In 2010, my work was featured on Oregon Public Broadcasting’s Oregon Art Beat! The segment was filmed in September 2008 and it features Apple Pie as well as part of the interview behind these two portraits.
“[While] the recession has left plenty of bruises, Seemel said it could result in more thought-provoking work.”
— - Matthew Kish, The Portland Business Journal, February 2010 -- - Full Story
“[Bernstein and Seemel share] an ability to see their portrait models as more than just flesh and figure.”
— - Margie Boulé, The Oregonian, January 2010 -- - Full Story
“Theirs is a mutual admiration society and both talk about their work in artist terms—color, hue, darkness and light, color value—all appropriate for modern dentistry as well as for artists. [Seemel is] talking paint; [Dr. Roberts is] talking implants and crowns.”
— - JoAnn Boatwright, The Hillsboro Argus, July 2009 -- - Full Story
“[The] artist is up to something unusual in her paintings.”
— - DK Row, The Oregonian, May 2009 -- - Full Story
“No lover of art, surely, could begrudge [City Commissioner Randy] Leonard’s boost to rising star Gwenn Seemel’s career.”
— - Editorial Board, The Oregonian, March 2009 -- - Full Story
“Although her portraits might be of other people, stare at them long enough and you’ll find they have an interesting way of becoming as much about...her own hunger to understand the world.”
— - Inara Verzemnieks, The Oregonian, July 2007 -- - Full Story
“[The subject] is eager to see how Swollen captures her interior and exterior changes. Regardless of what she thinks about the finished product, Seemel hopes for a strong reaction.”
— - Jim Radosta, Just Out, July 2007 -- - Full Story
“Seemel’s project is really a complex performance-art piece—sort-of real life reality television.”
— - DK Row, The Oregonian, April 2006 -- - Full Story
“Seemel has long shown a designer’s eye for color and crisp, lyrical brushstrokes, and now her skills are meeting more mature themes of contradictory and interwoven elements of control and inevitability.”
— - Harvest Henderson, The Oregonian, October 2005 -- - Full Story
“Seemel’s portraits...are deeply accomplished.”
— - DK Row, The Oregonian, October 2005 -- - Full Story
2003 - 2012 Gwenn Seemel