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Santa Cruz Open Studio 10-3-09

BLACK And WHITE Exhibition

Pacific Art League Figures and Faces

August and September were the month of the Pacific Art Leagues Juried art competitation in Palo Alto Ca. The exhibition was called FIGURES and FACES. Two of my Mixed media paintings on canvas were excepted into the show. The juror was George Rivera, Curator at the Triton Museum in Santa Clara, CA.
Top Photo: L to R, Artist Lucy Liew, Artist Helen and Artist Kristen Rivera.
Middle photo: L to R. Artist Mary Madrano, Artist Helen and Sam Madrano.
Bottom Photo: L and R Figure Image by Helen.

I'm a Bay Area Artist

Artist Statement/Biography

I am a native Californian. I grew up in a very artistic household in northern California. I have made art for over 60 decades and maintained a studio in San Jose where I have raised a family and worked since the 60’s. Since then, my work has taken many shapes and forms from paint used traditionally on canvas to 3-Dimensional assemblage/sculpture and monotypes. This fascination has stayed with me to this day.

I’ve been involved in the local art community in Silicon valley working in commercial and non-profit galleries, this has been a valuable experience and blessing, it has enhanced my own art and love of my community.

In the early 1990’s I was able to have a Griffin Press. It began the break-through I had been looking for. For several years I explored printmaking
This focus became every important concerning my ongoing investigation into Abstraction. Through this freeform painting on copper plates I was able to find the freedom of expression I was looking for. I have since returned to painting on canvas and paper. Today I work in Abstraction and Expressionism.

Throughout the many avenues I’ve taken in my art career I still feel honored to be called an artist, to work every day at the thing I love.