Ted Washington

Ted Washington is an artist, author, poet and reluctant businessman. He now lives in San Diego, after spending time as an apprentice draftsman for a beer brewery in St. Louis, an Internal Revenue Service employee in Springfield, MO, a retail sales representative in Denver, CO, and temporarily homeless vagabond turned baker on the beaches of Venice, CA. Ted is the founder of Puna Press and the performance group Pruitt Igoe. Pruitt Igoe was awarded a Synergy Foundation grant and performed in Harlem, New York City. Ted Washington won the BRAND 37 purchase award, with the Glendale Library acquiring one of his artworks for their permanent collection.

-- Dots --
The search for order in this chaos. Art. Life. I was hoping to draw pretty pictures but something happens. I get carried away. Dots take time, time for my mind to get away from all of this. The pretty pictures get lost in there and this art is what remains. Unfortunately (or fortunately) there is always an alpha for every omega; more ink, more paper and more time. The chaos takes me. Order is for the end.
You probably don’t want to hear some metaphysical bullshit. You want to hear an answer to, “Why dots?” That I was homeless and how only the pens survived the spiral of dru...

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AWARDS
The Hoffman Trust Award, Southern California Regional Juried Award Exhibition, San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA 2010
Brand Associates Purchase Award, BRAND 37, Works on Paper: Here & Now, Brand Library and Art Center, Glendale, CA 2008
Pruitt Igoe receives Synergy Art Foundation Grant, 2006
XLR8R Magazine, “I Love New York” Haiku contest, 1st place winner 2005
First place, Mixed Media, 5th Annual Fun with Chalk Street Painting and Fine Art Festival, Mission Viejo, CA 2003
Best of Show, 20th La Quinta Arts Festival, La Quinta Arts Foundation, La Quinta, CA 2002
Most Promising New Artist, 20th La Quinta Arts Festival, La Quinta Arts Foundation, La Quinta, CA 2002
Airfloat Merit Award, 22nd National Juried Art Show, New Orleans Art Association, New Orleans, LA 2002
First Place, Twelfth Annual Juried Competition, Veridian Gallery, New York, NY 2001
SOHO International Art Competition, Agora Gallery, New York, NY 2000
Honorable Mention, Artists of the New Millennium Illustration Contest, Strathmore Artist Products 2000

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AND PUBLICATIONS
Flora, Fauna, and Form, Group Exhibit, The Bonita Museum and Cultural Arts Center, Bonita, CA 2017
Art Riot, Juror and Artist, Escondido Arts Partnership...