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Jeanne Sturdevant

Artist's Statement

My digital paintings are an extension of my work in other art mediums. Using a graphics tablet and stylus to manipulate virtual brushes is as intuitive as using a paintbrush. Details from my art in other mediums and from my digital photographs of textures and forms in nature are sometimes incorporated into an evolving digital painting. My digital art is printed with archival inks on fine art papers in limited editions.

My sources are diverse and often unknown, even to me. Branching organic lines could reference rivers, blood vessels, or perhaps the veins in a leaf. I merge plant and animal, inanimate and animate. Sometimes a tree becomes a person…or a person becomes a tree. I simply begin, respond to the evolving image, make numerous changes over the course of many work sessions, and continually evaluate composition until at last I am satisfied.

My art is about the changes that permeate and transform our lives. The titles suggest their meaning for me, but viewers who connect with these images are encouraged to find their own meanings.

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International Exhibits

HerStory 2007, Manhattan Arts International, Online -- April 1, 2007-April 1, 2008 http://manhattanarts.com/Gallery/HerStory2007/

Faces, Upstream People Gallery, Online -- March 1, 2007 - February 29, 2008 http://www.upstreampeoplegallery.com/

Super Heroes, On Main Off Center Gallery, Denison, Texas, 2006

8th Annual Painting, Drawing, and Print International Online Juried Art Exhibition, 2006, http://www.upstreampeoplegallery.com/

Liverpool, Biennial 2006 (Independents), United Kingdom, www.digitalshow.co.uk/gallery/

8th Annual Photographic Processes International Online Juried Art Exhibition,

Upstream People Gallery, 2006, http://www.upstreampeoplegallery.com/

Digitation 2006, Annual International Judged Online Exhibit, Artrom Gallery, Rome, Italy, http://www.artromgallery.com/

Guest Gallery, Museum of Computer Art, ongoing, http://moca.virtual.museum/

Selected Invitational and Regional Exhibits

Funny Stories and Absurdities, Bath House Cultural Center, Dallas, Texas 2007

Digital I, Plaza Gallery, TVAA, Dallas, Texas 2007

Digital II, Décor Frame and Art, TVAA, Dallas, Texas 2007

Black and White 2007, TVAA, Goodrich Gallery and TVAA Gallery, Dallas, Texas 2007

Day of the Dead, Bath House Cultural Center, Dallas, Texas, 2006

Salon du Fit, Bath House Cultural Center, Dallas, Texas, 2006

Outside the Lines, Bath House Cultural Center, 2005, 2006

Black and White II, III, IV, V, Grayson County College, Denison, Texas, 2004-2007

Texas and Neighbors, Irving Art Center, Irving, Texas, 2004

Citation 2000", TVAA, Dallas, 2000, Juried by Paul Rogers Harris, 2000

Diverse Works 2000: Art by Women, Dallas City Hall, 2000

Third Annual Art Collective, Texas A&M University-Commerce, Texas, 2000

Millennium Women, Bridging the Centuries, Farmers Branch, Texas, 1999

Traveling Exhibit, Southeastern Oklahoma State University, Durant, OK, 1998 Homecoming I, II, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, 1998, 1999
Recent Works, Washington Station Art Gallery, Greenville, Texas, 1991
Handmade in Texas, Dallas, 1987, juried by Paul Rogers Harris

One Person Exhibits

Winds of Change, Acrylic Paintings, Grayson County College, Denison, Texas, 2005

Drawings, Paintings, and Monotypes, Fresh Light Gallery, Denison, Texas, 2004

Paintings and Monotypes, Harrison Library, Greenville, Texas, 2003

Survival, Transcendence, Transformation, Charcoal and Graphite Drawings, Texas Wesleyan University, Fort Worth, Texas, 2001

Monoprints, Drawings, and Paintings, Bollinger's Framing, Dallas, Texas, 1999

Selected National Juried Art Exhibits

Open Pitt 98, painting, Fayette Gallery, Pittsburg, Kansas, 1998
Fourth National Polymer Clay Exhibit, Beadazzled, Washington, D.C, 1993
New Frontiers in the Last Frontier, Main Street Gallery, Ketchikan, Alaska, 1993
Third National Polymer Clay Exhibit, Beadazzled Gallery, Washington, D.C., 1992
2nd National Polymer Clay Exhibit, Beadazzled, Wash., D.C., 1991
Legend of the Longhorn, "Metalsmiths Win the West", an exhibition in print, Metalsmith, Volume 9, Number 1, Winter, 1989
Materials: Hard and Soft, Center for the Visual Arts, Denton, Texas 1987
Elegant Erotica, Foundry Gallery, Washington, D.C., 1986

Formal Art Training

Master of Science in Education and Art, Texas Tech University, 1969
Bachelor of Science in Art Education, Texas Tech University, 1967

Recognitions

"Sweet Dreams", Greenville Herald Banner, September 17, 2006

"Local Artist Exhibits Work….", Greenville Herald Banner, September 3, 2000

"Art…To Make the World a Glorious Place…", Commerce Journal, August 30, 2000

"Local Exhibit Features Designs of Nature", The Turtle Creek News, September 19,1999

Foundations in Polymer Clay Design, book by Barbara A. McGuire, Krause, 1999

Artists at Work, book by Lindly Haunani and Pierette Ashcroft, Flower Valley Press, 1997

The New Clay, by Nan Roche, Flower Valley Press, 1991

"Third Annual Prints, Drawings, and Crafts Exhibition", La Revue d'Moderne, Paris, France, October, 1970 (Regional Exhibit: Little Rock, Arkansas, 1969)

Work Experience

Studio artist since 1976, working in digital, encaustic, acrylic paintings, charcoal and graphite drawings, and watercolor monotypes, polymer clay, and metal

Chair, ART 2004, National Juried Exhibit, Rockwall Artists League, November 2004

Vice-President and Program Chair, Rockwall Artists League, 2004-2005

Leader of Artists Breakfast Group, Dallas, Texas, 1999 - 2000

Co-chair, National polymer clay conference, Arrowmont School of Arts and
Crafts, Gatlinburg, Tennessee, September 7-13, 1997

Editor of newsletter/art journal for Texas Designer/Craftsman, 1987-1988

Director, Gallery for a Day, group exhibit, Greenville, Texas, 1987-1989

Director, Gallery for a Day, Sharon, Massachusetts, 1982

Art teacher, Big Spring Public Schools, Big Spring, Texas, 1968-70

Graduate teaching assistant in art, Texas Tech University, 1967-68

Additional background

Born in Waxahachie, Texas; Reared in Lubbock County, Texas
Lived in Michigan, Ohio, Washington, Nebraska, and Massachusetts, 1970-1984
Moved back to Texas in 1984

 

Contact:

Email: jstur@geusnet.com

 

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