Kimberly Trowbridge

Hello Sentient Beings!

I am Kimberly Trowbridge, a visual artist and educator.

I seek to engage my community in the process of perceptual inquiry and awareness. I believe the language of color and shape can open pathways of empathy with our natural surroundings. I also believe the process of painting creates personal agency— a means for witnessing and responding to experience and, ultimately, for contributing new forms of reality.

I am the Director of the Modern Color Atelier, through Gage Academy of Art, and have been part of the Equinox community now for nearly 8 years. Our studio at Equinox continues to be a meaningful hub for my current students and alumni community; I curate monthly exhibitions in the hallway gallery of The Factory building.

I am particularly inspired by the colors and forms found in nature. Field painting is integral to my creative process and is how I ground myself and initiate a relationship specific to place. I spend time working in different environments to experience how different palettes, shifts in scale, and natural forms reveal new insights and patterns of thought. I filter these messages through my body, and the figurative forms in my paintings narrate this transformative experience.

Current Group Show:
Silva Cascadia: Under the Spell of the Forest, Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner, WA. Up through May 12, 2024.
www.monamuseum.org/silva-cascadia

Upcoming Solo Show:
Field and Figure, J. Rinehart Gallery, Seattle, June 2024.
www.jrinehartgallery.com/artists/kimberly-trowbridge

BANNER IMAGE: Camelia Walk, Oil on Paper on Panel, 48” x 96,” 2020

GALLERY IMAGES:
1. Kimberly Field Painting, Image by David Benhaim.
2. Hemlock in the Moss Garden, Oil on Canvas, 60" x 72", 2024. Currently on view in Silva Cascadia group show at Museum of Northwest Art.
3. Frieze of Sculptures, Plaster, based on figures from Poussin's painting "Empire of Flora." I love breaking down form into essentialized shapes, like letters in an alphabet.
4. Triadic Figure in Interior, Oil on Paper on Panel, 16" x 20", 2023. In the Modern Color Atelier I teach the method of Color-Blocking, where each shape of color is analyzed in terms of Value, Temperature, and degree of Intensity. Creating a confident, poetic relationship with color is liberating.