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Selected EXHIBITION RECORD from 1975-2013    LINDA HORSLEY (Horsley-Nunley, up to 1994)
      2013           Vashon Is.,WA. Allied Arts, exhibiton of 21 paintings.
      2012           Faculty show at Art Institute of Seattle
                         * International invitational group exhibit in Ferrara, Italy   "Liberated Dreams"
                          website:  www. trevisan-international-art.com      Curator, Paola Trevisan
      2010           One-person show at StudioWest, Eugene Or.
                         Rogue Space/Chelsea, International Painting Show, N.Y.,N.Y.
                         Women's Works, Woodstock, Il. (won 2nd prize on one painting)
                         Unclad show in Stanwood, Wa.
                         CVG show in Bremerton, Wa.
       2009           Faculty show at Art Institute of Seattle

       2008           Published poem and painting in Migraine Book
                         Faculty show at Art Institute of Seattle

       2007            Blackfish Gallery, Portland, Or.
                         Pig Sculpture “Knob Hog” Pike Place Market Art commission, 
                         Sponsor: SuperGraphics, Seattle 
                         Faculty show at Art Institute of Seattle
                         
       2006            Faculty show at Art Institute of Seattle                         
                         Circus Surreal, Mirco Museum, Brooklyn, N.Y. oil painting
                         Commission, Downtown Seattle ,"Nutcracker March", Sponsor: City Center
                         May     One-Woman Show, Gallery 110, Seattle
                         UNCLAD group, 4 paintings, Stanwood, WA. and Portland, OR.
        2005           Commission, Public Art, Pacific NW Ballet, "Nutcracker March                        
                          Martiz Gallery, Camano Is., UNCLAD group, 4 paintings
        2004           Design Faculty Show, Cornish School of the Arts, Seattle
                         Jan.  Commission Public Art, Northwest Center, Seattle, “Ponies on Parade”.
                         August   One-Woman Show, Gallery 110, Seattle
                         Martiz Gallery, Camano Is., Wash. UNCLAD group, 4 oil paintings
        2003           Sculpture of Dragon Petals on fence, Delmar Pageant, St. Louis
                         Mural of faces/eggs/people & Pillar People at CITY MUSEUM, St. Louis
                         May    Facing Faces, one-woman show, 32 paintings, 9th St. Gallery, St. Louis
        2002           Heavy Petting, Curator,  and exhibited work from own book
                         Published "Nature's Play ,58 prints, 15 fables written by artist                       
                         May – Dec.  Bi-Sate commission, Arts in Transit, WILD ROSE RUN Sculpture
                         People Project, St. Louis, 2 commissions, Charter Comm., Washington U.
                         Venus Envy, women’s show at Lemp Gallery, Installation Chair
       2001            Artist’s in Exile, organized & exhibited in City Museum building
                         Venus Envy, women’s show at Lemp Gallery, St. Louis
       2000            AROUSAL, Fest. of Saturnalia, organized & exhibited, St. Louis
                         Three person show at A.D. Brown, St. Louis
                         Venus Envy, women’s show at Lemp Gallery, St. Louis
                         Art St. Louis, GO FIGURE group show
                         
      1998-01        One woman shows in own studio/gallery, St. Louis
                        Hats’ Off, St. Louis Benefit for Abused women
                        AID Foundation, Auction through the Forum, St. Louis
                        Grand Ave. Bistro, St. Louis, one woman show, 24 works
      1994-95        Dog Museum of St. Louis, three paintings with dogs
      1994            Ruderer Fine Art Gallery, St. Louis, eight paintings
      1993            Dog Museum of St. Louis, Invitational traveling show BOW WOW USA
      1992            Dog Museum of St. Louis, ST.LOUIS COLLECTS, three metal works
                        First Night St. Louis, commissioned metal cones, 3 STAGES of MAN
                        Metro-Link, Bi-State, St. Louis, Union Station, Sculpture
                        COCA, St. Louis Invitational Hubs and Hoods
                        Messing Gallery, St. Louis, Group Show
                        Art St. Louis, Group Show
       1991           First Night St. Louis, Metal Sculpture, FIRE, WATER, EARTH, AIR
                        Art Creators, Port Of Spain, Trinidad, One woman Show of Paintings
                        With illustrated book Dancer, the little dog from Mayaro Beach
        1988          Art St. Louis, Invitational Show
                        9 bags 9 CH. 9 public TV, St. Louis, Fundraiser
        1987          St. Louis Community College at Meramec, one woman show  T&T
                        Bixby Gallery, Wash. U., Contemporary Women Artists of St. Louis
                        Bixby Gallery, Wash. U., Group Show   OVER THE SOFA   
        1986          Seghi Gallery, St. Louis, two person show
        1985          Skinker DeBaliviere Art Exposed, St. Louis
                        Florissant Valley College, St. Louis, Faculty show
        1982          Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, three person show
                        SOME GIRLS, Chicago, group response to Judy Chicago’s Dinner Party
                        Botti Gallery, Evanston, Ill., group show 
        1980          Bell Telephone Invitational, Chicago
        1979          Beverly Art Center, Chicago, Art Council for one woman show
        1978          Seattle Art Commission Group Show,  Seattle Selects, Bellevue
                        March, American Embassy in Freetown, Sierra Leone, One woman show
        1977          Chicago, group show, Old Orchard Public funding for the Arts Fest. 
                        Sears Towner Invitational, Chicago
                        A.R.C. Gallery, Chicago, Invitational AWARD, Illinois Women Artists
                        Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, group show
        1976          Northwestern University, Dittmar Gallery, Evanston, Ill. Thesis show
          1975-77     Chicago Art Institute Sales and Rental Gallery, Chicago
 
Selected Highmarks: 

         2004-07           Six public  art works, Downtown Seattle Association and
                                   Pike Place Market Foundation, Seattle
         2002                 Commission for Bi-State, Arts in Transit, St. Louis, MO.
                                   “ Wild Rose Run," Sculpture
         2002                 Published Book, “Nature’s Play”, 15 fables, 58 illustrations
         1994                 Joseph and Emily Pulitzer, St. Louis Mo.
                                   Painting cataloged in Pulitzer Foundation Collection
        1993                  St. Louis, Dog Museum Invitational Exhibit, Traveling USA.
        1990-91            Illustrated Children’s book , “Dancer, the Little Dog from Mayaro 
                                   Beach”, published in Trinidad and Tobago
        1987                  “Women Artists of St. Louis”, Exhibition at Washington University
        1979                  “Seattle Selects”, Seattle Art Commission Invitational Exhibition
        1978                  One-person Exhibition, American Embassy, Freetown, Sierra Leone
        1977                  “Illinois Women Artists”, A.R.C. Invitational Exhibition
        1976                  Kemper Insurance Art Collection, Chicago, Ill., two oil paintings
        1975                  Scholarship, Teaching Assistant, Northwestern University, Ill. 

REVIEW International Exhibition :" Liberated Dreams" , Ferrara, Italy April 2012 Catolog Review by Michela Turra

A painter, an illustrator of fairy tales, an art teacher, an event organizer, a writer, Linda Horsley is an all-accomplished artist. A mother and a traveler - Linda is able to bring onto the canvas her idiosyncratic cultural and existential richness.  Her art is generous, feminine and wise. Not a centimetre of her paintings are free of either colour or sign: fullness is the hallmark of the author.  As a skilled visionary and imaginative drawer, she proposes a metaphorical figurativism that can become a sort of symbolism.  Her big faces, distored by dreams, thoughts or some kind of deceptive ecstasy, seem to float in a lost dimension, as if in weightlessness.  Surrounding them is the deceiving allure of colour, by which they are distressed and from which they are excluded, as they have been from Eden (see "Out of Eden", one painting).
Human bodies entangled with animals, creatures floating in landfills, brought together by too cramped a      destiny: the terrestrial population described in Horsley's beautiful oils seeks space, it struggles and knows suffering, it is erotic and sensual.  The artist, who lives and works in Seattle, has also worked on cartoons, as is apparent in her imaginative creations.  The plant, animal and human world successfully recur in her sculptures, works presented at festivals or exhibited in streets.  Horsley's interest is for life and all its nuances, including the unrestrainable tones of the mind.
 
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