José Grande Gomez
Education
East Carolina University, 2014
Bachelor of Fine Arts
Concentration: Painting and Drawing
Awards
2016 2nd Place Award, "3rd Annual Winter Juried Art Exhibition", Mooresville Arts, Mooresville, NC
2015 3rd Place Award, "Fourth Annual Open Juried Exhibition", Charlotte Fine Art Gallery, Charlotte, NC
1st Place in Oil & Acrylic, "33rd Annual Fall Artfest", Mooresville Arts, Mooresville, NC
2014 Award of Merit in Drawing, "2014 School of Art and Design Undergraduate Exhibition",
East Carolina University
FrameMakers/Barbour Strickland Award of Excellence, "2014 School of Art and Design Undergraduate Exhibition", East Carolina University
2013 Tran and Marilyn Gordley Scholarship Recipient
Accomplishments
2014 Participated in 8th Annual Research & Creative Achievement Week, Mendenhall Student Center, East Carolina University
Participated in 6th Annual Art History Student Symposium at East Carolina University
2013-2014 ECU Painting Guild Secretary
2012 East Carolina Painting Guild Member
Exhibitions
2018 “Pancakes & Booze Art Show”, The Underground, Charlotte, NC
2017 “State of the Art: Art of the State”, Cameron Museum of Art, Wilmington, NC
2016 “2016 NC Artists Exhibition”, Raleigh Fine Arts Society, Betty Ray McCain Art Gallery at the Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts, Raleigh, NC (Juror: Bradley Sumrall, Chief Curator and Collections Manager of the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans, LA)
“3rd Annual Winter Juried Art Exhibition”, Mooresville Arts, Mooresville, NC (Juror: Larry Elder, owner of Elder Gallery in Charlotte, NC)
“2016 GMA Biennial Juried Art Exhibition”, Greenville Museum of Art, Greenville, NC (Juror: Theresa N. Hammond, Director and Curator of the GuilfordCollege Art Gallery in Greensboro, NC)
2015 “Fourth Annual Open Juried Exhibition”, Charlotte Fine Art Gallery, Charlotte, NC (Juror: Jayne Johnson, Professor of Art at Queens University, Charlotte, NC)
“Bank of the Arts National Juried Show”, Craven Arts Council and Gallery, New Bern, NC
(Juror: John Beerman, Artist, Hillsborough, NC)
“33rd Annual Fall Artfest”, Mooresville Arts, Mooresville, NC (Juror: Andy Braitman and Kelley Brugh, Andy Braitman: Artist and Lead Instructor at Braitman Gallery in Charlotte, NC, Kelley Brugh: Artist and Instructor at Braitman Gallery in Charlotte, NC)
“On the Wall: National Juried Art Exhibition”, Pitt County Arts Council at Emerge, Greenville, NC
(Juror: Brandon Cordrey, manages Flanders Gallery, administrative and programming assistant for Art Access Inc., and instructor at Pullen Arts Center in Raleigh, NC)
2014 “Bank of the Arts Juried Exhibition”, Craven Arts Council and Gallery, New Bern, NC (Juror: Tom Grubb, Artist, NC)
“SoAD Student Exhibition”, Wellington B. Gray Gallery, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC
“State of the Art: Art of the State”, Cameron Museum of Art, Wilmington, NC
RAW Natural Born Artists’ Art Show: “Panorama”, Neighborhood Theatre, Charlotte, NC
“Fight or Flight”, Senior Solo Show Exhibition, Burroughs Wellcome Gallery, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC
“School of Art and Design Juried Undergraduate Exhibition”, Gray Gallery, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC
“The Schwa Show: National Juried Art Exhibition”, Pitt County Arts Council at Emerge, Greenville, NC (Juror: Holly Ann Scoggin, Professor of Painting and Drawing at Polk State College in Winter Haven, Fl)
2013 “School of Art and Design Juried Undergraduate Exhibition”, Gray Gallery, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC
Bibliography
Cameron Museum of Art, “SOTA Artists: 596- Jose Grande Gomez- Charlotte”, December 2017.
http://cameronartmuseum.org/sota/artwork.php?id=596
Carol G. Stratton, “Mooresville exhibit boasts quality art”, January 29, 2016,
http://www.mooresvilleweekly.com/news/2016/1/29/8339/mooresville-exhibit-boasts-quality-art .
Craven Arts Council & Gallery Inc., “Art Inspires Poetry: An anthology of ekphrastic poems and the art that inspired them”, 2015.
2010 - present
2010 - present