Renowned Local Abstract Artist Releases Book on Decades of Painting

Bay Area artist Patsy Krebs is about to visit The Green Arcade to discuss her new book Painting. She will be in conversation with Lynn Sondag, Chair of the Art Department, Dominican University.   Krebs is a nationally recognized abstract painter whose works create an awareness of our perceptions of color, shading, and light. Her subtle, masterful pallets illuminate the closest gradations of light and dark values and their relationship to each other. Two of her central forms are the rectangle and square, both of which echo the shapes of her paintings and float in and out of vision, hovering in a tantalizing zone on the threshold of optical illusion. Even behind the most scientifically grounded optical phenomena and color theory, there lies a core of mystery and mood in these works. A native of northern California, Patsy Krebs spent her formative years as an artist in New York. She earned an MFA from Claremont College in 1976 and began an exhibiting career. She has taught extensively at art institutions throughout California, most recently at Dominican University, San Rafael.      Her work is featured in the collections of the Norton Museum, West Palm Beach, FL; Denver Art Museum, CO; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA; Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive, CA; and the de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA. Patsy Krebs is represented in the Bay Area by the Haines Gallery.