Strawbery Banke Museum presents Patrick Healey Exhibit of Paintings:
“Patrick Healey: Painting the Banke, 1991-2015”

Portsmouth, New Hampshire (May 5, 2015) – Strawbery Banke Museum hosts a 6-week exhibition of Patrick Healey’s oil paintings on linen of Strawbery Banke, June 14 through July 31. The exhibition is mounted in The Muriel Gurdon Seabury Howells Lecture Hall in the TYCO Visitors Center, open 7 days 10 am to 5 pm. The exhibit is free and open to the public.

The exhibit opens with an Opening Reception on Sunday, June 14 from 2-4 pm. Many of the original paintings on display are available for purchase.

Patrick Healey is a colorist and landscape painter living and working in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. His art career began while studying at the Loyola Rome Center in Italy in 1978-79 and his first solo exhibit was at the University of Massachusetts O’Leary Library in 1987, followed by an exhibit in the Massachusetts Statehouse in Boston in 1988. After exploring the images and mills of Lowell in several exhibits he started painting Portsmouth with his “Sign Series” in 1990. This is Patrick’s second formal exhibit at Strawbery Banke Museum, a favorite subject. Nationally known, with solo or group exhibitions in the Time Life Building in Chicago, Whistler House Museum in Lowell, Elliot House Gallery at Harvard and the Currier Museum of Art in Manchester, he hosted a retrospective at The Music Hall, “"Patrick Healey Painting and Drawing Twenty-Five Years" in 2004. For more information and a gallery of painting images, visit www.pathealey.com

“As the departure point for so many evocative Patrick Healey oils, Strawbery Banke Museum is delighted to host this showcase of his work over the past 24 years,” said Lawrence J. Yerdon, president and CEO. “The enhancements we have made on the museum campus have not changed the enduring character of the neighborhood, the light and shadows of the streetscape and the colors of the seasons that Patrick evokes. His imaginative use of color – not always strictly photographic – reminds us that while time and taste change over time, the authentic sense of the place that is Strawbery Banke remains.”

Strawbery Banke Museum (www.strawberybanke.org), is a 501c3 non-profit founded in 1958 to save a 10-acre site and the historic downtown core of Portsmouth, New Hampshire from urban renewal. The authentic 10-acre outdoor history museum is dedicated to bringing 300* years of American history to life. The Museum is a place for children, adults, multigenerational families and groups to gather to explore heritage gardens, historic buildings and crafts, preservation programs, hands-on activities, the stories told by costumed role-players and the changing exhibits that offer hours of fun and discovery.

Education

Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT, Six-Week Staff Residency, Full-fellowship 1988

Printmaking, Massachusetts College Of Art, 1981
John Carroll University, Cleveland, Ohio, B.S.,1980
Loyola Rome Center, Rome Italy, 1978, 1979

Solo Exhibitions

"Patrick Healey Painting And Drawing Twenty-Five Years" The Music Hall, Portsmouth, NH 2004
McLane, Graf, Raulerson ,& Middleton, Portsmouth, NH 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000
Great Falls Exhibit, Great Falls, VA , 2003, 2002
Children's Museum Benefit, Portsmouth, NH, 2002
Carney Gallery, Regis College, Weston, MA, 2001
A Safe Place, Benefit, Portsmouth. NH, 2000, 1999
Strawbery Banke Museum, Portsmouth, NH, 1998
Elliot House Gallery, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 1997
Whistler House Museum, Lowell, MA, 1997
"Outside the Walls" Installation. The Art Institute of Chicago, 1996
"Beached Art", Provincetown, MA, 1996
"Lowell Revisited", Mogan Cultural Center, Lowell, MA, 1996
Private Exhibition, Port Washington, NY, 1995
"Ten Years", Time Life Building, Chicago, IL, 1994
"New Paintings", Portsmouth, NH, 1993
"The Portsmouth Series", Portsmouth, NH, 1992
Three Open-Studio Exhibits , Portsmouth, NH, 1990-1991
"Sign Series", Portsmouth, NH, 1990
"Millscapes", Heritage State Park, Lawrence, MA, 1989
"Stack Dancers", National Folk Festival, Lowell, MA, 1989
Massachusetts State House, Boston, MA, 1988
University of Massachusetts, O'Leary Library, Lowell, MA, 1987

Group exhibitions

The George Marshall Store Gallery, York, ME, 2003
Stone Books, Nahcotta Gallery, Portsmouth, NH, 2001
"Labor History", Mogan Cultural Center, Lowell, MA, 1989
Catholic Charities, Lake Forest, IL, 1995
"Lives of a River". Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA, 1988
Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, NH, 1987

Selected Collections

Blackbird Technologies, Hemdon, VA
City Of Lawrence MA
Enterprise Bank
Hale & Dorr, Boston, MA
Lowell National Park
Miglin-Beiter Corporation, Chicago ILL.
Mogan Cultural Center, Lowell, MA
McLane, Graf, Raulerson, & Middleton
Warner & Company