Sonoma, CA
About Paul Kirley:
Growing up in a family of artists and designers, art was an integral part of Paul's life as a child. His first set of brushes and introduction to painting came in the spring of 1969. His father was working with "Walter Gropius":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Gropius in Cambridge, MA. His mom belonged to a figure drawing group that met on Wednesdays in his living room on Center Street in Marblehead. Paul's first paintings were black tempera on newsprint. He was 2 years old and wanted to be an artist when he grew up.
Kirley's artistic influences include a connection to landscape, buildings and place through family exposure to architecture and landscape architecture. He discovered both photography and a love of 50’s "abstract expressionist":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_expressionism painting in his teens. Paul lived to shoot photos, draw and paint. Trips to the museum became trips to church for him. He dreamed "Kline":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Kline brush strokes, "Stieglitz":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Stieglitz compositions, and "Rauschenberg":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rauschenberg combines.
Paul is an exhibiting member of the Arts Guild of Sonoma and regularly contributes to the Venice Artwalk.
Selected exhibitions
- Ongoing exhibit at Perrell Fine Art - Los Angeles, CA, 2010
- Ongoing exhibit at Arts Guild of Sonoma - Sonoma, CA, 2010
- Views of the City exhibit at Artist X-Change - San Francisco, CA, 2010
- Printing-theme-exhibit at Artists X-Change - San Francisco, CA, 2010
Education
- Art Center College of Design, B.A. in Design - Pasadena, CA,1991