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Elsa Marley - Personal History

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1990

 

 

99/Scotland, California

 

98/ Exhibitions

 

 

95/ come and go China, US, Canada

 

 

91/ Exhibitions

 

California

 

Light Fusion: Recent collaboration with Mitra Ghaffari.

New Works: Ancient Scots Runes, Cairns and Standing Stones. Currently represented by: Gene Murphy, and Thrasher's Gallery, San Carlos, CA.

On Collaborations: A Ten Year Retrospective Shanghai University Art Gallery.

Women On the Silk Road: Three S.F. Exhibitions

Collaboration with Mitra Ghaffari and Julie Strauss: Persian and Chinese calligraphy meld into three series: Ballad of Horses, Tower of Babel and Ring of Fire.

East West International Art Exchange Program: Beijing Women's Conference, Trip to Central Asia Silk Road Lecture: Buddhist Caves Dunghuang Co-founder Women On the Silk Road

US East/West Collaboration Exhibition/ Tour and Lectures with Chen KeLiang, Study for: Masters in English Literature / Beat Poetry Teach Graduate classes East/West Aesthetics, Multiculturalism and Color Theory.

Teach art to disabled children and adults in the East Bay

1980

89/ Tour

 

88/ Shanghai

87/ Teaching

86/ China

 

Back to S.F.

Joint Venture: Shanghai, Hangzhou, Beijing, July 89, Review L.A. Times, Return to US Exhibition of collaboration in S.F. Robert English Gallery and d.p. Fong Gallery San Jose, Return China sponsored by Dennis Fong.

Joint Venture Painting Collaboration with Chen Ke Liang. Inner Satelites

US art history, Hangzhou

Hangzhou National Academy of Art - Study Chinese history, philosophy, Mandarin and Calligraphy

SFAI - MFA/85 Painting & Art History, San Francisco Art Institute Final project: Screen Circles: Women's History

1970 Communal living

Second son born, Gardens and Goats, Chinese Landscape painting ,Rivers and mountains, Women's Movement, Watercolor circles, painting.

The Four Seasons, California Arts Council - Artist In Schools and Community: Northern California Historic Mural, Trip to Southwest

1960

Toronto

Paris/Spain

London

63/ S.F. USA

Daughter born

Year's study with Miro & sponsored exhibition Palma, Majorca

The Royal College of Art, Turner/ Pop Art The Beatles

Son born; S.F. Light Shows! Rock Concerts, Revelations (a Dance); The Diggers & 1% Free /67 - 2nd daughter born , 68/ Northern California, Founding member, Black Bear Ranch Commune, Back to the landscape Earth works !

1950

Student Days

 

57/NYC

The Vancouver Art School, Vancouver, B.C. BA in Fine Art.

Influenced by: Canadian landscapes: Group of Seven, Haida Indians, Emily Carr

Pollack's first Retrospective, Abstract Expressionism - Rothko, Kline, DeKooning, The Cedar Bar, Jazz and Beat Poetry.

1937
Born Winnipeg, Canada

 

Highlights

  • Canadian Landscape Painting
  • Native American Art
  • Abstract Expressionism
  • Beat Poetry
  • S.F. Rock Movement (Light shows/ Revelations: A Nude Dance)
  • S.F. Diggers
  • Communal Living
  • Chinese Landscape Painting
  • Calligraphy
  • East West Collaborations
  • Silk Road - Buddhist CaveArt
  • Persia
  • Celtic Roots

"We are all extensions of our collective history"

Loreena Mckennit


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