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1. Early Warning, 2007, pastel, charcoal on paper, 30” x 22”
2. Bola, 2007, watercolor, pencil, ink, pastel, 12” x 9”
3. Wind, pastel, colored pencil, charcoal, 12” x 9”
4. Is It Zen, mixed media on paper, 30" x 22"
5. From the Heart, charcoal, pastel on paper, 30" x 22"
6. Untitled, mixed media on paper, 12" x 9"
7. Without a Map, graphite,pastel on paper, 26" x 22"
8. Knots, pastel, ink, collage on paper, 12” x 15”
9. Traces and Erasures, mixed media on paper, 30" x 22"
10. Past Imperfect, pastel, charcoal, pencil, collage on paper, 20” x 14”
11. Untitled, mixed media on paper, 30" x 22"
12. Walk on Water, mixed media on paper, 20" x 22"

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1. Yellow Cloud, 2007, oil on paper, 30” x 22”
2. Dirty Pink, 2008, oil on canvas, 60” x 48”
3. Red, oil on canvas, 48" x 60"
4. Cornered, oil on paper, 10" x 8"
5. Black, White, Gray, oil on paper, 10" x 8"
6. Don't Look Back, oil on paper, 20” x 14”
7. Lucky Bounce, oil on canvas, 40" x 26"
8. Double Happiness, oil on linen, 40" x 30"
9. Smoke Rings, oil on canvas, 24" x 18"
10. Body Radiant, oil on canvas, 24' x 18'
11. Signals from the Center, oil on canvas, 52” x 66”
12. Sahara, oil on canvas, 60" x 48"

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Contact Information
3510 Scotts Lane
Bldg. 32, Suite 201
Philadelphia, PA 19129
e-mail: mgrigonis@mindspring.com
www.marjoriegrigonis.com
www.3rdstreetgallery.com
Please contact artist or gallery for purchases, commissions, etc.

Artist Statement
My abstract drawings and paintings are the visual record of exploration, criticism, trial and error, and discovery. The process is both determined and spontaneous; it includes critical reworking and accident as I look for something I haven’t seen before. There is little pre-planning, a painting begins with a color and gestural brushstrokes. In response to what I see on the canvas, colors are added, composition is considered. The characteristics of the media contribute substantially to the “look” of each piece. Composing an arresting image with line, shapes and colors is my primary goal. In the process, thoughts and feelings may become associated with the forms thus influencing the direction and outcome of the work.

“In any kind of creative work a point is reached where our power of free choice comes to an end. The work assumes a life of its own, which offers its creator only the alternative of accepting or rejecting it. A mysterious “presence” reveals itself, which gives the work a living personality of its own.”
Anton Ehrenzweig

Artist Bio
Marjorie Grigonis was born in Baltimore, MD, has lived in seven states on the East Coast, and now in Philadelphia for the past 24 years. She attended George Washington University and The Corcoran School of Art in Washington DC, receiving her MFA from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill in 1965. Grigonis taught art for 14 years in the Fine Arts departments of Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ; Middlesex College in Edison, NJ, and the College of Charleston, Charleston, SC. She was one of the founders of the Amos Eno Gallery in NYC in 1973, and is now a member and co-director of the 3rd Street Gallery, a co-operative in Philadelphia. In 1992 Grigonis was the recipient of a residency at the Vermont Studio School, in ‘95 she was awarded first prize in painting in Art Pennsylvania ‘95 at the State Museum in Harrisburg. She has shown her work in the State Museums of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and South Carolina, Woodmere Art Museum, Mint Museum (Charlotte, NC) and the Newark Museum. Her work, drawings, paintings, prints, has always been abstract, the styles varying over three decades.

Education
George Washington University, Washington, DC

The Corcoran School of Art, Washington, DC

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
BA (1963), MFA (1965)

Teaching Experience
1990 - 1991
Baldwin School, Bryn Mawr, PA
Upper School Art: Painting, Drawing, Printmaking

1977 - 1984
College of Charleston, Charleston, SC
Department of Fine Arts: Painting, Drawing

1975 - 1976
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Department of Art: Beginning Studio, Painting I and II

1971 - 1976
Middlesex College, Edison, NJ
Department of Fine Arts: Two-dimensional Design,
Painting I and II, Introduction to Art

1971 - 1972
Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
Arts Workshop: Painting

Collections
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC
Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, PA
Wyeth Ayerst International, Inc., St. Davids, PA

Numerous private collections in the US, and in Japan, Germany, France and the UK.

Selected Exhibitions

Solo

2008
3rd Street Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2005
3rd Street Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2002
Maine Maritime Academy, Castine, ME

2001
Deer Isle Art Gallery, Deer Isle, ME

2000
3rd Street Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

1999
Cosmopolitan Club, Philadelphia, PA

Spring Mill Art Gallery, Conshohocken, PA

1998
3rd Street Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

1996
Deer Isle Art Gallery, Deer Isle, ME

1992
The Kirkbride Gallery, The Institute of Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, PA

1991
The Baldwin School Art Galley, Bryn Mawr, PA

The Monsanto Gallery, Lander College, Greenwood, SC
Inaugural Exhibition

William Halsey Gallery, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC

The Abstract Imperative, Charleston, SC

Newark Museum, Newark, NJ

Amos Eno Gallery, New York, NY

Group

2009
Irreverence!, Carano Gallery at Sherman Mills, Philadelphia, PA

69th Annual Juried Exhibition, Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Van Sciver Prize

2008
Paper '08, Philadelphia Sketch Club, Philadelphia, PA

Salon, Carano Gallery at Sherman Mills, Philadelphia, PA

2007
1ST Annual Juried Show, Schuylkill Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2006
Smarts Juried Group Show, Gallery at Sherman Mills, Philadelphia, PA

2004
3rd Street Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

1991-2001
Deer Isle Art Association, Deer Isle, ME

2000
60th Anniversary Juried Exhibition, Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA

1999
3rd Street Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Annual Juried Exhibition, Cheltenham Art Center, Philadelphia, PA

1998
Faculty Exhibition, Main Line Center for the Arts,
Haverford, PA

1997
Foundry Gallery, Washington, DC

Gloucester County College, Sewall, NJ

1995
State of the Arts: Pennsylvania’95, State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA

1994
Annual Juried Show, Main Line Center for the Arts, Haverford, PA

1993
Works on Paper, Perkins Center for the Arts, Moorestown, NJ

26th Anniversary Juried Exhibition, State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA

Art at the Armory, Philadelphia, PA

48th Annual Juried Exhibtion, Woodmere Art Museum, Phila. PA

7th Anniversary Juried Exhibition, Perkins Center for the Arts, Moorestown, NJ:

Portfolio Gallery, Atlanta, GA

South Carolina Artists’ Exhibition, Gibbes Art Gallery, Charleston, SC

New Jersey Women Artists, Douglass College, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

Art from New Jersey, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ

Piedmont Graphics Exhibition, The Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC

North Carolina Artists’Exhibition, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC