Marjorie Guyon


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MARJORIE GUYON  
      
“Multi-panel, painterly abstractions, at once dense and ethereal, that resonate with the sensibility of ancient wall paintings in their timeworn textures and richly evocative forms.”                     Rachael Sadinsky, Curator, University of Kentucky Art Museum


ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

Hampshire College, Amherst, Mass. BA
Brooklyn Museum School of Fine Arts, Brooklyn, NY  


AWARDS

Al Smith Fellowship, Ky. Dept. of the Arts. 2001
Al Smith Fellowship, Ky. Dept. of the Arts. 1991.
New Forms Regional Initiative Grant, NEA & Rockefeller Foundation through
The Arts Exchange, Atlanta, Georgia.  Set design for The Great Mother of
Many Names. 1990.
Lexington Arts and Cultural Council, Community Arts Development
Grant. 1989.
National Congress of Art and Design. Award of Excellence. 1988.
Kentucky Foundation for Women, Inc. Grant.1987.


SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2008 Walk Tall Gallery, East Hampton, N.Y.
                in association with G.R. N’Namdi Gallery, N.Y.  Solo exhibition.
        G.R. N’Namdi Gallery, N.Y., N.Y.  Solo Exhibition
            B Deemer Gallery, Louisville, KY. Solo exhibition
        Commission/UBS Chamber Music Festival.

2007 “Seven Voices, Seven Views”. G.R. N’Namdi Gallery, Chicago, IL.
                “Art for Life/Forms of Abstraction”, WalkTall Gallery, East Hampton, N.Y.
                 in association with G.R. N’Namdi Gallery, N.Y.

2006 “Works on Paper”. Park Avenue Armory. New York, N.Y.
         Affordable Art Fair/New York, New York, N.Y
        “Seven Voices, Seven Views”. G.R. N’Namdi Gallery, New York, N.Y.

2005 B. Deemer Gallery. Solo Exhibition. Louisville, Ky.
        David Lusk Gallery. Solo Exhibition. Memphis, Tn.
        “Works on Paper”. Park Avenue Armory. New York, N.Y.
        SOFA Chicago, Chicago, IL.
        Affordable Art Fair/New York, New York, N.Y.
        Commission/Keeneland Foundation. Lexington, KY

2004 G.R. N’Namdi Gallery.  Solo Exhibition.  New York, N.Y.
        Headley Whitney Museum. Solo Retrospective Exhibition 1984-2004. Lexington, Ky.
        Affordable Art Fair.  New York, N.Y.
        “Works on Paper”.  Park Avenue Armory. New York, N.Y.
         Mary Pauline Gallery. Solo Exhibition. Augusta, GA.

2003 G.R. N’Namdi Gallery. Artis Lane and Marjorie Guyon.  Detroit, Michigan.
        “Works on Paper”. Park Avenue Armory.  New York, NY.
        Mary Pauline Gallery. Kevin Cole/Marjorie Guyon. Augusta, GA.
        G.R. N’Namdi Gallery. Artis Lane/Marjorie Guyon. Chicago, IL.
        “Art Philadelphia”. Philadelphia, Pa.
        B. Deemer Gallery. Solo Exhibition. Louisville, Ky.
        “Affordable Art Fair”. G.R. N’Namdi Gallery. New York, N.Y.
        “Art Miami”. G.R. N’Namdi Gallery, Miami, FL.


2002 David Lusk Gallery, Solo Exhibition. Memphis, TN.
        “Works on Paper”. Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY
        “Art Atlanta”. Atlanta, GA.

2001 Kentucky’s Women Artists:1970-2000. Owensboro Museum of Fine Art, Ky.
        Wyndy Morehead Fine Arts, Solo Exhibition.  New Orleans, LA.
        “Works on Paper”. Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY
        Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, TN.

2000 “Works on Paper”- Park Avenue Armory, New York, N. Y.
        USArtists 2000 American Art Expo. Philadelphia, PA.
        David Lusk Gallery, Solo Exhibition.  Memphis, TN.  
        “Language of Light”. Abstein Gallery, Atlanta, GA.

1999 USArtists 99 American Art Expo.  Philadelphia, PA.
        B. Deemer Gallery, Solo Exhibition.  Louisville, KY.
        “Recent Acquisitions”. University Art Museum, Lexington, KY.
        “Works with Words”.  Transylvania University, Lexington, KY.

1998 Ledbetter/Lusk Gallery.  Solo Exhibition.  Memphis, TN.  
        USArtists 98 American Art Expo. Philadelphia, PA.

1997 William Turner Gallery, Venice, CA.
        B. Deemer Gallery, Solo Exhibition.  Louisville, KY.  
        Floyd County Museum, New Albany, IN.
        Ledbetter/Lusk Gallery. Memphis, TN.

1996 National Arts Club Gallery, curated by Fiona Ragheb, Guggenheim Museum, New York, N.Y.
        B. Deemer Gallery, Solo Exhibition. Louisville, KY.  
        Skoto Gallery,In the Foreground of Paths. New York, NY

1995 Barbara Krakow Gallery,”Paper Prayers-Imagining Angels. Boston, MA.
        The McIntosh Gallery, Atlanta, GA.
        G. R. N'Namdi Gallery, Birmingham, MI.
        University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington, KY.
        G. R. N'Namdi Gallery,Myth, Magic and Metaphor. Columbus, OH.
        Dell Pryor Galleries, Small Works.  Detroit, MI.

1994 Thomas Segal Gallery,”New Artists. Boston, MA.

1993 Anita Shapolsky Gallery,”Young Artists. New York, NY
        G.R. N'Namdi Gallery, Columbus, OH.
        Owensboro Museum of Fine Art, Owensboro, KY.
        Louisville Visual Art Association, Louisville, KY.
        Transylvania University, Collage. Lexington, KY.

1992 Anita Shapolsky Gallery, The Tradition. New York, NY

1991 Gallery 54. Solo Exhibition. (In association with G.R. N'Namdi Gallery)
         New York, NY.
         Zephyr Gallery, Louisville, KY

1990 Buckham Fine Arts Project, Flint, MI.


1989 Jordan Smith Gallery,Solo Exhibition Voorhees, N.J.
        G. R. N'Namdi Gallery,Solo Exhibition.Detroit, MI.
        Central Bank, Solo Exhibition. Lexington, KY..
        Museum of Art of Ogunquit, Ogunquit, ME.
        Headley Whitney Museum, Lexington, KY.
        Detroit Council of the Arts, Detroit, MI.

1988 National Congress of Art and Design, Salt Lake City, Utah.
        Jewel Speigal Gallery, Englewood, N.J.
        Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, N.C.
        Headley Whitney Museum, Lexington, KY.

1987 G.R. N'Namdi Gallery, Detroit, MI.
        Indianapolis Art League, Indianapolis, IN.
        LVAA, Flamboyance, Fragmentation and the Sublime, Louisville, KY.

1986 Kentucky State University, Solo Exhibition. Frankfort, KY.
        Heritage House, Solo Exhibition. Detroit, MI..
        J.B.Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY.

1985 Swearingen Gallery, Louisville, KY.
        The Gallery Tanner, Los Angeles, CA.
        Stanley and Schenck Gallery, Atlanta, GA.

1984 Alan Stone Gallery, New Talent Show. New York, NY
        Merton Simpson Gallery, New York, NY
        City Without Walls, Newark, NJ.

1983 Brockman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA..

1982 Martha White Gallery, Solo Exhibition. Louisville, KY.
        Actor's Theater, Solo Exhibition. Louisville, KY.
        Country Arts Gallery, Locust Valley, NY.



PRESS

Lexington Herald Leader. “Looking for Light”  Benita Heath. November 15, 2004.

Artists of the South. Marjorie Guyon. Fall 2004.

Chicago Reader.  “Critic’s Pick - Marjorie Guyon”.  Fred Camper.  May 2, 2003

The Detroiter.  Artis Lane “Emerging”/ Marjorie Guyon “Abyssinians”. W. Sousanis. February 3, 2003.

Ace Magazine. “A Painter’s Artistic Diaspora”.  John Norton. April 18, 2002

Courier Journal, “Marjorie Guyon’s Cutouts are Poetry”. Diane Heilenman, May 2,l999. Louisville, Ky.

New American Painting, Open Studio Press, Wellesley, Massachusetts, l998.

KY/SC/NYC Exhibition Catalogue, Through the Looking Glass, J. Fiona Ragheb, Curator, Guggenheim Museum, NYC. 1996.

Courier Journal, Less is More with Guyon, Diane Heilenman, July 28 , l996. Lou. Ky.

Lexington Herald Leader, Collaborating, Tom Carter, March 8, l992. Lexington, Ky.

Lexington Herald Leader, Dance: Changing Seasons, Tom Carter, March 15, l992. Lexington, Kentucky.

ACE Magazine, An Ancient Tale of New Ballet, Karen Wedinger, Vol. 4, No.3, April, l992, Lexington,Ky.

Lexington Herald Leader, UK's Collection of Artwork Detailed in New Handbook, David Minton, January 26, l992. Lexington, Ky.

Flint Journal, Three Views of Collage at Buckham, Wilma Romatz, November 4, l990. Flint, Michigan.

Journal Tribune, Ogunquit Museum Worth Trip, Judith Harper, August 4, l989. Ogunquit, Maine.

The York Weekly, Museum of Art, Ogunquit Heads in New Directions, Rose Safron, August 2, l989, York, Maine.

Lexington Herald Leader,  Kentucky Artwork on Display in Maine, David Minton, June 1989. Lexington, Ky.

Detroit Free Press, Eye on Art: G.R. N'Namdi Gallery, Marsha Miro, March l989. Detroit, Michigan.

Michigan Chronicle, Renaissance, Steve Holsey, March l989, Detroit, Michigan.

The Arts Journal, Surrealism Revised and Revisited, Chris Redd, July l988. Winston- Salem, North Carolina.

Winston-Salem Journal, Surrealism is Alive and Well in the South, Tom Patterson, June 1988. Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

Detroit News, N'Namdi Group, Joy Hakanson Colby, May 1988. Detroit, Michigan.

Courier Journal, Collage Exhibition Has a Romanticist Theme, Diane Hielenman, September l987. Louisville, Ky.

Lexington Herald Leader, Artist Adds a Dimension to her Life, David Minton, July l987. Lexington, Ky.

Courier Journal, Black is Color, Not Race, to Artist Marjorie Guyon, Sarah Lansdell, February l983.  Louisville, Ky.

Courier Journal, Showcase '82 Turns Over a Fresh Leaf With New Artists, Sarah Lansdell, September 1982.

Newsday, Long Island's Young Realists, Malcolm Preston, July l982. Long Island, N. Y.







SELECTED COLLECTIONS


Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, GA
University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington, KY
Pfizer, Memphis, TN
International Paper, Memphis, TN
Brown Forman, Louisville, KY
UBS, Lexington, KY
Radisson Hotel, Lexington, KY
Park Hyatt Hotel, Los Angeles, CA
Hyatt Regency Hotel, Arlington, VA
Keeneland Foundation, Lexington, KY
Greenbaum, Doll and McDonald, PLLC. Louisville, KY
E.ON  AG, Dusseldorf, Germany
Community Health Systems, Inc. Nashville, TN
Tom and Addie Jones, Greenwich, CT
FEDEX Corporation, Memphis, TN
Hampshire College, Amherst, MA
Lucille Caudill Little Library of Fine Art, Lexington, KY
Marc Ginzberg, New York, NY
Florence Paley, Boca Raton, FLA
The Tatelman Collection, Swanscott, MA
Merton Simpson Gallery, New York, NY
The G. R. N'Namdi Collection, Detroit, MI
Jumaane N’Namdi, Chicago, IL
Robert Romano and Laurie Bilik, New York, NY
Bill and Sheila Lambert, New York, NY
Meidinger Corporation, Louisville, KY
Jim and Katie O’Brien, Lexington, KY
Brian and Jane Williams, New York, NY
Vitt Media, New York, NY
Dupree Financial Group, Lexington, KY
Wimbleton Farm, Lexington, KY
Dr. Dexter Fields, Detroit, MI
Fred Davis & Associates, Attorneys at Law, Dayton, Ohio
Lexington Arts and Cultural Council, Lexington, KY
Biondo Group,  Greenwich, CT
High Clere Farm, Lexington, KY
Norman Graphic Arts, New York, NY
Central Bank, Lexington, KY
Curtis & Edison, Attorneys at Law, Detroit, MI
Jim Gray, Lexington, KY
The Rouse Company, Lexington, KY
Caller Properties, Lexington, KY