Berenice’s Biography
Berenice’s recent work has developed from her experience as a silk painter and illustrator. Her love of color and light and the spontaneity, which now working in another water medium provides, has given her the unique opportunity to express herself anew. Formally a fine arts figurative silk painter, she has now turned her attention to another lifelong interest of abstract watercolor painting on paper.
Her previous silk paintings have been exhibited at the Rye Arts Center, Arts Westchester, the Katonah Museum of Art, Union Station, Kansas City, MO, and Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY
Publications:
Express News: Sept.2012, featured Article
“Know Your Neighbor”, Berenice and Bob Pliskin, White Plains, NY
Spring 2009 Featured Artist for Katonah Museum Artist Association Newsletter, “Visions”
February 2009: Pound Ridge & Bedford Record Review Newspaper, Featured Artist “Taking the Silk Road in Pound Ridge
Peinture Sur Soie: A French magazine for silk painters, featured artist double page spread of Latino Day Laborers, July 2007
The Journal News: “Art Knows No Borders”, July 23,2006 The NY Times,Featured Artist, Review of Westchester Biennial, May7, 2006
The New York Times: “Living In” October 2005
The Peekskill Star: ”Spotlight” Pliskin’s Artwork Selected” June 2003
The New York Times, Westchester Section: Featured Artist Nov. 2001
Women’s News ,”Hello Peekskill Goodbye Soho” June 2000
Hudson Valley Magazine Artists Profile, “Taking the Silk Road” Aug. 2000
Longman Inc: Top 20 ESL Word Games Beginning Vocabulary Development Authors: Marjorie Fuchs, Berenice Pliskin: 1991-present, Barnes&Noble, Amazon.com
Longman Inc: Aventuras, Beginning Spanish, Text Book Authors: Brenda Stephens with Berenice Pliskin: 1989
Longman Inc: Top 24 French Word Game Hits– Masters for Beginning French Author: 1988
Longman Inc: Top 24 Spanish Word Game Hits– Masters for Beginning Spanish Author: 1987
Doubleday & Company, INC: A Trainload of Fun– A Doubleday Activity Book Author & Illustrator: 1981
Grosset & Dunlap: Cinnamon House Press: Dinosaur Activity Book Author & Illustrator: 1978
Grosset& Dunlap: Cinnamon House Press: Ringmasters Puzzles Author & Illustrator: 1978
Scholastic Magazine: Science World Magazine, Contributing Puzzle Editor Cartoonist & Puzzle Constructor 1970 – 1978
Commissions & Corporate Collections
“Diptych 1”, “Diptych 2”, “Night Heron”, “Spider Web” Ginsburg Development LLC, Chapel Hill, Peekskill, two silk paintings
Honors:
“Who’s Who of American Women” Surface Design Association Award-winning silk painting, “Digital Delights”
2003 Westchester Arts Council Arts Awards 2002: Education/Community Award for a significant contribution to the arts, “A Community Mosaic 9/11”
Art Organizations:
SPIN, Silk Painters International
National Association of Women in the Arts, Juried Member
Katonah Museum Artist Association
Textile Study Group of NY
Surface Design Assoc.
Education:
M. F. A. Painting, Lehman College, New York High School of Music & Art