Inez Storer, Memories from the Backlot at Seager Gray Gallery

INEZ STORER:

Memories from the Backlot

I N E Z S T O R E R : Memories from the Backlot

I N E Z S T O R E R : Memories from the Backlot October 6 - November 8, 2015 Reception for the Artist: Saturday, October 10, 5:30 - 7:30 pm Announcing the release of Inez Storer: Allow Nothing to Worry You, a book about her life and work.

Gallery talk and book signing, Saturday, October 24, 4 - 6 pm

Front Cover: Danilova, 2015, oil/mixed media on panel, 45 x 45 in Back Cover: Endangered Species, 2015, oil/mixed media on panel, 20 x 20 in Essay Š 2015 Paul Liberatore Photo Credit: ToddPickering.com Catalog Design: Donna Seager, Seager Gray Gallery Direct all inquiries to: Seager Gray Gallery 108 Throckmorton Ave. Mill Valley, CA 94941 All rights reserved.

Memories from the Backlot

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I. Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you’ll find the real tinsel underneath.

- Oscar Levant

Paul Liberatore

As the daughter of an Oscar-nominated art director, Inez Storer grew up in the glamour and opulence of the golden era of Hollywood in the 1940s and ’50s, learning from personal experience about the creative freedom that comes from the movie industry’s world of fantasy and make believe, its theatricality, grand illusions and cheap tricks.

It’s that Tinsel Town family history that informs “Memories of the Backlot,” an exhibition of Storer’s work at the Seager Gray Gallery in Mill Valley that showcases her celebrated cinematic style.

“Her paintings are like storyboards, where Scheherazade might be having lunch with Superman while musicians and costumed extras rush to get to the set on time.’” says Donna Seager, co-owner of the gallery with partner Suzanne Gray.

Born in Santa Monica in 1933, Storer lived with her parents and younger brother in Pacific Palisades, an oceanside enclave nestled between Brentwood and Malibu. Her schoolmates were the sons and daughters of Hollywood people, from stars to directors and technicians like her father, who had been trained as an architect. She remembers having the kids of director Darryl Zanuck and films stars John Gilbert and Virginia Bruce as playmates.

Her actress mother was a German Jew who emigrated to the U.S. in 1927. Soon thereafter she returned to her native Berlin, but fled back to the states when Hitler took power in 1932.

“She never revealed anything about her prior life,” Storer says. ”She denied her Jewish identity almost to the day she died.”

It was her father, German-born Franz Bachelin, a dashing former World War I fighter pilot, who would show her the man behind the curtain, introducing her to the artistic theatricality, the absurdity and fantasy and what she calls the “unrealized form of danger” that would later appear in her art.

All through childhood, until she went off to college in the early 1950s, she’d tag along with him to Paramount Studios while he worked on such films as Billy Wilder’s 1953 classic “Stalag 17” and the 1955 World War II drama “The Sea Chase,” starring John Wayne and Lana Turner. He earned Academy Award nominations for the 1959 adaptation of the Jules Verne classic “Journey to

the Center of the Earth” and the King Vidor-directed “War and Peace” with Audrey Hepburn and Mel Ferrer.

“He made well over 100 films,” she says one afternoon in her airy West Marin studio, the paintings she was working on for this show leaning against walls and propped up on easels and work tables like brightly colored packages.

II. Well, you know what they say in Hollywood - the most important thing is being sincere, even if you have to fake it.

-Cesar Romero

“From the time I was about 9 to about 15, my father would take me to work with him and I would watch them film. I’d prowl around and go behind the sets, seeing that they were held up by scaffolding. They looked real from the front, but they were fake. For Westerns, they had a backdrop that they would use over and over again. My father used to say, ‘Oh, it’s not important. It’s make-believe.’”

That make believe quality of storytelling and artistic artifice emerges in the randomness, the incongruity and what Storer calls “the magical realism” of her art.

“I have things that don’t belong in my paintings,” she explains. “Through collage, I glue dissimilar objects and images. It’s the same as in film. You can do anything. It’s all make-believe.”

In a painting she’s titled “Hollywoodland,” after the original spelling on the famed Hollywood sign, an Asian art image of a peacock coexists with gaudy drips of fuchsia and pink.

“That’s very Hollywood in the 1940s,” she says, noting that it was inspired by the interior decoration her father did for the Beverly Hills home of John Farrow, Mia Farrow’s father.

“Peacocks were one of the symbols of opulence,” she continues. “Everything was flamboyant and pink. I went to dancing school at the Beverly Hills Hotel.

It was all part of how I grew up.”

Storer’s father may have been the first fascinating man in her life, but he was by no means her last. Her ex-husband, Tom Storer, was a Marin County Supervisor who ran for congress and lost in the general election soon after the death of Robert Kennedy.

-------------------------Hollywood Land oil and mixed media on panel 45 x 45 in 2015

Since the 1970s, she has been married to Andrew Romanoff, the grandnephew of Czar Nicholas II, the last emperor of Russia. She met him in West Marin in the 1970s when he was a widower and she was a struggling single mother.

At the same time, she earned a bachelors degree from Dominican University in San Rafael and a masters from San Francisco State, and she’s taught at UC Davis and UC Santa Cruz, Sonoma State and the San Francisco Art Institute, among other institutions.

When she and Andrew got together, she took on the formidable role of caring for a blended family of six children, four of hers and two of his. Rather than keep her from working as an artist, though, the challenges of riding herd on a brood like that had the inadvertent effect of inspiring the collage method she has refined and developed ever since.

“I was juggling the demands of motherhood and the collage process was perfectly suited for the many frequent interruptions that beset a mother of young children,” she wrote in “Allow Nothing to Worry You,” a 2015 book about her life and work. “I could pick something off my studio table and simply glue it to a surface. Anything could happen, a narrative could be found (using) the closest materials at hand.”

III. Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

- Winston Churchill

In that book, art historian Bill Berkson writes, “Along with its prodigious sensual attractions, Inez Storer’s art is good history, comprising family memories – her own and, by extension, those of her husband, Andrew, ‘the last of the Romanovs.’”

During a visit to Russia to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the Romanov’s reign, the couple toured the Gatchina Palace in St. Petersburg where her husband’s uncle grew up. It had been nearly destroyed by the Nazis and was only partially restored. For this show, Storer created “Greta at Gatchina,” a mixed-media image of one of the palace’s reconstructed rooms with a long red carpet dissecting a checkerboard floor, the checkerboard a recurring theme in the artist’s work.

“They are very slowly restoring the palace, but they don’t have the money,” she says. “So this piece reflects the former grandeur, the let-them-eat cake kind of thing from the past and, at the same time, the dichotomy that they can’t afford to finish the job. All they had in the room was a red carpet that led to nowhere.

It was quite bizarre.”

-------------------------A Room in the Palace oil/mixed media on panel 46 x 46 in 2015

The room is viewed through a gilded proscenium that Storer remembered seeing in another once grand palace gone to seed. In a recess on the painting, she has inserted a ghostly image of Greta Garbo that she had made from a photo of an earlier painting of the famously reclusive actress, “conflating the realms of Hollywood fantasy and Tsarist Russia,” writer Maria Porges notes in an essay on Storer’s backlot pieces.

An empty blue chair in the left foreground is reserved for the elderly pensioners who sit in the once grand rooms acting as irascible security guards, scolding any tourist with the audacity to snap a photo. “There are always these babushkas sitting in these chairs,” she says. “That’s how they earn their money. If you take

a picture they hiss at you, or they get up and accost you.”

Storer, who lives in a rambling old hotel in Inverness and works most days in her studio across Tomales Bay in Point Reyes Station, says her art usually has an aspect of implied history in images and ideas that are often inspired by the dolls and toys, trinkets and ephemera in what she calls her “home collections.”

A vintage postcard was the source material for “Danilova,” a mixed-media panel focused on Aleksandra Danilova, a Russian-born prima ballerina, who became an American citizen and was recognized for lifetime achievements in ballet as a Kennedy Center Honoree in 1989. Eight years later she died in New York at 93.

Storer says she likes things to be a little off balance or out of time or space. In “Danilova,” the dancer looks suspended in the middle of the frame surrounded by various objects (there’s that blue chair again) and what could be the makings of one of her father’s sets in the background.

Dramas and plots abound in Storer’s recent work. Ocean liners ply aquamarine oceans, a Depression era game board proclaims “Back to prosperity” and Dick Tracy represents a pop culture image from the past in his bright yellow trenchcoat.

Writing about the painting “Seven Days to Make the World,” now in the permanent collection of the de Young Museum in San Francisco, Timothy Anglin Burgard, the de Young’s Curator of American Art, made note of Storer’s “conscious cultivation of a child’s drawing style,” saying her work “introduces the theme of memory, and also accentuates the sincerity and humanity of her art.”

Throughout this show, memories from the artist’s fascinating childhood as well as her life as an artist, wife, mother and teacher form a visual leitmotif, inviting viewers to let their imaginations take them on journeys of their own.

-------------------------Danilova oil/mixed media on panel 45 x 45 in 2015

-------------------------Jazz oil/mixed media on panel 48 x 32 in 2015

-----------------------Theater oil/mixed media on panel 60 x 48 in 2015

-------------------------Matisse in Havana oil/mixed media on panel 16 x 24 in 2015

-------------------------View from her Room oil/mixed media on panel 20 x 20 in 2015

-------------------------Dick Tracy oil/mixed media on panel 24 x 24 in 2015

------------------------------Greta at Gatchina Palace oil/mixed media on panel 39 x 31 in 2015

----------------------Divan oil/mixed media on panel 39 x 31.5 in 2015

------------------------------Radio Time oil/mixed media on panel 15.25 x 19.25 in 2015

----------------------Regatta oil/mixed media on panel 20 x 20 in 2015

------------------------------High Finance oil/mixed media on panel 24 x 24 in 2015

------------------------------Back to Prosperity oil/mixed media on panel 24 x 20

------------------------------Mail Route oil/mixed media on panel 21 x 36 in 2015

------------------------------Endangered Species oil/mixed media on panel 2o x 20 in 2015

------------------------------Dressing Table oil/mixed media on panel 26.5 x 23.5 in 2015

------------------------------Float oil/mixed media on panel 39 x 31 in 2015

------------------------------The Challengers oil/mixed media on panel 39 x 31.5 in 2015

------------------------------Chinese Tea Ceremony oil/mixed media on panel 45 x 45 in 2015

INEZ STORER Born: Santa Monica, CA Lives/works: Inverness, CA

2001

EDUCATION 1971 Master of Fine Arts, California State University, San Francisco, CA 1970 Bachelor of Arts, Dominican College, San Rafael, CA 1951-1955 San Francisco College for Women, San Francisco, CA University of California, Berkeley, CA San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA Art Center, Los Angeles, CA

2000

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2015 Memories from the Backl ot, Seager Gray Gallery, Mill Valley CA 2014 Hidden Agendas, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID 2014 Collage, Petaluma Art Center, Petaluma, CA 2013 Made up Stories From an Imagined Past, Seager Gray, Mill Valley, CA 2012 Then and Now, Smith Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto, CA Recent Works, Sonoma County Museum, Santa Rosa, CA 2011 Sue Greenwood Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA 2010 Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2009 Inez Storer, “Insinuations”, Lobby Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2008 Inez Storer, Grover Thurston Gallery, Seattle, WA Inez Storer, Marin Museum of Modern Art, Novato, CA 2007 Backlot: Escape from Hollywood, Donna Seager Gallery, San Rafael, CA Inez Storer, Sue Greenwood Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA Inez Storer, Anne Reed Gallery, Ketchum, ID 2006 Inez Storer, Grover Thurston Gallery, Seattle, WA Postcards from the Road, Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Ojai, CA Inez Storer, Grover Thurston Gallery, Seattle, WA 2005 Seismic Fallout, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA Inez Storer, Greenwood Chebithes Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA Inez Storer, Anne Reed Gallery, Ketchum, ID Inez Storer, Missoula Museum of Art, Missoula, MT 2004 Inez Storer, New Work, Grover/ Thurston Gallery, Seattle, WA Inez Storer, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA Inez Storer, Finn Center, Mountain View, CA Inez Storer, Intimate Realities, Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Ojai, CA Inez Storer, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA Inez Storer, National Museum of Jewish American History, Phil., PA

Museum of Jewish History, Philadelphia, PA 2003 Theatrical Realism: The Art of Inez Storer, retrospective, de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara , University, Santa Clara, CA (cagtalogue) An Artist’s Artist: The Legacy of Inez Storer, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA Inez Storer: Encore Narratives, Villa Montalvo, Saratoga, CA Inez Storer: Layers and Secrets, Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, CA Inez Storer, Dennis Morgan Museum, Kansas City, MO 2002 The Empress Never Left Her Rooms before Noon…, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA Inez Storer, Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Lies/Fantasies, Grover/Thurston Gallery, Seattle, WA

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Startling Disclosures, Jack Meier Gallery, Houston, TX Elder Arts, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA Unsung Heroes, ArtWorks Downtown, San Rafael, CA Inez Storer, Grover/Thurston Gallery, Seattle, WA Inez Storer, Tippy Stern Gallery, Charleston, SC The Voyage of Your Dreams, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA Inez Storer, Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Implied Histories, Jack Meier Gallery, Houston, TX Distinguished Artist Award 1999, Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA Mendocino College Art Gallery, Ukiah, CA Smith Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto, CA Augen Gallery, Portland, OR Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Jack Meier Gallery, Houston, TX Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA Jack Meier Gallery, Houston, TX Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL Falkirk’s Life Work Award, Falkirk Cultural Center, San Rafael, CA Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, CA Olga Dollar Gallery, San Francisco, CA Smith Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto, CA Olga Dollar Gallery, San Francisco, CA AKI EX Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Christopher Grimes Gallery, Carmel, CA Art Contact Isakavski Church, St. Petersburg, Russia (catalogue) Jeremy Stone Gallery, San Francisco, CA Takashimaya Art Gallery, Yokohama, Japan Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, CA Space Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Smith Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto, CA Richard J. Nelson Gallery, University of California at Davis, CA San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, CA Smith Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto, CA Smith Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto, CA William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, CA Mills College, Oakland, CA Reno Museum of Art, Reno, NV Triangle Gallery, San Francisco, CA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2014 Rice Pollak Gallery, Provincetown, ME Yuma Fine Arts Association; “Grand Naratives”; Magnolia Editions: Era and DonFarnsworth, Andrew Romanoff, Inez Storer, Yuma, Arizona 2012 The Female Gaze: Women Artists Making Their World, Linda Lee Alter Collection of Art by Women, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; Philadelphia, PA The Nude”; Studio Quercus; Oakland, CA Digital Mixed Media” Petaluma Arts Center, Petaluma, CA Gender Specific: Take It or Leave It”; Smith Andersen Editions, Palo Alto, CA Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA

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Chain Reaction”; de Saisset Museum; University of Santa Clara, Santa Clara, CA Kala Art Institute; Berkeley, CA Turner/Carrol Gallery, Santa Fe, NM Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID Story Painters: Drawings, Paintings, Prints and Tapestries by Squeak Carnwath, Hung Liu & Inez Storer, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA Unbound, A National Exhibition of Book Art, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA The book as Art: Artists’ Books From the National Museum of Women in the Arts, McMMullen, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA Inez Storer/Andrew Romanoff; Smith Andersen Editions, Palo Alto, CA Inez Storer, Thomas Paul Gallery, Los Angeles, CA New Acquisitions, di Rosa Perserve: Art & Nature, Napa, CA Eighteen Profiles: Distinguished Women Artists of CA, Fresno Art

Museum, Fresno, CA Found, di Rosa Preserve: Art & Nature, Napa, CA Paint on Metal: Modern and Contemporary Explorations and Discoveries, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ Painted Ladies; William Cannon Art Gallery, Carlsbad Cultural Arts Center, Carlsbad, CA It’s About Time: Celebrating 35 Years, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA The True Artist is an Amazing Luminous Fountain, di Rosa Preserve: Art & Nature, Napa, CA Au Naturel, di Rosa Preserve: Art & Nature, Napa, CA The Legacy Show, San Jose Institute for Contemporary Art, San Jose,CA Cut, Copy, Paste: The Art of Contemporary Collage, de Saisset Museum , Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA University of CA Berkeley Art Alumni Group Juried Exhibition, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA Individual Artist Granters, Falkirk Gallery, San Rafael, CA Trillium Press: Past, Present and Future, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA Elder Arts, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA Reconstructing Reality, Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, CA Collecting Our Thoughts: The Community Responds to Art and Our Permanent Collection, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA 10th Anniversary Exhibition, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA Contemporary Devotion, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA Retablos and San Francisco Drawings, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA The Art of Collaborative Printmaking, Smith Andersen Editions, Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee,WI Diane Nelson Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA The Art of Collaborative Printmaking, Smith Andersen Gallery, NV Art Museum, Reno, NV Seas, Lakes and Rivers, San Francisco Airport Commission, San Francisco, CA Group Exhibition, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA In and out of the Cold, inaugural Exhibition, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA Couples, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA In Out of the Cold, Inaugural Exhibit, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts;

San Francisco, CA SELECTED PUBLICATIONS “Mementos” (Boxed Set 30 images), Chronicle Books, San Francisco, CA “Petite Histoires”, Text by Marie Dern, Jungle Garden Press, Fairfax, CA, 2002 “The Uneventful Life of Doña Carmen y Costanza”, Jungle Garden Press, Fairfax, CA, 1997 “Selections from the Permanent Collection”, Suzanne Landaur, The San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA “The Book As Art” National Museum of Women in the Arts; Krystyna Wasserman, Washington, D.C. “The Art Collection of Pacific Enterprises”, Jan Butterfield, 1991 “100 Artists of the West Coast”, Douglas Bullis, 2003 SELECTED CATALOGUES Eighteen Profiles: Distinguished Women Artists of CA, Twenty-Year Survey 19862006, Fresno Museum of Art, Fresno, CA, 2006 Paint on Metal: Modern and Contemporary explorations and discoveries, Tucson Museum of Art, 2005 Selections, The San Jose Museum of Art Permanent Collection, San Jose Museum of Art, 2004 Art Contemporaries, Museum of Contemporary Art, Luther Burbank Center for the Arts, 2004 Artist at Work: Inez Storer by Tucker Nichols Human Imaging, GE Yokogawa Medical Systems, Cove, Tokyo, Japan Happenings, VC Reporter, September 4, 2003 Theatrical Realism: The Art of Inez Storer, curated by Karen Kienzle, essays by Bill Berkson, Andrea Pappas, Cathy Kimball and Karen Kienzle, de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA, September 27- December 7, 2003 Inez Storer: Implied Histories, Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA A Past, A Prince, A Poet: The Discoveries of Inez Storer, curated by Jacqueline Pilar, essay by Meredith Tromble, September 7 – October 31, 1999 The Art of Collaborative Printmaking; Smith Andersen Editions, NV Museum of Art, Reno, NV, 1998 lnez Storer, Life Award (Retrospective Exhibition), Essay by Phil Linhares, Falkirk Cultural Center, San Rafael, CA, 1995 In and Out of the Cold, Center for the Arts at Yerba Buena Gardens, curated by Renny Pritkin, San Francisco, CA 1994 Here and Now: Bay Area Masterworks from the René di Rosa Collection, Oakland Art Museum, Oakland, CA, 1994 Ventriloquist, Nicholas Africano, Manuel Neri, Oliver Jackson, Inez Storer, (sponsored by Scios Nova), American Psychiatric Association, San Francisco, CA, 1993 Inez Storer, Olga Dollar Gallery, essay by Bill Berkson, Richmond Printing, San Francisco, CA, 1993 Fetish, Myth and Legend, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL, 1978 SELECTED BOOKS Mementos, Chronicle Books, San Francisco, CA 2004 100 Artists of the West Coast, Douglas Bullis, Schiffer Publishing, 2003 West Coast Artists, Ed. By Douglas Bullis, Los Angeles, CA, 2003 Local Color: The di Rosa Collection of Contemporary CA Art, essays by Tessa DeCarlo, Rene di Rosa, Maria Porges, Robert McDonald, Richard Reisman, Chronicle Books, San Francisco, CA, 1999

Dain Bosworth Art Collection, Minneapolis, MN, 1992 500 Years Since Columbus,Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA, Jan/Mar, 1992 Crowning Achievements, San Francisco Airport Commission, San Francisco, CA, 1992-93 The Art Collection of Pacific Enterprises, by Jan Butterfield, Pub. Pacific Enterprises, Los Angeles, CA, Yesterday and Tomorrow: CA Women Artists, Edited by Sylvia March, Midmarch Arts Press, New York, NY, Essay by Robert Loach, 1989 The Art of CA, Oakland Art Museum, Oakland, CA, 1984 Four Artists from CA, the Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1980 Artists’ Christmas Cards, compiled by Steven Heller, A & W Publishers, New York, NY, 1979 Who’s Who in American Art, Bowker Cattel Press, Ed., NY/London, 1978 Up My Coast, Illus. lnez Storer, Poetry by Joanne Kyger, Floating Island Publications, Point Reyes Station, CA, 1977 O Children of The Wind and Pines, Illus.by Inez Storer, Story by Laura Nelson Baker, J.P. Lippincott, New York, NY, 1967 Prize Winning Watercolors, Compiled by Margaret Harold, Allied Publications, Inc., FL, 1964 SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY Nichols, Tucker, Artist at Work: Inez Storer, Art Contemporaries, summer 2004 Van Proyen, Mark, Inez Storer at the De Saisset Museum, Art in America, October 2004 Fallon, Roberta, Secrets and Lives, Philadelphia Weekly, Philadelphia, PA, April 28, 2004 Sozanski, Ed, Identity and Inner Struggle on Canvas, Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia, PA, March 26, 2004 Ed. Dear Diary, I’m Jewish, Philadelphia Inquirer, (Weekend Section), May 21, 2004 Campbell, Rob, Real and Imaginary, Inez Storer’s Haunting Charms, VC Reporter, June 10, 2004 Fallon, Roberta, Secrets and Lives, Philadelphia Weekly, May 19-25, 2004 Woodard, Josef, In a dreamy State of Mind, The Los Angeles Times, July 1, 2004 Whiteside, Amber, Inez Storer at Montalvo Gallery, Artweek, Volume 35, Issue 1, February 2004 Woodard, Josef, A Welcome Addition in Ojai, The Los Angeles Times, October 23, 2003 Garchik, Leah, The In Crowd, Out and About, The San Francisco Chronicle Trafton, Robin, Dennis Morgan Gallery, Kansas City Star, Kansas City, KS, September 5, 2003 Zell, Valerie, Dennis Morgan Gallery, Kansas City Star, Kansas City, KS, October 3, 2003 Fischer, Jack, Conjuring Worlds from Bits and Pieces, San Jose Mercury News, May 27, 2003 Fischer, Jack, Evocative Art Painted From Memory, Mercury News, San Jose, CA, October 26, 2003 Schapp, Rebecca, De Saisset: le temps, de Saisset Museum News, Fall 2003 Sheets, Sally, Artists Dialogue, Marin Independent Journal, May 2, 2002 Rhodes, Kristen, Not So Naive: Inez Storer’s Recent Work, Charleston City Paper, Vol. 4, Issue 25, February 14, 2001 Hale, David, Art That Reconstructs the Past, The Fresno Bee, October 29, 1999 New American Paintings #19 Pacific Coast, Open Studios Press, Wellesley, Maine, 1999

Weinstein, Natalie, Marin Artist’s Canvas Confronts Hidden Past, Jewish Bulletin (San Francisco), April 1997 Karkabi, Barbara, Couple Created Marriage of Art and History, Houston Chronicle, Houston, TX, June 2, 1996 Ashley, Beth, Visual Poetry Colors Artist’s World, Marin Independent Journal, San Rafael, CA, Feb. 18, 1996 Maclay, Katherine, Two Artists Look at Love, Mixed Doubles, San Jose Mercury News, San Jose, CA, April 9, 1993 Webster, Mary Hull, Between Thee and Me, Artweek, June 18 (cover), San Jose, CA, 1992 Wiewel, Evelyn, The Well Appointed Bar, San Francisco Magazine, Vol.3, #5 May 1991 Berkson, Bill, lnez Storer, Art Forum, New York, NY, April 1990 Perlman, Jeffrey, Checking into Art: Chicago’s Fairmont Hotel Makes Art a Way of Life, Art Today, Chicago, IL, Vol.2, 1990 Brookman, Donna, A Bay Area Diversity, Artweek, Oakland, CA, October 15, 1988 Burkhart, Dorothy, Feminine Statements, San Jose Mercury News, San Jose, CA, October 14, 1988 Shere, Charles, Bay Area State of Mind Lives in New Abstracts, Oakland Tribune, Oakland, CA, June 23, 1987 Solnit, Rebecca, Arts, Pacific Sun, San Rafael, CA, September 4-10, 1987 Baker, Kenneth, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco, CA, July 9, 1987 Burkhart, Dorothy, Critic’s Choice, San Jose Mercury News, San Jose, CA, June 28, 1986 Lagoria, Irene, Monterey Herald, Monterey, CA, March 23, 1986 Solnit, Rebecca, A Familiar Future, Artweek, Oakland, CA, July 13, 1985 SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS Boise Museum of Art, Boise, Idaho de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA di Rosa Preserve: Art & Nature, Napa, CA First Interstate World Center (I.M. Pei architect); Los Angeles, CA (mural) Lannan Museum, Fort Worth, Florida Oakland Art Museum, Oakland, CA San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA Missoula Museum of Art, Missoula, Montana University of CA Davis, Davis, CA Museum of Jewish History, Philadelphia, PA TEACHING 1981 - 89 San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA (Faculty) 1976 - 88 Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA 1981 UC Davis, Davis, CA (Visiting Faculty) 1976 UC Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA (Visiting Faculty) 1970 - 73 California State University, San Francisco, CA 1968 - 79 College of Marin, Kentfield, CA