Artist Talk with Kimberly Trowbridge

Watch Seattle Based Artist, Kimberly Trowbridge discuss her latest exhibition, Field and Figure with Rhoda Donkin, at J. Rinehart Gallery in Seattle, WA
Within Field and Figure, Trowbridge combines color, shape, and rhythm to leap into the unknown, into the present relationships building on our surface. Field and Figure exists right in front of us, an observation of the figure as an invented construction.
Working plein air, Trowbridge unearths images that challenge perception and reveal structures describing the artist’s experience. The boundaries of the self are blurred and the connection to our environment is revealed as deeply intertwined.
Of her work, Trowbridge states: “Painting is a way of life, a continued effort to translate experience into a meaningful, visual document. Looking to the past gives us wonderful nuggets of wisdom, attitudes for entering, clues on the path through the deep forest of our own consciousness.”
Kimberly Trowbridge is a painter, an installation artist, a performer, and a lecturer on color theory. She received her MFA from the University of Washington (2006). Her first solo museum show at Bainbridge Island Museum of Art (2021) was developed during her time as Creative Fellow at Bloedel Reserve (2018-2020), a 150-acre garden amid an old growth forest. She is a two-time Neddy Award Finalist (2014, 2016), and an Artist Trust GAP Grant recipient (2014). She is the Director of the Modern Color Atelier, a multi-year painting program at Gage Academy of Art, Seattle. Her work can be found in various private and public collections throughout the US, including Facebook (Meta), Microsoft Art Collection, and the King County Public Art Collection.