Kathy Mason Lerner’s work emerges through many layers of oil on canvas, in a rich spectrum of vibrant and pulsating color. Beginning as plein-air studies that are then finished in the studio the paintings principle origins are rooted in the natural world.
The artist’s path into the art world began by studying Art History at UCLA. She then attended the Art Institute and San Francisco State University where she majored in studio arts. She also studied under former Harvard Fog Art Museum instructor, Barbara Pierce. In the early 1990’s she was awarded a Diebenkorn scholarship at the Santa Fe Institute of Arts, where she became a master at capturing light and layering colors under the tutelage of the acclaimed American artist, Wolf Kahn.
Solo museum exhibitions include; The De Young, Los Gatos Museum of Art, San Diego Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and The National Academy of Design, New York. She has been collected by Salvador Dali, Hunter S. Thompson, Dizzy Gillespie, Dr. Alexander Theroux, Wavy Gravy, and the Papyrus Corporation.
Kathy Mason Lerner
