Jill Schultz McGannon earned her BFA and MFA in Drawing and Painting at the University
of Georgia, and later attended The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work can been seen at Atlanta Art Gallery
in Atlanta, Georgia, Addington Gallery in Chicago, Illinois, Studio E Gallery in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, Iocovozzi Fine
Art in Savannah, Georgia, and Addison Rowe Fine Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
She paints realistic landscape paintings
in oils, preferring to work from life whenever possible. Ms. McGannon paints smaller landscapes plein-air, spending time in
Europe as well as the Midwestern and Southeastern United States. She began painting plein-air from the hilltops surrounding
Cortona, Italy in 1994 when she was Artist in Residence for the University of Georgia’s painting program in Cortona.
Larger works are executed back home in the studio, using the small paintings and photographs as resources. With these paintings,
Ms. McGannon not only affords herself time spent in nature, but also hopes to impress upon the viewer the beauty and value
of the diminishing landscape. Some of the landscapes are painted on surfaces that the artist creates using Venetian plaster,
crackle varnish, gold leaf, and pattern. These surfaces create a contemporary context for realistic imagery.
Education:
1990
Oxbow, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1988 MFA, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
1985 BFA, University
of Georgia, Athens, GA
1983 UGA Studies Abroad, Cortona, Italy
1981 Fayette County High School, Fayetteville,
GA
Publications:
Gun and Garden Magazine 4-09
(photo of painting in Iocovozzi
Fine Art)
Atlanta Home Magazine 9-03
Museums & Galleries- Atlanta, May-June 2000
Atlanta Journal-Constitution,
4-28-00
Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 4-23-99
New American Paintings, Spring 1998
Chicago Reader 8-15-97
Chicago
Tribune 11-20-96
Chicago Tribune 2-20-94
North Shore Neighbor 1-16-94
Atlanta Journal Constitution 9-87
Awards:
2006
Commission from the U.S. State Department
2002, 2003 Hambidge Center, Artist in Residence
1994 Artist in Residence,
UGA Studies Abroad Program, Cortona, Italy
1985 Mary Rosenblatt Scholarship, University of Georgia
Selected
Exhibitions:
2009 Summer Group Show (one of the featured artists)
Atlanta Art Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2007 Grand Opening, Addington Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Recent
Work (featured artist), Mason Murer, Atlanta, Georgia
2006 Solo Show, Addison Rowe Fine
Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Solo Show, Gwenda Jay/Addington Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Group Show, Mason Murer
Fine Art, Atlanta, Georgia
Two by Two, Studio E Gallery, Palm Beach Gardens, Florida
2005 The Ever Changing Landscape,
Kentucky Museum of Art and Design, Louisville, Kentucky
Group Show, Studio E Gallery, Palm Beach Gardens, Florida
Iconic
Landscape, Gwenda Jay/ Addington Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Group Show (featured artist), Mason Murer Fine Art,
Atlanta, Georgia
2004 Grand Opening Exhibition, Mason Murer Fine Art, Atlanta, Georgia
Personal Spaces,
Gwenda Jay/ Addington Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
2003 March Landscape Show, The Modern Primitive Gallery, Atlanta,
Georgia
November Landscape Show, The Modern Primitive Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
2002 Solo Show, Marie
Terrel Gallery, Asheville, North Carolina
Group Show, The Modern Primitive Gallery with Patrick McGannon and Suzy
Schultz
2001 Landscape Show, The Modern Primitive Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
Athens Lost, The Lyndon House Art
Center, Athens, Georgia
Life; Its Many Dimensions, The Quinlan Art Center, Gainesville, Georgia
Group Exhibition,
Marie Terrel Gallery, Asheville, North Carolina
Portrait Society of Atlanta, The Lyndon House Art Center, Athens, Georgia
Paradox,
Genema Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
Portrait Society of Atlanta, Roswell Art Center, Roswell, Georgia
2000 Landscapes:
Jill Schultz McGannon and Kim Karelson, Modern Primitive Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
Portrait Society of Atlanta,
Darious/Storey Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
1999 Works from the Figure, D Miles Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
Approaching the Landscape, Modern Primitive Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
1998 Group Show, Gwenda Jay/ Addington, Chicago,
Illinois
Trinity Art Auction, Atlanta, Georgia
1997 Randall Shiroma, Katie Dowling, Jill Schultz; Gwenda Jay Gallery,
Chicago, Illinois
1995 Art Against AIDS, Hotel Niko, Chicago, Illinois
1994 Re: Figure, Eva Cohen Gallery,
Chicago, Illinois. A three person show with Harold Boyd and Ron Wotjanowsk
La Mostra, Cortona, Italy. A group show of
faculty and student work
Moving the Body Forward, Lorenzo Rodriguez Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1993 Winter Group
Show, World Tattoo Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Around the Coyote, Chicago, Illinois
1992 New Sensations, Group
show at Deson-Saunders, Chicago, Illinois
Around the Coyote, Chicago, Illinois
1991 Winter Group Show, World Tattoo
Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1989 Women Artists of Athens, Converse College, Spartanburg, South Carolina
Southern
Expressionism, Carson Street Gallery, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. A group of six artists from the South
Apparatus, Taccoa,
Georgia. An NEA sponsored show of artists from Athens, Georgia
1988 MFA Exhibition, The Georgia Museum of Art, Athens,
Georgia.
A group show of the Masters candidates
Fifteenth Annual Juried Exhibition, Lyndon House Art Center, Athens,
Georgia. Juried by James Demetrion, director of the Hirshorn Museum
1987 Atlanta Artists, Piedmont Arts Festival Bathhouse
Show, Atlanta, Georgia.
Curated by Fletcher Mackey
Nexus Juried Show, Nexus Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia. Juried
by Alan Soundheim
1986 Thirteenth Annual Juried Exhibit, Lyndon House Art Center, Athens, Georgia. Juried
By
Judy Chicago
Rosenblatt Scholarship Show, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia
