Marge Chavooshian
Born in New York, Marge studied at the Art Students League with Reginald Marsh, in the 1940s, who helped develop her love for drawing. Later she studied with Mario Cooper, well known watercolorist. Chavooshian is a plein air painter and is recognized for her street scenes, facades, cityscapes, architecture and landscapes, as well as her drawings of people and places. Her subjects go on beyond the realistic imagery to to see the geometrical shapes and the sunlight on the buildings.
Since the 1960s her work has been shown in numerous national and state exhibitions and has won 163 Awards,including the Medal of Honor and Digby Chandler, both from the Painters sculptors of New Jersey. Among many other awards, in 2007 she received the Silver Medal of Honor from the New Jersey Watercolor Society as an exhibitor and active member of the society for many years. In 1980 she won a fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts to paint in five of the oldest cities in New Jersey. Some of the buildings have since been demolished. The exhibit of her work was in the New Jersey State Museum, in 1982.
