Plowres-StephanieVisser nception frontick of the Week….is this Saturday. Artist Stephanie Visser’s newest show “The Inception Series” opens at TAG Gallery at Bergamot Station.

For the past five years, Visser has been a member of TAG Gallery. Consistently creating, Stephanie has had a show every year since joining.

She has also participated in many group exhibitions as well as winning several international art competitions.

LowRes StephanieVisser inception untitled009 acrylic rl 24x28 2012Although Stephanie has been painting since she was a child, she truly took her art seriously when she was just eighteen. She informed her parents that she wanted to attend art school instead of accepting a national merit scholarship. “I was one of four girls born into a first generation immigrant family and my father, first born in the US was not exactly encouraging of an education in art,” she says.

Her parents were opposed to her quitting school and warned that they would not give any more financial help. Visser managed to do it all: follow her dream, yet also keep her family happy by getting a degree in Fine Arts with a concentration in design.

To this day…Stephanie has put her art first, despite all of life’s ups and downs. She continues, “Today I work a full time job, manage a 16 unit apartment building in West Hollywood, and paint after work and on weekends in order to pay my bills and follow my dream of being a painter.”

Olowres StephanieVisser 72x48 2012ne of her favorte works in the show was inspired when driving in Santa Monica. She explains, “I came up the incline onto 4th street off of Ocean Park and the quality of light over the pacific was so amazing…there was a marine layer and it was about 4:00 p.m. and the sun had broken through the fog and lit the sky and the water…It was unusual and it so stuck in my head that when I started to paint, it just poured out.”

The opening reception for her current show will be held on December 1st from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Also showing as part of the opening, are Lorraine Bubar and Peter Kempson.

LowRes StephanieVisser waterandlight untitled  2012The exhibition will be on view from November 27th through December 22nd.

There will be an artist talk on December 15th at 3:00 p.m.

What: Opening reception
Where: TAG gallery, Bergamot Station, (D-3) 2525 Michigan Ave., Santa Monica
When: 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Phone: 310.829.9556
Website: http://www.taggallery.net; http://www.stephanievisser.com