"Originality in painting..."

 

Marjorie Dean Andruk's paintings have been top award winners in many national and international shows. With a number of "Judges Choice" and "Choice of Show" ribbons to her credit, her paintings have been featured in invitational exhibits and one person shows in galleries, art centers and colleges throughout the Eastern and Southern states. She has also exhibited her work in Mexico, Hong Kong and Venezuela.

 

 

Marjorie, born in Norfolk Virginia, is currently living in St. Petersburg, Florida. She received a B.A. from Maryland Institute and an M.F.A. from the University of South Carolina. She attended the Eastman School of Photography in Indiana: and pursued advanced studies at the Instituto Allende, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico: as well as working with outstanding teachers, including James Pinto, Ed Osman in Mexico and Derek Southall from the U.K. She has taught drawing and painting at the University of South Carolina: Aiken Regional campus of the U.S.C.: Gertrude Herbert Art Institute in Augusta Georgia: and conducted seminars in Georgia, Pennsylvania, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico and Maracaibo, Venezuela. In 1972 she helped organize the World Art Workshop, consisting of a selective group of professional painters. Currently she is Vice President of Florida Artist Groups (Flag) and teaches a class in experimental painting at the St. Petersburg Art Center.

 

"Originality in painting depends a great deal on originality of ones thoughts and visions. I feel that there must always be a continual search for original solutions... to convey the quality or the 'feel' of shapes, lines and colors is exciting. Colors compete - I feature some, subdue others - lines and shapes add to the excitement of color - all need direction - at times exasperating. The most rewarding times, however, are when shapes and color lead me. When the painting almost paints itself. That's the thrill and excitement - that's the love affair I have with painting."

Curriculum Vitae

Experience

University of South Carolina

Graduate Assistant - Drawing and Design: 1974 - 1976

 

University of South Carolina, Aiken Regional Campus

Teaching Associate - Drawing, Painting and Art History: 1975 - 1976

 

Gertrude Herbert Art Institute, Augusta, Georgia

Professor of Art - Painting: 1972 - 1976

 

Docent at Gertrude Herbert Museum, Augusta, Georgia

 

Conducted Art Seminars: Augusta, Georgia; Athens, Georgia; Atlanta, Georgia; San Miguel de Allende, Mexico; Maracaibo, Venezuela; Wilmington, Delaware; Media, Pennsylvania: 1968 - 1991

 

Docent at Museum of the University of Georgia

Taught adult classes in painting and drawing at the St. Petersburg Art Club, St. Petersburg, Florida. Organized art departments for three parochial schools in Pinellas County, Florida, Grades 1 through Junior and Senior High

 

Organized workshops for all Pinellas County Art Instructors (conducted by Art Supply Houses)

Organized photographic department for the U.S. Army, St. Louis, Missouri

Staff photographer, Baltimore Sun Newspaper, Baltimore, Maryland (First Woman News Photographer in

Maryland)

 

Education

 

University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina

Master of Fine Arts - Painting- 1976

 

Instituto Allende, San Miguel de Allende, Gto, Mexico

Advanced Studies - Painting, Drawing, Welded Sculpture

 

Belleaire Art Center, Clearwater, Florida

Portrait Painting and Anatomy

 

Eastman School of Photography, Winona Lake, Indiana

Photography

Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland

Bachelor of Arts

 

 

Specialization

 

Painting, Drawing and Design. Proficient in current art ideas

 

Exhibitions

Maryland Institute, Baltimore, Maryland

 

Morris Harvey College, Charleston, West Virginia

Juror: Richard Wilt - Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh, PA

 

Coyle & Richardson Gallery, Charleston, West Virginia

 

St. Petersburg Junior College, St. Petersburg, Florida

 

St. Petersburg Religious Art Festival, St. Petersburg, Florida

Pinellas County Fair, St. Petersburg, Florida

 

St. Petersburg Art Guild, Treasure Island, Florida

 

St. Petersburg Art Club, St. Petersburg, Florida

 

Suntan Art Center, St. Petersburg Beach, Florida

 

Longboat Key Center, Sarasota, Florida

 

Contemporary Southern Art Exhibition, Tucker, Georgia

High Museum Art Shop, Atlanta, Georgia

 

Ninth Savannah Arts Festival, Savannah, Georgia

Juror: Gabriel Laderman, Professor of Art - Queens College, NY

 

Eighth Annual Museum Gallery Exhibit, Macon, Georgia

 

WarnerRobins Art Festival (1970) Warner Robins, Georgia

 

Learning Foundations Gallery, Athens, Georgia

 

Town and Gown Gallery, Athens, Georgia

 

Arts and Science Museum, Macon, Georgia

 

The Augusta-Richmond County Museum, Augusta, Georgia

 

Albany Junior College, Albany, Georgia

 

West Georgia College, Carrollton, Georgia

Juror:Prof. Robert Jobson - University of Georgia

 

Quinlan Art Center, Gainesville, Georgia

Juror: Carl Holty - Brooklyn College, NY

 

64th Annual Jury Exhibition, Birmingham Art Museum

 

Instituto Allende, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico

Juror: James Pinto

 

La Galeria Gaudi, Maracaibo, Venezuela, 1973

 

The Augusta-Richmond County Museum, Augusta, Georgia, 1973

 

The Augusta-Richmond County Museum, Augusta, Gcorgia, 1974

 

Corcoran Museum, Washington, D.C. 1974

 

Faculty Show, Gertrude Herbert Art Institute, Augusta, Georgia, 1975

 

Spring Mills Show, 1975

 

Gallery IV, Irmo, South Carolina, 1975

 

Russell House Gallery, University of South Carolina, 1975

 

Huntington Gallery, University of South Carolina, 1976

 

Regional Art Exhibition, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, 1979

Jurors: Martha Erlebacher, Deborah Remington, Kenneth T. Hansen

 

Chester County Art Association Show, West Chester, Pennsylvania, 1979

 

Rehobeth Art League, Rehobeth, Delaware, 1979

 

Ware Gallery, Arden, Delaware, 1979

 

DuPont Hotel, Wilmington, Delaware, 1979, 1980 and 1983

 

Wilmington Library, Wilmington, Delaware, 1980 and 1984

 

Cassa Carmen Gallery, San Miguel de Allende, Gto, Mexico, 1980 and 1984

 

Ware Gallery, Arden, Delaware, 1981

 

Rodney Square Gallery, Wilmington, Delaware, 1981

 

Evening of Art - Soda House, Wilmington, Delaware, 1982 and 1983

 

Longwood Gardens Gallery, 1983

 

The Highland Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia, 1983

 

Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, Delaware, 1983

Juror: Peter Traugott, Chairman - Fine Arts Dept, Kutztown State College, PA

 

Friends' School Gallery, Wilmington, Delaware, 1984

 

Delaware Division of Libraries, Dover, Delaware, 1986

Celebration of the Family-Centennial Art Exhibit, Wilmington, Delaware, 1985 (Family Service, Delaware)

 

Juried Suntan Art Center, St. Petersburg Beach, Florida 1987

Juror: David Anderson

 

Juried Suntan Art Center, St. Petersburg Beach, Florida 1989

Juror:Neil Adamson

Upham Gallery, St. Petersburg Beach, Florida, 1989

 

40th Annual Exhibition, Florida Artists Group, Inc., Sarasota, Florida 1989

Juror: Dorothy Gillespie

 

Loveland Museum and Gallery, Loveland, Colorado, 1990

 

Members' Experimental Works, Studio 1212, Clearwater, Florida, Oct. 1990

 

Figures, Sarasota Art Association, Inc., Sarasota, Florida, Nov. 1990

 

Annual Juried Show, Suntan Art Center, St. Petersburg Beach, Florida 1991

Juror: Prof. James Crane

 

Florida All Media Themed Competition, Arts on the Park, Lakeland, Florida, 1991

Juror: Prof. Morris Mitchell - Ringling School of Art, Sarasota, Florida

 

42nd Annual Exhibition, Florida Artists Group, Lakeland, Florida, 1991

Juror: Robert Frankel, Director - Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia

 

World Art Workshop Exhibition, Instituto Nacional De Bellas Artes, San Miguel de Allende, Gto, Mexico, 1991

 

Members' Show, The Lakeland Center for Creative Arts, Arts on the Park, Lakeland, Florida 1991

Juror: Joseph Geiger

 

3rd Annual Suntan Invitational Show, Suntan Art Center, St. Petersburg Beach, Florida, 1991

Juror: Barbara Anderson Hill

 

Summer Show, Studio 1212, Clearwater, Florida, 1991

 

Mixed Media Florida Competition, Arts on the Park, Lakeland, Florida, 1991

Juror: Robert Hodgell

 

"Words as Images" Exhibit, Suntan Art Center, St. Petersburg Beach, Florida 1991

 

Florida Artists Group, Areas IV and V Exhibit at Arts on the Park, Inc., Lakeland, Florida, Jan. 1992

 

Artists Showcase, Arts on the Park, Inc., Lakeland, Florida, Feb. 1992

New Discoveries Exhibit, Center Street Gallery, Winter Park, Florida (4 painters) 1992

 

Annual Juried Show, Suntan Art Center, St. Petersburg Beach, Florida 1992

Juror: Dudley Uphoff, Director - Arts on the Park, Lakeland, Florida

 

Student and Instructor's Show, Suntan Art Gallery, St. Petersburg Beach, Florida, 1992

 

43rd Annual Exhibition, Florida Artists Group, Longboat Key Art Center, Longboat Key, Florida

Elizabeth Morse Genius Memorial Award

Juror: Bruce H. Evans, Director - Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC, 1992

Florida Artists

 

Charlotte County Art Guild Visual Arts Center, Florida Artist Group, Members Show, Punta Gorda, Florida,

Feb and Mar. 1993

 

Evelyn Cobb Galleries, Florida Artist Group Area IV, St. Petersburg, Florida, Feb. and Mar. 1993

 

Evelyn Cobb Galleries, Figures, Forms and Foliage, St. Petersburg, Florida, Jan. 1993

 

The Arts Center, Spring I, St. Petersburg, April 1993

 

Hodgell Gallery, Summer Show, Sarasota, Florida, Aug. and Sept. 1993

 

Evelyn Cobb Gallery, "I Never Promised You A Rose Garden"

exhibit and painting demonstration, St. Petersburg, Florida, Sept. 1994

 

The Arts Center, Florida Artist Group, Area IV and V, St. Petersburg, Florida, Oct. 1994

 

Founders Gallery, Mahaffey Theatre, Bayfront Center, St. Petersburg, Florida, 1994 - 1995

 

The Arts Center, Members Show, St. Petersburg, Florida, Mar. 1995

 

Evelyn Cobb Gallery, Four Person Show, St. Petersburg, Florida, 1995

 

Florida Artist Group, Members Juried Show and Annual Meeting, Sarasota Art Center, Sarasota, FL, June 1995; Juror: Arthur Roger, New Orleans

 

Arts on the Park, Artists Showcase, Lakeland, Florida, 1995; Award of Distinction;

Juror: Gregory A. Jones

 

Florida Artists Group - IV and V Shows; Lakeland Arts on the Park, Lakeland, Florida, Jan. 1996

 

Ridge Art Association, Winter Haven, Florida, Jan. 1996

Juror: Costello

 

Ridge Art Association - Flora and Fanna, Feb. 1996

Juror: Frank Holt, public art coordinator for City of Orlando

 

Annual Suntan Art Center; Juror: Muller from Sarasota, March 1996

 

Northwood University Palm Beach, West Palm Beach, Florida, March 1996

 

Arts on the Park, Lakeland, Florida, Judged Best of Show, March 1996

Juror: Joe Geiger

 

Lee County Alliance of the Arts, March 1996; Juror: George Pappas

Florida Artist Group, Eckerd College; As director, I organized the show, April 1996

Winter Haven 45th Celebration, May 1996; judged Best of Show; Equal Merit Award Jean Wagner Troemel

Florida Artist Group Annual Symposium, Winter Haven Ridge Art Gallery, May 1996

Juror: Ned Rifkin, High Museum of Art

 

Lakeland Arts on the Park; Juror: Helen Wisniewski

Arts on the Park, November 1996, Juror: Daniel E. Stetson, Executive Director - Polk Musem of Art

 

Affiliations

Member: Delaware State Arts Council

Panelist for D.SA.C. Grant Review Panels for 1984-1985 Awards for Delaware

Member: Studio 1212, Clearwater, Florida

Member: Florida Artist Group, Inc., Vice President

Member: The Center for the Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida

Member: Florida Water Color Society

Charter Member: World Art Workshop, Ocean Hills, California

Member: National Association Women Artists

Knickerbocker Artists, New York

"Whos Who of American Women"

Arts in Education Grant, Florida Arts Council, 1995-1997

 

Galleries

WCG of Painting Gallery, Wilmington, Delaware

Joan Hodgell Gallery, Sarasota, Florida

Studio 1212, Clearwater, Florida

 

Collections

Venice Golf & Country Club, Venice, Florida

Augusta-Richmond County Museum, Augusta, Georgia

Doctor's Hospital, Augusta, Georgia

Gertrude Herbert Art Institute, Augusta, Georgia

Beneficial Savings Bank, Wilmington, Delaware

Cathedral Church of St. John, Wilmington, Delaware

U.S. Senator William A. Roth, Wilmington, Delaware

Centro Cultural 'el Nigromante,' San Miguel de Allende, Gto, Mexico

Numerous private collections in the United States, Mexico, Venezuela, London and Hong Kong