Artist Nan Tull

Nan Tull - Artist Statement

For almost 20 years, encaustic has been my painting medium. Experimentation with prepared wax mediums and my own cold wax emulsions preceded my long-standing love affair with molten beeswax, where what goes on under its translucent surfaces interests me as much as what happens on top. My paintings are constructed in layers that can be filled in, scraped down, carved into or piled up, just like strata of the earth.

My new work began in early 2002 as a yearning for quiet and refuge, simplicity and order in a noisy, stressed and chaotic post-9/11 world. Although I began the pieces instinctively, I was both reacting against the complicated organic forms of the natural world that I had been using for years, and revisiting and re-implementing in new and different ways ideas I had explored in the early 1990’s. These paintings strive to transcend time by blending the past and present through my choices of materials, methods and imagery, both ancient and contemporary. They also attempt to radiate inner light and optimism along with energetic tension that is, nonetheless, grounded in harmonious order.

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Education

Fifth Year Certificate, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

Fourth Year Diploma, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

M.A. Stanford University, Stanford, CA

B.A. Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA

Exhibitions

Solo:

2007 St. Botolph Club, Boston, MA

2005 Miller Block Gallery, Boston, MA

2003 St. Botolph Club, Boston, MA

2000 Miller Block Gallery, Boston, MA

1998 Miller Block Gallery, Boston, MA

1996 Nesto Gallery, Milton Academy, Boston, MA

1996 Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

1995 Miller Block Gallery, Boston, MA

1995 A.I.R. Gallery, New York, New York

1995 The Vineyard Museum, Edgartown, MA

1994 Boston Public Library, Boston, MA

1991 Akin Gallery, Boston, MA

1989 Akin Gallery, Boston, MA

1987 Akin Gallery, Boston, MA

1984 Chapel Gallery, West Newton, MA

1984 Lenore Gray Gallery, Providence, RI

1983 Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA

1981 Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA

2007 Time and Space: 7 Fort Point MacDowell Fellows, FPAC Gallery, Boston, MA

2007 Members Exhibition, Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA

2007 Complex Women, Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA

2006 Sprinkler, Umbrella Arts. New York, NY

2006 Contemporary Antiquarians, Art at the Bridge, West Cornwall, CT

2006 Wish You Were Here, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY

2005 WAX: Encaustic Techniques in Contemporary Art, Brush Art Gallery, Lowell, MA

2004 Faces: New Vision, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA

2003 The Way of Wax, Winfinsky Gallery, Salem State College, Salem, MA

2003 Women and Wax, Cape Cod Community College, W. Barnstable, MA

2002 Art at Steepletop, Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY

2001 Highlights from the Fleet Bank Collection, Cape Cod Museum of Fine Arts, Dennis, MA

1999 What Jack Built, The New Art Center, Newton, MA

1998 Waxworks: The Melted Medium, Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA

1996 New England Today, Chinese Cultural Institute, Boston, MA

1995 Inaugural Exhibition, Penny Liebman Contemporary Art, New York, NY

1995 Drawings from the Collection of Agnes Gund, The Century Association, New York, NY

1995 DeCordova Collects, DeCordova Museum, Lincloln, MA

1994 Metaphor as Reality, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA

1993 Fertile Ground, Miller Block Gallery, Boston, MA

1992 Contemporary Drawings and Monoprints, U. of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA

1990 Sixth Triennial Exhibition, Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA

1990 Nature Transformed, Monserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA

1990 Salute to Our Award Winning Artists, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA

1990 D’Olympia, Twombly, and Tull, Gay Head Gallery, Gay Head, MA

1989 Drawing: Line or Image, Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI

1989 Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA

1989 Special Projects ’89, The ICA, PS1 Museum, Long Island City, NY

1989 The Collectors Show, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR

1989 Ninth Annual Drawing Show, Mills Gallery, Boston, MA

1989 Drawing Biennial, Muscarelle Museum, C. of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA

1987 Pindar Invitational, Pindar Gallelry, New York, NY

1987 Recent Work Group Exhibition, Leslie Cecil Gallery, New York, NY

1987 Fifth Triennial Exhibition, Fuller Art Museum, Brockton, MA

1987 Drawings from Boston, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA

1986 Massachusetts Fellowship Exhibition, Federal Reserve Bank Gallery, Boston, MA

1986 Extra Murals, DeCordova Museum at the Federal Reserve Bank Gallery, Boston, MA

1986 Seventh Annual Drawing Show, Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA

1985 Lifeline, Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC

1985 Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA

1982 Absolutely Abstract, Boston Visual Artists Union, Boston, MA

1981 Four New Collections, Mona Berman Gallery, New Haven, CT

1980 Traveling Scholars, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

1980 Prints and Monoprints, Allport Associates Gallery, Larkspur, CA

1993 NEFA, Regional National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, Visual Arts
1994 MacDowell Colony Fellow, Peterborough, NH
1989 Millay Colony Fellow, Austerlitz, NH
1987 Vermont Studio Colony Fellow, Johnson, VT
1986 Massachusetts Artists Fellowship, Drawing, The Artists Foundation, Boston, MA
1986 Massachusetts Artists Finalist, Painting, The Artists Foundation, Boston, MA
1980 Clarissa Bartlett Traveling Scholarship, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
1979 First Prize, Painting, Qualified Artists, Concord Art Association, Concord, MA

Collections

Agnes Gund Collection, New York, NY
Advocates Inc., Waltham, MA
Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA
Aids Action Committee Inc., Boston, MA
Arthur Anderson LLP, Boston, MA
Association for International Research, Cambridge, MA
Bank of America, Boston, MA
Barkan Management Company, Boston, MA
Beekman Place, New York, NY
Boston Foundation, Boston, MA
Boston Public Library, Boston, MA
Commonwealth Care Alliance, Inc., Boston, MA
Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA
Davis Museum and Cultural Center,
Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
De Cordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
Dunkin Doughnuts, Randolph, MA
Fidelity Investments, Boston, MA
Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA
Goodwin, Proctor and Hoar, Boston, MA
Gund Collection, Cambridge, MA
Holland and Knight, Boston, MA
Keyport Life Insurance, Boston, MA
Littler, Mendelson, Fastiff & Tichy, San Francisco, CA
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Palmer and Dodge, Boston, MA
Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA
Ritz Carlton Hotel at the Boston Common, Boston, MA
Sherrill House Inc., Boston, MA
Sonesta International Hotels Corporation, Boston, MA
Steelcase, Inc., Boston, MA
Victim Witness Assistance Program,
Suffolk County Courthouse, Boston, MA
Wells Fargo Bank, Los Angeles, CA

Representations

Soprafina Gallery, Boston, MA

Publications

2005 Day, Meredith Fife, Nan Tull at Miller Block Gallery, Art New England, October/ November
2005 Day, Meredith Fife, Nan Tull at Miller Block Gallery, Art New England, October/ November
2005 McQuaid, Cate, Peeling Back the Layers: Nan Tull, Boston Globe, June 24
2004 Strut, Rachel, Encaustic Artists Wax Enthusiastic, Artsmedia, March
2000 Faxon, Alicia, Women in Watercolor, Art New England, August/September
2000 Nan Tull:Alchemy:The Genera Series, Boston Globe, September 28
1998 Dancing on Paper, South End News, October 12
1998 Nan Tull at Miller Block Gallery, Boston Globe, September, 24
1998 Sherman, Mary, Art Exhibit Waxes Poetic, Boston Herald, August
1998 True Talent Never Rests, South End News, July 6
1996 Temin, Christine Drawing on Regional Talent, Boston Globe, January 3
1995 Stapen, Nancy Coaxing the Unearthly from Terra Firma, Boston Globe, 9/28/95
1994 McLean, Nico, Nan Tull: Retrospective of Drawings, Art New England, October
1994 Silver, Joanne, Drama Unfolds in Black and White, Boston Herald, June 19
1994 Tull’s Drawings at Boston Public Library, Boston Globe, May 18
1991 Ten Best Shows of 1991, Boston Globe, December 31
1991 Impressive Art on a Small Scale, Boston Globe, December 20
1991 Baldaia, Peter J. Exhibition catalog essay, Nan Tull: Paintings.Drawings, Akin Gallery
1991 Artists Who Rediscover the Natural World, Boston Globe, November 14
1991 Less is More in Tull Exhibit, Boston Herald, November 8
1990 Nan Tull:New Work, Art New England, February
1990 Drawing: Line or Image, New Art Examiner, January
1990 Kelly, Gerald R. Fine Show Enhances Reputation, Martha’s Vineyard Times, August 23
1990 Massachusetts Art’s, Boston Globe, May 15
1989 Nan Tull, Boston Globe, October 12
1987 Tull’s Work: Art Culled from Nature, Boston Herald, November 11
1987 Taylor, Robert, Brockton Triennial, Boston Globe, June, 15
1987 Boston Drawings a Rewarding Show, Boston Globe, April 12
1987 Tull’s Work is Ripe, Bursting with Life, Boston Globe, November 27
1986 Larger Than Life Works, Boston Globe, December 12
1986 High Quality Drawings at Boston Center for the Arts, Boston Globe, July 24
1986 Nan Wezniak and Her Art Have a Rebirth, Boston Globe, July 31
1986 Artist Foundation Fellows Show Their Talent, Boston Globe, July 10
1985 Strong Shows at Naga & Chapel Galleries, Boston Globe, December 5
1985 Stryon, Thomas, Catalog, Lifeline, Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC
1985 Halbreich, Kathy Catalog, Painting and Sculpture, Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA
1984 Exhibits: Emotional Amaryllis, Boston Globe, October 4
1984 Drawings That Touch the Spirit, Boston Globe, September 27
1984 Benway, Ann, Nan Wezniak: Recent Work, Art New England, July/August
1982 Colors That Sing and Forms That Whisper, Boston Globe, March 17
1982 Abstract Art Shows New Vigor, Boston Globe, December 30
1981 Nahum Katherine Nan Wezniak at Clark Gallery, Art New England, June



	Nan Tull - Artist Statement For almost 20 years, encaustic has been my painting medium. Experimentation with prepared wax mediums and my own cold wax emulsions preceded my long-standing love affair with molten beeswax, where what goes on under its translucent surfaces interests me as much as what happens on top. My paintings are constructed in layers that can be filled in, scraped down, carved into or piled up, just like strata of the earth. My new work began in early 2002 as a yearning for quiet and refuge, simplicity and order in a noisy, stressed and chaotic post-9/11 world. Although I began the pieces instinctively, I was both reacting against the complicated organic forms of the natural world that I had been using for years, and revisiting and re-implementing in new and different ways ideas I had explored in the early 1990’s. These paintings strive to transcend time by blending the past and present through my choices of materials, methods and imagery, both ancient and contemporary. They also attempt to radiate inner light and optimism along with energetic tension that is, nonetheless, grounded in harmonious order. Resume Education Fifth Year Certificate, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA Fourth Year Diploma, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA M.A. Stanford University, Stanford, CA B.A. Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA Exhibitions Solo: 2007 St. Botolph Club, Boston, MA 2005 Miller Block Gallery, Boston, MA 2003 St. Botolph Club, Boston, MA 2000 Miller Block Gallery, Boston, MA 1998 Miller Block Gallery, Boston, MA 1996 Nesto Gallery, Milton Academy, Boston, MA 1996 Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 1995 Miller Block Gallery, Boston, MA 1995 A.I.R. Gallery, New York, New York 1995 The Vineyard Museum, Edgartown, MA 1994 Boston Public Library, Boston, MA 1991 Akin Gallery, Boston, MA 1989 Akin Gallery, Boston, MA 1987 Akin Gallery, Boston, MA 1984 Chapel Gallery, West Newton, MA 1984 Lenore Gray Gallery, Providence, RI 1983 Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA 1981 Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA 1978 Flag Gallery, Jamaica Plain, MA Group: 2007 Time and Space: 7 Fort Point MacDowell Fellows, FPAC Gallery, Boston, MA 2007 Members Exhibition, Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA 2007 Complex Women, Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA 2006 Sprinkler, Umbrella Arts. New York, NY 2006 Contemporary Antiquarians, Art at the Bridge, West Cornwall, CT 2006 Wish You Were Here, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY 2005 WAX: Encaustic Techniques in Contemporary Art, Brush Art Gallery, Lowell, MA 2004 Faces: New Vision, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA 2003 The Way of Wax, Winfinsky Gallery, Salem State College, Salem, MA 2003 Women and Wax, Cape Cod Community College, W. Barnstable, MA 2002 Art at Steepletop, Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY 2001 Highlights from the Fleet Bank Collection, Cape Cod Museum of Fine Arts, Dennis, MA 1999 What Jack Built, The New Art Center, Newton, MA 1998 Waxworks: The Melted Medium, Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA 1996 New England Today, Chinese Cultural Institute, Boston, MA 1995 Inaugural Exhibition, Penny Liebman Contemporary Art, New York, NY 1995 Drawings from the Collection of Agnes Gund, The Century Association, New York, NY 1995 DeCordova Collects, DeCordova Museum, Lincloln, MA 1994 Metaphor as Reality, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA 1993 Fertile Ground, Miller Block Gallery, Boston, MA 1992 Contemporary Drawings and Monoprints, U. of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA 1990 Sixth Triennial Exhibition, Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA 1990 Nature Transformed, Monserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA 1990 Salute to Our Award Winning Artists, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA 1990 D’Olympia, Twombly, and Tull, Gay Head Gallery, Gay Head, MA 1989 Drawing: Line or Image, Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI 1989 Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA 1989 Special Projects ’89, The ICA, PS1 Museum, Long Island City, NY 1989 The Collectors Show, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR 1989 Ninth Annual Drawing Show, Mills Gallery, Boston, MA 1989 Drawing Biennial, Muscarelle Museum, C. of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA 1987 Pindar Invitational, Pindar Gallelry, New York, NY 1987 Recent Work Group Exhibition, Leslie Cecil Gallery, New York, NY 1987 Fifth Triennial Exhibition, Fuller Art Museum, Brockton, MA 1987 Drawings from Boston, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA 1986 Massachusetts Fellowship Exhibition, Federal Reserve Bank Gallery, Boston, MA 1986 Extra Murals, DeCordova Museum at the Federal Reserve Bank Gallery, Boston, MA 1986 Seventh Annual Drawing Show, Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA 1985 Lifeline, Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC 1985 Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA 1982 Absolutely Abstract, Boston Visual Artists Union, Boston, MA 1981 Four New Collections, Mona Berman Gallery, New Haven, CT 1980 Traveling Scholars, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA 1980 Prints and Monoprints, Allport Associates Gallery, Larkspur, CA Awards 1993 NEFA, Regional National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, Visual Arts 1994 MacDowell Colony Fellow, Peterborough, NH 1989 Millay Colony Fellow, Austerlitz, NH 1987 Vermont Studio Colony Fellow, Johnson, VT 1986 Massachusetts Artists Fellowship, Drawing, The Artists Foundation, Boston, MA 1986 Massachusetts Artists Finalist, Painting, The Artists Foundation, Boston, MA 1980 Clarissa Bartlett Traveling Scholarship, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA 1979 First Prize, Painting, Qualified Artists, Concord Art Association, Concord, MA Collections Agnes Gund Collection, New York, NY Advocates Inc., Waltham, MA Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA Aids Action Committee Inc., Boston, MA Arthur Anderson LLP, Boston, MA Association for International Research, Cambridge, MA Bank of America, Boston, MA Barkan Management Company, Boston, MA Beekman Place, New York, NY Boston Foundation, Boston, MA Boston Public Library, Boston, MA Commonwealth Care Alliance, Inc., Boston, MA Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA De Cordova Museum, Lincoln, MA Dunkin Doughnuts, Randolph, MA Fidelity Investments, Boston, MA Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA Goodwin, Proctor and Hoar, Boston, MA Gund Collection, Cambridge, MA Holland and Knight, Boston, MA Keyport Life Insurance, Boston, MA Littler, Mendelson, Fastiff & Tichy, San Francisco, CA Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA Palmer and Dodge, Boston, MA Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA Ritz Carlton Hotel at the Boston Common, Boston, MA Sherrill House Inc., Boston, MA Sonesta International Hotels Corporation, Boston, MA Steelcase, Inc., Boston, MA Victim Witness Assistance Program, Suffolk County Courthouse, Boston, MA Wells Fargo Bank, Los Angeles, CA Representations Soprafina Gallery, Boston, MA Publications 2005 Day, Meredith Fife, Nan Tull at Miller Block Gallery, Art New England, October/ November 2005 Day, Meredith Fife, Nan Tull at Miller Block Gallery, Art New England, October/ November 2005 McQuaid, Cate, Peeling Back the Layers: Nan Tull, Boston Globe, June 24 2004 Strut, Rachel, Encaustic Artists Wax Enthusiastic, Artsmedia, March 2000 Faxon, Alicia, Women in Watercolor, Art New England, August/September 2000 Nan Tull:Alchemy:The Genera Series, Boston Globe, September 28 1998 Dancing on Paper, South End News, October 12 1998 Nan Tull at Miller Block Gallery, Boston Globe, September, 24 1998 Sherman, Mary, Art Exhibit Waxes Poetic, Boston Herald, August 1998 True Talent Never Rests, South End News, July 6 1996 Temin, Christine Drawing on Regional Talent, Boston Globe, January 3 1995 Stapen, Nancy Coaxing the Unearthly from Terra Firma, Boston Globe, 9/28/95 1994 McLean, Nico, Nan Tull: Retrospective of Drawings, Art New England, October 1994 Silver, Joanne, Drama Unfolds in Black and White, Boston Herald, June 19 1994 Tull’s Drawings at Boston Public Library, Boston Globe, May 18 1991 Ten Best Shows of 1991, Boston Globe, December 31 1991 Impressive Art on a Small Scale, Boston Globe, December 20 1991 Baldaia, Peter J. Exhibition catalog essay, Nan Tull: Paintings.Drawings, Akin Gallery 1991 Artists Who Rediscover the Natural World, Boston Globe, November 14 1991 Less is More in Tull Exhibit, Boston Herald, November 8 1990 Nan Tull:New Work, Art New England, February 1990 Drawing: Line or Image, New Art Examiner, January 1990 Kelly, Gerald R. Fine Show Enhances Reputation, Martha’s Vineyard Times, August 23 1990 Massachusetts Art’s, Boston Globe, May 15 1989 Nan Tull, Boston Globe, October 12 1987 Tull’s Work: Art Culled from Nature, Boston Herald, November 11 1987 Taylor, Robert, Brockton Triennial, Boston Globe, June, 15 1987 Boston Drawings a Rewarding Show, Boston Globe, April 12 1987 Tull’s Work is Ripe, Bursting with Life, Boston Globe, November 27 1986 Larger Than Life Works, Boston Globe, December 12 1986 High Quality Drawings at Boston Center for the Arts, Boston Globe, July 24 1986 Nan Wezniak and Her Art Have a Rebirth, Boston Globe, July 31 1986 Artist Foundation Fellows Show Their Talent, Boston Globe, July 10 1985 Strong Shows at Naga & Chapel Galleries, Boston Globe, December 5 1985 Stryon, Thomas, Catalog, Lifeline, Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC 1985 Halbreich, Kathy Catalog, Painting and Sculpture, Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA 1984 Exhibits: Emotional Amaryllis, Boston Globe, October 4 1984 Drawings That Touch the Spirit, Boston Globe, September 27 1984 Benway, Ann, Nan Wezniak: Recent Work, Art New England, July/August 1982 Colors That Sing and Forms That Whisper, Boston Globe, March 17 1982 Abstract Art Shows New Vigor, Boston Globe, December 30 1981 Nahum Katherine Nan Wezniak at Clark Gallery, Art New England, June





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