KATE WARTHEN, Artist
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About the Artist
I consider myself a contemporary/abstract landscape painter and oil paint is my primary medium. I like that it dries slowly and allows me make changes as the painting evolves. I also love the color and texture of oil paint. Earthy, organic, creamy, very engaging.
Watercolor and graphite are also favorites because of their immediacy - the opposite of oil paint to my way of thinking. My current process starts with sketching on site and then working from those sketches in my studio in Marina, CA.
My childhood days growing up in the woods and lakes of northern Wisconsin are still with me and are part of my sensibility as an artist. I moved to California as a teenager and have lived here for most of my adult life, aside from a few decades in a few other states...
​Representation:
Haute Enchilada Gallery - Moss Landing CA.
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Upcoming Events:
"Delicious", Group Show, Studio Gallery, June 12 - July 7, 2025.
1641Pacific Avenue, San Francisco, CA​
Delicious - 20th Annual Juried Show​​
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Past Events:
"Delicious", Group Show, Studio Gallery, San Francisco - May 30 - June 24, 2024.
1641Pacific Avenue, San Francisco, CA.
Monterey County Arts Habitat Open Studio Tour, Oct 7 - 8, 2023. Showing at The Carl Cherry Center for the Arts
Corner of 4th and Guadalupe, Carmel, CA 11AM - 5 PM
Solo Exhibit "Vocabulary". The Pacific Grove Art Center Annand Gallery. May 5 - June 29, 2023
Monterey County Arts Habitat Open Studio Tour, Oct 8 - 9, 2022. Showing at Odonata Winery Tasting Room, 645 River Road, Salinas, CA 11AM - 5 PM
Monterey County Arts Habitat Open Studio Tour, Oct 15 -16,2022. Showing at The Carl Cherry Center for the Arts
Corner of 4th and Guadalupe, Carmel, CA 11AM - 5 PM
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Miniatures Exhibit - Benefiting the Monterey Museum of Art, Nov 17 - Dec 15, 2022
https://montereyart.org/events
Seeking Eden: James Fitzgerald in Monterey - a discussion on watercolor techniques in the artist's work - Monterey Museum of Art, 4:00 PM, April 16, 2022
Group Show - The Lyndon Gallery, The Sea Ranch, CA. Feb 1-28, 2022.
Monterey Museum of Art - Miniatures Exhibition, Oct 28 - Dec 19, 2021.
Monterey County Arts Habitat Open Studio Tour, Oct 16 -17,2021. Showing at Pessagno Winery Tasting Room, 1645 River Road, Salinas, CA 11AM - 5 PM
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Monterey County Arts Habitat Open Studio Tour, Oct 23 - 24, 2021. Showing at Odonata Winery Tasting Room, 645 River Road, Salinas, CA 11AM - 5 PM
Monterey Museum of Art - Miniatures Exhibition, Nov 12- Dec 17, 2020 www.montereyart.org
Steinbeck Country United Juried Art Exhibition, August 1- Oct 30, 2020, The National Steinbeck Center, Salinas, CA.
Meet the Artist - January 25, 2020, 2-5 PM, Haute Enchilada Gallery, Moss Landing, CA.
Painting from Porches - Plein Air Festival hosted by the Cooper Molera Adobe, Sept 20 -22, 2019
Miniatures Exhibit - Benefiting the Monterey Museum of Art, Nov 7 - Dec 15, 2019
June 10, 2019: Participating illustrator in the "6 Word Story Contest" hosted by The Steinbeck Center in Salinas, CA.
Batik Workshop - April 27, 2019 - The Lyceum, Monterey, CA. www.lyceum.org
Monterey Museum of Art - Miniatures Exhibition - Nov 3 - Dec 16, 2018
Monterey County Artists Open Studio Tour - October 6 & 7, 2018, located at Elkhorn Slough Foundation, Porter Ranch House, 103 Hall Road, Watsonville, CA.
Batik Workshop - May 19, 2018 - The Lyceum, Monterey, CA. www. lyceum.org
Monterey Museum of Art - Miniatures Exhibition- Nov 3- Dec 17, 2017 www.montereyart.org
Monterey County Artists Open Studio Tour - Sept 23-24, 2017 - Monterey, CA. artshabitat.org
Batik Workshop - April 1, 2017 - The Lyceum, Monterey, CA. www.lyceum.org
Batik Workshop - March 11, 2017 - PENWAG - Peninsula Wearable Art Guild, Campbell, CA. www.penwag.org