Kristy Gordon
Home: Ottawa, Ontario
Title: Easter Sunday
Media: Oil on linen / huile sur lin
Dimensions: 50 x 40 cm
Website: kristygordon.co
I paint people in simple poses with strong, psychological evocations. I resist the temptation to idealize or romanticize. Instead I allow the pure truth of the subject to take visual form on the canvas.
EDUCATION:
2006 Academy of Realist Art, Toronto, ON
2003 – 2006 Ottawa School of Art, Paint the Figure, Ottawa, ON
1999 – 2001 Animation, Algonquin College, Ottawa, ON
1998 Design Foundations, Algonquin College, Ottawa, ON
EXHIBITIONS:
2007 Human Figure Show, Federation Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2006 Small Smaller Smallest, Federation Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2006 Salon International 2006, Greenhouse Gallery, San Antonio, Texas
2006 Spontaneity Show, Federation Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2006 Landscape Show, Federation Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2005 Koyman Galleries, Ottawa (solo exhibition)
2004 “Etherlands,” Exclusive Art Forms, Lancaster, Ontario, (solo exhibition)
2005 Human Figure Show, Federation of Canadian Artists Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2005 Invitational Figure Exhibition, Loch Gallery, Toronto
2004 Hampton Gallery, Kamloops, British Columbia
2004 The Little Elephant, Oceanside, New York
2004 Tutt Street Gallery, Kelowna, British Columbia
2004 Members Show, Alternator Gallery, Kelowna, BC
2002/03/04 Elmwood Art and Home Fair, Ottawa
2004 Winter Green, Ottawa Art Gallery, Art and Rental and Sales
2003 Holiday Art, Ottawa Art Gallery, Art and Rental and Sales
2002 Painting our Past, Mildred Erb Gallery, Nelson, BC
1997 Kootenay Boundary Regional Juried Art Exhibition, Silverton, BC
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS:
2006 Ontario Society of Artists
2005 Portrait Society of America
2005 Federation of Canadian Artists
AWARDS:
2007 Award of Excellence, Human Figure Show, Federation Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2006 Award of Excellence, Hyper-Real Show, Federation Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2002 Most Promising Emerging Artist, Elmwood Art Fair, Ottawa, ON
1998 Nelson and District Arts Council Award, Nelson, BC
COLLECTIONS:
2001 Nelson and District Museum, Nelson, BC
PUBLICATIONS:
Vol. 6 – No. 4 July/August 2006 – Art Avenue, Vancouver, BC
March 2004 – Art Calendar Magazine, cover art
Spring 2004 – MAGAZIN’ART, feature article
December 18,1997 – Nelson Daily News, Nelson, BC