Arzente Fine Art Seattle
an artist. a colorist. a force of nature.
kimberly trowbridge
Kimberly Trowbridge is a painter, an installation artist, a performer, and a lecturer on color theory. She received an MFA from the University of Washington (2006) and a BFA in Painting / BA in English Literature from Indiana University (2003). Her first solo museum show at Bainbridge Island Museum of Art (2021) was developed during her time as Creative Fellow at Bloedel Reserve (2018-2020), a 150-acre garden amid an old growth forest.
Recently, Trowbridge was a resident at Jentel Artist Residency, in Wyoming (2022). She is currently developing work in the PNW and the Mojave Desert. She is currently writing her first book on color.
Trowbridge completed a Facebook Open Arts commission (2021), and was Artist in Residence at Oxbow, Seattle. She is a two-time Neddy Award Finalist (2014, 2016), and an Artist Trust GAP Grant recipient (2014). She is the Director of The Modern Color Atelier, a multi-year painting program at Gage Academy of Art, Seattle.
She has led plein-air painting tours in Spain, Portugal, and Twisp, WA.
“Over the past several years, I have developed a practice of traveling and oil painting directly from nature. On the field is where I cultivate a deep and sensitive awareness of color interaction. I consider these field works my “primary documents,” and they help inform my larger, narrative paintings.
For me, the canvas is a theater that makes visible the deep underpinnings of consciousness. I use stage-like, pastoral settings to create visual allegories of our physical and spiritual connection to the natural world. Painting itself is an Arcadian practice: the palimpsest of marks both concealing and revealing our movement through time.”
Kimberly Trowbridge is a hurricane—a perfect storm of unstoppable energy with a zen core. Armed with an exhaustive foundation in art history and academic painting, she’s followed in the steps of old master painters for years, rendering recumbent nudes in the midst of spectacular, pastoral landscapes. Her ability to paint like Poussin is merely a springboard, however, for more psychologically and spiritually-motivated work… CITY ARTS MAGAZINE
Photo Cred: Fritz Rodriguez