Member Biography

ARTIST STATEMENT

"My paintings reflect my interpretation of popular culture, social injustice, political craziness and various American pastimes. The banality of ordinary life can be transformed and intensified when viewed through colored lenses."

ARTIST BACKGROUND

My birth and upbringing in Lincoln, Nebraska had much to do with becoming an artist. My parents, immigrants from Kiev, Russia, thought it their duty to introduce me to American culture. We spent many a wintry day wandering through the University of Nebraska art collection and dinosaur display. The Picassos, Grant Woods and Arps inspired me to enroll in the University of Nebraska School of Art at the age of 18.

My studies were interrupted when I married and moved to Seattle. My early years in Seattle involved taking night courses in jewelry and sculpture at the University of Washington and raising my family. I later received my degree in Fine Arts, majoring in printmaking and painting.

I have kept involved in a variety of art media and for the past ten years I have worked primarily in watercolor and acrylics on paper.

MEDIA

• Paintings: Oil, Acrylic and Watercolor
• Printmaking: Collograph, Silk Screen and Etching

EDUCATION

• Bachelor of Arts Degree, cum laude, from the University of Washington with majors in painting and printmaking
• Northridge University, California State

• North Central Washington Museum, Wenatchee, WA
• Bellevue Arts and Crafts, Invitational, Featured Artist
• Richard White Gallery
• Seattle Art Museum
• Seattle World's Fair, Weyerhaeuser Model House
• Henry Gallery, Seattle, WA
• Cheney Museum, Spokane, WA
• Laguna Beach Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
• Pacific Lutheran College Gallery
• Bellevue Art Museum
• Maryhill Museum
• Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA

• Matzke-Runnings Gallery
• Eileen Enck Gallery
• Black Swan Gallery
• Kobe, Japan Gallery
• Howard Mandeville Gallery
• The Stonington Gallery
• Paul Kirk Gallery
• Thumbprint Gallery
• Childs End Gallery
• Issaquah Gallery
• The Stillwater Gallery

• Edmonds Arts & Crafts, 1st Prize, Watercolor, Professional
• Puget Sound Country Exhibition, Eileen Enck Gallery
• GM Nameplate Company, Purchase Award
• Mercer Island Visual Arts League

• Artists Equity
• Lhamda Rho Woman Arts Honorary, Alumni, UW
• Women Painters of Washington
• Northwest Watercolor Society, Signature Member

• Temple Beth Am, Brass etched Torah TAble and Lecturn
• Brass etched tables for Mr. & Mrs. Abe Spear, Seattle
• Brass etched tables for Mr. & Mrs. David Seidell, Bellevue

The Great Escape

TV Too-Loos

All images displayed are
acrylic medium

All Artwork Copyright
of the Artist.

For information about price
and availability of paintings,
please contact the artist
at the number listed above.

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