ABOUT
Bob Cornelis is an award winning Olympia, WA-based artist who has been exhibiting his work since 1996. He has worked across several art mediums, including printmaking, collage, pastels, bookbinding and photography.
After a long career in technology, Cornelis turned his attention to the art world and founded Color Folio in 1998 making it one of the earliest fine art digital printing studios in the country.
His focus from the beginning has been on the physical form of art, ensuring that art does not reside solely on a screen. He has incorporated a wide range of processes in his work, including 19th century photographic processes such as platinum/palladium and cyanotype, collagraph plates and chiné-colle in his printmaking and various handbound book, letterpress and paper architecture structures to create one-of-a-kind art objects.
His work has been shown in galleries and museums around the country and he has been published multiple times in periodicals including The Hand Magazine and Diffusion. In 2013 he published the book STUDIO: 50 Sonoma County Artists.
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ExhibitionsSolo
2016 CARTA I, SF International Airport Gallery, CA
2016 CARTA I-II, Photo-Eye Photographer’s Gallery Solo Show, CA
2015 CARTA I & II, Photo-Eye Photographer’s Showcase (online gallery)
2014 Vapors, Talisman Winery, Glen Ellen, CA
2014 STUDIO: 50 Sonoma County Artists, Santa Rosa Museum of Art, CA
2013 STUDIO: 50 Sonoma County Artists, Gallery 300, Santa Rosa, CA
2011 Vapors, Thumbprint Cellars Gallery, Healdsburg, CA
Group (all juried)
2017 Rfotofolio Call for Entry (David Carol Juror)
2016 Diffusion Exhibit, ASmith Gallery, TX
2016 Heavy Metal II, Lightbox Gallery, Astoria, OR
2016 Paper, Toby’s Art Gallery, Pt Reyes Station, CA
2016 InPrint Competition (rfotofolio) First Place (Catherine Couturier Juror)
2016 25th Annual International Texas Photographic Society Exhibit
2015 Alternative Process Exhibit, Gallery 291, Mill Valley, CA
2001-2013 ARTrails Open Studio Juried Event
2011 The Poetry of Shadows, Photoplace Gallery, Vermont
2011 Wonderland, Photoplace Gallery, Vermont
Publications
2017 Secreta Universi, Geometric Form, Diffusion Annual 2017
2016 CARTA I Abstraction, Diffusion Annual 2016
2015-2017 The Hand Magazine Issues #11, 13, 15, 16, 21, 26
2013 STUDIO: 50 Sonoma County Artists, Color Folio Press