Kate McGee Fine Art

KATE MCGEE PASTEL ARTIST

My pastel landscape paintings explore how light describes space. It surprised me to discover that they are the continuation of my career as a landscape architect. I push the space back with cool purples and draw it forward with fiery reds and oranges. I persist until the paintings glow as if they are back lit.

I have been intrigued by the hedgerows of the Willamette Valley; the tension between the overlapping, looping blackberries, wild roses, redtwig dogwoods and hawthorns and the adjacent grasslands; the contrast between rows of a poplar woodland and roving heaps of uncontrolled blackberries.

Now I am under the spell of the high desert, its dusty colors and empty spaces.

I compose continually, adjusting the shape of meadows, trees and shrubbery to create a place that resounds with me. I reconfigure, recolor and distill what is before me to paint its radiant essence.

Exhibitions

Exhibits Coming Up:

Solo Show
Roadside Attractions
Altera Real Estate
July 3 -- June 3
Artist's Reception First Friday
5:00-9:00pm July 3rd
25 NW Minnesota Ave
Bend, OR

Past Exhibits:

April and May, 2009 Solo Show
Tate Common Hall
Eugene, Oregon

April, 2009 Juried Members Show
Northwest Pastel Society
Blue Horse Gallery
Bellingham, Washington
Honorable Mention

October, 2008 Solo Show
DIVA, Eugene, Oregon
Willamette Valley Views
(or, Places Between My House and Scott's House)

May, 2008
Emerald Spring Exhibition
Juried National Exhibition
Frameworks Award
Emerald Art Center, Springfield, OR

February, 2008
Art by Architects
Juried Show
DIVA, Eugene, OR

Juried member: Pastel Society of Oregon

Member: Northwest Pastel Society
Member: Westcoast Pastel Society