Join exhibiting artist Kimberly Trowbridge as she speaks about Into the Garden, her large solo exhibition of paintings reflecting images, ideas and methods developed over the last two years as Creative Fellow at Bloedel Reserve on Bainbridge Island. This talk will be hosted by Kristin Tollefson, BIMA’s Director of Education and Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Advancement.

About Kimberly Trowbridge

Kimberly Trowbridge was born in Everett, WA. She is a current Creative Fellow at Bloedel Reserve and will open her first solo museum exhibition in Fall of 2020 at the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art. She is a two-time Neddy Award Finalist (2014, 2016), and an Artist Trust GAP Grant recipient (2014). She received her MFA from the University of Washington in 2006. She is the Director of the Trowbridge Atelier of Painting, at Gage Academy of Art in Seattle. She leads plein-air painting tours in Spain, Portugal, and Twisp, WA.

Trowbridge is a plein-air painter, a figure painter, an installation artist, a performer, and a lecturer on color theory.

“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 plein-air works my “primary documents,” and I use them as references to 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