Phyllis Bryce Ely
Born Rochester, NY, 1959
Education
1981 BFA Painting/Printmaking with high honors, Rochester Institute of Technology (studied with Robert Heischman,
Philip Bornarth, Judd Williams, Edward Miller)
1979 Associates Degree, Communications Design, Rochester Institute of Technology
Solo/Feature Experiences
2023 Studio 460 at The Little
2022 Place/Displace with Patrice McPeak, Geisel Gallery, Rochester, NY
2020 Guest artist, Pittsford Fine Art, Pittsford, NY
2020 Seeking Beauty, Williams Gallery (with Maureen Outlaw Church, Anne McCune), Rochester, NY
2019 Landscapes and the Unbuilt, Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Rochester, NY
2018 Transformations, Oxford Gallery (with Barbara Page and Anthony Dungan), Rochester, NY
2018 Not My Father’s Iceberg, solo, Main Street Arts, Clifton Springs, NY
2018 A Celtic Perspective (with Maureen Outlaw Church, Anne McCune), Little Theater Cafe Gallery, Rochester, NY
2015 Freedom and Form, (with Todd Chalk), Oxford Gallery, Rochester, NY
2010 New Paintings and Sculpture by Bryce Ely, Jenks and Sottile, Oxford Gallery, Rochester, NY
2006 Look Out the Window, solo invitational, RIT Dean’s Gallery, Rochester, NY
2006 Images of Maine and New York, solo, landscapes in oil and pastel, Phoenix Coffee, Canandaigua, NY
1996 Selected Viewpoints, solo, regional landscape paintings, Oxford Gallery, Rochester, NY
Group
2024 *Genesee Valley Plein Air Painters Annual Member Show, Barnes & Noble, Pittsford, NY (Best of Show)
2023 *68th Rochester-Finger Lakes Exhibition, Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY
2023 *International Encaustic Artists Ephemera, Mulranny Arts, Ireland
2023 Annual Rochester Contemporary Members’ Exhibit (annually since 1980s), Rochester, NY
2023 GVPAP Signature Members, P. Tribastone Fine Art Gallery, Canandaigua, NY
2023 *Music of the Eye:In the Spirit of Arthur Dove, The Dove Block Project, Geneva, NY
2023 Paintings from the Genesee Country Village, Village Gallery, Caledonia, NY
2023 Dove Members Showcase, The Dove Block Project, Geneva, NY
2023 Blue, Mill Art Center & Gallery, Honeoye Falls, NY
2023 Spring, Fuego Cafe Gallery, Rochester, NY
2023 *Genesee Valley Plein Air Painters Annual Member Show, Barnes & Noble Community Gallery, Pittsford, NY
2022 *Made in New York, a statewide survey of contemporary work, Schweinfurth Art Center, Auburn, NY
2022 Working With Wax Finding Common Ground, Genesee Valley Council on the Arts, Mt. Morris, NY
2022 *Small Works, national, Main Street Arts, Clifton Springs, NY (also 2014, 2015, 2020, 2021)
2022 Annual invitational exhibits 1995 to present, Oxford Gallery, Rochester, NY
2022 Genesee Valley 100: A Community Painting Project, regional invitational featuring 100 landscape paintings depicting
Livingston County to support the Genesee Valley Conservancy, Silver Lake Brewing Project, Perry, NY (2020, 2018)
2022 *Genesee Valley Plein Air Painters Annual Member Show, Village Gallery, Caledonia, NY
2022 Black & White, Village Gallery, Caledonia, NY
2021 Local Color, Studio 402 Gallery, Rochester, NY (invitational)
2021 Many Voices-One Journey, The Village Gallery, 3119 Main Street, Caledonia, NY (Working with Wax Group)
2021 For the Love of Art, Mill Art Center & Gallery, Honeoye Falls, NY
2020 Surfacing, Working with Wax Group, Geisel Gallery, Rochester, NY
2020 Vignettes in Wax and Words, International Encaustic Artists digital exhibit, 40 artists from 10 countries*
2020 Mixed Use Community Cultural Center (MuCCC) 5th Anniversary Invitational, Rochester, NY
2019 Autumn Moods, Oxford Gallery, Rochester, NY
2019 Schweinfurth Museum Members Exhibit, Schweinfurth Museum, Auburn, NY (also 2018)
2019 Inspired by Nature, Mill Art Center & Gallery, Honeoye Falls, NY
2019 *Federation of Canadian Artists International Mail-in Exhibit (AIMAE), Vancouver, BC, Canada
2019 *Survey of Contemporary Encaustic, International Encaustic Artists, Chaffey Community Museum of Art,
Ontario, California
2019 Some Like it Hot, Working with Wax Group, Mill Art Center & Gallery, Honeoye Falls, NY
2018 *Land and Sea, national, Main Street Arts, Clifton Springs, NY
2018 *Hopeful Darkness, International Encaustic Artists’ group exhibition, Atlantic Gallery, New York, NY
2018 Commissioned to create 2018 Park Ave Summer Art Fest annual poster (awarded international gold medal)
2018 *Genesee Valley Plein Air Painters Annual Member Show, Barnes & Noble Gallery, Pittsford, NY
2017 *Utopia/Dystopia, national, Main Street Arts, Clifton Springs, NY (Best of Show)
2017 *Made in New York, a statewide survey of contemporary work, Schweinfurth Art Center, Auburn, NY
2017 Bausch & Lomb headquarters corporate gallery invitational rotating art program, Rochester, NY
2017 *Genesee Valley Plein Air Painters Annual Member Show, Barnes & Noble Gallery, Pittsford, NY
2014 50 Paintings, Main Street Arts invitational, Clifton Springs, NY
2016 Working with Wax, encaustic group exhibit, Lower Link Gallery, Rochester Public Library, Rochester, NY
2015 Bausch & Lomb headquarters corporate gallery invitational rotating art program, Rochester, NY
2015 Fresh Paint, Fresh Air Mill Gallery and Art Center, Honeoye Falls, NY
2013 *Finger Lakes Exhibition, New York State regional, Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY (also 1981, 83, 84, 92)
2013 RIT Alumni New Works, Little Theater Gallery (with Anne Punzi, Patrice McPeak, James Lewis) Rochester, NY
2012 Landscape Invitational, I-Square Visions Gallery, Irondequoit, NY
2012 Rochester Art Supply Annual Invitational (2008-2012), Rochester, NY
2010 Waterway West, part of World Canals Conference, invitational, Oxford Gallery, Rochester, NY
2010 Small, regional invitational, High Falls Gallery, Rochester, NY
*juried
Awards/Grants
2024 *Genesee Valley Plein Air Painters Annual Member Show, Barnes & Noble, Pittsford, NY (Best of Show 2024)
2023 *Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts Residency
2019/20 International Encaustic Artists 2020 Project Grant recipient (develop plein air encaustic process)
2018 International Festival & Events Association Pinnacle Award “Gold: Best Commemorative Poster”
for 2018 Park Ave Art Fest poster
2017 Rochester Contemporary Members Exhibit, Record Archive Painting Award
2017 *Utopia/Dystopia, Main Street Arts, national juried exhibit, Best in Show
2013 *Finger Lakes Exhibition, New York State regional, Gertrude Herdle Moore/Isabel Herdle Award,
given by The Gallery Council of the Memorial Art Gallery
2005/2006 *Clothesline Festival, Memorial Art Gallery, Merit Award
2005/2006 *Sonnenberg Arts Festival, Merit Award
2001 Rochester Contemporary Members Exhibit, Arts for Greater Rochester Award
Learning/Teaching
2022 Dietlind Vander Schaaf, Maine Coast Encaustic Retreat, Kennebunkport, ME
2019 Joanna Kidney, “Excavating Your Image” encaustic workshop, Ballinglen Arts Foundation,
Ballycastle, Ireland
2017 Kathryn Bevier and Lora Murphy, “Art & Soul Journey” encaustic workshop, Burren College of
Art, Ballyvaughan, Ireland
2013/14 Charlie Ciali, (of Palm Springs, CA) encaustic wax workshops, Enkaustikos, Rochester, NY
2007 Judd Williams, drawing master class, Creative Workshop at Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY
2000s Kathryn Bevier, Enkaustikos, multiple encaustic workshops from intro to monotype,
mixed media, collage, 3D object making
2000s Art instructor, Creative Workshop at the Memorial Art Gallery for subjects including plein air
painting/monotypes, oil and acrylic painting, color use, “Painting with Georgia O’Keefe,”
“Drawing Fearlessly,” and professional development workshops for K-12 art educators, art
instruction for patron events
2000 Elizabeth Durand, non-toxic printmaking summer workshop, RIT
Affiliations/Memberships
Saltonstall Arts Foundation Fellow
Represented by the Oxford Gallery, Roch NY
Shop One at Rochester Institute of Technology
Board Member, Outreach Committee Chair, The Dove Block Project, Geneva, NY
Genesee Valley Plein Air Painters signature member and treasurer 2017 to present
Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Rochester, NY
International Encaustic Artists member
Mill Arts Center, Honeoye Falls, NY, member
Collections
Bausch & Lomb
Harbor House, URMC affiliate
Jewish Senior Living
Lawyers' Cooperative Publishing, Inc.
Mobil Chemical Corporation
Nixon Peabody LLP
OWL AI
Rochester Community Savings Bank
Rochester Institute of Technology
St Anne’s Home
Xerox Corporation
Many private collections
Publications
Wax Fusion. Wax Unplugged Spring 2021 https://issuu.com/internationalencausticartists/docs/wax_fusion_spring_2021/4
EncaustiZine Winter 2019 “Studio Visit” edition
Scenes of Monroe & Ontario Counties, Past & Present Featuring Canandaigua Lake and Squaw Island, Anne Peacock-Jacobs, St. Vincent Press, 2003