DOROTHY FAGAN

ARTIST STATEMENT

Flourishing in the Meadow of Life

My work is an invitation to feel light in the body and reconnect with the divine feminine nature of earth’s garden. Emotional color reflects the healing light within.  

The power of our human-nature collaboration is at hand. Amidst traumatic global transformation, e-motion is the catalyst. Releasing earth sky water energies, I fuse sacred dictations with fluid color, impasto texture, gritty willow charcoal, and intention. 

From my studio on the pond, at the vortex of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed and the Atlantic Ocean, earth’s garden amplifies her call to us though meditation, journaling, cosmic and spiritual practice. 

I use my chakra-aligned palette to reweave the heartland. These hot pink and green hues, previously short-circuited by cultural norms, restore juxtapositions of sparking unconditional love, grace, and understanding.

DOROTHY FAGAN CV

Solo exhibitions

2022 Arts of Main Gloucester, VA
2006 Glave Kocen Gallery Richmond, VA
2005 Century Gallery Williamsburg, VA
1982 XX Century Gallery Williamsburg, VA
1981 Gallery Mayo Richmond, VA
1979 Virginia Beach Arts Center Va Beach, VA

Group exhibitions
DressME 2020 M.A.D.S Gallery Milano Milan, Italy
Musee de la Grande Vigne Residency Exhibition Dinan, France
Pastel Society of America National Arts Club New York
Pastel Society of Canada Cambrian Rose Gallery Ottawa,CA
American Artists Professional League Salmagundi Club New York
Academic Artists Association G.V.W. Smith Art Museum Springfield, MA
Virginia Contemporary Museum of Art Members Exhibition Virginia Beach, VA
The Copley Society, Pastel Society of America Members’ Exhibition Boston, MA

Kansas Pastel Society, National Juried Exhibition
Hermitage Museum, Pastel Society of America Members’ Exhibition, Norfolk, VA

New Jersey Institute of Technology, Pastel Society of America Members’ Exhibition, Newark, NJ

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Prints and Drawings ‘81, Richmond, VA

Pastel Society of America National Arts Club New York, United States

Awards and Recognitions
Medal of Honor Academic Artists’ Association G.V.W. Smith Art Museum, Springfield, MA
First Place Crossroads Art Center Richmond, VAPurchase Award Kansas Pastel Society
First Place W. C. Rawls Museum Courtland, VA
Best of Show Virginia Contemporary Museum of Art Va Beach, VA

Press Coverage and Media Mention
2023 Coda Magazine Magic of Color Sarah Muehlbauer
2020 DressMe 2020 EXHIBITION CATALOGUE Georgia Massari

2014 100 Plein Air Painters of the Mid-Atlantic Gary Pendleton-
2006 Paying Tribute to Nature Ann Harmon Fifty Plus Richmond

 

Permanent Collections 

Museum Collections

Musee de La Grande Vigne, Dinan, France,

Longwood University Art Museum, Farmville, VA

City University of New York

Emory University

HEALTHCARE COLLECTIONS  

Vir Biotechnology

U. Mass Memorial Research Hospital

Boston Children’s Hospital,

Camp Lejeune Mental Health Facility 

Wellness Center at The Landing

Riverside Cancer Center

Southampton Memorial Hospital

The Village at Woods Edge

Walter Reed Riverside Hospital

FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS

Monarch Bank

Towne Bank

First National Exchange Bank

Bronco Federal Credit Union

MUNICIPAL & PRESERVATION

Main Street Preservation Trust
Gloucester, VA

Mathews Land Conservancy

Williamsburg Land Conservancy

City of Franklin

City of Virginia Beach

Franklin Main Street Association

CORPORATE COLLECTIONS 

Princess Anne Country Club

Assured Construction  

General Electric

International Paper

AAA

Raycom Media

Union Camp Forestry Division

Coldwell Banker

Roanoke Athletic Club

Wintergreen Resorts

Union Camp Medical 

PRIVATE COLLECTIONS 
United States, England, Italy, France, Iceland, Singapore, Jordan, Canada.