About Kathleen Dunphy |
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In the mid-1990’s, Kathleen Dunphy started her art career by displaying colored-pencil dog portraits in coffee shops and veterinary clinics in Eagle River, Alaska. Little did she know that less than 10 years later, she would be a highly acclaimed oil painter, exhibiting her work in galleries across the United States and garnering awards from some of the top art competitions in the country. Kathleen’s rapid success in the competitive art world was predicted when American Artist Magazine recognized her as one of the Top Ten Emerging Artists in 1998. She is one of those rare people who have true passion, dedication, and a gift for transposing nature’s beauty to the canvas.
Kathleen’s early art education included workshops by Kevin MacPherson and Dan Gerhartz. In 2000, Kathleen was awarded a full scholarship at the prestigious Academy of Art College in San Francisco, where she was mentored by artists such as Craig Nelson and Brian Blood. She maintains strong ties to the Academy, where she has been offered a faculty appointment and participates in the annual Alumni Auction. Further study with Scott Christensen and T. Allen Lawson helped hone her skills and refine her own unique style of painting.
In 2003, Kathleen designed and built her own studio in the Sierra Nevada foothills of northern California, where the pristine setting of her new home provides endless inspiration for her work. Kathleen’s landscape paintings can now be found in galleries from coast to coast. Her honors and considerable and include important juried shows in California, Texas, Georgia, Arizona, and Maine; an Award of Excellence from the Oil Painters of America; four California Art Club Gold Medal Shows; six magazine articles including being chosen by Southwest Art as an “Artist to Watch”; the Federal Duck Stamp Competition; Birds in Art; Arts for the Parks; Grand Prize at the Acadia Invitational Exhibition in Bar Harbor, Maine; and many others. In just ten years, she has earned an impressive and growing reputation with galleries, private collectors, and art magazines across the United States.
In the spirit of passing on the gifts of her artistic abilities, Kathleen began teaching in 2005 and is a much sought-after workshop instructor. Her engaging style of teaching and one-on-one instruction garners high accolades from her student artists. She has also served as a judge for several art competitions. While her current passion is still to paint nature every day and produce a limited number of high quality paintings, she is now working on a book about her process of developing a work of art from field study to finished studio paintings.
SELECTED EXHIBITS AND EVENTS:
~October 2007- Solo Show, Elliott Fouts Gallery
~August 2006-Top Award Winner -Acadia Invitational, Argosy Gallery, Bar Harbor, Maine
~April 2006 - California Art Club Gold Medal Show
~October 2005 - "From Field Study To Finish" - solo show, The Vault Gallery, Sonora, CA
~September 2004 & 2005 - Sonoma Plein Air Festival, Juried Artist, Sonoma, CA
~June 2005 - Plein on Main, plein air festival, Murphys, CA
~May 2002-2005 - Gold Country Plein Air Festival, Juried artist, Sonora, CA
~April 2005 - Salon International, Greenhouse Gallery Top 50, Honorable Mention
~March 2005 - Invitational 2005 - Anne Irwin Fine Art, Atlanta, GA
~January 2005- Solo show, Iron Door Gallery, Murphys, CA
~2004 - California Art Club Gold Medal Show
~2004 - Solo Show, Artique ltd., Anchorage, AK
~2004 - Solo Show - J Proctor Gallery, Seaside, FL
~2003 - Oil Painters of America 12th Annual Exhibition, Award of Excellence
~2003 - Solo Show, Epperson Gallery, Crockett, CA
~2002 - California Art Club, Artist Member
~2002 - Arts for the Parks - Top 200 and Mini 50
~2001 & 2002 - Carmel Art Festival
~2002 - Salon International, Greenhouse gallery, 2 paintings
~2002 - Academy of Art College, San Francisco: Annual Spring Show: First Place, Still Life; Second Place, Landscape
~2002 - Solo Show, The Vault Gallery, Sonora, CA
~2002, 2000, 1998 - Solo Shows, Artique ltd, Anchorage, AK
~2001 - Academy of Art College, San Francisco: Annual Spring Show: First & Third Place, Landscape; Third Place, Still Life
~2001 - Birds In Art
~2001 - The Artists' Magazine, Annual Art Competition Finalist (2 paintings)
~2000 - Full Scholarship (summer study grant), Academy of Art College, San Francisco
~2000 & 1998 - Scottsdale Artists' School - Best and the Brightest
~1999 - Oil Painters of America 8th Annual Exhibition
~1998 - American Artist Magazine - Top Ten Emerging Artists Competition, third place
~1996 - US Dept. of Fish and Wildlife Federal Duck Stamp Competition, Top 100 finalist
PUBLICATIONS:
-Western Art Collector: "Finding Beauty Close to Home" October 2007
-Southwest Art: "Pacific States of Mind" August 2007
-Southwest Art: Artists to Watch, 2004
-Southwest Art: Art Values, 2003
-Southwest Art: California: Best of the West - Golden State Lanscapes 2002
-The Artists' Magazine: The Power of Ingenuity, 2001
-American Artist Magazine: 10 Finalists of the Emerging Artist Competition 1998
-The Best of Colored Pencil, Rockport Publications, 1999
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