Donna Yarrell

Current Art Bio (2024)

Donna Yarrell lives in the Mojave Desert. She is an Artist, teacher, writer, gardener, caretaker of property and animals, purveyor/ composer of music. Yarrell believes that her life is (and has been) her primary art form.

“My life has been like a psychedelic bus ride through the vast stage set of a questionable western." The stage set is the Southwestern United States, California, and Central Mexico. The bus ride has become a movie, a continuing epic perpetually undercapitolized.

Despite her nomadic inclinations, Yarrell did go to school and received two degrees, a B.F.A. from Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas, and an M.F.A. from Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, CA.

Being compelled to transport her beloved companion animal with her wherever she moves has curbed her nomadic tendencies somewhat. This beloved companion animal is a Palomino gelding. She also has a cat.

Championing and spreading knowledge and appreciation of the arts is an important aspect in Yarrell’s life and has been for a long time. Along with the other classes that she teaches for a local college she teaches art appreciation in the summers.

Continuing to be a productive artist is something that has been importa...

B.F.A. Texas State University
M.F.A. Claremont Graduate University

Donna Yarrell
1970 North Leslie #485
Pahrump, Nevada 89060
studiocorral@gmail.com

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2022 Gathering of the Angels, Group Exhibition, Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, California
Small Works, Group Exhibition, Tecopa Artists Gallery, Tecopa California 2021 Faculty Exhibition, Temple College, Temple, Texas
2019 Collages, Solo Exhibition, Arts Convergence Gallery, Coupland, Texas 2016 Group Exhibition, 20/20 Gallery, San Antonio, Texas
2015 Momentum, Solo Exhibition, 120 E. 2nd Street, Sponsored By TAG Faculty Exhibition, Temple Collage Gallery, Temple, Texas
Group Exhibition, 20/20 Gallery, San Antonio, Texas
Nature vs. Nurture, Group Exhibition, Gallery 120, Taylor, Texas Terms of Endearment, Group Exhibition, Gallery 120, Taylor, Texas New Beginnings, Group Exhibition, Gallery 120, Taylor, Texas
2014 Fun With Livestock, Juried Group Exhibition, Gallery 120, Taylor, Texas
2013 Look at Us, Group Exhibition, Tecopa Artists Gallery, Tecopa California
2011 Black and White, Group Exhibition, Pahrump Arts Council Exhibition, Pahrump Courthouse, Pahrump Nevada
Small Works Show, Group Exhibition, Tecopa Basin Artists Gallery, Tecopa, California
2010 The Written Word, Group Exhibition, Tecopa Basin Artists Gallery, ...