Barb Gipple is a Seattle artist who draws and paints with oilsticks and graphite on paper. She looks to urban street painting (graffiti) for inspiration – with its informality, spontaneous gesture, multi-textured surfaces and unexpected color. Surrounded by the Olympic and Cascade mountain ranges, Puget Sound, rainforests and the rich countryside of the Pacific Northwest, landscape imagery is exerting a stronger presence in her artwork; her tabletop still-lives are giving way to energetic compositions of mountains, foothills and water vistas. Gipple has a BFA (PNCA, Portland, OR) and an MFA (Columbia University, NYC) in drawing and painting.
2018 – Anacortes Arts Festival’s Arts at the Port Juried Exhibition, Anacortes, WA
2018 – Edmonds Arts Festival Gallery Arts, Edmonds, WA – Paintings Honorable Mention
2018 – 2nd Annual Florence Fest Jazz, Art & Wine Festival, Florence, OR
2018 – Artist Trust Juried Benefit Art Auction, Seattle, WA
2018 – COCA Members Group Show, Seattle, WA
2017 – Pacific NW College of Art Alumni Show, Portland, OR
2016 – COCA Members Group Show, Seattle, WA
2006 – Art Media Group Show, Portland, OR
2005 – Fifteenth Biennial Juried Art Show, The Arts Council of Snohomish County, Everett, WA
2005 – Members Group Show, Center on Contemporary Art (COCA), Seattle, WA
2005 – Porto Cristo Show, Coastal Kitchen Restaurant, Seattle, WA
2004 – East Shore Gallery, East Shore Unitarian Church – Invitational Show, Bellevue, WA
2004 – RealNetworks – Invitational Show, Seattle, WA
2004 – Ballard ARTwalk, Windermere Real Estate, Seattle, WA
2003 – Ballard ARTwalk, Firehouse Coffee, Seattle, WA
2003 – Juried Small Works Show, Center on Contemporary Art (COCA), Seattle, WA
2003 – ArtWalk 2003, Greenwood Arts Council, Seattle, WA
2003 – Pacific NW College of Art Alumni Show, Portland, OR
2002 – Little Things Count, juried Small Works Show, Center on Contemporary Art (COCA), Seattle, WA
2001 – Fourteenth Annual Juried Art Show, The Arts Council of Snohomish County, Everett, WA
2000 – ArtWalk 2000, Greenwood Arts Council, Seattle, WA
2000 – Cascade AIDS Project 10th Annual Art Auction, Portland, OR
1999 – Stick – Invitational Show, L&B Viewing Room, Portland, OR
1999 – H’Arts Auction, Arts Council of Snohomish County, Everett, WA
1999 – Night Tacoma Danced Juried Art Auction, Tacoma, WA
1998 – Arts Ballard Juried Bank Exhibition, Seattle, WA
1997 – 3 Sisters, 3 Explorations: Recent Work; St. Cloud University, St. Cloud, MN
1997 – The Vessel Show, L&B Viewing Room, Portland, OR
1997 – Tenth Annual Juried Art Show, The Arts Council of Snohomish County, Everett, WA
1996 – Ninth Annual Juried Art Show, The Arts Council of Snohomish County, Everett, WA – Honorable Mention
1996 – Brisa Tropical – Invitational Show, Seattle Art Museum Rental/Sales Gallery, Seattle, WA
1996 – First Annual ArtWalk, Greenwood Arts Council, Seattle, WA
1995 – Microcosm: Small Works, Bastoky (Greenwood) Gallery, Seattle, WA
1995 – Eighth Annual Juried Art Show, The Arts Council of Snohomish County, Everett, WA – Grand Prize
1995 – Catalyst, Wonderful World of Art, Seattle, WA
1994-95 – Seattle Art Museum Rental Sales Gallery, Seattle, WA
1993 – NW Coalition Against Malicious Harassment Regional Juried Art Exhibition, Seattle, WA – Honorable Mention
1993 – 3-person Show, L&B Viewing Room, Portland, OR
1991 – Oregon Art Institute Rental Sales Gallery, Portland, OR
1990 – Corvallis Arts Center 20th Annual Willamette Valley Juried Exhibition, Corvallis, OR
1990 – 23rd Annual Northwest Women’s Art Show, Lake Oswego, OR
1989 – Art AIDS, Portland Center for the Performing Arts, Portland, OR
1988 – Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Spring Exhibit, Brooklyn, NY
1987 – 6 Private Eyes, Municipal Building, New York City, NY
1987 – Symphony Space Large Drawing Show, New York City, NY
2017 – ArtUp PhinneyWood Art Walk, Windermere Greenwood, Seattle, WA
2005 – Plant Tables and Trees, The Scoop @ Walter’s, Seattle, WA
2004 – Tables, Trees, Clouds, L&B Gallery, Portland, OR
2003 – Basnight Salon, Seattle, WA
1999 – L&B Viewing Room, Portland, OR
1996 – Bastoky Gallery, Seattle, WA
1995 – Blue Heron Gallery, Vashon, WA
1994 – Phinney Center Gallery, Seattle, WA
1992 – Maryhill Museum, Goldendale, WA
1990 – Buckley Center Gallery, University of Portland, Portland, OR
1990 – West Hills Unitarian Fellowship, Beaverton, OR
2017 – Oregon Health & Science University, Rood Pavilion, Portland, OR
1987 – MFA, Painting, Columbia University, New York, NY
1987 – Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
1985 – BFA, Painting, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR
1979 – BA, English, Lewis and Clark College, Portland, OR
2018 – Paintings Honorable Mention – Edmonds Arts Festival Gallery Arts, Edmonds, WA
1996 – Honorable Mention – Ninth Annual Juried Art Show, The Arts Council of Snohomish County, Everett, WA
1995 – Grand Prize – Eighth Annual Juried Art Show, The Arts Council of Snohomish County, Everett, WA
1995 – Honorable Mention – NW Coalition Against Malicious Harassment Regional Juried Art Exhibition, Seattle, WA
1984 – Scholarship – Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR
1983 – Fashion Design Group Scholarship – Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR
1982 – Alumni and Friends Scholarship – Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR
1978 – Magna cum laude, Lewis and Clark College, Portland, OR
