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Self Portrait — Art Bumpkin
Bio · 2025

Art Bumpkin is a self-taught artist. A tinkerer, he is often found making, breaking and fixing stuff. He is an Outsider (sometimes cutting the lawn), a Contemporary Yokel, a Post-Modern Rube, and a High-Speed Luddite. In his free time he creates work out in his barn in Ellensburg, WA.

After years of sporadic creation, interruption, and other creative pursuits, Art Bumpkin was driven to start creating visual art again in 2024. His recent thinking and work has been centered on rural and urban identities and the divides between them, both real and imagined.

He often works in acrylic, enamel and watercolors. Much of his recent work was created with found objects reclaimed from his farm and from other salvaged materials.

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Exhibition History

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May 2024 — Jun 2024 2024 Kittitas County Open Show Ellensburg, WA
May 2025 5th Annual Firehouse Exhibition Yakima, WA
Nov 2024 — Dec 2024 Art Bumpkin : Barn Quilts Ellensburg, WA
Mar 2025 Contemporary Yokel Thorp, WA
Jun 2024 Ellensburg Permanent Collection Ellensburg, WA

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