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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

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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 SparksNora 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