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Nancy Morgan-Barnes
Born South Bend, Indiana, 1948
Toutes les expériences de vie de Nancy
Morgan Barnes se retrouvent dans son
travail. Ses peintures passées et présentes
ont toujours reflété les conditions de vie
qu’elle a choisie. C’est cet aspect qui rend
son œuvre si originale. Nous parlons souvent
de la peinture narrative en termes pompeux.
Cependant le concept de la peinture
narrative nous a souvent amené à voir des
mondes imaginaires idéalisés et des rêveries
de temps meilleurs. Nancy n’est pas une
rêveuse, elle est un peintre narratif réaliste.
Elle
nous
reproduit
visuellement,
la
complexité du rôle de la femme dans notre
société. Ses toiles nous ont renvoyé et nous
renvoie toujours aux rôles de jeune femme,
de femme mature, d’épouse, de mère et
d’artiste travaillant à équilibrer les multiples
facettes qui lui sont attribuées. Sa peinture
ne réfléchit rien de négatif. Elle démontre
plutôt l’honneur et la dignité qu’elle met
dans la poursuite de sa carrière. Ses toiles
sont de constants commentaires sur
l’évolution de chaque membre de sa
famille. À travers la composition de toute son
œuvre, on retrouve clairement interprété le
cahot et l’ordre, la jeunesse et la vieillesse, la
famille et les amis, les finances personnelles,
la préparation de la nourriture et les repas,
l’amitié et l’adversité. Un nouveau mystère
dans sa peinture élève d’un cran son actuel
travail. Il serait facile de comparer Nancy
aux grands peintres hollandais, mais en toute
franchise, avec l’âge qui avance, on
devient son propre artiste, secouant le passé
qui laisse place à sa nature distincte. Nancy
Barnes en est à ce stade. Elles autant que
son œuvre sont originales.
Barry Gealt
Professeur d’art visuel
Université d’Indiana, Bloomington, Indiana
All of Nancy Morgan-Barnes’ life experiences
enter her work. Her paintings, past and
present,
have
always
reflected
the
conditions of life in which she was engaged.
It is this aspect that makes her work so
original. We often speak of narrative
painting in grand terms. But often the
concept of the narrative has led us to see
make-believe worlds of the ideal and a
daydreaming of better times. Nancy is no
daydreamer. She is a narrative realist.
She brings to all of us, visually, the
complex role of the woman in our society.
Her paintings have reflected and
continue to reflect the role of the young
and mature woman, the wife, the mother
and the artist, working at balancing the
multiple careers cast on her. In no way
do her paintings reflect anything
negative. Rather they reflect honor and
dignity in the pursuits of her careers. Her
paintings
have
been
a
running
commentary of everyone’s growth in her
family. Through the composing in all of
her works, one finds explicitly rendered,
chaos and order, youth and age, family
and friends, personal finances, food and
meals in their preparation, friendship and
adversity. There is a new mystery in her
paintings that raises the current work
another notch.
It would be easy to
compare Nancy to the great Dutch
painters, but in all honesty, at a certain
age in life, we become our own artists,
the past is shucked aside and our own
originality shows. Nancy Barnes is at that
stage. She and her work are original.
Barry Gealt
Professor of Fine Arts
Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
FORMATION / EDUCATION:
1971 Indiana University, Bloomington, B.A.
St. Mary’s College, South Bend, Indiana
1967-1968
EXPOSITIONS INDIVIDUELLES / SOLO
EXHIBITIONS:
2008
Nancy Morgan Barnes, Watson
Gallery, Stonington, ME
2007
2006
Backwards Fables, Ruschman Art
Gallery, Indianapolis, IN
Figuratively Speaking, George
Marshall Store Galleries, Portland, ME
New Paintings, Watson Gallery,
Stonington, ME
Small Works, Collins Lefebvre
Stoneberger, Westmount, QC
Still-Life, Center for Maine
Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME
The Portland Show, Greenhut
Galleries, Portland, ME
From Bucksport to Belfast, Phoenix
Loft Gallery, Belfast, ME
2004
Stonington at Work, Stonington, ME
2003
Sonia Zaks Gallery, Chicago, IL
2002
Ruschman Gallery, Indianapolis, IN
2001
Sonia Zaks Gallery, Chicago, IL
2000
Old Stories School of Fine Arts Gallery,
Bloominton, IN
1998
Franklin College, Franklin, IN
1997
Mark Ruschman Gallery, Indianapolis,
IN
2007
The Figure Revealed, Atrium Art
Gallery, University of Sourthern,
Maine, Lewiston, ME
2006
17th All Maine Invitational, Atrium
Gallery, University of Southern
Maine, Portland ME
2005
Patrick King Contemporary Art,
Indianapolis, IN
Whispers to Shouts : Indiana
Women who Create, Indiana
State Museum, Indianapolis, IN
2004
The Figure Revealed, Maine
Center of Contemporary Art,
Rockport, ME
2003
The Figure Revealed, Maine
Center of Contemporary Art,
Rockport, ME
The Gallery, Bloomington, IN
1988
Piazza San Francesco, Umbertide,
Italy
1980
The Gallery, Bloomington, IN
1978
IMU Gallery, Bloomington, IN
1975
The Gallery, Bloomington, IN
EXPOSITIONS COLLECTIVES / GROUP
EXHIBITIONS:
2008
Petites choses/ Small things, Beauxarts des Amériques – Fine Art of the
Americas, Montréal, QC
A Particular Time & Place, Phoenix
Loft Gallery, Belfast, ME
2002
Searsport Series, Cronin & Murphy
Fine Arts, Searsport, ME
2001
Phoenix Loft Gallery, Belfast, ME
Works on Paper, DePauw
University, Greencastle, IN
2000
Painters Who Teach, Greenhut
Galleries, Portland, ME
Road Trip, George Marshall Store
Gallery, York, ME
The Figure Revealed 2, University
of Southern Maine, Portland, ME
Collegial Painters, Chocolate
Church Art Center, Bath, ME
Twentieth Century Gallery,
Williamsburg, VI
The Gallery, Bloomington, IN
1991
Still Life, Center for Maine
Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME
Not-So-Still-life, Greenhut Gallery,
Portland, ME
The Gallery, Bloomington, IN
1992
Group Exhibition, Collins Lefebvre
Stoneberger, Westmount, QC
The Object Considered,
Columbus, OH
Wright State University, Dayton, OH
1999
Faculty Show, Indiana University,
Bloomington,IN
Figuratively Speaking, The Painting
Center, New York, NY
By Hand Gallery, Bloomington, IN
1985
Hope School of Fine Arts Biennial
Faculty Show, Indiana University
Museum, Bloomington, IN
1996
Faculty Show, Indiana University 100th
Anniversary, Bloomington, IN
1995
In Indiana, IAM, Indianapolis, IN
Hoosier Salon, Indianapolis, IN
1993
Visiting Artist, Faculty Show Indiana
University, Bloomington, IN
Hoosier Salon, Indianapolis, IN
1992
Indianapolis Arts Competition,
Indianapolis, IN
Christmas Show, The Gallery,
Bloomington, IN
1984
1991
IndianaArts Competition,
Indianapolis, IN - Best of Show
Lives - Still and Otherwise, Galerie
Simone-Stern, New Orleans, LA
1983
69th Indiana Artist Show
1982
South Central Mental Health
Clinic, Bloomington, IN
1981
Artisti Moderni da Umbria, Citta di
Castello, Italy
1980
Invitational Drawing Show,
Depauw University, Greencastel,
IN
1978
Premio di Fratta, Umbertide, Italy
1975
Five Draughtsmen, Indiana
University, Bloomington, IN
1974
Pittori da Perugia, Perugia, Italy
1973
Six Painters in Umbria, Rome, Italy
Premio di Fratta 1st prize,
Umbertide, Italy
Regional 91, Indianapolis Art League,
Indianapolis, IN
1990
Premio di Fratta, 2nd prize, Unbertide,
Italy
1988
Indianapolis Museum of Art,
Indianapolis, IN
1986
Inside Stories Downtown Gallery,
Indianapolis, IN
Nine Artists, The Gallery,
Bloomington, IN
Evansville-Tristate, Evansville, IN
A Funny Thing Happened, Anderson
Fine Arts Center, Anderson, IN
Hoosier Salon, Indianapolis, IN - Merit
Award
Faculty Artists, DePauw University,
Greencastle, IN
1972
Nashville Artists, Nashville, IN
Brown County Invitational Artists
Show, Nashville, IN
1971
Recent Graduates, IUM,
Bloomington, IN
PRIX / AWARDS:
2004
1998
1995
1994
1993
1992
1991
1990
1980
1974
Maine Art Commission – Bourse / Grant
Indiana Arts – 2ième prix / Second Prize
Hoosier Salon - Prix de mérite / Merit Prize
Indiana Arts Competition – Honneur – Honourable mention
Hoosier Salon – Prix de mérite / Merit Prize
Hoosier Salon – Oeuvre exceptionnel / Outstanding Work
Indiana Arts Competition – Oeuvre Majeure / Best of Show
Premio di Fratta – 2ième prix / Second Prize
Premio di Fratta – Premier prix / First Prize
Indiana University – Achat d’alumni / Alumni Purchase Award
BIBLIOGRAPHIE / BIBLIOGRAPHY
Little, Carl. The Not-So-Still-Life of Nancy Morgan-Barnes, Maine Boats, Homesand Harbors,
Autumn 2008
Skolnick, Arnold. Paintings of Maine: A New Collection Selected by Carl Little, Down East
Books, Maine: October 2006
Indianapolis Star, Show Review, March 1997
Indianapolis Woman Magazine. Top Indiana Women Artists, Weiss Communications
Indianapolis, September 1995
Cronistoria della Perugia. Premio di Fratta, August 1990
Corriere del Umbria, Americana Esponne, May 1988