Artist: Bruce Wolfe
Title: Summer Reflections
Edition Size: 180
Medium: Serigraph
Image Dimensions: 44" x 25"
About the Art: Bruce Wolfe is an artist from the San Francisco Bay area who is widely known and admired for his diverse artistic talents. Wolfe's artwork has a loose, impressionistic quality that conveys the mood and atmosphere of a moment in time. His control of light and shadow illuminates his paintings with an unforgettable clarity. Wolfe's study of the work of Rembrandt, particularly the portraits and etchings, had a great deal of influence on his treatment of light and dimension. The sensual sculpture of Rodin led Wolfe to produce sculpture portraits in bronze for which he is very well known. After experimenting with a variety of media, including etchings, charcoal and acrylics, he turned to oils in his recent portraiture and figurative work, which feature more color and lightness than much of his earlier work. Wolfe studied art at San Jose State University and completed additional studies at the Art Institute of San Francisco. He has also studied portrait painting with Bettina Steinke and sculpture with Bruno Lucchesi. As an advertising illustrator and art director, Wolfe had a client list of corporate giants that spanned every industry sector, from Celestial Seasonings to Sony, Kelloggs, Kawasaki and Macy's to Sierra Club, Lucas Films and Stanford University. After ten years as art director for a leading international advertising agency, Wolfe, who had the reputation as a sensation in the profession, began his career as a freelance illustrator and has since shown his work in many national and international exhibitions. He has received numerous awards from many commercial art and illustration societies, including the Art Directors Club of Los Angeles, the Zellerbach Award and the Society of Illustrators. Wolfe also won a Clio for the best illustration in print in 1984 and the Joseph Henninger Best of Show Award at the Society of Illustrators Los Angeles exhibition in 1987. Wolfe's work is featured in the book, Outstanding American Illustrators Today. One of his posters for Levi Strauss was included in the Images of an Era collection at the Smithsonian Institution, and his NASA space suit poster won a Federal Design Achievement Award. Wolfe also painted the original artwork for the Lake Tahoe Music Festival posters for several years. In every piece of art," Wolfe says, "there has to be a surprise that comes from the viewer. I want viewers of my art to be surprised not by what they see so much as by what they feel. Emotion is key in my artwork; to me, technique and craft are almost secondary.

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