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Julie Comnick, M.F.A. - Faculty
Academic Statement (Return to top)
Julie Comnick received her MFA in Painting from Montana State University in 2001 and her BA from The Evergreen State College in 1995. Her paintings and drawings have been exhibited in solo exhibitions nationally including Space Gallery, Denver, CO; The Gallery at Flashpoint, Washington, DC; Zg Gallery, Chicago IL; and Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT. Her work has been featured in publications including the Washington Post, New American Paintings, Dialogue Magazine, and the Chicago Sun Times. She received an Artist Projects Grant from the Arizona Commission on the Arts in 2007.
Background & Experience
Selected Publications (Return to top)
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2012 Arrangement for a Silent Orchestra
Prescott College Art Gallery at Sam Hill Warehouse, Prescott, Arizona
2009 Prospect
Space Gallery, Denver, Colorado
2008 According To Their Kind
The Gallery at Flashpoint, Washington, DC
2006 Exhuming the Omitted
Yavapai College Gallery, Yavapai College, Prescott, Arizona
2004 In Absentia
Zg Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Communion with Vacancy
Fine Arts Center Gallery, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, Illinois
2003 Featured Teaching Artist Exhibition
Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, Illinois
2002 Within Earshot
Zg Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Julie Comnick, Paintings (Narration: Emblem and Sequence in Contemporary Art)
Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, Connecticut
2001 Julie Comnick, Paintings
Kittredge Gallery, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington
Body Language: Drawings
Gallery II, The Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington
Forecast in Hindsight
MFA Thesis Exhibit, Helen E. Copeland Gallery, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana
Julie Comnick, Drawings
Emerson Cultural Center, Bozeman, Montana
1999 Evolution Impotence
The Exit Gallery, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana
1997 Enter to Win
Oculus Gallery, Seattle, Washington
1996 Full Hookups
Oculus Gallery, Seattle, Washington
Selected Group Exhibitions
2011 Wanderer Ship: Invitational Slide Exhibition
Marc Chagall Museum, Vitebsk, Belarus
Artlink 13th Annual Juried Exhibition
A.E. England Gallery, Phoenix, Arizona
2008 UNspoken
Coconino Center for the Arts, Flagstaff, Arizona
2007 14th Annual Realism Invitational
Klaudia Marr Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Arts and Letters Faculty Showcase
Prescott College, Prescott, Arizona
2005 Conquered Mind, Awakened Spirit: The Visionary Paths
Caladan Gallery, www.caladangallery.com
2004 Beth Allison Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
2003 War Stories
A Shenere Velt Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Portrait-Investigation of Self: England/America Print Exchange Exhibition
Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana; University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah; Camberwell School of Art, London, England; The London Institute, London, England; University of West England, Bristol, England
Compendium
Zg Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
2002 “I see London, I see France . . .”
A.R.C. Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
All-Media International Invitational 2002
Period Gallery, Omaha, Nebraska
Wild Life: The Other Tradition
Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, Florida
2001 Narration: Emblem and Sequence in Contemporary Art
Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, Connecticut, First Place
Juror: Robert Taplin
2000 Scene / Unseen: National Art Exhibition
Eastern New Mexico University, Portales, New Mexico
Art on the Plains: 3rd Annual Regional Juried Exhibition
Plains Art museum, Fargo, North Dakota
What is Drawing Now?
Weber State University, Ogden, Utah
An Argument for Drawing
Art Museum of Missoula, Missoula, Montana
1999 The End: Northwest Biennial Competition
Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Washington, Honorable Mention
Juror: Fred Wilson
Art Equinox 1999
Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art, Great Falls, Montana
Awards, Grants, & Honors (Return to top)
2007 Artist Projects Grant, Arizona Commission on the Arts
2001 Montana State University Foundation Graduate Achievement Award
1998 Montana State University Presidential Scholarship
Education (Return to top)
M.F.A. 2001 Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, Painting
B.A. 1995 The Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington, Studio Art and Humanities
1994 E.F. International Language School, Barcelona, Spain
Coverage in News & Media (Return to top)
2010 Trickhouse Cross-Genre Arts Quarterly
www.trickhouse.org, Volume 9, Summer 2010
2008 O’Sullivan, Michael. “Man vs. Beast: An Intimate Look,” The Washington Post.
Weekend Section, January 18, 2008, p 39
Venart, Lynne. Arts and Events dcist
http://dcist.com/2008/01/10/according_to_th_1.php, January 10, 2008
Bruner, Betsy. “Turning Art on its Head,” Arizona Daily Sun.
Section B, January 20, 2008, pp 1-2
2006 New American Paintings: Western Competition
Volume 11, Number 66, Nov, 2006, pp18-21
2005 Sundell, Ivy. Living Artists
Evanston, IL: Crow Woods Publishing, 2005, pp 12-13 and 54-55
2003 New American Paintings: Midwestern Competition
Volume 8, Number 47, Sep. 2003, pp 34-37
2002 Brunetti, John. “Rearview Mirror,” Dialogue Magazine.
Volume 25, Number 3, September/October 2002, p 31
Camper, Fred. “Critic’s Choice,” The Chicago Reader.
Volume 31, Number 44, Section Two, August 2, 2002, p 23
Hawkins, Margaret. “Gallery Glance,” Chicago Sun Times.
July 19, 2002
Artner, Alan G. Chicago Tribune
July 24, 2002
Birke, Judy. “Two Artists Meet at the Junction Between Dreams and the Everyday,” New Haven Register. March 10, 2002
2001 Zimmer, William. “Creative Works with a Political Edge,” The New York Times.
Connecticut edition, Art Section, June 24, 2001, p 11
Hoffman, Hank. “What’s the Story Here?” The New Haven Advocate.
May 31, 2001
2000 New American Paintings: The MFA Annual 2000
Volume 5, June 2000, pp 30-33
Academic Involvement at Prescott College (Return to top)
Programs/Degrees
- On-Campus Undergraduate Programs
Areas of Study
- Interdisciplinary Arts & Letters
- Studio Arts
- Visual Arts
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