Short Bio
Northern California-based artist Micaela Marsden has been painting along the coast since 2005. She works in oils and acrylics, starts her landscapes outdoors.
Statement
I am a studio- and plein-air- painter. Working outside requires speed and flexibility to respond to the changing light conditions and environment to accomplish your goal; working inside provides the time to take the artwork in multiple directions. Plein air landscape painting is appealing to me as I like being in the midst of the scene – right up close to the aromatic plants, the animal life, and experiencing the wind & weather directly. This gives one an intimate and grounded feeling of the place which informs the paintings.
Resume / CV
Individual courses:
Composition in Design, University of California at Berkeley Extension
Abstraction, California College of the Arts
Critique and the Creative Process - Berkeley City College
Workshops:
With Dean Fisher, Sarah Sedwick, Michael Carson, Quin Gao, Richard Lindenberg, David Savallano, Randy Sexton, jerrold Turner, Leslie Wilson
Exhibitions (brief list):
2022 East Bay Open Studios, Firehouse Arts Collective, Berkeley CA 94710
Slopes of Diablo, Valley Art Gallery, Walnut Creek CA
Art Auction for the Children of Ukraine, Gallery 621, Benicia CA 94510
2021 Mendocino Eco Artists Benefit for Mendocino Land Trust, Stanford Inn,
Mendocino CA 95460
El Cerrito Art Assoc. Annual Show, El Cerrito CA
2020 deYoung Open, de Young Museum, San Francisco CA
Me to Myself: Unique Self Portraits, O'Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley CA
Art of a Community, Arts Benicia, Benicia CA
2019 East Bay Views, Berkeley Yacht Club, Berkeley CA
Small Works Art Show, Danville CA
Art of a Community, Arts Benicia, Benicia CA
HQ GALLERY-member gallery
2018 Benicia Open Studios, Benicia CA
2017 Woods, Wine and Water, Scharffenberger Cellars, Philo CA
Benicia Open Studios, Benicia CA
2016 Benicia Open Studios, Benicia CA
Our Many Cultures, Expressions Gallery, Berkeley CA
2015 "Inside & Out", Harrington Gallery, Pleasanton CA
Scene on the Straight—invitational, Martinez CA
Pro Arts East Bay Open Studios, Oakland CA
Plein Air Painters of Mendocino Annual show, Mendocino CA
2014 Scene on the Straight—invitational, Martinez CA
Valona Paintout—invitational, Valona CA
2013 Wags & Whiskers, Olive Hyde Gallery, Fremont, invitational
8th Annual Frank Bette Center for the Arts Plein Air Paintout, Alameda, Juried
2012 Fall Show, Collector Gallery, Oakland, invitational
7th Annual Frank Bette Center for the Arts Plein Air Paintout, Alameda, Juried
2011 The Human Face, Refined by Fire Gallery, Point Richmond, Juried
Art on the Farm, Marin Civic Center, San Rafael
2010 Art of the Automobile, artworksdowntown, San Rafael, Juried
The Modernists, Expressions Gallery, Berkeley, Juried
Awards:
1st place —El Cerrito Art Association annual Member show
Design Award—Festival-at-the-Lake Public Relations Committee, Oakland,CA
Commissions:
Sets for annual City of Berkeley Tuolumne Camp staff show, Big Oak Flat CA
Mural for a private backyard retreat: reproduction of a Monet water garden
Vista of Carquinez Straight
12’ x 36’ mural for play “Same Time Next Year”, Chanticleer Theater, Castro Valley CA
