JACQUE ROCHESTER
256 Cambridge Avenue
Jersey City, NJ, 07307
917-364-7751
BORN
1952 Glen Cove, ME
EDUCATION
Slade School of Art London, ENG
Diploma 1976 Postgraduate 1978
Studied with: William Coldstream, Lucien Freud,
Leon Kossoff, Euan Uglow
Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture
Skowhegan, ME 1972
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2007- Harborside Financial Center, Jersey City, NJ
1996-07 Judith Leighton, Blue Hill, ME
2004- Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland, ME
2004- N3 Project Place, Brooklyn, NY
2000- Colby College Museum, Waterville, ME
1999- 100 Broadway Exhibition Program, New York, NY
1992, 94- Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland, ME
1982, 86- Allport Gallery, San Francisco, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017- “Group Show” David Cohen Collection, NY, NY
2016- “Black and White” David Cohen Collection, NY, NY
2014- “Nation II: At the Alamo” Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn NY
2013“Sideshow Nation” Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn NY
2012- “Sideshow” Sideshow Gallery Brooklyn NY
2011- Suzanne Randolph Fine Art
2010- “It's a Wonderful Tenth” Sideshow, Brooklyn NY
2010- “Fiore and Friends” The Firehouse, Damariscotta ME
2009- “It's a Wonderful Life” Sideshow, Brooklyn NY
2008- "Shape Shifters: New York Painters" U North Carolina, Pembroke NC
2008- Sideshow, Brooklyn, NY
2008- “Christmas Show” Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland ME
2007- "Continuum" The Temporary Museum, Brooklyn, NY
2007- “Christmas Show” Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland ME
2007- "Winter Collection, Part I" Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland, ME
2006- "Open Studio" Suzanne Randolph Fine Art, NY, NY
2006- "Ocean" The Temporary Museum, Brooklyn, NY
2006- "Christmas Show" Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland, ME
2005- "Group Show" The Temporary Museum, Brooklyn, NY
2005- "Crossing the Line" The Painting Center, New York, NY
2005- "The Long View: Selections from the Norma B. Marin Collection"
University of Maine, Bangor, ME
2004- "100 Works on Paper" Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY
2002- "Abstract Painting" N3 Project Space, Brooklyn, NY
2002- “Strong Painting” Germaine Keller, Garrison, NY
2001- "The Biennial" Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
1999- "Painting IV- Wanderlust" N3 Project Space, Brooklyn, NY
1999- "Big Little Drawing Show" N3 Project Space, Brooklyn, NY
1999- "Lyrical Abstraction" Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME
1996- "Small Works" New York University, New York, NY
Edward Thorp, curator
1996- "Skowhegan at 50: The Maine Legacy" CMCA, Rockport, ME
1996- Baxter Gallery- Portland School of Art , Portland, ME
1992- "Selections from the Permanent Collection" University of Maine, Machias, ME
1991- The Painterly Image" New York Studio School, New York, NY
1991- 'American Women Artists" University of Maine, Machias, ME
1989- "Painting" The Gallery, New York, NY
1989- "Group Show" The Gallery, New York, NY
1988- "Drawings" Allport Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1983- "Six Maine Artists" Farnsworth Museum, Rockland, ME
1981- "All-Maine Biennial" University of Maine, Portland, ME
1980- "Drawing-Maine Artists" University of Maine, Orono, ME
1980- "American Landscape" Allport Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1979- "All-Maine Biennial" Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME
1979- "Skowhegan School- Recent Talent" Maine Coast Artists, Rockport, ME
AWARDS
1983- MacDowell Fellowship
1982- Charles Fox Purchase Prize, Farnsworth Museum, Rockland, ME
1978- Rodney Burn Prize, Slade School of Art, London, ENG
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PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Avon- Suffern, NY
Farnsworth Museum- Rockland, ME
McKinsey & Co- San Francisco, CA
Portland Museum of Art- Portland, ME
Slade School of Art- London ENG
Tureen & Margolis- Portland ME
University of Maine- Machias ME
TEACHING
1991, 2001, 2009- New York Studio School, Drawing Marathon, New York, NY
2004, 2007- Waterfall Arts, Montville, ME
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Cohen. David “Jacque Rochester at N3 Project Space”
The New York Sun. February 2004
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Fendrich, Laurie "The Interface of Art and Humanity" The Chronicle Review. February 2008
Quinlan, Cathy Nan "Shape Shifters: New York Painters" artcritical.com. May 2008
http://guidedbyinvoices.us/artists/CoraCohen/Press/2008_05_Cora_Cohen_ArtCritical.pdf