Colored Horse Studios, Ukiah CA

Category & Type :

Artists

Location :

780 Waugh Lane , Ukiah CA

Phone :

707-462-4557

Website :

http://www.coloredhorse.com

Information about Colored Horse Studios...

A California poet, graphic designer, and letterpress printer, Theresa Whitehill currently serves as the City of Ukiah's Poet Laureate for a two-year term that begin in April of 2009. In addition to poetry, her literary work includes poetic essay, letterpress broadsides, copywriting, and commissions. She is well known to Mendocino County audiences as an expressive performer.

Whitehill has written on behalf of Stags' Leap Winery, Alice Waters, and Appellation Magazine, and has partnered with chef and author Shannon Hughes to create culinary poetry events blending her poetry with Hughes' menus.

As a book arts student of Mills College, Whitehill has produced a body of letterpress broadsides. Her letterpress work and poetry are in the collections of the Getty Museum, the John Hay Library of Brown University, the Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley, and Stanford's Special Collections Library.

Pygmy Forest Press published her current book of poetry, A Natural History of Mill Towns, in November of 2009.A native of Lisbon, Portugal, Paulo has lived most of his life abroad–England, France, the Netherlands, Germany, Spain, and the United States. His work encompasses oil painting, often incorporating encaustic and marble dust; assemblage; and bronze, marble, and ceramic sculpture.

He first attended art school in Lisbon, and continued his studies abroad before coming to New York in the 1970s where he managed the Ohio, an off-off-Broadway theater. His artistic vision has been influenced by Sol LeWitt, Frank Stella, Van Gogh, Turner, Delacroix, and velvet paintings. The basic desire to create has driven the spirit on a dialogue of paradox, sentiment, and aesthetics reflecting the different cultures of this planet in the space that exists between an object and its observer.

Paulo's professional experience includes interior and graphic design, theater production and management, marketing, studio photography, and commercial illustration. His work has been exhibited in San Francisco's Vorpal Gallery, the Mexican Consulate, the Mendocino Art Center, and other galleries and cafes throughout northern California, Ibiza, New York and Lisbon. Among his illustration clients are Stags' Leap Winery, Beringer Vineyards, and North Coast Brewing Company. Commissions include San Francisco Center for the Book, Philly's Restaurant in Ibiza, the Ohio Theater in New York, and Display Window designs for the Escalade and Estée Lauder stores in London, along with private commissions.