Elaine
Housman
In the sixties, Ms. Housman spent several years in New York City working as an actress. She appeared on Broadway with George C. Scott in The Wall and on a CBS special as Uta Hagen's daughter. She was signed to a two year contract as a leading lady with a major Israeli theater company, and participated in the Venice Theater Biennale in 1963. Elaine is a member of the New York Artists Circle.
A Life Member of the Art Students Leage, Ms. Housman studied drawing, painting, and printmaking at the lear with: Bevery Hale, Thomas Forgarty, Marshall Glaser, Richard Mayhew, Everett Raymond Kinstler, Anthony Palumbo, Vincent Malta and Roberto DeLamonica. She studied sculpture with Hana Geber at the Sculpture Center and with Rhoda Sherbell and Barbara Lekberg at the National Academy.
Comissions
Sculpture for atrum/patio of the Jewish Geriatric Home, Cherry Hill, NJ
1983
Sculpture portraits in bronze for 6 private collectors
Bronze ballet dancer for the Patrelle Dance Company, NY
Series of bas-relief triptychs for:
AP Industries, Toledo, Ohio
Nitronics Corps, Pitman, NJ
Crown Foods (Rokeach), Enlewood Cliffs, NJ
Lee-Myles, Mayood, NJ
1984 - 1986
1986
1988
Exhibitions
1991 Paris-New York-Kent, CT (Solo Exhibit)
1991-1994 The Peel Gallery, Danby, VT
1992 National Academy of Design Show, NYC, NY (Juried Show)
1992-1993 Jaffe Baker Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
1992-2009 Bachelier-Cardansky, Kent, CT (Group and Solo Exhibits)
1992 The Greene Art Gallery, Guilford, CT
1993 Counterpoint Gallery, EL Paso, TX (Solo Exhibit)
1993 Carone Gallery, Ft. Lauderdale, FL (Group Show)
1994 National Academy of Design Juried Show, New York City, NY
1994 Hurlbutt Gallery, Greewich, CT (Solo Exhibition)
1995 53rd Anual Audubon Artists Exhibition (Juried Show)
1995 Southern Vermont Art Center (Solo Exhibition)
1995 The Chaffee Art Center, Rutland, VT (Solo Exhibition)
1996 H. Pelham Curtis Gallery, New Canaan, CT (Solo Exhibit)
1996 Elaine Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, Long Island (Solo Exhibit)
1997 ART FAIR '97, Seattle, WA (Exhibited by the Francine Seders Gallery)
1997 Ute Stebich Gallery, Lenox, MA (Group Show)
1997 Francine Seders Gallery Limited, Seattle WA
1997 Rosenfeld Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (Group SHow)
1998 Ute Stebich Galler, Lenox, MA
2002-2009 Allen Sheppard Gallery, Chelsea, New York City, NY
2011 Ober Gallery, Kent, CT. (Solo exhibit of Sculpture and Monotypes)
2015 Artists House, Tel-Aviv, Israel
2015 Ober Gallery, Kent, CT (Solo exhibit of Monotypes)
2017 Ober Gallery, Kent, CT (Solo exhibit of Monotypes and Sculpture)
2020. Manhattan Graphics Center, New York, NY ("Beyond the Print", Group Show)
Awards
1992 Certificate of Merit for "REUNION", at the National Academy of Design (Juried Show),
New York City, NY
1994 Certificate of Merit for "BARRIER", at the National Academy of Design (Juried Show),
New York City, NY
1995 . Margaret Hirsch Levine Memorial Award, Audubon Artists Show, New York City, NY for
"BORDERS"
1995 . The Clavel Richards Award for Best Sculpture, Whitby School, Greenwich, CT, for
"PASSAGEWAY"
Collections
Jane Whitney, Kent, CT
Southern Vermont Art Center, Manchester, VT
Yad VaShem (Holocaust Museum), Jerusalem, Israel