Early Years
Was a scholarship kid in numerous winter “Saturday School” programs at Herron School of Art, Indianapolis.
1963
Spent seven summers racing quarter midget racecars. I learned to run a perfect circle pattern on an oval racetrack. This skill was an indication of eye, brain, and hand coordination useful to art making later in life.
1964
1964 Quarter Midget Racing
1969 Woodstock
Attempted to hitch hike to Woodstock, NY for the music festival. I was thwarted by a furious father who promptly sent me to Europe to make a thirty-day grand continental tour of every major city, art museum, and cathedral.
1969 Europe
After seeing the work of Michelangelo and Da Vinci I got and kept a waitressing job for four years in order to get to art school.
1974 Indiana University
1973-1977 I attended art school at Indiana University. I painted in oils for a year with my teacher Barry Gealt’s “throw away” brushes and his recommendation to use only four colors. Due to lack of funds, Professor Gealt said I could do “value studies” with cerulean blue, raw and burnt umbers, and titanium white. Invaluable…
Was drafted into ROTC to be on the IU Rifle team. Once again eye, brain, and hand coordination made being a marksman possible.
1974 Self Portrait
Self-portrait in four colors; cerulean blue, titanium white, raw and burnt umbers.
1975 Self Portrait
First oil in full color
1979 Studies with Isabel Bishop
Studied with American figure painter Isabel Bishop at Notre Dame South Bend, IN
1979 First Public Exhibit
First public exhibition of graphite drawings granted by Tom Schorgl of the South Bend Art Center, IN
1979 Gallery Aquinas
Started Cooperative Gallery Aquinas in South Bend, IN ’79-81 with fellow artists
1982
Gave birth to only child Ashley Constance Edwards Crofoot in Greenwich, CT
1983
Back to Indiana
1989-2001 Greece
Painted every summer on the Greek Island of Samos.
1989
Was inspired by and observed Aristoteles Solounias and his narrative figure style of painting.
Painting on Samos
1993 Art Students League
1993-94
Studied at the Art Students League in NYC.
Established studio in the historic Stutz auto factory in Indianapolis.
BREAKTHROUGH 1998
“The Gods” the very first oil painting on linen with clear gesso
1999 Vermont
Fellowship Grant to the Vermont Studio Center
1999 Maui
Gained very first national gallery representation through Sargent’s Fine Art in Lahaina, Maui
2002 Breakthrough
Sargent’s Fine Art Gallery in Maui would host Openings for me every winter. I would spend enough time there to paint during my visits. I learned a great deal about historical body tattoos of the South Pacific and began using those patterns in my paintings. The figure is purely defined by those very patterns. I launched a series of fourteen canvases at a solo exhibition called “Tattoo You” in Santa Fe at Horizons Gallery 2002.
2005-2008 Laguna Beach
Went to left coast and established a studio in Laguna Beach, CA
2006 Breakthrough
Advent of using the “redstring” as a metaphor for our attachments and entanglements came from Laguna Beach inspiration.
2007 Monumental Figures
Solo Exhibition at Marion Meyer Contemporary Art in Laguna Beach
2009 Breakthrough
Mixed media with cold wax, oils, and metal leaf. The figure remains but in oil sketch form. The beauty of the linen canvas plays a significant role in the color palette.
2010 Breakthrough
mixed media; oils with paper collage
2010 Constance & Ashley
2010 Artist Agent Agreement
Signed contractual agreements with artist agent Rhonda Long Sharp of Long Sharp Gallery
2010 Holland
International Fellowship to Schildersweek Holland
2010 Studio Shot
Another day in the studio
2011 Morning Palette
Morning Palette
2011 Breakthrough
“Upstream” was the first of a series where I deliberately omitted the presence of the figure.
Afternoon Palette
Afternoon Palette
Digital Art
“24 hours/3rd Shift” the first of a series of oil paintings with embedded video
2012 Detroit
Solo show in Detroit with Long Sharp/Curis Gallery
2012 Newport
Solo Show Newport, RI on yacht
2012 Miami
Opening SCOPE Miami
2012 Art Basel
Bill & Marie Kennedy at Art Basel ‘12
2012 Animamus Art Salon
Alliance with Animamus Art Salon in Brooklyn
2012 Indy
A Sunday in the studio
2013
“Blame & Fault in America” series begins
2013 Fellowship
Recipient of Creative Renewal Fellowship through the Eli Lilly Foundation of Indianapolis
2013 Studio Shot
Indianapolis Studio Mini Retrospective
2014 Brooklyn
2014
Paintings get larger and larger.
2015 Abstract Experimentation
2015 Spring Masters New York at The Armory
2015 Art Miami / New York
2015 Indy Collective Weekend Pop-Up
2015 Indy Collective Solo Show, Grand Rapids
2015 Art Prize 7, Grand Rapids
2016 Summer Studio
2016 Crossroads New Media
Exhibited Digital Media pieces Bang-Bang ! and Rose Colored Glasses
2016 Art Prize 8, Grand Rapids
Constance’s Digital Art Media masterwork, Bang Bang!, was placed on the Art Prize 8 Juror Shortlist Time-Based category. Constance’s piece was on exhibit in the City Water Building located in downtown Grand Rapids,M.I.
2017 Art on Paper NY
2017 Athena Shrugged Solo Exhibition (Part I: Constance Edwards Scopelitis)
Exhibited Digital Art Media at Long-Sharp Gallery New York Project Space
2017 Art New York at Pier 94
2018 January Studio
2018 Spring Studio
2018 Summer Studio
2018 Art Sparkle at Indianapolis Art Center
A visitor stands in front of Constance Edwards Scopelitis’ Digital Art Media “Bang Bang” which was on display during the Indianapolis Art Center’s 14th Annual Fundraising Gala.
2018 Cornell Museum Delray, FL
Constance Edwards Scopelitis attends her group exhibition in Delray. FL at the Cornell Art Museum.
2019 Spring Studio
