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Artist Statement:
Statement Regarding Current
Body of Work:
Livia C. Stein 2009
At the risk of sounding
simplistic or too self
absorbed, as painters and
artists sometimes are, I
propose that much of what I
paint is a biography of my
inner and outer life.
I don’t try to separate real
events from my mindful
inventions on a two
dimensional plane.
I love to paint, to put it
straight out. What begins with
an idea, ends with a journey.
Like the hang glider pilot, I
peer over the edge and jump
because that is my choice and
necessity at once. Art is my
statement of irony and my
humor and my sadness about all
that I try to accomplish and
will never achieve in the
small time I have from when I
am born to when I cease
knowing.
Recently I heard the painter
Susan Rothenberg speak about
artists striving to paint in a
way that reaches their “end
zone”. She specified both
Piet Mondrian and Philip
Guston as people who she felt
“got there”. Painters knew
what she meant. That is what I
am trying to do with the
paintings, with every one I
fall off the cliff to find.
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LIVIA C. STEIN – a most brief biography 2009
Livia Stein was born in Dallas, Texas to children of Russian refugees fleeing the “Pograms” taking place at the beginning of the 20th century . She was born en route to California during the exciting Westward migration of people seeking California sunshine and more opportunities arising after WWII. She was raised in and around Los Angeles, specifically Anaheim, home of Disneyland. She plotted to flee the harsh light and conservative politics of Orange County (home of the John Birch Society, drive-in Mega-Churches, Knott’s Berry Farm & Disneyland) to attend the University of at Berkeley. She studied History at UC Berkeley and pursued a master’s degree in South Asian Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She spent several months in India as a student and has continued to travel there during the past 10 years. Influenced to do photography by her father, a talented photographer himself, she studied at Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles. She began the shift to primary work in Painting and Monotype while working on a Master’s Degree at San Francisco State University. She received a Master’s Degree in an exciting, then very innovative Experimental Art Program, founded by Jock Reynolds, now the director of the Yale University Art Museum. She continues to live in Oakland where she maintains a studio. She is currently Professor of Art at Dominican University, San Rafael, California. She is married to the painter Michael Fram. She has one son, Theo Vincent Fram, whose love of toys, animals and machines, has greatly enriched and influenced her art-making.
Her work has been exhibited in Europe, South American, India and throughout the United States.
She received an NDEA Fellowship while studying Indian History and Art at the University of Pennsylvania. More recently she was an Artist in Residence in Baroda, India. In 2007 she had a Month Residency at the de Young Museum in San Francisco, which included a Solo Exhibition of her Paintings.
Her work is in the Collection of the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, Oakland Museum of California, Dominican University, University of Iowa Art Museum to name a few. She is known as an “artist’s artist” who finds Art History and the lure of Oil Painting to be magical and extremely satisfying.
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