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SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2007 Sande Webster Gallery, Phila. PA Philly Eats on the Streets, Sept 11 - Oct 3
2005 Rosemont College, Overview: A Decade of Drawings and Photographs 1995 - 2005, Oct 3 - Nov 3,
2004 Sande Webster Gallery, Phila. PA Walking Distance, new photographs
2003 University of Scranton, Scranton, PA: Feb 23- April 11
2002 Sande Webster Gallery, Phila PA, Sunday in Tlacolula, Aug 2-31
2000 Drexel University, Nesbitt Gallery, Lamentations, Nov 22-Jan 6 2001
1998 Print Center, Phila PA, Drawings and Etchings, Nov 6- Dec 20
1991 Bennett Siegel Gallery, NYC, Mexican Journeys, Myths, Magic, and Mummies, Jan 17 – Feb 16
1991 Moore College of Art and Design, Phila PA, Mexican Journeys, Myths, etc, Nov 2- Dec 6
1990 Bennett Siegel Gallery, NYC, NYC, A Decade: The Leather Figures, Mar 8-Apr 7
1987 Temple University, September, Arlene Love: In Retrospect
1986 Lawrence Oliver Gallery, Phila PA, 8 Figures on a Piazza
1984 North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND, Arlene Love, Mar 19-April 8
1983 Portico Gallery, Phila PA Drawings and monoprints
1983 Keystone College, Wyoming Valley, PA Arlene Love: Recent Sculpture
1982 Museum of the Surreal and Fantastique, NYC
1980 A.J. Wood Gallery, Phila. PA, Erotica, Feb 10 – Mar 8
1979 PA Academy of the Fine Arts, Morris Gallery, Freaks and Victims, Mar 7-Apr 22
1976 Gloucester County College, NJ, Arlene Love: In Retrospect, Sept 10- 30
1974 Langman Gallery, Jenkintown, PA, Bondage Series, Apr 19 – May 19
1972 Friends’ Central School, Phila. PA
1971 Shipley School, Bryn Mawr, PA
1970 Philadelphia Art Alliance, April Family Album
1967 Terry Dintehfass Gallery, NYC, Arlene Love/ New Sculpture, Jan 3-28
1963 Philadelphia Art Alliance
1958 Philadelphia Art Alliance

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007-2001 Sande Webster Gallery, Phila. PA
2000-1994 La Mano Magica Gallery, Oaxaca, Mexico: Always on exhibition
1999 El Nuevo Centro de Las Artes, Vista Hermosa, Mexico, Los Artistes de Oaxaca
1999 Galeria Arte de Oaxaca, Mexico Mujeres del Mundo en Oaxaca
1992 Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA Ancient Sources
1990 Bennett Siegel Gallery, NYC The Erotic Image
1989 Sculpture Center, NYC, In a Dark Vein, Feb 25 – Mar 25
1989 PA Council on Arts, traveling exhibit, Fellowship Winners: Hard Choices/Just Rewards
1988 Moore College of Art & Design: Installation of 8 Figures on a Piazza (long term exhibit)
1985 Elaine Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, L.I. New York
1984 Tyler School of Art, A Few Fears
1984 Sawtooth Center for the Visual Arts, Winston-Salem, NC Leather Arts
1983 Women’s Caucus for Art, Florida, Houston, TX, Phila PA
1983 Philadelphia Art Alliance Jan – Feb
1982 Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN
1982 San Diego State University, Body Language, Mar 13 – Apr 10
1982 Baker Gallery, La Jolla, CA
1981 Temple University, Oct 11- May 1982 Sculpture 81
1981 Southern Ohio Museum, About Faces
1981 Grossmont College, El Cajon, CA Leather Forms
1979 Touring Exhibition of Coach Leather Collection of American Art in Leather, Leather Art
1979 Alan Stone Gallery, NYC Spring and summer
1979 Herbert F. Johnson Museum at Cornell University Skin Forms
1975 University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School (4 artists)
1975 Rhode Island University
1974 Tyler School of Art
1974 Max Hutchinson Gallery, NYC Some Plastic People
1974 Temple University, Paley Library Working Women Artists from Tyler
1974 Fleisher Memorial Gallery, Phila. In Her Own Image, Apr 5 - May 10
1973 Erotic Art Gallery, NYC Jan 6 - Feb 6 Erotic Art by Women
1973 Museum Of Phila Civic Center 11th Regional Sculpture Invitational
1972 Suffolk Museum, Stony Brook, Long Island Unmanly Art
1972 Philadelphia Museum of Art , 23 Sculptors, Mar 1 - Apr 15
1970 Philadelphia Museum of Art, Division of Education, The Mind's Eye, Feb 1970 - June 1971
1970 Wichita Museum of Art, Wichita, Kansas
1968 PA Academy of the Fine Arts, American Painting and Sculpture, Jan 19 - Mar 3
1967 Phila Art Alliance Oct Self Portraits by Philadelphia Artists
1966 Phila Art Alliance, Invited Regional Sculpture and Print Exhibition, May 2-29
1964 Pa Academy of the Fine Arts, Regional Exhibition, Oct 9 - Nov 15
1963 Moore College of Art, Philadelphia Women in the Arts, Mar 11 –29
1962 PA Academy of the Fine Arts, American Painting and Sculpture, Jan 12 - Feb 25
1960 Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Denver Art Museum, LA County Museum, Sculpture USA
1959 Museum of Modem Art, NYC Recent Sculpture USA,

BIBLIOGRAPHY partial listing
BOOKS
1992 Bach, Penny Balkin, Public Art in Philadelphia, Temple University Press, Phila PA
pp 132-133, 239
1988 Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Searching Out the Best, A Tribute to the Morris
Gallery, pp 23,140, 141
1987 Curtiss, Deborah, Introduction to Visual Literacy, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliff, NJ
pp 12,144,145. 146
1986 Watson-Jones, Virginia, Contemporary American Women Sculptors, Oryx Press,
Phoenix, AZ pp 370, 371
1981 Goodyear, Frank, Contemporary Realism Since 1960 New York Graphic Society,
Boston, with Pa Academy of the Fine Arts p 216
1974 Newman, Thelma, Plastics in Sculpture, Chilton Book Co. Radnor, PA pp 18,34,116,144
1973 Tefft, Elden C, Proceedings of the 7th National Sculpture Conference, National Sculpture
Center, University of Kansas, p 17
1972 Hollander, Harry B. Plastics for Artists and Craftsmen, Watson-Guptill, NY pp 16,18,128
1968 Roukes, Nicholas, Sculpture in Plastics Watson-Guptill, New York
1964 Newman, Thelma, Plastics as an Art Form, Chilton Book Co. Philadelphia & Ontario
CATALOGS
1998 Awards for Artists The Leeway Foundation
1990 Mexican Journeys: Myth, Magic and Mummies Moore College of Art and Design, essay
by Janet Kaplan
1989 Hard Choices / Just Rewards Blair Art Museum,
1989 In a Dark Vein Sculpture Center, - NYC
1987 Arlene Love in Retrospect: 1960 - 1987 Temple University
1983 3rd Annual Franklintown Sculpture Show pp16,17 Franklintown Corporation
1982 Body Language /A Notebook of Contemporary Figuration, San Diego State University CA
text: Dennis Komac, p 9
1979 Skin Forms: Innovations in Leather Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell Univ, ithaca,NY
1979 City Art Fine Arts Program, Redevelopment Authority, City of Philadelphia
1974 In her Own Image Samuel B. Fleisher Memorial, Phila PA Essay by Cindy Nemser. Also
included in Feminist Art Journal, Vol.3 No.1
1974 The Tyler Show Samuel Paley Library, Temple University. Essay by Barrows Dunham.
Cover, flyleaf and two unnumbered pages
1972 Unmanly Art Suffolk Museum, Long Island, NY Text by June Blum
1959 Recent Sculpture USA The Museum of Modern Art, NYC intro by James Thrall Soby

PERIODICALS
2004 AMERICAN STYLE Style Spotlight p.6, p.24 June 2004 Vo.10 #3
2000 PHILADELPHIA CITY PAPER Robin Rice True Colors at Sande Webster,, Aug 10
2000 ART MATTERS Burton Wasserman Grand Dimensions....public sculpture, Spring/summer
2000 THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER Sozanski, Edward J, Thinking About Death, Dec 8
2000 PHILA WEEKLY Fallan, Roberta, Faces of Death, Arlene Love's Lamentations, Nov 29
1998 PHILADELPHIA WEEKLY Miriam Seidel Saints and Sinners, Nov 18
1998 JOURNAL OF THE PRINT WORLD vol 21no4The Temptation of St Anthony by Arlene Love
1998 ART MATTERS Judith Barbour Osbourne Artists Talk About Their Art, Aug (photos)
1998 THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER Sozanski, Edward J Temptations of a Saint, Dec 11
1996 EL IMPARCIAL Edgar Saavreda, Arlene Love: Realismo Cruento, Oaxaca, Mexico, April
Arts & Entertainment Section, Cover and feature article
1989 NEW YORK TIMES Michael Brenson Going Beyond Slickness, Mar 3
1987 F&M TODAY FRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE, Foike Tyko Kihlstedt, feature article

1987 NEW ART EXAMINER Burton Wasserman Reviews. East Coast, Feb
1987 ART IN AMERICA Judith Stein Arlene Love, Feb pp 153,154
1986 NEW ART EXAMINER Marilyn Goodman Arlene Love, Nov p 57
1984 GRAND FORKS HERALD Arlene Love Exhibit Opens at University of North Dakota
1984 NEW ART EXAMINER Deborah Curtiss, East Coast, Feb
1983 CRAFTS AUSTRALIA REX LINGWOOD .Sculpture in the Crafts, winter p42
1983 PHILADELPHIA MAGAZINE Lillian Bregman, Portraits of the Artists, Oct p 206
1982 AMERICAN CRAFT Joan L. Byrd, Forms in Leather, June/July pp 27,28
1980 PHILADELPHIA MAGAZINE Carol Saline, Growing Up is Hard To Do, pp 127, 128
1979 ART IN AMERICA Sarah McFadden, Report From Philadelphia, June
1979 WOMEN ARTISTS NEWS Photo cover page, April
1979 PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, Today Magazine, Roberta Sinkler, A Gory & Disturbing Show
1979 ARTS EXCHANGE Richard Flood, Arlene Love, Pa Academy of the Fine Arts, May/June
1976 TEMPLE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI REVIEW Arlene Love: Pioneer in Plastics, Winter, p.29
1976 THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER Today Magazine, Marilyn Lois Polak
Arlene Love: An Artist of the Odd, Feb 8 (interview)
1974 ART IN AMERICA Judith Stein, Arlene Love at Langman p115
1974 VILLAGE VOICE Alexandra Anderson, Centerfold April 26
1973 PHILADELPHIA MAGAZINE, Joan Kron, You Oughta Be in Pictures, p 103
1972 ARTS MAGAZINE Ellen Lubell Reviews Sept/Oct p60
1967 NEW YORK TIMES, John Canaday, Reviews
1967 WORLD JOURNAL TRIBUNE, New York, J.G. Arlene Love: Dintenfass, January
1967 WOMEN'S WEAR DAILY Arlene Love.… .....sculptor, Jan 6


SELECTED COMMISSIONS
2000 Franklin & Marshall College, Commorative bronze monument to John Marshall
1994 Hawkhurst, Blue Bell PA, Three Graces, a three figure fountain
1990 Albert Einstein Hospital, Phila. Maxwell S. Fogel Dental Wing, portrait
1987 The Dorchester, Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia, PA Winged Woman, bronze, 9' tall
1985 Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, PA commemorative monument to Ben Franklin
1982 University of Scranton, Scranton, PA Monumental bronze, Jacob Wrestling With the Angel
1981 Wells-Fargo, Philadelphia, PA, Pony Express Ride, cold cast bronze
1981 City of Philadelphia, Department of Recreation, Torso of Athlete
1975 Monell Chemical Senses Center, Philadelphia, PA, Face Fragment, 10'
1966 Ohev Sholom Synagog, Chester, PA architectural candelabra for altar
1962 191 Presidential Boulevard, fountain with three life size figures, bronze

GRANTS
2004 The Leeway Foundation, Window of Opportunity Grant
1994 The Leeway Foundation, Bessie Berman Grant
1989 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts
1960 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation

PUBLIC SERVICE
1993-94 Board member of Tyler Alumni Association
1985-87 Fine Arts Committee of Redevelopment Authority of Philadelphia, served as the
committee member sculptor and consultant

LECTURER, CRITIC, JUROR
2007 PA Academy of the Fine Arts, Juror , National Juried Sculpture Competition
2001 Philadelphia Museum of Art, speaker panelist on Alice Neel Symposium
1998 Print Center, Philadelphia, lecture
1990 University of Pennsylvania, Graduate Sculpture Department, visiting critic, fall semester
1988 PA Academy of the Fine Arts, Juror -Stewardson Prize Competition
1984 International Conference of Leather Arts Network - presenter, lecturer and workshop in
leather techniques
1984 University of North Dakota, lecturer, critic
1984 University of PA , critic for Master's sculpture review
1980 PA Academy of the Fine Arts, Juror for Stimson Competition
1979 Temple University, guest lecturer, art history department
1976 Moore College of Art & Design, guest lecturer

SELECTED PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts,Philadelphia Museum of Art, City of Philadelphia, Wells-Fargo, Franklin & Marshall College,University of Scranton, Monell Chemical Senses Center, The Dorchester Apartments,91 Presidential Boulevard, Albert Einstein Hospital, Thomas Harris, William Hollis, Dr.Andrea Baldeck, Helen Drutt, Dr. and Mrs. Martin Myerson, Dr. Sam Kron, Alan Stone, Jack Dreyfus,Monroe Myerson, Coach Leatherware Collection of American Art in Leather,
Dr. David Cohen, Mr. And Mrs. Wilson Taylor, Jim and Marsha Moss, Laurie Wagman,
Linda Lee Alter, Alexander Generalis, Tom Miles, Robert and Gabrielle Lee, Barbara Silver,
Alan Stone, estate of Stanley and Harieta Gross.... And numerous additional collections in the
United States, Mexico, Canada, England, and Australia.