Transmission Gallery is pleased to present work by Maija Peeples-Bright, one of the remaining living artists of the California Funk Movement. The exhibition includes new work and historically important work dating from the 60’s onward.
Maija (Woof) Peeples-Bright came of age in the 60’s in the company of the grand masters of the Funk Art movement who hung out at her home, the “Rainbow House”, the San Francisco Victorian she fabulously embellished inside and out. From the late 60’s through the 80’s she showed routinely at the Candy Store Gallery with friends and fellow artists Roy De Forest, Peter Vandenberge, Robert Arneson, and David Gilhooly, among others. In the decades beyond the Candy Store, Peeples-Bright has continued to hone her wildly playful Funk Art aesthetic, expounding on her signature colorful “beasties” and their improbable worlds in an ongoing dedicated and energetic studio practice.
Today, her work can be found in many public and private collections as well as in permanent museum collections such as the Crocker Art Museum, in Sacramento, and the La Jolla Museum of La Jolla, California, among others.
Meet Maija Peeples-Bright: Artist’s Talk and Closing Party 2-4 pm Saturday, May 21st.
