Web Gallery:
http://kirstinilse.com
Media:
Dye painting on silk in gutta serti technique with pastes, discharge, washes and marking; mixed media; drawing; paintings in acrylic on linen and watercolor on paper; mixed media; monotype; linoleum blocks and woodcuts; dry pastel landscapes and figures, narrative, historic, interiors, reliefs in polymer and plaster, costume, theater sets, hats, scarves and bags, and film
Training:
Studio trained in drawing, painting, printing, textiles and couture, figure studies, chemistry for art; studio classes at Museum of Fine Arts School, Boston; art history classes at the Harvard University Extension School. Lectures, symposia, workshops and forums too many and varied to report briefly.
Exhibitions:
SoWa Artwalk Boston 5/2009
Love and Passion 4: Venus Envy Ashawagh Hall, East Hampton, NY 2/09
Global Mala, The Boston Center for the Arts, 9/08
Love and Passion, Ashawagh Hall, the Hamptons of New York, 2/08
Gallery 51 MCLA, North Adams, MA 11/07-1/25/08
Rhode Island School of Design, Symposium on Form and Morphology, 11/07
Beech Tree Gallery, Hyannis, MA 2006/07
Arsenal Center for the Arts Juried Member Show, 2006
Pebbles, East Hampton, NY "War and Peace" curated by Karyn Mannix and Vito Sisti 3/2006
World Wind, Arlington, MA 2006
SOWA Artwalk 2005, 2007 Boston South End
Canvas Alley Gallery, Reading, several group shows 2004-2005
Artitudes West Newton 2004
Art Attack 108 Beacon Street Somerville 2004
Robert Gatti Presents: LOUD Fashion Show, Piano Crafts Guild Boston 2004
Joe Moakley Memorial Arts Festival, Moakley Park, South Boston 2004
dEmios Gallery, group show, Belmont, MA 2004
Artists Talk at dEmios 2004
Herb Country, Cushing Square, Belmont 2004
The Art Project, 9/11 Memorial Art Show, New York, New York 2002
911-GroundZero.org Memorial Art exhibition online
Boston City Hall Plaza, Boston, Massachusetts 2001 Group Show
Massachusetts State House, Boston, Massachusetts 2000 Group Show
ArtVision, Dallas, Texas; Two-man show, Paintings in acrylic on canvas 1992
Dallas Visual Arts Center, Dallas, Texas; Members Show; paintings1992
j.l. designs gallery, Dallas Texas; Bishop Arts District Festival 1991
Stout McCourt Gallery, Dallas, Texas; Consignment; silk paintings 1991
j.l. designs gallery, Dallas; Two-man Show, paintings in acrylic on canvas, 1990
Affiliations:
Boston Redevelopment Authority Certified Artist
Silk Painters Guild for fine artists (current Chairperson)
ArtsBelmont
Synergetics Collaborative
References on Request
