By NVOS artist Karen Lynn Ingalls
NVOS artist Loren Rehbock joins us for the first time this year. Loren created watercolor paintings combining, in his words, "careful design with the pure pleasure of flowing paint, while dealing with the issues of scale, spatial, conceptual, technical and aesthetic theory, in the hope of discovering artistic truths."
Born in San Francisco, and more recently moved to Napa, Loren lived and worked in Berkeley for over thirty years. He created Rock and Roll posters and the "Peace" poster in the 60s, taught Art and Art History at Hartnell College in Salinas, and Watercolor at Merritt College in Oakland. Although for most of his career he has specialized in Watercolor and Drawing, but he has also worked in many media over the course of his career, including oil painting, printmaking including etching and lithography, ceramics, sculpture including welded metal and bronze and aluminum casting, and filmmaking.
With his B.A. and M.A. from U.C. Berkeley, and studies at both California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, California and Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, Loren's career has also included shows throughout the Bay Area and northern California and the central coast, in Washington State and Washington, D.C., and in France and Sweden.
Loren finds his inspiration in the basic elements of design: line, shape, value, color and texture, "in ways that transcend the meaning of each of the elements. This process, itself, becomes the inspiration," as he says.
You can see Loren's studio, which he designed and built himself, specifically to suit the way he works, during Open Studios this September. You will also see his artwork, his archives, and learn – in his words – "how important process is to making Art."
Loren's Studio is #20, located at 5 Justin Court, Napa, California – and you can find his artwork online atwww.LorenRehbock.com.
NVOS artist Karen Lynn Ingalls writes for this blog and our Facebook page (seen it yet?) and paints, paints, paints. You can see her artwork during Open Studios at Studio #48, with Sequoia Buck, west of Calistoga, and online at www.KarenLynnIngalls.com. She also teaches art classes and workshops, which you can find at www.NapaValleyArtWorkshops.com.
