Santa Barbara Art Association Gallery 113 Santa Barbara Ca

About the Artist

Rebecca Stebbins

California Impressionist

Rebecca Stebbins is an oil painter and also teaches art to children and adults, working both outdoors en plein air and in her studio outside Santa Barbara, California.

Rebecca began painting in oils in Provence, France, in 2000, studying with Judy Ryan of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. She has studied with prominent artists in Santa Barbara and at the Taos Art Establish, Traverse City Fine art Center, and at Chateau l'Age Baston in France. She continues to paint in France each twelvemonth and has been selected for artist residencies in that location, including at Atelier de la Rose and Bordeneuve Retreat. Her work is rooted in the traditions of realism and impressionism, both of which have a deep history in California and in French republic.

Built-in in Seattle and raised in the Midwest, Rebecca graduated from Brown Academy and has lived in the Santa Barbara expanse since 1985. She teaches art to k-eighth grade students at The Howard School and belongs to the California Art Club, SCAPE (Southern California Artists Painting for the Environment), Santa Barbara Art Association, and Carpinteria Arts Center, where she was also the Executive Director for three years. Her works tin can be constitute in collections across the United States and in Europe. In her costless time, she tin can exist institute in her garden, buried in books, or visiting museums around the world.

"As a painter, I am drawn to introspection and discovery, to deepen my understanding of this world, to discover and share beauty, to encourage people to care about our natural and artisanal worlds and to sympathize how precious and fragile they are. I paint the landscapes I love, mostly in California and in France, where I am drawn to the rugged dazzler of the coast and the mountains and to the quality of illumination in certain places and times. I seek shapes and colors that, when pieced together, tell a story or invoke a sensation. I will always be enchanted by the trip the light fantastic of low-cal on fields of golden grass or the curl of shadow underneath a wave. As long every bit at that place is magic to exist institute in the lightness of the world, in that location will be value, for me, in painting it."

Recognition
Southwest Art Magazine, Nationally Emerging Artists, 2014

Residencies
Bordeneuve, Betchat, French republic, 2012 - 2019
Mas Pinet, St. Cecile d'Andorge, France, July 2011
Atelier de la Rose, Montcabrier, French republic, July 2010

Galleries
En Plein Air, Carpinteria, California
Gallery 113, Santa Barbara, California

Associations
California Art Club
Santa Barbara Art Association
Carpinteria Valley Arts Council
Founding member, SCAPE (Southern California Artists Painting for the Environment)

Selected Exhibits
2015
Featured local artist at the Wildling Museum, September - Nov

2014
Wild Women, invitational show, Palm Loft Gallery, Carpinteria, California
Painters of the Pacific West, group show, Pacific Western Bank, Santa Barbara, California
Wildest Dreams, juried evidence, Gallery 113, Santa Barbara, California
Hollister Ranch Invitational Biannual fine art prove, Gaviota, California
5x5 Invitational, Westmont Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA

2013
Solo Exhibition, From Coast to Coast and Beyond, Gallery 1880, Ventura, California
Make Hay While the Sun Shines, juried testify, Palm Loft Gallery, Carpinteria, California
Locals in the Mural, Adama, Santa Barbara, California

2012
5x5 Invitational, Westmont Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Celebrating the American Riviera (five artist group show), American Riviera Depository financial institution, Santa Barbara
Inspired past the Past, Adama, Santa Barbara
Hollister Ranch Invitational Evidence, Gaviota, California

2011
Where Humans and Nature Intersect, Fine Fine art Competition, Wildling Museum, Los Olivos, CA Hollister Ranch Invitational Show, Gaviota, California
Phoenix House Memorial Twenty-four hours Show, Santa Barbara, California
Big, Beautiful and Blue, Faulkner Gallery, Santa Barbara, California

2010
Art in the Parks, Channing Peake Gallery, Santa Barbara
Minor Works, Gallery 855, Carpinteria, California, Honorable Mention for Looking Out
Side by Side in the Landscape, 2-person show, Vault Gallery, Carpinteria, California
Big or Small with a Touch of Cherry, February, Palm Loft Gallery, Carpinteria, California
Rivers, Ranches, and Waterways, Faulkner Gallery, Santa Barbara, California

2009
Surfrider Foundation Invitational Show, Soho, Santa Barbara, California
Heal the Ocean, Gallery 113, Santa Barbara, California
Capturing the Essence, 33 Jewels Gallery, Santa Barbara, California
Vista de las Cruces Invitational Art Show, Gaviota, California
Solo exhibit, Island Brewing Company, Carpinteria

2008
Images of the Santa Ynez Valley, Cachuma Lake Gallery, Santa Ynez, California
Carpinteria Open Studios Tour/Gallery 855 Tour Exhibit

2007
"Little" at Gallery 855, Carpinteria, California
Postcards from Home and Away, Solo Exhibit, Isle Brew Company, Carpinteria, California
Santa Barbara County Arts Commission Public Fine art Installation , Integral Dazzler, on State Street in Santa Barbara, California
Scenes from the Declension, Solo Showroom, Island View II, Carpinteria, California
Artists of Footstep I, Cabrillo Fine art Pavilion show, Santa Barbara, California

2006
On Our Waterfront, Santa Barbara Maritime Museum, Santa Barbara, California
SCAPE Ecology Defence Center Benefit, La Arcada Court, Santa Barbara, California

2005
Santa Barbara Smoothen Jazz Festival & Fine art Show, Santa Barbara, California
Gallery 113, Heal the Sea show, Santa Barbara, California

Education
Brown University, B.A. with honors
Academy of Michigan, Graduate Studies

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