BRITT BLOCK | pastel paintings
www.brittblockpaintings.com
Experience
I am what you might call a "re-emerging artist."
After 10 years of intensive painting and gallery representation in the 1990's and early 2000's, I took a detour - a hiatus that was not a hiatus - which led me through the world of pastels to the present moment. At this time in my life, painting is an integrated part of the way I understand and experience the world. Listed here is both the "before" and "after".
Oregon Shows ( I relocated here in 2019)
December/January 2022 - "The Ground on Which I Stand" and "Finding Light" juried into the Northwest Pastel Society Member's Show, Schack Art Center, Everett, Washington
October/November 2022 - "The Way Things Really Are" accepted in Verum Ultimum Gallery's Chasing Ghosts VII
September 2022 - edited re-mount of "A Year at Grenfell Park" - full show. Narthex Gallery, McMinnville, Oregon
September 2022 - "Painting With A Secret Name" accepted into the International Association of Pastel Societies' 41st Annual Juried Open Online.
August 2022 - Two paintings accepted in the Pastel Artists of Oregon Biennial, Chehalem Cultural Center, Newberg, Oregon. "Finding Light" and "Lovely".
March 2022 - "Painting With A Secret Name" accepted into Pastel Society of the West Coast Members Only Online Show.
October 2021 - "August" accepted into the Pastel Artists of Oregon Online Juried Exhibition.
October 2021 - "Creek Walk" accepted into the Yamhill County Artist Showcase (Biennial event).
November 2020 - "A Year at Grenfell Park" solo show, Chehalem Cultural Center, Newberg, Oregon
October 2020 - "April" accepted into PAO Juried exhibit, Art & Soul Gallery, Ashland, Oregon
October 2020 - "August" accepted by Catharine Lorillard Women's Art Club juried exhibit.
November 2020 -" Creek Walk" accepted by Pastel Society of the West Coast online Juried exhibition
January 2020 - "January" receives Honorable mention from Dakota Art Pastels first annual pastel competition. Juried.
February 2022 - present - Ongoing - 8 pieces in rotation at the First Federal Bank building in McMinnville, as part of a rotating local artist installation by curators Carissa Burkett and Katie Spain.
Awards
August 2022 - "Finding Light" awarded Best in Show at the Pastel Artists of Oregon Biennial, Chehalem Cultural Center, Newberg, Oregon
October 2021 - "A Visit to Silver Falls" receives honorable Mention at Pastel Artists of Oregon Online Juried Exhibition.
Winter 2021 - "January" receives honorable Mention at Dakota Pastel Online Juried Exhibition.
PRESS Oregon Arts Watch, November 2020 by David Bates
https://www.orartswatch.org/britt-block-paintings-about-presence/
Previous Gallery Representation 1997 - 2003
Gallery Route One, Point Reyes Station, California
Horizon Art, Taos, New Mexico
Denise Roberge Gallery, Palm Springs, California
Gallery Exhibits 1997 - 2003 Solo Shows
2003 Water Paintings - Gallery Route One
2002 Gratitude - Gallery Route One
2001 Maybe This is What a Bee Sees - JFK, Berkeley, MFA thesis show
1999 Unexpected Paintings - Gallery Route One
1997 Land, Color, Space - Gallery Route One
Relevant Education & Experience
MFA in Painting, School of Arts & Consciousness, JFK University, Berkeley California 2001
Extended Mentorship with painter Leigh Hyams 1992 - 2005
