OCEANA RAIN STUART

 OCEANA RAIN STUART was born in California and is a realistic figurative sculpture artist. She currently lives with her three cats and works in the San Francisco Bay Area. Stuart grew up in a multi-generational artistic family in the US. She also lived in Europe as a young adult where she was inspired by many of the masters of the past as well as the present. At a young age, Stuart knew her life path was to create art herself. 

Stuart considers herself to be a self-taught artist. She attended classes at the Art Institute of San Francisco, the Laguna College of Art and Design, and workshops with Anatomy Tools and Cicero D'Avila. Stuart also teaches figurative sculpture in her atelier.

Stuart explores emotionally evocative subject matter expressive of light and dark qualities of humanity often using symbolism as a metaphor. Her human forms appear to be in a state of conscious, subconscious and unconscious dreaming. Stuart’s unique molding techniques and surface treatments intuitively blend realism and surrealism.

Stuart has exhibited in group exhibitions in accredited museums internationally and in the U.S., such as The Louvre Museum, The Leonardo Da Vinci Society, The Natural History Museum in Los Angeles County, The National Sculpture Society, The Haggin Museum, The American Women Artists, The Salmagundi Art Club, The international Biennial of The Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art, The Catharine Lorillard Wolf Art Club, Allied Artists of America, and The California Art Club where she is a Jury elected Artist member. 

Some of Stuart's awards include finalist for her work "Eternal Bliss" in the 2018 “Non-Commissioned Portrait" category of the Portrait Society of America; the 2019 "Alizarin Award" from the Representational Figurative Art Conference; the  2017 "Pre-Selected Artist" award for her work "A Love Remembered" from the "Figuratvas Painting and Sculpture" competition of the Museum of Modern Art, Barcelona. Stuart was a recipient of the 2017 "Figurative Artist of the Year" award for her work "Eternal Embrace" by "Art Comes Alive" National Competition. Stuart has been published in numerous publications and books such as Southwest magazine’s 2018 “Ones To Collect”. In 2018 she was "Sculptor of the month" in The Guide Artists. Stuart was included in Buzzfeed's 2018 "One Hundred Artists-One Tribe" by Didi Menendez, and is also a member of Poets and Artists. Stuart was granted a four-page spread in the book, "Masters of Contemporary Fine Art" Vol. 3 by Pedro Boaventura of Art Galaxie. In 2018 Stuart was featured in Light Space and Time as "The Galleries Top 25 Artists to Watch" and in an interview in L'Italo Americano.

Stuart has exhibited in solo exhibitions such as the Leonardo Da Vinci Society where both the Consul General of Italy, Lorenzo Ortona and the director of the Italian Cultural Institute, Paolo Barlera introduced Stuart gave a talk about her work.

Stuart’s work is collected publicly in the permanent collection of the Museum of Contemporary art in Catania, Sicily and in various private collections in the U.S and internationally.

 

* This statement has been provided directly by the artist in association to their 14^th International ARC Salon entries. This content has not been edited for typos or grammatical errors and has not been vetted for accuracy.