Bio:

A.D. Herzel is a Korean American Adoptee Artist who has exhibited work for the past twenty years. Her drawings have been exhibited Nationally. She trained as a painter and printmaker at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and went on to receive her M.Ed. in Art Education at the Tyler School of Art in 2000. She was awarded the 2023 Works on Paper Fellowship from The Virginia Commission for the Arts and won the Director’s Choice Award for her piece, Grails in the Made in VA 2022 show at VAMOCA. Her digital work has been published in the Manifest International Drawing Annual, INDA 8 and she has won several awards of recognition for her drawings. Her work has been recognized by curators from the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, The Kimbell Museum of Fine Arts in Texas and The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. She has been represented by galleries in Fort Worth, TX, Nashville, TN and Philadelphia, PA.  Her most recent project, Seeds From The East: The Korean Adoptee Portrait Project was shown at The Philip Jaisohn House in Pennsylvania, and at the Eleanor D. Wilson Museum in Roanoke, VA.


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Reflections, Musings, Outrage, and the Beautiful Bits of Pseudo Pompous life.

Reflections on the DC Superfine Art Fair and a Coupon Code for your Holiday Shopping!
DC Superfine Art Fair 2023 Dock 5 at Union Market Washington DC OCTOBER 26 - OCTOBER 29, 2023
Postponed Until - Oct 27-29 DC Superfine Art Fair 2023 Dock 5 at Union Market Washington DC April 5-April 9, 2023
A.D. Herzel will be showing two Digital Composite Prints, Granny Square and Mother Ship in Arlington, VA at the Gallery Underground.
My history of western Art education from Sargent to Kreuger paving the way for exploration of Asian American Women creators and artists.
Seeds From the East - Exhibit and programming
Exhibition April 30- June 5, 2022 May 14, 2022 Artist Talk 4-5pm Opening Reception 5-7pm
Seeds From the East Exhibition- April 30-June 5, 2022 Philip Jaisohn House May 14, 2022 Artist Talk 4-5pm Opening Reception 5-7pm
Afghan Bride drawing by A.D. Herzel exhibited in Philadelphia A benefit for Tools for Schools and Education Works Oct. 7-Nov. 19, 2021 990 Spring Garden St., Philadelphia
A spotlight on the Asian America and Korean Adoptee Experience.
A little more about A.D. Herzel, the life, the work and the meaning.
Flower Photographs, Illustrations and Digital Composites in an on demand print format with options for licensing. A.D. Herzel's Spring Flowers, Pandemic Blossoms and #AsianGirls illustrations.
250 Years of Botetourt History in Artifacts and Art Exhibition of Historical works and works of Art by Contemporary Botetourt County Artists. A.D Herzel's mixed media work , "Conversations with the trees" and "What is a Chair" are included.
The latest image drop on The Universal Asian. Learn more about the inspiration for my works.

03/19/2021

Premier Inaugural Print Edition Limited Varied Multimedia Edition of 11 Exclusively sold on: Notyourkitty.store Pseudo Pompous Press
Olin Hall Gallery, Roanoke College Exhibit, Ephemeral Tranquility. Sutra's, Open, Heart Sutra and Because you never truly left the womb of the universe by A.D. Herzel all on display.
Essay on Beauty as a Korean American Adoptee. Growing up in America with White Western beauty standards and learning to appreciate what true beauty is in my middle age.
Writing about the Seeds from the East, Adoptee Healing Project.

11/17/2020

November Issue of The Universal Asian
Welcome to the studio of A.D. Herzel, small prints, cards, mixed media, drawings, watercolors, portraits, abstract micro-drawings and photo-composites. Watch the video #virtualartgallery
A brief introduction to the Korean Adoptee Healing Project Images and text about the Portrait project

09/29/2020

Oct 1st launch of Patreon.com/adherzel A brief history of my culture from an American perspective. Tales of messianic cults, Jewish rituals and Korean celebrations. Choseuk, Yom Kippur, Rosh Ha Shana, Sukkot
Free online Creative Arts and Mediation workshops hosted by the Gide Foundation . Every Sunday at 4pm EST. Join through Zoom link found on ADHerzel's FB Event Page.
This exhibition is a joint effort between the Moss Center and the Blacksburg Regional Art Association in conjunction with the Fine Art Center of the New River Valley in Pulaski and the Floyd Center for the Arts. Every two years the show changes from one of these organizations to the next. This marks the first time the biennial has been hosted by the spectacular Moss Center and the first biennial in Blacksburg since 2013 at Perspective Gallery. Sixty-four artists from 21 different towns or cities will be exhibiting in the three galleries of the center. These artists were selected from among 389 entries forwarded to the juror.
"Entering Amy Herzel’s gallery I was transfixed. Her works are airy, or even aerie—a secluded and isolated place high up in the sky."
Please join us for the opening reception of “Gold & Desire – a Solo Exhibition of works by Amy D. Herzel” at the Cerulean Arts Gallery & Studio on April 7, 2018 from 2pm-5pm.
Micro Drawings as spontaneous visual meditations.
Fort Worth community Art Center Solo Showdown 2017
Abstract Research collaboration with the Corilion Medical School. Partnership with Alex Shondra.

04/27/2017

Drawing on the crest of the wave.

06/17/2016

Reflections on exhibitions, sales and the work
Pseudo Pompous prints in Los Angeles.

05/15/2016

Drawing Show at the Red Arrow Gallery, Nashville

Bio/CV

Bio:

A.D. Herzel is a Korean American Adoptee Artist who has exhibited work for the past twenty years. Her drawings have been exhibited Nationally. She trained as a painter and printmaker at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and went on to receive her M.Ed. in Art Education at the Tyler School of Art in 2000. She was awarded the 2023 Works on Paper Fellowship from The Virginia Commission for the Arts and won the Director’s Choice Award for her piece, Grails in the Made in VA 2022 show at VAMOCA. Her digital work has been published in the Manifest International Drawing Annual, INDA 8 and she has won several awards of recognition for her drawings. Her work has been recognized by curators from the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, The Kimbell Museum of Fine Arts in Texas and The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. She has been represented by galleries in Fort Worth, TX, Nashville, TN and Philadelphia, PA.  Her most recent project, Seeds From The East: The Korean Adoptee Portrait Project was shown at The Philip Jaisohn House in Pennsylvania, and at the Eleanor D. Wilson Museum in Roanoke, VA.


Exhibitions

2023:

  • Korean Adoptees Artist Exhibition of the 2023 Daedong Arts Festival, Seoul, Korea (Juried by KADU Korean Adoptees Diaspora Art and Culture)
  • "Sequence," Touchstone Gallery, Washington DC (Jurors: Maleke Glee, Director of Art + Programming at STABLE, Lauren Leving, Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Roddy Schrock, Executive Director of Eyebeam)
  • DC Fine Art Fair

2022:

  • "Seeds from the East - Korean Adoptee Portrait Project," April 30 – June 5, Phillip Jaison House, PA
  • "Seeds from the East - Korean Adoptee Portrait Project," September 29 - December 10, Hollins University, VA
  • "Made in VA 2022," VAMOCA, Virginia Beach, VA (Juror: Bana Kattan, Pamela Alper Associate Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA) – Awarded Director’s Choice)

2021:

  • "Amplify," Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach, VA
  • "250 +1 Years Botetourt," Historical Society of Western Virginia, Roanoke, VA

2018:

  • "Gold and Desire Solo Exhibition," Cerulean Arts Collaborative, Philadelphia, PA
  • "Solo Showdown & Invitational," Art7, Fort Worth, TX (Curated by Jennifer Cassler-Price, Curator for Asian Art at the Kimbell Museum of Art)

2020:

  • "Circle," CICA Museum, Korea

2019:

  • "The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Summer Alumni Exhibition," "Downriver in the Multiverse," Philadelphia, PA
  • "New River Biennial," Moss Arts Center, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA (Juror: Emily Smith – Mixed Media Award winner)
  • "10th Annual Drawing Discourse," Ashville, NC (Juror: Claire Gillman, Chief Curator at the Drawing Center, New York)
  • "Roanoke Biennial," Roanoke, VA (Juror: Elizabeth Gross)
  • "Hope & Possibility," Bridgette Mayer Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2017:

  • "Solo Showdown," Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, TX (Juror: Jennifer Cassler-Price, Curator for Asian Art at the Kimbell Museum of Art)
  • "Roanoke Biennial," Olin Hall Gallery, Roanoke, VA (Juror: Joanne Leonhardt Cassullo & Beth Rudin DeWoody)
  • "Artist Research Partnership Exhibit," Carilion School of Medicine, Roanoke, VA
  • "Healing Arts," Carilion School of Medicine Orthopedic Wing, Roanoke, VA

2016:

  • "Plumbago," Member Exhibition, Red Arrow Gallery, Nashville, TN

2015:

  • "Roanoke Biennial," Roanoke College, Salem, VA

2013:

  • "INDA8," Manifest Drawing Exhibition, Cincinnati, OH
  • "Abstraction," Artspace 111, Fort Worth, TX
  • "Fine Lines," 76102 Gallery, Arlington, TX (Curated by Rebecca Lawton, Curator at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art)
  • "Between the Lines," Torpedo Gallery, Alexandria, VA (Juror: Linn Meyers)

Grants:

  • Works on Paper Artist Fellowship 2023, Virginia Commission for the Arts
  • Sustainable Arts Foundation 2021

Awards:

  • Director’s Choice Award, Made in VA 2022, Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art
  • Award of Honorable Distinction: Mixed Media – New River Biennial 2019
  • Honorable Mention & Invitation to exhibit in 2018 - Awarded by Jennifer Cassler Price
  • 2nd Place – Roanoke Biennial 2017 – Awarded by Joanne Leonhardt Cassullo & Beth Rudin DeWoody
  • 3rd Place- 897 Square 2012- Awarded by Marty Walker, Marty Walker Gallery, Dallas, TX
  • ART7 Solo Showdown – Awarded by Jennifer Cassler-Price, Curator for Asian Art at the Kimbell Museum of Art
  • Honorable Mention- Photography & Digital Art, TVAA
  • The Betsy Meyer Memorial Award - Awarded by Sueyun Locks, Director and Owner of Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Residencies:

  • Vermont Studio Residency- Printmaking 2014, Grant and work stipend, June 2014

Publications:

  • INDA8, Manifest Drawing Catalogue, 2014, Cincinnati, OH

Portfolio Reviewer:

  • Sustainable Arts Foundation 2022, 2023