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Joan Stuart Ross
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Artist's Statement
My work in encaustic, oil, and print, layers up and digs down to find a hidden path to meaning. Repetitive shapes and marks cross the surfaces like shorthand messages; they cover what lies underneath—the “play within a play.” What is on the surface is not the only story.
Adding and scraping away layers of color express the art object as a reliquary of personal and universal information. Sometimes the visual narrative unfolds like the leaves of a book or a diptych, with a spine--vertebrae. Each mark’s independent energy and color fields express states of mind, matter, and gritty surprise.
Ancient Greco-Roman painting, sculpture and drawing, Asian calligraphy and Joseph Albers’ color theory influence my work. Lately I have been captivated by the illumination and levitation of the light, water and landscape in southwest Washington state.
Artist's Resume
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EDUCATION |
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Connecticut College, BA |
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Yale University |
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University of Iowa, MA; MFA |
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University of Washington, Certificates in Education, Creative Writing |
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Boston Latin School, Boston Museum School, MA College of Art, Centrum Foundation, Crown Point Press, Pratt Fine Arts Center |
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2009 |
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A New Weave of Repertoire, BallardWorks Galleries, Seattle, WA |
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2007 |
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Visual Echoes, Patricia Cameron Gallery, Seattle, WA |
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2006 |
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HOT Art, Northwind Arts Center, Port Townsend, WA |
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2005 |
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Joan Stuart Ross, Kittredge Gallery, University of Puget Sound |
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2004 |
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Embedded: New Encaustics, Pratt Fine Arts Center Gallery |
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2003 |
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Texts & Tales, Handforth Gallery, Tacoma Public Library, WA Texts: Straits & Channels, Edmonds Art Festival Museum, WA |
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2002 |
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Texts & Messages, Edmonds Community College Gallery |
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2001 |
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New Work, Cooperhuset, Balestrand, Norway Portes Ouvertes, Paris, France |
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2000 |
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Texts, Installation, Northwest Bookfest, Seattle, WA Familie-Portrett, Luther Seminary, St. Paul, MN; Vesterheim Museum, Decorah, IA; Nordic Museum, Seattle, WA; Førde og Søgn Kunstnarsenter; traveled in Norway Recent Encaustics, Lisa Harris Gallery, Seattle, WA |
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Others |
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Friesen Gallery, Grover/Thurston Gallery, Foster/White Gallery, 1004 Gallery, Maveety Gallery, Whatcom Museum, Edward Cain Gallery, Fountain Gallery, SAM, Karl Bornstein Gallery, Penryn Gallery, Artists Gallery, Surrey Art Gallery, Polly Friedlander Gallery, Exit Gallery, colleges & universities |
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2008 |
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Northwest Visions in Printmaking, Print Arts Northwest, WA State Convention & Trade Center |
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2007 |
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Affinities: Space & Structure, Encaustic Paintings, BallardWorks Galleries Spring Fling, Patricia Cameron Gallery, Seattle Faces; Layered Land, Confluence Gallery, Twisp, WA |
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2006 |
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Then & Now, Collectors & Their Artists, Northwind Arts Alliance, Port Townsend, WA Impulse, Juried Encaustic Exhibition, Portland Art Center, OR connect/disconnect, Patricia Cameron Gallery, Seattle Sharing the Gift, NW Printmaking Instructors, Shoreline Community College BallardWorks: Works, Edmonds Community College, Lynnwood, WA Ink + Paper, G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle |
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2005 |
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Works on Paper, Central Washington University, Ellensburg, WA Poem as Image, The Studio Gallery, Armonk, N. Y. define:book, Art Books Press, Seattle Nordic NW, Nordic Museum, Seattle Paper Politics, Phinney Center Gallery, Seattle |
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2004 |
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Material
Witness, Kirkland Art Gallery, WA |
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2002 |
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Conceptually Bound 2, Coyote Gallery, Butte Glenn College, Oroville, CA Three Nordic Artists, The Institutt, Sogndal, Norway 32 Prints from Seattle Print Arts, PAN, Portland Art Museum, OR Print-It, The Art of Printmaking, Confluence Gallery, Twisp, WA |
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2001 |
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Northwest
Book Artists, Northwest Bookfest, Seattle, WA TEXTural, Seattle Art Museum Gallery Natural Causes, Gallery One, Ellensburg, WA IMAGE/TEXT, Westmont College, Santa Barbara, CA Nordic Heritage, North Seattle Community College Gallery Painting, Color, Bainbridge Art and Crafts, Winslow, WA Northwest Printmakers, Seattle Art Museum Gallery |
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2000 |
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L’Estampe 2000, Galerie Andre Beguin, Paris, France The Graphic Image, Shoreline Community College, Shoreline, WA Bumberbiennale: Painting 2000, Seattle, Curator, Matthew Kangas Artists Making Prints, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, UW, Seattle Northwest Printmakers, Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA |
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1998 |
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10 Eyes:
5 Artists, Pratt Gallery/COCA; Poriginal Gallery, Pori, Finland Shoes as Muse, Pratt Fine Arts Gallery, Seattle Three Printers, Edison Eye Gallery, Edison, WA |
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Others |
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2008 |
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4Culture, Individual Projects Award |
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2007 |
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Espy Foundation, Oysterville, WA, Artist Residency; also 2006 NSCC, Sabbatical Leave PONCHO Artist Merit Award |
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2005 |
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Fulbright-Hays Group Study Grant, Vietnam PDAP Grant, WA State Arts Commission |
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2004 |
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NSCC Foundation Grant |
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2003 |
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NSCC Foundation Grant |
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2001 |
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Cooperhuset, Balestrand, Norway, Residency NSCC, Sabbatical Leave, Paris France |
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1999 |
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International Residencies for Artists grant, NY, NY NSCC & Ford Foundation, International Travel Grant, Norway |
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1998 |
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Faculty Development Grant, Crown Point Press |
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1995 |
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Kathe Kollwitz Award, Seattle Women's Caucus for Art |
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1994-1997 |
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King County Regional Justice Ctr., Jury Rooms Design Team Commission |
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Other Awards & Residencies |
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Centrum Foundation, Pilchuck School, NIAUSI Rome Fellowship, SAM Betty Bowen Memorial Award, Voss Folkehøgskule, KCAC New Proposals, NEA/SAC Visual Arts Event, Jane Burr Fund, and others |
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Seattle Art Museum National Museum of Women in the Arts University of Washington, Suzzallo Library King County Regional Justice Center Bellingham Technical College University of Illinois, Chicago University of Iowa, Iowa City Pierce County District Court, Tacoma, WA Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, WA Providence Hospital, Seattle Swedish Orthopedic Institute, Seattle King County Arts Commission, Seattle, WA Junior League of Seattle Seattle City Light Oregon State Printing Plant, Salem State of Washington Portland State Office Building, Portland, OR Skagit Valley College, Mt. Vernon, WA Edmonds Community College, Lynnwood, WA Kaiser Permanente, Denver, CO Microsoft, Redmond, WA Nordstrom, Seattle, Santa Ana, Palo Alto Paul Allen, Seattle |
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2008 |
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Relocations, Selected Art Essays and Interviews, Matthew Kangas, Midmarch Arts Press, NY, NY |
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2002 |
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SCC-TV, Joan Stuart Ross: Persevering Heart, Film-TV Interview |
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1997 |
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Contemporary Printmaking in the Northwest, Lois Allen, Craftsman House |
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1993 |
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Modernism and Beyond: Women Artists of the Pacific Northwest, ed. L. Brunsman and R. Askey, Midmarch Arts Press, NY, NY |
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1992 |
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Bumbershoot Arts Festival, Seattle, WA, Poster, Carnival IV |
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1990 |
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Northwest Originals: WA Women & Their Art, Matrimedia, Portland OR Skagit Valley College, Poster, Undersea Art in America, April, Matthew Kangas |
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Others |
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Allied Arts, Seattle, WA, Poster, Breathe Through; 50 Northwest Artists, Bruce Guenther, Chronicle Books; 50 Northwest Artists, Bruce Guenther, Chronicle Books; Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, B. C. Jane Young, Monograph; Seattle Art Museum, New Ideas IV, Poster, Silver Fox Series IV |