Claire Cowie

 

Born: 1975 Charlotte, NC

Lives and works in Seattle, WA

 

Education

MFA 1999  Printmaking, University of Washington, Seattle

BFA 1997  Printmaking, Washington University, St. Louis

1990 – 1993  North Carolina School of the Arts, Winston-Salem NC 

 

Solo Exhibitions

2005  Village Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland                      

2004  Land Escapes James Harris Gallery, Seattle

2003  Flying Ladies of Leisure, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle

A project involving a residency, an exhibition of past work, an exhibition of new work

          Stagings: Claire Cowie and the Monsen Collection Photogravures, Henry Art Gallery

      A collection-based photo exhibition built around a series of recent photogravures

          Still Life on Blue, cherrydelosreyes Gallery, Los Angeles

2002  Stagings, James Harris Gallery, Seattle

 

Selected Group Exhibitions

2006   Swallow Harder: Selections from the Ben and Aileen Krohn Collection Frye Art Museum

2005   A Decade of Excellence: The Neddy Artist Fellowship Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma

          Unexpected Watercolor Art Gym, Marylhurst University, Portland

          Release/Capture Kirkland Art Center, Kirkland WA                   

2004  Summer Group Show, cherrydelosreyes, Los Angeles

2003  Crossroads: New Art From the Northwest, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle

          Dancing on the Walls, Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery, Portland

2002  Multiplex, Bumbershoot, Seattle Center

          32 Prints, Portland Art Museum, Portland

          LAVA, Noodleworks Studio, Seattle (catalogue)

          Introductions, Rental Sales Gallery, Seattle Art Museum

2001  TRANSmogrified, James Harris Gallery, Seattle

          Unbecoming, Soil Cooperative, Seattle

2000  Intervals, Frames and Accelerations, Froelick Adelhart Gallery, Portland

          Plaster: Means/Ends, Soil Cooperative, Seattle

1999  2nd Annual Printmaking Exhibition, Kirkland Art Center, Kirkland WA (juror’s award)

          Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition, Henry Art Gallery, U. of Washington

 

Collections

Amgen Corporation, Seattle WA

4Culture Public Art Collection, Seattle WA

Henry Art Gallery, Seattle WA

Microsoft Corporation, Redmond WA

Swedish Cancer Institute, Seattle WA

Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma WA

University of Missouri, St. Louis MO

 

Artist Residencies

2003  Henry Art Gallery, Seattle

2000  Centrum, Fort Worden State Park, Port Townsend WA

 

Professional Service

2004 – Present  Board Member, Henry Art Gallery

2003                  Visiting Artist for Youth in Focus, an organization dedicated to photography          

                                  education for under-privileged children in the Seattle area

2002 – 2003      Programming Committee Member, Contemporary Art Council, Seattle Art

                                  Museum

2001 – Present  Board Member, Seattle Print Arts

1999                  Publications/ Catalogue Chair, Graduate Student Committee, University of

                                  Washington, Seattle WA

 

Bibliography

Janet Koplos, “Report from Seattle,” Art in America, September 2005 (image)

Emily Hall, “Claire Cowie: James Harris Gallery,” Artforum, May 2004 (image)

Judy Wagonfeld, “An Artist Cuts up Her Old Works to Create Intriguing Collages,” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, March 5, 2004 (image)

Suzanne Beal, “The Tiny, the Indeterminate and the Ever-Changing,” ArtDish, http://www.artdish.com/the-dish.asp?ID=44  October 2003 (images)

Sara Krajewski, “Claire Cowie at the Henry Art Gallery,” Artweek, October 2003 Vol.34, Issue 8 p.26 (images)

Regina Hackett, “Henry’s fit to burst with its bounty of contemporary art,” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, August 5, 2003 (image)

Leah Ollman, “Recasting Objects of Childhood,” Los Angeles Times, May 2, 2003 (image)

Emily Hall, “Framed in Los Angeles,” The Stranger, May 8, 2003 (images)

Sheila Farr, “Northwest Art Converges at COCA’s Crossroads,” The Seattle Times, March 28, 2003 (image)

Elizabeth Brown and Lisa Corrin, “The Mountain is Out,” Modern Painters, Autumn 2002 p. 47

Emily Hall, “In and Out of Context: The Secret Life of Tschotkes,” The Stranger, July 11-17 2002, vol.11 no.43 (image)

Rhonda Howard “Claire Cowie: River in Human Skin,” LAVA 2002 catalogue, Thread, 2002 pp. 34-37 (image)

Sheila Farr, “Talent of the Future Taking Shape,” The Seattle Times, Jan 11 2002 (image)

Regina Hackett, “Things Change: Art is Becoming in a Material Way,” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Jan 11 2002

Sheila Farr, “Rethinking What’s Beautiful and Beastly,” The Seattle Times, June 22, 2001

Cynthia Rose, “Artist’s Work Highlights Life’s Essential Anarchy,” The Seattle Times, December 10 1999 (image)

 

Grants and Awards

2005  Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant

2004  Neddy Artist Fellowship, Behnke Foundation

          Fellowship Award, Artist Trust/Washington State Arts Commission                                   

2000  GAP Award (Grants for Artist’s Projects) Artist Trust, Seattle

1998  Parnassus Scholarship, University of Washington

1997  Gonzales Fine Arts Scholarship, University of Washington

1995  Edmund H. Wuerpal Award for Printmaking, Washington University

1993  Washington University Scholarship

1992  John M. Ehle, Jr. Scholarship, N.C. School of the Arts, Winston-Salem