Modern Oil Paintings Biography
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Although born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Strickfaden considers herself a Southerner at heart, having grown up in the Dallas, Texas area from the age of 7. Very shy as a child, and well into her early adult years, she devoted most of ther time dabbling in different medias of art instead of social activities at school or with friends. She spent hours drawing horses and other animals, and eventually landscapes. Tricia studied Fashion Design in high school, but turned to Interior Design and Art in college at a small school in the piney woods area of East Texas, immediately falling in love with the study of art, interiors, architecture and art history.
Strickfaden moved to the Los Angeles area at age 21, and married a South Bay native in 1994. She worked in commercial Interior Design, designing office and hospitality spaces, and then moved on to residential interiors, founding her own residential design business in 1997. After the birth of her daughter in 1999, she felt a need to get back to her true artistic roots, and took an oil painting class at a local community college. She immediately connected with the oil on canvas medium, and came into her own with a blossoming professional art career. Strickfaden is passionate about painting, and is drawn to abstract, expressionist modern art. Known as an abstract painter and primarily self-taught, her interiors background and love of color and textiles continues to influence her work. In her latest series of paintings, she has drifted away from her modern geometric-based style, and has moved onto atmospheric abstract landscapes, seascapes and skyscapes inspired by coastal living.
Strickfaden is a member of FOLA, the South Bay's "Foundation of Local Artists" and has exhibited in many local restaurants and art galleries. Her most recent art show was with FOLA in November 2010 at Manhattan Country Club in Manhattan Beach, CA where she continues to show her paintings. Strickfaden volunteers at the local schools, teaches private art lessons to students in her home studio, and has been a Young at Art docent for the last 5 years. She has also donated her paintings to several charities and silent auctions to benefit local schools.
Strickfaden currently lives in Manhattan Beach with her husband of 16 years in a southeast coastal style home she designed and built in 2009. She keeps herself very busy caring for her 2 children, teaching art at the local schools and in her home studio, and consulting for her interiors business, helping her clients select finishes, fixtures, and lighting when building a new home. One of her greatest joys is burying herself in her Art Studio for hours on end, creating something new and alive in her paintings, and stretching her artistic abilities. She has an extensive list of clients in the South Bay area, and continues to sell her work through her blog, exhibitions, through designers, and by word of mouth. Her work and home were recently published in the May/June 2012 issue of Southbay Magazine.
Strickfaden constantly studies design, color, art and architecture to inspire her interiors and her artwork; travel has also been known to inspire her paintings. Her love of the South, its people, and its plantation-style architecture took her to Charleston, South Carolina, in May 2010. Strickfaden was entralled by the beautiful marshes and intercoastal waterways of the southeast coast and found the charm, history, and architecture of Charleston captivating. The manner in which the Southeastern light dapples on the water inspired her to paint abstract versions of the marshes. She recently added a few abstract "marsh-scapes" to her body of work. She hopes to retire to Charleston with her husband someday, and nurture her love of painting and design, continually exploring and learning, and enjoying the creative, artistic life that keeps her going.
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