Peninsula Museum of Art​ Announces Solo Exhibit: Carolyn Shaw

From the Museum Studios of the Peninsula Museum of Art:

The work of Carolyn Shaw will be featured in a solo exhibit at the Museum Studios Gallery. The exhibit will be on view from September 22 to October 31 with an artist reception Sunday October 2nd from 2-4 pm. Admission is free.

In this exhibit, A Journey With My Muse, Shaw shares works representative of her artistic journey on the way to, and during the process of, becoming a landscape painter.

Shaw finds meaning related to her own journey in this observation by Henri Matisse “An artist is an explorer. He has to begin by self-discovery and by observation of his own procedure. After that, he must not feel under any constraint.”

Shaw began at an early age by drawing what she loved. “At that time, it was cats. dogs and horses and so I studied each of these in the three encyclopedias we had at home, learning all their anatomy. Later in life I would fall in love again, with the California landscape, my environment since childhood. In between, I explored many mediums, abstract concepts and representational subjects.”

This exhibit has works representative of Shaw's artistic journey from those early days, through her experimental periods, and into the '90s when she realized her heart belonged to the California landscape. Her journey has taken her from watercolor, to oil bar, which is essentially a drawing technique, and then gradually into oil painting on canvas which is the medium of her current work.

About Museum Studios, formerly the Peninsula Art Institute (PAI)

Museum Studios is a department of the Peninsula Museum of Art. Museum Studios is home to 30 visual artists and is located in Burlingame on the San Francisco Peninsula. Its mission is to provide a supportive working environment for creative professionals in the visual arts and a cultural resource for the community.

Artist disciplines include painting, sculpture, printmaking, millinery, jewelry, photography, and fiber art. Visit here for more information about exhibits and classes, or call 650-692-2101. The Museum Studios Gallery is across the courtyard from the Peninsula Museum of Art’s main entrance, and is open the same hours as the Museum, Wednesday through Friday 11 AM to 5 PM.

Images via the Museum Studios of the Peninsula Museum of Art