Barbara Jean is an abstract artist who has been working in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1983. In the 90's she shifted her focus from representational art to abstract expressionism. Her acrylic paintings, interior landscapes and environmental reflections as experienced by the artist, are powerful and evocative, often bold in color, dynamic and passionate.
Her artwork touches upon universal themes that express a broad range of human experience including: Entrapment, freedom, autonomy, unity and relationship. Some themes appear repeatedly in her work, at times like a meditation, at times like a wrestling match, each time showing a different facet of the subject and a different resolution or result.
Short Sampling of Exhibitions and Gallery Representation:
Brushes Fine Art Gallery, Solo Show, San Ramon, CA, Feb - May 2008
Adbobe Art Gallery, Juried, Castro Valley, CA, Sept - October 2007
Lindsay Dirkx Brown Gallery, Invitational, San Ramon, CA, Sept 2007
California State Capitol Art Gallery, Juried, Sacramento, CA, April 2007
The Robert Butler Gallery, Representation, Danville, CA, Feb 2004 - Dec 2006
CASLMM Healing Art, Juried, Burlingame, CA, November 2006
The Falkirk Art Gallery, Juried, San Rafael, CA, June - August 2006
Chico Art Center, Juried, Chico, CA, March - April 2006
PAL Fine Art Show, Juried, Pleasanton, CA, July 2005
Adobe Art Gallery, Castro Valley, CA, January - February 2005
The Blackhawk Art Gallery, Representation, Danville, CA 2002-2004
The Sun Gallery, Juried, Hayward, CA, October 2004
The Sun Gallery, Juried, Hayward, CA, August - September 2004
Adobe Art Gallery, Invitational, Castro Valley, CA, July - August 2004
Thompson Art Gallery, Invitational, Livermore, CA, Dec - Jan 2004
79 - 82 Fine Art, Chabot College, Hayward, CA
96 - 99 Fine Art (private lessons) with Douglas Gilbert
of California College of Arts and JFK University, Oakland, CA
