Nan Montgomery lives and works in the Washington, D.C. area. After attending the Boston Museum School of Fine Arts where she majored in printmaking, she transferred to and graduated from the Yale University School of Art where she majored in painting with Josef Albers. Moving to the Washington area, she attended the Corcoran School of Art. In the fall of 2003, she attended the Julia & David White Artists Colony in Ciudad Colon, Costa Rica.
Her work is represented in the permanent collections of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Watkins Collection of the American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, the Washington Post, the Artery Organization, the American Federation of Teachers, the Washington Convention Center, as well as in private collections. Committed to abstraction and purity of form, her work is unified in the dichotomies of natural and material, restriction and freedom, hard edge and soft, all consistent with her personal history.
Sing Song, 2011, oil on linen, 60 x 60 inches
Dialogue, 2015, egg tempera on gessoed wood, 12 x 12 inches
Circlet, 2016, egg tempera on gessoed wood, 30 x 30 inches
Autumnal, 2012, oil on linen, 60 x 48 inches
Triad, 2017, oil on linen, 60 x 60 inches
Intersection V, 2016, oil on linen, 42 x 42 inches
Luminesce, 2012, oil on linen, 60 x 60 inches
Intersection IV, 2016, oil on linen, 60 x 60 inches
A D D I S O N / R I P L E Y F I N E A R T
Nan Montgomery
EDUCATION
1975-1977 Corcoran School of Art
1957-1960 Yale University School of Art, Bachelor of Fine Arts (painting)
1954-1957 Boston Museum School of Fine Arts, Graphics
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2013 American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington, DC
2011 Art Santa Fe 2011, Osuna Art, Santa Fe, NM
2008 Osuna Art, Bethesda, MD/Washington, DC
2002 The Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests, The Conservation Center, Concord, NH
2001 The Troyer Gallery, Washington, DC
1994 Franz Bader Gallery, Washington, DC
1992 Dwight Frederic Boyden Gallery, St, Mary’s College, St. Mary’s City, MD
1991 Franz Bader Gallery, Washington, DC
1989 Franz Bader Gallery, Washington, DC
1986 Osuna Gallery, Washington, DC
1985 C. Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD
1983 C. Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD
1981 Montpelier Cultural Arts Center, Laurel MD
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2014 Flora: A Celebration of Flowers in Contemporary Art, Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Brattleboro, VT
2014 Washington Art Matters, American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington, DC
2014-2017 Embassy of the United States Beirut, Lebanon, Art in Embassies Program, U.S. Department of State, Washington, DC
2012 76th Midyear Exhibition, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
2010 Catalyst: 35 Years of the Washington Project for the Arts, American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington, DC
2010 74th Midyear Exhibition, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
2007 Washington Women in the Arts: A Selection, Osuna Art, Bethesda, MD
2007 DC Art Fair, Goya Contemporary, Washington, DC
2006 Recent Acquisitions, The Watkins Collection, American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington, DC
2005 Strictly Painting 5, McLean Project for the Arts, McLean, VA (Jonathan Binstock, Curator)
2002 Spacia, Millenium Art Center, Washington, DC (J.W. Mahoney, Curator)
2001 Into the Beyond: an Odyssey, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
2000 The Troyer Gallery, Washington, DC
1998 Art Swings, Maryland Arts Place, Baltimore MD
1998 Geometrice, Rockville Arts Place, Rockville, MD (Jack Rasmussen, Curator)
1995 Geometric Abstraction, C. Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD
1994 A New Nature, Mclean Project for the Arts, McLean, VA
1992 Transmodern, Alice R. Rogers Gallery, St. John’s University, Collegeville, MN (J.W. Mahoney, Curator)
1987 Art in Embassies Program, U.S. Department of State, Washington, DC
1985 Washington Show, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
1984 Abstract Painting and Sculpture, Gallery K, Washington, DC
1983 Maryland Biennial Exhibition, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
1982 Gallery Director’s Choice, Montgomery College, Rockville, MD (Jack Rasmussen, Curator)
1982 Hanover, Osuna Gallery, Washington, DC
1981-1982 Jack Rasmussen Gallery, Washington, DC
1981 Competition and Purchase, Hyatt Regency, Baltimore, MD (Howard Fox, Curator)
1976 Maryland Biennial Exhibition, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
INVITATIONAL EXHIBITIONS
1984 Young Washington Artists, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD (Clair List, Curator)
1983 Maryland Collects, Maryland Arts Place, Baltimore, MD
1983 Invitational Painting Exhibition, Maryland State Arts Council, Baltimore, MD
1981 Blackwell Library, Salisbury State College, Salisbury, MD
1980 Elements of Space, Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA
PROFESSIONAL RECOGNITION
2005 Artist Talk with Nan Montgomery, The Kreeger Museum, Washington, DC
2003 The Julia & David White Artists Colony, Ciudad Colón, Costa Rica
1992 Maryland Women Artists Lecture Series, University of Maryland, College Park, MD (Angela Adams, Curator)
1989-1990 Juror, Art in Public Places, Arts and Humanities Council of Mongomery County, Silver Spring, MD
1978-1980 Maryland Arts Council Fellowship Award & Traveling Exhibition
1977 Dean’s Award, Corcoran School of Art, Washington, DC
PERMANENT AND PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Federal Reserve Bank Permanent Collection, Washington, DC
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Artery Organization, Washington, DC
IBM Corporation, Washington, DC
Hyatt Regency, Crystal City, VA
Hyatt Regency, Baltimore, MD
Oliver Carr, Washington, DC
Student Loan Marketing Association, Washington, DC
American Federation of Teachers, Washington, DC
Columbia Hospital for Women, Washington, DC
The Washington Convention Center, Washington, DC
Sheppard Pratt Health System, Donald S. Levinson Collection, Baltimore, MD
American University Museum, Watkins Collection, Washington, DC
Arnold and Porter Law Firm, Washington, DC
PUBLICATIONS
Karen Schafer, The Bethesda Gazette, November, 19, 2008
Jean Lawlor Cohen, Where Magazine, December, 2008
J.W. Mahoney, “To a Different Drum,” Art in America, May 2008
Jessica Dawson, The Washington Post, December 21, 2007
Karen Schafer, The Bethesda Gazette, December 19, 2007
The Keene Sentinel, September 26, 2002
Anne J. Banks, Washington Review (Vol. XXVII), 2001
Lab School of Washington, DC Area Artists, 2001
Ferdinand Protzman, The Washington Post, July 13, 2000
Louis Jacobson, The City Paper (Vol. 20, No. 27), July 7-13, 2000
George Mason University, So to Speak (Vol. 19, No.2), Spring/Summer 2000
Nancy Ungar, The Bethesda Gazette, August 19, 1998
Michael Welzenback, The Washington Post, September 16, 1989
Shelley Pyne-Hanley, Washington & World Arts, September 1989
Michael Welzenback, The Washington Times, June 12, 1986
Mary McCoy, The New Art Examiner, September 1986
Elizabeth Stevens, The Baltimore Sun, March 15, 1985
Benjamin Forgey, The Washington Post, July 5, 1984
John Dorsey, The Baltimore Sun, April 15, 1983
John Dorsey, The Baltimore Sun, April 7, 1983
Jo Ann Lewis, The Washington Post, October 16, 1982
Scott Lucas, The Washington Post, August 12, 1982
Lee Fleming, The New Art Examiner, November, 1980
Benjamin Forgey, The Washington Star, January 25, 1980
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Spring 2002-2003 Adjunct Professor, Corcoran School of Art, Washington, DC
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