“IllusTRIOus Friends”: An Exhibition of Sharon Carr, Joan Teed and William Turner
Sharon Carr
A group showing from three amazing Northwest artists, Sharon Carr, Joan Teed, and William Turner will be on display in the Morso Gallery.These three artists are friends and colleagues who routinely meet to paint in a very interactive way and stimulate each other.This is their first joint exhibition. William Turner’s paintings create an energetic abstract art. His paintings are a sophisticated play of color and form relationships coupled with a raw energy that celebrates the act of pure painting. He has consistently filled his canvases with invented and spontaneous imagery encoded with landscape, interior and figurative metaphors that are always expressive. Turner earned his Masters in Fine Art from the University of Washington. There he studied with Jacob Lawrence the master colorist whose influence is evident in Turner’s expressive use of color. He also studied with two of the Northwest’s finest painters, Michael Spafford and Alden Mason. Both artists still continue to inspire him. Turner’s work has been widely exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the country including solo exhibitions in New York, Tacoma Art Museum and two decades of exhibitions with Foster/White Gallery, Seattle. In 2007 Turner exhibited The Valley Series in a solo exhibition at the Northwind Art Center Gallery, Port Townsend, Washington. In the spring of 2008 the series will be exhibited at the Chase Gallery, Spokane, Washington. Turner is a beloved teacher and has taught various painting classes and workshops at the Centrum Arts Center, Port Townsend, WA, Pratt Fine Arts Center, Seattle, and classes at Tacoma Community College. Among many grants and awards Mr. Turner is a recipient of a Pollock/Krasner Foundation Grant. His paintings are in the collection of the Washington State Arts Commission, Tacoma Art Museum, Amgen Corporation and numerous private and corporate collections around the country. In Seattle, his work can be viewed at the SAM Gallery.
Sharon Carr describes her life journey, “In school I got good marks in everything except art. Even though I loved colors and paint, I decided then to stick with what the teacher told me I was good at. The gift of nearing fifty was growing into a freedom and a sense of humor that no longer cared what the teacher thought. I began to paint just for the joy of painting. Painting carried me away. I retired from my day job as a psychotherapist and am now a working artist.” Joan Teed’s entire life has revolved around art.She discovered it at the age of four, when she realized art was much more than just “staying inside the lines”.In high school she took four years of art classes, art was her college major at the University of Texas and her career for eighteen years when she worked at the JSC Space Center/NASA in Houston, Texas as a technical/graphic artist.She continued her art education when she studied painting at The Art League of Houston School of Art for three years. Since moving to Gig Harbor in 2001, she continues to paint and take workshops with noted artists including her good friend William Turner.In 2006 Joan and her husband Alan took a three and a half year sabbatical aboard their sailboat, sailing to and living in the Mediterranean where she was able to capture the images of their travels in photographs and paintings. She enjoys painting landscapes, scenes based on her photographs and pet portraiture.The medium she primarily works with oil on canvas, oil pastels, and pastels. Vincent Van Gogh is a constant source of inspiration for her and you can feel his influence in her painting style and use of color. Joan has been selected in Peninsula Art League’s Summer Show as Best of Show in 2003 along with First Place in 2006 and 2011. You can learn more about each artist from their websites. William Turner Joan Teed Sharon Carr
William Turner
Joan Teed
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