Artist Statement
I make abstract acrylic paintings on canvas, collages and mixed-media pieces, which, through a rigorous process of working and reworking composition and art elements, arrive at a harmonious expression of the essential nature of the subject. Life experience may be similarly layered.
My work is inspired by my experience of places, distant, close to home, and from my imagination. Using non-representational imagery, the work describes the ‘spirit’ of place. I work thematically as each experience may suggest many possible visual outcomes. Subject matter may serve as metaphor for intangible ideas. The work examines boundaries, addresses the fragility of existence, of presence, of absence, and of memory.
Biographical Narrative
Marge Moody is a Professor Emeritus of Fine Arts from Winthrop University, Rock Hill, South Carolina, where she taught for 30 years. She describes her work broadly as being environment based, which emanates from her experience of her home in South Carolina, through traveling, and from her imagination.
She has exhibited her work in Great Britain, Washington, DC, New York, Chicago and various galleries in North and South Carolina. Some of her recent achievements include being accepted to the American Academy in Rome as a ‘Visiting Artist’ (March/April 2020) and to the National Association of Women Artists in New York City , where she is having a solo show of new work in June 2020: in 2015 she was awarded a one-person show (‘SM15’) at FRONT Art Space, Tribeca, New York, NY where she displayed 16 small works. She was invited to participate in the 15th Parallax Art Fair in Chelsea, London, England, in February 2016. In 2013 she had one-person exhibitions of her work in Chicago, Illinois, and in Great Britain, two of 6 shows she had in 2013 as part of her ‘Made In America: 1983 – 2013’ exhibitions. Her work was selected for the large exhibition, ‘Abstract Art in South Carolina 1949 – 2012’ at the SC State Museum, Columbia, SC. in 2012.
Marge’s work is part of many private and corporate collections in Great Britain and the US, including the South Carolina State Art Collection, the MUSC Contemporary Carolina Collection, Williams and Fudge and the Winthrop University Collection. She completed a residency at McColl Center for Visual Art in Charlotte, NC in 2006 and at OBRAS – Portugal in 2015. She is married to Phil Moody, photographer, and has two grown sons.
Professional Experience
2018 - present Professor Emeritus of Fine Art, Winthrop University, Rock Hill, South Carolina,USA
2013 - 2018 Professor of Fine Arts, Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC, USA
2002 - 2013 Associate Professor of Art, Winthrop University, Rock Hill, South Carolina, USA
1973 - present Practicing artist
Solo Exhibitions (Selected)
2021. 'In Her Nature': Marge Loudon Moody Collages, 2019, 20 & 21 Hance Family Gallery, Charlotte Country Day School
Gallery. October 12 - 30 2021 Reception November 30 2021 6 - 7pm
2020 Popp Martin Student Union Gallery, UNC Charlotte NC 'Recent Paintings'
2019 Arts Council of York County, Rock Hill, SC, 'Drawings and Paintings'
2017/18 Winthrop University galleries Rutledge Gallery 'Then and Now: Collages 1979- 2017'
2016/17 'LOOM' Co-working and Gallery Space, 129 Academy St., Ft Mill, SC inaugural solo show
2016 The Courtroom Gallery, Gettys Art Center, Rock Hill, SC ‘Small Works’ recent acrylic gouache and collage paintings.
2015 FRONT Art Space, New York, NY 10007 ‘SM 15’ New small works
2015 OBRAS – Portugal Summer show
2013 City Art Gallery, Columbia, SC Selected work ‘Marge Loudon Moody: Made in America 1983 – 2013’. (Jan-Feb).
2013 University of North Carolina at Charlotte,NC, Student Union Gallery ‘New Work: Blue Chicago Series’ (March 11 – 31) New Paintings
2013 Space 1858, Chicago, IL Selected work ‘Paracosms’ Marge Loudon Moody: Made in America 1983 – 2013’. (May). (Graphic work – new small collages & mixed-media)
2013 Hart Witzen Gallery, Charlotte, NC. ‘Inaugural Exhibition’ Marge Loudon Moody: Made in America 1983 – 2013’ (September 6) Large paintings and large collages
2013 2013 Tower Foyer Gallery, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland Selected work ‘Marge Loudon Moody: Made in America 1983 – 2013’. (Sep–Nov). Small paintings from 2006
2013 November Space 80808 Columbia, SC ‘Marge Loudon Moody: Made in America: 1983 – 2013: Collage’.
2011 Pease Gallery, Central Piedmont Community College, Charlotte, NC. ‘Field Lines’ New paintings
2008/09 Elizabeth Dunlap Patrick Gallery, Winthrop Univ., Rock Hill, SC. ‘Other Worlds: From Process to Product’.
Awards (Selected)
2020 (March/April) Accepted to the 'Visiting Artist/Visiting Scholar' program at the American Academy in Rome, Italy
2019 Elected member of the National Association of Women Artists, New York, New York
2015 Artist residency ‘Foundation OBRAS’, Evoramonte, Portugal
2008 Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC. Elizabeth Dunlap Patrick Faculty Endowment Award.
1996, 2006 Charlotte-Mecklenburg Arts & Science Council, Charlotte, NC.
2013 & 2018 Regional Artist Project Grant
2006 McColl Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, NC. Artist-in-residence, (summer affiliate artist)
2014,2010,2008:
Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC. Faculty Research Grant
Mixed exhibitions (selected)
2019 McColl Center for Arts and Innovation, Charlotte, NC 'Members' Show'
2016 Parallax Art Fair Invitational, London, England (February)
2015/16 FRONT Art Space, New York, NY Group show ‘Studio Conversations’
2014 Chroma: UNC Charlotte ‘Projective Eye’ gallery a three-person show 'Chroma'
2012 South Carolina State Museum, Columbia, SC. 'Abstract Art in South Carolina 1949 – 2012’ (invitational).
2011 Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC. Fine Arts Faculty Exhibition, ‘Chicago Series: In Your Dreams’
2010 Spartanburg Art Museum, Spartanburg, SC ‘SC 2D Artists’.
2009/10 Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC ‘Faculty Exhibition’.
2006 Joie Lassiter Gallery, Charlotte, NC ‘Affordable Art Fair’, New York City.
2006 McColl Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, NC ‘Affiliate Artists Show 1’ and ‘Affiliate Artists Show II’
Past Gallery Affiliations:
City Art Gallery, Columbia, SC
Modern Eye Gallery, Charlotte, NC
Joie Lassiter Gallery, Charlotte, NC
Erdreich White Fine Art, Boston MA
Touchstone Gallery, Washington, DC
Amos Eno Gallery, New York, NY
Corporate Collections (selected)
The Beach Company Collection, @The Jasper, Charleston, SC
South Carolina State Art Collection
Medical University of South Carolina ‘Contemporary Carolina Collection’, Charleston, SC
Winthrop University Permanent Collection, Rock Hill, SC
Williams and Fudge Permanent Collection, Rock Hill, SC
Private Collections
Work in many private collections in Great Britain and in the US
Education
1973 Moray House College of Education, Edinburgh, Scotland Certificate of Secondary School Teaching in Art
1972 Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee, Scotland.Post - Diploma of Art (Drawing & Painting). Highly Commended.
1967 - 71 Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee, Scotland Diploma of Art (Drawing & Painting).
1949 Born, Nairobi, Kenya, East Africa
I make abstract acrylic paintings on canvas, collages and mixed-media pieces, which, through a rigorous process of working and reworking composition and art elements, arrive at a harmonious expression of the essential nature of the subject. Life experience may be similarly layered.
My work is inspired by my experience of places, distant, close to home, and from my imagination. Using non-representational imagery, the work describes the ‘spirit’ of place. I work thematically as each experience may suggest many possible visual outcomes. Subject matter may serve as metaphor for intangible ideas. The work examines boundaries, addresses the fragility of existence, of presence, of absence, and of memory.
Biographical Narrative
Marge Moody is a Professor Emeritus of Fine Arts from Winthrop University, Rock Hill, South Carolina, where she taught for 30 years. She describes her work broadly as being environment based, which emanates from her experience of her home in South Carolina, through traveling, and from her imagination.
She has exhibited her work in Great Britain, Washington, DC, New York, Chicago and various galleries in North and South Carolina. Some of her recent achievements include being accepted to the American Academy in Rome as a ‘Visiting Artist’ (March/April 2020) and to the National Association of Women Artists in New York City , where she is having a solo show of new work in June 2020: in 2015 she was awarded a one-person show (‘SM15’) at FRONT Art Space, Tribeca, New York, NY where she displayed 16 small works. She was invited to participate in the 15th Parallax Art Fair in Chelsea, London, England, in February 2016. In 2013 she had one-person exhibitions of her work in Chicago, Illinois, and in Great Britain, two of 6 shows she had in 2013 as part of her ‘Made In America: 1983 – 2013’ exhibitions. Her work was selected for the large exhibition, ‘Abstract Art in South Carolina 1949 – 2012’ at the SC State Museum, Columbia, SC. in 2012.
Marge’s work is part of many private and corporate collections in Great Britain and the US, including the South Carolina State Art Collection, the MUSC Contemporary Carolina Collection, Williams and Fudge and the Winthrop University Collection. She completed a residency at McColl Center for Visual Art in Charlotte, NC in 2006 and at OBRAS – Portugal in 2015. She is married to Phil Moody, photographer, and has two grown sons.
Professional Experience
2018 - present Professor Emeritus of Fine Art, Winthrop University, Rock Hill, South Carolina,USA
2013 - 2018 Professor of Fine Arts, Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC, USA
2002 - 2013 Associate Professor of Art, Winthrop University, Rock Hill, South Carolina, USA
1973 - present Practicing artist
Solo Exhibitions (Selected)
2021. 'In Her Nature': Marge Loudon Moody Collages, 2019, 20 & 21 Hance Family Gallery, Charlotte Country Day School
Gallery. October 12 - 30 2021 Reception November 30 2021 6 - 7pm
2020 Popp Martin Student Union Gallery, UNC Charlotte NC 'Recent Paintings'
2019 Arts Council of York County, Rock Hill, SC, 'Drawings and Paintings'
2017/18 Winthrop University galleries Rutledge Gallery 'Then and Now: Collages 1979- 2017'
2016/17 'LOOM' Co-working and Gallery Space, 129 Academy St., Ft Mill, SC inaugural solo show
2016 The Courtroom Gallery, Gettys Art Center, Rock Hill, SC ‘Small Works’ recent acrylic gouache and collage paintings.
2015 FRONT Art Space, New York, NY 10007 ‘SM 15’ New small works
2015 OBRAS – Portugal Summer show
2013 City Art Gallery, Columbia, SC Selected work ‘Marge Loudon Moody: Made in America 1983 – 2013’. (Jan-Feb).
2013 University of North Carolina at Charlotte,NC, Student Union Gallery ‘New Work: Blue Chicago Series’ (March 11 – 31) New Paintings
2013 Space 1858, Chicago, IL Selected work ‘Paracosms’ Marge Loudon Moody: Made in America 1983 – 2013’. (May). (Graphic work – new small collages & mixed-media)
2013 Hart Witzen Gallery, Charlotte, NC. ‘Inaugural Exhibition’ Marge Loudon Moody: Made in America 1983 – 2013’ (September 6) Large paintings and large collages
2013 2013 Tower Foyer Gallery, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland Selected work ‘Marge Loudon Moody: Made in America 1983 – 2013’. (Sep–Nov). Small paintings from 2006
2013 November Space 80808 Columbia, SC ‘Marge Loudon Moody: Made in America: 1983 – 2013: Collage’.
2011 Pease Gallery, Central Piedmont Community College, Charlotte, NC. ‘Field Lines’ New paintings
2008/09 Elizabeth Dunlap Patrick Gallery, Winthrop Univ., Rock Hill, SC. ‘Other Worlds: From Process to Product’.
Awards (Selected)
2020 (March/April) Accepted to the 'Visiting Artist/Visiting Scholar' program at the American Academy in Rome, Italy
2019 Elected member of the National Association of Women Artists, New York, New York
2015 Artist residency ‘Foundation OBRAS’, Evoramonte, Portugal
2008 Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC. Elizabeth Dunlap Patrick Faculty Endowment Award.
1996, 2006 Charlotte-Mecklenburg Arts & Science Council, Charlotte, NC.
2013 & 2018 Regional Artist Project Grant
2006 McColl Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, NC. Artist-in-residence, (summer affiliate artist)
2014,2010,2008:
Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC. Faculty Research Grant
Mixed exhibitions (selected)
2019 McColl Center for Arts and Innovation, Charlotte, NC 'Members' Show'
2016 Parallax Art Fair Invitational, London, England (February)
2015/16 FRONT Art Space, New York, NY Group show ‘Studio Conversations’
2014 Chroma: UNC Charlotte ‘Projective Eye’ gallery a three-person show 'Chroma'
2012 South Carolina State Museum, Columbia, SC. 'Abstract Art in South Carolina 1949 – 2012’ (invitational).
2011 Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC. Fine Arts Faculty Exhibition, ‘Chicago Series: In Your Dreams’
2010 Spartanburg Art Museum, Spartanburg, SC ‘SC 2D Artists’.
2009/10 Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC ‘Faculty Exhibition’.
2006 Joie Lassiter Gallery, Charlotte, NC ‘Affordable Art Fair’, New York City.
2006 McColl Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, NC ‘Affiliate Artists Show 1’ and ‘Affiliate Artists Show II’
Past Gallery Affiliations:
City Art Gallery, Columbia, SC
Modern Eye Gallery, Charlotte, NC
Joie Lassiter Gallery, Charlotte, NC
Erdreich White Fine Art, Boston MA
Touchstone Gallery, Washington, DC
Amos Eno Gallery, New York, NY
Corporate Collections (selected)
The Beach Company Collection, @The Jasper, Charleston, SC
South Carolina State Art Collection
Medical University of South Carolina ‘Contemporary Carolina Collection’, Charleston, SC
Winthrop University Permanent Collection, Rock Hill, SC
Williams and Fudge Permanent Collection, Rock Hill, SC
Private Collections
Work in many private collections in Great Britain and in the US
Education
1973 Moray House College of Education, Edinburgh, Scotland Certificate of Secondary School Teaching in Art
1972 Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee, Scotland.Post - Diploma of Art (Drawing & Painting). Highly Commended.
1967 - 71 Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee, Scotland Diploma of Art (Drawing & Painting).
1949 Born, Nairobi, Kenya, East Africa