Informed Collector Recommends:
Kami Polzin

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Peace and serenity abound in these refined works. Her landscapes take us to places that herald the true spirit of nature in a calming way, removing all feelings of stress.

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COLLECTOR ALERT Beaver Dam Island Reflection by Kami Polzin (shown below) was selected as a Finalist in the April RayMar Fine Art Competition. Kami Polzin - Canvoo Focal Point

Quick Facts about Kami Polzin:

* Year Born: 1973

* Price Range: $450.00 - $5,500.00

* Main Website: http://www.kamipolzin.com

Artworks by Kami Polzin:


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Art Galleries Representing Kami Polzin

M Gallery Of Fine Art
Sarasota, FLA - 941-954-8774

Rivertown Fine Arts
Stillwater, MN - 651-210-4337

Tamarack House Gallery
Stillwater, MN - 651-439-9393

Overview:


"Painters Paint Poetry"
Alesci Gallery, Stillwater MN 55082
Thursday June 17, 2010
Artist Reception: 6:00-9:00


"Beauty in art is the delicious notes of color one against the other. It is just as fine as music and it is just the same thing, one tone in relation to another tone. Real sentiment in art comes as it does in music from the way one tone comes against another independently of the literary quality of the subject - the way spots of color come together produces painting. . . . . . There are just so many tones in music and just so many colors but it's the beautiful combination that makes a masterpiece."
- Hawthorne

Artist Statement:


"I am a landscape and still life painter. I paint the ordinary that surrounds us, in order to illuminate how extraordinary life is - but often, we "unlearn to see it" as we grow up. I am curious about the intersection of the natural world, in it's beauty and untamed energy, with the human world. I've immersed myself in painting the St. Croix River and surrounding area for the past seventeen years. Each time I start a painting, I am fascinated in how nature, particularly the river, reveals layers of mystery that include a sense of place, a sense of time, and the concept that the fleeting moment can be captured and experienced by others in the future, through my art.

It is important to me, as a part of the process, to be out in the elements, because it continues to teach me what I have yet to learn about the cycle of life: growth, dormancy, and rebirth. It also requires much of me as an artist, rethinking the important elements that translate the specifics of location, time, and the changing emotion of the day onto canvas: capturing atmosphere, studying the changing, nature of light, noting subtle temperature relationships and vibrations, structuring underlying abstract armatures, honing in on a design and composition, massing shapes.

Because I am a painter, it is difficult to describe my work with words. I am after authenticity and integrity in my craft. I appreciate art that is grounded in academic training, but goes beyond that and communicates discovery and rawness. I use the tools of color, line, and value to build the foundation for the initial concept of what I want to share through texture and brush work. Over the past decade, my work has grown in freedom and maturity and I look forward to the unknown that is revealed to me with each new canvas."

Kami Polzin is an inspired painter and an inspiring teacher whose enthusiasm for painting and teaching is contagious. Kami grew up just North of Stillwater, MN on the family farm where her daily wanderings taught her to have a great love and respect for the qualities of the natural world that would later provide her with the inspiration that has led her on a life long journey as a painter.
She is greatly influenced by a number of painters including Cecilia Beaux, George Inness, Isaac Levitan, Joaquin Sorolla, Repin, the 19th century Russian painters and many American painters both living and deceased. Part of Kami`s path as a painter has included studying with some of the countries finest painters including Mary Pettis, Joseph Paquet, Marc Hanson, John Foote, and recently taken a workshop on the Chesapeake Bay with Camille Przewodek. She has explored many areas of study including Classical Realism, the prismatic palette and portrait painting. Her first love is painting outside on location where she can experience first hand how the light plays across a field of prairie grass and how to translate and portray her vision of that experience to you.
Kami`s enthusiasm for what she does has spread and she is a sought after instructor in both studio and plein air landscape painting. If not in the field painting and teaching, Kami can be found at her Rivertown Studio in Stillwater, MN painting. She has recently returned from Tuscany Italy where she painted and taught a plein air workshop.

Her work can be seen at the Tamarack House Gallery in Stillwater, MN, or by appointment at her Rivertown Studio.

 

International, National, Regional Shows, and Exhibitions:

Fine Art Studio on line Top FAV 15 October and August 2009

"Moments" a solo exhibition, Stillwater Minnesota, Novemeber 2009

"Plein Air Festival," Door County, Wisconsin. July 2009

"Oil Painters of America National Juried Show," Missoula, Montana. May 2008

"Oil Painters of America Eastern Regional Juried Exhibition," Nashville, Tennessee. October 2008

"Plein Air Easton quick draw" Easton, Maryland. July 2008

"Nomades Del Arte," Sage Creek Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico. March 2008

"Salon International Juried Exhibition," International Museum of Contemporary Masters of Fine Art, Greenhouse Gallery of Fine Art, San Antonio, Texas. May 2008

Phipps Center For the Arts Exhibition, Members Show, Most Classic Beauty Award, Hudson Wisconsin June, 2008

"Barns and Farms National Exhibition," Barnsite Art Studio and Gallery Kewaunee, Wisconsin. July 2007

"Salon International Juried Exhibition," Greenhouse Gallery of Fine Art, San Antonio, Texas. January 2007

"A Year Of Exploration," Solo Exhibition, Stillwater, Minnesota. May 2007

"Tuscany Exhibition," Broom Street Gallery, New York, New York. March 2007

"Painting Italy Exhibition" Sienna, Italy. May 2007

Training:

1991-1998, studied with Mary Pettis (Taylors Falls, MN), classical realism, sight size method, and alla prima

2000-2004, studied with Joseph Paquet (St Paul, MN), prismatic palette, composition and design, figure drawing, recession, and landscape painting

2002 and 2004 studied with John Foote (New York, NY), portrait and figure painting

2008 workshop with Camille Przwodek

Teaching Experiences, Residencies (partial listing)

Tuscany Italy taught two week plein air painting workshop, May 2008

Artist in residence, Stillwater Area Elementary Schools, 2003 - 2009Art to Heart community liaison to raise money for public school art programs, 2005-2007 Plein Air painting residency, Tuscany Italy May 2007 Arcola Mills on the St. Croix River Minnesota, teaching resident, 2007- 2009

"The Study of Color Temperature and Light" painting workshops, 2006-2009

"The Structure of A Still Life Painting" painting workshops, 2006-2009

Six years of teaching studio classes in my Stillwater studio for three hundred students

Plein Air teaching on the St. Croix River, sixty class sessions, 2005-2009

White Pine Festival (Stillwater, MN) Featured Artist and Lecturer 2008-2009

Commissioned by Washington County to paint the Historic Courthouse in honor of the 15th anniversary of the annual Victorian Christmas at the Historic Courthouse

Featured in American Art Collector, Eastern Regional OPA Show, October 2008

Artist Choice Award at the Stillwater "en Plein Air" Event ~ October 2007

Participant OPA's Great Paint Out ~ Stillwater MN ~ 2007

Barns and Farms National Exhibit ~ Barnsite Art Studio and Gallery ~ 2007

Salon International 2007 ~ Greenhouse Gallery of Fine Art ~ 2007

The Paintings of Kami Polzin Solo Exhibition ~ Stillwater, MN ~ MAY 2007

Tuscany Exibition ~ SoHo New York City ~ Broom Street Gallery ~ March of 2007

The Phipps Center ~ Award of Merit 2006

Artists of Minnesota ~ Super Gold Award 2006 Artists of Minnesota ~ People`s Choice Award 2006 Artists of Minnesota ~ Creative Originality Award 2006

First Friday Palm Avenue
M Gallery Of Fine Art
6/1/2010-6/30/2010
Reception: 6/4/2010 (5:00-9:00)

Kami will be having a show along with Susan J Covert at M Gallery in Sarasota Florida as part of their monthly 'Art Walk' along Palm Avenue in downtown Sarasota FLA. Please stop by the gallery to see some of her latest work.
 

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2010 Door County Plein Air Festival
Peninsula School Of Art
7/19/2010-7/24/2010
Reception: (All Day)

I have been invited for the second year to participate as a featured artist in this event. Please check out their web site for more details!