MARYSE LORTSCHER
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
2019 Wyvern Hotel, Punta Gorda, FL March to September
2018 Visual Arts Center, Punta Gorda, FL February
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:
2020 Visual Arts Center, Punta Gorda FL, Member’s shows January
2019 Visual Arts Center , Punta Gorda FL, multiple Juried and invitational shows
2018 Visual Arts Center , Punta Gorda FL, multiple Juried and invitational shows
2017 Englewood Art Center Juried Show
Punta Gorda Visual Art Center Juried Show
2016 Englewood Art Center Juried Show
Sarasota Art Center Juried Show
Englewood Art Center Juried Show
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 to 2009, Group Exhibits , Del Ray Gallery, Alexandria, VA
2004 Group Exhibit, La Maison Francaise, Washington DC
2001 Group Exhibit,ExpatriArt, Jakarta, Indonesia
1994 Invitational Art Show, Shoreline Center, Seattle, WA
The Aljira Fine Art Auction, Newrak, NJ
Ben Shahn Galleries, William Paterson College, Art in NJ Exhibit
1993 First night Art in Montclair, NJ
1992 Art Faculty Show, County College of Morris, NJ
1992 National Juried Exhibit of Small Works, Montclair State, NJ
Aljira fine Art Auction, Newark, NJ
Emerging Artists Exhibit, Two-Person Show, World Trade Center, New York, NY
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:
Erica Ling, Architect, Washington, DC. 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.