Rebecca Katz
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2024
→ Special Friend of the Week, Healing Power of Arts & Artists, May 2024
2023
→ Meet Rebecca Katz, Canvas Rebel, May 2023
2022
→ Wild Lands, Published by Jen Tough Gallery
→ Artists of the Bay Area, Book published by Jen Tough Gallery
2021
→ Lost in a Sea of Blue, APERO Fine Arts Catalogue
→ Artfolio Catalogue 2021, curated hard-bound publication juried by art professionals
2020
→ Moondance, APERO Fine Arts Catalogue
→ Just a Glimpse, APERO Fine Arts Catalogue
→ Haze, APERO Fine Arts Catalogue
→ Artfolio Catalogue 2020, curated hard-bound publication
2019
→ Tone, APERO Fine Arts Catalogue
→ Harmony, APERO Fine Arts Catalogue — Featured Cover Artist
→ Movement, APERO Fine Arts Catalogue
→ Contempo Annual Fine Arts Catalog
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2025
→ 2025 Salon at the Triton: Statewide 2D Art Competition & Exhibition, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA — Juried Group Exhibition
→ UCSF Health Peninsula Outpatient Center, Permanent Collection, Burlingame, CA
2023
→ The Healing Power of Elements: Earth, Water, Air & Fire, Manhattan Arts International, New York, NY
→ ICB Art Group Exhibition, Historic Mills Building, San Francisco, CA (Sept 2022–Jan 2024)
→ Spotlight Sausalito: Its Artistic Past and Present, Sausalito Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
→ The Healing Power of Art Inspired by Nature, Manhattan Arts International, New York, NY
2022
→ UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, Permanent Collection, San Francisco, CA
2021
→ La Mer, BLUE, O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley, CA
→ Truth, Beauty, Freedom, Love, The Painting Center Invitational Exhibition, New York, NY
→ The Painting Center, NYC Artfile Gallery (Jan 2020–2021)
→ Ensemble: Together Again, The Painting Center (Virtual Exhibition)
2020
→ Fresh Paint, Ruby Living Designs, Mill Valley, CA
→ Elemental, Golden Hour, O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley, CA
→ Broaden Your Horizons, Ruby Living Designs, Mill Valley, CA
2019
→ Fall Equinox: A Collective Exhibit, Agora Gallery, New York, NY
→ Winter Open Studios, ICB Building, Sausalito, CA
→ Daily Bread, Solo Exhibition, Gallery Commonweal, Bolinas, CA
→ Women in the Abstract 2, Jen Tough Gallery, Benicia, CA
→ La Romita School of Art, Terni, Italy
→ Something About Lines, O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley, CA
→ As Above So Below, Solo Exhibition, Mill Valley, CA
→ Wild Things, Jen Tough Gallery, San Francisco, CA
→ Learning Curve, Jen Tough Gallery, Benicia, CA
2018
→ ICB 50th Anniversary Show, Marin Civic Center Gallery, San Rafael, CA
→ Winter Open Studios, ICB Building, Sausalito, CA
→ Dawn Until Dusk, O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley, CA
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2020
→ Artrepreneur, The Blues — Honorable Mention
→ TEDxMarin Shifting, Featured Artist, Innovation Showcase
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Rebecca grew up in a family of artists and cooks. From an early age, she was as comfortable with a paintbrush as a spatula. Receiving her first watercolors at age five, she was captivated by the beautiful colors in her paint box as well as the brilliant vegetables her mother and grandmother transformed into delicious, comforting soups.
Today, Rebecca expresses her love for art and cooking as a San Francisco Bay Area painter, chef, and author of seven award-winning cookbooks. She finds making art and creative cooking are opportunities to be fully present in life. To be inspired by nature. To be so absorbed in tasks that time expands. Rebecca experiences working in her studio in Sausalito, CA, as an immersion into a vibrant, reverent, tactile, visual world.
Paintings, limited edition prints, and mixed media work are in private collections both in the US and abroad.
My inspiration comes from the beauty of the atmosphere -- of the sky and how it’s connected with the earth.
Every time I look at what nature is presenting in front of me, the clouds, seductive with the constant movement of the atmosphere, I am reminded that life is constantly shifting and never stagnant. I work in acrylic and graphite, using many layers of glazes to achieve the luminosity of the atmospheric quality in my work. I also work wet on wet and use drips to create texture and atmosphere, which alludes to what’s beneath the surface. Layers and layers of paint are applied on the canvas before I even know how the image will present itself in its final form.
My paintings ask viewers to step into a world of possibility, mystery, magic, and atmosphere and to be transported through color, light, and texture.
