Inez Storer

My work usually has an aspect of implied history, both through the use of the figure as well as objects that are a part of my "home" collections. The figures have a tendency to be slightly off balance, or passing from one reality to another. The absurd is of great interest, usually through the use of unconscious motivations. The figures can fill the landscape, either in a psychic way or in ways that are above gravity-pulled orientations. In using an imagined format of the surreal, I am able to work a more unreal world of fantasy. It does always seem to fantasy to me. There is oftentimes an attempt at an unrealized form of danger, close, in fact, to the real world...an emotional, sometimes physical precariousness. It seems to be a way of seeking clarity and identity through a parallel of sense of isolation. After all, I work alone in my studio almost every day.

I usually start my work by marking the surface of the painting, adding more and more, then peeling away the surface to the first marks. It seems a metaphor of one's own life, as the future becomes enmeshed with the past.

Most of the time I enter my studio with an agenda, but then something happens, and I let the painting take me on its own journey. To be surprised whi...

Master of Fine Arts, California State University, San Francisco, CA

Bachelor of Arts, Dominican College, San Rafael, CA

San Francisco College for Women, San Francisco, CA

University of California, Berkeley, CA

San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA

Art Center, Los Angeles, CA

Inez Storer was born in 1933 in Santa Monica, California. She studied at the Art Center in Los Angeles, the San Francisco Art Institute, the University of California at Berkeley, and the San Francisco College for Women, ultimately receiving her B.A. from Dominican University in San Rafael, California (1970). She received her M.A. from San Francisco State University (1971).
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Her work has been included in numerous group exhibitions throughout the country. Storer taught at the San Francisco Art Institute (1981 - 1999), Sonoma State University (1976 - 1988), San Francisco State University (1970 - 1973), and the College of Marin (1968 - 1979). She has received numerous grants and awards, including a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant in 1999, the Buck Fund Grant (1995, 2004), and has worked twice as a artist in residence at the American Academy in Rome (1996, 1997). Her work is included in the permanent collections of the Fine Arts Museum...

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 Trip-Wire; Avenue 12 Gallery; San Francisco, CA

2018 Recent Testimonies; Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID

2017 Double Take; Orangeland Gallery; San Francisco, CA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2019 Diaspora Voiced; Rhythmic Cultural Works; Alameda, CA

2018 40 by 40; 40th Anniversary; Sonoma State University Art Gallery; Rohnert Park, CA

2018 California Dreaming; San Jose Museum of Art; San Jose, CA

2018 FAULTline; Toby's Art Gallery; Point Reyes Station, CA

2018 Artist as Maggid: Jewish Folktales; Contemporary Jewish Museum; San Francisco, CA