The Artist
 
 Josie Campbell Dellenbaugh
 Update 2008:
Five new works have been added to this display: Summer Solstice through Master Yoga.  Much more can be seen at Josie's website: http://www.beechgate.com  
Her works are currently on exhibit at: 
The Coryell Gallery, Lambertville, NJ
The Sandwich Home Industries, Sandwich, NH
Salmagundi Club Members Combined, NYC

Josie has two published works:
Aiming at Myself  is Josie's first printed artwork. It is
a Haiku diary enhanced by 53 full color photographs.
The second is Old Cat Waiting, which will be released in the summer of 2008.
Josie can be contacted at artistjc@beechgate.com

Josie was born in 1948 in Albany, N.Y., the daughter of a watercolor artist and a surgeon.  From earliest childhood, her  goal was to be "an artist". However, she did not become a sculptor until after the birth of her  second child in 1976.    At that time Josie and her family  were living in Hopewell, N.J.,  and she discovered the Johnson Atelier in Princeton.  She has been working in the media of stone and clay and bronze ever since.
 
At Chatham College, Pittsburgh, PA, where she received a BA in 1969, Josie studied both Fine Arts and Biology. Both  have remained strong  interests and are combined in  her representational sculptures and paintings  of the natural world.  She takes the greatest  satisfaction in those works which combine the accuracy of biological/anatomical detail with the immediacy of the subject, interpreted and abstracted to create an aesthetic whole.
 
Since 1978 she has been exhibiting her sculpture mainly in the N.J.,  N.Y.,  and Pa. corridor.  Her work has been seen at the Gallery at Nabisco  Headquarters, Ellarslie Museum in Trenton, and the Woodmere Museum  in  Philadelphia, as well as juried and invitational exhibits in schools,  colleges, and commercial galleries.  In 1990 a small bust was included in a traveling exhibit to Moscow.
 
Her work has won numerous awards, including the Phillips Mill  Patrons' Award in PA, the Liskin and Isenberg awards at the Salmagundi Club,  N.Y.C., and the Excaliber Foundry Award at The Pen and  Brush, N.Y.C.  She has also  had solo exhibitions in Philadelphia, Princeton, and  Chatham.

She is currently working on an expressionist bronze series of half life size ecclesiatical/spiritual columnar  figures.  These have roots in both Sumerian and medieval stone sculptures.