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Martha Petty

Resumé

 

BORN: 1960 Atlanta, GA.

 

EDUCATION:

1989   M.F.A., East Carolina University, Greenville, NC.

1983   B.F.A., East Carolina University, Greenville, NC.

 

GRANTS: 1990 Durham Arts Council's Emerging Artist Grant, Durham, NC.

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2006   East Carolina University Alumni Show, Greenville, NC.

2005   Art as if the Earth Mattered, Asheville Area Arts Council, Asheville, NC; BEST-IN SHOW Award.

2005   radius250, ArtSpace @ Plant Zero, Richmond, VA..

2005   The Red Clay Survey: Triennial Exhibition of Contemporary Southern Art, Huntsville Museum of

Art, Huntsville, AL.

2004   The Emerging Artists Retrospective, Durham Arts Council, Durham, NC.

2004   Through Women's Eyes, By Women's Hands: The Women's Center's 20th Annual Juried Art

Exhibition The Sheraton Chapel Hill Hotel, Chapel Hill, NC.

2003   Valdosta National 2003, Valdosta State University, Fine Arts Gallery, Valdosta, GA.

2003   Positive/Negative 18, 78th National Juried Exhibition, Slocumb Galleries, East Tennessee State

University, Johnson City, TN.

2002   Small Works: Drawings, Paintings, Sculptures, Marcel Scheiner Gallery, Hilton Head Island, SC.

2002   What is Scary? The Tire Shop Gallery, Raleigh, NC.

2002   10th Biennial OKLAHOMA: Centerfold Juried Art Show, Leslie Powell Gallery and

Foundation, Lawton, OK.

2001   Scene Unseen, 10th Annual National Art Exhibition, Eastern New Mexico University,

Portales, NM.

2001   Less is More, Carrboro Arts Center, Carrboro, NC.

2001   New Work, Bronwyn Merritt Gallery, Carrboro, NC

2001   Invitational Exhibition I, Durham Art Guild, Durham, NC.

1999   Through Women's Eyes, By Women's Hands: The Women's Center's 15th Annual Juried Art

Exhibition, The George Watts Hill Alumni Center, University of North Carolina

at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC

1998   Durham Art Guild 50th Anniversary Invitational Show, Durham, NC.

1996   Durham Art Guild 42nd Annual Juried Show, Durham, NC.

1996   24th Annual Competition for North Carolina Artists, Fayetteville Museum of Art,

Fayetteville, NC.

1996   The 33rd Irene Leache Memorial Exhibition, The Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA.

1995   New Art in the Triangle, Works on Paper and Photography, Duke University Museum of Art,

Durham, NC.

1992   Selected Works from the Durham Art Guild 37th Annual Juried Show, Glaxo, Inc.,

Research Triangle Park, NC.

1991   Durham Art Guild 37th Annual Juried Show, Durham, NC; BEST-IN-SHOW Award.

1988   Recent Works by Gina Gilmour, Georgeann Haas, Herb Jackson and Martha Petty,

Gilliam and Peden Gallery, Raleigh, NC.

1986   48th Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Paintings, The Society of the Four Arts,

Palm Beach, FL.; SHUTTS & BOWEN Award.

 

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2005   Durham Art Guild, Durham, NC.

1998   Tate Student Center Gallery, The University of Georgia at Athens, Athens, GA.

1997   Greenville Museum of Art, Greenville, NC.

1995   Goodwyn Gallery, Auburn University at Montgomery, Montgomery, AL.

1995   Theatre Art Galleries, Inc., High Point, NC.

1995   Durham Art Guild, Durham, NC.

1987   Ninth Street Gallery, Durham, NC.

1985   College of the Albemarle Gallery, Elizabeth City, NC.

 

PUBLICATIONS:

2005   American Art Collector, Juried Competition of New Work, Volume I, Book 4 B SOUTHERN

STATES, Alcove Books, Berkeley, California, 2005

2002   New American Paintings, Juried Exhibition-in-Print, Issue 40,

 

CONFERENCES:

2007   First National Encaustic Painting Conference, June 8-10, Montserrat College of Art,

Beverly, Massachusetts.

 

COLLECTIONS:

Howard, From, Stallings & Hutson, Raleigh, NC

Law School, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC

Mendenhall Student Center, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC

Pioneer Savings Bank, Rocky Mount, NC

Southern Progress Corporation, Birmingham, AL.

Community Arts Council, Goldsboro, NC

Town of Chapel Hill, NC

 


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