Short Bio
I am a 73 year old woman that has been creating art for the past 60 years. As the decades have passed with marriages, children and now grandchildren, I have remained committed to learning about art and how to create it. It is such a true north for me that my entire life has navigated around it. I have tried many mediums, have had some truly great teachers, and have met other wonderful artists on this journey. All in all I am very grateful for the life path I have chosen.
Statement
My work is a visual record of my inspirations, explorations, challenges, and growth over many decades. In the process of creating art I have come to better understand myself and my connections to the world around me. Now, in the autumn of my life, I continue to find meaning and purpose by sharing the experience of creating images and objects that speak to me and also to others.
Biography
Kristine McCallister was born in Midland, Michigan the summer of 1950. Shortly after her family moved to Gary, Indiana. She spent her first two decades in Northern Indiana. From an early age McCallister exhibited artistic inclinations and was always in art classes and school projects. Shortly after graduation she spent one year at the American Academy of Art in Chicago, Illinois before she began her life as a wife and mother. After her children were grown she embarked fully upon her life as a full fledged artist.
McCallister had many teachers and attended many different art schools along the way to develop her skills. Much of her development she credits to working with other artists. ‘Artists need Artists’ is one of her favorite mantras. McCallister furthered her skills as an artist through the Bruchion School of the Arts in Los Angeles from 1980 until 1992 becoming an integral part of the movement taking place there. She participated in many of the group shows, had a solo show and curated two.
McCallister had taken up residence in Taos, New Mexico in 1997 and continued to paint. She returned to college and got her visual arts degree at UNM of Taos. During her years in Taos she opened Galerie Ledoux for 4 years and was curator at New Grounds Gallery for 3. She was visual Arts Director for the Dharma Corporation. Then she created her own faux finishing and art consulting business with a group of friends and they called it ARTillery.
After Taos she spent time in Guatemala where she had many shows both solo and group.She painted the local scenes in gouache en plein aire of Panajachel, her small town on Lago Atitlan.
She traveled back and forth from Atitlan to Las Vegas, Nevada. McCallister created a series of En Plein Aire paintings at the Neon Boneyard while she was there. She had 3 shows at the Brett Wesley Gallery. All her shows depicted the locals and the unique environment.
Currently she resides in Napa, California with her husband. Once again she returned to school, this time at the College of Marin. She followed her own belief that artists need each other and enrolled under the tutorage of Chester Arnold. There she learned more techniques and made new artist friends. She found a group of collage artists in nearby Sonoma that had been creating collage together for 30 years. Collage is an entirely new medium that she has embraced and added to her repertoire.
Most recently her work was juried into the de Young Open 2023.
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Resume / CV
https://kristinemccallister.artcall.org
Instagram @kristinemccallister
Born: 1950, Midland, Michigan
Home: Napa, California and Ojochal, Costa Rica
Education:
Marin College, Marin, California
UNM Taos, New Mexico
Bruchion School of Arts, Los Angeles, California
American Academy of Art, Chicago, Illinois
Selected Solo and Group Exhibitions:
2024 Valentines Show Yountville, CA
2024 de Young Open 2024, San Francisco, CA
2023 ForbHidden, Mare Island Studios, Vallejo, CA
2022 Causing Cultural Anarchy, Mare Island Studios, Vallejo, CA
2021 Cultural Anarchy, Mare Island Studios, Vallejo, CA
2020 Members Show, O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley, CA
2020 Panic, O’Hanlon Center Mill Valley, CA
2020 Many Voices, O’Hanlon Center, Many Faces, Mill Valley, CA
2020 Me To Myself Show, O’Hanlon Center, Mill Valley, CA
2020 Humankind in Crisis, O’Hanlon Center, Mill Valley, CA
2020 Tempo Magazine, Taos News Cover Story, Taos, NM
2019 Bay Area Women Artists, O’Hanlan Center For the Arts, Marin, CA
2018 Group Show, Marin Society of Artists, San Rafael, CA
2017 Portrait Show, College of Marin, Kenwood, CA
2015 Printmakers of New Mexico, Taos, New Mexico
2013 Ode to Beauty, duo show, Panza Verde Gallery, Antigua, Guatemala
2013 Valentine Show, La Galeria, Panajachel, Guatemala
2013 Paradise, solo show, Brett Wesley Gallery, Las Vegas, Nevada
2012 Coming of Age, solo show, Brett Wesley Gallery, Las Vegas, Nevada
2011 Cut Out, solo show, JEFF, San Francisco, CA
2011 Works on Paper, solo show, Chameleon Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2010 Neon Kiss, solo show, Brett Wesley Gallery, Las Vegas, Nevada
2010 Been Around the Block, duo, Chameleon Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2009 Open Your Golden, solo, Hyde Street Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2008 Solo Exhibition, Cirque du Soliel Corporate Headquarters, LV, NV
2008 Tender Mercies, solo show, Panza Verde Gallery, Antigua, Guatemala
2007 The Good Red Road, solo, Panza Verde Gallery, Antigua, Guatemala
2006 Innocence, Panza Verde Gallery, Antigua, Guatemala
2004 Abundant Life, solo, New Grounds Gallery, Taos, NM
2003 Every Picture Tells a Story, group show, Taos, NM
2002 Group Show, Keith Barton Galerie, Taos, NM
2001/1998 ARTillery, Muralist, Entrepreneur, Taos, NM
2000 Taos Open, Taos, NM
2000 Amigos Bravos Paint-a-thon, 1st Place, Taos, NM
1999 Fall Arts Festival, Honorable Mention, Taos, Nm
1999 Art for Artsake, New Orleans, LA
1999 Los Voyages de la Luna, Dulcinea Gallery, Taos, NM
1999 Amigos Bravos Paint-a thon, 1st Place, Taos, NM
1999 Spring Arts Festival, Taos, NM
1999/2004 Curator, New Grounds Gallery, Taos, NM
1999 Portrait Show, New Grounds Gallery, Taos, NM
1999 Go Figure, action drawing/auction, New Grounds Gallery, Taos,NM
1998 Vignettes, Adams State College, Alamosa, CO
1997/1999 Director/Curator, Galerie Ledoux, Taos, NM
1998 Myth, Wisdom and Beauty, Untitled Center of the Arts, Taos, NM
1998 Breaking the Myth, Beyond Craft, TCA, Taos, NM
1998 Just Plein Love, Galerie Ledoux, Taos, NM
1998 The Seventh House, Galerie Ledoux, Taos, NM
1998 Vignettes, Galerie Ledoux, Taos, NM
1997 Taos Figure and Photograph Show, TCA, Taos, NM
1997 Taos Juried Show TCA, Taos, NM
1997 Members Show, TCA, Taos, NM
1997 Lopez/McCallister, Caffe Tazza, Taos, NM
1997 La Mujer y La Madera, One Ledoux, Taos, NM
1997 Exquios, Juried Show, Taos, NM
1997 Self-Portrait Show, H. Margaret Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1997 Ladies of the Night, Guadalupe Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1997 Still Life Show, Realist Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1996 Group Show, Amos Joesph Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1995 Open Studio Tours, Santa Fe, NM
1994 Beyond the Lens, New Canyon Gallery Topanga, CA
1994 The Handless Maiden, New Canyon Gallery, CA
1994 The Handless Maiden, Eye Grind Gallery, Los Olivos, CA
1993 Portraits, New Canyon Gallery, Topanga, CA
1993 Fires, New Canyon Gallery, Topanga, CA
1993 Giving Thanks, Bruchion Center, Los Angeles, CA
1993 Beloved Woman, Bruchion Center, Los Angeles, CA
Publications:
Press Democrat, Sonoma, CA 2023
Times Herald, Vallejo, CA 2023
Times Herald, Vallejo, CA 2022
Tempo Magazine, cover, 2020
Boulevard Magazine, cover, 2015
Live Taos 2015
Follow Your Heart, 2015
LV City Life 2013
Vegas Seven 2013
Las Vegas Sun 2012
Review Journal 2012
Holy Waters, 2011
Las Vegas Arts and Culture 2010
100 Santa Fe Etchers, 2009
Santa Fe Reporter, 2004
Organic Valley, 2003
Tempo, Taos, NM 2001
Tempo, Taos, NM 1999
Tempo, Taos, NM 1997
Tempo, Taos, NM 1995
Pasatiempo, Santa Fe, NM
The Hero’s Daughter, Illustrator,M. Murdock
Follow Your Heart, Cookbook, Illustrator 2000
