edie ottestad + Edith kuhnle
april 21st - august 26th, 2022
about the artists…
Edie Ottestad:
A professional musician/songwriter for two decades, Edie Ottestad decided to start painting in 2017, and sculpting in 2019. Having been immersed in music since childhood, she found music and art to be intricately linked. Edie believes that her musical pursuits and training provide her with a certain vocabulary and preordained context for expression which she applies to the visual realm of painting and sculpting.
Ottestad is an emerging artist whose work is in private collections in Antwerp, Brussels, Nice, Stavanger, Los Angeles, Washington, DC, Telluride, Palm Beach, Charlottesville, Memphis, and Nashville. Her video documenting her graffiti practice entitled “White Privilege” was recently selected by Dr. Maura Reilly to be in the Chicago WCA exhibit Occupy the Moment, Intersect History with Impact which opened January 2022. Her work has been exhibited in a three-person show at The Space in 2018 in Stavanger, Norway, a solo show at Stanford Contemporary in 2019 in Nashville, and a two-person show with photographer Jerry Atnip at Stanford Contemporary in 2020 in Nashville. Edie’s work has appeared in Architectural Digest Pro and Aftenbladet, one of Norway’s largest newspapers.
Edith Kuhnle:
Edith Kuhnle, a Washington, DC artist, has shown her work in the US and abroad over three decades. She has exhibited in solo and group shows in the Washington area at Addison Ripley Fine Art (multiple), Phillips Gallery, Katzen Museum, Corcoran Gallery, Baltimore Museum of Art Shop Gallery, German Marshall Fund Gallery, Military Women’s Museum, Meridian International Center, Washington Project for the Arts, American Institute of Architects, Jane Haslem Gallery, Franz Bader Gallery, Numark Gallery, Watkins Gallery, New Examiner Art Magazine, Arlington Arts Center, Mount Vernon College Gallery, and Covington & Burling. She also has been represented by Kathryn Markel Gallery, New York. Her other US shows have included Arden Gallery, Boston; Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA; Art Against Aids, New York, and the Hamilton Gallery of Montreat-Anderson College, Montreat, NC, where she served as Artist in Residence.
Kuhnle’s paintings are included in numerous private and public collections, including US Embassies in Austria, Columbia, Cote d’Ivoire, and Peru, and have been exhibited at the American Chancery in London, England. The Meridian International Center exhibited her work in its Pacific Rim Tour of Asian museums, including the Beijing Cultural Palace, Shanghai Painting Institute, Jakarta Arts Center, Singapore Museum of Art; Hanoi Museum of Fine Arts; and Ho Chi Minh Museum of Fine Arts. She has commissioned works on view at the Washington National Airport and Washington Convention Center. Her paintings are included in the permanent collections of Evermay House Art Center, Washington, DC; Halcyon House Center, Washington, DC; and multiple corporate offices. She has been the subject of reviews and articles in Artsy, Southern Accents, Open Studio Press, Art & Antiques, Art News, Washington Post, Art in America, Museum and Arts, Washington Woman, Studio International, New Art Examiner, and Better Homes & Gardens.
Kuhnle has served as a member of the DC Arts Commission, DC Arts Advisory Council, Mayor’s Committee on Protocol and External Affairs, and the boards of WPA/Corcoran Advisory, Washington Project for the Arts, and Gallery in the Park. Addison-Ripley Fine Art in Washington has represented her for more than 25 years. She holds an MFA from American University, where she won the David Loyd Kreeger Award, a Vanderbilt University MA, and a BA from Converse College, where she has been recognized as among the school’s top 125 graduates. She also studied at the Corcoran School of Art and the Institute for American Universities, Aix-en-Provence, France.