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WALKER WINN ARTIST RESUME pdf
Born 1988, Austin TX Lives and works in Austin TX Education University of Texas at Austin Doctor of Pharmacy, 2015 Bachelor of Science, 2011 Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions 2018 Walker Winn & Dimitri Gudgenov Color & Memory : Surface & Substance, Julia C. Butridge Gallery at the Dougherty, Austin TX 2007 Walker Winn New Works, Artspoken Gallery, Austin TX 2006 WINN & WINN at PENN, Penn Field Complex, Austin TX Group Exhibitions 2017 45th Int'l Exhibition, Brownsville Museum of Fine Art, TX Juror Cesar Martinez, The Chicano Collection, San Antonio TX 2017 City of Austin People's Gallery Exhibition, Austin City Hall 2016 Austin Visual Arts Association Annual Show, Artspace, Austin TX 2015 Austin Art Boards Exhibition, Austin TX Texas Artists Exhibition, Beeville Art Museum, Beeville TX Art Bra Austin Auction & Exhibition, Austin TX 2014 EAST Austin Studio Tour with Taylor Winn, Austin TX 2013 BigAss Canvas Show, Silicon Labs, Austin TX 2012 5 x 7, Arthouse at the Jones Center, Austin TX 2009 Live Oak Juried Annual, Live Oak Art Center, Columbus TX Juror Gus Kopriva, Red Bud Gallery, Houston TX 2008 CrossTalk, Moudy Gallery, Texas Christian University, Ft. Worth TX Juror Mark Smith, Austin College, Sherman TX FWCAC Biennial, Ft. Worth Arts Center, Ft. Worth TX Invitational 08, 500X Gallery, Dallas TX Curate This!, BECA Gallery, New Orleans LA 5 x 7, Arthouse, Austin TX; Inman Gallery, Houston TX 2007 Ahead of Their Time 07, Arthouse, Austin TX Juror Kelly Baum, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin TX YEA! Young Emerging Artists, The Hideout, Austin TX Toma Mi Corazon, La Pena Gallery, Austin TX 2006 Ahead of Their Time 06, Arthouse, Austin TX Juror Hana Hillarova, UT Visual Arts Center, Austin TX Tribeza Magazine Design Showcase Artist, Austin TX EAST Austin Studio Tour, Austin TX Eclipse, Artspoken Gallery, Austin TX 2005 Ahead of Their Time 05, Arthouse, Austin TX Juror Arturo Palacios, Art Palace, Austin, TX Beyond Black & White, Stephen Clark Gallery, Austin TX Transported, AVAA Juried Annual, Austin TX 2004 Stone Sculptors, Art on 5th, Austin TX Public Art Installations 2017 City of Austin People’s Gallery Artist, Austin City Hall 2007 City of Austin & Gibson GuitarTown, showcase guitar artist 2006 City of Austin People’s Gallery Artist, Austin City Hall Selected Press Austin Way Magazine, 'The List' / #Insta-Austin Issue, Winter 2016-17 Austin American-Statesman Best Bet, Walker Winn New Works, 01/07 Juliensauctions.com, Austin GuitarTown Auction, 10/07 Austin American-Statesman XLENT, Winn, Winn Art Situation, 12/06 Austin360.com, Recommended Listing, WINN & WINN@PENN, 12/06 ME Television, Winn Twins at Tribeza Magazine Showcase, 09/06 Awards 2015 Finalist Austin Art Boards, Austin TX 2007 Juror’s Mention, Ahead of Their Time, Arthouse Juror Kelly Baum, Curator, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin TX 2007 Gold Key, Scholastic National Art Award/Painting 2007 Gold Medalist VASE 07/Painting 2006 Gold Medalist VASE 06/Sculpture |
STATEMENT
I was a Montessori kid through grade school. Making art was a key component of our daily work in science, geography, math and history. Creating and thinking about art in many different contexts at a young age launched my interest in the color spectrum (study of prisms and rainbows), color symbolism (interest in flags of the world), pigments (science project on natural dyes), and geometric abstraction (early obsession with origami). Wonderful art teachers in high school exposed me to the Cubist, Modern and Expressionist abstract artists Picasso, Mondrian, Albers and Rothko whose styles have influenced my approach to form and color. My studio practice is rooted in these early experiences. Current work explores geometric form and color relationships in gridded alignments calculated for optical effect with no subject in mind. Yet, the resulting grids of color never fail to produce personal memories of color in the viewer - 70s era dial phones, high school team, first car, a favorite candy, grandmother's lipstick, scout uniforms, the colors of one's culture. We all bring memory and attachment to color. BIO Walker Winn's attachment to color began in childhood. As an identical twin, he and his brother Taylor, also an artist, had identifying colors in the early days - Walker (blue), Taylor (red). Beginning life with a personal ID color launched an ongoing interest in the role color plays in personal, cultural and historical contexts. Since 2005, Winn's geometric abstractions have revealed a distinct progression of forms, colors and materials. Early small oil works include the floating monochromatic trapezoids of the Cubist Series (2005-2006); the stacked, shaded, round-edged polyhedrons of the Squares Series (2006-2011); and flowing, small-celled, frosted color grids of the Panels Series (2007-2014). In his current Fields Series (2015 to present) the artist explores optical and emotional effects of color relationships in ordered grids of hard-edge, solid pigment square sequences on large, stained, square-format wood panels. Each series echoes Winn's early interests in the colorful geometry of origami and manipulation of materials for enhancing the effects of color. Most recently Walker Winn was selected by the City of Austin to exhibit his works through 2018 in the People's Gallery of the Austin City Hall complex. He also was named a finalist for the 2016 Austin Art Boards public arts billboard project. For three consecutive years (2005 - 2007) Winn was selected for the Ahead of Their Time exhibition at the Austin Contemporary at the Jones Center. In 2006, he was the youngest artist to be selected as a City of Austin People's Gallery artist. In 2007, Winn was commissioned by Gibson Guitar Corp. as a showcase guitar artist in the Austin GuitarTown public arts project with the City of Austin. He has shown his work in regional and national venues since 2004. |