Xan Sinclair Koonce

“The desire to understand spirituality and its transformational power motivates my work. My objective is to magnify nature beyond its literal meaning to explore the relationship between nature and spirituality.”

Xan Sinclair Koonce was born and raised in West Texas where the only vivid color that permeated the bleak landscape was the endless blue sky. Today, she resides in Georgetown, Texas, where she has grown to appreciate the color and beauty that Central Texas reveals.  While caring for her family and working as a professional event planner at Southwestern University, she earned her Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art from Southwestern University, the oldest institution of higher education in Texas.

Xan’s interest is taking the beauty she sees and abstracting it to gain greater insight.  Once inspired, she unapologetically applies seductive and radiant colors to her paintings as an expression of her growth, strength, control and endurance.  As she paints, her primary concern is conveying a sensual experience through color, line and composition.

She is an artist who embodies the synthesis of abstract expressionism with the palette of Matisse.  It is precisely this fusion of spontaneity and color that has produced a rich and expressive body of work. 

All of her artistic pursuits stem from a passion for beauty and a reverence for the power that beauty has to transform life. 

“I want my art to be a force for all that is positive, inspiring and beautiful.”

EXHIBITIONS

2007                Colorblinded, Cerulean Gallery, Oil Paintings, Dallas, Texas, Oct. 2007.

2007                Texas A & M Medical Research Library, Solo Exhibition of Oil Paintings, College Station, Texas, May – Aug., 2007.

2007                Illuminations, Cerulean Gallery, Oil Paintings, Dallas, Texas, Jan. 2007.

2006                Spectrum, Cerulean Gallery, Oil Paintings, Dallas, Texas, Aug., 2006.

2004                Alumni Art Exhibition, Xan Koonce:  The Fine Arts Gallery, Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas, October, 2004.

2001                The Children’s Hospital of Austin Auxiliary – 2^nd Annual Art Auction/Exhibition, Renaissance Hotel, Austin, Texas, October, 2001.

2001                Senior Art Exhibition, Xan Koonce:  Printmaking, The Fine Arts Gallery, Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas, April, 2001.

2000                Painting Exhibition, Xan Koonce:  Abstract Oil Painting, The Fine Arts Gallery, Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas, November 1999.

1999                Painting Exhibition, Xan Koonce:  Abstract Oil Painting, The Fine Arts Gallery, Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas, November 1999.

1997                Figurative Sculpture Exhibition, Xan Koonce:  Self-portrait/Abstract Marble Sculpture, The Fine Arts Gallery, Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas, November, 1997.

1996                Painting I Exhibition, Xan Koonce:  Still Life, The Fine Arts Gallery, Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas, November, 1996.

1996                Drawing I Exhibition, Xan Koonce:  Still Life, The Fine Arts Gallery, Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas, April, 1996.

1995                Ceramics Exhibition, Xan Koonce:  Wheel-thrown Bowls and Ginger Jars, The Fine Arts Gallery, Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas, April, 1995.

1994                Ceramics Exhibition, Xan Koonce:  Hand-built Clay Vessels, The Fine

Arts Gallery, Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas, Nov., 1994.

EDUCATION

2005    Studio Arts, Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas

RELATED VOLUNTEER OUTREACH

2007                Currently serving on the art committee for Seton Medical Center

Williamson, Round Rock, Texas.