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Worth Ryder Art Gallery

March 2 - March 2, 2013

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University of California, Berkeley 116 Kroeber Hall Berkeley, CA 94720
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Worth Ryder Art Gallery at UC Berkeley presents Alan Treister: A Retrospective Untitled #6 (Green and Sienna), 2011. Acrylic on canvas. 60 x 72 inches.

Reception: Saturday March 2, 2013 1-4pm Exhibition: February 28-March 23, 2013 The Worth Ryder Gallery is located at 116 Kroeber Hall, and is open Tuesday through Saturday, Noon to 5pm. “ALAN TREISTER: A RETROSPECTIVE” includes a selection of Treister’s abstract paintings and works on paper dating from 1997-2011. Treister, who was past UC Berkeley Art Practice faculty and an MFA graduate, died in May at the age of 54.   Alan Treister’s lifetime was committed to a passionate pursuit of the arts, as a professional artist, teacher and architect. He received a BA at the University of Pennsylvania, where as part of his studies he attended the University of Edinburg in Scotland. Treister was awarded an MArch degree at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Fine Arts, under Louis Kahn as Dean, and an MFA from the Department of Art Practice at the University of California, Berkeley. In addition to his more than 25 years living and working in Berkeley, Treister lived and painted in Paris and in New York, where he studied at the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture. He received awards and fellowships from the Pollock- Krasner Foundation, New York, and the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, Nebraska. Treister had exhibitions in the Bay Area at Modernism West; Berkeley Art Museum; Brian Gross Fine Art; George Lawson Gallery; and Gallery Paule Anglim; as well as Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA, and Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL. Treister’s paintings are in private collections including the General Dynamics Corporation, Falls Church, VA, and the Ruby Hill Country Club, Alamo, CA. His artwork and writing have been published in the San Francisco Examiner, Artweek Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, the Los Angeles Weekly and the Sacramento Bee.