Artist Vitae
Education/Degrees
2008 B.A. Fine Art Painting, Western Washington University
2001 A.A.S. Associates in Arts and Sciences with Honors, Whatcom Community College
1997 A.A. Associates in Arts, Spokane Community College
Solo Exhibitions
2016 Neither Will This Stay. Core Gallery, Seattle Washington
2015 Subspace. Core Gallery, Seattle Washington
2014 Slow Time: Landscapes and Stills. Shift Gallery, Seattle Washington
2013 Domestic, the Soul of an Interior. Shift Gallery, Seattle Washington
2011 Untitled. Shift Gallery, Seattle Washington
2010 Work. Smith & Vallee Gallery, Edison Washington
2009 Place. Blue Horse Gallery, Bellingham Washington
2008 Humanity of Land. Smith & Vallee Gallery, Edison Washington
2007 Local Landscapes. Frameworks Gallery, Bellingham Washington
2007 Green Power. Frameworks Gallery, Bellingham Washington
Group Exhibitions
2018 Doorzien. Seattle Artist League, Seattle Washington
2018 Painters Who Fucking Know How to Paint. CoCA, Seattle Washington
2018 2nd Annual Big League Show. Seattle Artist League at Galvanize, Seattle Washington
2018 Making Our Mark. Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue Washington
2018 Flowers. Smith & Vallee Gallery, Edison Washington
2017 Seattle Artist League 1st Annual Big League Show. Seattle Artist League, Seattle Washington
2014 Slow Time: Landscapes and Stills. Smith & Vallee Gallery, Edison Washington
2014 Inky Spokes. Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma Washington
2013 Bird Festival. Smith & Vallee Gallery, Edison Washington
2013 Peak Shift. TKArts, Seattle Washington
2012 30 Paintings in 30 Days. TKArts, Seattle Washington
2012 Healing Through Art. Lucia Douglas Gallery at SJMC, Bellingham Washington
2012 Untitled. Mercer Gallery, Seattle Washington
2011 Leave Your Shoes by the Door, Kuntz & Company, Bellingham Washington
2011 Untitled. Katherine Schneider Gallery, Bellingham Washington
2011 Fate of the Forest. Whatcom Museum, Bellingham Washington
2011 Size Matters. Works on Canvas, Bellingham Washington
2011 Shift. Shift Gallery Seattle Washington
2010 The American Landscape. Loomis Hall, Blaine Washington
2010 Daily Painting Project. Works on Canvas, Bellingham Washington
2010 Four Seasons. Blue Horse Gallery, Bellingham Washington
2010 Reaching for the Light. Blue Horse Gallery, Bellingham Washington
2010 Size Matters. Works on Canvas, Bellingham Washington
2009 Ordinary Objects. Edison Eye Gallery, Edison Washington
2009 Public Hanging. Blue Horse Gallery, Bellingham Washington
2006 Tree of the Year. Lucia Douglas Gallery, Bellingham Washington
2005 Portraits. Downtown Partnership, Bellingham Washington
Reviews/Mentions/Publications
May 2018 Interview with Pat Pauly, Artbeat Northwest, 1150 AM Radio KKNW
January 2015 Jen Graves, Behind the Ball Gag, The Stranger
January 2015 Shift Gallery Magazine, Shift Gallery, Seattle
April 14, 2014 Paul Constant, The Nine Pieces that Made Jen Graves a Pulitzer Prize Finalist, The Stranger
September 2013 Jen Graves, The Lies of the Artists; The Unbelievable Pressure Artists Are Under to Just Completely Make Some Stuff Up, The Stranger
September 2013 Stranger Staff, Loose Lips, The Stranger
August 2013 Jen Kelly, Pioneer Square artist charging $25 for portraits, The New Pioneer Square
August 2013 Jen Graves, How to Succeed in Art Without Even Trying, The Unmarketed Paintings of Ruthie V, The Stranger
September 2011 Amy Kepferle, Of Death and Dance, Cascadia Weekly
September 2011 Osa Hale, Dance performance explores death: Western professor works with community to share personal experiences about loss, The Western Front
February 2011 February Art Walk Favorites, Culture Herd
October 13, 2010 Amy Kepferle, Work; Passion Versus Paycheck, Cascadia Weekly
June 8, 2010 Philip A. Dwyer, Pacific Paint, Bellingham Herald
May 20, 2010 Margaret Bikman, Artist Profile: Lisa McShane, Bellingham Herald
December 2009 Amy Kepferle, Snow Globe, Cascadia Weekly
December 2009 Amy Kepferle, Due Diligence; The Daily Painting Project, Cascadia Weekly
August 2009 Amy Kepferle, Art Harvest, On Farms and Farming, Cascadia Weekly
October 2008 Amy Kepferle, Painting the Town, Cascadia Weekly
September 2008 Kie Relyea, The New Pickford Theater, Bellingham Herald
September 2008 Andy Bronson, Ruthie V. Bellingham Herald
August 2007 Best of Bellingham, Cascadia Weekly
Publications/Presentations
January 2015 Gallery Publication Shift Gallery, Seattle
September 2014 Artist Talk, Slow Time Shift Gallery, Seattle
November 2013 Guest Lecturer, Artist Talk Western Washington University
August 2013 Artist Talk, Domestic Shift Gallery, Seattle
Honors and Awards
2008 Best of Bellingham: Voted “Best Local Artist,” Cascadia Weekly
2008 Peoples’ Choice Winner, Plein Air Paint out
2007 Volunteer of the Year, Kulshan Community Land Trust
Affiliations/Memberships
2015 Member Shunpike
2008-Present Represented by Smith & Vallee Gallery, Edison Washington
2015 Member CORE Gallery Seattle
2009-2014 Member Shift Gallery Seattle
2014 Member Fremont Arts Council
Teaching Experience
2016-Present Founder, Executive Director, Teacher at Seattle Artist League
2015-2016 Adjunct Instructor, Art Institute of Seattle
•Observational Drawing
•Design Fundamentals
2012-2016 Painting Instructor, Pratt Fine Arts Center, Seattle
•Beginning Acrylic
•Beginning Oil
•Intermediate Oil & Acrylic Painting
•Portraiture
•Alchemy of Color
•Painting the Figure
•Figure Drawing for Teens
2014-2016 Freelance Instructor, Harmony Fields, Bow
•Alchemy of Color
•How to Start, and Not Stop, Making Art
2011-2013 Arts Instructor, Continuing Education, South Seattle College
•Watercolor Painting
•Acrylic Painting
•Botanical Life Studies with Expressive Water Media
•Pen & Ink
•Portraiture
•Color Theory
•Drawing
May 2014 Arts Instructor, Kirkland Arts Center
•Beginning Drawing
November 2013 Guest Lecturer, Art Department, Western Washington University
2010-2011 Life Drawing Instructor, Freelance at Dakota Art
2006-2011 Life Drawing Facilitator, Freelance, 1-2 sessions weekly, at Dakota Art, Blue Horse Gallery