Bio
Marianne McCraney is a San Fransisco Bay Area studio artist who works in mixed media as well as drawing and painting. Her subjects include ancestry, and our connection to nature especially birds’ nests.
Currently she is drawing and painting elders in her series titled Presence. Her media are oil paint on canvas and graphite on paper. She portrays what she sees as the dignified presence of elders from all walks of life that are so often overlooked.
Marianne McCraney received her BFA at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA, and her MFA from John F Kennedy University in Berkeley, CA. Her work has been shown at the Art Center Gallery in Pasadena CA, Bedford Gallery in Walnut Creek, CA, the Hollis Street Project, in Emeryville, CA, the Sonoma Art Center in Sonoma, CA, John F Kennedy University Gallery in Emeryville, CA, and O’Hanlon Cultural Center in Mill Valley, CA, Marin Society of Artists, San Rafael, CA, Emerald Art Center, Springfield, Ore, Shockboxx Gallery, Hermosa Beach, CA