Schwartz-Feit finds inspiration in the Columbia River Gorge where she resides. Combining wax with paint, she creates velvety-rich surfaces with extraordinarily complex color arrangements to reflect her sacred notations of her environment.

Biography EDUCATION: 1997  Marylhurst College, BFA, Marylhurst, OR 1987  School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA 1968 The Arts Student League, New York, NY 1969  New York Studio School, New York, NY 1969  High School of Art and Design, New York, NY SELECTED EXHIBITIONS: 2010 LIttle Gems,Butters Gallery, Portland, OR,br> 2010 Fruit of the Vine, Oregon College of Art and Craft Auction Invitational, Portland, OR 2010 Cascade Aids Project Live Auction and Catalog, Roger Hull Juror, Portland, OR 2010 What I'm Working On, Butters Gallery, Portland, OR, 2010 Luminous Layers, Encaustic Artists Invitational, Lake Oswego, OR 2009 Work of Faith,First Presbyterian Church, Portland, OR 2009 Introductions, Seattle Art Museum Gallery, Seattle, WA 2009 Open City,Sean Scully Juror, New York Studio School Alumni Exhibit, New York 2009 Cascade Aids Project 20th Annual Art Auction, Portland, OR 2009 Lewis and Clark College Gender Symposium, Portland, OR 2009 The Grid, Milepost 5, TJ Norris Juror, Portland, OR 2009 Butters Gallery 21st Anniversary Exhibition, Portland, OR 2008 Mind and Body, Butters Gallery, Portland, OR 2008 Cascade Aids Project Annual Art Auction, Portland, OR 2008 Red Dot Art Fair, Miami, FL 2008 Butters Gallery 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Portland, OR 2008 Spotlight on Portland, Seattle Art Museum Gallery, Seattle, WA 2007 Marylhurst University Alumnii Exhibition, Marylhurst, OR 2007 Artists of the Gorge, Stevenson, WA 2007 Butters Gallery 19th Anniversary Exhibition, Portland, OR 2007 Art Slate 2007 Condon, OR 2007 Driven to Abstraction,North Bank Gallery, Curator Judy Cooke, Vancouver, WA 2007 AAF Contemporary Art Fair, New York, NY 2006 Webs, Nets, Connections: New Paintings,Butters Gallery, Portland, OR 2006 Baseball and Blues,James Gallery, Pittlburg, PA 2005 AAF Contemporary Art Fair, New York, NY 2005 Butters Brand Abstraction, Butters Gallery, Portland, OR 2005 Cascade Aids Project Annual Art Auction, Portland, OR 2004 Pictures from 97010,Butters Gallery, Portland, OR 2003 Works of Faith, Curator Douglas Campbell, First Presbyterian Church, Portland 2002 Wax Works, Butters Gallery, Protland, OR 2002 Some of the MIssing, Office of Mayor Vera Katz, City Hall, POrtland, OR 2002 Cows on Parade, POrtland OR 2002 Cascade Aids Project Annual Art Auction, Portland, OR 2002 Persistence: Figure, Butters Gallery, Portland, OR 2001 New Work, Butters Gallery, Portland, OR 2001 Salon de Refuse, Groundswell Cafe, Portland, OR 2000 Urban Fantasies and Realities, New York Studio School, New York, NY 2000 Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, OR 1999 Davis Street Inaugural, Butters Gallery, Ltd., Portland, OR 1999 Art Show and Sell, Juried Exhibition, Buckman Elementary, Portland, OR 1999 Introductions, Alysia Duckler Gallery, Portland, OR 1998  J & M Café, Portland, Oregon 1998 Alysia Duckler Gallery, Portland, OR 1998 Fine Art Starts, West Linn, OR 1997 Art Thesis Exhibition, Marylhurst College, Marylhurst, OR 1997 Beyond Borders, Juried Exhibition, Bellingham, WA 1997 Buckman Art Show, Portland, OR 1996 Buckman Art Show, Portland, OR 1996 Gango Gallery, Portland, OR 1996 Emerging Artists, Gango Gallery, Portland, OR 1995 Kento Bento, Portland, OR 1991 Raindance Gallery, Portland, OR 1989  30 Pieces, Northhampton, MA RECOGNITION: 2007 Nominee Northwest Art Awards, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR 2007 Honorable Mention, Artists of the Gorge, Stevenson, WA 1997 Juror's Award, Works of Faith, Portland, OR 1996 Beyond Borders, Bellingham, WA 1995 Mayer Art Scholarship, Marylhurst College Faculty Award 1994 Honorable Mention “Work on Paper”, Western States Artists Federation in Conjunction with the National Endowment for the Arts COMMISSIONS AND SPECIAL PROJECTS 2010 Art in Hand-Portland Project 2010 Chair Affair, Community Warehouse Portland, OR, 2006-2007 Guest Lecturer, "Broadband Technology and Buddhist Theory of Mind", Carnegie Mellow University 2002 Kows For Kids, Cows on Parade, (commission) Portland, OR 2001 Feral Cat Coalition Auction, Platter commission 2001 ASID Showhouse, Portland, OR 2001 Hewett Packard Promotional Video 2000 Sunset House, Portland, OR ARTICLES, REVIEWS AND PUBLICATIONS Studio Visit, Open Studio Press, 2009 Encaustic and Beyond: A Guide to Creating Fine Art with Wax, Lissa Rankin, Sterling, 2009 YouTube Video. Eva Lake, Producer, December 2008 WWPick, Willamette Week, Richard Speer December 2008, Portland, OR Cascade Aids Project Auction Catalog, April, 2008 Partland, OR Shows of Note, Butters Brand Abstraction,January 2005, Oregonian, Portland, OR Pictures From 97010,Portland State University Vanguard, November 2 ,2004, Portland, OR Art Star Radio Interview, October 2004 Artists to Watch, Art and Antiques, December 2002 Artists PortfoliosGallery Guide. com, December 2002 30 Pieces, Vallery Advocate, October 1989, Northampton, MA SELECTED COLLECTIONS: Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, OR Meyer Memorial Trust Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP, Portland, OR KPMG, Portland, OR Forest City Services, Portland, OR Multnomah County Portable Works Collection, Portland, OR Spieker Properties, Lake Oswego, OR J and M Café, Portland, OR Wayne and Alice Plummer, Portland, OR Martha Pfanschmidt, Portland, OR James P. Martin, Portland, OR Cascade Aids Project, Portland, OR John and Deborah Fields, Portland, OR Rebecca Lukens, West Linn, OR Jennifer Osborne, Portland, OR Monica Moriarty and William Kwitman, Portland, OR Kenneth and Wendy Herz, Westport, CT Greg and Meg Lipstone, Brentwood, CA David Gerber, Los Angeles, CA Jane McLaughlin, Cambridge, MA George and Trudy Bowman, Cambridge, MA Ora Grodsky and Jonathan Rosenthal, Watertown, MA Hela and David Margulies, Boca Raton, FL RELATED WORK EXPERIENCE: 2009 Saturday Academy, Portland, OR 2008 Encaustic Workshops, Bridal Veil, OR 2002 Guest Lecturer, Lewis and Clark College, Portland, OR 1997-2005 Art Teacher, Pacific Crest Community School, Portland, OR 1997-2005 Drawing and Sculpture Workshops, Pacific Crest Community School, Portland, 1997-2005 Mask World, CD-Rom, Portland, OR 1995  Thesis Committee, Pacific Crest Community School, Portland, OR 1992 Director, Morning Sun Day Care, Portland, OR 1991 Art in the Classroom Instructor, Alameda Elementary School, Portland, OR 1990 Art in the Classroom Instructor, Tobin School, Cambridge, MA 1998-90 Introduction to Zen Philosophy and Meditation, Cambridge Adult Education, Cambridge, MA 1983-85Art Instructor, Cambridge Montessori School, Cambridge, MA 1983 Assistant Teacher, Cambridge Montessori School, Cambridge, MA Statement SEEING WITHOUT KNOWING My artistic practice for the past decade has followed a continuum. Guided by a sense that some places, the Columbia River Gorge where I live amongst them, affect me deeply and imbue my work, travels, and meditations with a spiritual geography. My spirituality is based in the teachings of Zen Buddhism; I am drawn not only to the freedom and creativity it espouses, but to its logic and connectivity as well. As I look at the work and garner material for my work, I practice “seeing without knowing”. Painting is for me a process of discovery; I learn through the act of making my work. I study the conceptual and physical worlds through exploring and painting relationships. The paintings offered in this exhibition fall into two distinct yet related categories. One group describes aspects of mind, i.e. ideas, processes, or mental constructs. The other, from direct observation, represents some of the things I encounter ass I wander my neighborhood. Pattern of nature and mind reveal themselves as they are reconstructed in the work. 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