Beth Kaminstein (b.1954 NYC)

Education

1976 BA Bennington College Ceramics, Drawing, Dance

 

Exhibitions

2020 Kaminstein and Perreault, Portside Gallery, Islamorada, FL
2019 Giordanne Salley, Beth Kaminstein, NADA Fair, Miami, FL

2019 Ceramics 2019, juried exhibition Guilford Art Center, CT

2018 Church Kaminstein Rosen, Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects, NYC
2017 Leslie Parke/ Beth Kaminstein, Cross Mackenzie Gallery, Washington DC
2016 Pop-Up Group Show, Huxley-Lavelle Fine Art Gallery, Islamorada FL
2016 Free Time Part ,1 Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects, NYC
2015 Clay in a Certain Kind of Way: A Tribute to Stanley Rosen, Peekskill NY
2014 In The Presence of Large Leaves, Gallery at Kona Kai, Key Largo FL
2014 In The Presence of Large Leaves, Tropical Audubon Society, South Miami FL
2013 Frankenthaler and Kaminstein, Cross Mackenzie Gallery, Washington DC
2013 Pastels, Gallery at the Kona Kai, Key Largo FL
2013 Fluxation, Matecumbe Studio Gallery, Islamorada FL
2005-2016 Greenways Project Broward County Art in Public Places, Broward County FL
2002 Artist Invite Artists, Susan Tunick Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, Newcastle ME

2001 Artists of the Keys Jewish Community Center Keys Jewish Community Center, Tavernier FL

1988 Firing the Imagination-Artists Use Clay, Urban Center, NYC; USDAN Gallery, VT

1986 Small Works, New York University, NYC
1983 Two-Person Show Beth Kaminstein/ Amanda Church, Lucky Strike Gallery, NYC
1982 Bennington College Ceramic Artists Bennington College, Bennington VT
1982 Emerging Artists, Newark Gallery Newark NJ
1980 Artists of Greenwich House Pottery Greenwich House Pottery, NYC
1975 Emerging Ceramic Artists, National Council on the Education of Ceramic Art, LSU

 

Reviews
2017 May 25 Washington Post, Mark Jenkins “In the Galleries: Powerful Messages that Require Few Words”
2016 June 23 New York Times, Roberta Smith “Galleries Shift Shape to Survive in a Changing Art World”

 

Collections
Eric Carle, Jules and Kristina Olitski, Larry Poons and Paula Deluccia, David Mirvish

 

Texts
2017 Painting in Paradise: Olitski and Poons in Islamorada, exhibition essay

 

Teaching
2010-present ongoing class in my studio
2000 Coral Shores High School, FL Comparison in Clay of Crete 2000 BC to Islamorada 2000 AD 1979-1980 Parsons School of Design, NYC
1976-1978 Greenwich House Pottery, NYC
1975-1976 Montclair State College, Montclair, NJ

 

Curatorial Projects

2019 Painting and Song, the Work of Dan Bern, Portside Gallery, Islamorada
2018 Stanley Rosen @NADA, Miami
2017 Painting in Paradise: Olitski and Poons in Islamorada, Moorings Gallery, Islamorada 2017 2017 Beginnings Sculptural Ceramics of Stanley Rosen, Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects, NYC

Awards and Grants
1996-2000 Recipient of Monroe County Council of the Arts/Artist in the Classroom Grants

 

Community Engagement
2010-present Art in Public Place Committee for Monroe County, FL serving at the pleasure of County Commissioner David Rice
2017 Establishing US1 Sculpture Trail with eight public art pieces from Islamorada to Key West in coordination with The Arts Student League NYC, private donors Key West, and the Art in Public Place Committee
2017 Created and organized a fundraiser for the Good Health Clinic, our only community health clinic, called Soup and Salad Daze, whereby artists in the Upper Keys make and donate multiple bowls and cups to be filled with soups and salads.