As a painter, I create and search for my true self and hope to touch others with my findings so that they may discover their own true nature and realize their own power, wonderment, beauty and love their own selves. It is through abstraction that I set out to accomplish this, for I am not a landscape or a still life, not even really a figure. I am a seeker of the true self, translator of my own reality, conveyor of reflections, and akin to my viewer.
1992 M.F.A. Painting, State University of New York at New Paltz
1989 B.F.A. Painting, State University of New York at New Paltz
1988 Overseas Independent Art Study/Language Program, Spain
1979 Private Art Study with Ronald Schaeffer and Alan Banks
2002 Kerr Cultural Center, Scottsdale, AZ
2001 Artisimo Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
2001 Kerr Cultural Center (ASU), Scottsdale, AZ
2000 ASU Downtown Center Galleria, Phoenix, AZ
2000 Kerr Cultural Center (ASU), Scottsdale, AZ
1999 RA Fine Art, Scottsdale, AZ (Benefit for Make-A-Wish Foundation)
1999-1998 Artography, Phoenix, AZ
1998 Arizona State University, Downtown Center Galleria, Phoenix, AZ
1998 Kerr Cultural Center (ASU), Scottsdale, AZ
1998 Ceiger-Dane Gallery, Boston, MA
1997-1995 Vesti-dane Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
1995 Smithy-Pioneer Gallery, Cooperstown, NY
1995 The Loft, Kinston, NY
1995 Middletown Arts Center, Middletown, NY
1995 Newburgh Free Library, Newburgh, NY
1995 Two Visions Gallery, Washingtonville, NY
1995 Eisenhower Hall, West Point, NY
1994 Limelight, New York, NY
1994 Orange County Community College, Middletown, NY
1994 Musuem of Modern Art, (International Museum of Art), Miami, FL
1994 Trotting Horse Museum, Goshen, NY
1994 Alex Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1994 572 Gallery, Kingston, NY
1994 Catskill Art Society, Hurleyville, NY
1994 Cunneen-Hackett Cultural Center, Poughkeepsie, NY
1993 Ward-Nasse Gallery, Soho, NYC
1993 Susan Provda Gallery, Kingston, NY
1993 Mid-Hudson Art and Science Center, Poughkeepsie, NY
1993 Ward-Nasse Gallery, Soho, NYC
1993 Not Fade Away Art Space, New Paltz, NY
1992 Kleinerts Art Center, Woodstock, NY
1992 Faculty Select Show, College Art Gallery, New Paltz, NY
1991 College Art Gallery, New Paltz, NY
1991 Creative Co-op Gallery, Rosendale, NY
1989 College Art Gallery, New Paltz, NY
1984 Howland Cultural Center, Beacon, NY
1999 Eighteenth Annual Governor’s Arts Award Nominee
1995 1st Place, Monotype, Newburgh Free Library, Newburgh, NY
1994 Honorable Mention, Manhattan Arts International, Cover Arts Competition
1993 Honorable Mention, Monotype, Newburgh Free Library, Newburgh, NY
1991 1st Place, Mixed Media, Thrall Park, Middletown, NY
1991 Award for Monotype, Mount Saint Mary’s College, Newburgh, NY
1991 1st Place, Prints, Arts Festival, Walden, NY
1990 Most Original, 1st Place Mixed Media, 1st Place Oil Pastel, Walden, NY
2000, Dec Arizona Republic (The Rep), “Know her art’s limits”
1998, Aug Arizona Republic (The Rep), Virtual Non-reality: Scottsdale artist flexes her abstracts” by Dane D’Antuono
1995 Scottsdale Tribune, “Gallery opens first big show with reception”, by Gary Rausch
1995, Feb ART LIFE, The original limited edition monthly (artwork published)
1995, Jan 12. Huguenot and Highland Herald, “War Paint” Gardiner artist takes artworld to task in her new magazine. By Kathi Norklun
1995, Jan 5. Woodstock Times, “Yes They Mix” by Kathi Norklun
1994 In the Arts, “Attitudes Toward the Abstract Mirror Perceptions of the Real” by Diana Campanella
1994 & 1995 Art in America, Museums, Galleries and Artist Guide
1992, Sept. Huguenot Herald, art review on works at the MASC, “Birthstones’ by Mike McCue
Art is in Private and Corportate Collections in New York, California, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Wisconsin, Arizona, Iowa, Maine, South Carolina, and Pennsylvania