Biography
Personal Bio
1950 Born during major blizzard, second of four blue eyed girls Portland OR 1964 Camp bugler, for four consecutive summers, Camp Namanu Sandy OR 1965 Climbed Mt. Hood, with the Mazama’s Government Camp OR 1968 Political Cartoonist & Illustrator for “The Scab Sheet 10 cents for the Truth”, underground newspaper supporting antiwar movement, OSUCorvallis OR. Met fellow activist and future husband, Alex. 1974 B.F.A. Painting Fort Wright CollegeSpokane WA 1975 Learned "street smarts" from inmate students while teaching at the State Penitentiary Salem OR 1976 M.F.A. Painting Portland State UniversityPortland OR 1976 Founder, Northwest Artist Workshop Portland OR 1978 Traveled the majority of USA, by car, to visit every paper mill for husband's work 1981 Bought Charles Heaney painting to commemorate birth of first child1981 Visited Frieda Kahlo's home and garden with husband and baby funded by grant from the Oregon Arts Commission 1984 Bought Louis Bunce painting to commemorate birth of second child, named Louie 1989 Bought Amanda Snyder painting, "3 Birds in a Nest", to commemorate birth of third child 1994 Appointed Commissioner, Metropolitan Arts Commission, City of Portland OR 1995 Visited Monet's garden with husband and kids 2003 First woman in USA to use cryolumpectomy to treat breast cancer, Karmanos Cancer Institute, Wayne State University, Detroit Medical Center, MI Detroit Medical Center, MI 2003 Founder, Golden Gallery, Art Gallery for Seniors at our family business, The Beaverton Lodge Retirement Residence OR OR 2005 Attended Newport Film Festival, for screening of son Sean's movie Newport CA 1978
B.S. Portland State University Portland OR M.F.A. PaintingPortland State University Portland OR B.F.A. Painting Fort Wright College Spokane WA Governor's Arts Awards, Oregon Arts Commissions, Commissioned to Create The Award Juror's Award, Oregon Biennial, Portland Art Museum Curator: Katherine Kanjo Juror's Award, Pacific Northwest Annual Bellevue Art Commission Curator: Katherine Kanjo Major Commision of Three Colored Lithographs for Harold and Arlene Schnitzer and the Claremont Hotel. Oregon Symphony,Cover Art, Fall Concert Series Enest Bloch, Composer TriMet Westside Light Rail, Large Scale Mural, Zoo Station. Administerd by the Metropolitan Arts Commission. Portland OR Curator:Kristy Edmunds, Inclusion in Lois Allan's Book "Contenporary Northwest Art" Awarded the Metropolitan Arts Commision " Visual Chronicles" Individual Artist Fellowship Recipient. Oregon Arts Commision Naked (scheduled fall), Froelick Gallery Portland, OR Pattern and Illusion, Froelick Gallery Portland, OR On Fire, Froelick Gallery Portland, OR 2004 Connect, Pacini Lubel Gallery Seattle, WA (December) 2003 Juggling, JenkinsJohnson Gallery San Francisco, CA 2002 Simple Geometry, Froelick Gallery
Portland, OR Markers, Froelick Gallery Portland, OR Dances And Exorcisms, Froelick Adelhart Gallery Portland, OR Defying Gravity, Froelick Adelhart Gallery Portland, OR The Emotion of Light, Grover/Thurston Gallery Seattle, WA History Lessons, Froelick Adelhart Gallery Portland, OR Laura RossPaul: Paintings, Grover/Thurston Gallery Seattle, WA Laura RossPaul Recent Works, Oils,Monotypes Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR Collective Meditations, Elizabeth Leach Gallery Portland, OR The Five Senses: New Lithographs, Elizabeth Leach Gallery
Portland, OR Laura RossPaul: Oil Paintings and Watercolors, Francine Seders Gallery
Seattle, WA Laura RossPaul: Oil Paintings, Office of the Governor Salem, OR Laura RossPaul:Oil Paintings and Watercolors, Elizabeth Leach Gallery
Portland, OR Laura RossPaul; A Decade of Painting: 19811990, Marylhurst University The Art Gym
Portland, OR Paintings And Drawings, Elizabeth Leach Gallery Portland, OR Northwest Wiewpoints: Laura RossPaul Watercolors Portland Art Museum
Portland, OR Elizabeth Leach Gallery Portland, OR Laura RossPaul, The Fountain Gallery Portland, OR Works Dealing With Nature and Dreams, Mutlnomah Art Center
Portland, OR Laura RossPaul: New Paintings and Watercolors, The Fountain Gallery
Portland, OR The Fountain Gallery Portland, OR The Fountain Gallery Portland, OR Oregon State University, Honors Gallery Corvallis, OR Thesis Exhibition, Portland State University Portland, OR Thesis Exhibition, Fort Wright College Spokane, WA Group Exhibitions
2006 Flora, (Scheduled summer), Pacini Lubel Gallery, Seattle, WA 2005 Laura RossPaul, Kathrine Ace, Sherie Wolf, (as yet untitled), Paris Gibson Square Museum Great Falls, MO The Marylhurst Watercolor Show, Art Gym, Marylhurst College Marylhurst, OR 2004 “Opening Exhibition”, Pacini Lubel Gallery Seattle, WA
The Clown Show”, Froelick Gallery Portland, OR “Fifth Annual Realism Exhibit”, Jenkins Johnson Gallery San Francisco, CA “Winter Group Show”, Froelick Gallery Portland, OR “Expectations”, Pringle Gallery Philadelphia, PA 2003 “Building Traditions: Gifts in Honor of the Northwest Collection”, Tacoma Art Museum, Rock Hushka, Curator, (Catalog) Tacoma, WA
Women by Women, JenkinsJohnson Gallery San Francisco, CA Fifth Annual Realism Invitational, Jenkins Johnson Gallery San Francisco, CA (catalogue) Print Arts Northwest, Southern Oregon University Ashland, OR
2002 Summer 2002, Arnot Art Museum Elmira, NY 20th Annual Art About Agriculture, Oregon State University—Memorial Union Concourse Gallery, Corvallis, traveling to: High Desert Museum, Bend, OR; Klamath County Government Center
Klamath Falls, OR Jurors: Humberto Gonzales, Ronna Neuenschwander, Martha Werhle (award)
Jenkins/Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA, conjoined with San Francisco International Art Fair