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MARYSE LOERTSCHER
Accra, Ghana
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EDUCATION:
          
Master of Fine Arts, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, concentration:
painting and printmaking, May 1989

Bachelor of Fine Arts, Magna Cum Laude, University of Alaska, Anchorage, Major: printmaking and drawing, Minor: photography, December, 1984

Bachelor of Fine Arts coursework, Honors Student, University of Delaware,
 June 1979June 1980.

Baccalaureate in Biochemistry, Lycee technique de Mulhouse, France, 1971.


SCHOLARSHIPS & GRANTS:

United Art Council at Greensboro, North Carolina:  Emerging Artist Grant, 1989-90
     
University of North Carolina at Greensboro:
Adelaide Fortune Howard Holderness Fellowship, 1988-89
Summer research assistantship, 1988. Research assistantship and addon fellowship, 1987-88
   
University of Alaska, Anchorage:
Full tuition scholarship for winning a print commission to honor college employees, 1983-84  Murial Hannah Memorial Art scholarship, 1982-83


AWARDS:

Best of Show, Awards in drawing and mixed media, and Purchase Award, Student Juried Art Show, University of Alaska/ Anchorage Community College, May 1984.

Overall Winner, Regional Conference Art Exhibit, Association of College Unions International, Seattle Washington, September 1983.
Competition Winner of a commission for 40 quadricolor woodcut prints to honor Anchorage Community College Employees, June 1983.

Award for Drawing, Honorable Mention for printmaking, Purchase Award, Student Juried Art Show, UAA/ACC, May 1983.

Honorable Mentions for drawing and mixed media, Student Juried Art Show, UAA/ACC, May 1982.

Honorable Mentions for drawing and painting, Student Juried Art Show, UAA/ACC, May 1981.

SOLO EXHIBITS

  • 2013       Scriptoria, Galerie Agora, Dakar, Senegal
  • 2012      Biennale 2012, OFF, Siki Hotel, St. Loius, Senegal
  •               Palimpseste, Geothe Institut, Dakar, Senegal
  • 2011      Couleur et Ligne, Le Djoloff Hotel, Dakar, Senegal
  • 2006      Jeux d'Ombres,Alliance Francaise, Washington DC
  • 2004      Galerie Catacombes, Maadi, cairo, Egypt
  • 1999      Ombres, IFAN Museum, Dakar, Senegal.
  • 1997      Solo Exhibit, gallery Le Guiigy, Dakar, Senegal
  • 1989      MFA thesis show, Weatherspoon Gallery, UNCG, Greensboro, NC.
  •               Solo Exhibit; Voyages of the Mind, Weatherspoon Gallery, UNC-Greensboro.
  • 1988      The Nature of Reality, the Reality of Human Nature, Elliot Center ,UNCG                                                                                              
  • 1986      The Stonington Gallery, "Cosmic Principle  the Body Electric", Anchorage, AK.
  • 1984     Thesis Show, University of Alaska, Anchorage"Variables:Nature of                                                                     Reality/Reality of Nature".

 


INVITATIONALS
 

  • 2012                 DWG Art Show, Sokhamon, Dakar, Senegal
  • 2011                 DWG Art Show, Sokhamon, Dakar, Senegal
  • 2010                 DWG Art Show, Cercle de la Rade, Dakar,Senegal
  • 2006-2009       Group Exhibit, Del Ray Gallery, Alexandria, VA, USA
  • 2004                Group Exhibit, La Maison Francaise, Washington DC
  • 2001                Group Exhibit, ExpatriArt Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia
  • 1994                Invitational Art show, Shoreline Center, Seattle, WA.
  •                         The Aljira Fine Art Auction, Newark, NJ
  •                         Ben Shahn Galleries, William Paterson College, Art in NJ Exhibit.
  • 1993                 First Night in Montclair, NJ.
  • 1992                 Faculty Show, County College of Morris, NJ
  •                          National Juried exhibition of Small Works  Montclair State art Galleries
  •                          Aljira Fine Art Auction, Newark NJ.
  •                          Emerging Artists Exhibit, Two-Person Show,  Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen                                                     & Hamilton, World Trade Center, New York
  •                          Juried Art Show, Arts Council of Essex, Roseland, NJ.
  • 1991                 16th Member Juried Show,City without Walls, Newark.  
  • 1989                The Art on Paper Show 1989, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC.
  •                         The Center for Creative Leadership, two-person show, Greensboro, NC.
  •                         Sawtooth Center Artist Faculty Exhibit, Milton Rhodes Gallery,                                                               Sawtooth Center Winston-Salem, NC.
  •                         Henley Southeastern Spectrum, Eighth Annual Juried Show, Winston-Salem
  • 1988                Henley Southeastern Spectrum, Seventh Annual Juried Show, WSalem
  • 1985                "XChange", Traveling Exhibition, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum,                                       the University of Idaho, and the Visual Arts Center of Alaska.
  •                         Three Person Exhibit, Civic Center Gallery, Fairbanks Arts Association,
  •                         All Alaska Juried Show, Anchorage Historical and Fine Arts                                                                  Museum.
  •                         Pacific Northwest Figure Drawing Competition, Alfred Leslie, juror
  • 1984               Anniversary Show, The Stonington Gallery, Anchorage, AK.
  •                        Alaska Positive 1984, Alaska State Museum, Juneau, statewide traveling                                    exhibit.
  •                        Group Show, Visual Arts Center of Alaska, "Exotic, Erotic, Neurotic".
  •                        Invitational Print Show, Visual Arts Center of Alaska, Anchorage,                                                         "Figures/Narratives".
  • 1983               Four Women Artists, Exhibit, Artique Gallery, Ltd., Anchorage.
  • 1982              All Alaska Juried Art Show, Anchorage Historical and Fine Arts Museum,                                    Statewide Traveling Exhibit.

 



PERMANENT COLLECTIONS:

United Airlines, Denver Airport, mixed media, Triptych: "Over The Crest/ Understatement Of A Wave", "Over The Crest/Blade Soaring", "Monitoring The Zodiacal Storm/ Alone", 1995.

Shoreline Center, Seattle, mixed media, "Liberation of Energy Matter in Gravitational Field", 1994.

Durham Civic Center, Durham, mixed media, "Action Field of Particles/Energy Flow", 1989.

University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Museum, mixed media, "El Desdichado No.2",1986.

Anchorage Historical and Fine Arts Museum, mixed media, "PreCreative Forces/Status Quo",
Art Bank for the Alaska State Council on the Arts, series of four monoprints, "Fracture Zone/Schism", 1984.

Major Private Collector:  Martin Farrell, Anchorage Alaska. (collection of about 50 artworks).
Names of other collectors are available from the Stonington Gallery, Anchorage, Alaska, Raleigh Contemporary Galleries in Raleigh, NC, and Elizabeth Dupree Lynch in Atlanta, GA.