BIOGRAPHY

Gordon Studer’s earthy, confident abstracts are rooted in his discipline as an award-winning commercial illustrator, lending his work a strong, graphic cadence. The result speaks to liminal experience, interstitial time, and dreamscapes in deliberate forms in black atop a palette of ochre, sky blue, and crushed clays.

 

Having studied fine art at Penn State, he went on to teach at the California College of the Arts, and enjoyed a 25 year career telling visual stories for Fortune 500 corporate clients and major media outlets. His background is evident as he applies an intentionality to his paintings, delivering on a specific narrative, inviting the viewer to a purposeful encounter.

 

Based in Sausalito, California, he once experienced a bout of complete amnesia, allowing him to refresh his perception of the natural world and question concepts such as imagination, dream, and recollection.

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SELECTED EXHIBITIONS + INSTALLATIONS

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2023

• Kneedler Fauchere / Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles CA: Showroom installation curated by Laurie Ghielmetti Interiors

• Kneedler Fauchere / SF Design Center Galleria, San Francisco CA: Showroom installation curated by Laurie Ghielmetti Interiors

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2022

• CAMi Vineyards, Calistoga CA (Group Exhibition): Exhibition: “Mustard”

• Art2Life International Juried Art Exhibition: Curated by Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco CA

• Kneedler Fauchere / Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles CA: Showroom installation curated by Laurie Ghielmetti Interiors

• Ruby Living / Mill Valley CA: Bold Abstracts. Group show

• Kneedler Fauchere / SF Design Center Galleria, San Francisco CA: Showroom installation curated by Laurie Ghielmetti Interiors

• Jennifer West / Seattle Design Center, Seattle, WA: Showroom installation curated by Laurie Ghielmetti Interiors

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2021

• CAMi Art: Group show, Calistoga CA

• SLATE / Cornerstone: Crossing Boundaries, Group show at SBHG Gallery, Sonoma CA

• Kneedler Fauchere / Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles CA: Showroom installation curated by Laurie Ghielmetti Interiors

• Kneedler Fauchere / SF Design Center Galleria, San Francisco CA: Showroom installation curated by Laurie Ghielmetti Interiors

• Art2Life International Juried Art Exhibition: Curated by Juan Kelly of Nuart Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

• SLATE Art / Clorox Building, Oakland CA: Solo installation

• Kneedler Fauchere / Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles CA: Showroom installation curated by Laurie Ghielmetti Interiors

• Kneedler Fauchere / SF Design Center Galleria, San Francisco CA: Showroom installation curated by Laurie Ghielmetti Interiors

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2020

• The de Young Open Exhibit / de Young museum, San Francisco CA: Two works selected “Precipitate” and “Excavation"

• Kneedler Fauchere / Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles CA: Showroom installation curated by Laurie Ghielmetti Interiors

• CAMi Vineyards, Calistoga CA (Solo Exhibition): Exhibition: “Vantage Point”

• CAMi Vineyards, Calistoga CA (Group Exhibition): Exhibition: “12x12 by Nine”