Kit Hevron Mahoney has over twenty five years experience as a fine artist and design professional. Her background includes business, fine art, illustration and graphic design. Kit graduated from the University of Colorado and the Colorado Institute of Art where she also taught graphic design and drawing for over 15 years. Kit has been showing nationwide in solo and group exhibitions and her work has been included in the Colorado Governor’s Invitational, the Gilcrease Musuem’s American Art in Miniature Invitational, Oil Painters of America and has won awards in the National Oil and Acrylic Painters Society. Her work is in both private and corporate collections including the Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs and McGraw Hill Publishers in Dayton, Ohio and the private collection of actor Jack Nicholson.
As an artist I find that my work is ever evolving. It is a continual process of reinventing myself in our rapidly changing world where new ideas and possibilities are constantly flowing in.
I began painting in pastels, which allowed me to paint and draw at the same. From there I moved to oils where I created impressionistic representational imagery with brush and palette knife from images photographed in my many travels. I have now added the expression of abstraction where I play with the elements of color, light, shape and texture and composition. All of my work is a joyous and challenging expression, as it requires the painting to come from within. My dynamic compositions are a unique style of contemporary Impressionism with a bold use of color and texture.”
“Painting gives me a sense of purpose–a connection to something larger than myself.”
Awards and Special Interest
2011 Best Impressionist Painting Award the by judge Tom Tierney, publisher “Art of the West” magazine in the 21st Annual NOAPS Society “Best of America” Exhibit for 2011
2012 Colorado Governor’s Invitational Show/Sale – Loveland Museum Gallery – Loveland, CO2010 Award of Merit by judge Steve Doherty in the 20th Annual NOAPS Society “Best of America” Exhibit for 2010
Best of Show 2006 Evergreen Paint, Shoot and Sculpt-Evergreen Fine Arts Council
American Art in Miniature 2002, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 – Gilcrease Museum – Tulsa, OK
National Oil & Acrylic Painters’ Society Exhibit 2001 – Gustafson Art & Education Fund “Best use of light and color”
Artist to Watch/Best of the West – Southwest Art Magazine, Oct. 2001/May 2002
Finalist Winner/Landscape Category – The Artist Magazine’s 2001 Annual Art Competition
Commemorative Poster Artist – Rocky Mountain PBS 2000 Art Auction
Gallery Representation
Brushstrokes Studio-Gallery LLP – Denver, Colorado
Evergreen Fine Art Gallery – Evergreen, Colorado
Longcoat Fine Art Gallery of Fine Art – Ruidoso, New Mexico
Midland Gallery – Midland, Texas
Sacred Dancing Gallery – Bigfork, Montana
Rich Timmons Gallery – Doylestown, PA
Forms A Gallery – DelRay , Florida
Selected Shows & Exhibitions
2002-2012 Annual Shows, Brushstrokes-Studio Gallery, LLP
2012 The Red Show, The Framed Image Denver, CO
2001-2012 Various Shows Evergreen Fine Art Gallery, Evergreen, CO
2011 Creative Capitol Metro Denver Show, Denver International Airport
2010 Nomadas del Arte Show – Southwest Galleries, Dallas, TX
2010 NOAPS Signature Member Show, Arts Center of Estes Park, Estes Park, CO
2010 Colorado Artists Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii
2009, 2012 The Painted Violin – Invitational Fund Raiser for the Denver Young Artists Orchestra
2009 5th Biennial “Artists for Open Space Invitational for Montana Land Reliance-BigFork, MT
2009 American Impressionist Society 10th Annual – Saks Gallery, Denver, CO
2002-2012 Colorado Governor’s Invitational Show, Loveland Museum Gallery, Loveland, CO
2004-2005 Rocky Mountain Plein Air Painters, Winter Park and Estes Park, CO
2003-2006 Salon International Annual Juried,Greenhouse Gallery of Fine Art-San Antonio, TX
2001-2008 National Oil and Acrylic Painters’ Society, Signature Member and Exhibit 2001, 2002, 2003
2003 Oil Painters of America 12th Annual, Nichols Gallery – Taos, New Mexico
1995-2007 Rocky Mountain PBS Art Auction , Denver, CO
1994-2007 Various Shows, Abend Gallery, Denver, CO
2002 One Person Show , Midland Gallery, Midland, TX
2002-2006 Cancer League of CO-Spring Benefit, Cancer League of Colorado Spring Gala
2001 Mountain Oyster Club – Tucson, AZ, 32nd Annual Contemporary Western Art Show
2001 Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, 105th Annual Competition-National Arts Club, NY
2001-2002 AWA’S 4th/5th Annual Competition, Contemporary Southwest Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2001 Salmugundi 24th Juried Art Exhibition, Salmugundi Club - New York, NY
2001 Denver All Invitational Show, Merrill Johnson Gallery, Denver, CO
1993-2012 Abend Gallery Holiday Miniatures Show, Abend Gallery, Denver, CO
1997-2000 Colorado Artists Showcase, Cherry Creek Arts Festival- Denver, CO
Experience
2000-2001 Denver Botanic Gardens Instructor – Pastel Painting in the Gardens
1998-1999 Abend Gallery Fine Art, LLC Design Director & LLC Member – Denver, CO
1993-1998 Visible Productions Design Director – Fort Collins, CO
1980-1996 Colorado Institute of Art Instructor: Graphic Design, Drawing/Anatomy
1980-1986 Graphic Creations, Ltd. President/owner of nat’l greeting card company
Corporate Collections
Pfizer Pharmaceutical Corporate Offices, Denver, Colorado
McGraw Hill Publisher, Dayton, Ohio
Medical Center of the Rockies, Fort Collins, Colorado
Ella Corothers Dunnegan Gallery of Art, Bolivar, Missouri
Broadmoor Hotel, Colorado Springs, Colorado
Omni Interlocken Hotel, Boulder, Colorado
M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
Academy Retirement Community/ Bella Vista, Boulder, Colorado
Colorado Business Bank, Boulder, Colorado
Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL
Alpha Omicron Pi Headquarters, Brentwood, Tennessee
Steele Street Bank, Denver, CO
Eating Disorder Center, Denver, CO
Berg and McMurry, P.C.-Boulder, Colorado
Alpha Omicron Pi Headquarters-Brentwood, Tennessee
United Western Bank – Denver, CO
Kent Place – Denver, CO
Sunrise Senior Living Center – Boulder, CO
UMB Bank – Denver, CO
Trailhead Lodge – Steamboat Springs, CO
New Dawn Living – Boulder, CO
Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL
Vail Valley Medical Center, Edwards Shaw Cancer Pavilion
Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children; Denver, CO
