Please join us from 5-7pm for our artist reception featuring artists Stanley Goldstein and Liana Steinmetz, whose works will be exhibited as part of our December 2016 Art Exhibit.
ABOUT THE ARTIST STANLEY GOLDSTEIN
Stanley Goldstein is an established Bay Area painter. He has had numerous solo exhibitions in San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York City. He has work in the permanent collection of San Francisco’s Fine Arts Museum’s prestigious Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts. In 2000 he was nominated for The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s SECA Award. In 2011 he received a Sustainable Arts Foundation Grant.
Stanley has been reviewed in Artweek, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the New York Sun, and has been featured in articles in such national publications as Art and Antiques, American Art Collector, Southwest Art, including both the June and July 2003 covers of Art and Antiques.
He has taught painting at the San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco City College, College of Marin, California Academy of Sciences, Idyllwild Arts, and continues to teach workshops and private classes.
Stanley accepts commissions for portraits and other subjects.
ARTIST’S STATEMENT, STANLEY GOLDSTEIN
I find the ordinary exotic. I look at a crowd in an illuminated bus shelter at night and think it’s as stirring and mysterious as anything imaginable. Painting the familiar world around me allows me to discover my connection to things, and also to explore their connections to one another.
Light then serves to set the stage and the tone for these relationships which become like little dramas unfolding before me as I paint. I love how the world of tangible, separate things can be bound together in a fabric of light. And whatever story I have to tell, I am most compelled by how the subject dissolves into the light and space.
ARTIST’S STATEMENT, LIANA STEINMETZ
My name is Liana Steinmetz 
. I am a lover of art, and all things outdoors. My passion is taking my paints outside and capturing a moment in time that expresses the soothing drama of expansive landscapes. I have been painting professionally for ten years. I grew up in Marin County, California where redwood forests meet the ocean and miles of grassy hills touch the bay. When I wasn’t outside exploring, I was at home, engrossed in an art project. After graduating college, where I studied Anthropology, I had no idea what I was going to do with my life. I was lost in our fast-paced culture. I struggled with keeping up, comparing myself to others, and belonging. While wading through sadness, I came to find that the more time I spent outside in nature, the happier I felt. The more connected I was to mother earth, the more I felt like I belonged to something beautiful, meaningful and safe. And documenting that connection through painting, was very powerful and invigorating. It was a natural progression for me to create a career out of that relationship. So here I am! Sharing my experience with you! I hope my paintings will speak to that part of you that also appreciates and identifies with the magic of the outdoors. I hope they will inspire you to take a deep breath and remind you that you are also part of the earth. I hope they make you feel good! Painting is a spiritual experience for me. I am not sure who listens to me when I pray, or who sees me when I look up at the stars at night. But I do have profound gratitude for Mother Earth, and her natural beauty I get to be a part of every day. I cannot imagine a more fulfilling way to spend my time on earth, than making paintings in her honor. Every one is a tribute to this wonderful planet of wild things we call home. This is also true…”There are moments when I see a landscape and it is so beautiful to me, it is overwhelming to look at. My heart jumps out of my chest, I want to be the land. I want to be the rain, the wind, the clouds. However I am just a human in a tiny body. So I humbly accept my place and do what I can to show my gratitude and awe for the land – I paint it.” With love and paint, Liana
