Marjorie Moskowitz
“The order imposed by people on landscape loses to nature’s insistence to re-assert itself. This subject matter lends itself to a direct response and vigorous mark-making that is often less pre-meditated than reactive. Activated surface, abstract surface, patterns and color are a life long dialogue. The painting invites the viewer to step into a pliable, welcoming and intense but unknown, mysterious, and complex world. The tension created by these opposing forces is seductive and passionate. The landscape stops the eye; it is prophetic and beautiful yet subject to the constant force of nature. The goal is to see, capture and embody those moments when we see nature for its own particularity and for its own passionate force.
There is a moment in time, and in nature, when plants are at the peak of their reproductive cycle. They are fully asserting their seductive beauty/perfection/ splendor/brilliance. These are paintings of select Maine flowers. The scale is an invitation for the viewer to experience the blooms and the importance of their smallest elements.”
-Marjorie Moskowitz
EDUCATION
M.F.A. Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri
B.F.A. Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri
B.S. in Business Administration, Washington University, St. Louis Missouri
SOLO EXHIBITION
2019 “Observations and Amplifications,” New Media Gallery, Ventura, California
2018 “Fried Dough” 643 Project Space, Marjorie and Bob Moskowitz Collaborative Paintings, Ventura, California
2017 “Drivebye” 643 Project Space, Ventura, California
2010 Harbor Square Gallery, Rockland, Maine “North Forty, Purple Haze” Studio Channel Islands Art Center, Camarillo, California
2009 Gresham Art Gallery, San Bernadino, California University of Maine, Augusta, Maine
2008 “Northern Latitudes”New Media Gallery,Ventura College, Ventura, California
2005 “Narrative European Landscapes” Gallery II, Ventura College Ventura, California
1986 Seghi Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri
1984 B. Z. Wagman Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri
1984 Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, Illinois
1980 “Wall And Cave Pieces” Carol Shapiro Gallery, St Louis, Missouri
1978 Forest Park College Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri
1976 “Paintings & Drawings” St. Louis University, Bush Memorial Center, St. Louis, Missouri
GALLERY REPRESENTATION 2010/Present
BG Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Wiscasset Bay Gallery, Wiscasset, Maine Blue Hill Bay Gallery, Blue Hill, Maine
GALLERY REPRESENTATION 1979-2007
Alexander Carlson Gallery, New York, New York Charles Hecht Gallery, La Jolla, California Charles Hecht Gallery, Los Angeles, California Norton Fine Art, St. Louis, Missouri Seghi Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri Nell Gifford Gallery, New York, New York Fairweather/Hardin Gallery, Chicago, Illinois Douglas Drake Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri The More Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Frank Marino Gallery, New York, New York B.Z. Wagman Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri The Carol Shapiro Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020 L.A. Art Show, With B.G. Gallery, Santa Monica, California Art Palm Springs, With B.G. Gallery
2018 Dacia Gallery, New York, New York Blue Hill Bay Gallery, Blue Hill, Maine
2017 L.A. Art Show, with B.G. Gallery, at Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, California “Land and Sky”, B.G. Gallery, Santa Monica, California Project Space 643, Ventura, California Blue Hill Bay Gallery, Blue Hill, Maine
2016 L.A. Art Show, with B.G. Gallery, at Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, California Ventura College Invitational, New Media Gallery, Ventura, California “State Of California Invitational”, GalleryII, Ventura College, Ventura California Blue Hill Bay Gallery, Blue Hill, Maine
2015 L.A. Art Show with B.G. Gallery, Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, California Palm Beach Art Show, Palm Beach Florida, with Alexander Gallery, New York, New York Naples, Florida Art Show, with Alexander Gallery, New York, New York Wiscasset Bay Gallery, Wiscasset, Maine Blue Hill Bay Gallery, Blue Hill, maine Harlow Gallery, Hallowell, Maine
2014 “Custom B.G. Gallery, Santa Monica, California “Three Winged Chrysalis”, B.G. Gallery, Santa Monica, California “Dirty Minds, Life On Earth”, B.G. Gallery, Santa Monica, California Santa Paula Art Museum Invitational, Santa Paula,, California Wiscasset Bay Gallery, Wiscasset, Maine Blue Hill Bay Gallery, Blue Hill, Maine Harlow Gallery, Hallowell, Maine
2013 “Spectrum Gestalt”, B.G. Gallery, Santa Monica, California “The Art Of Watercolor”, New Media Gallery, Ventura College, Ventura, California “Soft Machine”, B.G. Gallery, Santa Monica, California Wiscasset Bay Gallery, Wiscasset, Maine Blue Hill Bay Gallery, Blue Hill, Maine Harlow Gallery, Hallowell, Maine
2012 “Soft Machine”, B.G. Gallery, Santa Monica, California Wiscasset Bay Gallery, Wiscasset, Maine Blue Hill Bay Gallery, Blue Hill, Maine Harlow Gallery, Hallowell, Maine
2011 “Addictions in Art" Invitational, Oxnard, California CCAA Museum of Art Show Rancho Cucamonga, California “Outliers, One Book One Campus”, Ventura College, Ventura, California "Soft Machines UT" Bleicher/Golightly Santa Monica, California "Soft Machines UT" University Southern California, Los Angeles, California Wiscasset Bay Gallery, Wiscasset, Maine "Systems" Bleicher Carporal, Los Angeles, California "Scapes"Gallery Blue, Los Angeles, California Harlow Gallery, Hallowell, Maine
2010 Wiscasset Bay Gallery, Wiscasset, Maine Haggin Museum National Juried Show, Stockton, California Harlow Gallery Hallowell, Maine Regional Invitational: Atrium Gallery, Ventura County Arts Council, Government Center, Ventura, California Atrium Gallery, “ Artful Couples” Ventura County Arts Council, Government Center, Ventura, California
2009 Wiscasset Bay Gallery, Wiscasset, Maine Harlow Gallery, Hallowell, Maine
2008 Small Works, Friends of the Arts, New Media Gallery, Ventura, California Harlow Gallery (K.V.A.A.) Hallowell, Maine Ventura Artists Union Gallery, Ventura, California Ojai Museum, Ojai, California Ventura Government Center, Ventura, California
2007 Ventura Music Festival Invitational,Ventura, California Allegory Gallery, Ventura California
2006 Charles Hecht Gallery, La Jolla, California Charles Hecht Gallery, Los Angeles, California Allegory Gallery, Ventura, California “The New Landscape” Invitational California State University Channel Islands, Camarillo, California,
2005 Art City, “France”, Ventura, California Charles Hecht Gallery, La Jolla, California Charles Hecht Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2004 Strauss/Kurlick, Ventura, California
2003 Strauss/Kurlick, “Spain”, Ventura, California
2002 Strauss/Kurlick, “Italy”, Ventura, California
1998 Norton Fine Art, St. Louis, Missouri
1991 Center of Contemporary Arts, St. Louis, Missouri, “Invitational”
1989 Alexander Carlson Gallery, New York, New York Douglas Drake Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
1988 Nell Gifford Gallery, New York, New York
1987 “Art St. Louis Invitational”, The City Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
1987 “TheWomen’s Caucus for the Art Invitational” St. Louis, Missouri
1986 Seghi Gallery, “Animals”, St. Louis, Mo.
1985 Fairweather/Hardin Gallery, Chicago, Illinois Saint Louis Invitational, St.Louis Convention Center, St. Louis, Missouri
1984 The B.Z. Wagman Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri
1983 The More Gallery, “On The Picture Plane”, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1983 The B.Z. Wagman Gallery, “New Work”, St. Louis, Missouri
1982 Bixby Gallery, “Paper as Art, Art As Paper”, St. Louis, Missouri
1980 Messing Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri Frank Marino Gallery, New York, New York
1979 Carol Shapiro Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri
1979 Steinberg Gallery, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri Messing Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri
1978 Speed Museum National, Louisville, Kentucky Edison Theatre Gallery, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri
1979-1990 Annual faculty exhibitions Belleville Area College, Belleville, Illinois Forrest Park Community College, St. Louis, Missouri Florissant Valley Community College, St. Louis, Missouri
