About Celine

Celine Grenier was born in San Francisco, California, and raised in the Bay Area at the time of its transformation from two-lane roads running through orchards to freeways racing through suburban sprawl. She attended a Catholic grammar school, a public high school, and at sixteen, was a foreign exchange student in Spain and France. She graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz with a BFA and from San Jose State University with an MA in linguistics. She also studied at the California College of Arts and Crafts and The Studio School in New York City. She has traveled widely and has held many jobs, part-time and full-time, from factory worker to university lecturer. She has maintained her focus on art throughout. She is married and lives on the coast of northern California.

Her work has been shown in one-woman and group shows in Seattle, San Jose and Santa Cruz and is held in private collections in the US and Europe.

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Statement

I enjoy working in many different media. Seeing original works of great art has affected my sense of the possible. I focus on an idea, a mental image, a live, visual stimulus or a photo or assembled photos and realize it in the medium that feels right. Almost all of my images include the human face. I read and listen to a great deal of national and international news, which sometimes leads to my choice of subject matter and often determines my mood. I need the peace I get from concentration and focus on process. I find satisfaction in the abstract always found in the figurative and value craft in art. We live in a world of constant, varied visual stimulation: natural, synthetic, moving, still, photographic, abstract, commercial, original, reproduced, dream-formed, black and white, technicolor. When I close my eyes, I can produce an inner slide show. My styles are drawn from my mental storehouse of imagery. I like to think that my individual pieces speak for themselves.