ABOUT
I’m exploring abstract painting and mixed media with a different lens; a focus on constructing a dialogue about the continuous stream of decisions within a painting or mixed media piece. My work is a search for form and how to make forms with an element of surprise becalming the inexplicable, urgent and awkward.
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B. 1958 Marinette, Wisconsin. Lives and works in Tacoma, Washington.
BFA Columbia College, Columbia, MO | MA Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL.
Representation: Sager Reeves Gallery
2023
Fragments - Juried Exhibition at Strata Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico January 3 through January 21, 2023
Lita Kenyon Exhibit - Sager Reeves Gallery, Columbia, Missouri, March 3 through April 4, 2023
2022
Character - Online exhibit presented on Artsy by The Artist Alliance, June 20 - August 15, 2022. Scroll or sort by first name.
The March Exhibit - Sager Reeves Gallery, March 2022
The Latest - The Artist Alliance - Works featured by Artist Alliance Members, March 2022, virtual exhibit
2021
The January Exhibit - Sager Braudis Gallery, January 2021
Phenomenon: Contemporary Abstraction - Curated by Mark Ashworth, An Artist Alliance Member’s Online Exhibit. Opening May 3, 2021
Artist Alliance Member Show: July 2021 (Exhibited: The Point Where Shallow Ends, Oil on Canvas)
Small Works II - Virtual exhibition is composed entirely of current Artist Alliance members, with each work 12” or smaller on any one side.
2020
Fragments - Curated by Jen Tough, A National Juried Exhibition, November, 2020
Wild Things - Curated by Gina Tuzzi, An Artist Alliance Member’s Online Exhibit. Opening September 7, 2020
Sensitive Sensations - The Hall Gallery - Sager Braudis Gallery, August 2020, Columbia, MO. Works engulfed by the installation include Lita Kenyon’s collages “Bon Viveur,” “Kick Out” and “Good Notions.” Kenyon graduated from Columbia College in 1980, according to Kolaj Magazine, and she mixes imagery from female wrestlers with domestic scenes of interpersonal relationships... Curated by Cate Willis.
Socially Distanced - Work Created in Lock down Selected works chosen from the founding members of the Artist Alliance. These works were created during the Covid19 lockdown or works addressing the pandemic and surrounding issues.
Identity, April - May 2020, A group exhibition exploring personal and cultural identity, Santa Fe, NM. Exhibition closed due to Covid-19; Catalog issued in lieu of the exhibition.
2019
Women in the Abstract-II, July - August, 2019 at Jen Tough Gallery, Benecia, CA
2019 August Exhibit, Sager Braudis Gallery, Columbia, Missouri
Celebrating 20 years of the Columbia City Gallery, May 2019, Columbia City Gallery, Seattle.
On the Tip of My Tongue, Pendleton Center for the Arts, February 2019, an exhibition of new work by Cory Peeke also featuring representative sampling of work by Evan Clayton Horback, Lita Kenyon and Melinda Tidwell.
2018
Make Your Mark, National Juried Exhibit, commemorates MarinMOCA’s 35th year of bringing contemporary art to the North San Francisco Bay area. Novato, CA 2018
2017
Bellingham National 2017 Juried Art Exhibit and Awards @ Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA
38th Annual Paper in Particular National Juried Exhibit, Columbia College, Columbia, MO 2017
Marvelous, An International Exhibition of Collage, Assemblage and Construction, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA 2017
2016
Fall National Juried Exhibition, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Novato, CA 2016
A Northwest Collage Showcase, Powell’s City of Books, Portland, OR 2016
Cut It Out, National Juried Exhibit, Gallery One Visual Art Center, Ellensburg, WA Honorable Mention received. 2016
37th Annual Paper in Particular National Juried Exhibit, Columbia College, Columbia, MO 2016
Modvale: Presence & Absence in Local History, Shoreline City Hall Gallery, Seattle, WA 2016
2015
Drawing: Fall National Juried Exhibit, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Novato, CA. Honorable Mention received. 2015
Interstate: Where I-90 meets I-82, National Juried Exhibit, Sarah Spurgeon Gallery, Central Washington University, Ellensburg, WA 2015
Who Are You, Member exhibit Center of Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA 2015
2014
(Scene) Metrospace, a Collage Show, National Juried Group Exhibit, East Lansing, MI 2014
Who Did She Think She Was, Group Invitational Show Tashiro Kaplan Building, Seattle, WA 2014
Seeing It My Way, Corridor Gallery, Seattle, WA. Invitational group exhibit for Artist Trust’s EDGE Professional Development Program. Curated. 2014
Women in the Abstract, Group Exhibit, Bainbridge Island Arts and Crafts Gallery, Bainbridge Island, WA 2014
2013
Pattern, Space and Place, EDGE visual art graduates collaborative show at the Corridor Gallery, Seattle, WA. 2013
3rd Annual International Juried Exhibit, Gallery 110, Seattle, WA 2013
UnStuck, Mixed Media Collage, Columbia City Gallery, Seattle, WA 2013
34th Annual Paper in Particular National Exhibit, Columbia College, Columbia, MO 2013
2012
First Annual Juried Show, Mercer Island Community Art Center 2012
A Celebration of Washington Artists, Washington State Convention Center, Seattle, WA 2012
South Seattle Community College National Group Art Show, Seattle WA 2012
Edges, Collaborative Show, Edmonds Conference Center, Edmonds, WA 2012
2011
32nd Annual Paper in Particular National Exhibition, Columbia, MO 2011
Northern Illinois University Master of Arts Show, DeKalb, IL 1982
One Person Show, Columbia College, Columbia, Mo 1980
Guest Artist Presentations and Lecture Presentation to the Northwest Collage Society April 14, 2014
Studio Ghosts: When you're in the studio painting, there are a lot of people in there with you - your teachers, friends, painters from history, critics... and one by one if you're really painting, they walk out. And if you're really painting YOU walk out. ~ Phillip Guston