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Larry Calkins CV
Personal
b. Jan 1955, Corvallis, OR
lives in rural Issaquah, WA since 1987
Websites:
calkinsart.net, calkinsart.com and
noticewhatyounotice.com
Blog:
calkinsART Newsletter
Exhibition history (more here)
Solo and feature shows:
2015
Gallery IMA, Seattle WA, solo show “dusk”
Rice Polak Gallery, Provincetown, MA, feature
2013
Rice Polak Gallery, Provincetown, MA, feature show
Grover/Thurston Gallery, Seattle, WA, May solo “under my hat”, 2 months
2011
Rice Polak Gallery, Provincetown, MA, feature
G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA - "Rule of Thumb" 2 person show with Gala Bent
2009
HARDWARE: A Love Story, Sammamish City Hall, with Carla Dimitirou, Dec 2009 – March, 2010
Rice/Polak Gallery, Provincetown, MA. feature
2007
G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA, "nettles & briars" with Keith Carter
Rice/Polak Gallery, Provincetown, MA, feature (bi-annual)
2006
American Primitive Gallery, New York, NY, solo show (books, paintings, sculpture)
G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA, "Rabbit Starvation", Solo
2005
Rice/Polak Gallery, Provincetown, MA, feature
G Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA, "Stitched" with 2 other artists
2000 -2004
Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA - Large Room Installation at: Cave Painting in the Lascaux Tradition 2004
American Primitive, New York, NY, solo: Paintings, Sculpture, Books; 2002
American Primitive, New York, NY, solo: Soot Paintings, Dress Pieces, Photographs; 2000
G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA, New Sculpture, New Paintings, Solo, 2004
G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA, "night chimes on tiger mountain", with Keith Carter, 2003
G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA, new work, with Keith Carter; 2000
Anchor Gallery, Anacortes, WA, solo show, 2004
Rice/Polak,Gallery, feature, 2001, 2003
Group shows 2014 - 2005 (more here)
2014
Grover/Thurston group show (Feb)
New York Metro Show (with American Primitive Gallery)
Outsider Art Fair, New York, NY, with Tanner Hill Gallery, Chattanooga, TN (May)
2013
Aqua Miami with Rice Polak Gallery, Provincetown, MA
ArtMRKT Art Fair, San Francisco with Tanner Hill Gallery, Chattanooga, TN
Seattle Art Museum Rental and Sales Gallery, Seattle,WA - "Stitchery"
Rice Polak Gallery in Provincetown, MA
Kirkland Arts Center, WA, “Gone to the Dogs”
Outsider Art Fair, New York, NY, with Tanner Hill Gallery, Chattanooga, TN
2012
Aqua Miami with Rice Polak Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Shift Gallery, group show, Seattle, WA
Outsider Art Fair, New York, NY with Tanner/Hill, Chattanooga, TN
2011
Nichols/Berg Gallery, Philadelphia, PA - "Wax poetic", contemporary encaustic,
Gibson 20th Anniversary Exhibit – Part II : Painting, Drawing + 3D
Pratt Fine Arts Center at Swanson Nursery - "Gallery in the Garden"- rock sculpture
Pratt Fine Arts Center/Seattle Design Center: “Chair Project” with Taylor Engle (architect)
New York Metro Show (with American Primitive Gallery)
Mighty Tieton, Tieton, WA, "Textile Tieton: Fresh Thread"
Outsider Art Fair, New York, NY with Tanner/Hill, Chattanooga, TN
2010
G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA, group show “BLOW UP”
Gallery One, Ellensburg, WA
Outsider Art Fair, New York, NY with Tanner/Hill, Chattanooga, TN
2009
G Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA: “Flight”
Outsider Art Fair, New York, NY with Tanner/Hill, Chattanooga, TN
2008
Kirkland Art Center, WA, “Looking out, Looking in”
Seattle Book Arts Guild, Fundraising: Poster Design with David Simpson
Outsider Art Fair, New York, NY with American Primitive Gallery, NY
2007
artEAST Gallery, Issaquah WA, Collective Works: Collective Memory,
Outsider Art Fair, New York, NY with American Primitive Gallery, NY
2006
Bridge Art Fair, Miami, FL with Rice/Polak Gallery
Kirkland Arts Center and King County Library, WA: Banned Books: “Julie of the Wolves"
Seattle Book Arts Guild: Poster Design with David Simpson
University House at Issaquah,WA; "Seeing Stories”, incl. Joe Max Emminger, Julie Pashkis a.o
Outsider Art Fair, New York, NY with American Primitive Gallery, NY
2005
Whatcom Museum of Art, Bellingham, WA: Cliche Verre Photographs (Tornados/Disaster).
Swedish Hospital Opening, Issaquah, WA - "Art of Healing" after purchase of 9 artworks
Pucini Lubel Gallery, Seattle, WA - “Making Jewelry”
Seattle Art Museum Rental and Sales Gallery, Seattle, WA: Guest Works
Outsider Art Fair, New York, NY with American Primitive Gallery, NY
Reviews (also HERE: scans)
The Fussy Eye: Dresses in Distress
Seattle Weekly, May 7, 2013, by Brian Miller
Sitting on the next great art show
Issaquah Press, March 15, 2011, by Laura Geggel
Larry Calkins' dark wit shines through his work
Seattle POST-INTELLIGENCER, November 4, 2004, By Judy Wagonfeld
Painter Larry Calkins fractures fairy tales into art
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER ART CRITIC, May 29, 2003 By Regina Hackett
ART/ARCHITECTURE; Giddyap, Dobby, It's Off to the Hunt
New York Times, August 12, 2001, By Fletcher Roberts
'New Work' That's Old-Fashioned -- Calkins' Pieces Are Imaginative, Inspired By Memories
Seattle Times, March 5, 1998, by Robin Updike
ECLECTIC SHOW IN STURDY SURROUNDINGS
BERKSHIRES WEEK, August 14 - 20, 1997, by Randall Howe
"NORTHWEST VISIONS"
New York Times, September 9, 1997, by Ken Johnson
Collections
Microsoft, Redmond, WA
Swedish Hospital, Seattle and Issaquah, WA
Teaching (selected)
Pratt Fine Arts Center, Seattle, WA;
NW Encaustic, Seattle, WA
Kirkland Arts Center, Kirkland, WA;
artEast. Issaquah, WA;
Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA
Holualoa, Hawaii - Donkey Mill Arts Center
Civita Castellana, Italy - Sketchbook Workshop
Sun Valley, ID, Arts Center
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