YVONNE PETKUS
b.1969
New Jersey
EDUCATION
2000
Four-week residency, Vermont Studio Center
1996 MFA
Painting, University of Washington
1991/93 MFA
Program, Painting, Hunter College of CUNY
1991 BFA,
Magna Cum Laude, Painting, Syracuse University
1989/90 Syracuse London
Centre & Camberwell College of Art, International Programs Abroad, London, England
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2004
Perceptions - Petkus, Raymer & Gannon,
The Clara M. Eagle Gallery (Three-person Exhibition), Murray, KY
Paintings - Residues,
Thigpen Library,
Gallatin, TN
Recent
Painting, Brad
Cooper Gallery, Tampa, FL
2003
The Drama and the Gesture,
Ivan Wilson Fine Arts Center Gallery, Bowling Green, KY
2002 Residue,
Swanson Cralle East Market, (Two-person Exhibition), Louisville, KY
2000 New
Faculty Exhibition, Ivan Wilson Fine Arts Center, (Two-person
Exhibition), Bowling Green, KY
2000 Recent Work,
Black Lab Gallery, Seattle, WA
1998 Recent
Work King County Art Gallery (through grant from The King County Arts
Commission), Seattle, WA
1992 Recent
Works, The Icon, Buffalo, NY
1991 Two Faces
of Yve, The White Cube, Syracuse, NY
1990 Strength
The White Cube, Syracuse, NY
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2005
Sixteenth National
Juried Exhibition,
Viridian Artists Inc. @ Chelsea, New York City, NY
Robert Rosenblum, Juror
Unzipped,
The Chait Galleries Downtown, Iowa City, IA
Small Works 20th
Annual Harper College National Exhibition,
Harper College, Palatine, IL
Frank Paluch, Juror
U.S. Bank
Celebration of the Arts 2005, The Kentucky Library and Museum,
Bowling Green, KY
John Streetman, Juror
Nude International
2005,
Lexington Art League, Lexington, KY Steven Assael, Juror
Kentucky Arts
Council Fellowship Exhibit 2004,
Actors Theatre-Gallery, Louisville, KY
2004
20/20 Twenty
Years Twenty Artists,
Brad Cooper Gallery, Tampa, FL
Twentieth
Anniversary Fine Art Auction,
Brad Cooper Gallery, Fine Art Auction, Tampa, FL
2004 Annual All
Kentucky Juried Fine Art Exhibition,
Capitol Arts Alliance Inc. Gallery, Bowling Green, KY
Christie Nuell, Juror
Women's Art Show,
Anna
Eaton Stout Gallery, Invitational four artists, Owensboro, KY
U.S. Bank
Celebration of the Arts 2004, The Kentucky Library and Museum,
Bowling Green, KY
Peter Bodnar III, Juror
The Nude 2004,
Lexington Art League, Lexington, KY Michael Markowitz, Juror
Contemporary Art
From Around The World,
Gallery, International, Baltimore, MD
2003
Annual All Kentucky Juried Fine Art Exhibition,
Capitol Arts Alliance Inc. Gallery, Bowling Green, KY
Jim Meaders, Juror
Holiday Treasures
IV, Brad
Cooper Gallery, Fine Art Auction, Tampa, FL
The Figure as
Content,
The Andrews Gallery of the College of William & Mary, Invitational
four artists, Williamsburg, VA
Kentucky National: A National Exhibit of Contemporary Art,
The Clara M. Eagle Gallery, MSU, Murray, KY
Julien Robson, Juror
New American Paintings,
Open Studios Press, Juried Group Exhibition published in national art
periodical
Ron Platt, Juror
Contemporary Approaches
to Drawing,
The Andrews Gallery of the College of William & Mary, (Invitational)
Williamsburg, VA
The Nude 2003,
Lexington Art League, Lexington, KY-Gary Chapman, Juror
2002 Nude in The Post-Modern 2002, Brad Cooper Gallery, Tampa
FL Corey Postiglione, Juror
2002 Annual All Kentucky
Juried Fine Art Exhibition,
Capitol Arts Alliance Inc. Gallery, Bowling Green, KY
Perceptual Experience:
Contemporary American Figure Drawing,
Frye Art Museum, (Invitational), Seattle, WA
Norman Lundin, Juror
Faculty Swap Exhibition,
University Galleries of Wesleyan University and OCC, Owensboro, KY
The Nude,
Lexington Art League, Lexington, KY Sharon Hunter, Juror
2001 21st Annual All Kentucky Juried Fine Art
Exhibition, Capitol Arts Alliance Inc. Gallery, Bowling Green, KY
Brian Jones, Juror
Celebration of the Arts Firstar 16thAnnual Open
Art Exhibition,
Firstar Bank, Bowling Green, KY
Glenn Dasher, Juror
The Nude, Lexington Art League, Juried Group
Exhibition, Lexington, KY
Patricia Jerde & MN River School of Fine Art,
Jurors
50th
Mid-States Art Exhibition, Evansville Museum of Arts and Science,
Evansville, IN Bridget Moore, Juror
2000 20th Annual All Kentucky Juried Fine Art
Exhibition, Capitol Arts Alliance Inc. Gallery, Bowling Green, KY
Owensboro Art Guild 35th
Annual Juried Exhibition,
Anna Eaton Stout Gallery, Owensboro, KY
Julien Robson, Juror
Celebration of the Arts Firstar 15thAnnual
Open Art Exhibition, Firstar Bank, Bowling Green, KY
Chuck Swanson,
Juror
Drawing Exhibition,
College Art Gallery, (Invitational), Shoreline CC, Seattle, WA
Splendor in the Bash: East of Eden & Garden of Good and
Evil, Henry Art Gallery, (Invitational Auction), Seattle, WA
Salon Group Exhibition,
Black Lab Gallery, (Invitational), Seattle, WA
1999 Painting & Sculpture Exhibition, Rike Center Gallery,
(Invitational), University of Dayton, Dayton, OH
Peter Gooch, Curator
Art Department Faculty
Show, Fisher
Gallery, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, WA
1997 Mirror,
Mirror on the Wall...Women in Self-Portrait, Mills Pond House Gallery,
St. James, NY
1996 Political Art, SOIL, Seattle, WA
Selections 96, Jacob Lawrence Gallery,
(Invitational), Seattle, WA
MFA Thesis Exhibition,
Center of Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA
Women
In The Arts Festival, ASUW Womens Commission, HUB Art Gallery, Seattle,
WA
1995 Works in
Progress, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Seattle, WA
1994 In Search
of the Self, Cynthia Cote Gallery, Calumet, MI
1990 Selected Works, Central School of Art Gallery, London,
England
1990 Selected
Works, Central School of Art Gallery, London, England
1988 Selected
Works, Lowe Art Gallery, Syracuse, NY
Juror's Award, Nude International 2005, Lexington Art
League
2004 2004
Individual Artist Al Smith Fellowship Award, The Kentucky Arts Council
Painting 2nd
Place Award, U.S. Bank Celebration of the Arts, The
Kentucky Library and Museum
2003 Evelyn
Banks Bohannon Memorial Merit Award, 2003 All
Kentucky Juried
Fine Art Exhibition
Capitol Arts
Alliance Inc. Gallery
2003 Potter College of the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Teaching Award, Western Kentucky University
2002 Second Award,
Nude in the Post Modern: International Juried Exhibition, Brad Cooper
Gallery, Tampa, FL
Milliken Law Firm Award
for Best Charcoal,
2002 Annual All Kentucky Juried Fine Art Exhibition, Bowling Green, KY
Junior Faculty Grant:
Studio Research and the Study of 17th Century Painting in
Rome, Italy
2001 Merit
Award, 21st Annual All Kentucky Juried Fine Art Exhibition,
Bowling Green, KY
2000 Siegfried Weng Purchase Award, 50th
Mid-States Exhibition, Evansville Museum of Arts and Science
Evansville, Indiana
Best of Show Award, Owensboro Art Guild 35th
Annual Juried Exhibition, Owensboro, KY
Best
of Show Award, Celebration of the Arts Firstar 15th Annual Open Art
Exhibition, Bowling Green, KY
1998 King
County Arts Commission Grant and Solo Exhibition, King County Art
Gallery, Seattle, WA
1991 Hiram Gee
Painting Award, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2000 present Assistant
Professor, Western Kentucky University, Department of Art Bowling Green,
KY
1998 2000 Visiting Professor, Cornish College of the Arts, Art Department Seattle,
WA
1996 1999 Instructor, University of Washington Extension Program Seattle, WA
1996 1998 Instructor (of graduate course), University of Washington, School of Drama
Seattle, WA
PUBLICATIONS
Skipper, Bob. "The Drama and the Gesture". The Western Scholar.
Bowling Green, KY: Volume 5, No. 2, Spring 2005, pgs. 26-29 & cover.
Smith, Justin.
"nude international 2005". ACE Weekly. January 13, 2005, Vol.
22 No. 2, pgs 9-11.
On Teaching,
Teaching Spirit a newsletter from the Center for Teaching and
Learning, pg 2, WKU "Ideas not Absolutes" Volume 14, No. 1, September
2003.
Hambrick, Julie Ball.
"Kentucky National 2003". dialogue magazine: the art, architecture, and
design journal of the Heartland.May/June 2003, p. 59.
New American Paintings,
Boston, MA: Open Studios Press, Volume 46 (to be published in 2003).
Audette, Anna (editor),
101 Drawing Ideas, Shambhala Publications (distributed by Random
House), Spring 2003.
Lundin, Norman,
(author/curator), West, Richard and Byrne, Debra, (editors). The
Perception of Appearance: A Decade of Contemporary American
Figure Drawing,
Seattle and London: Frye Art Museum in Association with the University of Washington
Press, 2002.
Norris, John. "Girls,
Girls, Girls". ACE Weekly. January 10, 2002, Vol. 21 No. 2.
COLLECTIONS
Evansville Museum of Arts and Science, Evansville, IN
Leslie Shapiro and Heather Harmin, Seattle, WA
David McAlpin and Stephanie Holstine, Seattle, WA
Sally Grant, San Francisco, CA
Doug Hunt and Derek Stanley, Seattle, WA
Eric Marler, Missoula, MT
Harper College Foundation Art Collection, Palatine, IL
Dr. Fouad and Peggy Atalla, Bowling Green, KY
2002
Whistler's Painting Process, Western Kentucky University,
Bowling Green, KY
Anatomy/Figure Drawing
Demonstration, Grayson County High School, Grayson County, KY
2001
Artist
Lecture and Anatomy Demonstration, Volunteer State Community College,
Gallatin, TN
2000
Artist Lecture, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY
Artist Lecture, Louisiana
State University, Baton Rouge, LA
Talk and Tour of my studio for students in The Painters Process course,
The Academy of Realist Art, Seattle, WA
Guest Lecturer for
Portraiture taught by Prof. Julie Salathe, Art History, Cornish College of
the Arts, Seattle, WA
1998
Artist Lecture, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, WA
Artist Lecture, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH
Artist
Lecture, University of Delaware, Newark, DE |
