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Faculty: Studio Foundations, Drawing & Painting
Margaret Morrison ... Margaret Morrison
Senior Lecturer
Studio Foundations, Drawing & Painting
vita | portfolio
office: S386 Lamar Dodd School of Art
phone: 706 542 1639
email: mawm@uga.edu
web site: http://www.woodwardgallery.net


EDUCATION

1988 MFA, University of Utah.
1981 BFA, University of Utah.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS  

2009 "Larger Than Life" March 7, Woodward Gallery, New York, NY

2008 "Margaret Morrison: Director's Choice," Curated by Director Joe Ruiz, Oconee Cultural Art Foundation, Watkinsville, GA

2007 "Margaret Morrison: Large Still Life Paintings", featured inside Gourmet Garage,
453 Broome Street at Mercer, Soho, New York City

2006 “Margaret Morrison: The Power of Observation- a Retrospective of Paintings”,
University of Georgia, Broad Street Gallery, Athens, GA

2005 “Margaret Morrison: Patron Saints and Rituals”, Woodward Gallery, New York, NY.

2005 “Margaret Morrison: Still Lifes” at Gourmet Garage: Art by the Pound street-level
windows/ 24 hours day, Woodward Gallery, NY

2004 May 27th-Margaret Morrison-featured artist for “The Art of Restoring Lives-to benefit
Wears Valley Ranch”, Atlanta, Georgia.

2003 “Margaret Morrison: Centricity”, Woodward Gallery, New York, NY.

2001 “Margaret Morrison STILL/David Febland LIFE”, Woodward Gallery, New York, NY.

2000 “Margaret Morrison: The Theory of Flight and Painting”, Woodward Gallery, New York,
NY.

1998 “Margaret Morrison: American Life”, Woodward Gallery, New York, NY.

1997 Margaret Morrison, Gallery at the Roundabout in Times Square in collaboration with
Woodward Gallery, New York, NY.

1996 “Prophesy Paintings”, Woodward Gallery, New York, NY.

1994 “Artifacts”, Pleiades Gallery, New York, NY.

1993 “A Moment Before”, Monongalia Art Center, Morgantown, WV.

1992 “Naptime Paintings”, Appalachian Gallery, Morgantown, WV.

1992 “Threshold”, Pleiades Gallery, New York, NY.

1990 “New Work”, Patrick Gallery, Austin, TX.

1988 “Margaret Morrison-Paintings and Drawings”, Gittins Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT.

1988 The Ethel Armstrong Rolapp Award for Excellence in the Fine Arts.

1987 The Alvin Gittins Fellowship.

1986 The University of Utah Graduate Research Fellowship.

1986 “Works On Paper”, Salt Lake Art Center, SLC, UT, Juried by Robert Hennina, Jr., Chief
Curator.

1986 Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Juror Award, Utah Arts Council Purchase Award.

1986 The Alvin Gittins Fellowship.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2009 "Cortona Italy Studies Abroad Exhibition", Cortona, Italy

2008 “Faculty Exhibition,” Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, GA.

2008 "Works on Paper", Woodward Gallery at the Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY

2007 "Free Play, Curated by Judith Page, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY

2006 “Gallery Artists ‘06-’07”, Woodward Gallery, New York, NY.

2005 The 5th Annual Benefit of the Community-Word Project”, 2005, The National Arts Club
New York, NY.

2005 “Write A Beautiful World” National Arts Club, New York, NY.

2005 “Winter Paper Seven”, Group Exhibition including works on paper by Jean Michel
Basquiat, Alexander Calder, Richard Estes, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Tom
Wesselmann, and others, Woodward Gallery, New York, NY.

2003 “Paper Invitational VI”, Group Exhibition including works on paper by Andy Warhol,
Robert Indiana, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein and others; Woodward Gallery, New York,
NY.

2003 Mercury Fine Arts, “Georgia Review Artists”, Athens, GA.

2003 Hunstville Museum of Art, “Museum Auction and Gala”, February-March, Huntsville, AL.

2002 “Paper Invitational V”, Group Exhibition including works on paper by Andy Warhol,
Robert Indiana, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein and others; Woodward Gallery, NY

2001 “Paper Invitational IV”, Group Exhibition including works on paper by Ellsworth Kelly,
Keith Haring, Robert Rauschenberg, and others; Woodward Gallery, New York, NY.

2001 “Hit and Run 2001”, Woodward Gallery, New York, NY.

2000 “Paper Invitational III”, Group Exhibition including works on paper by Basquiat, Keith
Haring, Robert Indiana, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Motherwell, Betty
Parsons, Andy Warhol and others; Woodward Gallery, New York, NY.

1999 “Femalenergy II”, Group exhibition of leading woman artists, Woodward Gallery, New
York, NY.

1999 “Nature: Outdoors/Inside” Group Exhibition, Woodward Gallery, NY.

1999 “Paper Invitational II”, Group Exhibition including works on paper by Keith Haring,
Robert Indiana, Robert Motherwell, Roy Lichtenstein, Leon Polk Smith, Andy Warhol,
and others; Woodward Gallery, New York, NY.

1998 “Paper Invitational”, Group Exhibition including works on paper by Calder, M.C. Escher,
Sam Francis, Keith Haring, Jasper Johns, Knox Martin, Warhol, and others; Woodward
Gallery, New York, NY.

1997 Phillips Gallery, Salt Lake City, Utah.

1996 “Resounding Silence”, Reggio Gallery, New York, NY.

1995 “Femalenergy”, Woodward Gallery, New York, NY.

1995 “Aesthetic Mystic”, Woodward Gallery, New York, NY.

1994 “Three Artists”, Gallery of Living Artists (Woodward Gallery), New York, NY.

1991 “Figurative Paintings”, Atrium Gallery, SLC, UT.

1991 “University of Utah Faculty Exhibit”, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, SLC, UT.

1989 “Utah Painting and Sculpture”, traveling exhibition sponsored by the Utah Arts Council.

1989 “Utah ‘88 Painting and Sculpture”, Salt Lake Art Center, SLC, UT.

1988 “The Medium Is The Message”, Bountiful-Davis Art Center, Bountiful, UT.

1987 “Works On Paper”, Salt Lake Art Center, SLC, UT, Juried by Robert Henning, Jr., Chief

1987 Curator, Santa Barbara Museum of Art.

1987 “LeFrandt, Himes, Morrison” Delores Chase Fine Art, SLC, UT.

1987 “National Graduate Drawing Exhibition”, Allen Priebe Gallery, Oshkosh, Wisconsin.

1983 “AAVA Utah Women Artists”, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, SLC.

1982 “Utah ‘82”, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, SLC, UT

1982 “Competition”, Bountiful-Davis Art Center, Bountiful, UT.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Joe Bendik, "Flavor of the Unexpected," New York Press, April 1, 2009.

Smithsonian Magazine Online: Food and Think, Lisa Bramen, "Eye Candy at a Sweet Art Exhibition," April 3, 2009.

Art Knowledge News, Margaret Morrison 'Larger Than Life'

Joel Simpson, M - The New York Art World, "Margaret Morrison," March 2009, p. 12-13, illustration.

2008 Rebecca Rose, “Southworks Artists Market this Weekend,” The Oconee Leader,
        May 22, 2008, illustration.

2008 Tommy McGahee, “Southworks Kicks off this Weekend,” Athens Banner-Herald,
        May 21, 2008, illustration.

2008 “Margaret Morrison: Senior lecturer with UGA's Lamar Dodd School of Art - Diagnosed March 2008          at 48,” Athens Banner-Herald, October 10, 2008, color illustration.

2008 Rebecca Rose, “Director’s Choice Artist Gives Lecture,” The Oconee Leader, June 5, 2008                         illustration.

2008 Mary Jessica Hammes, “Painting a New World,” Athens Banner-Herald, p. C1, C4, illus.

2008 Oxford American Magazine, Summer issue, Cover illustration.

2006 Flagpole, March 15, 2006, Volume 20, No. 10, page 10, illustration with text

2005 Soho Journal, Winter issue, “Bulletin Board,” Upcoming Events page 25.

2005 New York Press, November 16-22, “Margaret Morrison,” feature review by Viola Salzedo -
Gramm with illustration page 30.

2005 ArtNow Gallery Guide, December issue, full page color Illustration, page 3.

2005 ArtNews, November issue, “Margaret Morrison: Patron Saints and Rituals” full page
color illustration.

2005 Art and Auction, November issue, Calendar listing with full color illustration.

2004 Margaret Morrison “Epiphany” featured for The Art of Restoring Lives to benefit Wears
Valley Ranch, Atlanta, Georgia, May 27, illustrated on all press materials and on limited
edition poster.

2003 The New York Times, “Arts and Leisure” Section, Sunday, March 2, 2003, pg. 35,
Illustrated & text.

2003 Hunstville Museum of Art, “Museum Auction and Gala”, February - March, catalogue,
Illustrated.

2002 Florida Design Vol.12, No. 2, back cover illustration.

2001 The Georgia Review, Featured Artist, Text and illustrations throughout Spring 2001 issue.

2001 Gerrit Henry, Art in America, Review with Illustration, January, pages 113 & 114.

2000 ArtNow Gallery Guide, Illustration with text, April, page 21.

1998 David M. Deutsch, NY Arts, Review, April, page 11.

1998 New York Quick Guide, Cover illustration with text, April, pages 1 & 2.

1998 New York Quick Guide, Illustration, March, page 7.

1993 Continuum, The Magazine of the University of Utah, Fall 1993, volume 3, No. 2, page 7.

1993 The Dominion Post, Theater/Arts Feature: “Morrison Paintings on view at Mac”,
Thursday, February 5th.

1992 The Dominion Post, Feature: “It’s Naptime at Appalachian”, Thursday, October 1st.

1992 Artspeak, New York, “Awareness is concerned with form and emotion”, Thursday,
Summer, page 24.

1990 Dialogue- A Journal of Mormon Thought, Text and illustrations, front and back covers and
pages 10, 84, 98, 105, 108, 133, 162.