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A black rabbit is placed among collaged papers, with a golden ball hanging from a wire, cradled by a piece of wood.

Reclaiming Butterscotch

Invitation to Reclaiming Butterscotch art exhibition in Seattle, April 2019.

You’re Invited!

Movie still, small figure in palatial room with canopy bed and colonnaded balcony.

Ginevra

Fragment of wallpapered drywall, with hole in the center that reveals curlicued strips of colored paper inside.

Cut Up Cut Out

Wall-mounted ceramic sculpture seems to shed disorganized, geometric quills that connect to even more jumbled vessel below.

Invisible Cities by Terri Saulin-Frock

Book cover for McGurk Mysteries, with 70s style cover art.

McGurk Mysteries

Dozens of phallus-shaped, polka-dotted sculptures on ground, reflected in multiple mirrors and repeated again and again.

Accumulations, Courtesy of Yayoi Kusama

Terra cotta general, with emblematic hat and uniform, looks proudly into distance.

Terra Cotta Warriors

Visitors studying paintings at art show.

Artist Donates 10% of Sales to OneOrlando Fund

Young Kiyoshi looks kindly at the viewer.

12 Paintings in Exhibition to Honor Orlando

Unknown woman in striped skirt and sandals standing amid fragments of brick architecture and soft abstract shapes.

City of Federal Way Awards Solo Show to Local Artist Maura McGurk

A smiling Maura McGurk holds certificate in front of blue ribbon-winning painting.

Maura McGurk Wins People’s Choice Award at City Hall Exhibition

The painter, hanging artwork, is artistically reflected in mirror over a restaurant bar.

Art Opening at Pimienta Bistro & Bar

365 Days of Art: December 27 – NYC Mayor Doesn’t Understand Gorky’s Work

Framed artworks, human figures, animal heads and other worrisome imagery cluster together figures in a desert landscape.

365 Days of Art: November 20 – Dalí Has First Solo Show

NYC landscape and architecture depicted from different viewpoints, including absurdist details like a large toilet on top of a column, with female figure, body parts in trash can and a dress on a hanger.

365 Days of Art: November 16 – Frida Writes a Letter from US, AIDS Exhibition Opens (Under Duress) After Grant Partially Restored

Organically abstract geometric shapes, some of which appear to have eyes, seem to cavort with more geometric shapes and lines.

365 Days of Art: November 10 – Frida and Diego Arrive in SF, NY Times Reports on Nazi Looting, Gorky Exhibits at the Whitney, Hockney Faxes an Artwork

Framed by abstract sculpture, Peggy Guggenheim and Jackson Pollock stand in front of one of his paintings.

365 Days of Art: November 9 – Pollock’s First Solo Show Opens, John Meets Yoko at Gallery, Emma Thompson’s Journey Opens in NYC

Large paintings in elaborate, carved frames hang in a row on gallery wall.

365 Days of Art: November 7 – MoMA Opens

365 Days of Art: November 6 – NEA Withdraws Grant for AIDS Exhibition

Pollock stands on a large canvas unrolled in a field, among paint cans, crouching and concentrating, holding a paintbrush.

365 Days of Art: November 5 – Pollock Moves to Long Island, Obama Portrait Joins NYC Exhibition After Presidential Election

365 Days of Art: October 30 – Hide/Seek Opens

Smiling Diego and Frida sign paperwork in front of witness.

365 Days of Art: October 24 – Frida Writes a Letter About Diego’s Affair, Bacon’s Love Commits Suicide

Bearded Vincent at easel, lovingly painting sunflowers outside.

365 Days of Art: October 23 – Gauguin Moves in with Vincent; Art Exhibition Takes on Chicago Mayor’s Brutality

Stark shadows delineate the curving architecture of the Guggenheim Museum in NYC, against a crisp sky.

365 Days of Art: October 21 – Delacroix Writes to Brother About Patriotism, Guggenheim Museum Opens, Warhol Invites Self to Party at Leather Bar

Man in toga, surrounded by lions, sits on stone slab in a patch of sunlight in a large room with no other sign of comfort.

365 Days of Art: October 19 – Henry Ossawa Tanner Wins French Art Award

365 Days of Art: October 15 – Fascist Propaganda Discusses Artworks, Lee Krasner Has First Solo Show

365 Days of Art: October 5 – Jury Acquits Arts Center of Obscenity Charges

365 Days of Art: September 27 – Munch Museum Celebrates Return of Damaged Paintings

365 Days of Art: September 22 – Leonardo Studies Birds, Michelangelo Seeks Payment, Artists Reject Pop Art Newcomer, Search Leads to Nazi Loot

365 Days of Art: September 19 – Masuo Ikeda Exhibition Closes at MoMA

365 Days of Art: August 7 – Stephen Berens Takes a Photo

365 Days of Art: July 1 – De Kooning Begins Teaching, Lennon’s 1st Exhibition Opens, and A Crowd Protests Mapplethorpe’s Cancellation

365 Days of Art: June 27 – 15th Anniversary Exhibition Closes at Yokohama Museum of Art

365 Days of Art: June 21 – Kiki Smith Exhibition Closes at Hirshhorn

365 Days of Art: June 15 – Sculpture Exhibition Closes at Storm King

365 Days of Art: June 11 – Dieter Roth Exhibition Receives Humorous Review

365 Days of Art: May 30 – Three Exhibitions Close at MoMA

365 Days of Art: May 17 – The Guerrilla Girls Are Born!

365 Days of Art: May 15 – The Salon des Refusés Opens to the Public

365 Days of Art: April 28 – Napoleon Issues Press Release About Planned Art Exhibition

365 Days of Art: April 13 – Ordered on Bed Rest, Frida Attends Her Solo Exhibition in Four Poster Bed

365 Days of Art: March 28 – Rothko Exhibits Multiform Paintings

365 Days of Art: March 27 – Dada-Inspired Exhibition Opens at MoMA

365 Days of Art: March 6 – Gallery Forgets to Mail Invites So Almost No One Attends Gorky’s Opening

365 Days of Art: March 5 – Pissarro Complains to Manet, and Gorky Undergoes a Colostomy

365 Days of Art: March 1 – Plane Crashes; Arshile Gorky Artwork Destroyed

365 Days of Art: February 24 – Exhibition of Independent Artists Opens at Waldorf-Astoria Hotel

365 Days of Art: February 18 – Art Collector Buys Six Odilon Redon Works

365 Days of Art: February 11 – Joseph Cornell Holds Children’s Only Art Exhibition

365 Days of Art: February 5 – Ice Age Art (No Artifacts!) Exhibited at British Museum

365 Days of Art: February 1 – MoMA’s Tenth Exhibition Opens

365 Days of Art: January 30 – Special Five-Day Photo Exhibition Closes to Keep Works from Fading

365 Days of Art: January 21 – First Georgia O’Keeffe Retrospective Opens at the Art Institute of Chicago

365 Days of Art – January 8: Mona Lisa, on Loan, Unveiled in US

JFK and the Power of Art

More Digital Collages on Display at Wallingford Art Walk!

2nd Gallery Reception During Seafair Parade!

Successful Seattle Debut!

Re•Place Art Exhibition: Artist Statement

Preview of Re•Place: Collages by Maura McGurk at Majestic ARTS Presents

Re•Place, Collages by Maura McGurk at Majestic ARTS Presents

I Saw You, Sor Juana

She’s a Nice Girl

You, Me, Us: Artwork in Response to Bullying

You’re Cordially Invited

The Pop-Up Museum of Queer History

Electronic Arts Festival, Governor’s Island

The Museum of Motherhood

Photographers Extraordinaire

Artist Donates 10% of Exhibition Proceeds to It Gets Better

Maura McGurk Featured in “At the Edge” Magazine

The Puzzle Pieces Were a Hit!

Lavender Menace Opening

Teen in silhouette stands in front of painting on gallery wall while lost in thought

Lavender Menace art exhibition covered in Norwich Bulletin

Lavender Menace: Paintings by Maura McGurk in Response to Gay Bullying

The Abraham Lincoln Situation: Goodbye Abe, We’ll Miss You

Smiling artist sits in front of colorful and striking painting

July is for Patriotism, and for Giving Back, Says Artist

It Gets Better Project to Support Maura McGurk’s Solo Art Exhibition

The Abraham Lincoln Saga: Closing Reception

Trading Cards: They Work for Ballplayers AND for Artists

The Abraham Lincoln Saga: Abe Resurfaces in Norwich at Opening Receptions!

A line of artists march down a city sidewalk, each while carrying their large portrait of Abraham Lincoln

Maura McGurk Blog Featured in The New London Day

Orphaned and Enabled Lincoln Exhibitions: Reception May 6, 2011

The Abe Lincoln Debacle: Procession of the Orphans

Museum Reneges on Promise to Exhibit All Lincoln Portraits–What Would Honest Abe Say?

With a lot of help from my friends…

Maura McGurk’s First Solo Show: Pride and Prejudice, An Exhibition on Gay Bullying

Pride and Prejudice

Day Job at The Drawing Center

Rotunda with chandelier and skylight ringed with scenes of historical judges on thrones, interpreting laws for crowds.

Chaos and Classicism at the Guggenheim

Exhibition invitation is designed to look like an old-fashioned library card.

Check It Out at The Sketchbook Library!

Collage from sketchbook, with watercolor, Islamic arches and oclumns.

Maura McGurk’s Sketchbook to Tour U.S.

Maura McGurk Again Chosen as Featured Artist at climate/gallery

Abstract collage made from paper, Italian wall poster fragments, and acrylic paint.

Marion Exhibit Conveys Profound Sense of Place

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