Selected Solo Exhibitions

2024 Arlene Love: Selections from Seven Decades, Interactive Museum of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
2017 Drawings, InLiquid 1715
2009 Pairs in Public, Sande Webster Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2007 Philly Eats, Sande Webster Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2005 Overview: A Decade: Drawings and Photographs.1995-2005, Rosemont College, Rosemont, PA
2004 Walking Distance, new photographs, Sande Webster Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2003 University of Scranton, Scranton, PA
2002 Sundays in Tlacolula, Sande Webster Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2000 Lamentations, Drexel University, Nesbitt Gallery
1998 Drawings and Etchings, Print Center, Philadelphia, PA
1991 Mexican Journeys, Myths, Magic, and Mummies, Bennett Siegel Gallery, NYC, NY
1990 A Decade: The Leather Figures, Bennett Siegel Gallery, NYC, NY
1987 Arlene Love: In Retrospect, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
1986 8 Figures on a Piazza, Lawrence Oliver Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1984 Arlene Love, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND
1983 Drawings and Monoprints, Portico Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1983 Arlene Love: Recent Sculpture, Keystone College, Wyoming Valley, PA
1982 Museum of the Surreal and Fantastique, NYC, NY
1980 Erotica, A.J. Wood Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1979 Freaks and Victims, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Morris Gallery
1976 Arlene Love: In Retrospect, Gloucester County College, NJ
1974 Bondage Series, Langman Gallery, Jenkintown, PA
1972 Friends’ Central School, Philadelphia, PA
1971 Shipley School, Bryn Mawr, PA
1970 Family Album, Philadelphia Art Alliance
1967 Arlene Love/ New Sculpture, Terry Dintenfass Gallery, NYC, NY
1963 Philadelphia Art Alliance
1958 Philadelphia Art Alliance

Selected Group Exhibitions

2018 Winged Woman: The Art of Arene Love, Painted Bride, Philadelphia, PA sponsored and curated by InLiquid
2017 A More Perfect Union?, Woodmere Art Museum
2010 Turning a New Page, Old City Jewish Art Center. Philadelphia, PA
2010 Una Mas | Not One More: The Juarez Murders, Drexel University
2010 Divergence Five Views on Photography, Sande Webster Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2003-2008 Sande Webster Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2006 The Long Distance Runner, Krasdale Galleries, Bronx, NY
1994-2000 La Mano Magica Gallery, Oaxaca, Mexico. Always on exhibition
1999 Los Artistes de Oaxaca, El Nuevo Centro de Las Artes, Vista Hermosa, Mexico
1999 Mujeres del Mundo en Oaxaca, Galeria Arte de Oaxaca, Mexico
1992 Ancient Sources, Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA
1990 The Erotic Image, Bennett Siegel Gallery, NYC, NY
1989 In a Dark Vein, Sculpture Center, NYC, NY
1989 Fellowship Winners: Hard Choices/Just Rewards, PA Council on Arts, traveling exhibit
1988 Installation of 8 Figures on a Piazza (long term exhibit), Moore College of Art & Design
1986 Installation of 8 Figures on a Piazza (long term exhibit), Abington Art Center, Abington, PA
1985 Elaine Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, L.I. New York
1984 A Few Fears, Temple University, Tyler School of Art
1984 Leather Arts, Sawtooth Center for the Visual Arts, Winston-Salem, NC
1983 Women’s Caucus for Art (traveling exhibit), Florida, Houston, TX, Phila., PA
1983 Philadelphia Art Alliance
1982 Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN
1982 Body Language, San Diego State University
1982 Baker Gallery, La Jolla, CA
1981 Sculpture 81, Temple University
1981 About Faces, Southern Ohio Museum
1981 Leather Forms, Grossmont College, El Cajon, CA
1979 Leather Art, Touring Exhibition of Coach Leather Collection of American Art in Leather
1979 Alan Stone Gallery, NYC, NY
1979 Skin Forms, Herbert F. Johnson Museum at Cornell University
1975 University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School (4 artists)
1975 Rhode Island University 
1974 Temple University, Tyler School of Art 
1974 Some Plastic People, Max Hutchinson Gallery, NYC, NY
1974 Working Women Artists from Tyler, Temple University, Paley Library
1974 In Her Own Image, Fleisher Memorial Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1973 Erotic Art by Women, Erotic Art Gallery, NYC, NY
1973 11th Regional Sculpture Invitational, Museum Of Philadelphia Civic Center
1972 Unmanly Art, Suffolk Museum. Stony Brook, Long Island, NY
1972 Sculptors, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
1970 The Mind's Eye, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Division of Education
1970 Wichita Museum of Art, Wichita, Kansas
1968 American Painting and Sculpture, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
1967 Self Portraits by Philadelphia Artists, Philadelphia Art Alliance
1966 Invited Regional Sculpture and Print Exhibition, Philadelphia Art Alliance
1964 Regional Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
1963 Philadelphia Women in the Arts, Moore College of Art
1962 American Painting and Sculpture, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
1960 Sculpture USA, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Denver Art Museum, LA County Museum
1959 Recent Sculpture USA, Museum of Modem Art, NYC, NY

Collections

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA
James A. Michener Museum, Doylestown, PA
Moore College of Art & Design, Philadelphia, PA
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

Publications

1992 Bach, Penny Balkin. Public Art in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA.: Temple University Press. pp 132-133, 239
1991 Arlene Raven, Cassandra Langer. Feminist Art Criticism
1991 Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Searching Out the Best: A Tribute to the Morris Gallery. Philadelphia, PA:, pp 23,140, 141
1991 Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts & Bryn Mawr College:Beyond Boundaries: Feminine Forms
1987 Curtiss, Deborah. Introduction to Visual Literacy, Englewood Cliff, NJ: Prentice-Hall. pp 12,144,145. 146
1986 Watson-Jones, Virginia. Contemporary American Women Sculptors. Phoenix, AZ : Oryx Press. pp 370, 371
1981 Goodyear, Frank. Contemporary Realism Since 1960. NY, NY: New York Graphic Society Boston, with Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. p 216
1974 Newman, Thelma. Plastics in Sculpture. Radnor, PA: Chilton Book Co. pp 18,34,116,144
1973 Tefft, Elden C. Proceedings of the 7th National Sculpture Conference. National Sculpture Center, University of Kansas. p 17
1972 Hollander, Harry B. Plastics for Artists and Craftsmen. NY: Watson-Guptill, pp 16,18,128

Catalogs

2010 Ni Una Mas- The Juarez Murders. Drexel University, The Leonard Pearlstein Gallery
2007 Philly Eats. Sande Webster Gallery
2006 The Long Distance Runner. Krasdale Galleries, Bronx NY
1998 Awards for Artists. The Leeway Foundation
1990 Kaplan, Janet. Mexican Journeys: Myth, Magic and Mummies. Moore College of Art and Design, Essay
1989 Hard Choices / Just Rewards. Blair Art Museum
1987 In a Dark Vein. Sculpture Center, NYC
1989 1960 - 1987  Arlene Love in Retrospect. Temple University
1983 3rd Annual Franklintown Sculpture Show. Franklintown Corporation. pp 16,17
1982 Komac, Dennis. Body Language /A Notebook of Contemporary Figuration. San Diego State University, CA. p. 9
1979 Skin Forms: Innovations in Leather. Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
1979 City Art. Fine Arts Program, Redevelopment Authority, City of Philadelphia
1974 In her Own Image. Samuel B. Fleisher Memorial, Phila., PA, Essay by Cindy Nemser. Also included in Feminist Art Journal, Vol.3 No.1
1974 The Tyler Show. Samuel Paley Library, Temple University. Essay by Barrows Dunham. Cover, flyleaf and two un-numbered pages
1959 Recent Sculpture USA. The Museum of Modem Art, NYC intro by James Thrall Soby

Periodicals

2010 Edith Newhall. “Focus on Violence Against Women.” The Philadelphia Inquirer (June)
2004 “Style Spotlight. “ American Style Vol.10 #3: ( June 2004 ): p.6, p.24.
2000 Robin Rice. “True Colors at Sande Webster.” Philadelphia City Paper (Aug 10)
2000 Burton Wasserman. “Grand Dimensions. public sculpture, Spring/summer .” Art Matters 
2000 Sozanski, Edward J. “Thinking About Death.” The Philadelphia Inquirer (Dec 8)
2000 Fallan, Roberta. “Faces of Death, Arlene Love's Lamentations” Philadelphia Weekly (Nov 29)
1998 Miriam Seidel. “Saints and Sinners.” Philadelphia Weekly (Nov 18)
1998 “Temptation of St Anthony, Arlene Love.”Journal of the Print World vol. 21n
1998 Osbourne, Judith Barbour. “Artists Talk About Their Art.” Art Matters (Aug) (photos)
1998 Sozanski, Edward J. “Temptations of a Saint.” The Philadelphia Inquirer (Dec 11)
1996 Saavreda,Edgar. “Arlene Love: Realismo Cruento, Oaxaca, Mexico.” El Imparcial Arts Entertainment Section, Cover and feature article (April)
1989 Brenson, Michael. “Going Beyond Slickness.” The New York Times (Mar 3)
1987 Kihlstedt, Foike Tyko. F&M Today feature article Franklin and Marshall College.
1987 Wasserman, Burton. “Reviews.” New Art Examiner East Coast (February)
1987 Stein, Judith. “Arlene Love.” Art In America (February) pp 153,154
1986 Goodman, Marilyn. “Arlene Love.” New Art Examiner (November) p 57
1984 “Arlene Love Exhibit Opens at University of North Dakota.” Grand Forks Herald
1984 Curtiss, Deborah. “ Arlene Love.” New Art Examiner East Coast (February)
1983 Lingwood, Rex. “Sculpture in the Crafts.” Crafts Australia (winter) p. 42
1983 Bregman, Lillian. “Portraits of the Artists.” Philadelphia Magazine (Oct) p. 206
1982 Byrd, Joan L. “Forms in Leather.” American Craft (June/July) pp 27,28
1980 Saline, Carol. “Growing Up is Hard To Do.” Philadelphia Magazine pp 127, 128
1979 McFadden, Sarah. “Report From Philadelphia.” Art In America (June)
1979 Women Artists News Photo cover page (April)
1979 Sinkler, Roberta. “A Gory & Disturbing Show.” The Philadelphia Inquirer, Today Magazine
1979 Flood, Richard. “Arlene Love, Pa Academy of the Fine Arts.” Arts Exchange (May/June)
1976 “Arlene Love: Pioneer in Plastics.” Temple University Alumni Review (Winter) p29
1976 Polak, Marilyn Lois. “Arlene Love: An Artist of the Odd.” The Philadelphia Inquirer, Today Magazine (Feb 8) (interview)
1974 Stein, Judith. “Arlene Love at Langman.” Art In America p115
1974 Anderson, Alexandria. The Village Voice Centerfold (April 26)
1973 Kron, Joan. “You Oughta Be in Pictures.” Philadelphia Magazine p 103
1972 Lubell, Ellen. “Reviews.” Arts Magazine (Sept/Oct) p60
1967 Canaday, John. “Reviews.” The New York Times

Grants

2004 Leeway Foundation: Window of Opportunity Grant
1994 Leeway Foundation” Bessie Berman Grant
1989 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Grant
1960 Louis Comfort Tiffany Grant

Education

1952 Tyler School of Art & Architecture, BFA
1953 Tyler School of Art & Architecture, BS Ed.

Publications written by Arlene Love

2016 Love, Arlene. Walking Distance, My Philadelphia
2015 Love, Arlene. Sculpture & Drawings 1957 - 2000.
2010 Love, Arlene. FACES.
2008 Love, Arlene. A Place Apart: A Return to the Markets of Oaxaca.
2007 Love, Arlene. Sundays in Tlacolula

Awards

2018 Julia Margaret Cameron Annual International Competition: 2 Honorable Mentions for 2 series of photographs
2013 Julia Margaret Cameron Annual International Competition: Juror’s Choice
2005 Philadelphia Jewish Archive Center, Sacred & Secular Achievement Award

Commissions

2006 Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts. Eight Figures, life size bronze
2000 Franklin & Marshall College. commemorative bronze monument to John Marshall
1994 Hawkhurst, Blue Bell PA. Three Graces, a three figure fountain
1990 Albert Einstein Hospital, Phila. Maxwell S. Fogel Dental Wing. Portrait
1987 The Dorchester, Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia, PA. Winged Woman. bronze, 9’-0” h.
1985 Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, PA. commemorative monument to Ben Franklin
1982 University of Scranton, Scranton, PA. Jacob Wrestling With the Angel. monumental bronze
1981 Wells-Fargo, Philadelphia, PA. Pony Express Ride. cold cast bronze
1981 City of Philadelphia, Department of Recreation. Torso of Athlete
1975 Monell Chemical Senses Center, Philadelphia, PA. Face Fragment. 10’-0” h.
1966 Ohev Sholom Synagog, Chester, PA. architectural candelabra for altar
1962 191 Presidential Boulevard. fountain with three life size figures, bronze