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In my
painting there is a sense of luxury, rooted in the abundance of nature.
As a child I frolicked in the outdoors, camping in the forests, swimming
in Santa Cruz, and running around my family’s 80-acre farm in Minnesota.
I spent my early adult years in New Orleans and Miami, sultry
sub-tropical cities with spicy cuisine and brilliant colors. But not
until I lived in Portland, Oregon, with its gorgeous gardens lining the
avenues, did I begin to translate nature’s sensuality and fecundity into
my art.
My work
references flowers, vines, trees, seed pods, and other vegetative motifs
I find in the world around me, as well as in antique floral prints, wall
paper, tiles, tapestries, and jewelry design. In an artist residency in
the Czech Republic, I lived and painted in an 18th Century palace—an
immersion in the splendors of the baroque and rococo, which impressed
upon me the ties between the decorative arts and the narrative,
myth-making power of contemporary abstract painting.
I have
always been a colorist, so when I began to work monochromatically a few
years ago, I saw my white-on-white paintings as pure, meditative, and
sacred. Working all in white also enables me to concentrate the viewer’s
visceral response on the paintings’ surfaces, which reach out from the
picture plane and engage the senses. In my studio I use tools to braid,
mold, and weave paint into shapes that are sometimes soft and graceful,
sometimes spiky and dynamic. After the shapes are created and
positioned, I envelop them in sheets of acrylic paint, until their
contours rise like islands from a glassy-smooth sea. The finished works
are painterly and sculptural, minimalist and maximalist, serene and
dramatic, with undertones of danger and seduction. In our increasingly
detached digital age, I aim to bring viewers back into touch with the
opulent physicality of art, and to remind them of the beauty within
themselves.
EDUCATION
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M.F.A., 1998,
Clemson University, Clemson, SC•
B.F.A., 1990,
Florida International University, Miami, FL•
Extended Studies,
Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
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2009, “White Flowers
for Gray Gardens,” Gerding Theater at the Armory,
Portland Center
Stage, Portland, OR
2008, “The Artist
Fair”, Juried Miami, FL
2008, “Anomaly”,
Linfield College, McMinnville, OR
2007, “Paint Has
Memory”, B. Rogers Gallery, Portland, OR
2006, “Motifs”
Milkwood Artist Residency, Cesky Krumlov Castle, Czech Republic
2005, “Sizzle”,
Gallery 500, Portland, Or
2004, “PaintScapes”,
Rock Creek Gallery, Portland, OR
2003, “Divine
Sparks”, Embellishments Studio, Portland, OR
2001, “Celestial
Revelations”, Giustina Gallery, Oregon State University, Juried,
Corvallis, OR
2001, “Flora”,
Kalani Honua Institute, Pahoa, HI
1999, Corporate
Exhibition, Lowe & Partners, Invitational, San Francisco, CA
1999,
“Translations”, American Institute of Architects Gallery, Juried,
Portland, OR
SELECTED GROUP
EXHIBITIONS
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2009, “Remains”
Winston Wachter Gallery, Seattle, WA
2008, “Pacific
Northwest Art Annual”, Juried, Cultural Forum, Adell McMillan Gallery,
University of Eugene, Eugene, OR
2007, “New Art
Northwest”, Group Exhibition, Selected, Jordan Schnitzer Museum,
University of Eugene, Eugene, OR
2007 “Off They
Flew”, Invitational, Little Bird Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2007, 10
PLUS 10, Invitational, Marc de Puechredon Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
2007, “New &
Improved Art”, Fountain New York Art Fair, New York, NY
2007, “EDGE”, Group
Exhibition, Gensler Architect, San Francisco, CA
2006,“One Shot
2006”, Juried, www.visualcodec.com, Visual Codec, Portland, OR, Seattle,
WA and Vancouver, BC
2006, “Works from
the Balatanfured/Csopak International Artist Residencies 1996-2006”
Selected, Central European Cultural Institute, Budapest, Hungary
2006, “Scratching
the Surface”, Invitational, Gallery Homeland, Portland, OR
2006, “Confections”,
Invitational, Alysia Duckler Gallery, Portland, OR
2005, “18
Independent Artists”, Invitational, Portland Art Center, Portland, OR
2005, “Sell Out”,
Gallery 500, Invitational, Portland, OR
2005, “The Affair at
Jupiter Hotel”, Gallery 500, Invitational, Portland, OR
2004, “Lifeboat”,
Invitational, Manifest Artistry , Miami, FL
2004, “Arte Vivo”,
Invitational, Belinki & DuPrey Gallery, Portland, OR
2004, “The Affair at
Jupiter Hotel”, Gallery 500, Invitational, Portland, OR
2004, “Paintings
Edge”, Juried, Idyllwild, CA
2004, Vizivarosi
Galleria, Invitational, Budapest, Hungary
2003, “Mark
Woolley's 10th Anniversary Show”, Mark Woolley Gallery, Invitational,
Portland, OR
2003, “Of Junk and
Jewels”, p:ear gallery, Invitational, Portland, OR
2002, “One Country,
Many Cultures”, Beaverton City Hall, Juried,
Beaverton, Oregon
2002, Hungarian
Multicultural Center, Art East Gallery, Juried, Balatonfured, Hungary
2002, Ibiza
International Art Competition,
www.artdomainibiza.com, Juried, Majorca
2001, Grants Pass
Museum of Art, Juried, Grants Pass, OR
GRANTS, RESIDENCIES,
AWARDS, AND HONORS
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2006, Regional Arts
Cultural Council, Professional Development Grant, Portland, OR
2006 “Milkwood
Artist Residence”, Cesky Krumlov, Czech Republic
2004, “Paintings
Edge” Idyllwild Arts Workshop, Juried, Idyllwild, CA
2003, Artist in
Residence, Atlin Art Centre, Atlin, B.C., Canada
2002, Artist’s
Residency, Hungarian Multicultural Center, Balatanfured, Hungary
2001, Juror, 20th
Annual Beaverton Visual Arts Showcase, Beaverton, OR
2001, Artist in
Residence, Kalani Honua Institute, Pahoa, HI
2001, Regional Arts
Cultural Council, Professional Development Grant, Portland, OR
CORPORATE
COLLECTIONS
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Jordan Schnitzer
Foundation
Nines Hotel,
Presidential Suite, Portland Hotel Developers LLC, Portland, Oregon
PUBLICITY
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“The Open Studios
Press”, Selected by juror, Carl Belz, Autumn, 2008.
“Reviews: Eugenia
Pardue at B Rogers Gallery and the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art” by
Richard Speer, Art Ltd. Magazine, January 2008, p. 21
“D.K.’s Hot Sheet”
by D.K. Row, Oregonian, Arts & Entertainment, November 9, 2007, p. 37
“Shows of Note” by
D.K. Row, Oregonian, Arts & Entertainment, October 19, 2007, p. 40
“Clearly Lovely” by
Bob Keefer, The Register-Guard: Arts, registerguard.com, October 19,
2007
"Central Europe
Through the Eye of International Artists", 10 Years Anniversary
Book and Beata
Szechy "Kör/Circle" retrospective exhibition book, Introduction: Gombás
Kúria
Balatonfüred, Arácsi
út 94, 2007
“Globetrotting
Portland Artists in 2007” by Jeff Jahn, portlandart.net, February 22,
2007
“Convention Center
Blues” by Richard Speer, Willamette Week, May 17, 2006, p.53
“Best of 2005”, by
Richard Speer, Willamette Week, December 28, 2005, p. 46
“18 Artists” “Shows
of Note” by D.K. Row, Oregonian, Arts & Entertainment, November, 2005,
p. 25
“Gallery 500: An Era
Ends” by Richard Speer, Willamette Week, November 23, 2005, p. 46
“Gallery 500” by D.K.
Row, Oregonian, Metro, October 28, 2005, p. C12
Interview with KABC
Television, Jupiter Affair, September 30, 2005
“Shows of Note” by
D.K. Row, Oregonian, Arts & Entertainment, May 13, 2005, p. 23
“One Review” by
Richard Speer, Willamette Week, May 11, 2005, p. 58
“Miami Art, Miami
Vice” by Richard Speer, Willamette Week, December 15, 2004, p. 57
“One Review” by
Richard Speer, Willamette Week, June 9, 2004, p. 56
“Woolley’s Mammoth
Show”, by Richard Speer, Willamette Week, December 24, 2003, p. 43
“Mesterseguk cimere:
ecset,” Naplo (Veszprem, Hungary), #166, July 18, 2002, p. 1
“Buborekformak,
mintak es kepmeditaciok,” Naplo, (Veszprem, Hungary), #177, July 26,
2002, p. 3
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
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1999 to 2009,
Portland Community College, Rock Creek Campus, Adjunct Art Professor,
Portland, OR
2001 to 2004,
Portland State University, Adjunct Associate Art Professor, Portland, OR
PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT
“Paintings Edge”,
Painting Intensive Workshop with Terry Winters, Elizabeth Murray, Laura
Owens & Bruce Pearson, Idyllwild, CA
