Art Department, Santa Barbara City College

Marie Schoeff

ART 131, 140

Office Hours:
T 4:15pm - 5:15pm in H 204
R 8:00am - 8:30am in H 221 and 10:50am - 11:20am in H 225

965-0581x3885
schoeff@sbcc.edu

Marie Schoeff has been on the faculty of the Art Department at Santa Barbara City College since 1995, teaching courses in Oil Painting, Fundamentals of Drawing, Figure Drawing, Foundations of Design, and Pastel.

Since moving to Santa Barbara in 1983, she has also taught at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Westmont College and Santa Barbara City College Continuing Education. In addition, she has been a Visiting Artist at a number of institutions across the United States.

Ms. Schoeff holds an MFA degree from Hunter College in New York City where she lived and maintained a studio from 1978 - 1983. Her studio work, primarily abstracted oil paintings and drawings, has been exhibited throughout the United States including New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Santa Barbara. Her work is in public and private collections including the Santa Barbara Museum of Art.

Ms. Schoeff has given numerous lectures about her work; been on panel discussions and art committees; acted as juror; art tour leader and retreat leader. In addition to her fine arts background she has over 20 years experience as an illustrator and graphic artist.

Commentary on artwork of Marie Schoeff

“....when one has the privilege to see the drawings of Marie Schoeff. Her highly psychological abstractions immediately send the viewer into an often otherworldly realm of vaguely familiar forms and atmospheric expanses of color that may as well be landscapes of the psyche....Assiduously chosen combinations of color set the mood for each work, deftly steering the senses with a keen knowledge of color theory and its affective qualities. ....Coupled with her studied understanding of the emotive potential of color is Schoeff’s ability to draw a range of meaning out of the tradition of landscape which extends beyond the literal representation of nature. In particular, Schoeff sensitively explores the metaphoric possibilities of landscape imagery...”

Michael W. Darling, John-and-Mary-Shirley Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seattle Art Museum

I place high value on the singular voice of each art student. Art is a process by which we can make concrete our vision and thus share our understanding of what it means to be human. These words by writer William Countryman describe what I believe the purpose of art to be, “...each of us has a special knowledge of life because each of us is ‘standing in a spot no one else occupies’. ....we each can reveal to others our special arcana, our secret knowledge about life’s mystery or meaning.”