About
Marcia Wood-Mertinooke is an artist living and working in Bedford, NH. She received her BA in Studio Art from the University of NH and was a student at the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, NY. She was a founding member of the Monastery Artist Collective in Manchester, NH. Currently she is a member of the New Hampshire Women's Caucus for Art and Watch This Space, NH.
Current works focus on questions of existence. What we view as irrelevant or as necessary shapes how we interact with our reality. How much of this is under our control; in what way are we guided by fate and what space is there for free will?
Figures are used in an iconographic manner, a vessel to the message that what is familiar is also unknown. Graphic two dimensional backgrounds are their own symbolic, pictographic type language and are used to further convey the meaning of the overall image. Combining senses of realism with emotional expressionism, each work is version of reality interpreted and invented.
Education:
Bachelor of Arts from University ofNH, Durham, NH, May 2002
Summer Intensive at Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, NY, June-August 2001
Shows:
“Inaugural Show”- March 2003,United Artist Network, Seattle, WA
“Forgotten Works” - June 2003, United Artist Network, Seattle, WA
“Deconstructed” - July 2003, United Artist Network, Seattle, WA
"Pressure"- July 2003, Bluebottle Art gallery, Seattle, WA
“Fusion”- August 2003, United Artist Network, Seattle, WA
"Lollipops & Hand Grenades"- 2006, Monastery Artists Collective, Manchester, NH
"Masks" - 2007, Monastery Artists Collective, Manchester, NH
"Cram It" - 2008, ellO Gallery, Portsmouth, NH
"Muse" - 2008, Terra Perma Gallery, Laconia, NH
"Cultivate" - March/April 2013, Apotheca Tea Chest, Goffstown, NH
"Joy Of Life" - May 2013, Galatea Fine Arts, Boston, MA
"Spice Of Life" - July/August 2013, Bedford Public Library, Bedford, NH
"Threshold" - July/August 2013, Kimball Jenkins, Concord, NH
"6x6 Show" - November/December 2013, Studio 550, Manchester, NH
"Spirit of Spring" - March/April 2014, Epsom Public Library, Epsom, NH
"Summer Bounty" July/August 2014, Bedford Public Library, Bedford, NH
"6x6 Show" - November/December 2014, Robert Lincoln Levy Gallery, Portsmouth, NH
"Retrospective" - January/February 2015, Gallery 280, Portsmouth, NH
“Assorted Works” – June/August 2015, Apotheca, Goffstown, NH
“WCA/NH 20th Anniversary Show” – October/December 2015, Kimball Jenkins, Concord NH
"6x6 Show" - November/December 2015, Apotheca, Goffstown, NH
"Cozy" - December 2015, Twiggs Gallery, Boscawen, NH
“6x6 Show” – December 2016, Studio 550, Manchester NH
“Visceral Explorations” – January/March 2017, Kimball Jenkins, Concord, NH
“At Large” – January/February 2017, Great Bay Community College, Portsmouth, NH
"Only Human" - June/July 2018 Twiggs Gallery, Boscawen, NH
"Thorne Sagendorph Juried Regional Biennial" - June/September 2019, Thorne Sagendorph Art Gallery, Keene, NH
“Art Connect at Catamount Arts Juried Show” - November 2019 - January 2020, Catamount Arts, St Johnsbury, VT
“Collectively Shifting” - January/February 2020, Bridgeport Art Center, Chicago, IL
“Icons” - March 2020 - May 2020, WREN Gallery, Bethlehem, NH
“Think Big Prints” - September 2020 - October 2020, Toe River Arts, Spruce Pine, NC
“Fur and Feathers” - June/July 2021, Twiggs Gallery, Boscawen, NH
“Salon 2021” - November 2021- January 2022, Kimball Jenkins, Concord, NH
“Still: The Art Of Still Life” - September-October 2022, Twiggs Gallery, Boscawen, NH
“23rd Annual Joan L Dunfey Open Juried Exhibition/ The Magnificence of the Mundane” - November 2022, Robert Lincoln Levy Gallery, Portsmouth, NH
“Foot by Foot” - November - December 2022, Mosaic Art Collective, Manchester, NH
“Conversations of Home And Heart” January 2023, Mosaic Art Collective, Manchester, NH
“Glad You Asked” - March 2023, See Saw Art, Manchester, NH
“Level Up” - March 2023, Mosaic Art Collective, Manchester, NH
“Trash To Treasure” - April 2023, Mosaic Art Collective and NHAA, Manchester, NH
“The Motherload” - May 2023, Mosaic Art Collective and WCANH, Manchester, NH
“Hot Off The Press” - July 2023, Robert Lincoln Levy Gallery and MGNE, Portsmouth, NH
“Seen And Heard” - September 2023, The Art Center and WCANH, Dover, NH
“Creative Guts” - September/October 2023, The Derryfield School Lyceum Gallery, Manchester, NH
“Nevermore” - October 2023, Mosaic Art Collective, Manchester, NH