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Lois
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Bio and Artist Statement:
I grew up in the small California Sierra village of Blue Canyon. My mother was an artist and my brother was too. I studied, Art, Math, and Science while at UC Davis. For as long as I can remember I have been a student of painting/art making; taking private lessons as well as formal art classes at several universities, and studio classes at San Francisco Art Institute.
I usually paint with oils and cold wax, but I make digital paintings too. My artwork is a reflection of everything that is me: the cultural, family, spiritual experiences, travels, and adventures that influenced me as I grew up and matured. My daily meditation practice has had profound influences on the way I paint, the colors I love working with, and my painting style in general, even as it evolves. I am so fortunate! My life has been rich with love, family, travel, adventure, working with children from the heart, and making art. Every painting I make feels like a new adventure that I am just tickled to be here, alive and making. Every painting I make is my passion, and sometimes the vehicle for finding that new painting and passion comes thru the quiet of my meditation.
My paintings have evolved from using oil alone and making brush strokes to using oil and always mixing cold wax into it, and using only a palette knife. I begin all of my paintings the same way, with a blank white panel and I just choose a color, which is usually a blue hue of sorts and put it upon the blank panel, then the whole painting just evolves from that initial contact with the panel. I rarely have any idea of what will evolve, but I do think that initial palette knife stroke filled with 'blue' pigment influences the direction the painting heads and the blue slowly morphs into sky or water, giving me sweet expressionistic landscapes. I love painting and I especially love working with oil and cold wax. It's a lovely sensuous mixture and it sends me back to my childhood years of running my stubby chubby fingers around the empty bowl used for cake batter making after my mother just poured the mixture into a cake pan for baking.
I was once a school psychologist working mostly in Sonoma County California, although I did work for 6 years overseas with DoD schools, did a one year stint at Quantico and another in the Middle East, and I worked in Indian Education programs here in California. I am a proud graduate of the Indian Teacher Education Program (ITEPP) at Humboldt State University, in Arcata, CA. I am so fortunate to have had so many adventures and experiences and to have had the opportunity to paint in so many different countries!
-Gallery Representation:
- Lori Austin Gallery, three lovely galleries located in Sonoma County Wine Country: on the Plaza Healdsburg, in the Barlow Sebastopol, and Montgomery Village Santa Rosa, CA.
Solo Exhibits:
-Dutton Goldfield Winery Gallery, Sebastopol, CA 10-23 thru 2-24
-First Church Gallery, Santa Rosa, CA, 6-23 thru 9-23
-San Francisco Women Artists’ Gallery, San Francisco, Ca March 2023
Art at the Source Open Studios LoisArt Gallery 6-23, and 6-24
Sonoma County Art Trails Juried OS, LoisArt Gallery Sept-Oct 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018
Juried Shows:
San Francisco Women Artists' Gallery "Embracing Nature", May 2023
San Francisco Women Artists' Gallery "Reflections", July 2023
San Francisco Women Artists' Gallery "Spring Lush", March 2023
deYoung OPEN 2023 - San Francisco, CA
-Sebastopol Center for the Arts “Color of Water” Juror AWARD – Lori Austin Juror
-San Francisco Women Artists’ Gallery “Edge of Abstraction” November 2022 Juror’s Choice AWARD
-San Francisco Women Artists’ Gallery “Intense Color” May 2022; Juror’s Choice AWARD
-Triton Museum of Art’s statewide 2D Art Competition & Exhibition-Santa Clara, CA; 2021; jurors: Jeff Bramschreiber, Elke Groves, and Francisco Pancho Jiménez
-Falkirk Cultural Museum-San Rafael, “Summer 2021 Juried Show”
-Crocker/Kingsley National Art Competition Biennial - 2021, Juror: Carrie Lederer
-San Francisco Women Artists’ Gallery “Scapes” April, 2021.
-San Francisco Women Artists’ Gallery “Abstract Thinking” August 2020 Juror Philip M Bewley
-San Francisco Open Studios, ArtSpan SF, 2020
-Sonoma County Art Trails, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, 2020
-San Francisco Women Artists Gallery “Hidden Figures” -Open Exhibition March 2020, Juror: Shintani
-San Francisco Women Artists Gallery “Out of the Box” February 2020 Annette Schultz Juror
-San Francisco Women Artists Gallery “2020 Leap Year” Open January 2020 Juror: Ashley Voss
-O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley, CA “Pixels to Print” September 2019
-TWIRL Project – A Decade of Artist Interviews “artists blossoming over Time.
-NUMU Los Gatos AA, “Greater Bay Area Open” July-Sept 2019 Juror: Ric Ambrose
-Sonoma County Art Trails, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Oct 2019
-Sacramento Fine Art Center, Sacramento, CA "Magnum Opus 30 Annual Exhibit" February 2019 Juror: Steve Memering
-Paul Mahder Gallery, Healdsburg, CA JURIED" Art Trails" preview Exhibit 2018, Sept-Oct 2018
-Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA "Art Trails Preview Exhibit 2018" Sept-Oct. 2018
-Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA "Green"
August 2028 jurors: Chester Arnold & Kevin Elston
-Blue Line Arts-Member Show, Roseville, CA July 2018
-Marin Society of Artists, San Rafael, CA April 2018 juror: Chester Arnold
-Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA 2018 50|50 Show May, 2018 juror: Andres Guerrero
-Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, CA May, 2017
-Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, CA, April, 2017
-Blue Line Arts NCDC, Roseville, CA March 2017
-Blue Line Arts, Roseville, CA April, 2017
-Pacific Art League, Palo, Alto, CA March, 2017
-Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, CA February 2017
-Healdsburg Center for the Arts, Healdsburg, CA January 2017
-Healdsburg Center for the Arts, Healdsburg, CA July, 2016
-Diego Rivera Gallery, SFAI, San Francisco, CA June, 2016
-Marin Society of Artists, Ross, CA February 1984 -1988 Many awards
Juried Art Auctions for Non-Profit Organizations:
-ART4LIFE, Sonoma County 2017 thru 2023
-SF Women Artist’s Gallery, November, 2020
-Healdsburg Center for the Arts, Healdsburg, June 2020
-The Giving Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2018
-Northern California Dance Conservatory, Roseville, CA 2018
- Lori Austin Gallery, three lovely galleries located in Sonoma County Wine Country: on the Plaza Healdsburg, in the Barlow Sebastopol, and Montgomery Village Santa Rosa, CA.
Solo Exhibits:
-Dutton Goldfield Winery Gallery, Sebastopol, CA 10-23 thru 2-24
-First Church Gallery, Santa Rosa, CA, 6-23 thru 9-23
-San Francisco Women Artists’ Gallery, San Francisco, Ca March 2023
Art at the Source Open Studios LoisArt Gallery 6-23, and 6-24
Sonoma County Art Trails Juried OS, LoisArt Gallery Sept-Oct 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018
Juried Shows:
San Francisco Women Artists' Gallery "Embracing Nature", May 2023
San Francisco Women Artists' Gallery "Reflections", July 2023
San Francisco Women Artists' Gallery "Spring Lush", March 2023
deYoung OPEN 2023 - San Francisco, CA
-Sebastopol Center for the Arts “Color of Water” Juror AWARD – Lori Austin Juror
-San Francisco Women Artists’ Gallery “Edge of Abstraction” November 2022 Juror’s Choice AWARD
-San Francisco Women Artists’ Gallery “Intense Color” May 2022; Juror’s Choice AWARD
-Triton Museum of Art’s statewide 2D Art Competition & Exhibition-Santa Clara, CA; 2021; jurors: Jeff Bramschreiber, Elke Groves, and Francisco Pancho Jiménez
-Falkirk Cultural Museum-San Rafael, “Summer 2021 Juried Show”
-Crocker/Kingsley National Art Competition Biennial - 2021, Juror: Carrie Lederer
-San Francisco Women Artists’ Gallery “Scapes” April, 2021.
-San Francisco Women Artists’ Gallery “Abstract Thinking” August 2020 Juror Philip M Bewley
-San Francisco Open Studios, ArtSpan SF, 2020
-Sonoma County Art Trails, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, 2020
-San Francisco Women Artists Gallery “Hidden Figures” -Open Exhibition March 2020, Juror: Shintani
-San Francisco Women Artists Gallery “Out of the Box” February 2020 Annette Schultz Juror
-San Francisco Women Artists Gallery “2020 Leap Year” Open January 2020 Juror: Ashley Voss
-O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley, CA “Pixels to Print” September 2019
-TWIRL Project – A Decade of Artist Interviews “artists blossoming over Time.
-NUMU Los Gatos AA, “Greater Bay Area Open” July-Sept 2019 Juror: Ric Ambrose
-Sonoma County Art Trails, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Oct 2019
-Sacramento Fine Art Center, Sacramento, CA "Magnum Opus 30 Annual Exhibit" February 2019 Juror: Steve Memering
-Paul Mahder Gallery, Healdsburg, CA JURIED" Art Trails" preview Exhibit 2018, Sept-Oct 2018
-Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA "Art Trails Preview Exhibit 2018" Sept-Oct. 2018
-Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA "Green"
August 2028 jurors: Chester Arnold & Kevin Elston
-Blue Line Arts-Member Show, Roseville, CA July 2018
-Marin Society of Artists, San Rafael, CA April 2018 juror: Chester Arnold
-Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA 2018 50|50 Show May, 2018 juror: Andres Guerrero
-Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, CA May, 2017
-Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, CA, April, 2017
-Blue Line Arts NCDC, Roseville, CA March 2017
-Blue Line Arts, Roseville, CA April, 2017
-Pacific Art League, Palo, Alto, CA March, 2017
-Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, CA February 2017
-Healdsburg Center for the Arts, Healdsburg, CA January 2017
-Healdsburg Center for the Arts, Healdsburg, CA July, 2016
-Diego Rivera Gallery, SFAI, San Francisco, CA June, 2016
-Marin Society of Artists, Ross, CA February 1984 -1988 Many awards
Juried Art Auctions for Non-Profit Organizations:
-ART4LIFE, Sonoma County 2017 thru 2023
-SF Women Artist’s Gallery, November, 2020
-Healdsburg Center for the Arts, Healdsburg, June 2020
-The Giving Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2018
-Northern California Dance Conservatory, Roseville, CA 2018
Email: [email protected]
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(707) 217-3066