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Phyllis Yes' artistic media range from painted canvas to video tape, to furniture, to clothing, jewelry and a lace-covered Porsche. Her work has been featured on Public Broadcasting TV, ASAHI National Network in Japan, ABC's Faces and Places, KGW-TV's "PM Magazine," and numerous national and international publications including The Wall street Journal, Glamour magazine, L.A. Times, San Francisco Examiner, Chicago Tribune, Seattle Post Intelligencer, the Oregonian, International Art Review, Santa Fe New Mexican, and others.
Dr. Yes has traveled to Bali and New Guinea on a National Endowment for the Arts Grant to study gender related art forms. She is currently full professor of art at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon. She served the college as Dean of Humanities and is currently acting as chair of the Art Department. She has received numerous awards, among them the Oregon Arts Commission Fellowship, Oregon State University Foundation Grants, Barbara Deming Foundation Grand, and has won many national competitions. She is listed in the World's Who's Who of Women, in Who's Who in American Art and Who's Who in the West.
Collections include: Microsoft Fine Arts Collection, Seattle; Pacific National Bank, Los Angeles, Levi-Strauss, San Francisco, National Pectin Company, Chicago; Lutheran Brotherhood Insurance Company, Minneapolis, Portland Art Museum, University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, Museum of Art, University of Oregon, Eugene, and Portland State University, Portland.
Ms. Yes has had more than one hundred twenty-five exhibitions including the Nishiazabu Asacloth, Tokyo, Japan; Northwest Biennial, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York; Bernice Steinbaum Gallery in New York City, First Museum in Greenwich, Connecticut; Bellevue Art Museum in Seattle; Herron School of Art in Indianapolis, Tweed Museum, Plainfield, New Jersey; Virginia Breier Gallery, San Francisco, Boca Raton Center for the Arts, Boca Raton, Florida, and others.
Created by: yes@lclark.edu
Updated: March 30, 2000