Cara Tomlinson
Cara Tomlinson is an Oregon-based artist whose paintings, drawings, and sculptures focus on ecological systems and their relationship to human/non-human bodies. Her work explores tensions between simplicity and complexity, order and entropy, and the internal and external. Her recent paintings present bodies as verbs and processes, exploring heredity, vision, metabolism, waste, and sedimentation.
Cara’s work exhibited nationally and internationally and supported by numerous grants and residency awards including the Ucross Foundation, Millay Colony for the Arts, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Willapa Bay Artist Residency, Ford Family Foundation Grant, and an Artist Fellowship Grant from the Oregon Arts Commission. She is currently an Associate Professor of Painting at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon.
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AMcE Exhibitions
Embodiment May 2024
pet, 2019
Oil on linen on wood panel
20″ x 18″; framed 24″ x 22″
The Artist, 2019-23
Oil on linen
54” x 52”
Bouy, 2024
Oil on linen on wood panel
20″ x 18″; framed 24″ x 22″
Air, 2024
Oil on linen on wood panel
20″ x 16″; framed 24″ x 20″
Bundlebomb, 2019
Oil on linen
40” x 42”
See, seer, seen 1, 2022
Oil on linen on wood
20″ x 16″; framed 24″ x 20″
Froward, 2019
Oil on linen
36″ x 34″
Yokem, 2019
Oil on linen
34″ x 32″
Guest, 2019
Oil on linen on wood
20” x 18”; framed 24″ x 22″
Faceoff, 2019-20
Oil on linen
52″ x 48″ sold
Skinning, 2019
Oil on linen on wood panel
20” x 18”
Transit, 2019
Oil on linen
36” x 34”
See, seer, seen 3, 2022
Oil on linen on wood
20” x 16” sold
Gird, 2019
Oil on linen
34″ x 36″
Herity, 2019-2022
Oil on linen
34” x 32”