SUMMARY
I paint in oil and watercolor; draw with oil pastel, soft pastels and graphite; work in black & white and color photography-- all in the genre of magical realism, using symbolic still life, landscape and portraiture themes.
EXHIBITS/COMMISSIONS
· Liquid Planet: Flame, Flowers I, photograph, published in Silvershotz (International Journal of Fine Art Photography),Volume 6, Edition 3
· Atlanta Showcase 2009, juried show of fine art photography at Mason Murer Fine Art Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia and Silvershotz International Magazine, November 6 through December 31, 2009
· Occupation: Artist, Elizabeth Stone Harper Gallery, Clinton, South Carolina, January 23 through February 21, 2009
· Shambhala Arts Festival, Shambhala Meditation Center, Atlanta, Georgia, March 21 through 23, 2008
· Compassion; an AIDS awareness multimedia art exhibition at Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia; December 1 through December 21, 2007
· Women’s Caucus for Art of Georgia 8th Annual Exhibition; Art Station, Stone Mountain, Georgia; November 10 through December 30, 2007
· Contemporary Women Artist Exhibition XIII, juried by Judy Chicago, Mad Art Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri, March 4 through March 30, 2005
· Infusion, 4th Annual Women’s Caucus for Art of Georgia Juried Show, Defoor Centre, Atlanta, Georgia, June through July, 2004
· HerStory 2004, Manhattan Arts International Juried Exhibition, Award of Excellence Winner, images displayed on website from March through December, 2004
· 3rd Annual New Horizons Exhibition, Cherokee County Arts Council Juried Exhibition, Canton, Georgia, October through December, 2003;
"I produce layered landscapes by multiple exposing 35mm film. The film images are then scanned into high resolution digital files and subsequently printed as fine art giclées on watercolor paper and/or canvas. My work is in the genre of Magical Realism. Nature is the subject of my deepest love. I mean for my work not only to illustrate the amazing creativity, life-affirming beauty and complexity of Nature, but to win the viewer over to a sense of wonder for the natural world. Growing up in Latin America, my sensibilities were heavily influenced by the Magical Realist artists, writers and poets who perceive mundane, everyday life as always infused with mystical, magical elements, such as in Pablo Neruda’s Odes to Common Things, wherein, . . .”the planet is sublime . . . I love all things . . . many things have conspired to tell me the whole story.” I count myself among the many artists and writers working to change our mental outlook from a sense of entitlement to a sense of humility, awe and wonder with regard to the natural order. Global warming, along with mankind’s undiminishing use and consumption of the planet’s resources, will only be altered if we can change our perspective. My images are meant to cast light on the everyday miracles of Nature perpetually unfolding unnoticed right before our very eyes."
Visit her site at www.marjoriejordan.com.
