Exhibitions and Projects
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Seattle Art Museum Oct 2007. One day exhibition during a luncheon for potential art collectors.
Awoken: Archetypes and Ancestors, Nov 4-Nov 29, 2003. Viveza Gallery, 2604 Western Ave, Seattle WA
Women Artists Collective Journal Project, summer 1998 - winter 2001
A collective project where a group of up to four women were adding to a journal then sending it to the next woman. The journal traveled from Europe, to New York, to Chicago, to Vancouver, B.C. Then we created an online version where we scanned the original pages then added to them virtually. I was the main web designer of the online project .
Around the Coyote Art Show, Chicago, summer 1999
A very well known and attended art show in the Wicker Park area of Chicago, Il. A three day event involving hundreds of artists and dozens of galleries.
Graduated from Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, May 1998
Emily Carr Graduation Show. Vancouver, B.C., May-June 1998 (group show)
Informe/ing Disturbation: Attraction and Repulsion, Emily Carr Concourse Gallery Exhibition, Vancouver, B.C., winter 1998 (group show)
An exhibition about using the "abject" and the "informe" as strategies of representation. Works that actively straddle boundaries without sitting on the fence; that deals with attraction and repulsion simultaneously.
Emily Carr Graduate Art Auction, winter 1997
One 18" by 22" piece started at $60 and went for $400 in live auction
Intermedia Studio Assistant, Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, fall 1996 - spring 1998
Was responsible for the upkeep of the intermedia studios, assisting students with their projects, organizing Intermedia Department meetings, etc.
Radio Free Emily, Emily Carr radio station facilitator, fall 1996 - spring 1998
Facilitating and organizing students and student shows on the college, short-wave radio station.
Web Page Design, fall 1996 - present.
I have designed web pages for personal and family use as well as for groups and clubs I have been involved in. Please see my web pages for some of my art at:
http://denise_whitlow.homestead.com/home.html
You can also find some of my essays on this site.
Crimpers Salon Christmas Pageant and Art Show, Vancouver, B.C., winter 1993
Personal Statement:
I have been excited to see the diverse audience that the work attracts, and have cherished the way it prompts people to approach me with their own stories and reveries. There is a seriousness to the work but also a playfulness.
In another dimension I am a biologist/archaeologist, and these passions show in the depths and textures of my work. There is nothing clean or sterile about the work or how it's made. I love to get my hands dirty, and it shows.
I hope to continue to explore these issues, especially within the context of being a mother. Motherhood gives a whole new dimension to the issues addressed in my work. I am excited about all of the new paths that lay ahead of me, in my art and in my life.
Aritist Statement
No matter the form or medium, my works always seems to speak to dichotomies, dualisms, boundaries and thresholds.. Being either conceptual, impressionistic, abstract or a combination of styles, I like to create not only an aesthetic discourse between the materials themselves and also the art and the audience, but also discourse of ideas, perceptions, context and readings of the art.. I would like the viewer to be able to engage the work as intimately as they feel comfortable doing, both intellectually and physically. I am just at intrigued when there is a visceral response to the work as a cerebral one, but especially so when there is both. I would like each piece to exist on many levels for many audiences, and I believe that it does that.
My goal is to bridge mediums, genres as well as contexts and histories. I strive for my work to have history yet to also look to the future. I am striving and growing always in my philosophies and ideologies and how to bring those to my works in a way that is accessible to a wide range of viewers.
