About The Artist
I starting painting in my dad's art studio before I began grade school, so I always knew I was an artist. But when I started college and was into my second year as an art major, I knew this couldn't be the only route to a career. I had to find out what else I could do and love doing.
Growing up in a factory town, I never considered science or tech, but necessity really is the mother of invention so I reinvented myself after a bit of exploring way, way outside my comfort zone. Long story short, I studied math, physics, and geology in Fairbanks AK then came to the SF Bay Area in 1985 with a BS in hand to work first as a scientist then (through whole another set of coincidences) settled on writing about software and dove deep back into painting and selling art.
I love the life here . It's been a great and unexpected experience living through the rise of Silicon Valley with all the boom/bust cycles that my younger self could never have envisioned. Thank God I didn't stick to that requisite 5- and 10-year plan back in the 80’s or I'd never have made it to here and now.
Growing up in a factory town, I never considered science or tech, but necessity really is the mother of invention so I reinvented myself after a bit of exploring way, way outside my comfort zone. Long story short, I studied math, physics, and geology in Fairbanks AK then came to the SF Bay Area in 1985 with a BS in hand to work first as a scientist then (through whole another set of coincidences) settled on writing about software and dove deep back into painting and selling art.
I love the life here . It's been a great and unexpected experience living through the rise of Silicon Valley with all the boom/bust cycles that my younger self could never have envisioned. Thank God I didn't stick to that requisite 5- and 10-year plan back in the 80’s or I'd never have made it to here and now.
The art in this website is a collection gathered over decades of hearing and responding to my creative muse. Sometimes we are locked in the room with no way out, except to keep going until that series is at the end. My a recent series is From Heaven Above. I put some images up from this new work, and I know I'll modify them over the coming year. I hear the whispers of what else is in store. In the meantime, I'm delighted they are here and they follow the Ethereals (scroll down), both of which are my comments, thoughts, and feelings about where we are int he vastness of space and time.
More details:
I am an investigative artist, much like an investigator I start with a question. Using my artistic abilities, creativity, seeing visions of what meet, and hearing my muses, I build my answers with layers of colors and forms on top of what once was blank empty canvases.
I have always been a searcher and I believe most art lovers are searching too. I hope my art helps answers at least part of the big question as to why we are here. Feel and interpret brush strokes and layers of colors like a novel.
I grew up in a small midwestern factory town with summers on the family farm in northern Wisconsin. I started an art major in early '79 then turned around and took a gap year18 months later. In 1981, I found my love of math and science studies which lead to my life in Silicon Valley from 1985 until present. Starting in 1997 I opened and ran public art venues and outreach programs, such as Artistic Adventure in Menlo Park, Art21 Gallery in Palo Alto, a studio in Chelsea in the Chelsea Art Building, and produced and hosted Talk Art, a cable television show - watch a recent art television show I hosted, Silicon Creativity September 2017 episode, and currently host the 4th Sunday Salon at my art studio.
Today, I create art in a newly designed, top-of-the-line studio, in the first floor of our Redwood City, California home. I show my art in my studio and in The Main Gallery in Redwood City. Come and visit the gallery-- there is plenty of downtown parking behind and around the gallery.
I am an investigative artist, much like an investigator I start with a question. Using my artistic abilities, creativity, seeing visions of what meet, and hearing my muses, I build my answers with layers of colors and forms on top of what once was blank empty canvases.
I have always been a searcher and I believe most art lovers are searching too. I hope my art helps answers at least part of the big question as to why we are here. Feel and interpret brush strokes and layers of colors like a novel.
I grew up in a small midwestern factory town with summers on the family farm in northern Wisconsin. I started an art major in early '79 then turned around and took a gap year18 months later. In 1981, I found my love of math and science studies which lead to my life in Silicon Valley from 1985 until present. Starting in 1997 I opened and ran public art venues and outreach programs, such as Artistic Adventure in Menlo Park, Art21 Gallery in Palo Alto, a studio in Chelsea in the Chelsea Art Building, and produced and hosted Talk Art, a cable television show - watch a recent art television show I hosted, Silicon Creativity September 2017 episode, and currently host the 4th Sunday Salon at my art studio.
Today, I create art in a newly designed, top-of-the-line studio, in the first floor of our Redwood City, California home. I show my art in my studio and in The Main Gallery in Redwood City. Come and visit the gallery-- there is plenty of downtown parking behind and around the gallery.
Grass Roots Exhibits And Conferences In Support Social Conscience
Honoring Women's Rights conference in 2012, opened the door to national-level speakers , such as Sandra Fluke, Gina Davis, Malissa Feruzzi Shriver, and organizations such as UniteWomen.org, Women-Matter.org, SeeJaneDo.org, and PDA.org. I've attended, volunteered, organized, and ran many social change and political consciousness raising events since then. Here are a few choice videos and images from this roster.
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Sunday Salon
January 27th from 2-4 pm
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4th Sunday salon at Kraft Art Studio in Redwood City at 2.
2019 winter/fall salons 2-4pm: January 27 , February 24, September 22, October 27, November 17, December15 2019 spring/summer salons4-6pm: March 24, April 28, May 26, June 23, July 28, August 25 |
4th Sunday Salon @4 is a down and real discussion. Deep thinkers are invited to present and delve into the very essence of your art, how it fits in the current state of life and how we're making a difference in the world thru art. At Sunday Salon, we confront who we are as artists in the world, to face ourselves in front of the others and face how we express ourselves. When we go beyond the limits of safety we open to our greatest opportunities.
All deep thinkers are invited. Working artists of all kinds - fine artists, writers, poets, philosophers, speakers, actors: bring a current work and get ready to speak the truth about your art form, the others art, and the art world at large.
Open for discussion: fine art, art spaces, poetry, music, philosophy, universal truths, raison d'être.
All deep thinkers are invited. Working artists of all kinds - fine artists, writers, poets, philosophers, speakers, actors: bring a current work and get ready to speak the truth about your art form, the others art, and the art world at large.
Open for discussion: fine art, art spaces, poetry, music, philosophy, universal truths, raison d'être.
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See Kraft's CV
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