Fall Exhibition Judge
Claudia Chapline

The Redwood Art Association is very pleased to have internationally known Stinson Beach artist, Claudia Chapline, as our judge for the Fall Exhibition.

Claudia Chapline is an international artist, writer and curator, a visionary whose art, writing and presentation of California artists have enriched the California art scene for over four decades.  She received a Lifetime Achievement Award this year from the Northern California Chapter of the Women’s Caucus for Art.

Her paintings and sculptures have been exhibited throughout the U.S., in Canada, Europe, Latin America and Asia in hundreds of exhibitions since 1953. Recent solo exhibitions have been at the Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Florence Biennale, Thoreau Center for Sustainability, and her gallery in Stinson Beach.  

She was an Artist in Residence at DeYoung Museum and Norcal Sanitary Fill Company, San Francisco and a 2001 Marin Arts Council Community Arts Grantee to create an Artist in Residence Program at Marin Resource Recovery. Her work has been featured in an Evening News Magazine and in Conversations with Unusual Characters, a video by J. Rigler.

Recycling junk into art is a strong component of her visual work.  She makes sculptures with found objects from the road, the beach, the house, the office, as well as retail and manufacturing discards.  From Diary of Discard, to Tool Fetishes, Stinson Beach Artifacts, City Tailings, Recoup, Recovered Treasure, Kitchen Works,Encore, and Medallions, her exhibitions raise consciousness and comment on American life.

Claudia Chapline was born in Oak Park, Illinois.  She graduated, cum laude, with special honors in art from The George Washington University and Corcoran School of Art.  She earned a Master of Arts degree from Washington University where she was an instructor.  She continued her academic career as an Assistant Professor at California State University at Northridge and at UCLA.        

She was one of the foremost innovators in Southern California art during the 1970s when her assemblages, installations and performances inspired a generation of artists.  She was a pioneer in the environmental and art as healing movements; a founder and board member of Womanspace, the Los Angeles Women’s Building, the Century City Art Commission, the Santa Monica Art Commission, Public Art Works, ArtTable.  Her work has been recognized by exhibitions in California museums in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Sacramento. Her work is in art collections throughout the world including Norcal, Crocker Art Museum and Morris Graves Museum of Art.

Concurrently with her work in assemblage, fiber sculpture, installation and performance in the 1960s and 70s, she was a professor of dance at UCLA and California State University at Northridge.  In the 1950’s she taught at Washington University in St. Louis while doing research in the new field of dance therapy.  Her articles have been published by Art Week, Dance West, Womanspace Journal, Artist's News, California Dance Educators Newsletter, and Artists Dialogue.  Her poetry, art and photography have been published in numerous small press publications, and four books of her poetry and art.

You can learn more about the Claudia Chapline and her art at: http://www.cchapline.com

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