terry st. johns
MORAGA -- The Hearst Art Gallery of Saint Mary's College is pleased to begin the New Year with a solo exhibition of more than 40 "plein-air" landscape paintings by Terry St. John, one of the Bay Area's premier contemporary landscape painters.
The exhibition, opening January 7 and continuing through February 22, will feature work from the past three decades. Along with the late Society of Six member Lou Siegriest, St. John revived the tradition of outdoor landscape painting in the Bay Area. Of his paintings, which often incorporate figures in the landscape and are characterized by vibrant colors and lavish, sensual paint application, St. John declares, "I have tried to develop an abstract visual shorthand that allows me to directly capture the colors, shapes and imagery which convey my feelings about the landscape."
St. John received his B.A. degree in art from the University of California at Berkeley and his M.F.A. degree from California College of Arts and Crafts in 1966. He is represented by Hackett-Freedman Gallery in San Francisco. His paintings have been on view at the Oakland Museum, the Fresno Art Museum, and the galleries of the University of California at Santa Cruz, College of Notre Dame, Mills College, the University of Nebraska, and the University of Mississippi. St. John has been a visiting professor at Stanford University and was the associate curator of modern painting at the Oakland Museum for many years. He is currently a professor of art at College of Notre Dame, Belmont.
