ARTIST STATEMENT

Dorrie D. Koller has been intrigued by the painted surface for as long as she can remember - the swirls of paint, dabs of colors mixing and blending with other colors; paints that are scraped back, revealing what they once covered. The properties of paint, in reality, are the concepts of relationships. Colors enhance or detract from each other. The shapes of these colors take form and further describe their meanings.

"It is my bond with nature that revitalizes me. I love a long soak in seawater, the scent of an oncoming rain, flowers bobbing with fat bumble bees. Butterflies and birds, whales and horses, pets and people - we all form a circle of life; and it is this "life force" that I focus on - life that gives me great joy.

There is a certain "gaiety" that starts to present itself midway through my work that then feeds the rest of the piece. This gaiety originates in thoughts that have connected us with nature over the centuries. Am I truly the superior being to the apple tree who feeds me? Is "Pinky", my cat, really a queen? Am I a flower child? It is this connectedness to nature, and how it has formed us socially and conversationally through the centuries, that inspires my deeply layered paintings.

Nature is a plethora of extravagant design, color, and rhythm that envelops us with happiness. My painting style of exaggerated, unrecognizable, life forms is significant in that there are still so many unidentified species on our planet. I let the paint speak for itself in order to better express the exuberance of nature and my delight in being a part of it."



EDUCATION
Florida Atlantic University, 2006 BFA, Painting, Summa Cum Laude.
Palm Beach Community College, 2003 - AA, Honors Program, Painting


GROUP SHOWS AND AWARDS
2008 Maltz Jupiter Theater, Jupiter, FL
2007 Studio E Gallery, Palm Beach Gardens, FL
2006 PBCC Theater Show, Palm Beach Gardens, FL
2006 Simulacra, BFA Show, FAU Ritter Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
2005 The Body of Work, FAU Schmidt Gallery Hallway Exhibition.
Boca Raton, FL Proposed, Curator, and participating Artist.
2005 By Land and Sea, Palm Beach County Art in Public Places, Palm
Beach International Airport, West Palm Beach, FL
2005 3-Sum Student Cooperative Show, FAU Visual Arts Studio, Boca Raton, FL
2004 Art Basel, Student Cooperative Show, Living Room Art Gallery, Miami, FL
2004 Co-Existence, Ritter Art Gallery, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL
2004 Student Show, Palm Beach Community College, Palm Beach Gardens, FL.
Honorable Mention, Drawing Fundamentals
Purchase Award, Painting
2003 Student Show, Palm Beach Community College, Palm Beach Gardens, FL
Honorable Mention 3-D Design
Honorable Mention Art History
2003 Florida State Phi Theta Kappa Convention, Palm Beach Community College
Representative, Tallahassee, FL
1st Place Painting
2001 Gallery Six, Palm Beach, FL
2001 2005 Artists Guild of the Palm Beaches: Yearly member shows at
Northwood University, West Palm Beach, FL
2000 Apopka Art Festival, Apopka, FL
1999 The Christie Gallery, Palm Beach, FL
1999 The Painted Porch, Delray Beach, FL
1997 Simply Elegant, Pembroke Pines, FL
1995 Gemini Gallery, Palm Beach, FL
1994 Wolfe Gallery, West Palm Beach, FL
1986 Lighthouse Gallery, Tequesta, FL
1980 1984 Ceramic League of the Palm Beaches: Yearly member shows at
Lighthouse Center for the Arts, Tequesta, FL and the Norton Museum,
West Palm Beach, FL
1981 Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, FL 1st Place Watercolors

PUBLICATIONS
July 17, 2005 Interior Design, Palm Beach Post Times, West Palm Beach, FL
Art of Land and Sea by Katie Deits
July 18, 2004 Interior Design, Palm Beach Post Times, West Palm Beach, FL
Discovering New Talent by Katie Deits
April 6, 2003 Interior Design, Palm Beach Post Times, West Palm Beach, FL
PBCC Artists: A Class Act by Christine Davis
December 1977 Christian Computing Magazine What’s New Volume 9, No.
11/12 309 S. Washington, Raymore, Missouri 64083
December 10, 1997 WRMB Radio, Boynton Beach, FL Touching Lives Through
Technology Live Discussion Group
November 13, 1997 Touching Lives through Technology featured artist on
Christian Interactive Network website. Cin@gocin.com
January 7, 1986 Palm Beach Post Times, West Palm Beach, FL the American
West at the Lighthouse Gallery of Tequesta, FL review of show.