Allegra Printz grew up in Detroit, Michigan, attended Wayne State University
(Monteith College) briefly, and graduated from the Boston Museum School
of Fine Arts with a painting major in 1973. She was awarded a Traveling
Fellowship in the Fifth Year Honors Program in 1974. She lived year-round
in Provincetown, Massachusetts, for ten years, owning and operating the
East End Gallery during the summers, from 1976 to 1981. She is currently
working and living in the San Francisco Bay area, inspired by its proximity
to public lands and parks, including many stretches of undeveloped coastline.
She remains dedicated to painting landscapes as her first love, thinking
of these images of dunes, marshlands, and hills as part of a continuing
tradition that provides healing and restoration to the human psyche in
this post-modern technological age. Her media concentrations are oil, pastels,
and mixed media. She is also developing themes on the freedom of the spirit
attained while figure skating (she has won adult amateur figure skating
competitions) and inspired by the image of the horse. Her study of Buddhism,
the Ageless Wisdom, and Tarot have provided her with archetypal symbols
that form underlying foundations of many of her themes.
Her work is in many private collections
throughout the United States, as well as in Canada, The Netherlands, and
China. She has exhibited at the Pro Arts East Bay Open Studios, the American
Institute of Architects in Oakland, and the Oakland Museum Collector’s
Gallery.
To see Printz's paintings:
The Ascending Path
Evening Dramas, from Urban Mysteries
Blue Hillside, from Point Reyes Suite
Gold and Violet Devas: the Marshall Hills
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