Alberta Fins

Alberta Fins, whose contemporary paintings and prints comment upon the human condition, is an Ojai-based artist. She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally, including the Taipei Museum in China, the Clary Miner Gallery in New York City and at the Carnegie Art Museum, in Oxnard. The Ventura County Museum in Ventura and the Ontario Museum in Canada have also featured her work.

Alberta is clearly one of those contemporary artists for whom the process of making art is more than a means to an end. The final artwork is, by her reckoning, only partly an artifact; it is also proof of the mental and physical manipulations that have gone into its making. Her mixed media work blurs the boundary between abstract and representational art as much as she blends paint with collage and sculptural elements.

Alberta's formal training began when she moved from New Jersey to California where she studied at Pasadena City College, Valley College and UCLA. She is a member of the Los Angeles Printmaking Society and the Ojai Studio Artists.