marthasaunders
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011 Interior Fog, Art Gallery, Norfolk, VA
2011 Intersecting Pauses, Les Yeux du Monde,
Charlottesville, VA
2009 Wander, Cull, Configure, The Gallery at Towne Pavilion II, Virginia Beach, VA (curator: Lorrie Saunders, Art Gallery, Norfolk, VA)
2008 Oscillating Vistas, Art Gallery, Norfolk, VA
2007 Excavating, Staunton Augusta Art Center, Staunton, VA
2006 Oscillating Vistas, Les Yeux du Monde, Charlottesville, VA
2006 Gateway Building Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center, Richmond, VA
2005 Suspended Sites, Hunt Gallery, Mary Baldwin College, Staunton, VA
2001 Mind Skin, McMasters Gallery, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
2001 Fusing Terrains, Piedmont Virginia Community College, Charlottesville, VA
1997 Hood College, Frederick, MD
PUBLICATIONS
2011 Summer Edition, Piedmont Virginian Magazine,
2011 Spring Edition, Studio Visit Magazine
2010 Malone, Catherine. “Minds Wide Open: Women in the Arts (Review).” C-VILLE Weekly. March 16-22, 2010: 30
2006 Parsons, Laura. “Wax Works: Saunders Layers it On.” The Hook, September 07- 13, 2006: 47
2005 Designing Matter. Edited by the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia, 2005 (course website illustrations)
2001 Saunders, Martha, and Paula Rau. “Conversation.” Southeastern College Art Conference Review 14, no. 1 (2001): 31-35
2001 Steinberg, Aaron. “Junk, Beautiful Junk.”
C-VILLE Weekly, March 6-12, 2001, 38
2001 Latter, Ruth. The Daily Progress (Charlottesville, VA), March 15, 2001, D2
1985 Mathews, Patricia. “Virginia Women Artists and the Female Experience in Art.” In Virginia Women Artists, edited by Patricia Mathews. Blacksburg, VA: Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 1985. Published in conjunction with the exhibition “Virginia Women Artists” shown at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, in addition to 10 sites
SELECTED JURIED AND GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010 Minds Wide Open: Women in the Arts, Les Yeux du Monde, Charlottesville, VA
2010 Minds Wide Open: Four Women Artists, Beverly Street Studio School, Staunton, VA
2007 Artivism, McGuffey Art Center, Charlottesville, VA
2007 Virginia Women Artists, Les Yeux du Monde, Charlottesville, VA
2005 The Land of Wandering, The Off Grounds Gallery, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
2005 The Art of Healing, Mark O. Hatfield Clinical Research Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
1996 American Drawing Biennial V, Muscarelle Museum of Art, The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA (juror: Thomas Armstrong)
1993 ARTSCAPE 92, Maryland Survey, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
1990 Annual Juried Exhibition, Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Newport News, VA (juror: Donald Kuspit)
1989 Annual Juried Exhibition, Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Newport News, VA (juror: Faith Ringold)
1989 1708 Invitational Show, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA. 1988 International Works on Paper, Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
1985 Virginia Women Artists: Female Experience in Art, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, VA (curator: Patricia Matthews)
CORPORATE COLLECTIONS & COMMISSIONS
University of Virginia Emily Couric Clinical Cancer Center
CMSS Architects, Virginia Beach, VA
Capital One Corporation, Richmond Headquarters, Richmond, VA
Innesbrook Office Park, Richmond, VA (Archiscape Mural)
Rockingham Memorial Hospital, Harrisonburg, VA
Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center, Richmond, VA

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CONTACT

saundersmartha@hotmail.com

EDUCATION

MFA Mount Royal School of Painting, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD

BFA Painting and Printmaking, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA

GALLERY REPRESENTATION

Art Gallery, Norfolk, VA
artgalleryls.net

Les Yeux du Monde, Charlottesville, VA
lesyeuxdumonde.com

GRANTS AND AWARDS
2000 Artist Fellowship Grant, The Southeastern College Art Conference
1994 Distinction for Drawing, Taylor Arts Center, Hampton, VA
1993 Distinction of Painting, Gallery West, Alexandria, VA



CREDITS

Mind Skin photos by George Fulton. All others by Scott Smith.

All images are copyright Martha Saunders


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