Biography

Upcoming Events:

Artist Lecture to Highlight Finale of Behringer-Crawford Museum Art Exhibit

Aileen McCarthy: Insight into a Northern Kentucky Legend

Saturday, April 11, 2015

2:00-3:00PM

Toyota Education Center, Behringer-Crawford Museum

1600 Montague Road, Devou Park

Covington Kentucky

Cincinnati portraitist, Marlene VonHandorf Steele, will share

her first-hand experiences as a child under McCarthy's tutelage. Steele will also display an oil painting by Miss McCarthy. The "Arts Alive!" exhibit includes two pastels by McCarthy, who was a student of 19th century painter Frank Duveneck.

Free to museum members, included with admission for all others

Contact: Studio 513-352-0786

Exhibitions

2015 The Ohio Governor's Landscape Invitational Juried Exhibit, Ohio Gubernatorial offices

Columbus, Ohio June 2014- June 2015

2014 "The Urban Landscape- 6 Artists -6 Views" Clifton Cultural Art Center Nov 14-Dec 5, 2014, Cincinnati Ohio

Portraits An Invitational show Mary Ran Gallery, Cincinnati Ohio Sept 5 -Oct 4, 2014

University Club Invitational May 17th- July 16th, 2014 W. 4th Street, Cincinnati Ohio

The Pastel Invitational Visual Art Center of Preble County, Eaton, Ohio July 8 -August 16 2014

2011-2012 Governor's Ohio Landscape Invitational, State Offices, Columbus Ohio Extended thru June 30, 2013

2012 119th Woman's Art Club Exhibition AWARD "Portrait of Dan" F&W Pastel Journal Award

2011 "Cincinnati Landscape Invitational" Cincinnati Art Galleries, 225 E. 6th Street. Featured paintings by popular artists.

2010

Atlanta Fine Arts League "Simply Drawn" AWARD

Lexington Art League "QX.net NUDE" Juried Show

Gallery Salveo "Metropolis" Landscape Invitational, Cincinnati Ohio

Woman's Art Club, Annual Juried Show, Cincinnati, Ohio AWARD

2009

Ohio State Fair Juried Fine Art Show 2 landscape oil paintings

“The Nude Show” Lexington Art league, Lexington Kentucky, January 9-March 1, 2009

2008

“THE GOOD EARTH COMPETITION” www.paintbetterpaintings.com AWARD

Woman's Art Club Annual Juried Show AWARD

Portrait Society of America: Portrait Drawing Competition, Atlanta Fine Arts league Portrait of Jimmie AWARD

2007

Spring Grove Heritage Foundation 1st BiAnnual Art Exhibit May 1 - Sept 30, 2007 Cincinnati, Ohio
Woman’s Art Club, Lecture Demo May 12, 2007 12:30 PM Pendleton Art Center, Cincinnati, Ohio

2006

Art Academy of Cincinnati: Community Education Faculty Exhibit June 2006

Ruthe G. Pearlman Gallery, Cincinnati Ohio

Woman's Art Club Juried Show AWARD
California Watercolor Association: 38th National Exhibition October 2006

2005

“SPORTS IN ART” November 2005 Jasper Arts Center, Krempp Gallery Jasper, Indiana BEST OF SHOW AWARD “The Strategist”

“FORM & FIGURE” November 2005-January 2006 YWCA Women’s Art Gallery , Figurative Invitational Cincinnati Ohio

“INTERNATIONAL NUDE” Lexington Art League, January 2005 Lexington, Kentucky

112th Annual Women's Art Club Juried Exhibit AWARD
Florence Drugan Award: "Black Rose" Watercolor

“SHADES OF PASTEL” April 2005 Maryland Pastel Society, National Juried Exhibition at BlackRock Center for the Arts.

2004

111th Annual Women's Art Club Exhibit April 25th - June 1st
AWARD: Georgiabelle & Larry Clark Gold Medal Award

2003

110th Annual Women's Art Club Exhibit April 6 - 13, 2003
AWARD: Jeanette Baldwin Memorial Award

"The Other Nude Show" Miller Fine Art Gallery, Lexington, KY
Feb. 19 - March 31, 2003

"Face to Face: A Look at Contemporary Portraits" Invitational curated by Steven Vincent Clark, Sponsored by the Greater Cincinnati Foundation Gallery, 200 W. Fourth St. Cincinnati, OH July 17 - September 2003

2002

"HOUSES" Invitational KZF Gallery Baldwin Bldg., Cincinnati, OH November 2002 - March 2003

109th Annual Women's Art Club Exhibit April, 2002
AWARD: The Judson Wilson Award of Distinction $2,000

2000

"Drawn to Art" Fitton Center, Hamilton, Ohio, Invitational Group Drawing Show. Also featuring Alex McKibbin, Perin Mahler, Edie Harper, Gary Gaffney January 23 - February 20

"Drawing From Perception III" Wright State University Galleries. Curator: Rosemarie Beck, New York Studio School. January 4 - 30th

1999

UC DAAP Faculty Exhibit, Tangeman Fine Arts Gallery
Tangeman University, October 1999

"WOMEN IN MID-CAREER" University Club, Cincinnati, Ohio
April 23 - May 23. Curator Daniel Brown and Andrew Emery
Also included: Connie McClure, Kay Muir, Carin Hebenstreit

1998

One Woman Show, BASE ART, Cincinnati, Ohio May - June
featuring oil landscapes and figure drawings

Marlene Steele's work is collected in numerous corporate and private collections.