KAREN ESLER

EDUCATION / TRAINING
2004 MFA in Visual Arts, emphasis in studio practices and critical theory, Vermont College Union Institute & University, Montpelier, VT.
2002 B.A., Liberal Studies, Portland State University, Portland, OR, With Honors.
1998-1999 School of Realism, Seattle, WA
1993-1996 Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR.
1995 Crown Point Press, San Francisco, CA
1976-1977 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC

EXHIBITIONS / PUBLICATIONS
2011 Augen Gallery, Portland, OR
2009 Augen Gallery, Portland, OR
2008 Portland Community College, Sylvania, Faculty Group Show, Portland, OR
2008 Portland Art Center, Group Show, Portland, OR
2008-1995 Cascade Aids Auction, Portland, OR
2007 Paintings and Drawings, Mark Woolley Gallery, Portland, OR
2007 Wax Portraits, Glimpse, Justice Center, Portland, OR
2007 POLITIK, North Bank Gallery, Group Show, Vancouver, WA
2007 Disjecta, Portland, OR
2006 New Paintings, Mark Woolley Gallery, Portland, OR
2006 Alien and Sedition, Mark Woolley Gallery, Group Show, Portland, OR
2006 Portland Community College, Sylvania, Faculty Show, Portland, OR
2006 Small Wonders, Mark Woolley Gallery, Portland, OR
2005 Soderberg Laman Designers, Solo Exhibition, Portland, OR
2005 Affair at the Jupiter Hotel, Portland, OR
2005 Pacific University, Solo Exhibition, Forest Grove, OR
2005 Prints for PICA, Portland, OR
2005 The Red Show, Mark Woolley Gallery, Portland, OR
2004 Mark Woolley Gallery, New Work, Portland, OR
2004 Affair at the Jupiter Hotel, Portland, OR
2004 Collaboration Exhibition with Starbucks Coffee, October-November, Portland, OR
2004 Vermont College Union Institute & University, Wood Gallery Group Show, Montpelier, VT
2004 21 Years of Studios, Curated Group Show, Cathedral Park/Haze Gallery, Portland, OR
2004 Prints for PICA, Portland, OR
2003 Pacific Northwest College of Art, History of Monotype, Portland, OR
2002 Margo Jacobsen Gallery, New Paintings & Prints, Portland, OR
2001 Margo Jacobsen Gallery, Portland, OR
2000 PICA, Artists Invitational Exhibition, Portland, OR
2000 Quartersaw Gallery, Portland, OR
1999 Agora Gallery, Soho, New York, NY
1999 SEEING MONEY, Curated by Helen Gundlach, Portland, OR
1998 Columbia Arts Center, S.W. Washington Juried Art Exhibition, Vancouver, WA
1998 Small Works Show, Eugene, OR
1997 Group Show, Froelick Adelhart Gallery, Portland, OR
1997 ZYZZYVA, published Fall 1997
1997 Mendocino Art Center, Juried Art Exhibition, Mendocino, CA
1997 Quartersaw Gallery, Portland, OR
1996 Quartersaw Gallery, Portland, OR
1996 The Landscape, Friendly House Community Center, Portland, OR
1995 Quartersaw Gallery, Portland, OR
1993 Group Show, The Loft Artists, Front Street Studios, Portland, OR

TEACHING / LECTURE EXPERIENCE
2004-2008 Portland Community College, Sylvania, Portland, OR: Beginning and Advanced Painting,
Life Drawing, Portrait Drawing
2007 Portland State University. Introduction to Drawing
2007 Visiting Artist Lecture, “The Art and Life of Charlotte Salomon,” Robert Gray Middle School, Portland, OR
2007 Clark College, Vancouver, Washington, Women’s Studies, “Portraying the Erotic Male”
2006 Visiting Artist, Portland State University Art Dept., International Studies Program, Florence, Italy.
2004-2005 Pacific University, Forest Grove, Oregon: Basic Design, History of Western Art
2004 Visiting Artist Lecture, “Painting and the Monotype,” Portland Community College, Sylvania, Portland OR
1994-2002 Art Literacy, Portland Public Schools, Cathedral Catholic, Portland, OR

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