Helen Klebesadel
"My visual concerns run the gamut from careful study to poetic, symbolic and sometimes political representations of nature and human nature."
Helen R. Klebesadel is best known for her environmental and women-centered watercolors. Her paintings push the traditional boundaries of the medium in scale, content, and technique. Her watercolors range in size from the intimate to the monumental.
Klebesadel creates paintings that are transparent watercolors on paper. She starts with detailed drawings and develops the images with layer upon layer of color washes and dry brush technique mixed with occasional areas of wet-into-wet spontaneity.
Helen Klebesadel earned her BS and MFA in art from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Lecturing about and teaching art in colleges and workshops for two decades, she continues to learn from her art experiences and her students.
Helen R. Klebesadel is best known for her environmental and women-centered watercolors. Her paintings push the traditional boundaries of the medium in scale, content, and technique. Her watercolors range in size from the intimate to the monumental.
Klebesadel creates paintings that are transparent watercolors on paper. She starts with detailed drawings and develops the images with layer upon layer of color washes and dry brush technique mixed with occasional areas of wet-into-wet spontaneity.
Helen Klebesadel earned her BS and MFA in art from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Lecturing about and teaching art in colleges and workshops for two decades, she continues to learn from her art experiences and her students.
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Selected Exhibitions & Awards
Art Purchase Award, Watercolor Wisconsin, Racine Art Museum, Racine Art Museum, 2015
Artist in Residence National Science Foundation?s LTEArts arts and science collaboration program, Trout Lake Research Station , Minoqua, WI, 2014
The Flowers Are Burning: Incandescent Watercolors , Overture Art Center, Madison, WI, 2015
Women Under Siege, Ceres Gallery, New York City, NY, 2017
Kaohsiung International Women?s Art Exhibition, Taiwan Kaohsiung Women?s Center, Taipei, Taiwan, 2015-2016
Art Purchase Award, Watercolor Wisconsin, Racine Art Museum, Racine Art Museum, 2015
Artist in Residence National Science Foundation?s LTEArts arts and science collaboration program, Trout Lake Research Station , Minoqua, WI, 2014
The Flowers Are Burning: Incandescent Watercolors , Overture Art Center, Madison, WI, 2015
Women Under Siege, Ceres Gallery, New York City, NY, 2017
Kaohsiung International Women?s Art Exhibition, Taiwan Kaohsiung Women?s Center, Taipei, Taiwan, 2015-2016
Collections
Collection, Ellen & Peter Johnson HospiceCare, Madison, WI, 2007
Collection, Lawrence University, Appleton, WI, 2005
Collection, American Council on Education (ACE), , Washington D.C., 1998
Twelve Murals, Central Wisconsin Center, Madison, WI, 1980
Wisconsin Watercolors, Racine Art Museum, Racine. WI, 2014
Collection, Ellen & Peter Johnson HospiceCare, Madison, WI, 2007
Collection, Lawrence University, Appleton, WI, 2005
Collection, American Council on Education (ACE), , Washington D.C., 1998
Twelve Murals, Central Wisconsin Center, Madison, WI, 1980
Wisconsin Watercolors, Racine Art Museum, Racine. WI, 2014