I am a contemporary artist who has been painting and exhibiting her work for the past 20 years. After graduating from Holland Hall high school in Tulsa, I moved to New York where I earned a bachelor’s degree from Sarah Lawrence College while also studying at Parson’s School of Design. I have had solo shows at the Holliman Gallery and the MA Doran Gallery in Tulsa. Other exhibition venues include Gallery North in Stony Brook, NY; Open Space Gallery in Allentown, PA; DeVorzon Gallery in Los Angeles, CA; and galleries in Dallas and Santa Fe.
Work Experience
Independent Visual Artist
Art teacher, Tulsa Girls Art School, 2013 - present
TGAS is a nonprofit after school program that works with girls, 3rd grade to 12th grade, from underserved communities in Tulsa.
Education
Sarah Lawrence College, BA 1984, double major in Philosophy and Printmaking
Student Curator and Gallery Assistant
Parson’s School of Design, Certificate Communication Design, 1983
Professional Associations and Recognitions
2018 Artist Residency at Chateau Orquevaux, Orquevaux, France
Visiting Artist and Writers Series 2017, Pilgrim School, Los Angeles, CA
Member of Oil Painters of America
Member of American Women Artists
Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine, Feature in issue covering figurative painting in America, February 2017
International Mayfest Poster Artist 2016
Leadership Arts Graduate 2015
Fab Lab Tulsa, Board of Directors
Oklahoma Visual Artist Coalition, Board of Directors
Panelist for the Kay Walkingstick exhibition at the Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK
Panelist for the Bridging the Isms exhibition at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum, Norman, OK
Panelist for Juneteenth with ONE Gas, Tulsa, OK
Publications
Fine Art Connoisseur
Oklahoma Eagle
The Oklahoman
Art Focus
Concept/OK Art in Oklahoma Catalog
Tulsa People
Tulsa World
Info Magazine
Architectural Digest
Selected Exhibitions
2021
Beauty In The Anthropocene: Marjorie Atwood and Clayton Keyes, MA Doran Gallery, Tulsa, OK
2020
Superfine Art Fair, Los Angeles, CA
The Equivalent of the Sum of 1 and 2: Marjorie Atwood, Pat Gordon and Steve Liggett, Liggett Gallery, Tulsa, OK
2019
Group Exhibition, Fred Jones Jr Museum of Art, Norman, OK
Conciliation, Black Wall Street Gallery, Tulsa, OK
Marjorie Atwood: Stories of Love and Longing, JRB Gallery, Oklahoma City, OK
National Figurative Exhibition, Hilliard Gallery, Kansas City, MO
National Figurative Exhibition, Rice Gallery, Overland Park, MO
National Contemporary Realism Exhibition, MA Doran Gallery, Tulsa, OK
2018
Art/Now, Oklahoma Contemporary, Oklahoma City, OK
Solo Exhibition, Mainline, Tulsa, OK
2017
Marjorie Atwood: The Gilded Gaze, Performing Arts Center of Tulsa, Tulsa,OK
2016
National Contemporary Realism Show, MA Doran Gallery, Tulsa, OK
Marjorie Atwood: Allegories of Dreams, MA Doran Gallery, Tulsa, OK
A Hiding Place, [Artspace] at Untitled, Oklahoma City, OK
2015
National Contemporary Realism Show, MA Doran Gallery, Tulsa, OK
2014
Marjorie Atwood and Virginia Harrison: In the Wake of the Wayfarer,MA Doran Gallery, Tulsa,OK
Group Show, JRB Gallery, Oklahoma City, OK
2013
Marjorie Atwood: Subtext, Oklahoma State Capitol Governor’s Gallery,Oklahoma City, OK
2012
Concept/OK: Art in Oklahoma, Hardesty Art Center, Tulsa, OK
2011
New Works: Marjorie Atwood and Shelly Lewis Stanfield, MA Doran Gallery, Tulsa, OK
2010
Marjorie Atwood: Tracings, Performing Arts Center Gallery, Tulsa, OK
2006
Marjorie Atwood and Michelle Firment Reid: Winter Solstice, Performing Arts Gallery, Tulsa,OK
2003
Modern Gardens, Modern Stories:New Paintings by Marjorie Atwood,Holliman Gallery,Tulsa,OK
1997
New Works: Martin, Atwood and Shen, Christopher Martin Gallery, Dallas, TX
Art of the Domesticated Object, Gallery North, Stony Brook, NY
Women’s Work: On and Off Paper, Leslie Powell Gallery, Lawton, OK
1995
Craft America, Silvermine Gallery, New Canaan, CT
Outside In: A Collection of Nature Images, Open Space Gallery, Allentown PA
1994
Simple Visions Invitational, Felissimo, New York, NY
Marjorie Atwood New Work, MA Doran Gallery, Tulsa, OK
Group Show, Roberge Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1993
Solo exhibition, Roberge Gallery, Palm Desert, CA
Group Show, DeVorzon Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Beauty in art is what attracts us. Tension is what hooks and holds us. I find tension when I juxtapose smooth, polished elements with corroded, distressed ones, the rusting iron beside the gleaming silver leaf.
I create my work in series. For each show, I take a theme or an experience and explore its unfolding on canvas. I follow the patterns, color, and texture that beckon to me, obeying and sharing their call for an emotional response.
I have always been fascinated by the technical aspects of different art media. Each of my exhibitions probes work methods and materials, combining them on board and on canvas. Often, this process takes me places I could never have planned. An uncharted journey of technique lies behind the creation of each of my paintings.