EXHIBITIONS (selected)
Manhattan Movement and Arts Center/ Manhattan Youth Ballet, New York, N.Y. “Dance Space,” 2008
The Silo Gallery, New Milford, Conn. (solo),
“Flying Colors,” 2008
Cheryl McGinnis Gallery, New York, N.Y. 2006
Sardi’s Restaurant, New York, N.Y."The Sardi's Screens," freestanding mural, 7’ x 25’, permanent exhibition, dedicated 2006.
Times Square Visitors Center at the Embassy Theatre, New York, N.Y. Public Installation (solo),
"Dancing on Air...In Times Square,” 2002-04
The Silo Gallery, New Milford, Conn. (solo),
"The World Onstage", summer, 1999
The National Arts Club, N.Y. (solo), "Venice", 1997
William Doyle Russian Tea Room auction, N.Y. 1996
Gallery at Lincoln Center, New York, N.Y. (solo),
"City Music,” 1995
Christie's, New York, N.Y. Metropolitan Opera benefit auction, 1995
Gallery at Lincoln Center, New York, N.Y. (solo), "Storytellers", 1994
Christie's, New York, N.Y. Benefit auction, 1994
Christie's, New York, N.Y. Benefit auction, 1992
Saks Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 1991
Lincoln Center Art Show, New York, N.Y. 1984
COMMISSIONS (selected)
“Curtains,” Kander & Ebb’s Broadway opening night print. Commissioned by Tony winner, Karen Ziemba, 2007
“Curtain Call,” mural, 14' x 24' Times Square Visitors Center at the Embassy Theatre, New York, N.Y.
Commissioned by Gretchen Dykstra President Times Square BID, dedicated by Kitty Carlisle Hart. 1998-2004
American Ballet Theatre, two special edition prints, 2003.
Dance Floor, a 6' x 8' canvas capturing the dance steps in paint of 28 leading dance world figures, auctioned for the benefit of Career Transition For Dancers, New York, NY, Fall 2002
Hofstra University, 1997
The New Yorker magazine, 1996
Simon & Schuster Macmillan, book covers, 1995, 1996
Metropolitan Opera Guild, Met poster, boxed cards,
T-shirts, 1991, 1993-4
Laura Ashley, Inc., New York, N.Y. 1990
Penny Whistle Toys, New York, N.Y. 1988, 1989, 1997
White Barn Theatre, Westport, Conn. 1984
COLLECTIONS (selected past and present)
Museum of the City of New York,
American Ballet Theatre,
Capezio,
Ann Reinking,
Rosemary Clooney,
Mr. & Mrs. Schuyler Chapin,
Myrna Loy,
June Havoc,
Mr. & Mrs. Bob Hope,
Leonie Rysanek,
Harry Torczyner
Lucille Lortel,
Julie Wilson,
Karen Ziemba,
St. Clare's Hospital,
Swarthmore College.
EDUCATION
National Academy School of Fine Arts, New York, N.Y.
Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA., B.A. Art History
Barbieri Center, Rome, Italy
Rudolf Steiner School, New York, N.Y.
All images are © Jessica Daryl Winer unless otherwise stated
Photo credit: Gail O’Neill
J e s s i c a D a r y l W i n e r biography
Echoing the Urban Optimism of John Marin and the
New York artists of the 1920s - with a contemporary viewpoint - Jessica Daryl Winer’s work explores ways in which spaces are transformed for the viewer into theatrical environments.
Her painting of the Flatiron Building was acquired by the Museum of the City of New York for their permanent collection.
In 2008, Jessica installed “Dance Space”--a 9’ by 10’ painting--for permanent exhibition in the lobby of the newly opened Manhattan Movement and Arts Center, west of Lincoln Center.
In 2006, she unveiled The Sardi's Screens- an 8' by 25' freestanding mural depicting 200 legends of Broadway's “last century, in the banquet room of Broadway's famed Sardi's restaurant, where it is on permanent exhibition.
The mural was adapted from its original conception - the centerpiece of the Times Square Visitors Center in the restored Embassy Theatre on Broadway. Measuring 14' by 24', the acrylic-on-canvas “Curtain Call” mural was dedicated by Kitty Carlisle Hart. In six years there, the mural was viewed by an estimated six million visitors.
From 2002-04, an estimated 2 1/2 million viewers visited Jessica's public installation “Dancing on Air... in Times Square,” an 18 piece suspended work, set in motion by air currents, also in the Times Square Visitors Center.
Jessica has had several solo exhibitions in New York, including two at the Gallery at Lincoln Center, and at the National Arts Club; also in Connecticut at the Silo Gallery, and at the Westport Artists Gallery - apart from numerous group shows. Her paintings have been exhibited in the windows of Saks Fifth Avenue, and have been seen in collections around New York such as the Russian Tea Room's. Her commissions also include posters and theatrical set design. Her paintings of opera and jazz subjects have been reproduced extensively by the Metropolitan Opera, including a Met poster. She was commissioned by American Ballet Theatre to create two special edition prints. Her art has also appeared in The New Yorker, among other publications.
In tandem with “Dancing on Air...in Times Square” installation, she created “Dance Floor,” a 6' by 8' "Grauman's Chinese Theatre in motion" capturing the footsteps-in-paint of 27 leading dance-world figures, including Merce
Cunningham, Chita Rivera, Cynthia Gregory, Ann Reinking, Bebe Neuwirth, Kelly Bishop, stars of New York City Ballet and American Ballet Theatre and the Radio City Rockettes. Auctioned to benefit Career Transition For Dancers, Dance Floor is now in the Capezio collection.
Educated at Swarthmore College and the Rudolf Steiner School, Jessica continued her art studies in Rome and at the National Academy in New York where she was awarded the Nechamkin prize in drawing. Her work is held in both private and institutional collections. The Curtain Call mural was featured nationally on PBS-TV's Going Places.
