Margery Gosnell-Qua is a gestural painter who works between representation and abstraction, uncovering visual equivalents to memories of sight, sound, and touch. She begins her artistic process by creating small color studies from life, an information galther stage in which she records compositions and colored light. In her successive studio works, the artist pares down her subject to match her sensory experiences.
Ms. Gosnell-Qua received an MFA in Painting
and an MS in Art History from Pratt Institute in 1996, where she traveled
abroad to study Painting in Tucany and Art History in Venice, Italy.
She also worked as an assistant to painter Mary Buckley (Professor
Emerita, Pratt’s 1992 Institute Distinguished Professor), where
she documented Buckley’s colorist sensibility and artistic discovery.
Ms. Gosnell-Qua’s paintings are in private collections in the US and in Europe. She is a recipient of the NYFA Special Opportunity Stipend (2010) and is a NYFA Mark09 participant. She received the Long Island Artist Award at the Hecksher Art Museum in Huntington (2001), and her work was chosen for an "Award of Excellence" in 2009 at The Art League of Long Island in Deer Park by juror Andrew Arnot of the Tibor de Nagy Gallery.
Gosnell-Qua is an Assistant Professor of Art and Art History at Suffolk Community College in Riverhead, NY, where she has taught 2D Design, Art Appreciation, Color, Renaissance to Impressionism, and Drawing.