Katherine McLean is a Vancouver artist who has been delighting Vancouver and Seattle audiences since graduating from Emily Carr in 1985 with her whimsical still life ceramic sculptures. Moving easily between realism and fantasy, McLean pulls off a plethora of artifacts that fill the gallery with colour and light.
Education
- 2004
- Seattle Fine Arts Academy workshops
- 1985
- Banff Center Fine Arts Summer, Banff, Alberta
- 1982-1985
- Graduated with Honors Emily Carr College of Art and Design, Vancouver, B.C.
Selected exhibitions
- 2011
- "Playing With Fire" Encaustic Painting and Clay sculpture at Granville Island Studio
- 2010
- "Unintended Gardens" Granville Island Studio
- 2009
- "A Honied Summer" Granville island Studio
- 2008
- "Spring Unveiling" Rhodes Stringfellow Gallery Canon Beach OR
- 2007
- "Storm Watch" Rhodes Stringfellow Gallery Canon Beach OR.
"Group Show" Patricia Rovzar Gallery - 2006
- July thru November Open Studios, Granville Island
- 2005
- Romancing the Clay Patricia Rovzar Gallery Seattle WA
- 2004
- Group Shows Paintings and Ceramics
West End Galleries Edmonton and Victoria - 2002
- New Works Foster White Gallery, Kirkland, WA
- 2002
- New Works West End Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
- 2001
- Growing Evidence John Ramsay Gallery Vancouver BC
- 2000
- Carnal Summer, Foster/White Gallery, Seattle, Washington
- 1999
- House and Garden, Foster/White Gallery, Kirkland, Washington
- 1998
- Lessons From the Garden, Foster/White Gallery, Kirkland, Washington
- 1997
- Efflorescence Canadian Craft Museum, Vancouver, B.C.
APEC Conference Canadian Government Suite.
Still-life and Color West End Gallery, Victoria B.C.
Still-life and Color West End Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
Still-life and the Essence of Color Heffel Gallery, Vancouver, B.C. - 1996
- Garden Elements Foster/White Gallery, Kirkland, Washington
- 1995
- Still-life in the Garden Foster/White Gallery, Seattle, Washington
- 1994
- Icons of the Garden Canadian Craft Museum, Vancouver, B.C., Contemporary Decades 1964-1994
Emily Carr College of Art and Design, Vancouver, B.C.,
Painterly Ceramics West End Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta - 1993
- Painterly Ceramics Heffel Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.
- 1992
- Contemporary Ceramics Wallace Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
- 1991
- The Painted Garden Fran Willis North Park Gallery, Victoria, B.C.
- 1990
- Still Life With Music West End Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
- 1989
- A Garden of Clay Fran Willis North Park Gallery
- 1987
- Contemporary Ceramics Heffel Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.
Stone the Crows Crafthouse Gallery, Vancouver, B.C. - 1986
- Luminous Journey
EXPO 86, Canadian Pavilion, Vancouver, B.C., Installation - 1985
- ECCAD Graduation Show, Vancouver, B.C., Installation,
Kiss the Fish Good-bye
Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, Alberta, Installation
Imagined Places