Karin Helmich
Born: Jackson, Wyoming, 1943
Education
1967 M.F.A. Painting, Washington State University, Pullman, WA
1965 B.A. Fine Arts, Whitworth College, Spokane, WA
One Person Exhibitions
1988 Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
1987 Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
1984 Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
1983 Diane Gilson Gallery, Seattle, WA
1981 Penryn Gallery, Seattle, WA
Tom Luttrel Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1977 Pelican Bay Gallery, Seattle, WA
1976 Polly Friedlander Gallery, Seattle, WA
1973 Polly Friedlander Gallery, Seattle, WA
1969 University Unitarian Church Gallery, Seattle, WA
Group Exhibitions
1985 “Painting/Sculpture ’85”, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
“Spirit of the Flower”, Foster White Gallery, Seattle, WA
1984 Northwest Watercolor Society Annual, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA
1983 Northwest Watercolor Society Annual, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA
Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
1982 “Realism,” William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Liquid Light: Watercolor beyond the Traditional”, Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA
1981 Rocky Mountain National Watercolor Society Exhibition, Golden, CO
115th Annual American Watercolor Society Exhibition, New York, NY
Northwest Watercolor Society Annual, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA
1980 “The Washington Year: Illusionism, Handmade”, Henry Art Gallery, University Washington, Seattle, WA
Group Show, Whatcom Museum of History and Art, Bellingham, WA
1979 Pratt Gallery, Amherst, MA
Northwest Watercolor Society Annual, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA
Governor’s Invitational, Olympia, WA
Frye Art Museum Annual, Seattle, WA
Tacoma Art Museum Annual, Tacoma, WA
1978 Pacific Northwest Arts and Crafts Exhibition, Bellevue, WA
1977 Polly Friedlander Gallery, Seattle, WA
1976 Ruth Schaffner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Montana Institute of the Arts Bicentennial Show, Great Falls, MT
1975 “Works on Paper: Northwest Artists”, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
1974 Polly Friedlander Gallery, Seattle, WA
1972 “Survivors ’72”, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
1971 Northwest Watercolor Society Annual, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
1967 Pacific Northwest Arts and Crafts Fair, Bellevue, WA
Awards and Recognitions
1983 Puget Sound Group Award, Northwest Watercolor Society Annual
1981 Art Association Award, Northwest Watercolor Society Annual
1979 Honorable Mention, Painting, Tacoma Art Museum Annual, Tacoma, WA
1978 Drawing Award, Pacific Northwest Arts and Crafts Exhibition
1976 Cash Award, Montana Institute of the Arts Bicentennial Show
1975 First Place, Bumbershoot Poster Competition, Seattle, WA
CETA Artist in the City, Seattle, WA
1971 Eustace P. Ziegler Award, Northwest Watercolor Society Annual
1967 3rd Place, Drawing, Pacific Northwest Arts and Crafts Fair
Selected Collections
- Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
- Whatcom Museum of History and Art, Bellingham, WA
- Washington State Arts Commission
- Crown Zellerbach Corporation, San Francisco, CA
- American Telephone and Telegraph, Chicago, IL
- Pacific Northwest Bell, Seattle, WA
- City of Seattle, (CETA works), Seattle, WA
- Harborview Hospital, Seattle, WA
- Martin Rubenstein, New York, NY
- SAFECO Corporation, Seattle, WA
- Westin Copley Hotel, Boston, MA
- Bogle and Gates, Seattle, WA
- Gaines law Firm, Seattle, WA
- Skinner Corporation, Seattle, WA
- Surrogate Hostess Restaurant, Seattle, WA
- Foster and Marshall, Seattle, WA
- Betts, Patterson and Mines, Seattle, WA
- Sheration Hotel, Tacoma, WA
- Reed, McClure, Moceri and Thonn, Seattle, WA
- Microsoft Corp., Redmond, WA
- Howard Tullman, Chicago, IL