Gene Jaress, Artist

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Now showing:
The Lido Collective
Ongoing Exhibit
300 S First Street
Mount Vernon, WA 98273


Coming soon!
​Jansen Art Center

Skagit Valley in Color
Woodcut Prints By Gene Jaress
Fine Arts Gallery

321 Front Street
Lynden, WA 98264
April 13-July 7
Opening reception
Thursday April 13, 6-8pm


Rexville Grange Art Show
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19299 Rexville Grange Road
​Mount Vernon WA 98273

April 6-16, 2023
Opening reception
Thursday April 6, 5-8pm


NW Art Beat Studio Tour
July 15-16, 2023
​10AM-6PM








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Education and Work Bio

High School: Grand Rapids, MI and Spokane, WA. Printing press use, typesetting, cutting negatives for silkscreen, bookbinding, mechanical drawing, wood shop, metal shop, woodblock printing, jewelry (casting and piercing), and wood sculpture.
US Army: Throughout his time in Vietnam, Gene continued to draw, paint company logos on helicopters, and use the base darkrooms for photography. Military service provided him with the opportunity to attend college.
College:Cornish School of the Allied Arts, Seattle, WA. Sculpture, jewelry, printmaking, painting. Studied with Charles Stokes, Paul Heald, Dale Owen, William Cumming, Gordon Anderson, Stephen Hazel, Anne Praczukowski and Joel Jessen.
Cold Mountain Institute, Cortes Island, B.C.: Environmental design in construction through an undergraduate program affiliated with Antioch College.
On the job: Gene became a master jeweler through independent study and working with jewelers from around the world while living in Vancouver, BC, and Seattle, WA.
Awards: Bellevue Arts and Crafts Fair 1972: Painting, Second Place
Federation of Canadian Artists 1974: Certificate of Merit in Lithography
International Diamond Awards 1978:
as part of the Mastercraft jewelry team
PNW Jeweler’s Association Competition 2006, People’s Choice Award (Warren Jewelers)
Mount Vernon Artwalk 2017,
People’s Choice Award for the painting Refined Living in Anacortes

Statement
Gene owes a debt of gratitude to the painters, printmakers and jewelers of the highest quality from around the world who helped him become a working artist and master jeweler over the past 60 years.
Member Organizations
Jansen Art Center
​Museum of Northwest Art

Puget Sound Group Northwest Artists
Stanwood Camano Arts Guild

Coming soon...
Online ordering
Print only, not matted or framed. If you want to order one before we have the online transaction set up, just email genejaress@gmail.com.

Questions? Please email:
genejaress@gmail.com
In Gene's words...
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I have been a working artist
 for over 50 years. I began working with limited edition woodcut prints a few years after moving to the Skagit Valley in northwest Washington State. The light and atmospheric conditions created by the Salish Sea, Skagit River Valley, and Mount Cultus looming to the east have a strong influence on my work. Good composition and meticulous craftsmanship from the initial image to the finished framed piece creates a high quality, long lasting work of art.

"Without craftsmanship inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind".
Johannes Brahms​​
   Juried Events Past 2 Years
     
  • Jansen Art Center Winter Juried exhibit 2022
  • ​NW Art Beat Studio Tour July 2022
  • Jansen Art Center Summer Juried exhibit 2022
  • Jansen Art Center Spring Juried exhibit 2022 
  • Jansen Art Center Fall Juried exhibit 2021
  • ​NW Art Beat Studio Tour July 2021
  • Stanwood Camano Spring 2021 All Member Art Show
  • ​Jansen Art Center Winter Juried Exhibit 2020

Awards
Refined Living in Anacortes won the Mount Vernon Artwalk People's Choice Award at the Community Hang-Up August 2017 .
Pacific Northwest Jewelers Association Competition, 2006, People's Choice 
International Diamond Awards 1978 as part of the Mastercraft Jewelry team
Federation of Canadian Artists Juried Exhibit 1974, Certificate of Meritorious Achievement in Lithography
Bellevue Arts and Crafts Fair Juried Exhibit, 1972 2nd Place, Painting
        
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