About Courtney Blazon/Contact

courtneyblazon@gmail.com



Courtney Blazon is a graduate of Parsons School of Design, where she received a BFA in illustration. She is working as an artist and illustrator in Missoula, MT. Her work has been featured at local and regional art galleries and venues, at the Missoula Art Museum, on Juxtapoz.com, as well as the Western edition of New American Paintings and Studio Visit Magazine. She was a featured artist on Google's artistaday.com, on the art blog My love for you is a stampede of horses, as well being featured in the online arts journal hoboeye.com and the blog artseen. She has illustrated for Montana Lyric Opera, Shakespeare and Co., Missoula Oblongata, CutBank Literary, the Missoula Independent, Headwall magazine, Native Ideals Seed Company, Missoula MADE Fair, and digthischick.com, along with various other publications. She has been in regional and national group shows and has had solo shows at Pony Club Gallery in Portland, OR, Victrola Coffee and Art in Seattle, WA, Dana Gallery in Missoula, MT, at the UC Gallery at the University of Montana, the Brink Gallery, Missoula, MT, and most recently, at the Entrance Gallery of Genesee Community College in Batavia, NY.  She was a recipient of a 2011 Montana Arts Council Artists Innovation Award.


Available Drawings 2014






Courtney Blazon CV
                                                                 
Education:
2000 School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Diploma
2005 Parsons School of Design, BFA Illustration

Awards:
2011 Montana Arts Council Artist’s Innovation Award

Selected Exhibitions:

2014 Untitled Solo Show, Nova Cafe, Bozeman, MT May-June

2014 "Critter and Varmints: Group Show", Tart Gallery, Bozeman, MT

2013 "Wanderlust: Group Show", Modern Eden Gallery, San Francisco

2013 "Cartographers Delight: Group Show", Hellion Gallery, Portland, OR

2013 "The Midnight Society: Group Show", Arch Enemy Arts, Philadelphia, PA

2013 "The Language of Flowers: Group Show", Modern Eden Gallery, San Francisco

2013 “The Seven Tamings of the Wild Boar”, Solo Show, Brink Gallery, Missoula, MT 

2012 "Myth Group Show", Modern Eden Gallery, San Francisco

2012 "Dark Art: A Tribute to Metal Group Show", Modern Eden Gallery, San Francisco

2012  “My Street has Strange Houses”, Solo Show, University of Montana UC Gallery, Missoula, MT

2010 “Bird Brains”, Solo Show, Tart Gallery, Bozeman, MT

2010  “The Dramatic Voyage of Flossy”, Solo Show, Dana Gallery, Missoula, MT

2008 “The Street has Strange Houses”, Solo Show, Victrola Coffee and Art, Seattle, WA

2007 “All this Buttoning and Unbuttoning”, Solo Show, Pony Club Gallery, Portland, OR

Bibliography:
2013 Feature Article, Entertainer, Missoulian Newspaper, May 2013
2010 Feature Article, Entertainer, Missoulian Newspaper, November 19, 2010
2009 Best of Missoula “Best Bet”, Missoula Independent, July, 2009
2010 Featured Artist, Studio Visit Magazine
2010 Featured Artist, Artistaday.com
2009 Featured Artist, my love for you is a stampede of horses
2007 Featured Artist, New American Paintings, Western Edition
2007 Featured Artist, Juxtapoz.com
2006 Feature Article, Missoula Independent,  July 27, 2006