Email: gkaiper@comcast.net
Website: www.ginakaiper.com

Gina Kaiper is a Pleasanton artist and photographer. Her work connects contemporary experience with the rich tradition of art through the centuries. For many years she has photographed in the United States and Europe, especially in art museums, and these photos often serve as a point of departure for her oil paintings.

Gina enjoys painting people in all their wonderful diversity, and one of her favorite themes is people in a museum context. Some of the people encountered there are providing security or maintenance. Some are looking at—or perhaps ignoring—works of art. Some are carved of marble, cast in bronze, or painted on canvas. In developing these paintings, she tries to develop a deeper understanding of each artist whose work is depicted, and she also imagines stories about the modern people who appear in her art.

Gina exhibits in the San Francisco East Bay Area, has won awards for paintings and photographs, and is affiliated with the Achenbach Graphic Arts Council, the Alamo Danville Artists’ Society, the Las Positas College Art Club, the Livermore Art Association, and the Pleasanton Art League. She has studied painting, drawing, and art history at Las Positas College.