ALMOST HUMAN: Livia Stein, New Work
February 7 - March 21, 2020

Evocative and enigmatic, Stein's work in Almost Human touches on core elements of Being in expressive and colorful pieces. This solo expansive exhibition includes free-form figurative works on paper, along with framed mixed media pieces and a number of large scale paintings. Stein's presence is keenly felt in the fierce spirit and command of paint evident throughout and well recognized as the hallmark of her work. 

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Livia Stein, Two Beasts, 2019, oil on canvas, 72" x 72"

Livia Stein was born in Dallas, Texas, and then raised in and around Los Angeles and Orange County. She studied History at UC Berkeley and pursued a master’s degree in South Asian Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.  She spent several months in India as a student and has continued to travel there during the past 20 years. Influenced to do photography by her father, a talented amateur photographer, she studied at Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles, though ultimately, she received her Master’s at San Francisco State University, Center for Interdisciplinary and Experimental Art, founded by Jock Reynolds, now the director of the Yale University Art Museum.  Formerly a Professor of Art at Dominican University in San Rafael, Stein now lives in Oakland where she maintains a studio.

She received an NEA Fellowship while studying Indian History and Art at the University of Pennsylvania. More recently she was an Artist in Residence in Baroda, India. In 2007 she had a Residency at the de Young Museum in San Francisco, which included a Solo Exhibition of her Paintings.  She was again in India for a Painting Residency just outside New Delhi, winter 2012.  And in November of 2015 she was a visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome, and has since completed a Residency in Morocco.

Stein’s work has been exhibited in Europe, South America, India and throughout the United States ,and is in the collection of the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, Oakland Museum of California, Dominican University, and University of Iowa Art Museum, to name a few.