ALLISON RIBACK

Fine Artist, Art Instructor

Watertown, CT 06795

abriback@gmail.com


EDUCATION

New York Academy of Art
Masters in Fine Arts. Concentration in Painting, Anatomy Track
September 2019-2021

Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT
Bachelor of Arts, Art & Design. Concentration in Studio Art, Oil Painting
May 2019


ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT

Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT August 2021-present
Adjunct Faculty - Taught Introduction to Painting, Painting II, Painting III, Senior Thesis Project in 2021-2022 as well as Drawing I.

Currently teaching Drawing I.

Holy Cross High School, Waterbury, CT August 2022-May 2024 Art Teacher - Teaching an introductory course to elements of drawing, painting, color theory - Teaching an Oil Painting course to Juniors and Seniors

New York Academy of Art
Librarian Assistant 2019-2021

RECOGNITIONS

New York Academy of Art
-MFA Academy Scholar Award
-Fall Student Curatorial Commitee Exhibition, ‘Parallels’, 2020
“Wild Hogs”, 2020 (oil on panel)
-Spring Exhibition ‘Treading Lightly’, 2021
“American Beauty”, 2020 (oil on canvas)
- MFA 2021 Thesis Exhibition, May 2021

“If I Knew the Way, I Would Take You Home”, 2021 (graphite on mounted paper)

Sacred Heart University, Art & Design Department, Fairfield, CT
-Phlon Art Scholarship

-Dean’s Scholarship

-President’s Excellence Award

The New Haven Paint & Clay Club, New Haven, CT
117th Annual Juried Exhibition
-Accepted Work: Spring Time of Loving (oil painting on wood panel)
Heisenberg (graphite pencil drawing)
-Featured article-New Haven Independent: https://www.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/paint_clay_club/
Society of Illustrators in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
-Accepted Work: Heisenberg (graphite pencil drawing) 2019
-Accepted Work: Born to be Wild (oil on canvas) 2020

EXHIBITIONS

- Paintings on view at Chamard Vineyard , Six Summit Gallery - September 2024-present.
-‘Bad Lighting’ Group Show - Morris, CT   - October 2023

- The Art and Design Faculty Exhibition, Sacred Heart University, Fairfield CT -November 2022.

-’Revealing The Beauty Within’, Village One Art Gallery, Chelsea NYC, May 24 -June 25, 2022

-Tribeca Ball Exhibition, New York Academy of Art, May 2020 - April 2021

-Deck the Walls, New York Academy of Art, December 2019 - December 2020

-RAW Artists Exhibition, Oakdale Theater, Wallingford CT - May 2019

-Academic Senior Project, featured work 2 Series and additional portraits - April 2019

-Annual Arts on Oronoke Spring Exhibit, Holy Cross High School, Waterbury, CT - May 2018
-Art Space New Haven (Open-Studio), Yale University, New Haven, CT - October 2018

MEDIUMS/SKILLS
Oil Painting | Figure Drawing | Adobe Photoshop (basics)