Caroline Rufo creates paintings, installations and performances.
A lifelong New England artist, she explores the natural beauty, ideas, and systems that create her surroundings and influence her perception.
As I meditate, I observe a stream of worries, to-do lists, and memories passing through my mind. This awareness highlights a separate self beyond the constant chatter in my head.
As I deepen this practice, I become aware of filters shaped by cultural systems which in turn shape my responses in the world.
My creative practice involves discovering this hidden information, finding relationships between ideas, exploring visual metaphor and pursuing excellence and beauty.
Detail from “The Reading” performance.
“The Presence of Flowing Water” 20”x20” oil on canvas.
Selected Exhibitions
2023
Nepenthe Gallery, 2 person show, Alexandria, VA
Copley Society, Small Works Show, Boston, MA
”Fleeting” Group show through Atlantic Works Gallery, Clippership Wharf, Boston, MA
2022
“Drawing on the River” Installation, NE Bioworks, Ipswich MA, collaboration with John Rufo
Intervisible: Redlining and Blind Stitching in the Fabric of Greater Boston. Installation at Ursuline Academy in Dedham, MA.
Intervisible public lecture
2021
Chocolate Church Gallery, “Slack Tide” Two person show. Bath, Maine.
Copley Society, Small Works Show, Boston, MA
2020
Bromfield Gallery, “Intervisible: Redlining and Blind Stitching in the Fabric of Greater Boston” Solo Show
Copley Society, Winter Members Show
Powers Gallery, “New Works” Group Show at Powers Gallery
2019
Powers Gallery, “Building an Art Collection”
Copley Society of Art, “Embark”, artwork was given the “Award of Merit”
“The Shop on Washington”, Limited time pop-up exhibit
Copley Society of Art, Fresh Paint Annual Auction
Copley Society of Art, “Renewal” Winter Members Show
Powers Gallery, MAThe Essence of Abstraction
2018
Copley Society of Art, Along the Charles
Harbor Hotel, “Ocean Allure”
Belmont Art Gallery, “Fables and Fairytales”
Copley Society of Art, “Anchors Aweigh”
Belmont Art Gallery, “A Woman’s Place”
Copley Society of Art, “Journeys”
2017
Copley Society of Art, “Small Works”
Montserrat College of Art, “Inspired Views”
Copley Society of Art, New Members Show
2016
Vets Memorial Gallery. “Beyond Choreography”
Page Waterman Gallery, “Shared Spaces” 2 person show
2015
Featured Artist: The Liberty Hotel
Solo show, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston
The Dance Complex, Cambridge, “The Reading” Performance: Under my direction, 10 dancers improvised movement and 1 musician (Racquel Kober) scored an original performance piece.The work is a part of “The Tarot Project” and was the precursor to the “Court Card” paintings.
100 Market Street Gallery, Portsmouth, NH
Featured Artist , Award for excellence in a body of work,
2003 - 2014
13 Forest Street Gallery, Belmont, MA, “Tag - You’re It!”
Gleason Gallery, “What We See” 3 woman show
Page Waterman Gallery
Solo Exhibit, Drift Gallery
Two person show, Page Waterman Gallery
Featured Artist, Arrowstreet Inc.February
Solo Show, Daniels Art Gallery, March, Solo Show
Kniznick Gallery, Women’s Studies Research Center, Brandeis University “Infusion, Recent Work from The Tea Group”
Lillian Immig Gallery, Emmanuel College, “The Tea Group”
Greenfield Community College Gallery, “The Tea Group, Reflections on Motherhood”
President’s Gallery, Mass College of Art, “The Tea Group Now”
