About

ARTIST STATEMENT

These paintings are light studies. Light assists us in understanding landscapes, by experiencing the magnitude and direction in which it allows our vision to flow. As light moves it creates a dialogue between forms by defining them and their negative spaces. By concentrating on light as its own entity, I explore how it manipulates itself around objects and is distinguished through mood.

These images are taken from travels abroad, where I seek an unfamiliar setting to explore the possibilities of new forms in unique lighting. Within this search I have been to places that helped to define a political message. As I’ve gained a different perspective studying for future pieces, I have seen the changes in place due to climate change and the hardships that communities have had to adapt to worldwide. The process of recording this subject matter is important for me to share, with the goal of understanding a simple moment. A level of intimacy is my hope for the interaction with these paintings.

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ARTIST BIO

Jaime Coffey Bateman graduated from the Pacific Northwest College of Art in 1999, in Portland, Oregon, receiving her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting. Currently residing in Los Angeles, her artwork focuses on light studies as landscapes in foreign places. Her paintings began to evolve in her early years in college, when she attended a summer program in France, and afterwards toured Europe. Since then she has spent six months in 2001 traveling through Southeast Asia and seven months in 2005 in South America, painting on sight and gathering subject matter for her future work. Her most recent work focuses on images throughout Patagonia and the Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia.  Upcoming pieces will be from trips to Madagascar and Belize.

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1995-1999 Pacific Northwest College of Art, BFA in Painting, Portland, OR

1997 Summer, Pont-Aven School of Art, Pont Aven, France

1998-99 Class of 1974 Scholarship, Pacific Northwest Colleg or Art

1997-98 Doro Haskell-Johnson Memorial Scholarship, PNCA

1996-97 Shaw Scholarship, Pacific Northwest College of Art

1996-97 Stephen Eberly Thompson Scholarship, PNCA

1995-96 Kennedy Freshman Scholarship, PNCA

2009 LA Municipal Art Gallery Open Call.  Los Angeles, CA

2009 Gallery Judaica, Group Show.  Los Angeles, CA

2008 Annual Art Walk.  Filmore, CA

2007-2008 550 N. Brand St., Lobby Show.  Glendale, CA

2007 Satsuma Gallery, Group Show.  N. Hollywood, CA

2007 Westmoreland Open Studios, Los Feliz.  Los Angeles, CA

2007 Los Feliz Village Street Fair.  Los Angeles, CA

2006 LA Art Exchange Auctions.  Santa Monica, CA

2004 Gallery 114, "Landscapes," Two person show.  Portland, OR

2004 Cathedral Park Show.  Portland, OR

2004 Cascade AIDS Project, "Art for Life" Benefit Auction.  Portland, OR

2003 Gallery 114, "Steal," Group Show.  Portland, OR

2003 Pacific Northwest College of Art, "Alumni Landscape Show." Portland, OR

2003 Gallery 114, "Portrait Show."  Portland, OR

2003 Gallery 114, "Recent Landscapes," Two person show.  Portland, OR

2002 Gallery 114, "Collecting on a Shoestring," Group Show.  Portland, OR

2002 Gallery 114, "Backspace," Group Show.  Portland, OR

2001 Wisp Studio, Everett Station Lofts, "Light & Landscapes."  Portland, OR

2000 Cascade AIDS Project, "Art for Life" Benefit Auction.  Portland, OR

1999 Pacific Northwest College of Art, Senior Thesis Show.  Portland, OR

2009 Clara Romero, "Clara's Panama Flower."  Santa Monica, CA

2007 Amber Rankin, Oil Portrait Three Children & Dog.  Montgomery Village, MD

2005 Craig & Iris Bateman, Oil Painting of Dog, Pluto.  Redding, CA

2003 Amber Rankin, Oil Portrait of Baby, Oil Portrait Two Children.  Montgomery Village, MD

2000 Juliene Woullet, Seascape Mural, Outside Wall of Restaurant.  Rainier, OR

1999 Jennifer Smelser, Seascape Mural in Bathroom.  Oregon City, OR

1998 Hilton, Mural of Long-term Employee Portraits.  Portland, OR

1996 The Wine Bottle, Mural of Vineyard.  Milwaukie, OR

2009 Panama

2008 Belize

2007 Madagascar

2004-2005 Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador and The Galapagos Islands

2001-2002 S. Korea, India, Nepal, Thailand, Australia and Hawaii

1999 England, Scotland and Ireland

1997 Western Europe