"Written in Stone"
"12 x 18"
gouache over embossed paper board, 2000
collection of Leslie Goransson & Kennedy Smith
Jordan Tierney was born in New York in 1963. She graduated in 1985 from Maryland Institute College of Art with a BFA in Visual Communication. She lives and works in Baltimore, Maryland.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2007 - Resurgam Gallery, Baltimore, MD- "Bricolage"
2006 - Resurgam Gallery, Baltimore, MD- "Fluke Placards"
2005 - Resurgam Gallery, Baltimore, MD- "Intercurrences"
2004 -Greenbelt Art Center,
Resurgam Gallery, Baltimore, MD- "Tableaux"
2003 - Resurgam Gallery, Baltimore, MD- "Stratiforms"
2002 - Resurgam Gallery, Baltimore, MD- "Fragmentary"
2001 - Embassy of Austria, Washington, DC- "Presence of Absence"
Resurgam Gallery, Baltimore, MD
2000 - The Passage Gallery, Vienna Austria
Resurgam Gallery, Baltimore, MD - "Cosmic Dust Constructions"
1999 - The Ralls Collection, Washington, DC - "Ultimate Transmigration Apparatus"
1998 - Zaruba Gallery, Rockville, MD
Touchstone Gallery, Washington, DC - "Shadow Maps"
1996 - Touchstone Gallery, Washington, DC - "Voluptuous Carcass"
Resurgam Gallery, Baltimore, MD - "Schemata"
1995 - Dupont Circle, Washington, DC - "The Icarus Cycle"
Resurgam Gallery, Baltimore, MD - "Mind Wanders"
1994 - The Cumberland Theatre, Cumberland, MD - "The Icarus Cycle"
Resurgam Gallery, Baltimore, MD
1993 - Touchstone Gallery, Washington, DC - "Passages"
1992 - Resurgam Gallery, Baltimore, MD - "Kuai"
1991 - Touchstone Gallery, Washington, DC
Resurgam Gallery, Baltimore, MD - "Findings"
1989 - American Assoc. for the Advancement of Science, Washington, DC - "Extrapolations"
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2006 - National Museum of Women in the Arts, DC - "The Book as Art " twenty years of artists' books
2004 - Museum
of Women in the Arts, DC - "Book as Art XV" - Krystyna Wasserman, curator
2003 - Courthouse
Galleries, Portsmouth, VA - "Beyond Words"
- Deborah Mcleod, curator
Museum of Women in the
Arts, DC - "Insomnia" - Krystyna Wasserman, curator
McLean Project
for the Arts, VA - "Plastic Memory" - Deborah McLeod,
curator
2002 - Signal 66, Washington, DC - "Savage/Love"
2000 - Bush Barn Art Center, Salem, OR - "Mortal & Immortal:
Art on a Higher Plane"
Govinda Gallery, Washington, DC - "Eternity" - J.W. Mahoney, Curator
57N Fine Art, Washington DC - "Birth"
1999 - Studio 105 Gallery, Shepherdstown, VW - "Figures"
Arts 901, Washington, DC - "An Individual Approach" - Annie Gawlak, Curator
1998 - Baumgartner Gallery, Washington, DC - "Jolt" - J.W. Mahoney, Curator
Harmony Hall Regional Center, MD - "Drawing and Redefining Drawing"
Montgomery College, Rockville, MD - "Pure, Passionate, and Private: The Human Form"
1997 - University of Maryland, "Tripping the Transmundane:
Mysticism and Contemporary Art"-
Nicole DeWald, Curator
1996 - Boyden Gallery, St. Mary's City MD - "Context"
1995 - The Washington Project for the Arts, DC - Visual Arts
Grant Recipient Show
The Baltimore Life Gallery, Towson, MD - "Above and Below"
1994 - Artscape, Baltimore, MD - "Beauty"
1993 - Artscape, Baltimore, MD - "Psychorealism"
The Gallery, Leesburg, VA - "Nine Maryland Artists"
Pleiades Gallery, New York, NY - Washington Exchange
1992 - Isospin Two South, Baltimore, MD - "Locals Only"
- Paul Moscatt (MICA), juror
Lois Hodes Gallery, Baltimore, MD - A Private Screening (folding screens)
Gallery 10, Washington, DC - "Refiguring"
1991 - Arlington Art Center, Arlington, VA - "Painting",
Susan Torruella Leval - juror
N. VA Comm. College - Fairfax County Council of the Arts- Elizabeth Turner, juror
Athenaeum, Alexandria, VA - Annual - Julia Boyd (VA Museum of Fine Arts), juror
Arts 901 Gallery, DC - "Out of Bounds: Images of Exploration and Discovery"
1990 - Brody's Gallery, Washington, DC - "Bones"
1989 - Strathmore Hall Arts Center, MD - "Artery 89"
5th Annual - Julia Boyd, juror
American Assoc. for the Advancement of Science, Washington DC - "Patterns in Nature"
MFA Gallery, Annapolis, MD - "Works on Paper" - Wilford Scott (National Gallery) juror
EDUCATION
BFA - Visual Communication, Maryland Institute College of Art
- 1985
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2004 - WPA/Corcoran ProjectOne.2 printmaking residency at Hand Print Workshop International
2000 - Artist in Residence, Austrian Federal Chancellery, Vienna,
October through December
1996 - District of Columbia Commission on the Arts and Humanities
- for a City Arts Project
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Deborah McLeod- Catalog essay- March 2004
Deborah McLeod- essay for "Plastic Memory" exhibition
2004
F. Lennox Campello- Culture Flux, "Artomatic"
- November 2002
O'Sullivan, Michael- The Washington Post, "Art-o-matic for
the People" - November 8, 2002
Adams, Lorraine- Catalog essay for
exhibition at Embassy of Austria 2001
Lewis, Nicole- The Washington Post, "Arts" - "Eternity
at Govinda Gallery", January 27, 2000
Lewis, Nicole- The Washington Post, "Art Bits", January
13, 2000
Lewis, Nicole- The Washington Post, "Arts Beat" - "This
Old Warehouse", October 21, 1999
Protzman, Ferdinand- The Washington Post, "Galleries"
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"Time, Life, and Found Objects",
April 22, 1999
Protzman, Ferdinand- The Washington Post, "Galleries"
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"Jolt at Baumgartner", January 7, 1999
Protzman, Ferdinand- The Washington Post, "Galleries"
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"Bedspring Sculpture Creates Tension"
May 21, 1998
Protzman, Ferdinand- The Washington Post, "Galleries"
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"No Dada's Girl ", October
5,1996
Schulkind, Rima- Koan, " The Ultimate Alternative Space",
Washington DC, October 1995
Protzman, Ferdinand- The Washington Post, "Galleries"
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"Paint the Town Read", July 29, 1995
The Washington Blade- "The Point", May 26, 1995
Vento, Mary, Eyewash- "Passages", Washington, DC, May
1993
Guliano, Mike- Laurel Leader, "Anatomy of Tierney's Surreal
Paintings", Laurel, MD, 5/13/93
North, Bonnie- Art in Progress, "Dossier", Baltimore,
MD, 12/92
Furr, Susan- Eyewash, "Maureen Jordan Tierney", Washington
DC, September 1991
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC
The Dicke Collection, Ohio
Caterpillar Inc.
Hoover Partners, Washington DC
Artothek, Vienna Austria