NANETTE NEWBRY

CONTEMPORARY ARTIST

ABOUT

Nanette Newbry is a professional contemporary painter, printmaker and performance artist. Nanette was drawn to the encaustic painting of Jasper Johns and began learning the technique in 2005. She’s discovered that the medium’s characteristics allow her to deepen the meaning and metaphors in her work. She received her BA in Visual and Theatre Arts at the University of California San Diego after spending 10 years as a model and actor. She often uses the skills and techniques in her work that she acquired in a 30-year career as a graphic designer. She teaches encaustic to intimate groups as well as online. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Encaustic Art, the Encaustic Art Institute, and in corporate and private collections in the U.S. and abroad.

Pictured: Excursion. Twelve encaustic monotypes with digital printing on Rives with backlighting 104 x 60 inches

SOLO EXHIBITIONS 

2022 Upstream and Other Perspectives, Community Center Art Gallery, Encinitas, California

2021 Upstream, Violet Salon and Gallery, Encinitas, California 

2012 New Work, Violet Salon and Gallery, Encinitas, California

 2010 Image and Memory, Ivanffy-Uhler Gallery, Carlsbad, California 

2007 Back Forward Everyday, N Newbry Gallery, Carlsbad, California

2003 New Work, City of San Diego, Benjamin Public Library, San Diego 

2003 Inside/Out, N Newbry Gallery, Carlsbad, California 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023 Climate Reckoning, Grossmont College, San Diego, California, Feminist Image Group Exhibtion

2023 Lift the Sky, Front Porch Gallery, Carlsbad, California

2022 Resilience, First Annual Catalyst Art Lab Members’ Exhibition, Chicago, Illinois

2022 Annual Juried Exhibition, Front Porch Gallery, Carlsbad, California

 2022 Flow, Encaustic Art Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico

2022 Women Antiracists International Exhibition, Women’s Soaring Project [online], First Place Award

2022 Second Act, Front Porch Gallery, Carlsbad, California 

2016 Summer Juried National Exhibition, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Marin, California 

2016 Juried Exhibition, Front Porch Gallery, Carlsbad, California

2014 Regional Exhibition, San Art Institute, Balboa Park, California

2014 Encaustic Monotypes, Miles Conrad Gallery,Tucson, Arizona 

2014 International Juried Exhibition, San Diego Art Institute, Balboa Park, California

 2013 International Juried Exhibition, San Diego Art Institute Balboa Park, California

 2013 Juried Biennial, Cannon Gallery, Carlsbad, California 

2013 Regional Juried Exhibition, San Diego Art Institute, Balboa Park, California 

2012 Regional Juried Exhibition, San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, California 

2011 Regional Juried Exhibition, San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, California 

2010 Juried Biennial, Juror’s Award, Cannon Gallery Carlsbad, California 

2008 The Contemporary Scroll, San Diego Art Institute, Balboa Park, California 

SELECTED PERFORMANCES

2006 Sandboxed, N Newbry Gallery, Carlsbad, California

 2005 Henri Bobo Comes and Goes, Del Mar, California

 2002 CrossFire, Leucadia, California 

2002 Henri Bobo and Ground Zero, New York, New York 

2000 Henri Bobo and Rhoda, Encinitas, California 

1996 Face-to-Face, Arthouse Gallery, Carlsbad, California 

1996 Tree Circle, Julian, California 

 1995 The Virgin Bride, San Diego, California

1994 The Bride Visits the Psychiatric Hospital, La Jolla, California

 1993 Meat, UCSD Mandeville Center, La Jolla, California

 1991 My Mother Myself, SDSU Art Gallery, San Diego, California 

1990 Henri Bobo Joins the Group at Jerome Rothenberg’s Party, Encinitas, California 

AWARDS 

2022 Juror’s First Prize, Women’s Soaring Project

2016 Honorable Mention, Front Porch Gallery

 2014 Juror’s Award, San Diego Art Institute

 2013 Juror’s Choice, Cannon Gallery Biennial 

2007 Honorable Mention, San Diego Art Institute

SELECTED COLLECTIONS 

Private and corporate collections: United States, France, United Kingdom

Museum of Encaustic Art, Permanent Collection, Santa Fe, New Mexico

RESIDENCIES

Encaustic Art Institute, Santa Fem, New Mexico

PUBLICATIONS 

2021 Ten Years of Encaustic Art, Encaustic Art Magazine

2014 Encaustic Art Magazine, “Excursions and In-Between” 

2008 Ranch and Coast Magazine, “Nanette Newbry, Encaustic Artist,” Bob Stefanko 

2007 KUSI Online News, “Encaustic Art” 

2006 Lifestyle, “Sargent Art Group Exhibition,” Savannah Arrigo 

2006 The Coast News, “Carlsbad Artist Gives 3-Day Performance Art Piece,” Chrystall Kanyuck 

 2006 KFMB Radio, San Diego, Sandboxed Performance Art 

2005 Art and Gallery Guide, “Performance Artist Nanette Newbry” 

2004 KUSI Television, Good Morning San Diego, Encaustic Demonstration 

1980 Union Tribune, “An Affair of the Art,” Robert Pincus

EDUCATION

B.A., Major Visual Arts, Minor Theatre Arts, University of California, La Jolla 

Extended Studies, Barbara Kruger, University of California, San diego and Los Angeles 

Encaustic Workshops: RF Paints; Paula Roland; Jeffrey Hirst