About The Artist

Christine Oliver is a California based artist and has been exhibiting since 2000, participating in several juried art shows, Silicon Valley Open Studios and exhibiting at her gallery, Treasured Art in Sunnyvale, CA. Her formal art training began with a BFA in printmaking, sculpture and drawing from the State University of New York in Binghamton and courses at the University of Cincinnati's acclaimed School of Design Art and Architecture (DAA). After completing her undergraduate work, she received a degree in graphic design from Central Academy of Commercial Art in Cincinnati, OH and worked as an artist, illustrator and designer at George Tassian Design, a local advertising agency in Cincinnati. For more than 20 years Ms.Oliver applied her art background and her MBA courses to direct Marketing Communications programs for medical device, biotech and high tech companies in Silicon Valley. Ms. Oliver works in watercolor, acrylics and collage and had taught classes at the Palo Alto Art Center in Palo Alto, CA, in the Sunnyvale/Cupertino and Los Altos/Mt. View Adult Education Programs, and at DetatiArt.com. She has just completed a series of multimedia collages using polaroid images and three dimensional totems, whimsically depicting roosters and chickens in unusual settings. Many of her paintings depict scenes from her travel in India, China, Kenya, Tanzania, Costa Rico, Venezuela, Chile, and Brazil.