1223 Wood Street, Eureka, CA 95501   (707) 268-0568    lcoats@hotmail.com

 

 

EDUCATION

M.F.A.                 2005                     University of California, Davis, Studio Art

Post-Bacc. Cert.   2000-2003             Brandeis University, Painting

B.A.                     2000                      Wheaton College, MA, Studio Art, magna cum laude

 

EXHIBITIONS

2006                 Group Show, Home Grown Art Gallery and Nursery, West Yarmouth, MA

                         North Coast Open Studios, 1223 Wood Street, Eureka, CA

                         North Coast Open Studio Group Show, Plaza Grill, Arcata, CA

                         Works on Paper Benefit Exhibition, Flux Factory, Long Island City, NY

                       

2005                 Light Patterns, Bettiga Gallery Holiday Sale, Morris Graves Museum of Art,    

                         Eureka, CA 

                         47^th Annual Fall Exhibit, Redwood Art Association, Eureka, CA

                          Meetings, Solo Exhibition, Piante Gallery, Eureka, CA

                          Red: City of Davis Annual Juried Art Show, Juried by Cornelia Schultz, Pence

Gallery, Davis, CA.

                          MFA Thesis Show, Nelson Gallery UC Davis, Davis, CA

                          F.C. Maud Collaboration: Western Biennial, Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA

            

2004                  Art Bowl IV, Graduate Studetns, B. Sakata Garo Gallery, Sacramento, CA

                         Up Against the Wall, Davis Art Center, Davis, CA

                          ARC, Juried by Barry Sakata Memorial Union Art Gallery, Davis, CA

 

2003                  Winter Formal Dance Spectacular, California College of the Arts, San       

                         Francisco, CA

                          Paintings and Prints, Solo Exhibition, The Collected Horse, Rockland, ME

                          Bristol Benefit Exhibit and Auction, Old Bristol Days, Bristol, ME

                          Celebrating Women 2003, Topsfield Town Library, Topsfield, MA.

 

2002                  Post-Baccalaureate Final Show, Dreitzer Gallery, Waltham, MA

 

2000                  Chrysalis, Wheaton College Art Gallery, Norton, MA

                          Contemporary Representations of Animals in Art, Attleboro Art Museum,

                          Attleboro, MA                       

                          Lindsay Chutter, Solo Exhibition, Gallery 44, Norton, MA                                                      

 

ACADEMIC APOINTMENTS

 

2006                 Accepted into Part-Time Faculty Pool, Beginning Painting, Humboldt

                           State University, Arcata, CA

2004                   Associate Instructor, Instructor of Record, Introduction to Drawing, University

                           of California, Davis, CA

2003-05              Teaching Assistant, University of California, Davis, CA                                  

                           Bryce Vinokurov, Painting I, 2005

                           Wayne Thiebaud, Theory and Criticism, 2005

                           Gina Werfel, Figure Painting, winter and spring, 2004

                           Hearne Pardee, Contemporary Visual Culture, 2003

2000-02              Teaching Assistant, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA

                            Nadine Zanow, Drawing I, 2002

                            Jennifer Nuss, Technical Assistant for Printmaking, 2001

                            Joseph Wardwell, Painting I, 2005

 

GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS

 

2005                   Nominated for the Joan Mitchell Award

2004                   Osborn Memorial Award, University of California, Davis

2003-05              Block Grant Fellowship, University of California, Davis

2000                   Maria Victoria De Luca Forsythe Prize in Studio Art, Wheaton College

1999                   Suzanne Golden Fellowship Grant

1999                   Wheaton College Fellowship Grant, January

1998                   Wheaton College Fellowship Grant, Summer

1998                   Wheaton College Foundation Grant

 

 

COMMISSIONS AND WORKSHOPS

 

2006                   Painting and Drawing from World Music Through Mark Making, Third Thursday

                           Family Arts Night, Morris Graves Museum of Art, Eureka, CA

 

2006                   Chinese Painting and Calligraphy, Third Thursday Family Arts Night, Morris Graves

                           Museum of Art, Eureka, CA

2003                   Painting Commission, Rosaline Applebaum, Waltham, MA

2003                   Painting Commission, Marya DeCarlen, Boxford, MA
2002                   Painting Commission, Jan Marks, Searsport, ME

1999                   Drawing Commission, Sherri Rayson, Louden, TN

1999                   Drawings for Educational Placards, Marketing and Development

                           Department, Knoxville Zoological Gardens, Knoxville, TN

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

 

Andrea Arnot, “Year of the Dog at Morris Graves,” The Eureka Reporter, January 22, 2006.  

 

“Gallery Poses Three Creative Perspectives,” Times-Standard, September 30, 2005.

 

Linda Rentner, “Adventures in Form and Context: Sad Wretched Forms are Powerful,” Davis Enterprise, June 16, 2005.

 

Jackson Griffith, “The Little Connections,” Sacramento News & Review, March 11, 2004.