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WALKER WINN     ARTIST RESUME      pdf

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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
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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, grand
mother's lipstick, scout uniforms, the colors of one's culture. 

​We all bring memory and attachment to color. 

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​​BIO
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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 c
urrent 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.

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