Katie Stubblefield
Katie Stubblefield
Born and raised on the rural farm land and old-growth forests of Middle Tennessee, Stubblefield moved to Southern California in the early 1990s. With wide eyes, in her first year in California she beheld floods, earthquakes, fires and riots. Katie reveled in the glorious offerings of the SyFy Channel and witnessed the wonders of special effects. The ever-shifting oceans, the coal-dusted ports, the high-rise skylines, the wide cloudless blue skies and neon sunsets all soaked into her soul, binding past to present, inspiring future. All of this has feed her compulsive studio practice.
Stubblefield holds a BFA in Drawing/Painting from Middle Tennessee State University, as well as an MFA in Drawing/Painting and an Adaptive Adult Education Credential, both from California State University, Long Beach.
When not in the studio, she teaches adult education courses to individuals with developmental disabilities through Coastline Community College. Her class content is based on the core fine arts curriculum for the traditional mainstream students Katie taught at Loyola Marymount and California State University, Long Beach. Katie lives in Long Beach where she enjoys her family, playing poker or dominoes in the company of dear friends and tinkering around her vintage tiny home with her wife.
Selected Exhibitions
2020
Timber (working title), Kellogg University Art Gallery, California State Polytechnic College, Pomona CA, collaboration with Jennifer Gunlock and Hilary Norcliffe
2019
Scavengers (working title), The Loft Gallery, San Pedro, CA
2018
LB Open Studio Tour and Nine Visions Exhibition, Artist’s Co Op, Long Beach, CA
Pressing Matters, San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, San Luis Obispo, CA. Juror: Juan Fuentes
Color Vision, Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach CA. Curators: Suzanne Walsh and Jim Ellsberry
Celebration of California, Jonathan Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
Salvage, Art Exchange Main Gallery, Long Beach Ca, Curator: Alyssa Cordova, Assistant Curator, OCMA
On the Ropes/In the Kisser, Coastline Community Art Gallery, Newport Beach Ca, Curator David Lee
2017
Inspired, Huntington Beach Art Center
Gladys Cooperative, Artists Cooperative Gallery, Long Beach Ca
Art in Place, Newberry Lofts, Long Beach Ca, Jurors: Venice Institute of Contemporary Art Between (solo)-Utopia, Long Beach CA
TIMBER/TIMBRE for the PUMP Biennial-Artist’s Cooperative Gallery, Long Beach CA
Paired Up Faculty Exhibition (with Jesse Dean) Coastline Community College Art Gallery, Newport Beach CA
18 Tables, 18 Artists, MADE, Long Beach CA, Curator and Table Constructions: David Clark
Transitions, The Orange County Great Park Project, Orange County, CA, Curator: David Lee
2016
Fugue (solo)-Sasha Witte Design, Long Beach CA
Small Wonders, Jordan Faye Contemporary, Baltimore, MD
SQUARES, 311 Gallery, Raleigh, NC, Jurors: Mary Benejam, Bekah Haslett and Sherri Stewart
Faculty Exhibition, Coastline Community College Art Gallery, Newport Beach, CA
Fearless, Old Court House Arts Center, Woodstock, IL, Curator: Beate Minkovski
Like MARK, Coastline Community College Art Gallery, Newport Beach, CA, Curator: David Lee
Talent Pool 2016, Downtown Long Beach Business Associates, Long Beach CA, Curator: Renee Tanner
Liberty Gallery, Long Beach, CA, Curator: Paige Henderson
2015
Graftlings (solo)-District, Long Beach, CA
Currents-Jamie Brooks Fine Art, Costa Mesa, CA, Curator: David Lee
SFO/SNA-Coastline Community College Art Gallery, Newport Beach and San Francisco, CA
2014
Antidotes and Poisons (solo)-Edge, Long Beach, CA
Private Party II-Artist Co-Op, Long Beach, CA
2011
Amnesiac (solo)-Edge, Long Beach CA
Bring Winter (solo)-4th Street Vine, Long Beach, CA
2008
Memory-The Loft Gallery, San Pedro, CA, Curator: Victoria Bryan
2006
Spill, The Loft Gallery, San Pedro, CA
Neighborhood (Installation)-Ninth Ward, New Orleans, LA, with Robert Vicknair
2005
Lick (solo)-Walled City, San Pedro, CA
Twitch (solo)-Viento Y Agua, Long Beach, CA
Six Degree Festival, Garment District, Los Angeles, CA-Represented by Walled City Gallery
POST@POST-Installed Drawing, POST Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Open Call-Angel’s Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA Jurors: Matthew Thomas, Noriko Gamblin, Hiru Kazu Kosaka, and Kristin Newhouse
2004
Shug (solo)-Utopia, Long Beach, CA
Liquid Borders-Viento Y Agua, Long Beach, CA, Curator: Tom Miller
2003
Swallowing Suburbia (solo)-Gallery G Installation, Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA
Aging-Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA, Curator: Victoria Bryan
aKin-POST Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Curator: Linda Day
On Site at the Gate-Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA, Juror: Jay Belloli
2002-3
Structure and Situation-Michael Folis Architects, Santa Monica; California State University, Pomona, CA; California State University, Long Beach, CA, Curator: Tom Krumpak
2002
Split (solo)-Ground Floor Installation, Broadlind Hotel, Long Beach, CA, Sponsored by PCA (July-August 2002)
City of Angels, Gates of Hell-Advocate Gallery, West Hollywood, CA,Curators: M. Arranaga/R. Wyshak, Ph.D.
2001-2
Art Source Benefit Auction-Butterfield’s of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2001
Infusion (solo)-Edge, Long Beach, CA
2000
Dead Point (solo)-California State University, Long Beach, CA
Three Show-Soapbox Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1999
Graduate Art Student Association Exhibition-Gallery B, CSULB, CA, Juror: Peter Frank
Risk-World Trade Center, Long Beach, CA, Invitational Collaboration w/Silvia Estabrook
1998-9
Three Down (solo)-Jump, Nashville, TN
1998
Mainly Abstract-Long Beach Arts, Long Beach, CA, Juror: David Amico
Safe House II-Lafayette Hotel, East Village, Long Beach, CA
1990
30th Annual Tennessee All-State Exhibition-Parthenon Museum, Nashville, TN, Juror: Cheryl Phelps
Education
2008
Teaching Credential, California State University, Long Beach, Adult Education, Adaptive Media
2004-5
Formal Tattoo Apprenticeship, So Cal Tattoo (Ethan/Terry Morgan)San Pedro, CA
2001
MFA, California State University, Long Beach, CA, Magna Cum Laude, Drawing/Painting
1991
BFA, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN, Cum Laude, Drawing/Painting
Past Representation
2015-2018
Jordan Faye Block Contemporary Arts, Baltimore, MD
Specialty Projects
2018
Visiting Artist, Educare Los Angeles at Long Beach, Long Beach, CA
2010-2018
Sugar Skulls for Sasha’s Living, Museum of Latin American Art, Iguana, Viento Y Agua, 4th Street Vine
Selected Media and Events
2018
Genie Davis, ‘Salvage: Upcycling the Old into Art,’ Art and Cake, February 7, 2018
Koll, Juri Jr, Venice Institute of Contemporary Art: 2017. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, January 25, 2018
2017
Microgrant in support of TIMBER/TIMBRE, Long Beach Arts Council, Long Beach Ca
‘Together: Teaching Soft Skills to Adults with Developmental Disabilities and Autism through Art,’ Co-Presenter, CAPED Conference, Huntington Beach Ca
‘Art, Disability and Ethics’ Guest Lecture, ENCORE Programs, Huntington Beach Ca
‘Between, Below and Above’ Process: Artist Lecture Series, Squeeze Art Collective, The Vault Warehouse, Long Beach CA, August 19, 2017
2016
LIFT Artist Lecture Series, Coast Community College District, Newport Beach CA
Samantha Mehlinger, ‘Local Artists Profiled For Arts Month,’ Long Beach Business Journal, Long Beach, CA, September 27-October 10, 2016
Dave Barton, ‘Coastline Art Gallery Features Mark Zuckerberg as You’ve Never Seen Him,’
OC Weekly, August 10, 2016
2015
Roberta Carasso, ‘Currents,’ OC Art Blog, Nov 11, 2015
2005
Mike Van Gorder, ‘Juxtaposition,’ ISM quarterly. Autumn 2005
2005
Shirle Gottlieb, ‘Mind Games,’ Press Telegram, Long Beach, Ca, July 22, 2005
James Scarborough, ‘Eye on Art,’ Grunion Gazette, Long Beach, Ca, July 14, 2005
Shirle Gottlieb, ‘Art News & Reviews,’ Press Telegram, Long Beach, Ca, December 24, 2004
2004-5
Artist Talk, California State University, Long Beach, Ca
2004
Sherry Diamond, ‘Featured Artist,’ The Gallery, Long Beach, Ca, volume 1 issue 8, September 2004
2002
Shirle Gottlieb, ‘The Art of Abandonment,’ Press Telegram, Long Beach, Ca, July 19, 2002
2001
Individual Artists Fellowship, Public Corporation for the Arts, Long Beach, Ca
Shirle Gottlieb, ‘The Art of the Random,’ Press Telegram, Long Beach, Ca, September 28, 2001
2000-1
Werby Scholarship, College of the Arts, California State University, Long Beach, Ca
1999-2000
Baker Academic Scholarship, College of the Arts, California State University, Long Beach, Ca
1998
Shirle Gottlieb, ‘Mostly Abstract Exhibit Has Its Moments’, Press Telegram, Long Beach, Ca, November 16, 1998
1990
Charles Morris Branson Scholarship in Art, MTSU, Murfreesboro TN