SOLO EXHIBITIONS 

As of Now, BARA Studios / Whiteaker ArtWalk, Eugene, OR – 2024 - ongoing

Efflorescence, Territorial Vineyards, Eugene, OR – 2024 

Forks in the Road, Oregon Art Supply Gallery, Eugene, OR – 2024 

Balance, Robert Cecil Salon, Eugene, OR – 2023 

Vision 1-3, Eugene Eye Clinic, Eugene, OR – 2021

The Writer’s Place, Madison, WI – 1990 

Sacred Stuff, BFA thesis exhibition – painting & sculpture, Humanities Gallery, UW-Madison, Madison, WI – 1990 

 

FOCUSED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 

The Art of Interbeing, 5-person show, Hood River Library, Hood River, OR – 2023

Interbeing, 5-person show, River Gallery, Independence, OR – 2023 

Interbeing, 5-person show, Maude Kerns Art Center, Eugene, OR – 2023  https://tinyurl.com/36bpm3fh

Art of the Zoom: Unmute Yourself, 6-person show, The Dalles Art Center, The Dalles, OR – 2021 

 

JURIED & INVITATIONAL EXHIBITIONS  

3 Wishes, Verum Ultimum Gallery, Portland, OR – 2025  

Art of Water, Red Bluff Gallery – 2025 https://www.redbluffartgallery.com/water.htm 

Passage of Life: Aging, Exhibizone – 2025 

Forms and Figures, Biafarin – 2025  https://tinyurl.com/3jn2vb3y

Signs and Symbols 2025, Gallerium & The Book of Arts – 2025 https://tinyurl.com/bdhm8ne3

12th Annual Abstract Sanctuary, online exhibition and publication, Verum Ultimum, Portland, OR – 2025 https://tinyurl.com/5fje32f5 

Cold Wax International 2024, ColdWaxAcademy.com – 2024 https://tinyurl.com/5xfehx3n

Beneath the Surface, Gallery 114, Portland, OR – 2024  

At Home in Oregon, The Gallery at the Airport, Eugene, OR – 2024  

Bringing Out Our Best, The Dalles Art Center, The Dalles, OR 2023  

Shapes & Colors, international online exhibition and publication, Gallerium – 2023  https://tinyurl.com/mvk3vkxt

Eugene Biennial 2022, Karin Clarke Gallery, Eugene, OR2022  

Home Team: World Stage [World Athletic Championships], Maude Kerns Art Center, Eugene, OR – 2022  

Oregon Abstract, The Gallery at the Airport, Eugene, OR – 2022  

Mt Si Artists Guild Online Juried Show 2021  

Art Gallery of SnoValley, invited guest artist 2021  

Springfield Mayor’s Art Show 2020, Emerald Art Center, Springfield, OR – ABSTRACT AWARD – 2020  

Mt Si Artists Guild Online Juried Show 2020  

Sticks!, Traveling exhibit: Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI; Memorial Union Gallery, Madison, WI; New Visions Gallery, Marshfield, WI – 1993     

Expressive Portrait, Gallery UW-Extension, Madison, WI – 1991   

Artful Women 1989 – Women Artists of the Dane County Area, UW Hospital and Clinics, Madison, WI – 1989  

Wisconsin Collegiate Showcase ’88, Crossman Gallery, UW-Whitewater, Whitewater, WI – 1988  

Artful Women 1988 – Women Artists of the Dane County Area, Wisconsin Union, Madison, WI – 1988  

Special Selections – Artwork by Women of Wisconsin, A-Space Gallery, Madison, WI – 1988

 

AWARDS 

Springfield Mayor’s Art Show 2020, Emerald Art Center, Springfield, ORAbstract award 

 

TEACHING 

Art of Found Poetry, Oregon Art Supply, Eugene, OR – 2025 

Open Studio for Cold Wax Artists, monthly, Oregon Art Supply, Eugene, OR – 2025

Introduction to Cold Wax Medium 2- and 3-day workshops, Oregon Art Supply, Eugene, OR – 2024 - ongoing

Private lessons and mentorship – 2024 - ongoing

 

EDUCATION / WORKSHOPS

2025

Cold Wax Academy, online bi-weekly, Rebecca Crowell and Jerry McLaughlin (authors of Cold Wax Medium:  Techniques, Concepts & Conversations), 2022 - ongoing  

Composition in Cold Wax, Jerry McLaughlin, San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico

The Language of Abstraction, Zoë Cohen, Oregon Society of Artists, Portland, OR The Painted Book: Keeping an Abstract Journal, Zoë Cohen, Winslow Art Center 

Keeping it Simple: Ink & Paper, Zoë Cohen, Winslow Art Center 

Improvisational Drawing, Jane Davies, Art & Soul, Portland, OR 

Plein Air Abstracts, Sam Boughton, video course 

Telling the Bees: Practices in Reverence, Reunion and Repair, Zoë Cohen & Donna Henderson, Sitka Center for Art & Ecology, Otis, OR (upcoming) 

2024 

Lines and Marks as Abstract Language - An Advanced Cold Wax Workshop, Rebecca Crowell, Ah Haa School for the Arts, Telluride, CO 

Abstracting the Landscape: Experimental Water-Media, Scott Gellatly, Sitka Center for Art & Ecology, Otis, OR 

Plein Air to Studio, Scott Gellatly, Sitka Center for Art & Ecology, Otis, OR  

Intuitive Abstraction: Color and Composition, Zoë Cohen, Sitka Center for Art & Ecology, Otis, OR 

2023 

Advanced Cold Wax Workshop, Jerry McLaughlin, Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Ballycastle, Ireland 

Paper and Paint: Abstract Design, Zoë Cohen, Sitka Center for Art & Ecology, Otis, OR  

Light in the Landscape, Scott Gellatly, Sitka Center for Art & Ecology, Otis, OR 

Strategies for Expressive Color, Scott Gellatly, Sitka Center for Art & Ecology, Otis, OR 

Figure Sketching, Jan Halvorsen, Eugene, OR 

2022 

Cold Wax Workshop, Jerry McLaughlin, San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico 

2021

Abstract Investigations: Line, Mark and Form, Zoë Cohen, Sitka Center for Art & Ecology, Otis, OR  

Embarking on a Cold Wax Journey, Lynne Wintermute, Sitka Center for Art & Ecology, Otis, OR 

2020

Abstract Open Studio, online weekly, Zoë Cohen, Eugene, OR  

Abstract Acrylic & Mixed Media, Rebecca Mannheimer, Eugene, OR 

2019

Dynamic Still Life, Sarah Sedwick, Sitka Center for Art & Ecology, Otis, OR (author of Dynamic Still Life for Artists

2018

Zorn Palette for Portraits, Sarah Sedwick, Eugene, OR  

EDUCATION  

Finch University of Health Sciences / The Chicago Medical School, North Chicago, IL – 2001

University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, Bachelor of Fine Arts with distinction – 1990 

   Thesis exhibition: Sacred Stuff, Faculty: Truman Lowe (sculpture) and Carol Pylant (painting) 

MEMBERSHIPS 

Cold Wax Academy – 2020 to present  

Interbeing, abstract painting collective – 2020 to present  

Maude Kerns Art Center, Member Gallery, Eugene, OR – 2020 to present 

Sitka Center for Art and Environment – 2019 to present 

International Association of Art USA – 2023 to present