Stephanie Weber

California artist Stephanie Weber is an abstract painter known for her oil on aluminum paintings. The sensuousness of paint against the cool industrial feel of the metal creates an immediacy and warmth. There is a layered richness that is held together by a logical format. The coming together of disparate elements, the hard, high tech quality of the aluminum and the painterly richness, the reductive and the expressive, define her work. Weber studied with Diebenkorn, Elmer Brishoff and Nathan Oliveira, influential painters of the Bay Area Figurative Movement. Weber was deeply affected by both her extraordinary teachers and a powerful sense of the natural world. Weber's paintings reflect this influence, marked with linear elements and shimmering bands of color; they are composition of structure and beauty.

SELECTED ONE-WOMAN SHOWS

• 2017, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA

• 2017, Kelsey Michaels Fine Art Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA

• 2017, Gilman Contemporary, Sun Valley, ID

• 2014, Gilman Contemporary, Sun Valley, ID
• 2013 Toomey Tourell, San Francisco
• 2012 Gilman Contemporary, Sun Valley, ID
• 2011 Susan Street Fine Art, San Diego
• 2010 Toomey-Tourell, San Francisco
• 2009 Susan Street Fine Art, San Diego
• 2009 Gilman Contemporary, Sun Valley, ID
• 2008 Toomey-Tourell, San Francisco
• 2008 Butters Gallery, Portland
• 2008 Gilman Contemporary, Sun Valley, ID
• 2007 George Billis, Los Angeles
• 2007 Susan Street, San Diego
• 2006 George Billis, New York
• 2006 Toomey-Tourell, San Francisco
• 2005 George Billis, Los Angeles
• 2004 Toomey-Tourell, San Francisco
• 2004 Butters Gallery, Portland
• 2002 Chiaroscuro, Scottsdale
• 2002 Klein Art Works, Chicago
• 2002 Toomey-Tourell, San Francisco

MUSEUM SOLOS

• The Oakland Museum, California
• San Francisco Fine Arts Museum, Achenbach Galleries
• University Art Museum, Cal State, Long Beach
• Skirball Museum, Los Angeles
• Municipal Gallery, Los Angeles, California
• De Saisset Museum, Santa Clara, California
• Richard L. Nelson Gallery, University of California, Davis
• Amarillo Museum of Art, Amarillo, Texas
• University of Art Museum, Arizona State University

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

• National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.
• San Francisco Fine Arts Museums
• Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, California
• Orange County Museum of Art, California
• Philadelphia Museum of Art
• The Oakland Museum, California
• Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York
• Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland
• The University of California, Berkeley
• University Art Museum, Cal State Long Beach
• Skirball Museum, Los Angeles
• De Saisset Museum, University of Santa Clara
• Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
• U.S. State Department, Washington, D.C.
• Judah Magnes Museum, Berkeley
• Crocker Museum Sacramento
• San Jose Museum of Art
• New York Public Library, New York
• Di Rosa Preserve, Napa
• Tamarind Institute, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
• University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque
• University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School

SELECTED PRIVATE COLLECTIONS

• Bellagio Hotel Lobby, Las Vegas
• Microsoft
• ART in Embassies Program
• Intel
• Sprint
• Field Research
• American Express
• J.P. Morgan Bank
• Atlantic Richfield Collection, Los Angeles
• Security Pacific Collection, Los Angeles
• Bank of America Collection, San Francisco
• Coca Cola Company
• E-Bay
• World Bank
• Donald Fisher Collection

My paintings are an exploration of emotion and logic. I explore texture and color as they are delimited by the blocks and bands that form each painting. I produce a logical, linear structure while I simultaneously seek to strike an emotional chord with texture, light and color. I’m intrigued with the tension developed between the concrete and the intangible - what you can touch and what you can imagine.

The aluminum panels I work with impose an interesting challenge. They add possibilities of light and shimmer. I experience an ongoing dialogue between the sensuousness of paint, the cool industrial feel of the metal and intellectual decisions that present themselves. I see color as an agent of transformation. The interaction of space, movement, and color within the geometric form is key for me.

My desire as a painter is to hold the tension and balance between structure, reason, and intuition – the architect in me and the dancer in me – and to give form to what I cannot name. With paint and substance, I’m trying to build a place where unexpected associations and resonance can occur. The essence of life, its richness, beauty and chaos informs my painting, inspiring me to express the vitality of nature and the rich chaos of the urban.