ARTIST’S STATEMENT

“My main concern as an artist is with the painterly process, the interaction of color and visual concepts. Primarily, my paintings are acrylic on canvas. Having an eclectic taste, I have also explored oil, pastel, assemblage, photography, and color xerox. Through figural information, a selective eye and my own visual perception, I translate visual imagery into concept and form which produces visual harmonics and tonal synthesis”.

PROFILE

Lois Stecker is one of San Diego’s best-loved artists, renowned for her tireless enthusiasm, boundless energy, and unwavering support of the local art scene. Stecker graduated with a B.A. in art history from Wheaton College (Mass) in 1940, with additional studies at Idyllwild School of Music and the Arts and UCSD Extension. She also studied under several well-known painters locally, including William Bowne, Harold Gregor, and Michael Wheeldon.

Stecker is primarily known as a painter whose works are characterized by an excellent sense of design and color, and technical finesse. She works in several styles ranging from abstraction to realism. Much of her inspiration is drawn from traveling and attending countless museum and gallery exhibitions throughout the United States and Canada. Her works are in many private and corporate collections, including Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation (Green Hospital), which own seven of her paintings, and the Southland Corporation of Dallas, Texas. She is currently a member of the San Diego Museum of Art Artists Guild, the San Diego Art Institute, and the Clairemont Art Guild.