158 Fox Hill Road, Honesdale, PA 18431
Tel.: 773 575 7614
Email: RebekahBoyerArt@gmail.com
Contact: Martha Feldman (sister): 773 575 6452
Website: http://RebekahBoyerArt.com

TRAINING
  • M.F.A., 1985, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL
  • B.F.A., 1975, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
  • Other:
  • Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME, 1979
  • Escuelas de Belles Artes (with muralist Raphael Rios Rey), San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1973
  • Philadelphia College of Art, 1971-73

EXHIBITIONS
  • Alumni Show, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, group show (June-July 2008)
  • Las Manos Gallery, Chicago, one-woman show (April 2001)
  • Fetiço Gallery, Chicago, group show “Eros” (December 2000)
  • Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, group show (December 2000)
  • Speakeasy Gallery, Los Angeles, group show (July 2000)
  • Museum of Sex at the Javits Center, New York, NY, group show “Erotica” (May 1993)
  • MBM Gallery, New York, NY, group show (March 1997)
  • Museum of Television and Radio, “Witness for the People: Courtroom Art in the Electronic Age,” Beverly Hills,
    group show (Jan. 1996)
  • Museum of Television and Radio, “Witness for the People: Courtroom Art in the Electronic Age,” New York, NY,
    group show (March 1995)
  • U.S. Federal Building, group show (December 1991)
  • Lennert Anderson Selects, group show (March 1990)
  • The Brooklyn Supreme Court Building, Brooklyn, NY, group show (May 1988)
  • The Jacob Javits Center, New York, NY, group show (April 1998)
  • The U.S. Federal Building, New York, NY, group show (March 1988)
  • The Players Club, New York, NY, group show “Courtroom Art” (December 1987)
  • Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, group show “Nativity” (November 1985)
  • Sarnoff Gallery, Chicago,  group show “Jewish Women as We See Ourselves” (November 1985)
  • School of the Art Institute of Chicago, MFA Thesis, solo show (May 1985)
  • Hubbard Street Gallery, Chicago, juried group show (April 1984)
  • The West Chester Gallery, West Chester, PA, solo show (May 1983)
  • Lace Gallery, Philadelphia, solo show (October 1980)
  • National Arts Center, New York, NY, solo show  (February 1980)
  • Montgomery County Community College, Blue Bell, PA, solo show “Portraits and Double Portraits” (February 1979)
  • Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, BFA Thesis, solo show (May 1975)

SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Museum
  • Museum of Television and Radio, New York City and Beverly Hills
  • Museum of Sex at the Javits Center, http://www.museumofsex.com/
Corporate
  • CNN, New York City
  • WTTW, Chicago
  • Kreindler and Kreinler (Pan Am case)
Private
  • Patricia Barber, jazz artist (www.patriciabarber.com), Chicago
  • Francis Ford Coppola, film director, NYC
  • Spike Lee, film director, NYC
  • Robin Eubanks, jazz trombonist, NYC
  • Eliot Fisk, classical guitarist, NYC and Cologne
  • Estate of Howie Epstein, bass player with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Peter Packer, Esq. (“Mick Jagger case”), NYC
  • Kashoggi family (“Adnan Kashoggi case”), silicone valley, CA
  • Carlene Carter, country singer, Santa Fe
  • Hilary Bauman, actress/writer, Amsterdam and Chicago
  • Philip Geraci, Esq., and Jeanne Geraci, New York
  • James Kern and Jonothan Glassman, Chicago
  • Ann Cohen and Stuart Davidson
  • Frank and Ditta Hoeber
  • Marian Parrott, M.D.
  • Allen Pines, Esq.
  • Judge Roger Rosengarten
  • Norman Landau, Esq.
  • Robert Cott, M.D.
  • Robert Carl, composition professor
  • Mr. and Mrs. William Stern (“Baby M” custody case)
  • Anonymous

GRANTS
  • Pollack-Krasner Foundation Grant (1989)
  • School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1983-85)
  • Philadelphia City Merit Scholarship (1970-75)

ONLINE GALLERIES
  • Art in Context, http://www.artincontext.com/artist/artist_about.aspx?id=11738
  • Ro Gallery, http://www.rogallery.com/
  • Picasso Mio, www.picassomio.com/
  • www.rendiva.com/

COURTROOM ARTWORK (sample only)
  • DNR Magazine, Joseph Abboud vs. JA Apparel, New York, February-March 2008
  • CNN/Cable New Network (New York, 1986-2000): trials include trials include Bhopal vs. Union Carbide, “Baby M”
    custody case; Mick Jagger plagiarism case, Mafia Commission trial, John Gotti trials, Imelda Marcos trial, Leona
    Helmsley trial, Gambino family trials
  • PBS,Channel 13 (New York, 1988-2000): Mike Tyson rape trial
  • WWOR (Secaucus, NJ, 1987-1991): Margaret Kelly Michaels daycare child abuse trial
  • Inquirer News Tonight (Philadelphia, 1995): Mumia Abu Jamal murder hearing; Oswaldo Robles
  • WNYW, Channel 5 (New York, 1992-93), Woody Allen vs. Mia Farrow child custody hearing
  • National Sports Daily (Ohio, 1990), Pete Rose (baseball player) sentencing
  • WGN TV News (Chicago, 1983-85), Fred Sanford vs. CBS (Michael Jackson and Quincy Jones testifying); FALN
    (Puerto Rican national libertation group)
  • Westinghouse Corporation, KYW News/Today Show (Philadelphia, 1979-80): MOVE (black African back-to-nature
    group); Leonard Tose, ABSCAM (FBI sting of corrupt senator, congressmen, etc.)

SELECTED ILLUSTRATION WORK
  • City of Brotherly Mayhem: Philadelphia Crimes and Criminals, by Ron Avery and Rebekah Boyer (illustrations of
    historic Philadelphia crimes) (New York Press, 1998)
  • Philadelphia Magazine, article on pedophilic psychiatrist (1997)
  • Philadelphia Inquirer Sunday Magazine, cover and inside illustration paintings for Ed Rendell story “The Edifice
    Complex” (1994)
  • Philadelphia Inquirer Sunday Magazine, cover and inside illustration paintings for Nicky Scarfo mob story “Winning
    through Elimination” (1982)
  • Philadelphia Daily News, Vivian King sentencing, front page illustration (1994)
  • The Geraldo Rivera Show (New York), drawings recreating the Marla Hansen slashing; the Jimmy
    Swaggert/Deborah Murphree liaison; portrait of Joe Piston alias Donny Brasco, mob infiltrator (1987-2000)

TEACHING/PUBLIC SPEAKING (sample)
  • New York City Public Schools (1998-99), long-term substitute art teacher
  • Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Fellowship group, Hamilton Auditorium, lecture and slide presentation
    (December 1998)
  • School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1984-85), figure drawing
  • Get Set Program, Philadelphia (1976-77), taught creativity & self-discipline with a variety art materials
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