About the artist
Artist's Statement:
My art making is complicated with feuding passions. One limb is socially conscious narratives about bad-ass women, either mythical or American west.
The other limb fights for the scintillation of the observed; the beauty I see and interpret in a graphic response. More than a printmaker, or painter, I serve as an image maker, and I hope each time, for something remarkable.
I enjoy working in the studio at my press or easel, as well as teaching printmaking at colleges and community workshops.
Bio:
Ouida lives in Delta, Colorado after a short stay in Denver. She came to Colorado from a small New Mexican pueblo named Mesilla where she left behind a large garden with fruit trees and a historic adobe home. She is enjoying creating a new home and garden in a turn-of-the-century bungalow with space for a garden and a carriage house in the back, perfect for her generously lit studio.
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Representation
Mixx Atelier, Telluride, CO.
Artful Home, Madison WI.
Tubac Art and Gifts Gallery, Tubac, AZ
Kalisher Art Publishing, Carrboro, NC
MakeWest Art Publishing, Denver, CO
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Curriculum Vitae:
Education
Master of Arts/ Studio Arts (Painting and Printmaking), University of Missouri Kansas City 2003
BFA Painting, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City MO 2000
Edinburgh Printmakers, Edinburgh Scotland, Screen Printing workshop 2016
International Art School, Summer Session w/ Lennart Anderson, Umbria, Italy 2000
Summer workshops at Univ. So. Dakota, Vermillion in printmaking (3 summers) Papermaking, Letterpress, Solar Plate Etching, Reduction Printmaking 2004-2007
AA Fashion Design, AA Patternmaking, El Centro College, Dallas, TX 1984
Exhibitions (recent)
Coors Western Art Exhibition, Denver Colorado, 2021, 2022, 2024
Mixx Atelier, group shows, Telluride CO, March 2023-ongoing
41st Western Spirit Art Show, Cheyenne Old West Museum, Cheyenne, WY 2022
Delta National Small Prints Exhibition, Bradbury Museum, Jonesboro, AR 2022
Brand 48, Works on Paper, Brand Library and Art Center, Glendale, CA 2020
Arvada Center, Arvada, CO, ‘528.0’- Printmaking exhibition, 2020
ArtGymDenver, Nude vs Naked, 2019
Palace Press, Santa Fe, NM, Poems & Prints, Poetry Broadsides, 2019
Arts Benicia, Benicia CA, In the Fields, Botanical Lore, 2018
1+1=1 Gallery,The Body, group show, 2018, Helena MT
Gallery 110, Greetings from the Anthropocene, group show, 2017 Seattle, WA
Gallery at Big Picture, Paint, Pixels and Ink, 2017, Las Cruces, NM
Parkside Art Gallery, 25th National Parkside Small Print Exhibition, 2017, U.of W. Kenosha
1+1=1 Gallery,The Body, group show, 2017, Helena MT
Representation
Mixx Projects, Telluride, CO.
Artful Home, Madison WI.
Tubac Art and Gifts Gallery, Tubac, AZ
Kalisher Art Publishing, Carrboro, NC
MakeWest Art Publishing, Denver, CO
Public Collections
Children’s Hospital, Aurora, Colorado
Renaissance Hotel, Plano TX
Taylor-Barela-Reynolds-Mesilla State Monument, Mesilla New Mexico
El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX
Federal Building, Las Cruces, New Mexico
Dona Ana Community College, Las Cruces, NM
Academic/Professional Work Experience
Art Center, Grand Junction: workshops on techniques of printmaking-ongoing
Grand Mesa Arts Center: workshops on various techniques of printmaking-ongoing
Ah Haa School of the Arts Center: workshops on woodcut, chine collé, and monoprinting-ongoing.
Weehawken Arts Center: workshops on various techniques of printmaking-ongoing
New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM: Adjunct Professor.
Orientation to Art (2014-present), Intro. to Printmaking (2015-2018), Drawing l (Fall 2013)
Univ. of Mo. Kansas City: summer printmaking workshop 2017
El Paso Museum of Art: Adult classes in printmaking, 2009,2010, 2011
In Studio workshops: painting, printmaking- ongoing
(Conversations about representation or licensing of my artwork are welcome. Please contact me by email. ouidatouchon@gmail.com Thank you.)