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"City Cranes" land in Berkeley Sunday November 8th, the art of Clare Cooley
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City Cranes Come to Berkeley
Artist, Clare Cooley’s Opening November 8th, 2009: 3 pm to 7 pm
Wilde’s Artium Magister Gallery: 1102 Gilman Street at San Pablo, Berkeley, California.
Fine artist Clare Cooley returns to Berkeley for the debut of her installation “City Cranes.” Once, a resident of Berkeley, Clare’s work has been shown around the world and for her, this is a “homecoming.”
Though best known for her crane paintings, Clare Cooley is a visionary artist who paints everything from insects to outer space, classic to modern. She also skate dances, plays the flute, writes, and performs--all as a contemplative practice. Clare Cooley has dedicated her life work--her art--to inspiring in others a life of harmony and balance. The unifying purpose of all that she does is to open hearts, celebrate community, and foster creative reverie. She does this by sharing her artistic essence through collaborative performance art.
Clare Cooley has over 400 paintings, drawings and etchings in
her portfolio, which have been exhibited in galleries and museums in the Bay Area and beyond. Her art has appeared in “Accent On Design,” the juried section of the International Gift Show, San Francisco. Clare’s art has been featured on the cover of Red Rose Catalog as well as in Nordstrom department stores. Her work has been exhibited in the corporate headquarters of Hewlett Packard and Chevron, and is in the permanent collection of the Natural World Museum of Art, in the Presidio, San Francisco. Clare Cooley has also led art demonstrations as part of the crane exhibit at the Academy of Sciences, Steinhart Museum in San Francisco.
She designed and built her sanctuary/studio, and created most of its furnishings, all of which were showcased on the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s Artist Studio Tours.
Clare Cooley designed and taught eclectic arts curriculum titled, “Dancing into the Arts.” in the public schools of Berkeley, Marin County, and in San Mateo County (elementary, junior high, high schools) as an Artist in Residence for the Board of Education. She has also taught similar curricula at universities, mental hospitals, drug rehabilitation centers, juvenile delinquent homes, crisis shelters, retreats, and in trainings for nurses, therapists, and teachers. In her words, “I am thrilled to be coming back to Berkeley at a brand new gallery, Wilde’s Artium Magister. City Cranes is inspired by the beauty of the Bay Area and I am so happy to be back!”
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