Bio
Felipe Echevarria, American, born March, 1959 San Diego, California

My mother is from San Diego, California and my father's side originates from Spain and South America (hence the Basque name). My paintings and drawings reside in collections across the United States, Canada, and Western Europe.

My studio is located in Loveland, Colorado.

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EXHIBITIONS

fall 2007   3-person show: IN THIS LIFE: War & The Political Climate   Fort Collins Museum of Contemporary Art, Main Gallery Fort Collins, CO   show was filmed by regional CBS crew and local documentary film company   all 3 artists did talks and critiques at Colorado State University 4th year painting class, Front Range Community College painting class, and local high school art students
summer 2006   juried group show   Space Gallery   Denver, CO

winter 2005   Savannah College of Art & Design   group showing of sequential art   Savannah, GA

summer 2005   Colorado Art Expo   curated group show Republic Plaza Denver, CO

summer 2003   two-person figurative show   Union Colony Civic Center Greeley, CO

summer 2001   group show "Working Drawings"   Philip J. Steele Gallery Rocky Mountain College of Art & Design

summer 2000   group show of published commercial art   Philip J. Steele Gallery Rocky Mountain College of Art & Design

summer 1999   group show   Unity Visual Arts Exhibition   Fort Collins, CO

spring 1998   two-person show on "feminine mystique"   Koelbel Public Library Littleton, CO

winter 1997   Art Fest 3   curated group showing of regional artists   Lincoln Center Fort Collins, CO

summer 1997   juried group show   Native American Heritage for Nightwalker   Curfman Gallery   Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO

summer 1997   instructor group show for Loveland Academy of Fine Art Loveland, CO

spring 1997   juried group show for Colorado Watercolor Society Colorado History Museum Denver, CO

spring 1997   juried group show of "dark art"   Dark's Art Parlour North Hollywood, CA

summer 1996   juried group showing of fine art of comics   Four Color Images Gallery New York City, NY

winter 1995   group show   One West Art Center (now FMoCA) Fort Collins, CO

spring 1990   group show   Non-violent Erotic Art Show Northern Hotel Fort Collins, CO

INSTRUCTION

Rocky Mountain College of Art & Design, Lakewood, CO currently teaching sequential art classes

Loveland Art Academy, Loveland, CO currently teaching painting classes, workshops

Wilds Art Center, Loveland, CO currently teaching painting classes, workshops

past instruction includes: Loveland Academy of Fine Art, One West Art Center (now FCMoCA), and various Fort Collins institutions 1993 to 1999: instructor for watercolor and oil painting, figure drawing, sequential art, and cartooning classes

Periodic lecturing, consulting, portfolio reviewer, and career day representative for various institutions (RMCAD, junior and senior high schools, artist groups, and one on one) 1990 to present

EDUCATION

Loveland Academy of Fine Art Loveland, CO workshops with Burton Silverman and David Leffel 1996-1998

Joe Kubert School of Cartoon & Graphic Art Dover, NJ graduate 1990

Artist Statements

For representation/figurative art:

I seek to intensify and crystallize, through works of art, the most fleeting of moments where the form appears motionless within the stillness of its two-dimensional reality, yet retain an almost imperceptible hint of it's quiet vibrations. If this is accomplished, there is spontaneity, and I win, at least until the next painting.

For abstraction art:

All I do is find an idea that would make an interesting piece and then doggedly pursue it to completion. The ideas are stimulated by a photo I will see, a theme that I'd like to express, or a feeling I know I'd like to have when seeing the work completed. As a result the body of work contains many one-of-a-kind images.