Christine Buth-Furness

medium: painting

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Radiant November 2010 Painting	Lightning Tree 2010 Painting	Savor My Mint Green Tea in the Yellow Red and Blue 2010 Painting
Sky in a Box Series - Yellow Surrender 2011 Painting	Step Outside to Hear the Thaw of the Hail Storm 2011 Painting	Sky in a Box Series - Cornered With Winter White 2009 Painting
Sky in a Box Series - Yellow Tree with Aqua Blue 2010 Painting	Out of My Depth Under the Redwoods 2011 Painting	The Winter Morning Found Her Sunsplashed 2011 Painting
Sky in a Box Series - Walk on By 2011 Painting

Contact information
19830 Trilby Court
Brookfield, WI 53045
Phone Number: 262-781-4387
Email Address: chrisbuthfurn@gmail.com
Web site: www.chrisbuthfurness.com

Artist statement
I paint the figurative landscape as if it is a proscenium stage--a lit space directly facing the audience. The horizon line separates the sky from the land and these elements frame the tree or the human figure. All appear as actors on the stage.

In my images the tree symbolizes something strong and deeply rooted, a provider of shelter. The painted figure represents an individual I personally admire and depict in relationship with a fictional landscape. In most recent work I am incorporating architectural elements. I paint large watercolors on paper because of the responsiveness of the paint with the paper as the paint stains and becomes one with it. Each deep, rich hue is created through a series of washes, one transparent layer over another, built up until the intensity of the color is reached drawing the viewer in.

Biography
Education: M.F.A., School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Full Tuition Fellow, 1979-1981

Solo exhibitions 2002 to the present:

• Hidden River Art Festival, Brookfield, Wis., 2009
• Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the Arts, Ploch Art Gallery, Brookfield, Wis., June-July, 2005
• Wisconsin Arts Board, Madison, Wis., October 21, 2002-January 23, 2003

• Watercolor USA 25th Anniversary Members Invitational Exhibition, Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, Mo., May 7-July 3, 2011 (invitational)
• Watercolor NOW 2011, Watercolor USA Honor Society, Rhode Island Watercolor Society, Pawtucket, R.I., January 9–28, 2011 (invitational)
• Southwestern Watercolor Society (SWS) 47th National Membership Exhibition, Art Centre of Plano, Plano, Texas, August 17-September 25, 2010 Charles Shaw Memorial Award
• National Exhibition of American Watercolor, Millicent Rogers Museum, Taos, New Mexico, August 14-September 30, 2010 (invitational)

• Watercolor Wisconsin 2011-2012, Racine’s Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, Wis. (juried), December 11, 2011-April 30, 2012 (juried)
• Walkers Point Center for the Arts, Members exhibit, Milwaukee, Wis., September 2011
• Milwaukee Artists Resource Network (MARN) Treasure Hunt Artist, April/May 2011, Milwaukee, Wis. (invitational)
• Alverno College Arts & Culture Gallery, WVA juried membership exhibit, Milwaukee, Wis., January 26-February 26, 2011 Artist & Display Award
• Art Mail Milwaukee November 2010

• Wisconsin Visual Artists (WVA), Vice President State and Chair of Southeast Chapter
• Signature Member 29 years of Watercolor U.S.A. Honor Society
• Signature member Taos National Society of Watercolor Artists