Rochelle Mason, Painter
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Rochelle Mason, Painter  Rochelle Mason has been painting animals professionally
since 1980 and in 1990 began
focusing her career on endangered species. She is especially passionate
about
representing unpopular animals and those that get little public
attention.
"My Mom taught me the most valuable lesson about animals when I was young: respect them and learn from them", says Rochelle. "At the time, I was dealing with a spider." Knowing most people don't like animals such as snakes and spiders and bats and bugs, it became Mason's personal mission to help people transcend "speciesism", connect with nature and change their perceptions about these misunderstood creatures. Numerous traveling art exhibitions featured primarily in natural history museums and her nationally-published column, "Focus on NatureTM: Insight into the Lives of Animals", help Rochelle accomplish this mission. Mason's new series of abstract paintings reveals alluring attributes of these unpopular animals, so ambiguous viewers get immersed in currents of color, eddies of paint and intriguing, whimsical shapes that beg a closer look, inviting curiosity and fascination. A science degree in
Veterinary Technology, neatly tucked in her back pocket,
has been advantageous in understanding the anatomy of who and what
she's
painting, from arthropod skeletal structure to wing venation. Rochelle
also
weaves her interests in cosmology and quantum mechanics into her work
by
defining loose, spontaneous brush strokes, adding minute details and
offering
close-up perspectives. Resumé Rochelle Mason (c. 1958, Chicago) Exhibitions 2007-2013 Focus on Nature: Wildcats of the World (2 artists) Midwest Museum of Natural History; Sycamore, Illinois Discovery Museum, World Forestry Center; Portland, Oregon Earl Bane Gallery; Salina, Kansas Bern Natural History Museum; Bern, Switzerland Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History; Pacific Grove, California Oxford University Museum of Natural History; Oxford, England Feline Conservation Federation; Dallas, Texas 1999 Untitled (solo exhibition) Animal Art Gallery; Menlo Park, California 1995 Hawaii’s Endangered Species(solo exhibition) Bishop Museum; Honolulu, Hawaii Ho’omaluhia Botanical Gardens; Honolulu, Hawaii Lyman Museum; Hilo, Hawaii Kaua’i Museum; Lihue, Hawaii Volcano Art Center Gallery; Volcano, Hawaii 1991-1994 California’s Endangered Species(solo exhibition) Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History; Pacific Grove, California San Diego Natural History Museum; San Diego, California Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge; Newark, California Yosemite Museum; Yosemite National Park, California Coastal Gallery; Half Moon Bay, California San Francisco International Airport; San Francisco, California Big Basin Redwoods State Park; Boulder Creek, California Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park; Felton, California Coyote Point Museum; San Mateo, California Lindsay Wildlife Museum; Walnut Creek, California Point Reyes National Seashore; Point Reyes, California State Capitol Building, Sacramento, California Illustrated columns 1998-2006 Focus on Nature: Insight into the Lives of Animals Wildlife Art Magazine Hawaii Island Journal Coast Views Magazine Half Moon Bay Review Endangered Species UPDATE (University of Michigan) ESA Today (Endangered Species Coalition) Endangered Species Bulletin (US Fish & Wildlife Service) Feline Conservation Federation Magazine Turtle Talk (Sea Turtle Preservation Society) Endangered Species and Wetlands Report Outdoor America Magazine (Isaak Walton League of America) Mockingbird Chronicles (South Plains Wildlife Rehabilitation Center) Big Island Drive Guide News of the Lepidopterist's Society Volcano Community News Arts for the AnimalsTM 1992-1995 Arts for the AnimalsTM, created by Rochelle Mason, is/was a contest and exhibit of endangered species artwork created by school children to help increase their understanding of these species through active involvement. Private Collections Wildlife Conservation Research Unit; Abingdon, England Additional works held in private collections in Tokyo, Japan; California; North Carolina Selected Bibliography "Wildkatzen dieser Welt", Schweizer Familie Magazine, Bern, Switzerland Mar 2009 "Feline Conservation Federation News", Feline Conservation Federation, monthly issues, 2007-2009 “Natures Way”, Wildlife Art Magazine, Mar/Apr 2006 O’Neill, Gwen “Arts and Entertainment”, Coast Views Magazine, Half Moon Bay, California, Nov 2005 Trevenon, Stacy “Spotlighting Species on the Brink”, Half Moon Bay Review, Half Moon Bay, California, June 10, 1998 “Bay Area Artists Capture Pets on Canvas”, San Francisco Chronicle, November 12, 1997 Art contribution, Wildlife Art Magazine, Mar/Apr 1996 Panofsky, Marilyn “Artist of the Month”, Coast Views Magazine, Half Moon Bay, California, Dec 1995 “Educating with art”, Hawaii Tribune Herald, Hilo, Hawaii, May 10, 1995 Japanese Beach Press, March 24-April 6, 1995 Windward Sun Press, Kaneohe, HI, March 16-22, 1995 “Hawaii’s Endangered Species”, The Honolulu Advertiser, Honolulu, Hawaii, December 16, 1994 Neswitz, Margye “Social Scene”, Monterey County Herald, Monterey, California, August 2, 1994 Friedman, Julius “Saving Animals with Art”, Monterey County Herald, July 15, 1994 “Art News”, The Carmel Pine Cone, Carmel, California, July 14 and 28, 1994 Coastside Journal, Half Moon Bay, California, Dec 8, 1993 “Museum exhibits Endangered Species”, San Diego Sentinel, October 21, 1993 “Montage”, San Mateo County Times, San Mateo, California, May 6, 1992 Hayde, Monica “Peninsula Names & Faces”, The Times Tribune, San Mateo, California, April 24, 1992 Donnelly, Kathleen “Man’s Best Friend”, Palo Alto Weekly, Palo Alto, California, March 23, 1988 Grants and Awards 1995 Artist-in-Residence Grant; Volcano Art Center, Volcano, Hawaii 1993 Grant to Individual Artists; Peninsula Community Foundation, San Mateo, California Lectures and Public Speaking 2007 Lecture, Feline Conservation Federation; Dallas, Texas 1995 Interview, KWXX Radio; Hilo, Hawaii 1995 Interview, ABC Radio Australia; Victoria, Australia 1995 Lecture, Hawaii Volcanoes National Park; Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, Hawaii 1991 Lecture, State Capitol Building; Sacramento, California |
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