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Andrew Orr
MASTER ARTIST
Mastrius Artist Mentor
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MEDIUM: Oil Paint
SPECIALTY: ✔ Generalist
Beginning his artistic endeavors at an early age, Andrew Orr received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Music after which he began his studies in art with courses at the University of New Mexico, New Mexico with impressionist Carol McIlroy, David P. Curtis and Joseph McGurl. Orr’s work has shown in many locations in the United States, has won awards with National juried exhibitions of the Oil Painters of America, the Salmagundi Club, the American Artist’s Professional League and the Guild of Boston Artists. His work has been featured in several one-person exhibitions.
An elected member of the Guild of Boston Artists, Andrew Orr’s awards include the Alden Bryan Prize awarded by the Guild and the Alden Bryan Medal through Bryan Memorial Gallery, Vermont. Additional awards include the Barbara Carter Award for Excellence from the Oil Painters of America, he is three times the winner of the Arthur T Hill Award for a Landscape from the Salmagundi Club, the Claude Parsons Award for a Landscape and the Helen DeCozen Award for a floral, both from the American Artists Professional League.
He is the recipient of the Charles Movalli Medal for Excellence in Painting. Orr received recognition with his work wining First Place Overall with Plein Air Magazine’s, Plein Air Salon monthly competition March 2021. An award winner with regional Plein Air events, Andrew received Best in Show with Plein Air Vermont, 2012 awarded by M. Stephen Doherty, editor, Plein Air Magazine. His work was selected as a finalist as part of Art Renewal Center’s International Salon and a feature story about his work appeared in the 2013 April-May Issue of Plein Air Magazine and in August, 2015, American Art Review. In 2019 he was listed as An Artist to Watch by the publication, Vermont Art Guide.
Orr makes his home on the northern border of Vermont surrounded by fields, forests which often make up the subjects of his paintings. When he is not working in his studio, a converted horse barn, he is often found tending the vegetable garden enjoying all the elements a bucolic life in Vermont has to offer.
Andrew’s EXPERTISE
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Specialty: ✔ Generalist
Technical:
Studio Setup for Art Production
Supplies and Tools – what to use, where to save, and where to spend
Providing Art Critiques
Teaching How to Self Critique
MARKETING & BRANDING:
Shows and Exhibits
Business:
Pricing Artwork
Running your art business the day-to-day
Studio Time Management
“Mastrius has done wonders for my confidence. I have managed to step way outside of my comfort zone which has in turn given rise to so many more opportunities to further my art career.”
~ Deb, Emerging Artist
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MORE ABOUT THE ARTIST
Teaching Experience
1998-Current Workshops in oil and overglaze on porcelain.
2005, 2007 Guest Artist 10th Annual Australasian Porcelain Art Teacher’s conference, Adelaide, SA and Melbourne, VIC
2009 Guest Artists, New Zealand Porcelain Artist Association conference, Blenheim, New Zealand
Publications
2020 Artists to Watch, Vermont Art Guide
2015 Students and Their Teachers, American Art Review
2013 Artist Feature, April/May Plein Air Magazine
2009 Artist Feature, November, American Art Collector
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Education
1993-1994 University of New Mexico
1987-1991 Oklahoma Christian University, BA,
Studied
2013 Joseph McGurl, Cataumet, MA
2012 Joseph McGurl, Cataumet, MA
2011 Joseph McGurl, Cataumet, MA
2011 David Curtis, Gloucester, MA
2010 David Curtis, Gloucester, MA
2009 David Curtis, Gloucester, MA
Solo Exhibitions
2012 Bryan Memorial Gallery, Jeffersonville, VT
2010 Southern Vermont Arts Center
2009 South Street Gallery, Hingham, MA
2007 Southern Vermont Arts Center
2005 Southern Vermont Arts Center
2003 Design Consortium Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio
2001 Music and the Arts, National City Christian Church, Washington, D.C.
1998 Elinor Oldham Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
Selected Shows
2016 Andrew Orr and His Students, Bryan Gallery, Jeffersonville, VT
2014 Art Renewal Center, Finalist, Salon International Competition
2014 Bryan Memorial Gallery, Land and Light and Legacy Collection
2013 Art Renewal Center, Finalist, Salon International Competition
2013 Bryan Memorial Gallery, Legacy Collection
2012 Guild of Boston Artists, Annual Regional Painting Exhibition
2012 Angling and Art: The confluence of Passions, American Musuem of Fly Fishing, Manchester, Vermont
2011 Annual Member’s Exhibition, Salmagundi Club, New York, NY
2011 Southern Vermont Arts Center, National Exhibition
2011 Bryan Memorial Gallery, Jeffersonville, VT, Legacy Collection
2010 American Artists Professional League, New York, NY, 82nd Grand National Exhibition
2010 Annual Member’s Exhibition, Salmagundi Club, New York, NY
2010 Guild of Boston Artists, Annual Regional Exhibition
2010 American Impressionists Society, National Exhibition, Nashville, TN
2010 Southern Vermont Arts Center, Solo Exhibition
2009 American Artists Professional League, New York, NY 81st Grand National Exhibition
2009 American Impressionists Society National Exhibition, Denver, CO
2009 Bennington Center for the Arts, Laumeister Fine Art Competition
2009 Southern Vermont Arts Center, National Exhibition
2009 Salon International, Green House Gallery of Art, San Antonio, TX
2008 125th Annual Member’s Exhibition, Salmagundi Club, New York, NY
2008 Bennington Center for the Arts, “Impressions of New England”
2008 Southern Vermont Arts Center, National Exhibition
2008 Oil Painters of America, National Exhibition
2008 National Show, Salon International, Greenhouse Gallery of Art, San Antonio, Texas
2008 Annual Member’s Combined Exhibition, Salmagundi Club, NY, NY
2008 Winter Member’s Exhibition, Southern Vermont Arts Center
2007 Annual Summer Member’s Show, Salmagundi Club, NY, NY
2007 National Show, Salon International, Greenhouse Gallery, San Antonio, Texas
2007 National Show, Midland Art League, Museum of the Southwest, Midland,
Texas
2006 National Show, Southern Vermont Arts Center
2006 National Show, Oil Painters of America
2006 Delaware Foundation for the Visual Arts, Art and Antique Weekend
2005 National Show, Southern Vermont Arts Center
2003 National Show, North East Watercolor Society
2002 Georgia Watercolor Society. Regional show
2001 National Show, Georgia Watercolor Society
2000 “The American Landscape” Torpedo Factory, Alexandria, VA
1998 Gallery Guild, St. John’s Episcopal Cathedral, Albuquerque, NM
1996 New Mexico State Fair, Fine Art Gallery
1995 New Mexico State Fair, Fine Art Gallery
Memberships/Affiliations
Elected Artist Member, Guild of Boston Artists
Current Board Member, Bryan Memorial Gallery, Jeffersonville, VT
The American Artists Professional League
Awards
2021 The Charles Movalli Medal for Excellence in Painting, Guild
2018 Alden Bryan Award for Landscape, Bryan Gallery, Vermont
2016 Alden Bryan Award for a Landscape, Guild of Boston Artists
2012 Guild of Boston Artists, Robert Douglas Hunter Award
2012 Vermont Plein Air Competition, 1st Place, Judge, M. Stephen Doherty, Plein Air Magazine
2011 Arthur T. Hill Memorial Award for a Landscape, Member’s Exhibition, Salmagundi Club, New York, NY
2011 Land and Light, Bryan Memorial Gallery, Jeffersonville, VT, Honorable Mention
2010 North Bennington, VT, Plein Air Competition, 2nd Place
2010 Claude Parsons Award for a Landscape, American Artists Professional League, New York, NY
2010 Arthur T. Hill Memorial Award for a Landscape, Member’s Exhibition, Salmagundi Club, New York, NY
2009 Helen DeCozen Memorial Award for a Floral, American Artists Professional League, New York, NY
2008 Arthur T. Hill Memorial Award, Annual Member’s Exhibition, Salmagundi Club, New York, NY
2008 Award of Excellence, Oil Painters of America, National Exhibition
2006 Best in Show, Delaware Foundation for the Visual Arts, Art and Antique Weekend
2003 Honorable Mention, North East Watercolor Society, National Show
2002 Membership award, Georgia Watercolor Society, regional exhibition
1998 2nd place award, Gallery Guild Show, St. John’s Episcopal Cathedral, Albuquerque, NM
