Fine Arts Portfolio


 FINE ARTS PORTFOLIO


 Introduction
Art has always captivated me. My mother went to art school when I was little girl. 
Soon we were visiting art museums and gallery shows often. 
I still remember vividly those experiences, as well as the joy art gave to my mother. 
So naturally, I began to draw and paint. 30 something years later 
I still carry my sketchbook with me wherever I go. 
I have a deep respect for traditional training in techniques and 
always maintain an attention to detail manner when creating. 
However, it is a 21st century contemporary global culture going on out there. 
I live it, be it, breathe it, and transmute it into the physical and 
virtual worlds through the art and design mediums. 
The 'Beauty' series was the last series of art I created. 
Some while death was imminent and others after it rocked my world. 
After my mother died, I stopped painting and this has been a long worn out hiatus.
But cycles ebb and flow.... I have picked up the brush once again.

splatter of color, shades and glazes, so close, so there
see my heart in every brushstroke, 
deepest longings within paint
heaviness of collective sorrows, lightness of the brightest sun,
past roots within
 the now and zen...






 The Beauty Series
‘Beauty’ is an experimentation combining various mixed media artforms to create 
artwork that pushes the boundaries of aesthetics and Harmony. 
The age old encaustic technique combines with modern internet images. 
Pigments of the Old Masters layer with copper and collage. 
A mixing of the present and the past together as 
one symbolizing our contemporary melting pot culture.
Assimilation
Globalization
It is Beautiful.



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Deeper Experience 
Summer 2007



Beauty (Lunar)
Spring 2007






Beauty (Solar)
Spring 2007





Untitled
Summer 2007
photographed with the artist at the Ah Haa Gallery
Telluride, Colorado


Life is Love and Love is Life
Summer 2007
photographed with the artist at the Ah Haa Gallery
Telluride, Colorado

The Facets of Food Series
The following is an excerpt from an article written about this series in 
           The Telluride Watch, a newspaper based in Telluride, Colorado, 
published January 29th, 2007:




Artist Sequoia Gordon’s solo exhibit at the Stronghouse Studios gallery, “Facets of Food,” 
      explores the various fruits and vegetables we consume daily. On the surface, the subject may 
              seem mundane, but Gordon’s work expresses so much more about these humble foods. Aside from 
       satiating hunger, food can involve many issues concerning human rights, politics, environment, 
and even the global economy.

 Gordon dabbled in the arts throughout her childhood, and became more serious 
about her art 

during her senior year in high school. She hasn’t let up since. 

  She first arrived in Telluride in 1998, and moved to Durango in 2004 to study art at
 Fort Lewis 

       College. After earning her BA with an emphasis in painting, Gordon returned to the Telluride area.

    Gordon’s work incorporates the ancient technique of encaustic, which is basically painting 
with 

     hot wax. She uses the wax with oil and acrylic paints while mixing in various photographs. She 
strives to aesthetically fuse beauty and balance, while creating awareness with her 
multi-media paintings.


Read more: Watch Newspapers - Telluride Foundation Awards Special Initiatives Grant 


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Grape Harvest






Banana Paradox






Maize Revisited






Modern Day Still Life






Genetically Modified Still Life






This is What Democracy Looks Like!