Stern, Pia, Primarily a process painter, she is known for her exploration of symbolic language. Her work is held in galleries, museums, public collections nationwide.
Pia Stern teaches Abstract Painting , Abstract Painting II , Drawing I: Focus on Perception , Introduction to Painting , Oil Painting I , and Oil Painting II for the UC San Diego Extension Art and the Creative Process Professional Certificate .
Pia spent her junior year abroad in Aix-en-Provence, the town in the south of France where Paul Cézanne lived and worked. There she took her first painting course and felt instantly at home with her instructors’ philosophical and visual perceptions of the world. Returning to UC Berkeley as a senior, she enrolled in the art program and was greatly influenced by several artists who were integral to the Bay Area Figurative Movement including Richard Diebenkorn, David Park, Joan Brown and most not...Read More