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NORA STURGES HOME I PAINTINGS I RESUME I CONTACT
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EDUCATION 1992 M.F.A. Painting, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio 1990 A.B. Magna Cum Laude, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine
SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2009 Bachelier Cardonsky Gallery, Kent, Connecticut 2007 Bachelier Cardonsky Gallery, Kent, Connecticut 2006 Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, Virginia, Adventures with Marco Polo College of Notre Dame, Baltimore, Maryland, Travels with Marco Polo 2005 Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Marco Polo’s Travels 2002 Ventura College, Ventura, California Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, Disgusting Nature School 33 Art Center, Baltimore, Maryland, New Work: Paintings by Nora Sturges The Barth Galleries, Columbus, Ohio, New Paintings by Nora Sturges 2001 Sheetz Gallery, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona, Pennsylvania Leu Gallery, Belmont University, Nashville, Tennessee 2000 Bachelier-Cardonsky Gallery, Kent, Connecticut The Barth Galleries, Columbus, Ohio, Nora Sturges: Imagined Events and Landscapes 1999 Bachelier-Cardonsky Gallery, Kent, Connecticut 1998 1708 Gallery, Richmond, Virginia, Nora Sturges: Imaginary Landscapes The Barth Galleries, Columbus, Ohio, Nora Sturges: Recent Work 1997 SPACELab Gallery at Spaces, Cleveland, Ohio, Nora Sturges: Between Dreaming and Waking 1995 McDonough Museum of Art, Youngstown State Univ., Youngstown, Ohio
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2010 Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin, Germany, Anonyme Zeichner No. 10 (Anonymous Drawings No. 10), selected by Blutenweiss/Anke Becker. University of Mary Washington Ridderhof Martin Gallery, Fredericksburg, VA, Mid-atlantic New Painting 2010, William Dunlap, juror. 2009 Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, Maryland, Framed Reality: Daniel Finch, Brian Martin, Becky Slemmons, Nora Sturges 2008 James Backas Gallery, Maryland State Arts Council, Baltimore, Maryland, Personal Vocabulary Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, Pennsylvania, two-person show Bachelier Cardonsky Gallery, Kent, Connecticut, Winging It 2006 The Painting Center, New York City, Grand Allusions Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts, Annapolis, Maryland, Magical Realism, curated by Christina Manucy Bachelier Cardonsky Gallery, Kent, Connecticut, Intimate Works 2005 Pennsylvania College of Art & Design, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Telling Stories: The Narrative in Contemporary Art, curated by Kristy Krivitsky McLean Project for the Arts, McLean, Virginia, Strictly Painting V, Jonathan Binstock, Curator of Contemporary Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, juror. 2004 Bachelier-Cardonsky Gallery, Kent, Connecticut, Human Nature Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, Maryland, Critics’ Residency Program, Amei Wallach, curator Howard County Center for the Arts, Ellicott City, MD, ArtMD 2004, Stephen Bennett Phillips, curator, the Phillips Collection, juror. 1708 Gallery, Richmond, Virginia, Critical Mass, Peter Schjeldahl, juror Truman State University, Kirksville, Missouri, 14th Annual National Art Competition, Jeff Flemming, Senior Curator, Des Moines Art Center, juror. 2003 Maryland State Arts Council, 7 MSAC Individual Artist Grant Recipients FY2002 Bachelier-Cardonsky Gallery, Kent, Connecticut, Strictly For The Birds Maryland Federation of Art, Baltimore, Maryland, Drawings and Etchings, juried The Barth Galleries, 10th Anniversary Show, Columbus, Ohio 2002 Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, Delaware, Allegorical Expressions in Contemporary Painting Bachelier-Cardonsky Gallery, Kent, Connecticut, Humanity New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art, New Harmony, Indiana, Nora Sturges, Clayton Peterson, M. M. Dupay Bachelier-Cardonsky Gallery, Kent, Connecticut, Windows Howard County Center for the Arts, Ellicott City, Maryland, Heaven, Hell and the Garden Fleckenstein Gallery, Towson, Maryland, Everybody Draws 2001 Schoharie County Arts Council, Cobbleskill, New York, National Small Works Exhibition, David Beitzel, juror 2000 Howard County Center for the Arts, Ellicott City, Maryland, ArtMD 2000, Dr. Susan Rosenberg, juror Kingston Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, New Art Y2K, curated by Susan Stoops First Street Gallery, New York City, National Competition, William Beckman, juror Makeready Press Gallery at Gallery 214, Montclair, New Jersey, Dreamscapes Landscapes 1999 Spruill Center for the Arts, Atlanta, Georgia, A View From The Garden The Barn Gallery, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, Figures and Landscapes: Mikhail Gubin, Nora Sturges, Kate Borcherding Herndon Gallery, Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio, Burge and Sturges: 8x10 1998 Bachelier-Cardonsky Gallery, Kent, Connecticut The Barth Galleries, Cleveland, Ohio, Nora Sturges, Ken Koon, Paintings The Barth Galleries, Columbus, Ohio, Fifth Anniversary Show 1997 Burke Hall Gallery, Denison University, Granville, Ohio, Female Myths: Work by Christine French, Jill Ziccardi, Nora Sturges ACME Art Company, Columbus, Ohio, Work by Nora Sturges and Linda Leviton The Barth Galleries, Cleveland, Ohio, Inaugural Exhibition 1996 Manhattanville College, Purchase, New York, Nora Sturges and Dee Carnelli The Barth Galleries, Columbus, Ohio, Nora Sturges, Morris Jackson, Christine C. Smith Machine Shop Gallery, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, Evocations
PUBLICATIONS 2010 New American Paintings, number 88 (forthcoming). 2009 Cover painting, History Matters: Contemporary Poetry on the Margins of Contemporary Culture, Ira Sadoff, University of Iowa Press, 2009. Cover painting, The Glass House, New Poems by Daniel Mark Epstein, Louisiana State University Press, 2009. 2008 Marco Polo's Travels, a portfolio of ten paintings, published in The Georgia Review, volume LXII, number 2, summer, 2008. 2004 New American Paintings, number 51, p.142-145. 2002 Cover painting, The Journal, a literary magazine published by Ohio State University, vol. 26.1, 2002. 1999 Six drawings published in Quarter After Eight, A Journal of Prose and Commentary, vol. 5, 1999. 1998 New American Paintings, number 16, p. 96-97, 125. 1996 Paintings reproduced on the cover and liner of Flood at the Ant Farm, a recording by Phillip Johnston’s Big Trouble, Black Saint Records.
GRANTS AND AWARDS 2010 Individual Artist Award, Maryland State Arts Council 2008 Individual Artist Award, Maryland State Arts Council 2005 Second Place, McLean Project for the Arts, Strictly Painting V 2004 New American Paintings, Mid-Atlantic Competition Juror’s Choice Award, Truman State University National Competition Juror’s Choice Award, ArtMD 2004 2002 Individual Artist Award, Maryland State Arts Council 2001 Honorable Mention, Schoharie County Arts Center, National Small Works Exhibition 2000 Honorable Mention, ArtMD 2000, Howard County Center for the Arts 1998 New American Paintings, Southern Competition 1994 Purchase Award, John Slade Ely House, New Haven, Connecticut 1993 Purchase Award, Carnegie Art Center, North Tonawonda, New York
ARTICLES, REVIEWS *reproduction 2009 *Robbie Whelan, "Figure State," City Paper (Baltimore), 1/21/09, p.24 2008 *Ron Schira, "Finding Bits if Truth in Popular Culture," Reading (PA) Eagle, 2/17/09 2006 *J. Bowers, “Travels with Marco Polo,” City Paper (Baltimore), 10/4/06, p. 43 Laura Parsons, “Mental Traveller: Sturges’ Marco Polo is Go!,” Charlottesville (VA) Hook, 2/15/06 2005 Michael O’Sullivan, “Different Strokes for Different Folks,” Washington Post, 6/24/05, p. 50 *Carla D Fonzo, “Telling stories, but leaving room for interpretation,” Lancaster (PA) Inteligencer Journal, 3/4/2005, p.8. *Aileen Humphreys, “Strange Journeys,” Lancaster (PA) Inteligencer Journal, 3/4/2005, p.9. *Kathleen Daminger, “Tell me a drawing, paint me a story,” Lancaster New Era, 3/3/2005, p. 12. 2004 Glenn McNatt, Baltimore Sun, 4/8/2004, 5C. *Cathryn Keller, Catalog Essay for Maryland Art Place’s Annual Critics’ Residency Program, Link: A Critical Journal on the Arts in Baltimore and the World, Issue 9, spring, 2004. 2002 *Mike Giuliano, “Hysterical Fictions,” City Paper (Baltimore), 6/29/2002, p. 36-37. *Christopher A. Yates, “Surreal Paintings Awaken the Dreamer in Each of Us,” The Columbus Dispatch, 2/3/2002, G8. Victoria Donohoe, “Lack of Irony Makes a Sincere Showing,” The Philadelphia Inquirer,2/17/2002. Mike Giuliano, The Howard County Times, “Heaven, Hell and the Garden “ 2/14/2002, 36. 2000 *Jeanne Fryer Kohles, Dialogue, “Nora Sturges: Imagined Events and Landscapes,” Mar/Apr, 2000, 24. *“Portfolio” (Artist Profile), Dialogue, January/February, 2000, Columbus, 46. Mike Giuliano, “Art Maryland is More Far-sighted,” The Howard County Times, 11/23/2000, 24. 1999 *Pamela Blume Leonard, “Celebrating Art, Naturally,” Atlanta Journal Constitution, 7/9/1999, Q8. *Kay Hodge, “MTSU Art Prof. Exhibits Tiny Paintings,” Daily News Journal. (Murfreesboro, TN), March 11, 1999, 1D. 1998 *Amy Bracken Sparks “Nora Sturges, Ken Koon at the Barth Galleries,” Cleveland Plain Dealer, 6/16/1998, 1E. 1997 *Kay Koeninger,The Columbus Dispatch, April 13, 1997. 1996 Owen Findsen, “Effect of Six-artist “Evocations” Exhibition is Dreamy,” Cincinnati Enquirer, 4/10/1996, C7.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE 1999-present Associate Professor of Art (Assistant Prof. 1999-2005), Head, Painting and Drawing, Towson University, Towson, Maryland 1997-99 Assistant Professor of Art, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, Tennessee |