❦ about the artist
photograph by Charity Burggraaf
“To romanticize the world is to make us aware of the magic, mystery and wonder of the world; it is to educate the senses to see the ordinary as extraordinary, the familiar as strange, the mundane as sacred, the finite as infinite.” Novalis
Jenny Vorwaller is a lifelong artist with a focus on sculptural oil painting. Her style revels in the emotional power of color and the mystical symbolism of garden flowers and landscape. Unifying the representational and abstract, Jenny builds richly layered applications to make the materiality of oil paint a part of her subject. Since turning to studio work full time in 2009, she has collaborated with a broad range of designers and creatives who are drawn to her playful enthusiasm for beauty and the fantasy world she nurtures.
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Jenny Vorwaller
b. 1980
Lives and works in Seattle, WA
Solo Exhibitions
2023 Seattle Art Source, Seattle, WA
2022 The London Plane, Seattle, WA
2022 Cocokelley Open House, Seattle, WA
2021 ToScaleGallery, Savannah, GA
2019 Claret, Seattle, WA
2019 The London Plane, Seattle, WA
2018 Hattie Rose, Bainbridge Island, WA
2017 Cherry Street Public House, Seattle, WA
2017 Featured Artist, Anthropologie, Seattle, WA
2016 Featured Artist, Anthropologie, Seattle, WA
2016 Juicebox, Seattle, WA
2016 Fiore, Sunset Hill, Seattle, WA
2015 Featured Artist, Anthropologie, Seattle, WA
2015 Featured Artist, West Elm, Seattle, WA
2015 Out of the Blue, Plank & Grain, Seattle, WA
2015 Limited Edition Print Collection, Sebastian Foster Gallery, Austin, TX
2014 95 Yesler, Pioneer Square Artwalk, Seattle, WA
2014 DryGoods Design, Pioneer Square Artwalk, Seattle, WA
2014 Featured Artist, Anthropologie, Seattle, WA
2014 Featured Artist, West Elm, Seattle, WA
2013 Velouria, Seattle, WA
2013 Miro, Seattle, WA
2013 Drygoods Design, Seattle, WA
2013 Featured Artist, Anthropologie, Seattle, WA
2008 Glazer's Gallery Seattle, WA
Group Exhibitions
2024 Rite of Spring, Chatwin Arts, Seattle, WA
2024 THE SLEEP OF REASON PRODUCES MONSTERS, Domicile Gallery, Seattle, WA
2023 Joy - Floral and Botanical Studies, Harris Harvey Gallery, Seattle, WA
2021 Little Free Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
2018 I AM NATURE, Plasteel Frames & Gallery, Seattle, WA
2017 BEMIS ARTS Spring Show, Seattle, WA
2016 Winter Show of Small Works, Parkland Gallery, Kirkland, WA
2016 Plank & Grain, Seattle, WA
2014 Sticks & Stones, 2315 Western Ave, Seattle, WA
2008 Juried National Show ‘Decay,’ Sixth Street Gallery, Vancouver, WA
2001 Nelson Gallery, Lexington, VA
Notable Collections
Garvey Schubert Barer, Seattle, WA
Deloitte Digital, Seattle, WA
Coco Kelley/Emerald Studio, Seattle, WA
Oh, Joy! Studio, Los Angeles, CA
Bibliography
Studio Sessions, Domino Magazine, Summer 2021
Honest Magazine, Interview With a Painter of The Garden, the Gather issue, 2019.
Follow Friday, H&M Magazine, October 2014
Jenny Vorwaller On Society6, Vancouver Sun, July 2014.
Apartment Therapy, August, 2014
35 Gifts Made Here, Gray Magazine, December 2013. page 40-41.
Sebastian Foster X Design Milk Print Collection: Jenny Vorwaller Design Milk, April, 2013.
Jenny Vorwaller iPhone Cases, Design*Sponge, August, 2012.
Watercolor: Paintings of Contemporary Artists, Leslie Dutcher, Sujean Rim, Chronicle Books, 2013.
Polaroid Notes, compiled by Jennifer Altman, Chronicle Books, 2009.
Donations
2024 Ballard High School - Auction Fundraiser
2023 Belltown Art Walk - 10th Anniversary Auction
2015 Mick’s Art Show & Pop-up Shop, Association for the Bladder Exstrophy
2014 The Grow Hope Foundation, Art Auction for Tusubira Village
2009 Penguins on the March, Auction for the Woodland Park Zoo Field Conservation Program
Collaborations
R&L Goods: handmade notebooks featuring printed fabric from repeat patterns of abstract paintings.
Original Watercolor Commission for Project Runway Contestant and Fashion Designer Stephanie O.'s Runway Show at the Clyfford Still Museum in Denver, Colorado. August, 2013.