Inez Storer

by DeWitt Cheng

Inez Storer’s new exhibition, “Trip-Wire,” features thirty mixed-media paintings that allude to our crisis-riddled times while still succeeding as satisfying aesthetic objects that portray dream-like, non-narrative states of consciousness. A trip-wire is, of course, the trigger to set off a bomb or trap. Storer uses the term in a slightly different sense: as an obstacle that makes us stumble (trip), but not to the point of falling: ”That is HOPE and SURVIVAL!” We should be so lucky in real life.

The paintings are, despite the obstacles the artist places in their way during the creative process, a spontaneous deep dive into materials and intuition, with each work a journey without a planned destination. Their protagonists are in a sense surrogates for the artist, whose life story contains a number of dramatic journeys and surprises. Storer: “The figures have a tendency to be slightly off balance, or passing from one reality to another … There is oftentimes an attempt at an unrealized form of danger, close, in fact, to the real world. … an emotional, sometimes physical precariousness.” Also: “My figures often float in precarious positions like tightrope walkers, reflect[ing] our own sometimes unsettled lives.”

Storer considers herself “a visual raconteur,” but the tales she weaves through free association are as much generated in the mind of the observer-collaborator as inscribed and fixed in paint and collage. They’re fluid and dreamlike, partly scrapbook or child’s toy. The box assemblages “Salute” and “Cinema” inevitably recall Joseph Cornell — and partly the inner movie screen world of nostalgia and reverie. Don’t miss “Painting with Matisse,” a luxuriant homage to color and pattern; “A Voyage to Remember,” with its ocean liner a metaphor for life’s passage; “Saving Lotusland,” perhaps a reminiscence of Storer’s Hollywood childhood, as well a plea for the imagination. These paintings may often be thematically timeless, but they are also all too timely.

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Inez Storer, Artist

Inez Storer was born in Santa Monica, California. She studied at the Art Center in Los Angeles, the San Francisco Art Institute, UC Berkeley, San Francisco College for Women and Dominican University. She  received her M.F.A. from San Francisco State University. Storer’s work has been exhibited in solo exhibitions consistently in the United States at institutions including the Reno Museum of Art, the San the San Jose Museum of Art, the Monterey Museum of Art, the Fresno Art Museum, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the Missoula Museum of Art, Montana, The National Museum of Jewish History, Philadelphia and The Contemporary Jewish Museum of San Francisco.

Storer taught for many years at the San Francisco Art Institute, Sonoma State University, San Francisco State University, UC Santa Cruz, UC Davis, and the College of Marin. She has received numerous grants and awards, including a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant, and has twice been an Artist-in-Residence at the American Academy in Rome. Her work is included in the permanent collections of the de Young Museum (San Francisco), the Oakland Museum of California, the Lannan Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, the San Jose Museum of Art, and the de Saisset Museum at Santa Clara University.  

Storer has two very large murals in the I.M. Pei Tower in Los Angeles known as the First Interstate World Center. Her work has been critically reviewed in many publications including Artforum, Art in America, and Artweek. 

Storer lives in Inverness, California and maintains a studio in Point Reyes.

My work usually has an aspect of implied history, both through the use of the figure as well as objects that are a part of my “home” collections. The figures have a tendency to be slightly off balance, or passing from one reality to another. The absurd is of great interest, usually through the use of unconscious motivations. The figures can fill the landscape, either in a psychic way or in ways that are above gravity-pulled orientations. In using an imagined format of the surreal, I am able to work a more unreal world of fantasy. It does always seem to fantasy to me. There is oftentimes an attempt at an unrealized form of danger, close, in fact, to the real world…an emotional, sometimes physical precariousness. It seems to be a way of seeking clarity and identity through a parallel of sense of isolation. After all, I work alone in my studio almost every day. I usually start my work by marking the surface of the painting, adding more and more, then peeling away the surface to the first marks. It seems a metaphor of one’s own life, as the future becomes enmeshed with the past. Most of the time I enter my studio with an agenda, but then something happens, and I let the painting take me on its own journey. To be surprised while painting is the real experience, the reason to keep on doing the work. I have objects, bits and pieces, images cut from a myriad of sources and whatever I can collect that inform my work, or sometimes I actually attach materials of some kind to the surface of the painting. It is a way of going shopping every time I am in the studio. And artists love to shop in whatever form that activity can take. We are all like blotters. I am a blotter, absorbing all the different aspects of what I experience. Painting is evolutionary, and a grand experience.

Inez Storer Inverness, California

Born: Santa Monica, CA
Lives/works: Inverness, CA

EDUCATION
1971 Master of Fine Arts, California State University, San Francisco, CA
1970 Bachelor of Arts, Dominican College, San Rafael, CA
1951-1955 San Francisco College for Women, San Francisco, CA
The University of California, Berkeley, CA
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
Art Center, Los Angeles, CA

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018 Recent Testimonies; Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID
2017 Double Take; Orangeland Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2015 Memories from the Back Lot, Seager Gray Gallery, Mill Valley CA
2014 Hidden Agendas, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID
          Collage, Petaluma Art Center, Petaluma, CA
2013 Made up Stories From an Imagined Past, Seager Gray Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
2012 Then and Now, Smith Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
Recent Works, Sonoma County Museum, Santa Rosa, CA
2011 Sue Greenwood Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
2010 Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2009 Inez Storer, Insinuations, Lobby Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2008 Inez Storer, Grover Thurston Gallery, Seattle, WA
Inez Storer, Marin Museum of Modern Art, Novato, CA
2007 Backlot: Escape from Hollywood, Donna Seager Gallery, San Rafael, CA
Inez Storer, Sue Greenwood Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
Inez Storer, Anne Reed Gallery, Ketchum, ID
2006 Inez Storer, Grover Thurston Gallery, Seattle, WA
Postcards from the Road, Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Ojai, CA
Inez Storer, Grover Thurston Gallery, Seattle, WA
2005 Seismic Fallout, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Inez Storer, Greenwood Chebithes Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
Inez Storer, Anne Reed Gallery, Ketchum, ID
Inez Storer, Missoula Museum of Art, Missoula, MT
2004 Inez Storer, New Work, Grover/ Thurston Gallery, Seattle, WA
Inez Storer, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA
Inez Storer, Finn Center, Mountain View, CA
Inez Storer, Intimate Realities, Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Ojai, CA
Inez Storer, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA
Inez Storer, National Museum of Jewish American History, Philadelphia, PA
Museum of Jewish History, Philadelphia, PA
2003 Theatrical Realism: The Art of Inez Storer, retrospective, de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara
University, Santa Clara, CA (catalog)
An Artist’s Artist: The Legacy of Inez Storer, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San    Jose, CA
Inez Storer: Encore Narratives, Villa Montalvo, Saratoga, CA
Inez Storer: Layers and Secrets, Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, CA
Inez Storer, Dennis Morgan Museum, Kansas City, MO
2002 The Empress Never Left Her Rooms before Noon, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Inez Storer, Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Lies/Fantasies, Grover/Thurston Gallery, Seattle, WA
Startling Disclosures, Jack Meier Gallery, Houston, TX
Elder Arts, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2001 Unsung Heroes, ArtWorks Downtown, San Rafael, CA
Inez Storer, Grover/Thurston Gallery, Seattle, WA
Inez Storer, Tippy Stern Gallery, Charleston, SC
2000 The Voyage of Your Dreams, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Inez Storer, Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Implied Histories, Jack Meier Gallery, Houston, TX
1999 Distinguished Artist Award 1999, Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA (catalog)
Mendocino College Art Gallery, Ukiah, CA
Smith Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
Augen Gallery, Portland, OR
Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Jack Meier Gallery, Houston, TX
1997 Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
1996 Jack Meier Gallery, Houston, TX
Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
1995 Falkirk’s Life Work Award, Falkirk Cultural Center, San Rafael, CA (catalog)
1994 Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, CA
1993 Olga Dollar Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Smith Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
1992 Olga Dollar Gallery, San Francisco, CA
AKI EX Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Christopher Grimes Gallery, Carmel, CA
Art Contact Isakavski Church, St. Petersburg, Russia (catalog)
1990 Jeremy Stone Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1989 Takashimaya Art Gallery, Yokohama, Japan
1987 Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1983 Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1981 Space Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1980 Smith Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
Richard J. Nelson Gallery, the University of California at Davis, CA
1979 San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
1978 William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Smith Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
1976 Smith Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
1975 William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1974 Mills College, Oakland, CA
1965 Reno Museum of Art, Reno, NV
1964 Triangle Gallery, San Francisco, CA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018 40 by 40; 40th Anniversary; Sonoma State University Art Gallery Rohnert Park, CA
2018 California Dreaming; San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
2018 FAULTline; Toby’s Art Gallery, Point Reyes Station, CA
2018 Everybody Knows; Toby’s Art Gallery, Point Reyes Station, CA
2018 Summer of Collage; Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA
2017 Noh Kimono; Orangeland Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2017 Artist as Maggid: Jewish Folktales; Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA
2016 Inside Magnolia Editions: Innovation and Collaboration; Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
My Hero; Bedford Gallery at the Lasher Center for the Arts”; Walnut Creek, CA (traveling exhibit
Bird-by-Bird; Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA
2015: Inside Magnolia Editions: Innovation and Collaboration; Art Museum of Sonoma, Santa           Rosa, CA
Out of the Box; A Muse Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2014 Rice Pollak Gallery, Provincetown, ME
Yuma Fine Arts Association; Grand Narratives; Magnolia Editions; Era and Don
Farnsworth, Andrew Romanoff, Inez Storer, Yuma, AZ
2012 The Female Gaze: Women Artists Making Their World, Linda Lee Alter Collection of Art
by Women, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; Philadelphia, PA
The Nude”; Studio Quercus; Oakland, CA
Digital Mixed Media, Petaluma Arts Center, Petaluma, CA
Gender Specific: Take It or Leave It; Smith Andersen Editions, Palo Alto, CA
Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA
Chain Reaction; de Saisset Museum; University of Santa Clara, Santa Clara, CA
Kala Art Institute; Berkeley, CA
Turner/Carrol Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID
2010 Story Painters: Drawings, Paintings, Prints and Tapestries by Squeak Carnwath, Hung Lui
and Inez Storer, Bedford Gallery, Lesher Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA
Unbound, A National Exhibition of Book Art, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
2009 The book as Art: Artists’ Books From the National Museum of Women in the Arts,
McMullen, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Inez Storer/Andrew Romanoff; Smith Andersen Editions, Palo Alto, CA
Inez Storer, Thomas Paul Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2006 New Acquisitions, di Rosa Preserve: Art & Nature, Napa, CA
Eighteen Profiles: Distinguished Women Artists of CA, Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA
2005 Found, di Rosa Preserve: Art & Nature, Napa, CA
Paint on Metal: Modern and Contemporary Explorations and Discoveries, Tucson
Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
Painted Ladies; William Cannon Art Gallery, Carlsbad Cultural Arts Center, Carlsbad, CA
2004 It’s About Time: Celebrating 35 Years, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
The True Artist is an Amazing Luminous Fountain, di Rosa Preserve: Art & Nature, Napa, CA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Artists Gallery 25th Anniversary Exhibition, San
Francisco, CA
Au Naturel, di Rosa Preserve: Art & Nature, Napa, CA
The Legacy Show, San Jose Institute for Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
Cut, Copy, Paste: The Art of Contemporary Collage, de Saisset Museum at Santa Clara
University, Santa Clara, CA
2002 University of CA Berkeley Art Alumni Group Juried Exhibition, Berkeley Art Museum,
Berkeley, CA
Individual Artist Granters, Falkirk Gallery, San Rafael, CA
Trillium Press: Past, Present and Future, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
Elder Arts, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2001 Reconstructing Reality, Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, CA
Collecting Our Thoughts: The Community Responds to Art and Our Permanent Collection,
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
10th Anniversary Exhibition, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Contemporary Devotion, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
2000 Retablos and San Francisco Drawings, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Group Exhibition, Nightingale Gallery, Water Mill, NY
The Art of Collaborative Printmaking, Smith Andersen Editions, Haggerty Museum of Art,
Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI
1999 Diane Nelson Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
1998 The Art of Collaborative Printmaking, Smith Andersen Gallery, NV Art Museum, Reno, NV
Seas, Lakes and Rivers, San Francisco Airport Commission, San Francisco, CA
Group Exhibition, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
Faculty Exhibition, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
In and out of the Cold, Inaugural Exhibition, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco,
Couples, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
The Body in Question, Wenniger Graphics, Boston, MA
Ventriloquists, American Psychiatric Association, Marriott Hotel, San Francisco, CA
Group Exhibition, Caplan Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1994 In Out of the Cold, Inaugural Exhibit, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts; San Francisco, CA
(catalog)
1992 Seasons Greetings from CA, Madnudsen Gallery, New York, New York
Crowning Achievements: Hats and Headgear 1952 – 1992, San Francisco Airport Commission, San Francisco, CA
Art Contact: International Federation of Artists, St. Petersburg, Russia
500 Years Since Columbus, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA
Why Painting—Part II, curated by Bill Berkson, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
1991 One Over One, Smith Andersen Press, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
Transport, Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA
1990 The Romantics, Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, CA
Personal Mythologies and Poignant Moments, Hearst Art Gallery, St. Mary’s College, Moraga, CA

AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
2002 Individual Artist’s Grant, Marin Arts Council, Marin County, CA
1999 Pollack-Krasner Foundation Grant, New York, New York
Public Commission Finalist, San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco, CA
1999 Distinguished Woman Artist Award, Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA
1997 FAAR, Visiting Artist, American Academy in Rome, Italy
1996 Individual Artist’s Grant, Marin Arts Council, Marin County, CA
FAAR, Visiting Artist, American Academy in Rome, Italy
1992 San Francisco Art Institute Faculty Grant: Traveled to St. Petersburg and Moscow, Russia to
document private collections and contemporary artists’ produced video: Secret Collections
1981 Matching Artist Grants, Indian Valley Colleges, Novato, CA and Ed Janss Foundation,
Thousand Oaks, CA. Directed video: Judy North/Joseph Rafael
1980 Four Artists From California, Richard De Marco Gallery, Edinburg, Scotland (catalog)

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Mementos (Boxed Set 30 images), Chronicle Books, San Francisco, CA
Petite Histoires, Text by Marie Dern, Jungle Garden Press, Fairfax, CA, 2002
The Uneventful Life of Doña Carmen y Costanza, Jungle Garden Press, Fairfax, CA, 1997
Selections from the Permanent Collection, Susan Landauer, The San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
The Book As Art, National Museum of Women in the Arts; Krystyna Wasserman, Washington, D.C.
The Art Collection of Pacific Enterprises, Jan Butterfield, 1991
100 Artists of the West Coast, Douglas Bullis, 2003

SELECTED CATALOGUES
Eighteen Profiles: Distinguished Women Artists of CA, Twenty-Year Survey 1986-2006, Fresno Museum of Art, Fresno, CA, 2006
Paint on Metal: Modern and Contemporary Explorations and Discoveries, Tucson Museum of Art, 2005
Selections, The San Jose Museum of Art Permanent Collection, San Jose Museum of Art, 2004
Art Contemporaries, Museum of Contemporary Art, Luther Burbank Center for the Arts, 2004
Artist at Work: Inez Storer by Tucker Nichols
Human Imaging, GE Yokogawa Medical Systems, Cove, Tokyo, Japan
Happenings, VC Reporter, September 4, 2003
Theatrical Realism: The Art of Inez Storer, curated by Karen Kienzle, essays by Bill Berkson, Andrea Pappas, Cathy Kimball and Karen Kienzle, de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA, September 27- December 7, 2003
Inez Storer: Implied Histories, Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA
A Past, A Prince, A Poet: The Discoveries of Inez Storer, curated by Jacqueline Pilar, essay by Meredith Tromble, September 7 – October 31, 1999
The Art of Collaborative Printmaking; Smith Andersen Editions, NV Museum of Art, Reno, NV, 1998
lnez Storer, Life Award (Retrospective Exhibition), Essay by Phil Linhares, Falkirk Cultural Center, San Rafael, CA, 1995
In and Out of the Cold, Center for the Arts at Yerba Buena Gardens, curated by Renny Pritikin, San Francisco, CA 1994
Here and Now: Bay Area Masterworks from the René di Rosa Collection, Oakland Art Museum, Oakland, CA, 1994
Ventriloquist, Nicholas Africano, Manuel Neri, Oliver Jackson, Inez Storer, (sponsored by Scios Nova), American Psychiatric Association, San Francisco, CA, 1993
Inez Storer, Olga Dollar Gallery, essay by Bill Berkson, Richmond Printing, San Francisco, CA, 1993
Fetish, Myth and Legend, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL, 1978

SELECTED FILM & VIDEO
Inez Storer; Implied Histories, de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara Retrospective, 34 minutes; produced by BACV, San Francisco, CA
Eleven Selected Artists for Commissions for Enterprises, 28 min; Peter Kirby, Director, Los Angeles, CA, 1990
12 Artists, (pp.110-113), Video by Peter Kirby, Pacific Enterprises, Los Angeles, CA, 1989

SELECTED BOOKS
Mementos, Chronicle Books, San Francisco, CA 2004
100 Artists of the West Coast, Douglas Bullis, Schiffer Publishing, 2003
West Coast Artists, Ed. By Douglas Bullis, Los Angeles, CA, 2003
Local Color: The di Rosa Collection of Contemporary CA Art, essays by Tessa DeCarlo, Rene di Rosa, Maria Porges, Robert McDonald, Richard Reisman, Chronicle Books, San Francisco, CA, 1999
Dain Bosworth Art Collection, Minneapolis, MN, 1992
500 Years Since Columbus, The Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA, Jan/Mar 1992
Crowning Achievements, San Francisco Airport Commission, San Francisco, CA, 1992-93
The Art Collection of Pacific Enterprises, by Jan Butterfield, Pub. Pacific Enterprises, Los Angeles, CA,
Yesterday and Tomorrow: CA Women Artists, Edited by Sylvia March, Midmarch Arts Press, New York, NY, Essay by Robert Loach, 1989
The Art of CA, Oakland Art Museum, Oakland, CA, 1984
Four Artists from CA, the Richard Demarco Gallery Ltd., Edinburgh, Scotland, 1980
Artists’ Christmas Cards, compiled by Steven Heller, A & W Publishers, New York, NY1979
Who’s Who in American Art, Bowker Cattell Press, Ed., NY/London, 1978
Up My Coast, Illus. lnez Storer, Poetry by Joanne Kyger, Floating Island Publications, Point Reyes Station, CA, 1977
O Children of The Wind and Pines, Illus.by Inez Storer, Story by Laura Nelson Baker, J.P. Lippincott, New York, NY, 1967
Prize Winning Watercolors, Compiled by Margaret Harold, Allied Publications, Inc., FL, 1964

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Ed. “Jo Lee Talks to a Famous Father’s Daughter.” Jo Lee, Spring 2008.
Woodard, Josef. “In and Out of the Mail.” Santa Barbara News-Press, January 5 – 11, 2007
Campbell, Rob, “A Year In Review,” Nathan Larramendy Gallery, 2004
Nichols, Tucker, “Artist at Work: Inez Storer,” Art Contemporaries, summer 2004
Van Proyen, Mark, “Inez Storer at the De Saisset Museum,” Art in America, October 2004
Fallon, Roberta, “Secrets and Lives,” Philadelphia Weekly, Philadelphia, PA, April 28, 2004
Sozanski, Ed, “Identity and Inner Struggle on Canvas,” Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia, PA, March 26, 2004
Ed. “Dear Diary, I’m Jewish,” Philadelphia Inquirer, (Weekend Section), May 21, 2004
Campbell, Rob, “Real and Imaginary, Inez Storer’s Haunting Charms,” VC Reporter, June 10, 2004
Fallon, Roberta, “Secrets and Lives”, Philadelphia Weekly, May 19-25, 2004
Whiteside, Amber, “Encore Narratives,” Artweek, Montalvo Gallery, February 2004
Woodard, Josef, “In a dreamy State of Mind,” The Los Angeles Times, July 1, 2004
Whiteside, Amber, “Inez Storer at Montalvo Gallery”, Artweek, Volume 35, Issue 1, February 2004
Museum of Jewish History, Philadelphia, PA, Roberta Fallon, Philadelphia Weekly,”Secrets and Lives”, 2004
Woodard, Josef, “A Welcome Addition in Ojai,” The Los Angeles Times, October 23, 2003
Garchik, Leah, “The In Crowd, Out and About,” The San Francisco Chronicle
Trafton, Robin, Dennis Morgan Gallery, Kansas City Star, Kansas City, KS, September 5, 2003
Zell, Valerie, Dennis Morgan Gallery, Kansas City Star, Kansas City, KS, October 3, 2003
Fischer, Jack, “Conjuring Worlds from Bits and Pieces,” San Jose Mercury News, May 27, 2003
Fischer, Jack, “Evocative Art Painted From Memory,” Mercury News, San Jose, CA, October 26, 2003
Ed. “Cut, Copy, Paste: The Art of Contemporary Collage”, de Saisset Museum, Artweek, July/August 2003
Schapp, Rebecca, De Saisset: le temps, de Saisset Museum News, Fall 2003
Sheets, Sally, “Artists Dialogue,” Marin Independent Journal, May 2, 2002
Rhodes, Kristen, “Not So Naive: Inez Storer’s Recent Work,” Charleston City Paper, Vol. 4, Issue 25, February 14, 2001
Hale, David, “Art That Reconstructs the Past,” The Fresno Bee, October 29, 1999
New American Paintings #19 Pacific Coast, Open Studios Press, Wellesley, Maine, 1999
Weinstein, Natalie, “Marin Artist’s Canvas Confronts Hidden Past,” Jewish Bulletin (San Francisco), April 1997
Karkabi, Barbara, “Couple Created Marriage of Art and History,” Houston Chronicle, Houston, TX, June 2, 1996
Ashley, Beth, “Visual Poetry Colours Artist’s World,” Marin Independent Journal, San Rafael, CA, Feb. 18, 1996
Maclay, Katherine, “Two Artists Look at Love, Mixed Doubles,” San Jose Mercury News, San Jose, CA, April 9, 1993
Webster, Mary Hull, “Between Thee and Me,” Artweek, June 18 (cover), San Jose, CA, 1992
Fulton, Jack, “Interview: Marion Parmenter,” Artist’s Dialogue. July/August 1991
Wiewel, Evelyn, “The Well Appointed Bar,” San Francisco Magazine, Vol.3, #5 May 1991
Berkson, Bill, “lnez Storer,” Art Forum, New York, NY, April 1990
Perlman, Jeffrey, “Checking into Art: Chicago’s Fairmont Hotel Makes Art a Way of Life,” Art Today, Chicago, IL, Vol.2, 1990
Brookman, Donna, “A Bay Area Diversity,” Artweek, Oakland, CA, October 15, 1988
Burkhart, Dorothy, “Feminine Statements,” San Jose Mercury News, San Jose, CA, October 14, 1988
Shere, Charles, “Bay Area State of Mind Lives in New Abstracts,” Oakland Tribune, Oakland, CA, June 23, 1987
Solnit, Rebecca, “Arts,” Pacific Sun, San Rafael, CA, September 4-10, 1987
Baker, Kenneth, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco, CA, July 9, 1987
Burkhart, Dorothy, “Critic’s Choice,” San Jose Mercury News, San Jose, CA, June 28, 1986
Lagoria, Irene, Monterey Herald, Monterey, CA, March 23, 1986
Solnit, Rebecca, “A Familiar Future,” Artweek, Oakland, CA, July 13, 1985
Cordell, Roland, “North Bay Artist Has Unique Sense of Fantasy, The Business Journal Magazine, March 4, Burkhart, Dorothy, “Critic’s Choice,” San Jose Mercury News, San Jose CA, March 10, 1985
Muchnic, Susanne, “The Galleries,” Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, CA, April 5, 1985
Shere, Charles, Artweek, Oakland, CA, October 21, 1976
McDonald, Robert, “A Gallery Out of the City,” San Francisco Art Dealers Association Newsletter, San Francisco, CA, Vol.2 #5, 1976
Storer, Inez, “Helping Raise Art Consciousness,” Oakland Tribune, Oakland, CA, August 7, 1976
Terwoman, Beverly, “Woman Artists: Realities,” Independent Journal, San Rafael, CA, September 22, 1976
Wilson, William, “Art Walk,” Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, CA, September 23, 1976
Messianic, Susan, Artweek, Oakland, CA, October 1, 1976
Glower, Ron, “My Neighbor, The Stadium,” Artweek, Seattle, WA, March 27, 1976
Interviews with Robert Loach, “Women Painters and Their Relations to Art Critics and Collectors,” Zytoe, Athens, Greece, August/September 1976
Loach, Robert, interviews, Joyce Kozloff, Miriam Shapiro and lnez Storer, Beata Panagopoulas VisualDialog, San Jose, CA,
Vol.11, ed., 1976
Shere, Charles, “Interstices,” Oakland Tribune, Oakland, CA, October 12, 1975
Frankenstein, Alfred, “Painted Woods and Whimsical, Philosophical Collages,” San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco, CA, November 28, 1975
Shere, Charles, “Women’s Show at Mills,” Oakland Tribune, Oakland, CA, October 27, 1974
Frankenstein, Alfred, “New Talent Collects Awards in the Legion Show,” San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco, CA, March 22, 1964
Art Forum, (review of exhibit at Triangle Gallery), San Francisco, CA, July 1964
Albright, Thomas, “Women Artists Succeed Where Drama Gives Way to Poetry,” San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco, CA, November 24, 1957

SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Boise Museum of Art, Boise, Idaho
de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA
de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
di Rosa Preserve: Art & Nature, Napa, CA
First Interstate World Center (I.M. Pei architect); Los Angeles, CA (mural)
Lannan Museum, Fort Worth, Florida
Oakland Art Museum, Oakland, CA
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Missoula Museum of Art, Missoula, Montana
University of CA Davis, Davis, CA
Museum of Jewish History, Philadelphia, PA

TEACHING
1981 – 89 San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA (Faculty)
1976 – 88 Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA
1981 UC Davis, Davis, CA (Visiting Faculty)
1976 UC Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA (Visiting Faculty)
1970 – 73 California State University, San Francisco, CA
1968 – 79 College of Marin, Kentfield, CA