C l a u d i a F u r l o w, P a i n t e r
About
Education
MFA, Georgia Southern University, Betty Foy Sanders Dept. of Art, Statesboro, Georgia
Thesis Exhibition: Intimate Summation - Interpreted through Platonic binary theory and application of Renaissance technique, the work invites observation of life's milestones through a transformative lens to see beyond the grotesque to find life and beauty in the resulting aesthetic images.
Thesis: The Anatomy of Disgust and the Sublime in Metamodern Painting. The artist's works are compared to past and contemporary treatments of vanitas from first-century Veracruz culture to the works of Rembrandt, Jan Fyt, Théodore Géricault, Francis Bacon, Joel-Peter Witkin, Walton Ford, Nick and Rob Carter, Victoria Reynolds, and Jenny Saville.
Awards
2017 Artist in Residence, Blue Ridge Community College, Weyers Cave, VA
2014 Award of Excellence, Virginia Highlands Festival Juried Fine Arts Show, Abingdon, VA
Roxie Remley Scholarship, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA
2009 Virginia Highlands Festival [Juried] Art Gallery, Award of Merit for “Untitled Blue”
2004 Kingsport Fun Fest Art Show, Award of Merit for “Monte Carlo Monograph”
2003 Virginia Highlands 55th Annual Photography Exhibition (juried), Award of Distinction,
amateur monochrome division for “Disquieted Perspective for a New Age”
Solo & Two-Person Exhibitions
2019 Temporal Passage, OASIS Guest Gallery (solo show), Harrisonburg, VA
2016 Life: Rooted, City of Savannah Cultural Arts Gallery (S.P.A.C.E.), Savannah, GA
Wood & Fauna Voluptuary, Historic Congressional Cemetery, Washington, DC
2015 Organic Voluptuary, Unique Grounds, Swainsboro, GA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 Multiverse of Media, Arts Council of the Valley, Harrisonburg, VA
Creativity Beyond the Job, Blue Ridge Community College Fine Arts Gallery, Weyers Cave, VA
2023 Multifarious to the Fifth, Margaret Gehman Gallery, Eastern Mennonite University, Harrisonburg, VA
2021 Teeny Tiny Trifecta (juried), Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
2020 5th Annual Artist Member Exhibition, Smith House Galleries, Harrisonburg, VA
Oasis Alumni Show Invitational, OASIS Guest Gallery, Harrisonburg, VA
2019 Arts Council of the Valley, Smith House Galleries, Harrisonburg, VA
2018 Winter Contemporary Juried Exhibit: Women's Work, Shenandoah Valley Art Center, Waynesboro, VA
Multifarious ii, Blue Ridge Community College, Weyers Cave, VA
Outside the Box, Blue Ridge Community College, Weyers Cave, VA
2017 Multifarious, Bridgewater University, Court Square Theater, Harrisonburg, VA
It's About Time, OASIS Group Show, Harrisonburg, VA
6x6x30, sponsored by Spitzer Art Center, Park Gables Gallery, Harrisonburg, VA
2016 National Acrylic & Oil Painters' Society (NOAPS) 2016 Spring Online Exhibition - "Sousa Monograph"
2015 Your-Art-Here, Non-Fiction Gallery online, Savannah, GA
TML ARTS, Off the Beaten Track Warehouse, Washington, D.C.
Intimate Summation, Master of Fine Arts Exhibition, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA
Losing Love (juried), CORE New Art Space, Denver, CO
2014 Faculty Art Show, Averitt Center for the Arts, Statesboro, Georgia, September
Ovation, Dick Blick Gallery, Savannah, Georgia, September
Graduate Fusion, Legends Gallery, Averitt Center for the Arts, Statesboro, GA
Virginia Highlands Festival Juried Fine Arts Show, Abingdon, VA
Full Tilt, Center for Art and Theatre Gallery, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA
College of Graduate Studies Gallery, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA
2013 Library Gallery, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, United Kingdom
Mezzanine Gallery, Workstation, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, United Kingdom
Under/Current: New Works from GSU, Herty Institute, Savannah, GA
2012 Alt + Shift, Center for Art and Theatre Gallery, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA
Fresh Ink, Provost’s Gallery, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA
Telfair Museum Teachers Community Exhibit, Savannah, GA
2011 Allied Arts Teaching Artists Show, Bellingham, Washington, WA
Allied Arts Members Show, Bellingham, Washington, WA
2010 Hard Times Then & Now, Studio UFO, Bellingham, WA
Salmon at the Bay 2010 Art Charity Auction, Boundary Bay Brewery, Bellingham, WA
Lynden Public Library Friends’ Meet the Artists Exhibition, Lynden, WA
Allied Arts Ladies’ Night Out, Bellingham, WA
2009 Virginia Highlands Festival Juried Arts Show, Abingdon, VA
2008 Virginia Intermont College, Bristol, VA
2007 William King Regional Arts Center Staff Show, Abingdon, VA
2006 Virginia Highlands Festival Juried Arts Show, Abingdon, VA
The Forty-first Annual Appalachian Juried Art Show, Kingsport, TN
2005 Twentieth Birthday Celebration Exhibition of The Starving Artist Café, Abingdon, VA
Senior Exhibition, Decay and Fragmentation, Virginia Intermont College, Bristol, VA
Student Exhibition, Virginia Intermont College, Bristol, VA
The Fortieth Annual Juried Appalachian Art Show, Kingsport, TN
2004 The Thirty-ninth Annual Juried Appalachian Art Show, Kingsport, TN
Kingsport Fun Fest Art Show, Kingsport, TN
2003 Student Exhibition, Virginia Intermont College, Bristol, VA
Virginia Highlands 55th Annual Juried Photo Exhibition, Abingdon, VA
Publications
2016 Kayla Goggin, "Making Roadkill Beautiful," Connect Savannah, August 3-9.
2015 Rashida Otunba, The George-Anne, Georgia Southern University (Statesboro, GA), Vol. 89, Issue 67.
2014 Averitt Center for the Arts, cover of course bulletin, Spring 2015.
2013 Miscellany: Georgia Southern’s Art Magazine, Georgia Southern University (Statesboro, GA), LVI, 2.
1992 Let’s Hear It for Herbs, by Dot R. and Terry R. Griffin (Emory, Virginia: Granny Lavender Press, 1992),
botanical illustrations (as Claudia Puglisi).