Memories from the Mind’s Eye
When I started painting, I found myself drawn to styles, imagery and colors that surrounded me growing up. My father’s eclectic collection of contemporary art, Japanese woodblock prints and abstract lithographs. Marimekko fabrics. Works in New York museums. I’ve always been an appreciative aesthete.
I now love the act of expressing my visual inspiration as my own. It’s like I’m speaking a shared language or sitting at the table with artists that came before me – and that now work alongside me.
I identify most with the concept of duality in my work. Constraints and freedom. Depths and surfaces. Structure and looseness. Monoprints, with the master and the imprint. This yin yang dynamic represents the richness and complexity of who I am as an artist and a person. I grow from exercising the duality, extending my own boundaries, leaping forward.
my Story
I’ve always been in the business of creating, first as a graphic designer, then as a project and account manager of strategic brand design. Being artistic has been a constant, and being part of the creative process in my professional life has been very satisfying. At a career juncture, I joined the West Seattle Art Walk as lead coordinator, to engage more deeply in my community. The experience was transformative: inspired by the participating artists, their stories and their work, I gave myself permission to tap into my own curiosity to paint abstracts.
I was born and raised in Manhattan and live in Seattle with my husband and two young-adult children. I have a degree in Architecture but turned from three dimensions to two, paste-up to pixels, and now to paints.
Curriculum Vitae
Born 1964, New York, NY. Lives and works in Seattle, WA.
EDUCATION
1986, Bachelor of Arts, School of Architecture, Princeton University
ASSOCIATIONS
Women Painters of Washington, juried into organization March 2024
EXHIBITIONS
2024
“Abstract Thoughts” Group Show, Alki Arts Gallery, West Seattle, WA, March
2023
“Confluence” Group Show, Grand Reopening, Alki Arts Gallery, West Seattle, WA, December
Sweet Reel Maker’s Market, Seattle, WA, December 17
Reeve Washburn Art Solo Pop-up, DAMA Wines, Walla Walla, WA, September 21-24
“A Cool Summer Breeze” Group Show, “Aeolian Vessel Series,” Side Rail Collective, Seattle, WA, August 12-September 9
Alki Arts Group Show, “JOY Vessel Series,” West Seattle, WA, July 11-16
23rd Annual Juried Exhibition, “Vessel Series Triptych” acrylic mixed media, Schack Art Center, Everett, WA, June 15-August 26
Reeve Washburn Art Solo Installation, West Seattle, WA, March 6-12, including West Seattle Art Walk
Second Annual Juried Exhibition, “Seeds” mixed media piece, Combine Art Collective, Walla Walla, WA, January
2022
West Seattle Art Walk, Group Show, Wild Rose’s, West Seattle, WA, November
CITRINE Design Shop Grand Opening, featured artist, Gilman Village, Issaquah, November
RIVER Event Space Grand Opening, Small Works Invitational, October
West Seattle Art Hop & Shop, Community Show, West Seattle, WA, September
2021
Holiday Invitational, Group Show, Click! Design That Fits, West Seattle, WA, November, December
Guest Artist, Fogue Gallery, West Seattle, WA, September, October
Mid Mod Collage Patio Show, Group show, Brace Point Pottery, West Seattle, WA, June
“EVOLUTION // LAYERED,” Solo show, Wild Rose’s Home, West Seattle, WA, August
“ESSENCE // STRUCTURE,” Solo show, Capers Home, West Seattle, WA, January and February featured artist
Solo show, Coopers Optique, Seattle, WA, January (in-store) + Zoom sale and reception
2020
“SCROLLS II: Bounding Freedom,” Solo show, Wild Rose’s, West Seattle, WA
“Floating Depths,” Solo show, Canna West Culture Shop, West Seattle, WA (Virtual Art Walk)
“Memories from the Mind’s Eye,” Solo show, Verity Credit Union, West Seattle, WA (Virtual Art Walk)
BENEFITS
2023
Live painting at “Wine in the Woods” annual fundraiser for the Delridge Neighborhood Development Association (DNDA). Piece auctioned as part of the event. Seattle, WA, October 7
Live painting at French Wine Dinner, DAMA Wines, Piece auction as part of the event to benefit World Central Kitchen. Walla Walla, WA. September 22.
Donation to Charcot Marie Tooth Association (CMTA) 6th Annual “Walk 4 CMT” silent auction: acrylic mixed media piece
Donation to Northwest Firelight Chorale annual fundraiser “Ain’t Misbehavin’!”: three mixed media hand-printed collage pieces
2022
Donation to Northwest Firelight Chorale annual fundraiser “Road Trip!”: three mixed media hand-printed collage pieces
2021
Donation to Northwest Firelight Chorale annual fundraiser “Turn the World Around”: two acrylic on canvas compositions
2020
“ART 4 BLM (SCROLLS I)” 100% of sales donated to Black Lives Matter Seattle-King County ($900)
COMMISSIONS
2023
”Cordillera,” Private Collection, Lafayette, Colorado
2021
Custom Map Project, “Seattle Stratus,” Community Attributes, Inc.
2020
“Floating Depths I, II, III,” Private Collection, Telluride, Colorado
VOLUNTEER
2018 – 2023: West Seattle Art Walk, Lead coordinator: marketing, writing, website management
2013 to present: Northwest Firelight Chorale: Board Member (2 years); marketing, design, writing, operations.