Audrey Tulimiero Welch

Audrey Tulimiero Welch, (b.Livingston,New Jersey) is an internationally exhibited painter who currently resides in San Francisco, CA. Welch received her BFA from the University of Delaware, and MFA from the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University.

Her abstract layered paintings can be read as metaphoric ‘maps’ that contain in their embedded layers personal stories and lived relationships of daily life. From 2002-16, Welch lived and worked in countries of the Pacific Rim. This led her to explore the subjects of mapping and place as starting points for a painting. Similar to the way maps navigate geographic destinations, she uses the pictorial language of line, gesture, color, and form to lead the viewer to ‘sites’ that are familiar and unknown, personal and universal.

Welch’s work has been exhibited throughout the United States, Bangkok, Indonesia, Germany, Singapore and Australia. Her paintings are included in numerous prestigious public and private collections, including GOOGLE, Ronald Mc Donald House, Perth, Western Australia, Hyatt Regency, Oman, Four Seasons Hotel, MGM, Saks Fifth Avenue. Museum exhibitions include: Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA; Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA; Tacoma Art Museum, Frauen Museu...

Education
MFA, Institute of Boston at Lesley University (Merit Scholarship), Boston
Art Students League, New York City, NY
Private Instruction with Russian Portrait painter, Marck Klionsky, Soho, NYC
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia
BFA, University of Delaware, Newark, DE

Selected Solo Exhibitions
Russo Lee Gallery, Portland, OR
Nancy Toomey Fine Art, San Francisco, essay by art critic Richard Speer
Damascus: Mapping Place, Home, & Exile, Russo Lee Gallery, Portland
I Like Your Work, Podcast, Online exhibition and Interview
Fuel, Russo Lee Gallery, Portland, OR
Project-106 Studios, Recent Work, Seattle, WA
Body Tree Map, Ted Sanford Art Gallery, Charles Wright Academy, Tacoma, WA
Tree Map Body, Nancy Toomey Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
Farewell Freo, Artsource, Fremantle, Western Australia
Contemplating the Desert, Church of the Resurrection, Swanbourne, Western Australia
Sloan Miyasato, Curated by Michelle Bello, San Francisco, CA
South is at the Top, Toomey Tourell Fine Art, San Francisco, CA (cat.)
Nichada Thani, Nonthaburi, Thailand
Sumatra Sojourn, 23 Seulawah, Duri, Sumatra, Indonesia
Home Ground, Toomey/Tourell Gallery, San Francisco, CA
A Pilgrim Speaks, Toomey/Tourell Gallery, San Francisco, CA (cat.)