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About the Artist

David McGranaghan

 

Education

Master of Fine Arts, 1989, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

Bachelor of Fine Arts, 1979, State University of New York College at Buffalo

Graduated Avon High School, 1975, Avon, New York

 

Selected Solo Exhibitions

Northwest by Northwest Gallery, 2003, Cannon Beach, Oregon

Trapeze Gallery, 2000, Seattle, Washington

Trapeze Gallery, 1999, Seattle

The Fountainhead, 1997, Seattle Washington

Lisa Harris Gallery, 1995, Seattle, Washington

Lisa Harris Gallery, 1993, Seattle

Lisa Harris Gallery, 1991

High Street Coffee Gallery, 1981, Eugene, Oregon

Gallery 229, SUNY Buffalo, NY 1979

 

Selected Group Exhibitions

"An Irish Odyssey," Point Elliott Art Center, Mukilteo, WA, 2005

"Here I Am! Passages in Portraiture," Frye Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, 2004

Seattle International Erotic Arts Festival, 2003

"The Frye at Fifty: Five Decades of Collecting," Frye Art Museum, 2002

Director's Choice Exhibition, Frye Art Museum, 1998

XV Celebration of Art, The Park Synagoogue, Cleveland, Ohio, 1996

"They Shoot Painters, Don't They?" Painting Marathon-

-Center of Contemporary Art, Seattle, Washington, 1995, 1994

Art Department Faculty Show, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, 1994

"Poetry of the Landscape," Miriam Perlman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, 1993

 

Selected Collections

Johnny Carson; Chicago Title Insurance; Evergreen Hospital; Frye Art Museum;

Group Health Cooperative; McGraw Hill Publishing;

Montgomery Purdue; Northwest Federal Credit Union;

Plumcreek Timber, Safeco Insurance; Seattle Cancer Care Alliance;

University of Washington Medical Center;

Walker, Richer and Quinn; Wells Fargo; Weyerhauser Real Estate; Zymogenetics

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

 

Color Theory Lecture; Studio of Gary Faigin, Art director of Gage Academy, April 2007

 

UW Open Life Drawing (sponsor, Norman Lundin), 2005-present

 

Private Lessons (ongoing)

 

Art Docent, Loyal Heights Elementary, Seattle, 2005-2006

 

Captured Light Studio; Life Drawing, Painting, 1996-98

 

Mercer Island High School (Julie Biggs-McDevitt), artist-in residence, 1999

 

Kirkland Arts Center (Amy Hamblin, coordinator), Painting and Drawing, 1997

 

Cornish College of the Arts, Drawing & Life Drawing, 1995-1997

 

UW Fine Arts Dept., Teaching Assistant (drawing) 1988-89

 

Maude Kerns Art Ctr. (Eugene, OR), Painting Instructor 1979

 

Eugene Parks and Recreation, Painting Instructor 1979

 

College Learning Lab (Buffalo, NY), Teaching Assistant (grades 1-3), 1976-77

 

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