CHARLENE NIELD RESUME SELECTED EXHIBITIONS: SOLO & SMALL GROUP
2022 Soul Gallery, The Space Between, Winnipeg, Canada (Solo Exhibition)
2022 Arts Club of Washington, Mini Solo, Washington, DC
2021 Touchstone Gallery, Eight Stories, Washington, DC
2021 Saville Gallery, The Art of Happenstance:  Chance Meetings & Destined Friends, Cumberland, MD (Solo Exhibition)
2019 Bridge Gallery, For the Birds, Shepherdstown, WV
2018 Foundry Gallery, a deux, Washington, DC (Reviewed in Washington Post)
2017 Foundry Gallery, The Usual Suspects, Washington, DC (Solo Exhibition)
2016 Foundry Gallery, An Abstract State of Mind, Washington, DC
2015 Foundry Gallery, Quartet Nouveau, Washington, DC (Reviewed in Washington Post) SELECTED EXHIBITIONS: JURIED GROUP
2022 Hill Center, Annual Regional Juried Exhibition, Washington, DC
2022 Rhode Island Watercolor Society, Artist’s Choice National Juried Exhibition, Pawtucket, RI
2022 Saville Gallery, 23rd Wills Creek Exhibition of Fine Art, Cumberland, MD
2021 Maryland Federation of Art, Strokes of Genius, Annapolis, MD
2020 Hill Center, Annual Regional Juried Exhibition, Washington, DC
2019 Hampton Arts Center, Virginia Artists Exhibition, Hampton, VA
2019 Camelback Gallery, Waterscapes II International Painting Competition, Scottsdale, AZ
2019 Maryland Federation of Art, Strokes of Genius, Annapolis, MD
2019 Maryland Federation of Art, American Landscape, Annapolis, MD
2019 Saville Gallery, Make Me Blush, Cumberland, MD
2019 Clarendon Gallery, Sign of the Times, Arlington, VA
2018 Maryland Federation of Art, Strokes of Genius, Annapolis, MD
2018 Delaplaine Arts Center, National Juried Exhibit, Frederick, MD
2018 Maryland Federation of Art, Strokes of Genius, Annapolis, MD
2018 Annmarie Sculpture Garden, Birds of a Feather, Solomons, MD
2018 Maryland Federation of Art, There’s No Place Like Home, Annapolis, MD
2017 Maryland Federation of Art, Strokes of Genius, Annapolis, MD
2017 Linus Galleries, Ugly, New York, NY
2016 Maryland Federation of Art, Strokes of Genius, Annapolis, MD
2016 Maryland Federation of Art, American Landscapes, Annapolis, MD
2015 Saville Gallery, One Cubed, Wills Creek Exhibition, Cumberland, MD
2015 Strathmore Mansion, Women Chefs: Artists in the Kitchen, Bethesda, MD
2014 Washington ArtWorks, Simplicity: Art in Black & White, Rockville, MD
2014 Howard County Conservancy, 5th Annual Juried Exhibition,  Woodstock, MD AWARDS, RECOGNITION & ACHIEVEMENTS
2023 Artwork Selected for Gelbie, Weingut Heinrich Hartl III Winery, Trumauerstr, Austria
2021 Cover, Hill Rag, Washington, DC
2021 Juror’s Choice Award, Strokes of Genius, Maryland Federation of Art, Annapolis, MD
2021 Artwork Selected for Anabasa Bodegas Covila Wines, Rioja, Spain
2019 Juror’s Choice Award, Strokes of Genius, Maryland Federation of Art, Annapolis, MD
2019 Cover and feature article, Elan Magazine
2019 Award of Excellence, Waterscapes II International Painting Competition, Scottsdale, AZ
2017 Juried as Member Artist, Torpedo Factory Artists Association, Alexandria, VA
2017 Honorable Mention, Red Show, Gallery Underground, Arlington, VA
2015 Geri Gordon First Choice Aware, Alexandria Art League Parton Show, Alexandria, VA
 
  COLLABORATIONS
Ongoing collaborative painting with other artists for specific projects and exhibitions
Provided artwork for 100 birds (Burds) for an NFT series in collaboration with Briggs Brandenburg. (Issuance delayed due to disruption in the crypto market.) ART ORGANIZATION SERVICE
2023 Touchstone Foundation, Board of Directors
2020 - Present Touchstone Gallery, Treasurer
2018 – Present Friends of the Torpedo Factory, Board of Directors 
2017 – 2019 Torpedo Factory Artists Association, Treasurer GALLERY REPRESENTATION, AFFILIATIONS & MEMBERSHIPS
Soul Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada
Touchstone Gallery, Washington, DC
Spilsbury Gallery,  Arts Club of Washington, Washington, DC
Torpedo Factory Artists Association, Torpedo Factory Arts Center, Alexandria, VA
Maryland Federation of Art, Annapolis, MD
Friends of the Torpedo Factory, Alexandria, VA
Alexandria Art League, Alexandria, VA SOCIAL MEDIA/WEBSITE
Instagram @charlenenield, Over 7,650 followers
Website charlenenield.com PRESS
 
“Viewers find themselves quickly enmeshed in each character’s life. No facades here, no pretentiousness….It’s easy to see why many people who stop by her studio for a peek leave with three or four paintings….The artist is noted for simplicity of form and for her skillful use of color.  Her representational figurative paintings eliminate extraneous detail and reduce forms to their most basic essence with refreshing authenticity.”
Elan Magazine, November 2019                                                      
 
“In form, Nield seems to dominate….representational, expressionist and punctuated with collaged patterns that range from simple lines to elaborate floral motifs…. Other compositions, which sometimes stretch across paired canvases, portray a snake charmer and a dog whose mostly orange coat incorporates many other hues. Like most of Nield’s subjects, the animal has a playful immediacy that owes as much to gesture as to recognizable image.”
Washington Post, September 21, 2018
 
The artist’s motley crew of characters provides an eclectic and intricate sampling of her representational style. Colorful figures, rich with texture bring whimsy and joy to the banality of everyday life.
East City Art, September 2018
Nield’s works evoke such Viennese proto-modernists as Klimt and Schiele. Stylized and flattened, her women are often framed by geometric patterns or – as in “Lizzy and Jupiter” – accompanied by a dog that appears more Euclidian than organic. Naturalism and near-abstraction dovetail in (her) pictures…” – Washington Post, February 19, 2015