Chandra Garsson has studied art since she was aged two, often formally at University. Her undergraduate degree is in art and English literature from the University of California at Santa Cruz, with a Master of Fine Arts degree from San Jose State University in painting and printmaking. SJSU is the oldest public university on the West Coast and the founding campus of the California State University (CSU) system.
Ms. Garsson has shown her work nationally and internationally, with many exhibitions throughout California. Most notable was her exhibition at ProArts Gallery in Oakland, where 167 of her mixed media paintings, works on paper, and sculptures were shown in Insomnia (Awakening), 2004, presented by the artist, and the gallery, with a grant from Clorox Foundation.
Over six weeks poets, videographers, and dancers were invited into the exhibition to showcase their own creations on the subject of human on human cruelty, a theme wherein all artists involved, and the public found a home at last to shine their own light through their darkness in response to Chandra Garsson’s many works on the theme together with her published book created in accompaniment to the exhibition also titled, Insomnia (Awakening).
Weblinks
Vspcity.com • Chandra.darksecretlove.com • Beblevins.blogspot.com
