| maria winkler |
Thank you for visiting my web site studio. CONTACTS LINKS Creative Arts League of Sacramento http://creativeartsleague.com/ Lesli Pletcher Consulting http://www.lesli.pletcher.com Art Consulting Services http://www.acsartconsulting.com Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento http://www.ccasac.org/ The Movable Book Society, http://www.movablebooksociety.org/ ARTIST STATEMENT Her work has always been inspired by events in her life and her love of nature. Her current theme focuses on reflections in bodies of water, using acrylics on canvas. Based on her travels and photography, she transforms natural scenes into abstract compositions, focusing on the interplay of light, shadow, and time of day. |
Professor
Emeritus, Art Department, California State University in Sacramento, Maria Winkler
has an MFA in painting and drawing, and a PhD in art education. A practicing
and exhibiting artist, her paintings are included in the permanent collections
of the Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho; California League of Women Artists,
Sacramento, CA; Kaiser Permanente’s Public Art Collection, the University
of California Medical Center’s Public Art Collection, and a number of corporate
art collections. Her work also appears in published form as posters, art
cards, teaching aids, and books. Her biography appears in World’s Who’s Who
of Women in Education and also in Who’s Who in American Art. She is also
a book artist, whose handmade artist books have been extensively shown and
published in catalogs and books.