Bio and information about Shawn Demarest

Brief Resume

Education

BFA Studio Art, BA Mathematics -

University of Colorado, Boulder

, CO

Cleveland Inst of Art

- Merit Scholarship

Lacoste, France

MA Architecture -

Sci-Arc and SFIA

, CA

Plein Air

W

orkshops with Rod Goebel, and David Barbero

- Taos

,

N

M

S

econdary Teaching Credential, Math

-

S

an Francisco State Univ

, CA

Plein Air

Wo

rkshop with

J

ef Gunn

-

P

ortland, O

R

Crown Point Press Etching Workshop -

San Francisco, C

A

Affiliation

Print Arts Northwest,

Portland OR

Bite Studio

, Portland OR

Solo Shows

:

States of Mind,

Bite Studio

, Portland OR - June 2009

I

Love This Town!

City Hall, Portland OR - December 2008

S

tories

,

B

ite Studio

,

Portland OR -

M

arch

200

8

Juried

or Invitational

Shows

:

PAN Plays Tribute,

The Tribute Gallery, Portland OR - December 2009

The Journey - Siren Nation,

O

lympic Mills, Portland OR - November 2009

Paintings and Prints, Hip Chicks Do Wine, Newberg OR - May 2009

S

treet Beauty

,

Broderick Gallery,

Portland OR -

F

eb 200

9

(

A

ward

)

P

ortland Open Studios

,

Portland OR -

October 2008

, 2009

N

ew Members Show

,

P

rint Arts Northwest

, Portland OR -

June

2008

C

AP Auction

,

Portland OR -

A

pril

200

8

, 2009

Spring

Group Show

,

B

amboo Grove Salon

,

Portland OR - April 200

8

Thirty!

Om Tradition Arts

, Portland OR -

December 2007

Artist

,

Austing-Wilder Gallery

, Taos NM

- 1991-1993

Taos Art Festival

-

T

aos, New Mexico - 1991

O

ther

Shows:

M

t Tabor Park Plein Air Exhibit

,

Portland OR -

A

ugust

200

9

D

ream Show

,

L

aunchpad

, Portland OR -

October

200

8

P

anoply

,

Bite Studio

, Portland OR -

June

2008

S

E Artwalk

,

Portland OR -

M

arch

200

8

, 2009

L

ove

S

how

,

Launchpad Gallery,

Portland OR -

F

ebruary

200

8

,

2009, 2010

L

ove In Print

(

co-

organizer

)

,

Bite Studio,

Portland OR -

F

ebruary

200

8

, 2010

Group Show

,

etchings, Lacoste France

- 1987

All rights reserved.

Bio

A

bout Me

:

I

was born in 1964 in Boulder, CO.

My first

print

was pulled in Lacoste, France during a nin

e

month stay

with

the Cleveland Inst of Art

. For me,

d

iscovering

etching

was

like

finding a long lost fri

end

.

I also painted

my

first

plein air work

there. I continued studying painting,

printmaking, and

mathematics

at CU in

Boulder. Frank

Sampson,

George

Woodman, and Dav

e

Hickey are some

artists/critics

who

influenced me

there

. A

f

ter graduating,

I

opted to seek good

fortune from a green

Westfalia and

the

open road. E

nd

ing

up

in

Taos

,

I

p

ainted outside

for a few years

and waited on tables

.

It

was

during

this time

that I met

Rod

Goebel and David Barbero,

whose

work and

(especially)

approach to painting influences

me to

this day. Feeling a pull

to help better the world through

building creative

structures (a

la Michael Reynolds) I moved to

LA

to study

architecture

at

SCI-Arc

(which

is

absurd if you

know anything

about

Michael

Reynolds)

.

I

spent 4 years in

California doing

just

this. A car

accident, and

new

family

pulled

me away from

architecture,

an

d

later

toward

a

teaching

credential. In 2007,

a

fter a few

moves

and

a

prior

decision to

return to

Portland

,

I

realized

I needed to get back

on my artist

track.

Y

ou can find me painting in the Troy Laundry Building,

printmaking at Bite Studio, and

painting

along the banks of the

Willamette

.

e-mail: sndemarest@yahoo.com
phone: 503 975 3122