ARTIST STATEMENT
“Through my paintings I attempt to record a feeling or mood that cannot be described verbally. I make use of metaphor and symbolism to convey my message and like the romantics; I strive to merge the self and nature in landscape paintings. Much of my work involves the relationship of man and the natural organic world he lives in or isolates himself from. It is my hope that the viewer will find solace and mystery in these light filled works of contemplation and meditation.” M. Workman 2006
RESUME
BORN
1960 Lancaster, Pennsylvania
EDUCATION
1978-79 Rochester Institute of Technology, New York
1981 Artists for Environmental Studies, Union of Independent Colleges, New Jersey
1982 Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, BFA
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2006 The Water’s Edge, Bernarducci.Meisel.Gallery, New York
2005 Tony Brunelli Fine Art, Binghamton, NY
2004 The Company of Trees, Bernarducci.Meisel.Gallery, New York
2002 Fields of Vision, Bernarducci.Meisel.Gallery, New York, traveling to:
Suzanne H. Arnold Art Gallery, Lebanon Valley College, Annville, Pennsylvania
2000 Growth, Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, PA
Lancaster Galleries, Lancaster, PA
1993-99 Fischbach Gallery, New York
1990 Floral Expressions: Two Perspectives, Millport Museum, Pennsylvania
Lancaster Galleries, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
1987 Lancaster Galleries, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2006 thru 2008 Visions of the Susquehanna, curated by Rob Evans; traveling, Lancaster
Museum of Art,Lancaster, PA; Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA; Governor’s Residence, Harrisburg, PA; Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, Hagerstown, MD; Roberson Museum of Science Center, Binghamton, NY
2006 The Maine Landscape, gWatson Gallery, Stonington, ME
Summer Suite, Bernarducci.Meisel.Gallery, New York
Contemporary Realism 2006, M.A. Doran Gallery, Tulsa, OK
Winter Reflections, Bernarducci.Meisel.Gallery, New York
2005 Winter in Blue, Bernarducci.Meisel.Gallery, New York
Industrial Landscapes in Contemporary Painting, Bernarducci.Meisel.Gallery, NY
2004-5 21st Century Realism, General Electric Company Corporate Art Program, Fairfield, CT
2004 New American Realism, Tony Brunelli Fine Art, Binghamton, NY
The Big Picture, Bernarducci.Meisel.Gallery, New York
Contemporary American Realism VII, MA Doran Gallery, Tulsa
2004 Vertical Arrangements, Bernarducci.Meisel.Gallery, New York, NY
Summer is…, Bernarducci.Meisel.Gallery, New York, NY
Watercolor, DFN Gallery, New York
2004 Susquehanna en’, Plein Aire – Celebrated Painters, Celebrated Study, Lynden Gallery, Elizabethtown, PA
2003 Snow, Paintings of Winter, Bernarducci.Meisel.Gallery, New York
National Landscape Show, MA Doran Gallery, Tulsa, OK
Adirondacks: National Exhibition of American Watercolors, The Arts Center of Old Forge, Old Forge, NY
Transforming the Commonplace, Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA
Hot Water, Bernarducci.Meisel.Gallery, New York
Contemporary American Realism VI, M.A. Doran Gallery, Tulsa, OK
2002 Night & Day: Recent Landscapes, Bernarducci.Meisel.Gallery, New York
Watercolor USA, Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO (purchase award)
2001 Town & Country, Bernarducci.Meisel.Gallery, New York
Trains of Thought: The Railroad in Contemporary Art, Suzanne H. Arnold Art
Gallery, Lebanon Valley College, Annville, PA
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Bernarducci.Meisel.Gallery, New York
Contemporary American Landscapes III, M. A. Doran Gallery, Tulsa, OK
1999 Wet Paint, Fischbach Gallery, New York
1998 Contemporary American Landscapes, M. A. Doran Gallery, Tulsa, OK
1994 Watercolor USA, Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO (purchase award)
Paintings from the Commerce Bancshares Collection, Lakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences, Peoria, Illinois
Watercolor USA, Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO
1993 Watercolor USA, Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO (purchase award)
1991 29th Annual Open Award Art Show, Lancaster, PA
Watercolor USA Honor Society Exhibition
Elizabethtown College Spring Juried Exhibition, Elizabethtown, PA (purchase)
Riverwalk Arts Festival, York, PA
1990 Lebanon Valley College Annual Exhibition, Lebanon Valley, PA
1989 28th Annual Open Award Art Show, Lancaster
Watercolor USA, Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO
1986 The Lancaster Scene, Demuth Foundation, Lancaster, PA
1985 Annual Exhibition of the Pennsylvania Watercolor Society, Kutztown, PA
1983 May Show, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
AWARDS, GRANTS
2002 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Visual Arts Fellowship Grant
2001 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Special Opportunity Stipend
1996 ED Foundation Grant
1994 Purchase Award, Watercolor USA, Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO
1993 Purchase Award, Watercolor USA, Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO
1991 First Place, 29th Annual Open Award Art Show, Lancaster, PA
Museum Cash Award, Watercolor USA, Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO
First Place, Riverwalk Arts Festival, York, PA
1990 Best of Show Award, Lebanon Valley College Annual Exhibition,
Lebanon Valley, PA
1989 Best of Show Award, 28th Annual Open Award Art Show, Lancaster, PA
1987 Purchase Award, Watercolor USA, Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO
Lancaster City Arts Grant, Lancaster, PA
1985 Purchase Award, Annual Exhibition of the Pennsylvania Watercolor Society, Kutztown, PA
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
1993 Corn, Alfred, review of exhibition, Artnews, May.
Kopf, Jennifer, “NYC Gallery Stages Show for the Artist Mark Workman”, Lititz
Record Express, February 4.
1994 review of exhibition, The New York Review of Art, December.
Readers Digest, August, cover illustration.
Decker, Joan, “Landscape Artist Feels Farmer, Harvest Kinship,” Neighbors
Northern Lancaster County, October 12, 1994
1995 William and Mary Review, The College of William and Mary, Virginia
1997 McLaughlin, Glory, “Regional Winners,” Watercolor Magic, Winter Issue
Johnson, Nicole, “In The Spotlight,” The Lancaster Sunday News, March 16.
1998 Weil, Rex, “Heaven In Earth,” Artnews, March.
Driscoll, John, and Arnold Skolnick, The Artist and the American Landscape,
(First Glance Books, San Francisco)
1999 Sullivan, Terry, The Best of Sketching and Drawing, (Rockport Publishers Inc.,
Gloucester, Mass.)
William and Mary Review, The College of William and Mary, Virginia
Mullarkey, Maureen, review of exhibition, Review Magazine, p. 34
2000 Holihan, Jane, “Welcome to His World,” Lancaster New Era, March 2.
Knowles, Laura, Intelligencer Journal, Lancaster, PA, March 3.
2001 Long, Sue, “Preserving Lancaster County,” Lancaster Magazine, June.
cover ill., article
2002 Forst, Elizabeth, Watercolor, Fall, cover ill., article
catalog Fields of Vision, Bernarducci.Meisel.Gallery, New York and Suzanne H.
Arnold Art Gallery, Annville, PA
2003 Kover, Jonas, “Exhibit has Fresh Feel,” Observer Dispatch, Sept. 11, p. 5
2004 Edtrs., ‘Galleries,’ New York Sun, Sun., Jan. 27, p.20
Hutton, Molly, “Near and Distant: Mark Workman’s Luminist Vision,” The Gettysburg Review, Winter 2004, pp. 574-576, Illus. 577-584 + front and back cover
2006 American Art Collector, Jan. pp. 68-71, ill. col.
Seeber, Stephen. “New Horizons,” Local E, May 17-24, pp. B1-B2, ills. col. American Art Collector, June pp. 108-111, ill. col.
American Art Collector, Nov. pp. 148-141, ill. col.
SELECTED PUBLIC AND CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
American General Corporation, Texas
Armstrong World Industries, Pennsylvania
Bank of Tokyo, New York
Berlitz, Inc., New Jersey
Bernarducci.Meisel.Gallery, New York
Camhay, Karlinsky and Stein, New York
Cantor Fitzgerald, New York
Cardiovascular Associates, Pennsylvania
Carpedia Group, Inc., Canada
Commerce Bancshares, Inc., Missouri
The Ella Carothens Dunnegan Gallery of Art, Missouri
Elizabethtown College, Pennsylvania
Exxon Corporation, Texas
FGIC, New York
First National Bank of Maryland
General Electric Company, Connecticut
Groom Law Group, Washington, DC
Hamilton Bank, Pennsylvania
High Industries, Pennsylvania
Kutztown University, Pennsylvania
City of Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Lancaster Museum of Art, Pennsylvania
Little Caesar’s Enterprises, Inc., Michigan
MasterCard International, New York
Millport Museum, Pennsylvania
Nomura Securities, New York
OBGYN and Associates, Pennsylvania
Susquehanna Bancshares, Inc., Pennsylvania
Vanguard Industries, Pennsylvania
Zurich Kemper Financial Corporation, Illinois
