March 2009
Guest artist: Eliza M. Schmid
Our March speaker was Eliza M. Schmid, whose fascinating artwork was on exhibition recently at Bergamot Station. Her work reaches across the country from galleries in Los Angeles to Santa Fe to New York.
Eliza is a retired psychoanalyst who was born and raised in post World War II Vienna, Austria. In 1976 she received a fellowship at Stanford and moved to California. She worked as a psychiatrist and also as an assistant clinical professor at UCLA. Later in life she was able to attend a private art school and then moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico.
This generous artist drove to Los Angeles to speak to us and donated one of her pieces from the Bergamot exhibition to our raffle.
Visit Eliza's website for more information. Some of her collages are shown below, and you can find more of her wonderful collages at Daily Painters New Mexico (select Eliza Schmid from Artists menu on left side) and The Creative Center Arts.
