Maija Peeples-Bright is one of the few women artists associated with Northern California’s Funk Art movement of the late 1960s and ’70s. Peeples-Bright’s wildly inventive practice comprises robust compositions bustling with animals of all kinds—her “beasties” as she calls them—forming surreal, imaginative landscapes in audacious impasto. Her zoological arrangements represent alternate realities, infusing exuberance and a sense of the absurd into impossible scenarios. Highly distinctive, her textural creature patterns revel in the extreme, often taking up every inch of the canvas, multiplying her beasties into dizzying arrangements. Peeples-Bright invites us into a decadence-gone-wild world all her own. The exhibition will feature a retrospective look at Peeples-Bright’s career, from her early days of the Funk Movement to today.
Major Exhibition Support
Bank of America
Diana Bugg and Jim Bertlesman
Dana Simpson-Stokes and Ken Stokes
Jeanne Walker Harvey
Exhibition Sponsors
Anna KneeMouse
Anna Francis
Dr. Janet Mohle-Boetani
Alan J. Pomerantz & Evie Talmus
Sonoma Tourism Improvement District
