January 2008
Guest artist: Ann Marie Ferreira
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Ann Marie Ferreira, who as a child survived the attack on Pearl Harbor, went on to study art. She earned her B.A. AND M.A. at CSU Sacramento as well as Calif. Life teaching credentials in both Elementary and Secondary Education. She completed her M.F.A. at CSU Long Beach while teaching in the Santa Monica Schools.
She taught at Santa Monica High for 13 yrs and served as director of Roberts Art Gallery for seven years. She refereed art classes at John Adams Middle School for 11 yrs.
She participated in the LACMA Art Rental and Sales Gallery, Corporate Division since 1986 and the UCLA Armand Hammer Rental and Sales Registry from 1994 until it closed in 2001.
Her work is in many private and corporate collections. Since retiring from teaching she spends her time producing large collages, oil paintings and assemblages in her Mar Vista studio.
She is married to Tom Ferreira, retired Dean of the College of the Arts at CSULB.
The motivation for Ann Marie’s work has its basis in love of the act of painting itself. It relates to many precepts of Abstract Expressionism such as unpremeditated self-discovery and intuitive experimentation.
Her oversized collages come from old calendars, seed catalogues, flower bulb packages, magazine advertisements and food boxes. She sees them as whimsical time capsules; luminous images that have roots in personal experience.
For more information and images, visit Ann Marie’s online gallery. (Note: For best results, browse using Internet Explorer. On Firefox or Safari, scroll to the right to view images.)
