Join us on Saturday, September 28 at 11 am for an artist talk with Barbara Sternberger!

Barbara Sternberger is currently showing her 10th exhibition with the gallery. The process of solving while doing is central to Sternberger’s thinking in her new body of work entitled Continuum, almost as if she plans to get lost in order to find her way back home. This deliberate, studio-oriented strategy generates imagery that unabashedly reveals a history of making, full of erasure and accumulation, which together create a portrait of an artist in production.

Barbara Sternberger received her MFA from the University of California at Irvine. She lives in Bellingham, Washington and is a part-time lecturer and painting instructor at Western Washington University. She has exhibited both regionally and nationally, and her paintings are included in numerous private and public collections. Sternberger has presented ten solo exhibitions to date with Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR. Her paintings have been the subject of two solo museum exhibitions: at the Museum of Northwest Art, and at the Whatcom Museum.  Her work has been featured in group exhibitions including Curator's Perspective (Whatcom Museum of Art, 2015); Elles (Seattle Art Museum Gallery, 2012); Show of Hands: Northwest Women Artists 1880 - 2010 (Whatcom Museum of Art, 2010); and the U.S. Art in Embassies Program (US State Department). In 2010 she was the  Betty Bowen Awards, Kayla Skinner Special Recognition Award Winner.