ARTIST STATEMENT

My art is a visual extension of a personal connection to the natural world. I use the landscape as

a reference point from which I abstract meaning as well as the reality of time and place.

Dorothy Furlong-Gardner, 2009

Dorothy Furlong-Gardner, a native of New Orleans, received a Master of Fine Arts Degree from

the University of New Orleans in 1981 and a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from Newcomb Art

School of Tulane University in 1966 after previous study at Louisiana State University in Baton

Rouge.

 Dorothy was a faculty member of the Visual Arts Department of Southeastern University and a

visiting artist at Loyola University of New Orleans. She has conducted workshops at Tulane

University, the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts and privately in her studio in New Orleans

and Folsom, Louisiana.

 Her prints and paintings have been exhibited in international, national and regional juried and

invitational shows and her work is in several museum and other public collections in this

country and in many private collections here and abroad.