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By painting landscapes directly from nature and still lifes from studio arrangements, I learned the nuances of color and light on every imaginable subject from the rolling hills of Maryland to the delicate petals on a peony. From 1983-1996 I taught drawing and painting in my studio and from 1998 through the present day I share my landscape painting skills in outdoor plein air workshops in Maryland, Virginia, and Pennsylvania. I credit my artistic development to many sources, including my B.F.A. from Syracuse University, the Schuler School of Fine Arts in Baltimore, my experience as a graphic artist and illustrator, various workshop instructors, and my students. I am a member of the Salmagundi Club, Oil Painters of America, International Guild of Realism (artist member), the Baltimore Watercolor Society (artist member), the Mid-Atlantic Plein Air Painters Association (artist member), and am president of the Washington Society of Landscape Painters for the second time. My paintings may be seen at American Painting Fine Art in Washington, DC and at the Gallery of CNY (Central New York) in Cazenovia, NY. |
 Barbara Nuss Painting on Duke of Gloucester Street during "Paint Annapolis 2005." |
SELECTED AWARDS AND ACHIEVEMENTS:Paint the Parks, Top 100 (3 paintings): 2010, National Arts for the Parks, Jackson Hole, Wyoming: Top 100: 1989, 1991, 1992, 2001, 2006; Top 200: 1990, 1993, 1996, 2006; Oil Painters of America National Exhibition: 2000 (Gallery Americana, Carmel CA), 2001 (Zantman Art Galleries, Palm Desert, CA); Regional Exhibition: 2002 (Brazier Gallery, Richmond, VA), 2004 (Barnsite Art Studio & Gallery, Kewaunee, Wisconsin), 2008 (Richland Fine Art, Nashville TE) . National League of American Pen Women MD State Conference: Best of Show Award, 1999, 2003; Washington Society of Landscape Painters: Best of Show Award, 1998, 2005; Mid-Atlantic Regional Watercolor Exhibitions: 1989, 1990, 1996 (Holbein Award), 2005., Mid-Atlantic Plein Air Painters (MAPAPA) "Paint Annapolis 2004," Award of Excellence; "Paint Annapolis 2005;" "Paint Annapolis 2006," Award of Merit (Maryland Hall, Annapolis, MD); State Department Arts in Embassies Program: 1994-1996 (Vatican, Rome), 2003-2005 (Ankarra, Turkey), 2007-2009 (Bratislava, Slovakia); Artist's Magazine Still Life Competition Finalist: 1996; Landscape Competition Finalist: 2003, listed in Who's Who of America, World, and American Women.SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
American Painting
Fine Art, Washington,
DC;
Andrei
Kushnir/Michele Taylor Gallery, New York, NY; Troika Gallery,
Easton, MD; Strathmore
Hall Art Center,
North Bethesda, MD; Washington
County Arts Council Gallery, Hagerstown,
MD; Grand Style Gallery,
Baltimore, MD; Art League
Gallery (Torpedo
Factory), Alexandria, VA; Penn
State University, State College, PA;
National Institutes
of Health, Bethesda, MD; Maryland National Capital
Park and Planning Commission, Silver Spring, MD; and Bendann Galleries,
Towson, MD.
SELECTED JURIED GROUP SHOWS:
Salmagundi Club, NYC; Mill Atelier Gallery, Santa Fe, NM; Barnsite Art Gallery, Kewaunee, WI; Brazier Gallery of Fine Art, Richmond VA; Hilligos Gallery, Chicago, IL; University of Maryland University College, Adelphi, MD; The Athenaeum, Alexandria, VA; Sandy Spring Museum, Sandy Spring, MD; Illuminaria Fine Art; Chatham, MA; Richland Fine Art, Nashville, TE; American Painting Fine Art, NYC and Washington, DC; Gallery Americana, Carmel, CA; Zantman Art Galleries, Palm Desert, CA; Ratner Museum, Bethesda, MD; Principle Gallery, Alexandria, VA; Troika Gallery, Easton, MD; Grand Style Gallery, Baltimore, MD; Bendann Art Galleries, Towson, MD; Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, Hagerstown, MD; Art Barn Gallery, Washington DC; Exhibit of Maryland Lighthouses: State House, Annapolis and World Trade Center, Baltimore, MD; Atrium Gallery Georgetown University, Washington, DC; Art Showcase of 100 Maryland Artists, Baltimore, MD; Strathmore Hall Art Center, Bethesda, MD; Maryland Hall, Annapolis, MD; National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD; Town Center Gallery, Rockville, MD; National Park Service Headquarters, Washington, DC. PUBLICATIONS: Author of 14 Formulas for Painting Fabulous Landscapes published by North Light Books, 2004; Contributor to Painting the Elements, Weather Effects in Oil, Acrylic and Watercolor, published by North Light Books, 2006; two landscape paintings included in Art from the Parks, a publication by North Light Books; a landscape painting included in How did you Paint That? 100 Ways to Paint Landscapes, a book published in June 2004 by International Artist Publishing; "Paint Annapolis 2004" painting on cover of Exclusively Greater Annapolis 2006," a book benefiting Historic Annapolis Foundation published in September 2006 by Jordan Publishing Co.; and a landscape painting included in Rock Creek Park by Gail Spilsbury, 2003. EDUCATION: BFA
Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY; Schuler School of Fine Arts,
Baltimore MD; Guy Fairlamb, Washington, DC; landscape workshops with
John Philip Osborne and Ross Merrill.
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