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Artist Statement

 

My goal is to transport the viewer into the world of the painting -- and yet that viewer always remains aware my hand wielded the brush.   


To me, a good painting provides an alternative moment of perception, a sudden strangeness or an intense familiarity that the viewer instantly feels but could not have otherwise articulated. Gary Faigin, in his commentary on the Purposeful Surfaces show, said I was like the old expeditionary painters in my awe and excitment at the discovery of my subject matter.

 


My subject matter is united by a common theme of human impact on the environment. Whether it is my anxiety about climate change expressed in paintings of burned-over forests, or the eerily beautiful and faintly disturbing paintings of night-time industrial settings, I know that my best work contains both awe and ambivalence.


I will become obsessed with the source of an image, and repeat it 2, 3, 6 times and more; I wake up at night thinking about it and occasionally get up to paint all night. I carry my paints to many locations: here I'm bundled against ravening mosquitos at 9000 feet in the Sierras, painting Ragged Ridge.

 

(Steph Suback photo)


Here I'm drawing on the Granite Glacier in the Canadian Selkirks, skis still on:
(Steve Price photo)

Artist Resume (as download)

 

Exhibits

(Juried unless asterisked*; awards bold)

 

2010

Artist Portfolio Magazine, Honorable Mention, Landscape (Winter 2011 issue)
Phinney Center Gallery, Solo, Seattle, WA September

Gage Academy, "Best of Gage 2010" Seattle, WA July
Arts West Theater, "Perennial Passages" Seattle, WA July

Port Angeles Fine Arts Center "Safe Harbor", July-October

Lynnwood Convention Center, Lynnwood, WA July-December

Northwest Watercolor Society "Outside the Lines" Blaubak Gallery, Kirkland, WA June

Edmonds Art Festival, Edmonds WA June

Columbia River Maritime Museum, "InPort" Astoria, OR June-August* 

City of Kent Centennial Center, Kent, WA April-May
Blue Heron Gallery Vashon Island, WA March

Java Jahn Espresso, "Gasworks Series" Seattle WA February (invited)*

Port of Seattle "Purposeful Surfaces" November 2009 - February 2010*

 

2009

Port of Seattle "Purposeful Surfaces" November 2009 - February 2010*

Eastside Association of Fine Arts, Puget Sound Group of NW Painters Award, November

Kenmore Arts Festival First Place, Painting August  

Commencement Bay Maritime Fest Second Place, August

City of Kent Summer Arts Festival, Exhibit Award, July 

"Burnscapes" University Unitarian Church, Seattle WA July 

Shoreline Arts Festival, June 

Edmonds Art Festival June 

Pratt Fine Arts Center Annual Auction, May (sold)

Greenwood-Phinney Art Walk, "Night and Day along the Waterfront" May 

Coos Art Museum "Expressions West" April - June

Art League of Hilton Head National Art Exhibition, May  

Northwest Watercolor Society National Open Exhibition, April

North Valley Art League, Redding CA, January

Collective Visions Gallery Statewide Annual, Bremerton, WA, Feburary  

"Burnscapes", Washington State Department of Ecology, Olympia, February-May*

"Art from the Eleventh District", Rep. Zack Hudgins, Olympia, WA January-April*   

"Rust Never Sleeps", "Hold on to Summer" Two Tartes Bakery, Georgetown, Seattle*

 

2008

Ballard Art Walk, Secret Garden Books, Seattle, December*   

Eastside Association of Fine Arts  Award of Merit 

Vermont Studio Center residency, October

Northwest Fine Arts Competition, Phinney Center, Seattle, October 

Art Port Townsend, "Expressions Northwest" October

West Coast Paper Art Exhibition, Seattle, September  

Alaska Watercolor Society, Anchorage, September
Kenmore Art Show, Honorable Mention, August 
 

Wallingford Art Walk, Wallingford Center, August*

Shoreline Arts Festival, First Place Two-Dimensional, June

Edmonds Art Festival, June

American Art Salon virtual gallery, June-December

 

2007

Eastside Association of Fine Arts, November

 

Previous

Society of Technical Communication Excellence Award, 1995-96

International Association of Business Communicators, Excellence and Merit 1989, Merit 1990

American Institute of Graphic Arts, Seattle Chapter Annual Show, 1989

Seattle Design Association Annual Show, 1987, 1988; Program Chair, Treasurer board positions

Edmunds Art Fair, Edmonds Community College Purchase Prize, 1979

CDMRC Cafe, University of Washington, 1977*