MARJORIE MOORE

ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2008 Marjorie Moore (in conjunction with Ann Matlock), d berman gallery, Austin, Texas (scheduled)
A Strange Flowering (in conjunction with Joyce Joe), Poissant Gallery, Houston, Texas (scheduled)
2006 Below the Surface: A Different Order (in conjunction with Jeffrey Dell), d berman gallery, Austin, Texas
2004 Animae, New Work by Marjorie Moore and Carrie Olsen, Poissant Gallery, Houston, TX.
Collected Response, Marjorie Moore and Steve Wiman, O2 Gallery, Flatbed Press, Austin, TX.
2001 Three Suites and Foundations, Poissant Gallery, Houston, TX.
2001 Small Worlds: Game Boards Davis Gallery, Austin, TX.
1999 Categories, Collections, and A Cabinet of Wonder, Women
& Their Work Gallery, Austin, TX.
Circus, Circus: Ten Years Under the Big Top, Galveston
Arts Center, Galveston, TX.
1998 Recent Work Davidson Contemporary Art; Portland, ME.
1997 Simian Suggestions, Weekend Gallery; Houston, TX.
1996 Missing Link, Weekend Gallery; Houston, TX.
1995 Starting With Howlers, West End Gallery; Houston, TX.
1995 Mainers Away, Maine Coast Artists; Rockport, ME.
Views From Near and Far, Gallery House; Nobleboro, ME.
1993 Maj’s Stuff, Gallery Sixty-eight; Belfast, ME.
1993 Twelve Journeys in Maine, Fitzpatrick Gallery; Portland, ME.
1991 Animal Stars, Christian Science Gallery; Boston, MA.
Bunny Time, Howard Yezerski Gallery; Boston, MA.
1990 Perspectives, Portland Museum of Art; Portland, ME.
1988 Canis-Canis, University of Maine Museum of Art; Orono, ME.
Animal Matters, Howard Yezerski Gallery; Boston, MA.
Drawings, Gallery Sixty-Eight; Belfast, ME.
1985 Recent Work, Barridoff Galleries; Portland, ME.
Paintings, Owen Art Gallery; Gould Academy, Bethel, ME.
1984 Sculpture, Works Gallery; Philadelphia, PA.
Works on Paper and Assemblages, Helen Bumpus Gallery; Duxbury, MA.
1983 Recent Works, Cape Split Gallery; Addison, ME.
Rural Signs and Billboards, Barridoff Galleries; Portland, ME.

GRANTS AND AWARDS

1996 Creative Artist Program Award, Visual arts recipient in painting. Cultural Arts Council of Houston/Harris County.
1995 Suburban, Urban, Rural, Art League of Houston. First Prize, Juror: Ibsen Espanada.
1993 Earthwatch Artists Fellowship, Red Howler Monkey Project;
Calabozo, Venezuela.
1992 National Endowment for the Arts Regional Fellowship, Drawing and Artists Books, granted by New England Foundation for the Arts
1991 New Forms Fellowship, New England Foundation for the Arts funded by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Rockefeller Foundation.
1989 Artist’s Fellowship, McDowell Colony; Peterborough, NH.
1987 Fusion-Fission Grant. Real Art Ways; Hartford, CT.
Funded by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Rockefeller Foundation
Awards in the Visual Arts, SECCA Regional Nominee.
Toying in the Woods, multi-media performance funded by
Maine Arts Inc., Portland, ME.
1984 Art Circus, Visual Arts Director, Maine Festival of the Arts
One Percent for Art Project, Deering High School; Portland, ME. Maine Arts Commission
Maine Architecture: New Traditions, Project Artist. The Payson
Gallery of Art, Westbrook College; Portland, ME.
1982 Walker Art Building Reinterpreted, Maine Festival of the Arts and the Bowdoin College Museum of Art; Brunswick, ME.
1981 Cow Billboards: Outdoor Installation, City of Portland and Barridoff Galleries; Portland, ME.
Cowstructure: Outdoor Installation, New York Heritage trust Grant, Art Park; Lewiston, NY.


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS


2007-9 Austin Museum of Art – Laguna Gloria, Austin, Texas, Grounded
2007 The Art of War, Poissant Gallery, Houston, TX
2007 The Beeville Art Museum, Beeville, Texas, d berman gallery: Group Show
2006 Annual group exhibit of Austin artists at Austin City Hall, Texas
2005 Marjorie Moore, Jeff Dell, Robert Tracey Brown Recent Work, Poissant
Gallery, Houston, TX
Object, d berman gallery, Austin, TX
Clown Show Froelick Gallery, Portland, Oregon
2004 Material Possibilities Griffith Gallery, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches
Critters Studio E Gallery, Jupiter, Florida
Toys and Games in Art! Anchorage Museum of History and Art, Anchorage, Alaska
2003 France/Texas, Poissant Gallery, Houston, TX.
Members Invitational Show, Women and their Work Gallery, Austin, TX.
2002 5x7 Texas Fine Arts Association, Austin, TX
Dumbo and Beyond Davis Gallery, Austin, TX
Group Show, Deborah Owen Gallery, San Diego, CA
People, Places, Things: Selections from the Permanent Collection,
Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX
Group Members Show Women and Their Work, Austin, TX.
2001 Holiday Show Poissant Gallery, Houston, TX
2000 Works on Paper d berman gallery, Austin, TX
1998 Soul To Soul, Marjorie Moore and McKay Otto; The Art League
of Houston, Houston, TX
Faculty Exhibition, Austin Museum of Art at Laguna Gloria;
Austin, TX.; Curated by Elizabeth Ferrer, Director
Women and Their Work Members Exhibition; Women and Their
Work Gallery, Austin, TX.; Juror: Lyn Herbert,
Curator, Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, TX.
1997 Assistance League of Houston Celebrates Texas Art; Houston, TX. Juror: David Ross, Whitney Museum of Art.
Women and Their Work Members Exhibition; Austin, TX.
Juror: Annette Carlozzi, Curator, University of Texas.
1996 Animal Magnetism, University of Florida; Gainesville, FL.
Close to the Border V1, New Mexico State University; Las Cr Sokolowsky, Andy Warhol Museum.
Thrift Store Show, West End Gallery; Houston, TX.
State of Texas Art Non-Profit Associations, Austin Visual Art Association, St.Edwards College; Austin, TX.
Dog and Cat Show, West End Gallery; Houston, TX.
51st Annual Competition; Museum of Abilene; Abilene, TX.
The Amarillo Competition, Museum of Art; Amarillo, TX. Juror: Marti Mayo.
Twenty-fifth Annual Works on Paper Exhibition, Southwest Texas University; San Marcos, TX.
12x12x12x95, San Jacinto College South; Houston, TX.
Juror: Terrie Sultan.
Urban, Suburban, Rural, Art League of Houston: Houston, TX. Juror: Ibsen Espada.
Dishman Art Gallery, Lamar University; Beaumont, TX.
Juror: Roni McMurtry.
1994 Intimate Observations, The Baxter Gallery, Maine College of Art; Portland, ME.
Wish You Were Here, West End Gallery; Houston, TX.
1993 Anonymous, West End Gallery; Houston, TX.
Concerning Humor, Barn Gallery; Ogunquit, ME.
Feathers, Fur, and Fins, Maine Art Gallery; Wiscasset, ME.
Animal Imagery, Target Gallery; Alexandria, VA.
Child’s Play, Art in General; New York, NY.
Works on Paper by Recipients of New England Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, Chinese Cultural Institute; Boston, MA.
1992 On the Edge: Forty Years of Maine Painting. Maine Coast
Artists; Rockport, ME and the Portland Museum of Art; Portland, ME.
Three Women Artists, Gallery House; Nobelboro, ME.
Bread and Fine Art, Barn Gallery; Ogunquit, ME.
1989 Wild and Tame: Artists Look at Animals, Fuller Museum of Art; Brockton, MA.
Interstices, Artists Invitational, Farnsworth Museum; Rockland, ME.
Connected by Color, University of Maine Museum of Art; Orono, ME.
Invitational, Barn Gallery; Ogunquit, ME.
1987 New England Now: Contemporary Art From Six States,
traveling to: Decordova Museum; Linclon, MA.
Currier Gallery of Art; Manchester, NH.
Bell Gallery; Brown University; Providence, RI.
New Britain Museum; New Britain, CT.
Bowdoin College Museum of Art; Brunswick, ME.
Maine Artists, New Visions Gallery; Ithaca, NY.
Art and Artists Invitational, Colby-Sawyer College; New London, NH.
Director’s Invitational, Maine Coast Artists; Rockport, ME.
Group Show, Judith Leighton Gallery; Blue Hill, ME.
1986 Art in Public View: Percent for Art in Maine, Alexander Hall Gallery, Westbrook College; Portland, ME.
Midyear Show, Butler Institute of American Art; Youngstown, OH.
New and Familiar Faces, Andover Gallery; Andover, MA.
1985 Boston Festival of the Arts; Boston, MA.
Makers, Baxter Gallery, Portland School of Art; Portland, ME.
Summer Show, Martina Hamilton Gallery; New York, NY.
New Talent, Stavaridis Gallery; Boston, MA.
Inside-Outside, Bowdoin College Museum of Art; Brunswick, ME.
1984 Sticks, Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy; Andover, MA.
Two Worlds, Two Views, Andover Gallery; Andover, MA.
Drawing Show, Portland Museum of Art; Portland, ME.
1983 Of Prints and Drawings, Maine Coast Artists; Rockport, ME.
Elements of Landscape, Boston University Gallery of Art; Boston, MA.
Mixed Media Invitational, Maine Coast Artists; Rockport, ME
1981 All Maine Biennial, University of Southern Maine; Gorham. ME.
1979 Works on Paper and Clay, Memphis State University; Memphis, TN.


SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX
Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy; Andover, MA
Art Museum of South Texas; Corpus Christi, TX
Bates College Museum of Art; Lewiston, ME
Bruce Brown, Portland, ME
Butler Museum of Art; Youngstown, OH
Farnsworth Museum of Art; Rockland, ME
Lester Marks, Houston, TX
Portland Museum of Art; Portland, ME
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University; Waltham, MA
UNUM Corporation; Portland, ME

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

2007 Nov 17-18; instructor of workshop about the history and phenomena of The Cabinet of Wonder, AMOA-Laguna Gloria, Austin, TX
2007 Instructor of Painting 1, Fall Semester, University of Texas, Austin, TX
1995 - 1996 Visual Arts Advisory Board, Diverse Works; Houston, TX
1996 Interim Visual Arts Director, Diverse Works; Houston, TX
1986 – 1988 Regional Representative, Visual Arts Panel; New England Foundation for the Arts.
1984 – 1988 Board of Directors, Maine Arts, Inc., Vice Pres. 1987-88.
1984 – 1990 Board of Directors, Arts are Elementary (promoting artist residencies in the public schools), President, 1988-89.

CURATORIAL ACTIVITIES

2002 Dumbo and Beyond Davis Gallery, Austin, TX.
1998 Soul to Soul: Marjorie Moore and McKay Otto, Houston Art League; Houston, TX.
1993 Images From Childhood, Icon Gallery; Brunswick, ME.


REVIEWS

2006 Moore, Nikki, “Tribeza Pick: Jeffrey Dell & Marjorie Moore,” Tribeza, July 2006.
2006 Keever, Erin, “Moore and Dell Explore Under the Surface,” ART Aust!n, Vol. IV, Issue IV, July 2006.
2006 Lorins, Rebecca, “Gallery Invites Closer Viewing,” The Daily Texan, July 14.
2005 Rebecca S. Cohen, “Object: d berman gallery”, Artlies Magazine, Issue 47
…might be good, Issue # 48, July 8, “Five Artists Show "OBJECTS" at d berman gallery”
2004 Irvine, Madeline “Marjorie Moore and Steve Wiman: Collected Responses, O2 Space for Art”, in Artllies 42, Spring 2004 pp.72,73
Irvine, Madeline “ Gathered Treasures, Collected Response is an Extension of Two Artists’ Shared Passion for Collecting”, in The Austin Chronicle, (Feb.13, 2004), pp.39
2002 Barnes, Michael. “ ‘Dumbo’ show is a three-ring circus at Davis Gallery, in Austin American Statesman, (July 14), pp K13
1999 van Ryzin, Jeanne Claire. “Collected Works”, in Austin American Statesman, XL, (21 October), pp. 51
1997 Marshall, Cari. “W&TW Members Show, Part 11: The Spice of Life,” in The Austin Chronicle (18 April).
Irvine, Madeline. “Gallery’s ‘Part 11’ better than 1,” in Austin American Statesman (16 April), E7.
1996 Anspon, Catherine D. “From Feathered Friends to Eastern Bloc Finds--Group Shows Shine,” in Public News (27 November), pp. 12.
1995 Gold, Donna. “Views Near and Far,” in Art New England (September).
Isaacson, Phil. “Maybe Moore’s Animals Were Never Animals After All,” in Portland Press Herald (24 September).
1993 Henderson, Stu. “Stuff and Sculpture at Gallery 68,” in The Waldo Independent (17 June), pp. 21.
Groenig, Tom. “Moore, Majorowicz at Play and Work,” in The Republican Journal: Arts and Entertainment (10 June).
Marxsen, Patti M. “Open Door Will Greet New Gallery Season,”in The Camden Herald (10 June), pp. 13.
Cannon, Kim. “Whimsey: Elegant Poignancy: ‘Lost and Found,’ a nod to joys, fears of childhood,” in The Times Record (24 June), pp. 17.
Isaacson, Phil. “Poems and illustrations exquisitely fit to print,” in Maine Sunday Telegram (2 May), E1, E5.
1991 Stapen, Nancy. “Animal Art: sinister, symbolic, sexy,” in The Boston Globe (26 September).
Unger, Miles. “Animal Magnetism,” in Art New England ( December-January).
1990 Koslow, Francine. “Marjorie Moore: The Portland Museum of Art,” in Art Forum (November), pp. 171-2.
1988 Taylor, Robert. “Critic’s Tip,” in The Boston Globe (24 November), pp. 33.
Temin, Christine. “Perspectives, “ in The Boston Globe ( 1 December).
Taylor, Robert. “Unexpected Talent Fills the Decordova Show,” in The Boston Globe (10 January), pp. B3.
1987 Clough, Wendy. “The Maine Thing,” in Ithaca Journal (September).
1986 Berry, Wiliam David. Marjorie Moore: Toying in the Woods,” in Art New England (December), pp. 14.
Beem, Edgar Allen. “Exploring the Light: Deploring Development,” in The Maine Times (October).
Keyes, Norman, Jr. “Marjorie Moore’s Wildlife,” in The Boston Globe
(8 April).
1985 Temin, Christine. “Perspectives,” in The Boston Globe (8 August), pp. 68.
1984 Beem, Edgar Allen. “Inside-Outside Tingles the Eye and Mind,” in Maine Times (6 July).
Coffey, John. “Marjorie Moore: From the Woods,” in Art New England (January), pp. 8.
1983 Beem, Edgar Allen. “Straying to the Edges of the Civilized World,” in Maine Times (18 November).
Beem, Edgar Allen. “Domestic Duo Down East,” in Maine Times
(19 August).
Isaacson, Phil. “Marjorie Moore,” in The Maine Sunday Telegram
(14 June).
Beem, Edgar Allen. “Why is this Woman Smiling,” in Maine Times
(12 June).
1979 Greenleaf, Ken. “Marjorie Moore,” in Maine Times (10 December).

ARTICLES

2002 Brand, Heather. “Art in Environment,” in Tribeza (October), pp. 29-32
1989 Crichlow, Beth. “Method in Her Madness,” in Down East Magazine (June), pp. 68-70.
1987 Ryan, Susan Elizabeth. “Five Political Artists in Maine,” in Artists in Maine, Vol.1, No.2 (Spring), pp. 30-31.
1983 Tarlow, Lois. “Alternative Space: Marjorie Moore,” in Art New England (November), pp. 14-15.

BOOKS

2002 Little, Carl. The Art of Maine in Winter (Down East Books, Camden, ME.) pp. 86
2001 New American Paintings, Number 36 (Open Studios Press, Boston, MA), pp.118-121
1993 New American Paintings, (New York: Open Studio Press),
pp. 62.
1990 Leslie Kenneth. Oil Pastel (New York: Watson-Guptill Publications), pp.24.
Beem, Edgar Allen. “The Deep in the Dumb,” in Maine Art Now (Gardner, ME: Dog Ear Press), pp. 112-115, 194, 250, 273, 276,
plate 21.

CATALOGS

1999 Kalil, Susie, Marjorie Moore, Categories, Collections, and a Cabinet of Wonder, Women and Their Work, Austin, TX.
Art Ball, 1999, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX.
1995 Twenty-fifth Annual Works on Paper Exhibition, University Gallery, Southwest Texas University; San Marcos, TX.
Mainers Away, Maine Coast Artists; Rockport, ME.
1992 Wolff, Theodore F. On the Edge: Forty Years of Maine Painting, Maine Coast Artists; Rockport, ME.
1989 McEvoy, Suzette and Judith E. Tolnik. Interstices (Rockland, ME: Farnsworth Museum).
Shepard, Charles A. III. Connected by Color (Orono, ME: University of Maine Press).
1987 Coffey, John. New England Now. (DeCordova Museum and Park; The Currier Gallery of Art; David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University; The President and the Trustees of Bowdoin College; The Britain Museum of Art; The Robert Hall Flemming Museum, University of Vermont), pp. 44-45.
1984 Cook, Christopher. Sticks (Andover, MA: The Addison Gallery of American Art), pp. 7.
1983 Sobol, Judith. New Architecture/Maine Traditions (Portland, ME: The Payson Gallery of Art and Westbrook College).