AN INTRODUCTION...(Homepage image by Kate Russell)
Carol Coates has been a pioneer in mixing traditional and new media. She deviates from traditional media applications. She adds to the painting arsenal. She creates work in both two and three dimensions.
Her work includes and falls within and between many worlds. It is both intentionally and intuitively humanistic. She hopes to communicate, to reflect, to question, and to connect.
She begins her work with original drawings, paintings, and/or photographs. She then combines, manipulates, prints, and paints them. She also creates paintings that are pure oils or acrylics.
She is a post visualizer. She doesn't begin with a completed work in mind. She begins with whatever element speaks to her. She follows a path that is ambiguous. She doesn't know where it will lead. The image evolves; the meaning, understood.
Coates trusts that whatever is meaningful to her will be meaningful to others. That which is personal is universal.
Her series vary in style. She moves between Classicism, Surrealism, and Abstraction with ease. The threads that connect this work are its humanism and its constant themes of perception and choice.
BIO/CV...
*Born, Grand Haven, Michigan
*Masters Degree - Fine Art, University of Michigan
*Bachelor of Science, Western Michigan University
*Lifelong Graduate Study in U.S. and abroad in Drawing,
Painting, Photography, Digital, Encaustic, Metalsmithing,
Ceramics, and Fine Art Glass.
*Fine Art Faculty 1963 - 1995
*Artist in Residence 1985 - 1995
2021 H20 Exhibition, Bailey-Matthews Museum, Sanibel, FL
2020 34th Annual Juried All Florida Exhibition,Alliance for the Arts, Fort Myers, FL
2019 Solo show,, “MindsEye”, Lois Lambert Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2018 Group show,, “Uncanny”, Walker Fine Art, Denver, CO
2017 Group show, “Electron Salon ”, LACDA, Los Angeles, CA
2017 International Exhibition, “Figure/Contemporary Media”, Site: Brooklyn, NY
2017 32ndInternational Exhibition, Meadows Gallery, Tyler, TX
2016 Solo Show, “Dissonance”, Tansey Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
2015 Group Show, “Absence of Color”, Tansey Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
2015 Representation, Tansey Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
2012 Re-Presenting the Nude, Evoke Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
2012 Solo show, “Momentum”, Lois Lambert Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
2012 Representation, Lois Lambert Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
2012 Big Arts Invitational, Phillips Gallery, Sanibel, FL
2011 Colorado Creative Industries, Carr Judicial Center finalist, Denver, CO
2010 Solo Show, The Edge Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2008 Solo show, “Interplay”, Walker Fine Art, Denver, CO
2008 Santa Fe Community Gallery Inaugural Exhibition, Santa Fe, NM
2007 “FOTOwerk”, Flatfile Gallery, Chicago, IL
2005 Group show, Tadu Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
2005 The Collector’s Show, Walker Fine Art, Denver, CO
2005 “Design After Dark”, Invitational Benefit, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
2005 Invitation/Inclusion in “100 Artists of the Southwest”, by Douglas Bullis
2005 Group show, Walker Fine Art, Denver, CO
2005 Representation, Tadu Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM
2005 “Small Works Invitational”, Sandy Carson Fine Art, Denver, CO
2005 Representation, Aspen International Art, Aspen, CO
2005 Solo show “Within the Moment”, Tadu Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM
2003 Bronze Medal in New Media, Fortezza de Basso, Florence, Italy
2001 Solo show “Critical Mass”, 9/13/2001, Art Center of Battle Creek, MI
1999 “Carol Coates”- Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI.
1999 300’ Public Commission, Historic District Courthouse, Midland, MI
1998 45' FineArt Installation - Fortune “500” World Headquarters Executive Wing
1998 Solo show, “Binary Poetics” SVSU, Saginaw, MI
1998 Solo show, “Carol Coates”, Studio 23, Bay City, MI
1998 Creative Artist Grant, Michigan Art Council
1997 Three-Person Invitational, “Circuitwork” Northwood Gallery, MI
1997 Solo show, “Evo-Diva”, Saginaw Art Museum, MI
1994 Solo show, “Assertions”, MCFTA Museum, MI
1993 One-Person Show, Saginaw Art Museum
1992 One-Person Show Award, Saginaw Art Museum Statewide Photo
1991 Second Place Award, Latent Image Statewide Photo Competition
1990 Third Place Award, Holland Art Museum State Competition-
1990 Juried inclusion, Showcase, Midland Center for the Arts
1990 and earlier -
Juried inclusion, Saginaw Art Museum Area Exhibition
Honorable Mention, Mid-Michigan State Competition
Best of Show Award, Regional Competition
First Place Award, Regional Competition
Third Place Award, Saginaw Art Museum
Juried inclusion, Krasl Art Museum State Competition
Group Exhibit, Slusser Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI
First and Second Place Awards, Studio 23, Bay City, MI
Honorable Mention, Saginaw Art Museum, Saginaw, MI
Second Place Award, Regional Competition
Third Place Award, Bay Area Photo Competition
Three-Person Show,Midland Center for the Arts
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