
2000
Guest Artist Speaker - Hallwalls,
Buffalo, NY. "Fractals" - Art and
Science.
1999 R2001
Intl. Group - "0 and 1"; Keio University, Shonan Fujisawa Campus -
Keio,
Japan
1998 Country
Without Boarders - R2001 Group Show - Abraham Lubelski Gallery -
NYC
1998
Trans-Hudson
Gallery - NYC. International Group Show with
R2001
1993 Art Expo - Jacob Javitz Center - NYC
1992 Art Avenue Gallery – Hamburg, New York
1992 The Franklin Street Gallery – Ellicotville, New York
1992
Benjaman’s Art Gallery – (2 Person Show); Buffalo, New York
1992 Clary-Miner Gallery – Art and the Woman Artist
1992 Metro Toronto Convention Center – Del Bello Gallery
1991 Del Bello Gallery – Toronto, Canada
and others..
Solo Shows
J.C. Mazur Gallery - Buffalo, New York
Hilbert College - Hamburg, New York
Arts Council in Buffalo and Erie County – Buffalo, New York
M. Waligur Doering Gallery – Hamburg, New York
Castellani Art Museum - Niagara University Campus; Niagara Falls, New York
Awards/Honors
2001 MOCA – Museum of Digital Art - Awarded "Donnie Award": 2nd Prize and Honorable Mention
1999 Judges Choice Award - Winter Art Competition; Austin, Texas
1998
Artistic Excellence Achievement Award - "TINT" Magazine, Austin,
TX
1998 Best of Show Award - Artistic Impressions Spring Art Competition, Austin, TX
1998 Intl. (Gold) C.A.P.I. Award of Excellence - Motion Picture Industry, Burbank, CA
1997 Honorable Mention - Art Calendar's "Crabbie Awards Competition"; Maryland
1992
Creative Artist Fellowship - NYS Council on the Arts in New York
State and Erie
County
1992 SoHo International Art Competition -
NYC
1990 SoHo International Art Competition - NYC
Publications
2004 Heldref Publications – (Cover Art) ; “Beta Cell III”; ReVision Journal,
2003 Salamander Review Magazine, Los Angeles, CA - “Cellular IV” (cover art)
2000 OutsideiN Publication – “Realm of Knowledge”
1999 Massurrealism Society – (interview); Surrealism vs Massurrealism
1999 TFTN Magazine - Fractal Translight Newsletter; Cover Art
1999 Tint Fine Art Magazine – (interview and images); “Hieroglyphics of Thought”;
1999 McMillan Publishing - Imagine It! SciFi CD Rom (Cover and Inside)
1999 Jupiter’s Freedom Magazine - “Architecture in Art”
1999 TINT Fine Art Magazine – “Contemporary Surrealism”
1999 TFTN Magazine – “Experimenting with DHTML Code”
1999 TFTN Magazine – “Inner Chamber of Fractal Generator”
1997 ArtCalendar; The Business Magazine For Visual Artists
Marquis Who's Who: In America, In the World, In the East, Who’s Who of American Women
2010-2011, 2006 - 07, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000
International Biographical Centre - Cambridge, England.
2000, 1999 Outstanding Women of the 20th
Century, Outstanding Intellectuals of the 20th Century,
Outstanding Scholars of the 20th Century, Outstanding Artists and
Designers of the 20th
Century, Outstanding People of the 20th Century.
Selected Museum Shows - Museum Collections
The 43rd and 44th Western New York Exhibitions - Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
"Area
Artists Collection" of the Collector’s Gallery - 1992, ‘03, 2001, ’02,
’03, ’04, ’05 ‘ 06 - Albright-Knox
Art Gallery Museum, Buffalo, NY
Castellani Art Museum – (Solo) Niagara University, Niagara Falls, New York
Theodore Roosevelt Museum - Buffalo, NY - Juror; Douglas Schultz; Director; Albright-Knox Art Gallery
Jurors for Selected Museum Shows
Lois
Grachos
Director, Albright-Knox Art Gallery (museum), Buffalo, NY
Charlotta
Kotik
Curator of Contemporary Art at the Brooklyn Museum in New York City;
Barbara
Haskell
Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the Whitney Museum in New York
City;
Susana Torruella Leval Chief Curator of El Museo del Barrio Museum in New York City