Molly Rausch
b. 1976, Frederick, MD
Education
2003 MFA Painting, State University of New York at New Paltz
1997 BA, summa cum laude, St. Mary’s College of Maryland, St. Mary's City
Public Projects
2013 World Financial Center, Made drawings in exchange for hand-drawn
currency, New York, NY
2012 Corcoran Short Sale, Invited artists to copy work from the Corcoran,
and collected bids from interested buyers. Corcoran Gallery of Art,
Washington DC
2010 Roos-Fotomat Tunnel, Created “underground” connection between 2
image-purposed structures built at opposite ends of a former cement
industry town, Rosendale, NY
2009 Lost & Found Drawing Booth, Collected written descriptions of lost items,
and returned original drawings of lost items to owners via USMail.
New Paltz, NY
2004 Graduate Diploma Auction, Ongoing evaluation of my MFA degree’s
market value.
2003 Faculty Interviews, Ethnographic survey of a multi-disciplinary art
department. Revised edition published by Sojourner Truth Library,
SUNY New Paltz, NY.
Solo Exhibitions
2015 Six to One, Half Dozen to An Other, Shortwave Gallery: Stone Harbor,
NJ
2014 Molly Rausch, Museo de Filatelia de Oaxaca: Oaxaca, Mexico
Molly Rausch, Shortwave Gallery: Stone Harbor, NJ
2013 The Appointed Drawings, The Beacon Room at BAU: Beacon, NY
2010 Lost & Found Drawings, Unison Gallery at WSM: New Paltz, NY
2007 Stevan Jennis, Molly Rausch, and Simon Draper, VanBrunt Gallery:
Beacon, NY
2005 Molly Rausch: The Darndest Things, VanBrunt Gallery: Beacon, NY
2004 Molly Rausch, Artists Gallery on the Rondout: Kingston, NY
Recent Group Exhibitions
2015 WAAM Pop Up Show, WAAM: Woodstock, NY
58th Annual Art Colony of the Center of Contemporary Art, Prilep,
Macedonia
Material Message, Wired Gallery: High Falls, NY
2014 The Under 40 Show, WAAM: Woodstock, NY
STAMP, Andrea Moreau & Molly Rausch, Mad Dooley: Beacon, NY
Collagescape, Glama-Rama Salon: San Francisco, CA
Working Culture, Greene Gallery: Guilford, CT
re:Purpose, WFG Gallery: Woodstock, NY
Across the Ages, Boyden Gallery: St. Mary's College of Maryland
2013 Currency, Team Love Ravenhouse Gallery: New Paltz, NY
Snake Oil Seamstress, O+ Festival: Kingston, NY
Here and Gone, WFG Gallery: Woodstock, NY
Where Have All the Flowers Gone?, The Paramount Hudson Valley:
Peekskill, NY
BAUMoCA, The World's Smallest Museum of Controversial Art, BAU:
Beacon, NY
The Grand Opening of the Kingston Museum of Controversial Art,
KMOCA: Kingston, NY
These Animals Are Driving Me to Abstraction!, WFG: Woodstock, NY
2012 The Under 40 Show, WAAM: Woodstock, NY
Works on Paper, Unison Gallery: New Paltz, NY
Look With Your Stomach & Eat With Your Eyes, Madame La Marquise:
Barcelona, Spain
Object Lessons, Boyden Gallery: St. Mary’s College of Maryland
What's Big is Little/What's Little is Big, VanGo: Susquehanna Art Museum
Circus, Mad Dooley Gallery: Beacon, NY
FU, Woodstock Framing Gallery: Woodstock, NY
Art of the Heirloom, Horticultural Society of New York: New York, NY
Love & Lust, Spire Studios: Beacon, NY
2011 Rock City Pop-Up: Woodstock, NY
Micro, Daniel Aubry Gallery: Beacon, NY
2010 One for the Road, VanBrunt Gallery: Beacon, NY
You Are Here, Roos Arts with Habitat for Artists: Rosendale, NY
Made in Rosendale, Roos Arts: Rosendale, NY
Lost & Found Drawings, Helen Day Center for the Arts: Stowe, VT
Cashama Pop-Up: New York, NY
Recycling The Studio, Work Space Harlem with Habitat for Artists: NYC
2009 Young Blooded, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art:
Peekskill, NY
2008 Group Show, VanBrunt Gallery: Beacon, NY
The SiteLines Hudson Valley Invitational, VanBrunt Gallery: Beacon, NY
2006 New Hudson, VanBrunt Gallery: New York, NY
Outer Nature, Mildred I. Washington Art Gallery: Poughkeepsie, NY
Group Show, VanBrunt Gallery: Beacon, NY
2005 Artists On Location, Garrison Art Center: Garrison, NY
Word Wack, Maxwell Fine Arts Gallery: Peekskill, NY
2004 Flock, Spire Studios: Beacon, NY
New Hudson, VanBrunt Gallery NYC: New York, NY
Colin Barclay and Molly Rausch, VanBrunt Gallery: Beacon, NY
Women Artists Exhibition, Howland Cultural Center: Beacon, NY
New Hudson—Contemporary Artists of the Hudson Valley, VanBrunt
Gallery: Beacon, NY
Group Show, Chthonic Clash: Beacon, NY
2003 Group Show, Mart: Beacon, NY
MFA Thesis Exhibition, Chandler Gallery, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art
Salon des Independence, The Gallery: Kingston, NY
New York Area MFA Exhibition, Hunter College Gallery: New York City
Alumni Exhibition, Boyden Gallery: St. Mary’s College of Maryland
Residencies and Awards
2015 58th Annual Art Colony of the Center of Contemporary Art, Prilep,
Macedonia
2003 Artist-in-Residence, The Artist House at St. Mary’s College of Maryland
1998 Stacy A. Phillips Scholarship for painters, Anderson Ranch Arts Center,
Colorado
Bibliography
2014 New York Times, Royal Portable at WFG Gallery
American Stamp Dealer & Collector Magazine, July/August Cover Feature:
Molly Rausch, Practitioner of Philatelic Art
Chronogram Magazine, January: Cover
2013 Bear Deluxe Magazine, #34: Independent Art
Hudson Valley Magazine: New Paltz Artist Molly Rausch's Stamp
Paintings
2012 Vaccari News, June 9: Dal francobollo al dipinto
Colossal Art & Design: Beyond the Borders of Postage Stamps
2011 Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast: Featuring Up-and
Coming Illustrator Nora Krug and Author Molly Rausch
My Cold Went On Vacation, by Molly Rausch and Nora Krug, Penguin
Putnam
2010 Kirkus, December 1: My Cold Went On Vacation
Hudson Valley Times, October 21: Out back in the art shed
2009 Chronogram Magazine: Portfolio: Molly Rausch
2005 Chronogram Magazine: The Darndest Things at VanBrunt Gallery
New York Times: Word Wack at Maxwell Fine Arts
