BOBBIE JANSEN
JURIED EXHIBITIONS AND AWARDS
2006 Coos Art Museum: Expressions West Third Place Purchase Award, Coos Bay, Oregon 2005 Coos Art Museum: Expressions West Honorable Mention Award, Coos Bay, Oregon 2001-5 True Colors: Traveling Exhibition: Meridian International Center, Washington, D.C. (Traveling to D.C, New York, NY, Atlanta, GA, Istanbul, Turkey, Cairo, Egypt, Casablance, Morocco and Berlin, Germany and more) 2003 Art Equinox 2003: A Regional Survey of Contemporary Art, Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art, Great Falls, Montana 1999 Willamette Valley Juried Exhibition, Corvallis, Oregon 1996 Women's Visions, Juried International Show, Corvallis Art Center, Judges Preference Award. 1995 Art About Agriculture, Oregon State University (Traveling Exhibition) 1992 North West International Art Competition, Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, Washington. Jurors: Peter Frank, Rupert Garcia All Oregon Art Annual Juried Show 1987 Willamette Valley Juried Show, Corvallis Arts Center, Corvallis, Oregon
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2006 *Hanson Howard Gallery, Ashland, Oregon 2004 Abstract Art Group Show, Valentine Fine Art, Bozeman, Montana Insight Gallery, Anacortes, Washington *Hanson Howard Gallery, Ashland, Oregon 2003 Taksu Gallery, Singapore *Corvallis Art Center, Corvallis, Oregon *Hanson Howard Gallery, Ashland, Oregon *Augen Gallery, Portland, Oregon 2002 *Pegasus Gallery, Corvallis, Oregon 2001 *Hanson Howard Gallery, Ashland, Oregon Munson Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico 2000 *Newark Academy, Livingston, New Jersey *Augen Gallery, Portland, Oregon Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, Washington, "Art and All That Jazz" 1999 Cultural Activities Center, Temple, Texas, "Three Painters" *Hanson Howard Gallery, Ashland, Oregon 1998 *Ricciardi Gallery, Astoria, Oregon 1995 *Ricciardi Gallery, Astoria, Oregon 1993 *Schubert Gallery, Albany, Oregon 1991 *Southern Oregon University
* Indicates One or Two Person Exhibit
PUBLICATIONS
2004 Southwest Art, October Issue 2002 True Colors Washington Post, March 3 Washington Times, March Radikal, Istanbul, Turkey, September 11 Milleyet, Istanbul, September 11 Cumhuriyet, Istanbul 2000 Calyx - Cover Art, Journal of art and literature by women, Summer 1999 New American Paintings, December Issue, West Coast Competition Juror: Lowery Sims, Curator Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
EMPLOYMENT
- 1995-99 Teaching: Painting and Drawing, Linn-Benton Community College
- 1993-94 Teaching: Carden Academy, Corvallis, Oregon
EDUCATION
- Nathan Oliveira
- Santa Fe Art Institute
- 1990 Ed Young: Painting
- 1975 Alec Vargo: Sculpture
- Also:
Marylhurst College
Western Oregon University
Linn-Benton Community College
ARTIST STATEMENT
Our society places a high value on objects. We spend a great deal of time, money and effort choosing and collecting them. Amongst other things, we use them to communicate something about who we are. Aptly the art world has recently coined the term `objects of desire' to describe paintings that have an element of still life in them.
It is often in the process of painting an object that I discover what my connection to it is. It may be as simple as the shape or color, but more often it is a symbolic stand-in for something greater.
The objects may find themselves in a tight, claustrophobic interior, or in an endlessly expanding exterior. At times they are singular, and isolated, at other times multiplied, intertwined, and chaotic. They may be whole with every detail described, or be fractured, veiled and disintegrating.
A painting's success is not as much related to a particular reading of the objects, but more for its capacity to transcend them.