BIOGRAPHY
Louise Victor is an artist, passionate about her work and eager to inspire others to explore their creativity. Her undergraduate years were spent at Northern Illinois University, continuing her graduate work at the University of Minnesota. Her paintings explode with energy, movement and color, evoking worlds that are familiar, intriguing and captivating.
In addition to her painting, Louise is an educator, having taught and mentored others for many years. Her lectures and workshops have been presented at Arts Benicia, Marin MOCA, the ICB, Jen Tough Gallery and The Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley. Her interest in everything creative has brought her employment as a curator, architectural draughtsman, printmaker, bookmaker and illustrator, along with her painting and drawing.
You can find her work on many book covers, and in magazines and publications including the SF Chronicle, Posit Journal, Hawkhaven Press,, Clockroot Press, Kater Murr Press, Harbor Mountain Press and Rochester Magazine. Her paintings are in many private collections as well as the collections of Northern Illinois University, the University of Minnesota and on permanent display at the University of California, San Francisco Mission Bay Campus.
Foundational to Louise’s visual expression is her many years as an aviator. She is the second woman in the world to qualify as a Captain on the Boeing 757/767 and is greatly influenced by her experiences of flying as a commercial airline pilot, capturing in her paintings the “the feeling of the substance of the air, its supporting power, its buoyancy“.
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Selected Exhibitions
2022 "MOS," Sausalito, CA
2021 "National Art Competition," Crocker-Kingsley, Roseville, CA
2020 "Humankind in Crisis," O'Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley, CA
2019 "Geometry" Site: Brooklyn, Brooklyn. NY
2019 "Something About Lines," O'Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley, CA
2018 Art San Diego, represented by Jen Tough
2018 North Bay Fires Anniversary Exhibit, Sonoma State University, CA
2018 "greener pastures," Gallery III, Sausalito, CA
2018 Marilyn Citron O'Rouke Art Gallery, Benicia, CA - solo show
2018 Marin Open Studio Exhibition, Corte Madrea, CA
2018 MOS Sausalito, CA
2017 Olsen Gallery, Benicia, CA - solo show
2017 "lifelines," Mythos Fine Arts Gallery Berkeley, CA
2017 MOS Sausalito, CA
2017 WOS Sausalito, CA
2017 "Heartlines." Gallery III, Sausalito
2016 College of Marin, Kentfield, CA - solo show
2016 "Bay Area Women Artists" O'Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley, CA
2016 "gathered fragments" Mythos Fine Arts Gallery, Berkeley, CA
2016 "travelogue" The Fourth Wall Gallery , Oakland, CA - solo show
2016 "threads and traces" The Fourth Wall Gallery, Oakland, CA - solo show
2016 "Monsters and Demons" Gallery 111, Sausalito, CA
2016 Toad Fish Gallery
2016 "Abstracted," Gallery 111, Sausalito, CA
2016 :summer Heat", Gallery 111, Sausalito, CA
Selected Professional Affiliations/Educator/ Lecturer
2022 - Guest lecturer Osher Institute, San Francisco State, San Francisco, CA
2022- Chief Curator, Marin Open Studios Exhibition, Corte Madera, CA
2019 - present adjunct professor, GTU, Berkeley, CA
2019 - "A New Lens: Working with Abstraction," Jen Tough Gallery
2019 - Abstraction, Arts Benicia, Benicia, CA
2017- present ICBAA Board Member
1983- present Allied Pilots Association
2018 " The Life of Lines," Graduate Theological Institute, Berkeley, CA
2018 Chief Curator, Marin Open Studios Exhibition, Corte Madera, CA
2017 " Still Life to Abstraction: Color Families," Arts Benicia, Benicia, CA
2017 "The Life of Lines," Mythos Fine Arts Gallery, Berkeley, CA
2017 "Pictorial Space as Dynamic Force", Gallery 111, Sausalito, CA
2017 "Paint in Your Hands", Arts Benicia, Benicia, CA
2017 "The Figure to Abstraction," Arts Benicia, Benicia, CA.
2016 "The How and the Why," Arts Benicia, Benicia, CA
2016 "Still Life to Abstraction", Arts Benicia, Benicia, CA
2016 " Value and Color", Arts Benicia, Benicia, CA
2016 "Monster and Demons in Art History", Gallery 111, Sausalito, CA
2016 "Abstraction", Gallery 111, Sausalito, CA
2016 "Composition, A Course of Study", Gallery 111, Sausalito, CA
2016 "Drawing for Life", Arts Benicia, Benicia, CA
Corporate/University Collections
UCSF Cancer Center, Mission Campus
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
University of Minnesota
Northern Illinois University
News/Publications
2022 "Work." Vista & Byways, Osher Institute, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
2022 Cover Art,"Three Poems, William Cirocco," Kater Murr Press
2019-"S.F. Magician Discovers Enchantment in Sausalito," San Francisco Chronicle, May 19
https://www.sfchronicle.com/travel/article/5-ways-to-explore-Sausalito-13848579.php
2016 "Commercial Pilot Lands Second Career in Art" San Francisco Chronicle, September 2016
2016 "Woman in Kimono" Posit Journal, Frontispiece: "White Lies" https://positjournal.com/
2016 "New Art Exhibit" ESCOM Art Journal.
2015 Cover Art, "A River Flowing Beside", Hawkhaven Press
2012 Cover Art, “In the House Un-American,” Clockroot Press
2007 Cover Art, “Robert Lax,” Kater Murr Press
2006 Cover Art, “In the Shop of Nothing,” Harbor Mountain Press
2006 Cover Art, “aerolith,” Harbor Mountain Press
1999 Book Illustration, “Spiritual Letters,” Hawkhaven Press