"Visual Journeys" - Marcelle Harwell Pachnowski  - solo exhibition of her paintings

When: August 23rd - September 20

   * opening reception August 23rd 2-4 pm *
 

Where: The Horace Williams House
            www.chapelhillpreservation.com

            610 East Rosemary Street

            Chapel Hill, NC 27516

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 

“Visual Journeys”
 Recent Paintings by
 Marcelle Harwell Pachnowski

Horace Williams House, Chapel Hill, NC

Marcelle Harwell Pachnowski will be exhibiting recent work at the Horace Williams House in Chapel Hill August 23 through September 20. The opening reception will be Sunday, August 23 from 2-4pm. Marcelle will be conducting several “Painting to Music” workshops during her exhibition at the Horace Williams House. These workshops will be announced at a later date. 

Marcelle Harwell Pachnowski holds her MFA in painting and drawing from the University of Maryland and her BA in painting and drawing from the American University in Washington, DC. She has exhibited on national and international levels and her work is in numerous collections which include the Malt Beach Art Center in Tampere, Finland, the College of Charleston, the Williamsburg Art & Historical Center in Brooklyn, NY, University of Southern California’s Thornton School of Music Scoring for Motion Pictures and Television Department and many private collections. She has taught at the University of Maryland, Western Carolina University, Columbus College, Duke Ellington School of the Arts and Gibbes Museum School in Charleston, SC to name a few.

When Marcelle lived in the mountains of North Carolina during the mid seventies, she coordinated with county and state officials to start an arts council in Swain County. She successfully organized many fundraisers, art festivals and regularly brought artists-in-residence to their public schools.

When she lived in Atlanta, Georgia she was an artist-in-residence on the city, county and state levels that were funded by local arts councils, the Georgia Council for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.

While living in Atlanta in the eighties and early nineties, Marcelle was the first visual artist to be involved in an artist-in-residence in a homeless shelter for women and children. She also lobbied for art advocacy in Atlanta.  Following living in east Tennessee, Marcelle moved to Brooklyn, NY in 1996 and became active in the American Society of Contemporary Artists, the Salmagundi Club and the National Association of Women Artists. Marcelle served as President, vice President, and Governing Board member of the National Association of Women Artists. Marcelle relocated to Marlton, New Jersey in 2000 and continued to actively exhibit her artwork in and around New York City in addition to the Philadelphia area and with the Tri-State Artists Equity.

Marcelle, a working artist, has lived the past two and a half years in  Fearrington Village, Pittsboro, North Carolina. She remains active in the Women’s Caucus for Art and in particular the DC and Philadelphia chapters. Locally she in involved in the Chatham Arts Gallery. 

 “Painting is my passion. The act of painting--the movement, the gesture, the process of selecting brushes, palette knives, paints and colors, textured mediums, the music underlying and reinforcing the process— is an exuberant ritual. All five senses are part of this painting / ritual process that has been the essence of my adult artistic life. Due to having lived in many different areas north, northeast, south and southeast, I am not identified by being from a specific region of the country or identified with a specified style of painting. This has at times been isolating, but it is essential to my creative process, and to my quest for recognition, validation and acceptance. My place as a woman artist, raised and educated in a male-dominated society, is also at the heart of my process. My paintings are a mirror of my life – heartache, grief, loss, pain, joy, love, bliss, lust, and excitement. This is who I am, a colorist in a digital age.”