Maxine Solomon

Bio: Maxine Solomon is an oil painter who has many solo shows and awards to her credit, extensive curatorial experience, and has conducted workshops in the United States and abroad.

She paints in her light-flooded San Francisco studio. In a process that combines active brush strokes with quiet glazes, she sometimes obliterates and sometimes delineates the subject matter. The resulting canvases sometimes contain as many as 30 layers of paint. Her images are drawn from her experiences working and traveling throughout the world. As she states, “I think, react and speak through my paintings. The paint itself becomes my partner – its texture, its vibrancy, its very nature becomes a crucial component, enabling me to process and speak of that which I see in our shared world. The differences between one person’s perception and another’s reality are subjects often dealt with in her paintings. They draw the viewer into a world that is at once landscape and imagination, and investigate the struggle between perception and reality.

Preston Metcalf of the Triton Museum of Art in Santa Clara, CA states “Her work is pure poetry and as such makes the viewing experience a true reward.”