Paintings by Alice McEnerney Cook

Alice McEnerney Cook

Tuckerton, New Jersey 

1993 MFA The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

1980 M. ED in Art Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA

1970 BA Chestnut Hill College, Philadelphia, PA

Artist Statement: Coastal Wetlands

My main focus has been plein-aire painting of the coastal wetlands of United States from Maine to Florida and west to the California coast. This series is about presenting the fragile ribbon of green that hugs both the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts. These marshes are nestled just behind the protection of the barrier islands and within the tidal estuaries. In some places just a pocket marsh remains; in others the ribbon is miles wide. This landscape, the tidal wetlands, is where, the scientist and writer, Rachel Carson described “the drama of life played its first scene on earth and perhaps even its prelude, where the forces of evolution are at work today, as they were since the appearance of what we know as life.”  The coastal marshes are truly nature’s nursery, the birthplace for innumerable species including our own.

100 plus Group Exhibits including: Stockton University Faculty Exhibition, MT Burton Gallery, New Jersey State Museum, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Noyes Museum, Woodmere Museum, The Masur Museum of Art, The Philadelphia Sketch Club, Barrier Islands Center and Museum, Long Beach Island Foundation for Arts and Science, Signature Artist Exhibit, Noyes Museum, NJ The Gallery of American Crafts, Delaware Center for Contemporary Arts, Farnsworth Art Museum, and Huntsville Museum of Art.

12 Solo Exhibits including CERF Coastal Estuarine Research Federation, MT Burton Gallery, Forsythe in Art, Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge, Barrier Islands Center and Museum, Stockton University, American Littoral Society, Wetlands Institute, New Jersey Museum of Boating, Ocean City Art Center, Watermark Gallery, and Tyme Gallery

POSITIONS

Stockton University   Drawing and 2D Design Instructor

University of Virginia   Art and Ecology Workshop Instructor Drawing and Painting

Hammonton High School Fine Arts Teacher

Friends Select School   Fine Arts Teacher, Department Chair

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

M.T. Burton Gallery, Surf City, NJ

Artist in Residence, Workshop Anheuser-Busch Coastal Research Center, UVA

Coastal Estuarine Research Federation 2021 50^thAnniversary Conference Solo Exhibition 

Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge NJ Art Science Initiative-Forsythe in Art Exhibit