Artists

Jef Gunn

 

 

 

Teaching Experience 

2013-16 

2012-16 

2003-11 

2007 

1998-12 

1998-03 

1998  

1997-07 

First Light Studio (my studio) • Plein Air Painting • individual guidance 

Sitka Center for Art and Ecology • Plein Air Painting and the Dao of Seeing 

Tiger Cave Studio (my studio) • beg. – adv. painting & theory classes  

Led art tour of Barcelona for 10 artists through PNCA 

Pacific Northwest College of Art • Drawing, Painting  & Encaustic Painting 

Oregon College of Art and Craft  • Drawing 

Pacific Northwest College of Art • Young Artists Project • Drawing 

Pratt Fine Arts Center • Beginning Drawing and Encaustic Painting 

 

1996  

 

Summit High School • Drawing workshop with 7-12 grade levels.  Students produced award winning mixed media drawing.  

 

Solo Exhibitions 

2017 

Lokeshvara Moonlight • Traver Gallery • Seattle, WA 

 

 

Walking Land and Sky • Augen Gallery •  Portland, OR 

 

2015 

 

2011 

Dreaming of One and Two • Augen Gallery •  Portland, OR 

inaugural show • i.e. gallery • Edison, WA 

Transition • Augen Gallery •  Portland, OR 

 

2010 

Undo Every Woven • William Traver Gallery • Tacoma, WA 

 

2008 

Mind in Nature • Augen Gallery •  Portland, OR 

 

2007 

Transparent World • William Traver Gallery • Seattle, WA 

 

2006 

Stopping and Seeing • Augen Gallery •  Portland, OR 

 

2005 

Mind Revealing Mind • William Traver Gallery • Tacoma, WA 

 

2002 

Taking & Sending • Laura Russo Gallery • Portland, OR 

 

2001 

Laura Russo Gallery •  Portland, OR  

 

1999 

Quartersaw Gallery • Portland, OR 

 

1998 

Remembrance • Quartersaw Gallery • Portland, OR 

 

1997 

Dry Points and Monoprints • Quartersaw Gallery • Portland, OR 

 

1996 

Quartersaw Gallery •  Portland, OR 

 

1995 

Quartersaw Gallery • Portland, OR 

 

 

Painting Retrospective • Oregon State University • Corvallis, OR 

 

1994 

Quartersaw Gallery • Portland, Oregon 

 

 

William Traver Gallery • Seattle, WA 

 

1993 

Quartersaw Gallery • Portland, OR 

 

1992 

Quartersaw Gallery • Portland, OR 

 

1988 

Cité Internationale des Arts • Paris, France 

 

1987 

Galería Lleonart • Barcelona, Spain 

 

 

Cercle Artistic de Sant Lluc • Barcelona, Spain 

 

1985 

Arthead Gallery • Seattle, WA 

 

1984 

Arthead Gallery • Seattle, WA 

 

 

 

 

Selected Group Exhibitions 

2017 

West Travels East • Josephy Art Center • Joseph, OR 

 

 

 

2016 

Visions and Revisions: A Five Year Conversation • Jeffrey Thomas Fine Art • Portland, OR 

Landscape as Perception • Curated by Janet Bland •?Cannon Beach Arts Association Gallery •?Cannon Beach, OR 

Presence and Absence • Curated by Martha Pfanschmidt • Northwind Arts Center • Port Townsend, WA 

The Sound of the World • Project RayOn • Curated by Horatio Hungyan Law • Nine Gallery • Portland, OR 

 

 

 

2011 

 

 

Specific Environments: Landscape as Metaphor 

Curated by Leanne Goebel • Fort Collins, CO 

 

2010 

The Great Outdoors • Augen Gallery • Portland, OR 

 

 

2008 

 

What Does Compassion Look Like? •  Friesen Gallery •  Seattle, WA 

In conjunction with Seeds of Compassion retreat with Dalai Lama 

 

2007 

Faculty Exhibit Pacific • Northwest College of Art • Portland, OR 

 

2006 

Co-Curated: “Impulse” exhibit of National Encaustic Painting/Sculpture • Portland Art Center • Portland, OR 

 

2005 

Printmakers Fired • Bullseye Connection Gallery • Portland, OR 

 

2004 

Gallery Artists • William Traver Gallery • Tacoma, WA   

 

2003 

Outside Within •  Friesen Gallery •  Seattle, WA 

 

2002 

Sanctuary •  Friesen Gallery  •  Seattle, WA and Sun Valley, ID 

 

2001 

Grace • Art Gym • Marylhurst University • Portland, OR 

 

2000 

Art Slate • Condon, OR 

 

1997 

The Garden Show • Portland Institute for Contemporary Art •  Portland, OR 

 

1997 

Art Slate 97 • Juror’s Award • Condon, Oregon 

 

 

The Tool Show • Portland Institute for Contemporary Art • Portland, OR 

 

1996 

Northwest International Juried Exhibition • Bellingham, WA 

 

 

ArtSlate ‘95 • Condon, OR • Juror’s Award 

 

1995 

Small Works by Gallery Artists • Quartersaw Gallery • Portland, OR 

 

1994 

Self Portrait Show • Bumbershoot Arts Festival • Seattle WA 

 

1992 

Quartersaw Gallery • Portland, OR 

 

1991 

Introductions • William Traver Gallery • Seattle, WA 

 

 

Washington/Oregon Juried Exhibition • Maryhill Museum • Maryhill, WA 

 

1989 

Cité Internationale des Arts • Paris, France 

 

1988 

Love Collection Gallery • Nagoya, Japan 

 

1987 

Galería Lleonart • Barcelona, Spain 

Cercle Artistic de Sant Lluc • Barcelona, Spain 

 

 

1986 

25th Annual Int’l Drawing Competition • Joan Miró Foundation • Barcelona 

 

1985 

Francine Seders Gallery • Seattle, WA 

 

 

 

 

 

Volunteering 

 

 

2009-15 

 

 

Public Art Advisory Committee for Trimet Orange line from Portland to Milwaukie, OR 

& Benefit 

Auctions 

1995-2010 

Cascade Aids Project • Portland, OR 

 

2000-13 

Mentoring to many artists young  & old • Portland, OR 

 

2003-08 

Prints for PICA • Annual Fundraising Event •  Portland, OR 

 

2005 

Pulse • Art Event & Auction for the Children’s Heart Fund • Portland, OR 

 

 

Special piece created for Community Music Center Benefit Auction • Held at Pacific Northwest College of Art • Portland, OR 

 

1996-2000 

“COCA Painting Marathon” •  Benefit for Center on Contemporary Art • Seattle, WA 

 

 

1998-2013 

 

Volunteer on building and organizational projects at KCCa Buddhist Meditation Center • Portland, OR  

 

 

 

Selected Collections 

Bill Avery • Ken Novak, Schnitzter Industries • Oregon Health Sciences University • Lluis Bosch (Joan Miró Foundation) • Galería René Matrás, Barcelona, Spain • Galería Lleonart, Barcelona Spain • Swedish Hospital, Seattle • Saks Fifth Avenue • Delta Airlines • Seattle University • Washington Dept. of Ecology, Olympia, WA • University of Oregon  • Other collections in the US, Canada, Europe and Japan 

 

Book  

Imagery 

 

Ear to the Ground edited by Scott Davis • Woodcut author portraits • Cune Press 1997 

The Soldier, the Builder, and the Diplomat by Steven Schlesser • Woodcuts • Cune Press 2002 

 

Always Filling, Always Full – Tanka Poems by  Maggie Chula • White Pine Press 2001 

 

Connections In the Land of Disability by Alan Brightman • Palo Alto Press 2006 

 

The Perfect Love We Seek, The Imperfect Love We Live by John Welwood • Shambhala Sun January, 2006 

 

 

Awards 

2nd Mention Joan Miró 25th Annual International Drawing Prize • 1986 

 

 

Education 

BFA • Marylhurst University • Portland, OR • 2005 

 

Cité Internationale des Arts • Paris, France • Painting Residency • 1988 

 

Independent Painting Residency • Barcelona, Spain • 1986-87 

 

Printmaking Apprenticeship with John Overton • Seattle, WA • 1982 

 

Fine Arts and Applied Arts • Cabrillo College, Aptos, CA • 1975-77 

 

Fine Arts • Pasadena City College, Pasadena, CA • 1973-75 

 

 

Publications 

Gunn, Jef. Undo Every Woven : Paintings and Prints by Jef Gunn, 2010 

 

Snyder, Stephanie. “Mountains and Signs.” The Paintings of Jef Gunn, July 2005 

 

EllerstonKarrin. “Michael Brophy and Jef Gunn at Laura Russo Gallery.” The Oregonian, Aug 2001 

 

Taylor, Sarah Ellen. “Grace,” exhibition catalog, The Art Gym, Marylhurst University, MarylhurstOR.April 2001 

 

Duckler, Garrett. “WW Art Choice.” Willamette Week, April 1992                           

 

 

Hacket, Regina. “Emerging Talent Recognized.” Seattle Post Intelligencer, Jan 1991 

 

Carlsson, Jae. “Emerging Artists.” Reflex, March/April 1991 

 

Borras, Maria Lluisa. “Arte.” El Pais, Barcelona, Spain, July 1986 

 

Cultura.” El Pais, Barcelona, Spain, July 1986 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

 

 

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