537 High St., Lowell, MA 01852
drocha6@verizon.net
Exhibits & Awards:
Gallery 119 Annual Juried Exhibit, Best in Show, Juror’s 1st, trio show awarded, Lowell, MA 2007
Danforth Museum Annual juried exhibit, Nick Capasso , Juror’s Commendation, Framingham, MA 2007
181 Gallery Landscapes/Mindscapes, Lawrence, MA past 3 exhibits , 2007
Boston Public Library Beyond the Book Exhibit, Allston Branch, Boston, MA 2006, and 2007
Equilibrium An exhibit with 2 other painters investigating pattern, ALL Gallery, Lowell, MA 2006
Gallery 119 Annual Juried Exhibit, Lowell, MA 2005 and 2006
Pleiades Gallery 23rd Juried Exhibit, Jordan Kantor, MOMA curator, juror, NY, NY 2005
Brickbottom Gallery What is Big? Exhibit , Somerville, MA 2004, 2005, 2007
Viridian Gallery Associate Member Exhibit, NY, NY 2003
Whistler House Museum Homage to Whistler, Juror’s Choice Award, Lowell MA 2003
FPAC Gallery Boston Cyber Arts, Digital Exhibit, Boston, MA 2003
Pleiades Gallery 21st Annual Juried Exhibition, Anne Umland , juror MOMA, NY, NY 2003
Essex Arts Center 9th Annual Juried Exhibit, Lawrence, MA 2002
Viridian Gallery Represented in the 12th Annual National Exhibition, NY, NY 2001
Lowell Office of Cultural Affairs Solo Exhibition the Gallery, Lowell, MA 1999
Pleiades Gallery 13th Annual Competition, NY, NY 1995
Bradford College Regional Competition, Haverhill, MA 1987
Lowell University Invitational Exhibit, Lowell, MA 1986
Brandeis University New England Competition, Waltham, MA 1985
Provincetown Museum National Competition, Provincetown, MA 1985
Berkshire Art Museum New England/New York Competition, Pittsfield, MA 1982
Mass. College of Art Berger Award, Excellence in Painting, Boston, MA 1976
Collections & Commissions:
Fidelity Investments Purchase for the collection, Boston, MA 2005
New England Financial Commission for the Law Department, Boston, MA 2002
Storage Networks Purchase of 4 paintings , Waltham, MA 1999
First Enterprise Bank Paintings for the Collection, Lowell, MA 1990, 1994, 1998, 2002, 2007
Inge & Helmut Wittke Collection 2 paintings, Hanover, Germany 1992 &1996
Church Park Complex Paintings for the 3 lobbies, Boston, MA 1995
Eastern Mountain Sportswear Mural for the Headquarters, Peterborough, NH 1994
M+O Associates Paintings for the collection, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 1992
Education:
Cambridge College Cambridge, MA Thesis on Human Response to Color, M.Ed. 1992
Mass. College of Art Boston, MA Painting , B.F.A. 1976