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Courtney Jordan is an artist and educator based in Amesbury, Massachusetts.  As a Visiting Lecturer in MassArt’s Studio Foundation Department, Jordan’s goal is to provide her first year students with a strong foundation in the fundamentals of art and design that they will continue building upon through their time at MassArt.

In her own art practice, Jordan’s paintings explore the mutability of the built world through her reimagining of familiar architectural forms and urban infrastructure.  She creates impossible structures that exist in precarious balance between their manmade origins and their independence as non-functioning, displaced structural objects.  Simultaneously familiar and alien, Jordan’s structures exist in a timeless landscape where growth and decay are all that remain.

Industry Experience

• 2021-2023, Chair, Amesbury Art@City Hall Committee, Amesbury Cultural Council
• 2010-present,Visiting Lecturer, Studio Foundation Dept, MassArt
• 2020-2022, Adjunct Faculty, Visual & Performing Arts Dept, Merrimack College
• 2014-2016, CE Faculty, Continuing Education Program, RISD
• 2009-2013, Adjunct Faculty, Northern Essex Community College
• 2007-2008, Adjunct Faculty Level II, Anne Arundel Community College
• 1999-2004, Staff Artist, Product Development Division, The Danbury Mint
• 1995-1996, Special Projects Coordinator, Matting & Framing Dept, The RISD Museum

Selected Exhibitions

• Distance: Works on Paper by Skowhegan Alumni, Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs, NY
• xsXL, FPAC Gallery, Boston, MA
• In the Raw: The Sketchbook Considered, Edwardsville Arts Center, IL
• Jordan, Lang, & Savage: Constructs & Structures, Spencer Gallery, Chelsea, MA
• RISD In Rome, Woods Gerry Gallery, RISD, Providence, RI
• Tracing Lines, Ohio State University Urban Arts Space, Columbus, OH
• Constraints & Constructs, Dana Art Gallery, Wellesley, MA
• Off the Wall, Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA
• Sprawl, FPAC Gallery, Boston, MA
• On/Off the Grid, Irvine Contemporary, Washington DC
• Aspect: Ratio, Irvine Contemporary, Washington DC
• Ethnography of No Place, Rosenberg Gallery, Goucher College, MD
• Courtney Jordan: Restructuring, Irvine Contemporary, Washington DC
• Courtney Jordan: New Work, Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA
• The NY Armory Show, Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, Chelsea, NY
• Courtney Jordan: Recent Work, Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, Chelsea, NY

Awards

• 2023 Cultural Sector Recovery Grant, Massachusetts Cultural Council
• 2012 Artist’s Resource Trust Grant, Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation
• 2008 Individual Artist Award, Maryland State Arts Council
• 2006 Provincetown Award (MICA Fellow), Fine Arts Work Center
• 2005 Skowhegan Scholarship, Maryland Institute College of Art
• 2004 Hoffberger Scholarship, Maryland Institute College of Art
• 2004 Artist Fellowship Grant, Connecticut Commission on the Arts

Residencies & Fellowships

• Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT (full fellowship award)
• Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA
• Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
• The Macdowell Colony, Peterborough, NH
• Oxbow, Saugatuck, MI

Bibliography

• “100 Boston Artists” by Chawky Frenn.  Atglen: Schiffer Publishing, 2013.
• “New American Paintings #69.”  The Open Studios Press, Boston, MA, 2007.
• “Winter’s Tale” by Deborah McLeod.  Baltimore City Paper, 02/07/07.
• “Dreamlike Visions at Patterson” by Jessica Novak.  The Baltimore Examiner, 01/20/07.
• “The Up & Comers: Courtney Jordan” by Heather Goss.  The DCist, 08/29/06, (dcist.com)
• “Work Reflects Artists’ Mistrust of Modern Life” by Glenn McNatt. The Baltimore Sun, 05/17/06.
• “New American Paintings #44.”  The Open Studios Press, Boston, MA, 2003.
• Review of “Inside / Out” by Helen Harrison.  New York Times, 10/27/02, Sec L1, p. 13.
• “New American Paintings #20.”  The Open Studios Press, Wellesley, MA, 1999.