Roberta Schofield Area 4

Roberta’s Bio:

Schofield earned an MFA in Painting and Photography in 1979 from the University of South Florida. Since then, she has exhibited her work all over the US in solo and group shows, appeared in international magazines, and had a 2-person show in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Her work was included in “The Heroic and Sublime: Large-Scale Work by Contemporary Women Artists” at the Gulf Coast Museum of Art in Largo, FL and in “Peoples Choice” exhibition at the Polk Museum of Art, and was included in a seminal 3-person exhibition “130 Years: Lynn Fostkett / Leslie Neumann / Roberta Schofield” at Gallery 221 at Hillsborough Community College.  She has held faculty appointments at the University of South Florida, South Florida Junior College, the University of Wisconsin in Eau Claire, and at St. Petersburg Junior College, and has lectured extensively.  Schofield’s digitally altered photographs have won many awards and her biography is in Who’s Who in American Art and Who’s Who in America.

Artists Statement:

Our reality is now so tied to photographs that everyone carries a camera and the photos that document our reality are being regularly shared in a global forum. As an artist, I can easily change that reality into fantasy – the moment in time becomes the timeless moment – through photo-editing software. This digital world, made up of discrete pixels, when enlarged to mural size, becomes intensely pure. The textures, values, colors, and lines peculiar to the digital world, are all formed by tiny squares even smaller than the tesserae of mosaics. I find these characteristics to be infinitely fascinating. Computer software provides a wide variety of possible combinations that can be manipulated to create odd and rich imagery. I have only scratched the surface of the possible so far because “happy accident” is a major characteristic of this exploration which keeps the process always fresh and new.  I do not create editions. I destroy all but low-quality files of pieces that are sold to ensure that the images are one-of-a-kind.

Exhibitions and Awards:

Solo and Two Person Exhibits (significant):

2014   Clayton Galleries, Tampa, FL
2011   TECO Plaza Gallery, Tampa, FL
2006  Pakhuis6 Gallery, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2006  Turner Center for the Arts, Valdosta, GA
2005  Clayton Galleries, Tampa, FL
2003  Clayton Galleries, Tampa, FL
2003  Hillsborough Community College, Tampa, FL
2002  Cudahy’s Gallery, Richmond, VA
2000  The Capitol Gallery, Tallahassee, FL
1999  Cudahy’s Gallery, Richmond, VA
1997   Cudahy’s Gallery, Richmond, VA
1996   Waterworks Visual Arts Center, Salisbury, NC
1995   Broward Community College, Pembroke Pines, FL
1994   Visual Arts Center of NW Florida, Panama City, FL
1993   Clayton Galleries, Tampa, FL
1993   Cudahy’s Gallery, Richmond, VA
1991    Jacksonville Coalition for the Visual Arts, FL

Group Exhibits (significant):

2021 Dunedin Fine Arts Center, Dunedin, FL
2020  Foosaner Museum, Melbourne, FL
2019   Ringling College of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL
2018   The Butler Institute of Visual Arts, Youngstown, OH
2018 & 2011    Old Court House Arts Center, Woodstock IL
2018 & 2017   Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation,
Watkinsville, GA
2016 Coral Springs Museum of Art, Coral Springs, FL
2013  Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY
2012  Selby Gallery, Ringling School of Art & Design,
Sarasota, FL
2010 Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL
2009 Leepa Rattner Museum of Art, Tarpon Springs, FL
2006  Museum of Science & Industry, Daytona Beach, FL
2005  Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL
2000  National Assoc. of Women Artists, New York, NY

Awards (significant):

2018 First Place: Old Court House Arts Center,
Woodstock, IL,
2018 Third Place: Webber Gallery,
College of Central Florida, Ocala, FL,
2015 Third Place: ArtCenter Manatee, Bradenton, FL,
2013  Ru Israels Memorial Award: LeMoyne Center
for the Visual Arts, Tallahassee, FL
Honorable Mention: Eastern Kentucky University
Chautauqua, Richmond, KY
2010  Equal Merit Award: Boca Raton Museum of Art, FL
2003 Best of Show: St. Augustine Art Center, FL
2002  Best of Show: The Arts Center, St. Petersburg, FL
2001  Grant: Arts Council of Hillsborough County, FL
1997  Second Prize: Ridge Art Assoc., Winter Haven, FL
1995  Third Prize: Port Royal Plantation, Hilton Head, SC
1990  Grant: Arts Council of Hillsborough County, FL
1987-88   Grant: Florida Individual Artist’s Fellowship
1986 Best of Show: Ridge Art Association,
Winter Haven, FL
1984 First Prize: Eau Claire Arts Council, WI
1983  Best in Show: The Arts Center, St. Petersburg, FL
1982 Second Prize: Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, FL
1982  Second Prize: The Arts Center, St. Petersburg, FL
1982  Mary Hulitar Award: The Society of the Four Arts,
Palm Beach, FL