Bio

Education:
Arts & Music High School
Fashion Institute of Technology
Mt. Saint Mary College (Pastels with Gayle Clark Fedigan)
Art Student League
Woodstock School of Art

Experience
MBP advertizing agency in Poughkeepsie NY
Owned own business in decorative food art with clients such as Balducci’s, Dean & De Luca and Bloomingdale’s in NYC
Pastry chef at various restaurants and bakeries in the Hudson Valley and New York City
Woodstock Artist Association and Museum: past Board and Exhibition committee member
Arts Society of Kingston: Exhibition committee and artist member, curated a pastel show.
Olive Free Library: Gallery Committee member

Publications:
HV Biz, Arts section “Off the Palette” by Kathy Kahn
Poughkeepsie Journal “What Inspires Me” by Barbara G. Farrell,
Delaware & Hudson Canvas

Travel – plein air painting in Ireland and Italy

Solo and Group Exhibitions:

Mark Gruber Gallery
The Shirt Factory, Glens Falls, NY, Annual International Small Works Exhibit
Woodstock Byrdcliff Guild, Woodstock, NY
Emerge Gallery, Saugerties, NY
Emerge Gallery Artsy.net on-line exhibitions: https://www.artsy.net/artist/elaine-ralston
The Gallery at Lifebridge Sanctuary (solo) “Harmonies Of Nature” 2017 Rosendale, NY
River Winds Gallery, Beacon, NY
Gazen Gallery, Rheinbeck, NY
Wolf Gang Gallery, Montgomery, NY
Karples Museum, Newburgh, NY 2013 & 2015
Mariandale Art Gallery, Ossining, NY (Two artist show)
Catskill Mt. Foundation Gallery, Hunter, NY
Howland Cultural Center, Beacon, NY
Bannerman’s Island Gallery, Beacon, NY
The Arts Upstairs Gallery, Phoenicia, NY (solo)
Rage, Kingston, NY (solo)
London Royal Academy Auction for the charity “Bees for development” June 2019 and June 2023
Mt. Saint Mary College, “Artists on Campus” 2006 – 15
The Museum of the Hudson Highlands, Cornwall, NY
Captain David Crawford House, The Historical Society of Newburgh Bay and the Highlands, NY
Kent Art Association, “Elected Artist” Kent, CT
Rosendale Café, “Celtic Holiday” Rosendale, NY
Vanderbilt “Artists in the Garden ” 2006 & 07 Hyde Park, NY
Emmanuel’s, Stone Ridge, NY (solo)
Garrison Art Center, Garrison, NY
Art Society of Kingston, Member shows, Duo Show 2019, Kingston, NY
Desmond House, Balmville, NY
Duck Pond Gallery Port Ewen, NY (solo)
RHCAN Gallery, Red Hook, NY
Colombia County Council of the Arts
Kingston Open Studio
Shirt Factory, Kingston, NY
Olive Free Library Gallery
High Meadow School Benefit Auction, Stone Ridge,NY
Solo show at Ulster Savings Bank, Main office, Kingston, NY
Two-artist collaboration show at Village Green Realty, Kingston, NY
Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock, NY
Woodstock Artist Association and Museum, Woodstock, NY
Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY
Well-Within, New Paltz, NY
The Lace Mill, Kingston NY
Art Gallery at The Woodstock Playhouse, Woodstock, NY