Stephen Macfarlane

Education & Training

1982

BA — Grinnell College

Grinnell, Iowa — Biology

1985–92

School of Visual Concepts

Seattle, WA — fine art

1995–98

Pratt Fine Arts Center

Seattle, WA — printmaking

1999–2000

Assistant to Brandon Graving

Monotype workshop, Contemporary Arts Center, North Adams MA

1997–2001

Annual Printmaking Residency

Contemporary Arts Center, North Adams MA

Selected Exhibitions

Ongoing

JG Art Gallery + Events

Bainbridge Island, WA & Park City, UT

2012

New Work/Clouds — Solo

Kirkland Performance Center, Kirkland WA

2008

Figurative — Solo

Joe Bar, Seattle WA

2006

Chestnuts and Asteroids — Solo

Bauhaus, Seattle WA

2005

Monoprints — Solo

Gallery One, Ellensburg WA

Annual

Paint Ellensburg

1999–2005 — annual participant

Residencies & Recognition

Annual

Duwamish River Artist Residency

8-day plein air residency — landscape, figure, birds

Book

Art + Industry — Roots That Clutch

Duwamish residency catalogue — Seattle Art Museum Library + UW Special Collections

2006

Artist Trust EDGE Program

Professional development — Seattle WA

2005

Artist in Residence

Gallery One, Ellensburg WA

Collections & Archives

Teaching & Membership

2001–pres

Instructor — School of Visual Concepts

Elements of Drawing, Seattle WA

2002–pres

Member — Seattle Print Arts

Past

Roby King Gallery, Bainbridge WA

Previous representation — now at JG

Practice

Medium

Monotype on paper

Printing press, ink, drawing — each piece unique, unrepeatable

Also

Ghost prints

Second pull from the plate — treated as generative not failed

Subject

Figures · Landscape · Birds · Duwamish River

Pacific Northwest — industrial waterway and its wildlife