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Marie-Christine Maitre de
Tarragon
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- Educated in France at the private boarding school St. Alyre
Clermont Ferrand (Puy de Dome, France)
- Prep school at the Holy Child of Jesus in Neuilly sur Seine
(Paris, France)
Baccalaureat with honors section literature and philosophy
- Two years at the University of Paris Vincennes in psychology
(Vincennes, France)
- Two years at the University of Utah in sculpture department
(Salt Lake City, Utah, USA)
- Two years at the University of Pittsburg in art department
(Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, USA)
- Two years at Bellarmine College under Bob Lockhart (Louisville,
Kentucky, USA)
- Attended numerous seminars at the Artist School of Scottsdale,
Arizona, USA with Jerry Cox, Grant Speed, Stanley Bleinfeld,
Veryl Goodnight, and others.
- With art as her passion, her extensive travels around the
world continue to inform her creations.
- The architectural and interior restoration of her ancestral
castle, dating from the XIV century, which is on the list of
historical monuments, (www.CHATEAU
DE PARTHEY.COM) is a constant on going process which has
both inspired and energized her.
- Marie-Christine has been creating an extensive body of work
held by collectors in France, Japan, and the USA. Bronzes, outdoors
life size sculptures, and bas-relief (classical trumeaux), pencil
drawings, oils, and murals one on silk.
- She has a permanent installation Louisville KY, with twelve
life size horse heads in a fountain setting.
- She has exhibited in Louisville, Kentucky, Kentucky Horse
Park, Tennessee, in the upstate and foothills of the Carolinas
with several one woman-shows, the Historical Museum and the
Center for the Arts in Aiken, SC.
- She is represented by Red Clover Gallery in Landrum, SC.
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Press:
Oldham era KY 90
Courrier Journal KY 90
Channel TV 4,7 KY
Tryon Bulletin NC 04, 06
Channel TV 7 SC
South Carolina Homes and Gardens SC 08, 09
Associations:
NSS
MAC (Greenville SC)
Tryon Painters and Sculptors
AAEA
Polk County Chamber of Commerce
Red Clover
Gallery SC
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