Douglas Martenson

''I have been working from life directly and indirectly from images based on the studio, or the house that I rent with my wife and Daughter for several weeks each August in Blue Hill Maine. This gives me an opportunity to focus on Landscape elements such as light and how it falls, grand vistas, water, structures such as buildings and how they relate to their environment. I also create through the use of domestic spaces both in Philadelphia and in Maine and examination of the interior world consisting of objects and light that help the spaces take form to create a landscape of the interior. While the work has always been substantially representational, this focus has brought a quality of tone and brushwork to the fore. I hope through this examination I have touched on something which is universal.

Martenson, who since 1978 has made his home in Philadelphia , a Graduate of the Pennsylvania academy of the fine Arts, his studio is a three story row house located in the Dickenson square area of Philadelphia, the house he rents in Maine is an old farm house located on seventeen acres facing Cadillac Mountain. Martenson has been the recipient of many grants and awards including a Pennsylvania Council on the arts fellowship and several Individual creative opportunity stipends from the Pennsylvania council on the Arts, a Pew fellowship on the arts grant for study at the Vermont studio center in northern Vermont an a Cresson European Traveling Scholarship from the Pennsylvania Academy of the fine Arts. Martenson has exhibited widely and shown his works regularly in galleries in New York, Philadelphia and Boston"


AWARDS:
2002 Individual Creative Artist Special Opportunity Stipend
Pennsylvania Council on the Arts
2000 Individual Creative Artist Special Opportunity Stipend,
Pennsylvania Council on the Arts
1996 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Fellowship Winner

1996 Mid-Atlantic Foundation, Fellowship, Disciplinary Winner
1993 Pew Fellowship in the Arts, Disciplinary Winner
1988 Kleinbard Award, PAFA Fellowship
1987 Gibson Hazell Prize, Woodmere Art Museum Annual
1984 Perkins Center for the Arts – First Prize
1982 Philadelphia Mayor’s Award
1982 Quaker Storage Company Award, PAFA
Catherine Grant Memorial Prize, Special Notice, PAFA
1981 Cresson European Traveling Scholarship, PAFA

TEACHING REFERENCE:
2000 Preceptorial, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
1997 University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
to present
1992 Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
to present
1995 Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
International Program – The Towns of Province, France
1993 Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
International Program: La Napoule, France
Community College of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
1995 Beaver College, Glenside, PA

EDUCATION:
1978 to 82 Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
1992 to 93 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont

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