"Dawn I"
Elene Weege Biography
Elene Weege exchanged a medical business career for the artist’s life in the 1980s. She attended the University of Wisconsin in Whitewater, WI, to study art and focused on oil painting. In 1998, she moved to Montana from the Midwest. With a deep admiration for the western landscape, she began artistic studies to paint impressionistic pastels of the Montanascape and Big Sky. Recently, Elene has resumed oil painting and uses both pastels and oils to interpret the vistas of the West.
Elene was active as an artist in the Midwest and took part in a number of invitational shows, including Milwaukee Lakefront Festival of the Arts. In July, 2002, she participated in the Treasure State Invitational Art Show, Hamilton, MT, with a booth and a painting in the live auction.
She is Secretary of the Montana Professional Artist Association and a member of the Oil Painters of America, the American Impressionist Society and the Pastel Society of the Northern Rockies. In 2005, she completed an intensive oil and pastel workshop with Ramon Kelley whose bravura techniques in pastels and oils have made him a well-known painter in the West. In 2006, Elene studied oils under Stephen Pan whose stunning command of light and color reveals his extraordinary talent for expressionists oil paintings.
REPRESENTATIVE GALLERIES
Art Focus Gallery, Hamilton, MT; Dana Gallery, Missoula, MT.
ONE PERSON SHOW
October 2004—Solo Art Show of Montana Landscapes in pastels and oils at the Dana Gallery, Missoula, MT.
GROUP INVITATIONAL SHOWS
2008—Western Heritage Art Show and Sale, Great Falls, Mt
2007—Western Heritage Art Show and Sale, Great Falls, MT; Bitterroot Birding & Nature Festival Art Show &Auction, Stevensville, MT; Montana Professional Artists Association Art Shows, Hamilton, MT, Helena , MT. and Cody, Wyoming
2006—Western Heritage Art Show and Sale, Great Falls, MT; Montana Professional Artists Association Shows, Hamilton & Helena, MT; Treasure State Invitational Art Show, Hamilton, MT; Cody County Art League, Cody, WY; University of Wyoming Gallery, Laramie, WY; Montana Professional Artists Association Show @ Rendezvous Royale, Cody, WY; Big Fork Art and Cultural Center , Big Fork, MT; Stock Farm Art Show and Auction, Hamilton, MT; Darby Library Show and Fund Raiser, Darby, MT; Grouse Mountain Winter Art Show, White Fish, MT.
2005—Montana Professional Artists Association Show & Sale, Hamilton, MT; Montana Professional Artists Association Show & Sale, Helena, MT; Phillipsburg Art and Jazz on Broadway, Phillipsburg, MT; Big Mountain Summer Festival, Whitefish, MT; Post Card Show and Two Rivers Movement Pastel Show, Dana Gallery, Missoula.
2004—Pastel Society of the Northern Rockies, Willowtree Fine Art Gallery, Idaho Falls, ID; Treasure State Invitational Art Show, Hamilton, MT.
2003—Pastel Society Members, Joe’s Studio, Corvallis, MT.
2002—Treasure State Invitational Art Show, Hamilton; Introductory Show at Dana Gallery, Missoula.506 Wheatgrass Road Stevensville, Montana 59870 406 777-0553