Artist: Megan Chapman

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Sometimes I Love You and Other Stories:

Megan Chapman’s latest series of paintings, ‘Sometimes I Love You and Other Stories’, are monochromatic works fused with the artist’s own words typed on paper torn from old books. These paintings give the viewer the sense of reading pages out of a diary or letters to a distant lover. Very minimal in nature, the work explores the artists love of the graphite line, as it cuts through the brilliantly white-painted canvas.

The series reflects on the kind of love that catches one unexpectedly, the kind we always knew was somewhere on the planet yet was for others. At the same time that this love seems special or unique, it is also ordinary and known.

Sometimes I Love You and Other Stories represents the absence of fear and the challenges to our beliefs about ourselves and the world outside upon finding another soul that we can sometimes love.

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Solo and Featured Exhibitions:
2011 Sometimes I love you and other stories, Vault Gallery, Fayetteville Underground, Fayetteville,    Arkansas
2010 Falling into Sound, Hive Gallery, Fayetteville Underground, Fayetteville Arkansas
2009 Selective Evidence, DDP Gallery, Fayetteville, Arkansas
2009 Fire and Noise, River Market ArtSpace, Little Rock, Arkansas
2008 Evidence of the Disappearance, Blue Moon Gallery, Hot Springs, Arkansas
2008 Selected Paintings, Arkansas World Trade Center, Rogers, Arkansas
2007 Secrets Revealed, Remy Fine Art at the Town Club, Ft. Smith, Arkansas
2007 Spellbound, Julie Wait Designs Gallery, Rogers, Arkansas
2007 Intuition, DDP Gallery, Fayetteville, Arkansas
2007 The Path that Light Takes, Mullins Library, University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas
2007 According to the Vapors, Gallery Fraga, Bainbridge Island, Washington
2006 Twilight Revisited, Arsagas, Fayetteville, Arkansas
2006 New Works, A.I.R Studio, Paducah, Kentucky
2006 Unearthed, Blue Moon Gallery, Hot Springs, Arkansas
2005 Selected Paintings, Flora, Fayetteville, Arkansas
2004 Within the Twilight, Arts Center of the Ozarks, Springdale, Arkansas
2004 Within the Twilight, Tulsa Artists’ Coalition, Tulsa, Oklahoma
2004 Selected Paintings, The Fayetteville Town Center, Fayetteville, Arkansas
2003 Selected Paintings, The Common Grounds, Fayetteville, Arkansas
1999 Books, BFA Terminal Exhibit, Laverne Krause Gallery, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon
1997 Selected Paintings, Keystone Café, Eugene, Oregon
     
Group Exhibitions:
2010 Snowflake Salon, 110 Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2010 Thirteen Underground, Shift Gallery, Seattle, Washington
2010 More than a Picture, Vault Gallery, Fayetteville Underground, Fayetteville Arkansas
2010 Chaosmos, View Two Gallery, Liverpool Independents Biennal, Liverpool, England
2010 Crafting Place, Sugar Gallery, Bentonville, Arkansas
2010 Panache, Art Center of the Ozarks, Springdale, Arkansas
2009 20th annual small and miniature works, Aaron Gallery, Washington, D.C
2009 Salon 1, DDP Gallery, Fayetteville, Arkansas
2009 Small Works, DDP Gallery, Fayetteville, Arkansas
2009 Project Feed Local, DDP Gallery, Fayetteville, Arkansas
2009 Now and Again, DDP Gallery, Fayetteville, Arkansas
2009 Selected Works, Wear Art Thou, Austin, Texas
2007 The Holiday Show, M2 Gallery, Little Rock, Arkansas
2007 The Best of the Northwest, M2 Gallery, Little Rock, Arkansas
2007 The Blue Moon Gallery 10th Anniversary show, Blue Moon Gallery, Hot Springs, Arkansas
2007 Olivine by Megan Chapman, Pop Experiment Art/Music Community
2006 Small Works, DDP Gallery, Fayetteville, Arkansas
2006 Art Market, Fayetteville, Arkansas
2005 Keep the Promise, Anne Kittrell Gallery, University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas
2005 Ladies Only, Blue Moon Gallery, Hot Springs, Arkansas
2005 Tabriz XIX, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas
2005 38th Annual Ball and Auction, Art Center of the Ozarks, Springdale, Arkansas
2005 Artists Hands With Open Hearts:  Tsunami Relief Show, J Gallery, Fayetteville Arkansas
200410th Annual Artists of Northwest Arkansas Regional Exhibition, Art Center of the Ozarks, Springdale, Arkansas
2002 8th Annual Artists of Northwest Arkansas Regional Exhibition, Art Center of the Ozarks, Springdale, Arkansas
2002 Selected Paintings of Megan Chapman, Whalelane Journal of Writing and Visual Arts, Albany, New York
2002 Selected Paintings of Megan Chapman, Abstract Earth Gallery, Columbus, Ohio
2001 7th Annual Artists of Northwest Arkansas Regional Exhibition, Art Center of the Ozarks, Springdale, Arkansas
2001 Exposure Magazine Presents, Anne Kittrell Gallery, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas
1998 The Mayors Art Show, Jacobs Gallery, Hult Center for Performing Arts, Eugene, Oregon
1997 Art for all Seasons; Annual Membership Show, Maude Kerns Art Center, Eugene, Oregon
1996 New Talent, Lane Community College Gallery, Eugene, Oregon
1995 Annual Lane County Art Show, The New Zone Gallery, Eugene, Oregon

Awards and Honours:
2002 The Stan and Eleanor Krueger Award, Northwest Arkansas Regional Exhibition, Springdale, Arkansas
1999 The Phillip Halley Johnson Scholarship, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon
1998 McCosh Scholarship in Painting, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon

Publications:
2008 Evidence of the Disappearance, Exhibition Catalog
2008 Olivine and Secrets Revealed, Studio Visit Magazine, Volume 1 Issue 1
2007 A Small Gathering, Art Galleries & Artists of the South, Volume 5 Issue 1
2004 Five Works, River City: The University of Memphis Literary Arts Magazine
2002 Tornadic Lineage, The Artists of Northwest Arkansas Regional Exhibition Catalog
2001 Four Untitled Works, Exposure: The University of Arkansas Literary Arts Magazine

Articles and Reviews:
2009 20th Annual Small Works and Miniature Show at Aaron Gallery, Dupont Circle Arts, Ron Riley, Washington D.C.
2006 Light through Windows by Megan Chapman, Northwest Arkansas Times, Fayetteville, Arkansas
2006 Light through Windows by Megan Chapman, The Springs Magazine, Hot Springs, Arkansas
2006 Unearthed by Megan Chapman, The Sentinel-Record, Hot Springs, Arkansas
2006 Art Notes, Light through Windows by Megan Chapman, Arkansas Times, Little Rock, Arkansas
2006 Unearthed by Megan Chapman, Fayetteville Free Weekly, Fayetteville, Arkansas
2005 Art Notes, Lagoon by Megan Chapman, Arkansas Times, Little Rock, Arkansas
2005 Once Upon a Blue Moon, there were eleven artists, AY Magazine, Little Rock, Arkansas
2005 Hot Springs Spring Appeal, AY Magazine, Little Rock, Arkansas
2005 Artists seek venues, collectors, Arkansas Democrat Gazette, Fayetteville, Arkansas
2004 Imaginary Journeys: Fayetteville painter reveals the landscape of her mind’s eye, Northwest Arkansas Times, Fayetteville, Arkansas
2003 The Artists Eye featuring Megan Chapman, Fayetteville Free Weekly, Fayetteville, Arkansas
2001 The Art Zone Online authored a seventeen article art review series for the Northwest Arkansas Morning News, Springdale, Arkansas

Corporate Collections:
First National Bank, Berryville, Arkansas
Legacy National Bank Headquarters, Springdale, Arkansas
The Scarbrough Agency, Fayetteville, Arkansas

Education:
1999 University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon BFA Painting, Cum Laude