Stuart M. Shils
born: Philadelphia, PA, 1954

 

  EDUCATION
   
1977 – 82 The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
  European Traveling Scholarship, 1981
1976 – 77 Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, PA
1976 – 78 Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
1972 – 74 Drew University, Madison, NJ

 

  SOLO EXHIBITIONS
   
2019 steven harvey fine art projects, New York, NY
2014 steven harvey fine art projects, New York, NY
2013 Davis and Langdale, New York
Rothschild Gallery, Tel Aviv
2012 steven harvey fine art projects, New York, NY
2011 Davis and Langdale, New York
2010 Rothschild Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects at Coleman Bancroft, New York, NY
2009 Davis and Langdale Company, New York
2008 Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY
Davis and Langdale Company, New York
2006 Davis and Langdale Company, New York
2005 Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY
Gallery 33, Tel Aviv, Israel
2004 Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY
2003 Davis and Langdale Company, New York, NY
Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA
Hackett-Freedman, San Francisco, CA
2002 Fenton Gallery, Cork, Ireland
2001 Davis and Langdale Company, New York, NY
Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Hackett-Freedman, San Francisco, CA
2000 Tibor de Nagy, New York, NY
1999 Barton/Ryan Gallery, Boston, MA
Mangel Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY
1998 Sydne Bernard, Los Angeles, CA
1997 Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York., NY (December, 1997)
Mangel Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA
Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY (January, 1997)
1995 Horwitch Newman, Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
Mangel Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA
1994 Mangel Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
F.A.N. Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1993 Mangel Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1992 F.A.N. Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1991 Challenge Exhibition, Samuel S. Fleisher Memorial, Administered by the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA

 

  SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
   
2019 Modern and Contemporary Landscape, PAFA Museum Tuttleman galleries, Sept 2019-Jan 2020
  The Woodmere Annual 78th Juried Exhibition, Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia
2017 Art At Kings Oak, October, 2017
2016 For WLD, Works From the William Louis-Dreyfus Foundation, steven harvey fine arts projects, NY
  Philadelphia Painters, Kutztown University, curated by Mark Mahosky
2014 Paper Works, McClleaf Galllery, Philladelohia, PA
2013 Come Like Shadows, curated by David Cohen, Lurcher Gallery, New York, New York
2012 A Drawing Show of Artists, curated by Bill Scott and Alex Kanevsky, The Philadelphia Sketch Club, Philadlephia, PA
  5 Artists on Paper, Davis and Langdale, New York, NY
  Doris Staffel, Painter, Teacher, Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA
  Haunting Narratives: Detours from Philadelphia Realism, 1935 to the Present, Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA
2011 the gap: kurt knoblesdorf, sangram majumdar, stuart shils, steven harvey fine art projects, New York, NY
  Flirting With Abstraction: Modern and Contemporary Art of Philadelphia in the Promised Gift of Karen Segal and Woodmere’s Collection, Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA
  Pennsylvania Landscape, Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, PA
  Pink Moon, steven harvey fine art projects, new york, ny
  Response, Remembrance and Reflection, Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA
2010 In the Light of Corot, steven harvey fine art projects, New York, NY
  Viewpoint, Reymolds Gallery, Richmond, VA
2009 PAIRINGS: Seymour Remenick and Stuart Shils, steven harvey fine art projects at the Gallery Schelssinger, New York, NY, New York, NY
2007 Alumni Invitational Exhibition, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2006 American Artist in Rural Ireland, Concord Art Association, Concord, MA
2005 Emptiness, Gallery 33, Tel Aviv, Israel
  Between Perception and Invention: Three Generations of Figurative Artists, Sharon Arts Center, Peterborough, NH
  Pat de Groot and Stuart Shils: Coast to Coast, Brick Walk Bookshop and Fine Art, West Hartford, CT
  Works on Paper, Davis and Langdale Company, New York, NY
2004 American Identities, Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
  Art in Embassies Program, American Embassy in Dublin, Ireland
2003 EIRE/LAND, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA
2002 Imaginative Affinities: Echoes of Dickinson in Contemporary American Art, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
  Works on Paper, Davis and Langdale Company, New York, NY
  Stuart Shils and Nem Hackett, Etherington Fine Arts, Chillmark, MA
  Kindred Spirits: The Landscapes of Eric Aho, Wolf Kahn and Stuart Shils, Paesaggio Gallery West Hartford, CT
2001 Passages from Ballinglen, List Gallery, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA
  Works on Paper: Carol Anthony, Wolf Kahn and Stuart Shils, Paesaggio Gallery, West Hartford, CT
1999 Changing Nature: New Visions and Imagined Lands, Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg
  Beyond the Millennium: Artists Choose Artists, Brattleboro Museum, Brattleboro, VT
  Intimate Visions, List Gallery, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA
  Through the Heart of the City, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA
1997 An Extended View: Landscapes by Philadelphia Artists, Levy Gallery at Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA
  Current Perspectives on the Urban and Industrial Landscape, The New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
  Landscape as Abstraction, James Graham and Sons, New York, NY
1996 Small-Scale Landscapes, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA
  National Academy of Design 171st Annual Exhibition, New York, NY
  Twenty Years in Boston 1976-1996, Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston, MA
1995 Emerging Artists Invitational, The Painting Center, New York, NY
  Miniature Landscapes, Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston, MA
  Exhibition of Work by Newly Elected Members and Recipients of Honors and Awards, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
  American Academy Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
  West Art and the Law, West Publishing, Traveling 1995-1996
  The Butler Institute of American Art 59th National Midyear Annual, Youngstown, OH
  Colors, Walker-Kornbluth Gallery, Fair Lawn, NJ (with Bill Scott and Rose Naftulin) Still Life Invitational, Prince Street Gallery, New York, NY
  Still Life Invitational, Prince Street Gallery, New York, NY
1993 The Artist in Rural Ireland: Images of North Mayo, The Painting Center, New York, NY
  The City Observed, Sordoni Art Gallery, Wilkes University, Wilkes-Barre, PA (Three person show)
  The Butler Institute of American Art 58th National Midyear Annual, Youngstown, OH
1992 Summer Group Show, Tatistcheff and Company, New York, NY
  The Butler Institute of American Art 57th Midyear Annual, Youngstown, OH
  National Academy of Design 169th Annual Exhibition, New York, NY
  Painting selected by the state Department for the Art in Embassies Program, Washington, DC
  Two American Landscape Painters, Kunsthaus Buhler, Stuttgart, Germany (with Paul Flexner)
  National Juried Competition, The Bowery Gallery, New York, NY
  National Academy of Design 167th Annual Exhibition, New York, NY
  Grumbacher Art Award and Gold Medal
  Painting selected by the state Department for the Art in Embassies Program, Washington, DC
  The Urban Scene, Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science, Philadelphia, PA
  Allentown Art Museum 23rd Annual Juried Show, Allentown, PA
1991 Delaware Museum of Art Biennial 1991, Wilmington, DE
  The Butler Institute of American Art 55th National Midyear Annual, Youngstown, OH

 

  FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AWARDS
   
2009 Peter S. Reed Foundation
2005 Independence Foundation Fellowship in the Arts
1996 NEA/Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Visual Arts Fellowship
  Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Visual Arts State Fellowship
1995 American Academy of Arts and Letters, Academy Award in Art
  Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
  E.D. Foundation Grant
  Ballinglen Arts Foundation Fellowship (also 1999, 2004)
1993 E.D. Foundation Grant

 

  VISITING ARTIST, RESIDENCIES, TEACHING, COLLABORATIONS
   
2018 PAFA in Greece, July 2018, Athens and Napflion
2017 Visiting Artist, University of North Carolina Ashville
2016 Visiting Artist Kutztown University, Pennsylvania
  Master Class at Universidad Complutense  de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
  Teaching for Low Residency MFA, PAFA, Philadelphia
  Teaching for Undergraduate Program at PAFA, critic and life painting class, (2008-2018)
  Master class at PAFA, ‘Building a Beachhead of Visual Dreamspace’
2014 Teaching at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, Maine
  Visiting Artist, Hamline University, St Paul, Minnesota
  Visiting Artist, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
  Visiting Artist, Lyme Academy College of Art, Lyme, Connecticut
2013 Master Class With Ken Kewley at PAFA, and lecture, The Abstraction of Nature and the Nature of Abstraction, Philadelphia
  Master Class, at PAFA, The Structure of the Visual Moment, Philadelphia
  The Perception of Nature and the Nature of Perception, Sedona, Arizona, (2010 – 2014)
2012 Visiting Artist/Lectures, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
  The Habit of Looking and the Visual Kiss, public lecture, Jerusalem Studio School, Israel
  Urban Perceptual Tourism Tour in Philadelphia, PA
  Reframing the Ordinary, Drawing Class and Public Lecture, PAFA, Philadelphia, PA
  Vermont Studio Center Visiting Artist, 1999 – 2012
  Weekly critic at the Pennsylvania Acadmy of the Fine Arts (2008 – 2013)
  Teaching Weekly Life Painting Class at PAFA (Winter Semester), Philadelphia, PA
2011 Reframing the Ordinary, Class and public lecture at the Lancaster Museum, Pennsylvania, in conjunction with the exhibition Pennsylvania Landscape
  Master Class at Castlehill Art Center, Truro, MA (and 2012)
  Master Class and Lecture with Bill Scott at PAFA, Philadelphia
2010 Teaching at the Jerusalem Studio School, Jerusalem, Israel
  Visiting Artist/Lecture, Rhode Island College, Providence, Rhode Island
  Lecture: “Seymour Remenick and the Structure of the Visual Moment”, Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, PA
2009 Visiting Artist and Lecture, Johns Hopkins University
2008, 10, 11 Teaching for the Jerusalem Studio School Summer Program in Italy
2008 Master Class at The Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA
2007, 08, 10, 11 Summers painting in Italy
2007 – 16 Master Classes and Public Lectures at The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2007 Teaching, International School of Painting and Drawing, Montecastello, Italy
  Visiting Artist, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
  Jerusalem Studio School Summer Program in Italy, Visiting Artist, Umbria, Italy
2007 Teaching, International Studio School of Painting and Drawing, Montecastello, Italy
2007 Visiting Artist, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2006, 07, 15 Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, CT—Monotype Workshop
2005, 06 Figurative and Landscape Workshops, Main Line Center for the Arts, Haverford, PA
2005, 06 Armory Art Center, West Palm Beach, Florida, Landscape Workshop
2004, 05 Jerusalem Studio School Landscape Marathon, Jerusalem, Israel — Visiting Artist, public lecture
2004, 05 Washington Studio School, Bethesda, MD, visiting critic and lecturer, and landscape workshop
2004, 05 Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA—Figure painting class
2004 Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD – Senior Thesis Advisor
  Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, Landscape Workshop
2003, 04, 05 Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA—Outdoor Landscape Workshop
2002 Crawford Art College, Cork Ireland, Visiting Critic and Lecturer
  New York Studio School Evening Lecture Series, New York
  George Washington University, Washington, DC – Visiting Artist
  Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA – Visiting Artist
  PAFA, lecture in collaboration with Edwin Dickinson show, Philadelphia, PA
  Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD, visiting critic
2001, 03, 05 GRAI Landscape Painting Workshop, Walpole, New Hampshire
1999-12 Vermont Studio Center, Visiting Critic, Johnson, VT
1999-03 Vermont Studio Center Press, Monotype Collaboration with Sarah Amos, Master Printer
1999 Arobora Press, San Francisco, Invitational Monotype Collaboration
1999-02 Woodmere Art Museum Lecture Series, Philadelphia, PA   

  • “Tonality, Color and Abstraction in American Art”
  • “East/West: Guston, Rothko, Deibenkorn, Bischoff, Post War Figuration and Abstraction”
  • “The Art of J.M.W. Turner: Heaven and Earth”
  • “The Loaded Brush: The Legacy of Eakins”
  • “Pennsylvania Impressionism in Context”
  • “Giorgio Morandi”
  • “Land, Sea, and Sky”
1998-99 Participated in Ireland with Frances McElroy on filming of documentary Ballycastle, a work in progress—Ballycastle, Co Mayo, Ireland
1994-06 Summers painting on the northwest coast of Co. Mayo, Ireland

 

  BIBLIOGRAPHY
   
  Singular and Serial: Contemporary Monotype and Monoprint, Kernan, Rooney, Einstein, Oresman, pages 116-119, Shiffer Publishing 2019
  Beer with a painter: Doron Langberg, Hyperallergic.com, Aug 17, 2019/Jen Samet, https://hyperallergic.com/513615/beer-with-a-painter-doron-langberg/
  an astronomer up late in her observatory, a picture book, Feb 2019
  The Irish Times, Brushstrokes with Echoes of Music, Aidan Dunne, Jan 31, 2018
  Terain.org An Architecture of Paper + Tape: Collages on Glass By Stuart Shils, Terrain.org, Nov.2 2017, ,https://www.terrain.org/2017/arterrain/stuart-shils/
  Stuart Shils, parts 1&2, On Recent Work & On Teaching, paintingperceptions.com, with Larry Groff, http://paintingperceptions.com/stuart-shils-part-one-on-recent-work/
  Stuart Shils on Savvy Painter, with Anrese Wood, savvypainter.com/stuart-shils
  Stuart Shils: because I have no interest in those questions, Tilted Arc, Nov 2014
  Ruth Miller Forge and Stuart Shils in Conversation, Tilted Arc, April 8, 2014 www.tilted-arc.com/2014/04/07/ruth-miller-forge-in-conversation/
  In Between: Various Artists At Various Galleries On the Lower East Side, William E. Kohler, Huffiest Arts and Culture, January 8, 2014
  TiltedArc.com, 2013: A Look Back, Part I, January 5, 2013
  TiltedArc.com, Notebook, Stuart Shils, Nov 22, 2013
  TiltedArc.com, Backstory: Stuart Shils, Oc 29, 2013
  Colleagues, Students and Family, catalog essay for Doris Staffel: Painter, Teacher, Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, July – September, 2012
  The Glorious Wake Of That Painter’s Joy, essay by Stuart Shils for Joseph Wharton, Iron Master, Innovator and Educator, catalog for David Brewster Commissions at the Wharton School, UPENN, 2012
  Stuart Shils in Conversation with Nikolai Fox, Interview for Paintingperception.com, with Nikolai Fox
  The Philadelphia Inquirer, December 18, 2011, “Opening Woodmere To the Current art Scene”, Amy Rosenbberg.
  Philadelphia City Paper, December 15, “Flirting With Abstraction: Modern and Contemporary Art in Philadelphia”, Robin Rice.
  Monotypes and Photographs at Davis and Langdale, Interview for paintingperceptions.com, with Neil Plotkin
  Exhibition Catalog, “Monotypes and Photographs”, Davis and Langdlae, NY, NY, 2011
  Interview With Stuart Shils, for paintingpeceptions.com with Larry Groff, December 2010,
  In the Light of Corot, John Goodrich, September 28, 2010, City Arts
  Interview With Stuart Shils, for Jerusalem Studio School Web/Blog site, with Rebecca Harp
  Seymour Remenick, An Appreciation, written by Stuart Shils, catalog essay for Seymour Remenick, curated by Stanley Grand, Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, PA
  The Wall Street Journal, Oct. 10, 2009, “Pairings: Seymour Remenick, Stuart Shils”, Lance Esplund
  ArtCritical.Com, February 2009, “Stuart Shils and John Dubrow”, John Goodrich.
  The New Republic, Decmeber 24, 2008, “Private Lives”, Jed Perl.
  Representing Art in Ireland, Sarah Finlay, p. 178, Fenton Gallery/Nicholson and Bass, 2008.
  The New York Sun, October 26, 2006, “Arts and Letters: Gallery Going”, John Goodrich, p.15
  The Bridgestone 100 Best Places to Stay in Ireland 2006, p.98, John and Sally McKenna, Estragon Press, Cork, Ireland, 2005
  Exhibition Catalog, “Between Earth and Sky”, essay: Stuart Shils, Tibor De Nagy, New York, November 2005, Green Shade Press
  The Jerusalem Post, “Plein Air Delights” Gil Goldfine, April 29, 2005
  Ha’aretz, “Stuart Shils, Gallery 33”, Smadar Shefi, April 13, 2005
  Studio, an Israeli Art Magazine, “Stuart Shils, Gallery 33”, March/April 2005. p. 10
  Ha’aretz, “Weekend Recommendations”, Smadar Shefi, May 5, 2005
  Maureen Mullarkey, website text in Studio Matters and Commentary,
  “A Treasure Hunt: a brief homily by Israel Hershberg”, 2005
  Achbar Hair, “Without Words”, Neta Dror, March 17, 2005
  Exhibition Catalog, essay Israel Hershberg, Gallery 33, Tel Aviv, Israel, March 2005
  The New Yorker, January 3, 2005, p.14, Goings on About Town—Galleries
  The New York Sun, December 9, 2004 “Arts and Letters: Gallery Going”, Maureen Mullarkey, p.20
  Exhibition Catalog, Dec. 2005, “Chasing the Sky”, Tibor de Nagy, New York, essay: Bill Corbett
  The Irish Times, August 25, 2004, “Retreating To the Edge of the World”, Aidan Dunne, p.11
  Ballycastle, a television documentary, produced and directed by Fran McElroy, Shirley Road Productions, Philadelphia, 2004. Aired on PBS, Philadelphia and nationally.
  Exhibition Catalog, “American Identities, 20th Century Prints from the Nancy Gray Sherrill Class of 1954 Collection”
  Davis Museum, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, pp. 164, 165
  Exhibition Catalog, “EIRE/Ireland”, edited by Vera Kreilkamp, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, pp. 109, 110, 217, 218
  Montgomery County Town and Country Living, “Stuart Shils”, Jane Biberman.
  The Irish Times, November 30, 2002, “The Rain Chaser”, Aidan Dunne, p. 55
  The Sunday Tribune, December 1, 2002, “Visual Art”, Marianne Hartigan, p. 4
  The Irish Examiner, November 22, 2002, “The Weatherman”, Alannah Hopkin
  Exhibition Catalog, November 2002, Vera Ryan, “The Mayo Paintings”, Fenton Gallery, Cork, Ireland
  The Irish Times, August 31, 2002, Michael Vinney, “Artist Confrontations at the Rim of the World”, Another Life, p. 7
  Exhibition Catalog, October 2001, “Recent Paintings and Works on Paper”, Davis and Langdale Company, New York, NY
  Philadelphia City Paper, June 7 – 14 2001, “Monoprints (x3)”, Susan Hagen
  Exhibition Catalog, May 2001, “Lightscapes: Monotypes and Oil Pastels from Ireland”, Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA
  Art and Antiques, May 2001 “Emerging Artist”, Ken Shulman, p. 58
  Eyewitness, Jed Perl, 2000, published by Basic Books, pp 169 – 176.
  Art New England, December 1999/January 2000, “Barton/Ryan Gallery, Boston: Stuart Shils: Dreams of Sun and Rain, Paintings from Ireland and Philadelphia”, Joshua Meyer
  The Crest, a publication of Woodmere Art Museum: Winter 1999, “An Interview with Painter Stuart Shils”, Meri Adelman
  Inside Magazine, Winter 1999, p. 87, “A Man For All Seasons”, Jane Biberman
  The Boston Globe, November 4, 1999, “Illumining Two Visions of Irish Landscape”, Cate McQuaid
  The Boston Phoenix, October 29, 1999, “Irish Eyes: Peter Brooke and Stuart Shils,” Christopher Millis
  The Philadelphia Inquirer, September 13, 1998, p. MD3, “Swarthmore College,” Victoria Donohoe
  Exhibition Catalogue, March 1999, Peter Cameron, “Stuart Shils: Recent Paintings”, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY
  The New Criterion, February, 1998, p. 48, “Exhibition Notes,” David Cohen
  Philadelphia Weekly, November 12, 1997, “Precisely Beautiful”, Gerard Brown
  The Hudson Review, Volume L, Number 2, p. 297, Summer, 1997, “Approaches to the Sacred,” John Loughery
  Art New England, August/September, 1997, “Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston: Wolf Kahn and Stuart Shils, Miles Unger”
  The New Republic, July 14, 21, 1997, p. 30, “Earth,” Jed Perl
  Philadelphia Weekly, June 4, 1997, p. 30, “Room For a View,” Jeanne Nugent
  The New York Times, March 30, 1997, New Jersey Section, The Towns, P. 9, “Not Your Average Bucolic Landscape,” William Zimmer
  Humanities, March/April, 1997, p. 24, “The Sacred and the Urbane”
  The New Yorker, February 3, 1997, p. 20, “Goings on About Town – Galleries”
  The Boston Globe, June 6, 1996, p. 35, “1976 – 1996: Twenty Tears in Boston,” Cate McQuaid
  The New York Times, January 31, 1997, C28, “Stuart Shils,” Tibor de Nagy Gallery, Michael Kimmelman
  Exhibition Catalogue, Justin Spring, “Stuart Shils: Recent Paintings”, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY
  New Art Examiner, January, 1996, p. 43, “Stuart Shils at Mangel Gallery,” Tom Csaszar
  The Boston Globe, December 14, 1995, p. 77, “Landscapes That Prove Small is Beautiful,” Nancy Stapen
  Style Weekly, June 6, 1995, Arts & Leisure, “Richly Rendered,” Paulette Roberts-Pullen
  Richmond Times-Dispatch, May 25, 1995, D28, “Shils, Carbo featured in gallery show,” CeCe Bullard
  Philadelphia Inquirer, April 16, 1995, B2, “The Scene,” Richard Jones
  Seven Arts, November, 1995, “Portfolio: Stuart Shils,” Bill Scott
  American Artist, January, 1995, p. 57, “Stuart Shils’s Passionate Journey,” Bill Scott
  Philadelphia Inquirer, May 14, 1995, “Metropolis, City Sites”, Debra Nussbaum
  Seven Arts, March, 1995, vol.3, no.3, p.5, “Shopping, Made in Philadelphia”, Judith West
  Philadelphia Inquirer, May 2, 1994, B1, “Amid Urban Blight, Urban Beauty,” Denise-Marie Santiago
  Exhibition Catalogue, Stanley Grand, “The City Observed”, Sordoni Art Gallery, Wilkes University, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
  Art in America, September, 1993, p. 118, “Philadelphia: Stuart Shils at Mangel,” Miriam Seidel
  Philadelphia Inquirer, February 19, 1993, “On Galleries,” Edward Sozanski
  New Art Examiner, February, March, 1992, “Challenge I,” Edward Sozanski
  Philadelphia Inquirer, January 30, 1992, C3, “On Galleries,” Edward Sozanski
  Philadelphia Inquirer, September 19, 1991, D3, “On Galleries,” Edward Sozanski
  The Philadelphia Daily News, September 10, 1991, Arts, “Challenging Art,” Kitty Caparella