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{{Infobox person
| name = Maija Peeples-Bright
| other_names = Maija Gegeris, Maija Zack, Maija Woof, Maija Bright, Maija Peeples
| birth_name = Maijiā Ģēģeris
| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1942}}
| birth_place = [[Riga]], [[Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic]]
| education = [[University of California, Davis]]
| spouse = David Zack (m. 1965–?),<br> Earl Peeples (m. 1972–1999; death),<br> Bill Bright (m. 2000–2015; death)
}}
'''Maija Peeples-Bright''' ([[née]] '''Maija Gegeris'''; born 1942)<ref name=":5" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=Hotchkiss |first=Sarah |date=2023-09-11 |title=The Contagious Joy of Maija Peeples-Bright's Animal-Filled World |url=https://www.kqed.org/arts/13934441/8-over-80-maija-peeples-bright |access-date=2023-09-12 |website=KQED |language=en-us}}</ref> is a Latvian-born American and Canadian [[Painting|painter]], [[Ceramic art|ceramist]], and arts educator. She is known as one of the pioneers of the [[Funk art|Funk art movement]] in the [[San Francisco Bay Area]] in the 1960s.<ref>{{Cite web|date=January 25, 2018|title="Dinner for Two": Featuring Funk Art Legend Maija Peeples-Bright and Oakland Based Artist Sam Spano|url=https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/painting/dinner-for-two-featuring-funk-art-pioneer-maija-peeples-bright-and-oakland-based-artist-sam-spano/|access-date=2019-07-30|website=Juxtapoz Magazine|language=en-gb}}</ref> Maija Peeples-Bright has gone by the names '''Maija Zack''', '''Maija Woof''', '''Maija Bright''', and '''Maija Peeples'''.


== Early life and education ==
'''Maija Peeples-Bright''' (born Maija Gegeris; 1942) is a Latvian and American painter and sculptor, famous for being one of the pioneers of the [[Funk Art]] movement in the [[Bay Area]] in the 1960s.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/painting/dinner-for-two-featuring-funk-art-pioneer-maija-peeples-bright-and-oakland-based-artist-sam-spano/|title=Juxtapoz Magazine - "Dinner for Two": Featuring Funk Art Legend Maija Peeples-Bright and Oakland Based Artist Sam Spano|website=www.juxtapoz.com|language=en-gb|access-date=2019-07-30}}</ref>
Maija Gegeris was born in 1942 in [[Riga]], [[Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic]] (now [[Latvia]]).<ref name=":0">{{cite journal |last1=Myers |first1=Mackenzie |title=An Afternoon with Rocklin Artist Maija Peeples-Bright |journal=Placer Herald |date=February 18, 2017}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite web|date=6 July 2012|title=Funky Figures Inhabit 'World of Woof'|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/636424529/|url-access=subscription|access-date=2021-06-19|website=Newspapers.com|publisher=The Sacramento Bee|page=X28|language=en}}</ref> In 1945, the town she lived in was occupied by Nazi Germany and was bombed during the Soviet invasion.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Maija Peeples-Bright|url=http://www.stylemg.com/2012/10/05/39820/maija-peeples-bright|access-date=2021-06-19|website=Style Magazine|language=en}}</ref><ref name=":0" /> She and her family fled to Germany, where they were forced into German refugee camps from the time she was three years old to the time she was eight years old.<ref name=":0" /> In 1950, she and her family immigrated to the United States, settling near [[Sacramento]], [[California]].<ref name=":4">{{cite journal |last1=Beverage |first1=Gloria |title=Roseville Gallery Hosting Artwork of Maija Peeples-Bright |journal=Placer Herald |date=June 6, 2012}}</ref>


Peeples-Bright attended high school in Sacramento, California; she then enrolled at the [[University of California, Davis]] in 1960, originally majoring in mathematics.<ref name=":0" /> After learning she needed an art class to meet General Education requirements, she enrolled in her first art class, taught by [[William T. Wiley]].<ref name=":4" /> She then changed her major to art and went on to pursue a bachelor's degree in art.<ref name=":4" /> [[Wayne Thiebaud]] became her graduate advisor; she finished her master's degree at UC Davis in 1965. While there, she took classes with [[Robert Arneson]] whom she later befriended, as well as [[Roy De Forest]] and [[David Gilhooly]].<ref name=":1">{{cite web|last1=Blunk|first1=Dawn|title=At the Heart of the Art|url=https://www.sacmag.com/2006/11/02/at-the-heart-of-the-art/|website=Sacmag.com|publisher=Sacramento Magazine|accessdate=August 31, 2019}}</ref>

== Early Life ==

Peeples-Bright was born in Riga, [[Latvia]] in 1942<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Myers |first1=Mackenzie |title=An Afternoon with Rocklin Artist Maija Peeples-Bright |journal=Placer Herald |date=February 18, 2017}}</ref>. In 1945, the town she lived was occupied by Nazi Germany and was bombed during the Soviet invasion<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Myers |first1=Mackenzie |title=An Afternoon with Rocklin Artist Maija Peeples-Bright |journal=Placer Herald |date=February 18, 2017}}</ref>. She and her family fled to Germany, where they were forced into German refugee camps from the time she was three years old to the time she was eight years old<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Myers |first1=Mackenzie |title=An Afternoon with Rocklin Artist Maija Peeples-Bright |journal=Placer Herald |date=February 18, 2017}}</ref>. In 1950, she and her family immigrated to the United States, settling near [[Sacramento]], [[California]]<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Beverage |first1=Gloria |title=Roseville Gallery Hosting Artwork of Maija Peeples-Bright |journal=Placer Herald |date=June 6, 2012}}</ref>.

== Education ==

Peeples-Bright attended high school in Sacramento, California; she then enrolled at the [[University of California, Davis]] in 1960, originally majoring in mathematics<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Myers |first1=Mackenzie |title=An Afternoon with Rocklin Artist Maija Peeples-Bright |journal=Placer Herald |date=February 18, 2017}}</ref>. After learning she needed an art class to meet General Education requirements, she enrolled in first art class, taught by [[William T. Wiley]]<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Beverage |first1=Gloria |title=Roseville Gallery Hosting Artwork of Maija Peeples-Bright |journal=Placer Herald |date=June 6, 2012}}</ref>. She then changed her major to art and went on to pursue a Bachelors Degree in Art<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Beverage |first1=Gloria |title=Roseville Gallery Hosting Artwork of Maija Peeples-Bright |journal=Placer Herald |date=June 6, 2012}}</ref>. [[Wayne Thiebaud]] became her graduate advisor; she finished her Master's degree at UC Davis in 1965. While there, she took classes with [[Robert Arneson]] whom she later befriended, as well as [[Roy De Forest]] and [[David Gilhooly]]<ref>{{cite web |last1=Blunk |first1=Dawn |title=At the Heart of the Art |url=https://www.sacmag.com/2006/11/02/at-the-heart-of-the-art/ |website=Sacmag.com |publisher=Sacramento Magazine |accessdate=August 31, 2019}}</ref>.


== Career ==
== Career ==
In 1965, Peeples-Bright had her first exhibition, held at the [[Candy Store Gallery]] located in [[Folsom, California]], a small city near Sacramento.<ref name=":4" /> The gallery was founded in 1962 by Adeliza McHugh, and it was important to the Funk art and [[Nut art|Nut art movements]] (in the 1960s and 1970s).<ref name=":3">{{Cite book|last=Walker|first=John|title=Glossary of Art, Architecture and Design Since 1945|publisher=Clive Bingley, LTD.|year=1973|isbn=978-0915794010|location=England|pages=99}}</ref> Many of the early artists within these art moments were connected to University of California, Davis.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Shields|first1=Scott|date=November 2008|title=California Funk|journal=Ceramics Monthly}}</ref> Peeples-Bright showed at Candy Store Gallery regularly throughout the three decades it was open; along with Robert Arneson, [[Roy De Forest]], [[David Gilhooly]], [[Clayton Bailey]], and Peter VandenBerge, among others.<ref name=":4" /><ref>{{Cite book|last1=Faberman|first1=Hilarie|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=onZJAQAAIAAJ|title=Fired at Davis: Figurative Ceramic Sculpture by Robert Arneson, Visiting Professors, and Students at the University of California at Davis, the Paula and Ross Turk Collection|last2=Bick|first2=Tenley C.|last3=Cameron|first3=Susan C.|date=2005|publisher=Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University|isbn=978-0-937031-28-5|pages=23|language=en}}</ref> In 2022, the [[Crocker Art Museum]] will hold a group exhibition about the Candy Store Gallery titled, ''The Candy Store: Funk, Nut and Other Art With A Kick'', and features work by Peeples-Bright.<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Candy Store|url=https://www.crockerart.org/exhibitions/the-candy-store|access-date=2021-06-19|website=Crocker Art Museum}}</ref>


In 1965, Peeples-Bright and her husband David Zack, an artist and professor at the [[San Francisco Art Institute]], bought the Iverson House (1888) on 908 Steiner Street in the [[Haight-Ashbury]] neighborhood of San Francisco.<ref name=":6">{{Cite web|last=Robertson|first=Michelle|date=2021-10-11|title=Meet Dr. Color, who's painted more than 17,000 SF buildings|url=https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/dr-color-painted-San-Francisco-buildings-16516377.php|access-date=2021-10-12|website=SFGATE|language=en-US}}</ref> The house was later named "The Rainbow House", since it was painted in a myriad of colors.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":5">{{Cite web|last=Perrigan|first=Dana|date=2009-02-01|title='Painted Lady' for sale for $1.6 million|url=https://www.sfgate.com/realestate/article/Painted-Lady-for-sale-for-1-6-million-3252522.php|access-date=2021-06-19|website=SFGATE|language=en-US}}</ref> At the time of her ownership of the home, it was covered with beast-themed murals on the interior.<ref name=":5" /> The Rainbow House later inspired Bob Buckter (also known as Dr. Color), a San Francisco-based color consultant for Victorian Homes.<ref name=":6" />
=== Funk Art ===
The Funk Art movement began with the artists in and around [[San Francisco]], California, in the 1960s and 1970s<ref>{{cite book |last1=Walker |first1=John |title=Glossary of Art, Architecture and Design Since 1945 |date=1973 |publisher=Clive Bingley LTD |isbn=978-0915794010 |page=99}}</ref>. The word "funky" as an adjective was first used to describe the artworks of those creating art at the end of the 1950s in the Bay Area of California. <ref>{{Cite book|title=Glossary of Art, Architecture and Design Since 1945|last=Walker|first=John|publisher=Clive Bingley, LTD.|year=1973|isbn=978-0915794010|location=England|pages=99}}</ref> Funk art can be traced back to the University of California, Davis, to artists like Maija Peeples-Bright, Robert Arneson, and Roy De Forest<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Shields |first1=Scott |title=California Funk |journal=Ceramics Monthly |date=November, 2008}}</ref>. Other notable funk artists were David Gilhooly, Bruce Conner, Peter Saul, and Manuel Neri<ref>{{cite book |last1=Walker |first1=John |title=Glossary of Art, Architecture and Design Since 1945 |date=1973 |publisher=Clive Bingley LTD |isbn=978-0915794010 |page=100}}</ref>. Ceramicist Clayton Bailey is also affiliated with Funk Art as are Patti Warashina<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Shields |first1=Scott |title=California Funk |journal=Ceramics Monthly |date=November, 2008}}</ref> and Viola Frey. Joseph Bueys, Chris Unterseher, and Robert Hudson are other well-known artists associated with the movement<ref>{{cite book |last1=Walker |first1=John |title=Glossary of Art, Architecture and Design Since 1945 |date=1973 |publisher=Clive Bingley LTD |isbn=978-0915794010 |page=100}}</ref>. Funk Art is also related to another art movement with similar aesthetics called Nut Art. Jim Nutt and Gladys Nillson were associated with Nut Art, as well as the Chicago Imagists’ group called the Hairy Who<ref>{{cite book |last1=Walker |first1=John |title=Glossary of Art, Architecture and Design Since 1945 |date=1973 |publisher=Clive Bingley LTD |isbn=978-0915794010 |page=108}}</ref>.


She had taught art classes at [[Sierra College]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=3 April 2005|title=Maijia's Art|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/650224464/|url-access=subscription|access-date=2021-06-19|website=Newspapers.com|publisher=The Sacramento Bee|page=N4|language=en}}</ref> Peeples-Bright had a retrospective exhibition, ''Maija Peeples-Bright's: World of Woof'' (2012) at the Blue Line Gallery in Roseville, California.<ref name=":2" />
=== Candy Store Gallery ===


Peeples-Bright has work in the permanent collections of the [[Minneapolis Institute of Art]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=Beast Haystacks, Maija Peeples-Bright|url=http://collections.artsmia.org/art/132618/beast-haystacks-maija-peeples-bright|access-date=2021-06-19|website=Minneapolis Institute of Art (MIA)}}</ref> and the [[Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=2018-09-21|title=Maija Gegeris|url=https://art.famsf.org/maija-gegeris|access-date=2021-06-19|website=FAMSF Search the Collections|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2015-05-08|title=Monstergraph Thru Flashlight - Maija Gegeris|url=https://art.famsf.org/maija-gegeris/monstergraph-thru-flashlight-19651013|access-date=2021-06-19|website=FAMSF Search the Collections|language=en}}</ref> The artist book, ''Nut Pot Bag or Clay Without Tears'' (1971),<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Miller|first=Sequoia|date=2018|title=Nut Pot Bag or Clay Without Tears: An Artist's Gift in Honor of Jock Reynolds|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/26573507|journal=Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin|pages=25–31|jstor=26573507|issn=0084-3539}}</ref> which she co-author is found in the permanent collections at [[Yale University Art Gallery]],<ref>{{Cite web|title=Nut Pot Bag or Clay Without Tears|url=https://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/230066|access-date=2021-06-19|website=Yale University Art Gallery}}</ref> and at the collection at [[Otis College of Art and Design]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Nut Pot Bag or Clay Without Tears|url=https://collections.otis.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/artbook/id/17630/rec/2|website=Artists' Books Database, Otis Collections Online}}</ref>
In 1965, Peeples-Bright had her first exhibition, held at the Candy Store Gallery located in Folsom, California, a small city near Sacramento. Founded by Adeliza McHugh, the gallery was open from 1962 to 1992. Peeples-Bright showed there regularly throughout the three decades it was open. Along with Maija Peeples-Bright, Robert Arneson, Roy Deforest, some of the artists who showed their work at the Candy Store Gallery were David Gilhooly, Clayton Bailey, and Peter VandenBerge, among others.


=== Rainbow House ===
== Personal life ==
Maija Peeples-Bright's first marriage was to artist and professor David Zack (1938–1995), whom she lived with in San Francisco,<ref name=":5" /><ref name=":4" /> and later in [[Regina, Saskatchewan|Regina]], [[Saskatchewan]], [[Canada]]. Maija Peeples-Bright married Earl Peeples in 1972 and moved to the [[El Dorado Hills, California|El Dorado Hills]]; Earl Peeples died of cancer in 1999.<ref name=":2" /> In 2000, she married Bill Bright, a close friend of Earl Peeples, and they moved to [[Rocklin, California|Rocklin]], [[California]].<ref name=":2" /> Bill Bright died of bladder cancer in 2015.
In 1965, Peeples-Bright married David Zack, a professor at the Art Institute of San Francisco. They boutht a house together in the Haight-Ashbury region of San Francisco, later dubbed The Rainbow House, since it was painted in a myriad of colors. Notable artists and musicians would often come by to visit.


=== Style ===
== Publications ==
* {{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RUlSHQAACAAJ |title=Nut Pot Bag or Clay Without Tears |publisher=University of California, Davis |others=Authored by Jim Adamson, [[Robert Arneson]], [[Clayton Bailey]], Fred Bauer, Maija Peeples-Bright, [[Victor Cicansky]], [[David Gilhooly]], [[Jim Melchert]], Nicholas Stephens, Chris Unterseher, Peter Vandenberge, David Zack, [[Lowell Darling]] |year=1971 |type=artist book}}
All sorts of animals feature prominently in Peeples-Bright’s work, just as dogs did in the works of Roy De Forest.  A signature feature of Peeples-Bright’s style is filling animals and trees with other animals. Most of her paintings and sculptures contain a playful sense of humor. Peeples-Bright’s works are filled with color. Her style could be labeled Maximalist due to the wealth of objects, flowers, and animals she can fit onto the canvas.


== References ==
{{Reflist}}


=== Notable Works of Art ===
== External links ==
* {{Official website|http://www.maijapeeples-bright.com/}}
See-Saw Beast, 1965


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Beast Given a Hand, 1966


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Beast Haystacks, 1966
[[Category:1942 births]]

[[Category:Living people]]
Beast Kiss, 1968
[[Category:University of California, Davis alumni]]

[[Category:Artists from Riga]]
Beast Box, 1968
[[Category:Nut artists]]

[[Category:21st-century American ceramists]]
King Solomon’s Place with Lightbulb 1968
[[Category:American people of Latvian descent]]

[[Category:Artists from Sacramento, California]]
Joy Foal Laughter, 1997
[[Category:Funk art movement artists]]

Lotus of Love Says Hare to Love, 2001

== Personal Life ==
Maija Peeples-Bright married Earl Peeples in 1972 and moved to El Dorado Hills; Earl Peeples died of cancer in 1999. She married Bill Bright, a close friend of Earl Peeples, in 2000, and they moved to Rocklin, California. Bill died of bladder cancer in 2015. Maija Peeples-Bright has gone by the names Maija Gergeris, Maija Zack, Maija Woof, Maija Bright, and Maija Peeples.


== Collections ==

=== Select Permanent Collections ===
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California

La Jolla Museum, La Jolla, California

Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, Davis, California

Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio

Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, Nevada

Matthews Art Museum, Tempe, Arizona

Burlington Art Centre, Burlington, Ontario, Canada

Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada

University of Saskatchewan Museum, Regine, Canada

Nickle Arts Museum, Calgary Alberta, Canada

Other public collections of her work exist in England, Japan, and Brazil. Notable collectors of her work were actor Vincent Price, and the owner of Tower Records in Los Angeles.

=== Select Solo and Group Exhibitions ===
Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York, NY, 2019

Loyal Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden, 2019

Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA, 2019

Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, Davis, CA, 2019

Transmission Gallery, Oakland, CA, 2019

Candy Store Retrospective, Parker Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 2018

Guerrero Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2018

Nut Art Retrospective, Parker Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 2017

b. sakata garo, Sacramento, CA, 2017

NADA, Miama, FL, 0217

Transmission Gallery, Oakland, CA, 2016

Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Novato, CA, 2014

Sacramento Temporary Contemporary, Sacramento, CA, 2013

Blue Line Gallery, Roseville, CA, 2011

Solomon-Dubnick Gallery, Sacramento, CA, 1996-2011

Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA, 2009

Pence Gallery, Davis, CA, 2007

Exploding Head Gallery, Sacramento, CA, 2006

MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, 2005

''Art from Adeliza’s Candy Store,'' Folsom History Museum, Folsom, CA, 2005

Exploding Head Gallery, Sacramento, CA, 2004

''Funk-A-Delic,'' Nickle Arts Museum, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, 2001

Anya Horvath Gallery, Sacramento, CA, 1994

Hanson Fine Arts, Fresno, CA, 1992

UC Davis, Davis, CA, 1992

Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA, 1992

Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV, 1991

Schneider Museum of Art, OR, 1990

I. Magnin Gallery, Sacramento, CA, 1989

''The Candy Store,'' Museum of Art, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, 1989

Rubicon Gallery, Los Altos, CA, 1983

''Welcome to the Candy Store,'' Crocker Art Musuem, Sacramento, CA, 1982

Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA, 1980

American River College, Sacramento, CA, 1977

Memorial Union Gallery, University of California Davis, CA, 1976

''California Women Artists,'' California State Capitol Building, Sacramento, CA, 1975

Susan Whitney Gallery, Regina, Sasketchewan, Canada, 1975

''Gathering Nuts in May,'' Sacramento State University, Sacramento, CA, 1973  

San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, 1972

''Nut Art,'' California State University, Hayward, CA, 1972

San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA, 1972

Nelson Gallery, University of California Davis, CA, 1972

Crocker Art Musuem, Sacramento, CA, 1971

Mathews Art Center, Tempe, AZ, 1971

Hansen-Fuller Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 1969

Sacramento Community Center, Sacramento, CA, 1969

''The Grotesque Show,'' San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, 1967

La Jolla Art Museum, La Jolla, CA, 1967

Belmonte Gallery, Sacramento, CA, 1965

Candy Store Gallery, Folsom, CA, 1965-1991

== References ==
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Maija Peeples-Bright
Born
Maijiā Ģēģeris

1942 (age 82–83)
Riga, Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic
Other namesMaija Gegeris, Maija Zack, Maija Woof, Maija Bright, Maija Peeples
EducationUniversity of California, Davis
Spouse(s)David Zack (m. 1965–?),
Earl Peeples (m. 1972–1999; death),
Bill Bright (m. 2000–2015; death)

Maija Peeples-Bright (née Maija Gegeris; born 1942)[1][2] is a Latvian-born American and Canadian painter, ceramist, and arts educator. She is known as one of the pioneers of the Funk art movement in the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1960s.[3] Maija Peeples-Bright has gone by the names Maija Zack, Maija Woof, Maija Bright, and Maija Peeples.

Early life and education

[edit]

Maija Gegeris was born in 1942 in Riga, Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic (now Latvia).[4][5] In 1945, the town she lived in was occupied by Nazi Germany and was bombed during the Soviet invasion.[6][4] She and her family fled to Germany, where they were forced into German refugee camps from the time she was three years old to the time she was eight years old.[4] In 1950, she and her family immigrated to the United States, settling near Sacramento, California.[7]

Peeples-Bright attended high school in Sacramento, California; she then enrolled at the University of California, Davis in 1960, originally majoring in mathematics.[4] After learning she needed an art class to meet General Education requirements, she enrolled in her first art class, taught by William T. Wiley.[7] She then changed her major to art and went on to pursue a bachelor's degree in art.[7] Wayne Thiebaud became her graduate advisor; she finished her master's degree at UC Davis in 1965. While there, she took classes with Robert Arneson whom she later befriended, as well as Roy De Forest and David Gilhooly.[8]

Career

[edit]

In 1965, Peeples-Bright had her first exhibition, held at the Candy Store Gallery located in Folsom, California, a small city near Sacramento.[7] The gallery was founded in 1962 by Adeliza McHugh, and it was important to the Funk art and Nut art movements (in the 1960s and 1970s).[9] Many of the early artists within these art moments were connected to University of California, Davis.[10] Peeples-Bright showed at Candy Store Gallery regularly throughout the three decades it was open; along with Robert Arneson, Roy De Forest, David Gilhooly, Clayton Bailey, and Peter VandenBerge, among others.[7][11] In 2022, the Crocker Art Museum will hold a group exhibition about the Candy Store Gallery titled, The Candy Store: Funk, Nut and Other Art With A Kick, and features work by Peeples-Bright.[12]

In 1965, Peeples-Bright and her husband David Zack, an artist and professor at the San Francisco Art Institute, bought the Iverson House (1888) on 908 Steiner Street in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco.[13] The house was later named "The Rainbow House", since it was painted in a myriad of colors.[8][1] At the time of her ownership of the home, it was covered with beast-themed murals on the interior.[1] The Rainbow House later inspired Bob Buckter (also known as Dr. Color), a San Francisco-based color consultant for Victorian Homes.[13]

She had taught art classes at Sierra College.[14] Peeples-Bright had a retrospective exhibition, Maija Peeples-Bright's: World of Woof (2012) at the Blue Line Gallery in Roseville, California.[5]

Peeples-Bright has work in the permanent collections of the Minneapolis Institute of Art[15] and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.[16][17] The artist book, Nut Pot Bag or Clay Without Tears (1971),[18] which she co-author is found in the permanent collections at Yale University Art Gallery,[19] and at the collection at Otis College of Art and Design.[20]

Personal life

[edit]

Maija Peeples-Bright's first marriage was to artist and professor David Zack (1938–1995), whom she lived with in San Francisco,[1][7] and later in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. Maija Peeples-Bright married Earl Peeples in 1972 and moved to the El Dorado Hills; Earl Peeples died of cancer in 1999.[5] In 2000, she married Bill Bright, a close friend of Earl Peeples, and they moved to Rocklin, California.[5] Bill Bright died of bladder cancer in 2015.

Publications

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  • Nut Pot Bag or Clay Without Tears (artist book). Authored by Jim Adamson, Robert Arneson, Clayton Bailey, Fred Bauer, Maija Peeples-Bright, Victor Cicansky, David Gilhooly, Jim Melchert, Nicholas Stephens, Chris Unterseher, Peter Vandenberge, David Zack, Lowell Darling. University of California, Davis. 1971.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)

References

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  1. ^ a b c d Perrigan, Dana (2009-02-01). "'Painted Lady' for sale for $1.6 million". SFGATE. Retrieved 2021-06-19.
  2. ^ Hotchkiss, Sarah (2023-09-11). "The Contagious Joy of Maija Peeples-Bright's Animal-Filled World". KQED. Retrieved 2023-09-12.
  3. ^ ""Dinner for Two": Featuring Funk Art Legend Maija Peeples-Bright and Oakland Based Artist Sam Spano". Juxtapoz Magazine. January 25, 2018. Retrieved 2019-07-30.
  4. ^ a b c d Myers, Mackenzie (February 18, 2017). "An Afternoon with Rocklin Artist Maija Peeples-Bright". Placer Herald.
  5. ^ a b c d "Funky Figures Inhabit 'World of Woof'". Newspapers.com. The Sacramento Bee. 6 July 2012. p. X28. Retrieved 2021-06-19.
  6. ^ "Maija Peeples-Bright". Style Magazine. Retrieved 2021-06-19.
  7. ^ a b c d e f Beverage, Gloria (June 6, 2012). "Roseville Gallery Hosting Artwork of Maija Peeples-Bright". Placer Herald.
  8. ^ a b Blunk, Dawn. "At the Heart of the Art". Sacmag.com. Sacramento Magazine. Retrieved August 31, 2019.
  9. ^ Walker, John (1973). Glossary of Art, Architecture and Design Since 1945. England: Clive Bingley, LTD. p. 99. ISBN 978-0915794010.
  10. ^ Shields, Scott (November 2008). "California Funk". Ceramics Monthly.
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