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Kate in Paria Canyon















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 have been intrigued by the hedgerows of the Willamette Valley; the tension between the overlapping, looping blackberries, wild roses and the adjacent grasslands; the contrast between rows of a poplar woodland, hedgerows and agricultural fields.
I have been under the spell of the high desert, its dusty colors and empty spaces.
Now I am experimenting with making space from memory, marking the page to create an imagined place that resounds with the viewer.
I compose continually, adjusting the shapes, scumbling the colors and revising the light to create paintings that satisfy. I reconfigure, recolor and distill what is imagined and what is before me, seeking its radiant essence.

 
Exhibitions
May, 2010
2010 Emerald Art Center 
Juried National Exhibition--two pieces
Springfield, Oregon

April-May, 2010
Juried Members Show
Northwest Pastel Society--three pieces
Blue Horse Gallery
Bellingham, Washington


Purely Pastel Artists Group Show
Purely Pastel Artisits Premiere

Group Show
June 1-June 26, 2010
Jacqua Gallery
Emerald Art Center, Springfield, OR
Reception June 11 5:30 to 7:30

August-September, 2010
Purely Pastel Artists Group Show
Broken Color
La Follette Gallery
Eugene, Oregon


May, 2011
Purely Pastel Artists Group Show
Presentations in Pure Pigment
Springfield Art Museum
Springfield, OR

July, 2009 Solo Show, Altera
Roadside Attractions,
Bend, OR

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


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

October, 2008  Solo Show, DIVA

Eugene, Oregon
Willamette Valley Views
(or, Places Between My House and Scott's House), Eugene, Oregon

May, 2008 Emerald Art Center Juried National Exhibition
Frameworks Award, 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
Member: Purely Pastel Artists