Artist Carole d'Inverno

Carole d'Inverno

About

Artist Statement

As an artist, I like working in series. This method allows for a broad range of possibilities and for intuitive and personal results. The vocabulary of shape, color and texture is essential to the overall process and guides the compositional development of the series.

Architecture, chemistry, story telling, Nature, History, are some of the subjects that interest me and use in my work.

Growing up in Europe, I was surrounded by old architecture and watched how time transforms and impacts all man made things. Surfaces are distressed and colors are broken up in random patterns. Memory has distilled those images and now it all resurfaces in my work.

I have been living in the North West for the last 23 years, and I have come to love how the weather covers and at the same time reveals the lusciousness of nature. Here nature continuously and mysteriously transforms itself. From my studio window I can look at the constant rearranging. It seeps into my work. It’s all alchemy to me.

CV/Bio

Carole d’Inverno was born in 1956 and grew up in Italy and Belgium. She moved to the United States in 1979 and now resides in Seattle.
Carole d'Inverno has exhibited extensively in solo and group shows in the United States. Her work is in the public collections of Seattle Group Health and the Seattle University and in private collections across the US and Europe.

Carole d’Inverno is the recipient of numerous awards and honors. In 2012 she will be in residency at Starry Night, Truth and Consequence, NM and at the BAU Institute, Otranto, Italy. In 2010, and 2009 she was in residency at the Vermont Studio Center in the US, and at the Wassard Elia Center, in Ascea , Italy. While there, she also participated in the 2009 Biennale di Firenze.. In 2002, Carole d’Inverno was awarded Best in Show in the Richland City Arts Competition, juried by Debra Byrne, former Director of Curatorial Affairs and Exhibitions at the Frye Art Museum in Seattle, Washington.

Carole d’Inverno is currently represented by the Fetherston gallery, in Seattle, WA, The Seattle Art Museum Rental Gallery, and the Tria Gallery in New York City, NY.

Carole d’Inverno is fluent in Italian and French. She is married to musician /composer Bill Frisell and they have one daughter.
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Location: Seattle, WA, United States
Website: http://www.caroledinverno.net

Work

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Selected Solo Shows

2011 Tria gallery, New York, New York.
Fetherston Gallery, Seattle, WA.
the Seattle Art Museum Taste Restaurant, Seattle, WA.

2010 Fetherston Gallery, Seattle, WA.

2008 Gallery 6311, Seattle, Washington.

2007 Gallery 070, Vashon Island, Washington.
Victrola, Seattle, Washington.
Gallery 6311, Seattle, Washington.

2006 Orcas Island Cultural Center, Orcas Island, Washington.
Gallery 110, Seattle, Washington.

2005 Viveza Gallery, Seattle, Washington.
RC Gallery, Portland, Oregon.

2004 Helen S. Smith Gallery, Green River College, Auburn, Washington.

2003 Atelier 31, Seattle, Washington.

2002 Fireplace Gallery, Mount Hood Community College, Gresham,
Oregon.
‘Big Talk,’ installation with Andree Carter at Gallery 6311, Seattle, Washington.

2001 Atelier 31, Kirkland, Washington.

Selected Group Shows

2012 Seattle Art Museum, Taste, Seattle, WA.
WA State Convention Center, Seattle, WA.

2011 Seattle Art Museum Gallery, ‘Introductions 2011’ Group Show. Seattle, WA

2010 ‘Little Treasures’ Galleria De’ Marchi, Bologna, Italy.
‘Drum of the Draw’, drawing invitational, Grey Gallery, Seattle, WA
ArtsWest Playhouse and Gallery, Seattle, WA.

2009 Biennale di Firenze, Florence , Italy.
'Return to Departure', group show-Kikland Art Center, Kikland, WA.
2008 Pacific Northwest Art Annual. University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon.
‘What does Compassion Look Like’, Friesen gallery, Seattle, Washington.

2007 ‘Building C’, Gallery 6311, Seattle, Washington.
‘East Meets West’, Ballard Works, Seattle, Washington.
‘Building C’, Arts And Culture Department of Issaquah, Washington.
‘Pulp, 2nd Annual’’ Gallery 110, Seattle, Washington.

2006 COCA Painting Marathon and Auction, Seattle, Washington.
‘Pulp’, Gallery 110, Seattle, Washington.

2004 Group Show at RC Gallery, Portland, Oregon.
‘Stay in the Tunnel’, Gallery 6311, Seattle, Washington.

2003 Art Detour 2003, Seattle, Washington.

Residencies

2012 Residency at Starry Night Center, Truth or Consequence, NM.

2011 Residency at the Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont.

2010 Residency at the Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont.

2009 Residency at the Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont.
Residency at Wassard Elia, Ascea, Italy.

Awards and Honors

2011 Residency at Starry Night Center, Truth or Consequence, NM.
Residency at the Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont.

2010 Residency at the Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont.
‘Little Treasures’ Galleria De’ Marchi, Bologna, Italy.

2009 'Return to Departure', group show-Kikland Art Center, Kikland, WA. Juried by Cable Griffin - KAC Exhibitions Director, Philip Govedare - Professor University of WA painting, Helen O'Toole - Professor University of WA painting.
Residency at the Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont. Residency at the Wasard Elia Center, Ascea, Italy.
Invitational to the Biennale di Firenze, Italy. Director : Stefano Francolini.

2002 Best of Show for the Allied Arts Association Annual Juried Show, Richland, Washington. Juror: Debra Byrne, Director of Curatorial Affairs and Exhibitions at the Frye Art Museum, Seattle.
In Best of Show for ‘some Like it Art’, Bellevue Art Museum 2002 Gala Art Auction, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, Washington.

2001 In Best of Show for ‘Printemps a’ Paris’, Bellevue Art Museum Gala Art Auction, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, Washington.

Collections

Public collections: Seattle University, Seattle, and Group Health, Seattle, WA.

Works in private collections in California, Colorado, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Texas, Washington, Italy and Belgium.

Education.

SCCC, Chemistry, Chemistry, Seattle, WA.
University de Liege, Faculte de Chimie, Liege, Belgium.
Institut de Chimie, liege, Belgium

Bibliography

‘3 Wheels Broke : recent paintings’, catalogue, 2011.
‘Biennale dell’Arte Contemporanea’, Catalogue, Settima Edizione, 2009.
‘Carole d’Inverno : Recent Paintings’ catalogue, 2009.
‘Artists Flock Here, but For How Long?’ by Michael Harthorne, for the Ballard News-Tribune, September, 2008.
‘d’Inverno Painterly Paintings’, Terry Johnson, Professor of the Arts (ret.), Cornish College of the Arts. In the Orcas Sounder News, June 2006.
‘Respite from the Cold and the Gray in Belltown,’ Matthew Kangas. In the Seattle Times Friday December 5th, 2003.
‘Big Talk’, by Judy Wagonfeld on line at www.DigitalCity.com/Seattle/entertainment/events, October 2002.
‘Faces in the Crowd’, by Dee Axelrod in The Bainbridge Review, Sat. October 12,2002.
‘Exibition’magazine published by the Bainbridge Island Arts and Humanities Council. Summer/Fall 2001.
‘Carole d’Inverno: Recent Paintings,’ by Ted Lindberg in Preview, The Gallery Guide September/October 1999.
ArtisSpectrum Catalogue. ‘In Focus’ pg. 40. Published in New York City, Vol. 11/5, 1999.

Representation

Carole d’Inverno is represented by the Fetherston gallery in Seattle, Wa, the Tria Gallery in New York City, NY, and the Seattle Art Museum Rental Gallery, Seattle, WA.

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