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.
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.
Resume/CV (edited)
Professional Experience
2018 Professor Emeritus of Art, Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC
2013 -2018 Professor of Art, Winthrop University, Rock Hill, South Carolina, USA
2002 - 2013 Associate Professor of Art, Winthrop University, Rock Hill, South Carolina,
1998 – 2013 Assistant Professor of Art, Winthrop University, Rock Hill SC
1973 - present Practicing artist
Solo Exhibitions (Selected)
2023/24 Bill and Patty Gorelick Galleries, Central Piedmont Community College, Charlotte, NC Year-long rotating shows at Levine, North and Cato campuses.
2021 ‘In Her Nature’ collages 2019, 2020 & 2021 Charlotte Country Day School, Charlotte, NC
2020 February, ‘Recent Paintings’,UNC Charlotte Student Union Gallery, Charlotte, NC
2019 March/April ‘Drawings and Paintings’ Dalton Gallery, Center for The Arts, Rock Hill, SC
2017/18 Dec 2017 – March 2018 ‘Then and Now: Collages 1979 - 2017’, Winthrop University Galleries, Winthrop University, Rock Hill
2016/17 LOOM Co-Working Gallery, Ft Mill. SC ‘New Work’ Acrylic paintings and works on paper
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, collage paintings
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, ILSelected 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 (42 total)
2013 Tower Foyer Gallery, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland Selected work ‘Marge Loudon Moody: Made in America 1983 – 2013’. (Sep–Nov).
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’.
2009 The Loading Dock Gallery, Gettys Art Center, Rock Hill, SC.’Lines in the Sand: Impressions of the Southwest’.
2009 Waterworks Visual Art Center, Salisbury NC.‘Recent Work’.
2009 Jeanne Rauch Gallery, Gaston College, Dallas, NC. ‘Other Worlds’.
2008/09 Elizabeth Dunlap Patrick Gallery, Winthrop Univ., Rock Hill, SC. ‘Other Worlds: From Process to Product’.
2008 Queens University Galleries, Charlotte, NC ‘Recent Work’.
2008 Dalton Gallery, Arts Council of York County, Rock Hill, SC. ‘Selected Work from The Italy Series’
2007 Rowe Gallery, UNC Charlotte, NC ‘New Work’
2006 – 08 Studio 203, The Gettys Center, Rock Hill, SC.‘Small Works!’
2004 Jeanne Rauch Gallery, Gaston College, Dallas, NC.‘Places’.
Collections (selected)
The Beach Company Collection at The Jasper, Charleston
MUSC Contemporary Carolina collection
Winthrop University Collection
South Carolina State Art Collection
Awards
2023 Koger Center, Columbia, SC Honorable Mention
2021 Public art purchase by the Beach Company, Charleston, SC for the Jasper Building
2020 Accepted to the ‘Visiting Artist/Visiting Scholar’ program at the American Academy, Rome, Italy
2019 member of the National Association of Women Artists, (NAWA) New York City, New York.
2015 Artist residency ‘Foundation OBRAS’, Evoramonte, Portugal
2008 Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC. Elizabeth Dunlap Patrick Faculty Endowment Award.
1996, 06,13& 18 Charlotte-Mecklenburg Arts & Science Council, Charlotte, NC. 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)
2023 ‘The Project’ Koger Center, Columbia, SC
2019 McColl Center for Visual Art 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 mixed show with two other artists
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’.
2010 Green Rice Gallery, Charlotte, NC ‘North and South’.
2009/10 Elder Gallery, Charlotte, NC ‘Carolina’s Got Art’
2009/10 Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC ‘Faculty Exhibition’.
2009 Gallery Up, Gettys Art Center, Rock Hill, SC ‘Gettys Artists’
2009 Arts Council of York County, Dalton Gallery, Rock Hill, SC ‘Main Identity’.
2008/9 City Art Gallery, Columbia, SC.
2007 Hart Witzen Gallery, Charlotte, NC ‘Soup 3’.
2006/7 Gallery 5, Rock Hill, SC.
2006 Joie Lassiter Gallery, Charlotte, NC ‘Affordable Art Fair’ , New York City.
2006 McColl Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, NC ‘Affiliate Artists Show 1’.
2006 McColl Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, NC ‘Affiliate Artists Show II’
2006 Dalton Gallery, Rock Hill Arts Council, Rock Hill, SC ‘Annual Summer Juried Show’ (award winner)
2006 The SC Arts Commission Permanent Collection, Sumter, SC.
2004/5 The SC Arts Commission Permanent Collection, Columbia, SC Touring exhibition throughout the state (juried).
2004/5 Amos Eno Gallery, New York City ‘Summer Group Show’
2003/4 Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC Faculty Exhibition ‘Four’.
2003/2 Amos Eno Gallery, New York City ‘Ken Hoffman – Paintings, Marge Moody – Collages’
2003 The Governor’s School for the Arts & Humanities, Greenville, SC.
2001 Rudolph E. Lee Gallery, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 'Found Fragments' Invitational 3-person exhibition
2001 Appalachian State University, Boone, NC ‘Halpert Biennial'.
2000 Touchstone Gallery, Washington, DC 'Members Show’.
1999/00 Touchstone Gallery, Washington, DC 'Small Works’.
1999/00 Touchstone Gallery, Washington, DC 'Touchstone & Friends'
1999 Touchstone Gallery, Washington, DC 'Diverse Rhythms: New Works - New Members’.
1999 Touchstone Galley, Washington, DC Members Show.
1999 Artspace, Richmond, VA.
1999 Dalton Gallery, Arts Council of York County, Rock Hill, SC.
1999 Winthrop University faculty exhibition, ‘By Example’
1998 Gallery 10, Washington, DC ‘Marge Moody/Alan Binstock’
1998 Touchstone Gallery, Washington, DC.
1967 - 72 Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee, Scotland.
Diploma and Post-Diploma of Art (Drawing & Painting).
1972-73 Moray House College of Education, Edinburgh, Scotland Teaching certification.
1949 Born, Nairobi, Kenya, East Africa
Professional Experience
2018 Professor Emeritus of Art, Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC
2013 -2018 Professor of Art, Winthrop University, Rock Hill, South Carolina, USA
2002 - 2013 Associate Professor of Art, Winthrop University, Rock Hill, South Carolina,
1998 – 2013 Assistant Professor of Art, Winthrop University, Rock Hill SC
1973 - present Practicing artist
Solo Exhibitions (Selected)
2023/24 Bill and Patty Gorelick Galleries, Central Piedmont Community College, Charlotte, NC Year-long rotating shows at Levine, North and Cato campuses.
2021 ‘In Her Nature’ collages 2019, 2020 & 2021 Charlotte Country Day School, Charlotte, NC
2020 February, ‘Recent Paintings’,UNC Charlotte Student Union Gallery, Charlotte, NC
2019 March/April ‘Drawings and Paintings’ Dalton Gallery, Center for The Arts, Rock Hill, SC
2017/18 Dec 2017 – March 2018 ‘Then and Now: Collages 1979 - 2017’, Winthrop University Galleries, Winthrop University, Rock Hill
2016/17 LOOM Co-Working Gallery, Ft Mill. SC ‘New Work’ Acrylic paintings and works on paper
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, collage paintings
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, ILSelected 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 (42 total)
2013 Tower Foyer Gallery, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland Selected work ‘Marge Loudon Moody: Made in America 1983 – 2013’. (Sep–Nov).
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’.
2009 The Loading Dock Gallery, Gettys Art Center, Rock Hill, SC.’Lines in the Sand: Impressions of the Southwest’.
2009 Waterworks Visual Art Center, Salisbury NC.‘Recent Work’.
2009 Jeanne Rauch Gallery, Gaston College, Dallas, NC. ‘Other Worlds’.
2008/09 Elizabeth Dunlap Patrick Gallery, Winthrop Univ., Rock Hill, SC. ‘Other Worlds: From Process to Product’.
2008 Queens University Galleries, Charlotte, NC ‘Recent Work’.
2008 Dalton Gallery, Arts Council of York County, Rock Hill, SC. ‘Selected Work from The Italy Series’
2007 Rowe Gallery, UNC Charlotte, NC ‘New Work’
2006 – 08 Studio 203, The Gettys Center, Rock Hill, SC.‘Small Works!’
2004 Jeanne Rauch Gallery, Gaston College, Dallas, NC.‘Places’.
Collections (selected)
The Beach Company Collection at The Jasper, Charleston
MUSC Contemporary Carolina collection
Winthrop University Collection
South Carolina State Art Collection
Awards
2023 Koger Center, Columbia, SC Honorable Mention
2021 Public art purchase by the Beach Company, Charleston, SC for the Jasper Building
2020 Accepted to the ‘Visiting Artist/Visiting Scholar’ program at the American Academy, Rome, Italy
2019 member of the National Association of Women Artists, (NAWA) New York City, New York.
2015 Artist residency ‘Foundation OBRAS’, Evoramonte, Portugal
2008 Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC. Elizabeth Dunlap Patrick Faculty Endowment Award.
1996, 06,13& 18 Charlotte-Mecklenburg Arts & Science Council, Charlotte, NC. 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)
2023 ‘The Project’ Koger Center, Columbia, SC
2019 McColl Center for Visual Art 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 mixed show with two other artists
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’.
2010 Green Rice Gallery, Charlotte, NC ‘North and South’.
2009/10 Elder Gallery, Charlotte, NC ‘Carolina’s Got Art’
2009/10 Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC ‘Faculty Exhibition’.
2009 Gallery Up, Gettys Art Center, Rock Hill, SC ‘Gettys Artists’
2009 Arts Council of York County, Dalton Gallery, Rock Hill, SC ‘Main Identity’.
2008/9 City Art Gallery, Columbia, SC.
2007 Hart Witzen Gallery, Charlotte, NC ‘Soup 3’.
2006/7 Gallery 5, Rock Hill, SC.
2006 Joie Lassiter Gallery, Charlotte, NC ‘Affordable Art Fair’ , New York City.
2006 McColl Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, NC ‘Affiliate Artists Show 1’.
2006 McColl Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, NC ‘Affiliate Artists Show II’
2006 Dalton Gallery, Rock Hill Arts Council, Rock Hill, SC ‘Annual Summer Juried Show’ (award winner)
2006 The SC Arts Commission Permanent Collection, Sumter, SC.
2004/5 The SC Arts Commission Permanent Collection, Columbia, SC Touring exhibition throughout the state (juried).
2004/5 Amos Eno Gallery, New York City ‘Summer Group Show’
2003/4 Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC Faculty Exhibition ‘Four’.
2003/2 Amos Eno Gallery, New York City ‘Ken Hoffman – Paintings, Marge Moody – Collages’
2003 The Governor’s School for the Arts & Humanities, Greenville, SC.
2001 Rudolph E. Lee Gallery, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 'Found Fragments' Invitational 3-person exhibition
2001 Appalachian State University, Boone, NC ‘Halpert Biennial'.
2000 Touchstone Gallery, Washington, DC 'Members Show’.
1999/00 Touchstone Gallery, Washington, DC 'Small Works’.
1999/00 Touchstone Gallery, Washington, DC 'Touchstone & Friends'
1999 Touchstone Gallery, Washington, DC 'Diverse Rhythms: New Works - New Members’.
1999 Touchstone Galley, Washington, DC Members Show.
1999 Artspace, Richmond, VA.
1999 Dalton Gallery, Arts Council of York County, Rock Hill, SC.
1999 Winthrop University faculty exhibition, ‘By Example’
1998 Gallery 10, Washington, DC ‘Marge Moody/Alan Binstock’
1998 Touchstone Gallery, Washington, DC.
1967 - 72 Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee, Scotland.
Diploma and Post-Diploma of Art (Drawing & Painting).
1972-73 Moray House College of Education, Edinburgh, Scotland Teaching certification.
1949 Born, Nairobi, Kenya, East Africa