Kurt Waldo

Artist Statement:

"...music is moving moments...my paintings are frozen ones..." K. Waldo

I was exposed to abstract art at a very early age. My parents hug it on our walls. I started drawing at 3.

At 5 I was reprimanded for drawing a black house in kindergarten. I got into trouble when I was 7, drawing in the fresh stucco of the entire side of our neighbor's house.

At 9 I received a painting kit for Christmas...and from then on I was painting!

At 14, I had the opportunity to go to Europe and visited many museums and historical sites. My favorite was the Van Gough Museum in The Netherlands.

In college I continued to be influenced by the impressionists, the expressionists as well as the fauvists and the wild-beasts as I studied painting and printmaking. But what attracted me the most was the abstract expressionist movement here in America in the 50's and 60's. I love the artists of that era's work.

That love for the abstract is expressed in the work seen here.

I have shown in galleries in Sonoma, Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo CA. My work has been shown on television on the set of the CW Network's series "Gossip Girl". It also appears in West Elm's Summer 2013 Catalog, and even the board room of the Theatrical Union of NYC. I have completed many commissions located throughout the US.

Most recently, one of my pieces is represented in HSN's Smart Home 2022.

"People need analog art to cope with the digital world -let's have some texture - some feeling, some color, some shapes and some lines which represent nothing!"
- K. Waldo

Education:

BA from Chico State University, Chico, CA 
Split emphasis: Painting / Printmaking

Exhibitions:

SLO Art Gallery, San Luis Obispo, CA 
2020-present
Cambria Art Gallery, Cambria, CA 
2019
Michael-Kate Interiors, Santa Barbara, CA
2017 /2018 /2019
10 West Art Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
2017 /2018 /2019
Terra Firma Gallery, Sonoma, CA
2016
The C Gallery, Los Alamos, CA 
2016
San Luis Obispo Museum of Art
Morro Bay Art Center

 

Professional/Teaching Experience:

California Teacher's Certification in Communication

Artistic Influences:

Abstract Expressionism, especially Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning, Joan Mitchell and André Derain

Tags:

abstract, expressionist, modern, contemporary, non-representational, mixed media