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ARTIST’S STATEMENT
I began painting figures with Marc Chatov, the premier figure and portrait artist in the southeast, and with Burton Silverman and Daniel Green, figure and portrait artists with signal reputations in the northeast.
It was in meeting Ann Templeton, a well known western landscape painter, that moved me to paint plein air. The discipline of plein air painting puts the finest point on the necessity of editing; combining hues of the same color to make a few beautiful shapes.
I continued study with plein air painters Kim English, Sue Stewart, Roger Dale Brown and Perry Austin, learning the lessons of control and restraint. When that lesson moved from my head to the brush everything improved; landscapes, and most certainly, portraits.
ON PAINTING THE FIGURE
I believe a good figurative painter must reveal more than how a person looks. He must imbue the work with the sitter's character. It is a matter of intention. If the artist can name the quality and aims to paint it, he has a shot at creating the "truth" of her for the viewer to read. It is a mysterious process and most figurative painters cannot tell you how they succeed, only that the effort is essential to the success of the finished product.
My Scandinavian heritage may account for the strong inclination I have for narrative painting. In the harsh climate of Norway and Sweden where shortened winter days lead to an acceptance of the brevity of beauty and the beauty of simplicity, excess is not a natural choice. Excesses of color, marks or competing focus are rejected. The challenge of narrative painting in my consciousness is to reduce the excesses to the spareness of a single strength and to tell my sitter's "story" with economy and an even tenor which reveals both mind and spirit.
I love the work of Sargent, Sorrolla, Henri, Cassat and Hopper.
NANCY A. DUSENBERRY
ATLANTA, GEORGIA
EXHIBITIONS: ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2010 The Fabric of Women , Quinlan Art Center- Gainesville, Georgia
2003-2005 Provisions, Lakemont, Georgia
2005 Be Original Art
TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2003 Green Rabbit
2003-5 Our Studio
2003 Images of children- Artist’s Atelier of Atlanta
2000 Full circle- Artist’s Atelier of Atlanta
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009 Pinkneyville Art Center, Atlanta, Georgia
2008 & 2009 Annie’s at Lakemont
2007 Carisma Gallery The Art of Creighton Island
2005 Wesleyan Art Market
2003 Art Station, stone Mountain, Georgia
2002-2004 Oil Painters of America, Regional
2002 Oil Painters of America National
2001 Quinlan Art Center - Gainsville, Georgia
2000 Art Forms
1999 Art Fest
1998 Artists Atelier of Atlanta 5 exhibitions
2001 Paintings from the School of Marc Chatov
1997 Decatur Visual Arts Exhibition
AWARDS
Quinlan Art Center- Director’s Award
2000 Art forms- Honorable Mention
2000 Artist’s Atelier of Atlanta- First Place
REPRESENTED BY
The Flint Gallery - at Panoply- Newnan, Georgia
Annie's at Lakemont
CORPORATE COLLECTION
Earth Challenge, Atlanta, Georgia
St. Patrick’s Episcopal Church, Atlanta, Georgia
Disney Corporation, Orlando, Florida
Atlanta Gas Light
Wesleyan School
PUBLICATIONS
Blue Milk Magazine
Better Homes and Gardens, March, 2010
Gainesville Times : http://www.gainesvilletimes.com/news/archive/32843/