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Abigail Drapkin
Abigail Drapkin is a painter from Midcoast Maine. She earned her MFA in Painting + Drawing from the University of Washington in 2019 and her BA in Studio Art and French from Brandeis University in 2012. Abigail is a lifelong learner and art teacher, and is proud to have taught students aged 5 to 85. She currently teaches undergrads at Lake Washington Institute of Technology and the University of Washington, where she enjoys guiding students through the creative process and sharpening their unique point of view through their art. Abigail has exhibited her work in group shows and solo showcases in Seattle, San Francisco, Massachusetts, Maine, and abroad. She recently exhibited large oil paintings in the group show "What's the Story" at Chatwin Arts in Pioneer Square, Seattle. Her solo exhibition “The Window” opened at Magnuson Park Gallery in Seattle in 2023. In 2019, Abigail exhibited her MFA thesis work including prints and large monochromatic paintings at the Henry Art Gallery. Other group exhibitions include shows at Studio Gallery, Avenue 12 Gallery, and SMASH Gallery in San Francisco. In 2018, Abigail was awarded a two-week residency in Singapore through LaSalle College of the Arts, where she created a series of etchings exhibited at the Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore. Interiority in my paintings is both a setting and a frame of mind. The figures push into corners, lie upside down, and wedge against each other in small spaces. These psychological interiors at times shatter into geometric fragments, hinting at an unsettled state. Much of my work stems from my experience of womanhood and the influence of the women around me, my mother, sister, friends, and models. I often begin a painting directly from observation with my subjects sitting, engaging in conversation with them while I work.Browse all performers