Kathy Breaux is from Los Angeles, California and grew up in Downey. She knew art would be her profession before entering grade school. Kathy graduated from Cal-State University Long Beach with her B.F.A. in Painting and Drawing in 1979. She then went on to complete her M.A. in Painting and Drawing at Cal-State Fullerton in 1984.
Kathy has been teaching art since 1981 and currently teaches art to children at nine community centers as well as conducting private lessons. Her own work has been widely exhibited in Los Angeles and Orange Counties. She has won several awards including: Juror's Award, Orange County Visual Arts Exhibit, Chapman University, Orange, 1993. Artist Grant, Southern California Artists, 1996.
Kathy's current artistic direction involves a combination of figuration and abstraction to convey the "spirituality" within us all. She works with mixed media watercolors and wants the work to visually move the viewer on an emotional level. She is interested in meditation and Eastern Philosophy as well as Latin American folk art, medieval art and the modern abstractionists.
Selected Exhibitions:
2006 Hunt Branch Library, Fullerton, Solo Exhibit
2005 Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Art Rental and Sales Gallery
2002 California State University Fullerton Grand Central Gallery, Santa Ana, "Ordinary World" four-person Exhibit
2001 John Wayne Airport, Southern California Artists Juried Group Exhibit
1998 Bistango Art Cafe, Irvine, Group Exhibit
1996 American Institute of Architects, Costa Mesa, two-person Exhibit
1995 Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Art Rental and Sales Gallery
1995 Brea Cultural Center Gallery, "Carte Blanche," Juried Exhibit
1993 Irvine Fine Arts Center, "Out of the Mainstream," Invitational Group Exhibit
Collections:
Sara Kusenda, Phoenix, Arizona
Janice Deloof, Fullerton, California
Truck Smith, California
Mildred Kouzel, Fullerton, California
kbarts@earthlink.net
Artist, Arts Activist
In June of 2000, Cheryl became Director of the SCA Gallery located in the Pomona Arts Colony. Along with this position came a relocation of her personal studio from the Artists Village in Santa Ana to the downtown Pomona Arts Colony. In 2001, she proposed a collaborative project between the Pomona Arts Colony, the academic community, artist Judy Chicago and her photographer husband, Donald Woodman. For over two years, Ms. Bookout worked closely with Judy Chicago and Donald Woodman to create Envisioning the Future, an intensive project which brought over 80 artists from all over Southern California to the Inland Empire to work, present and perform images with the common theme of the future. Cheryl Bookout was the Project Coordinator of this complex undertaking, which came to a successful conclusion in March 2004.
The content of Cheryl's personal art reflects her examination of the cycle of life and the impact humans have on one another.. life's fragile balance on this planet. Over the years she has developed techniques in installation art and mixed media painting with an extensive exhibition and collection history. She currently resides in Joshua Tree, California and is working as a full time studio artist.
Born in Tehran, Iran
Educational Background:
1990–92 Tehran University, Tehran, Iran, M.A. in Painting
1986–90 Tehran University, Tehran, Iran, B.A. in Painting
1982–86 Plastic Arts School, Tehran, Iran, Diploma
