Inez Storer

Inez Storer (born 1933) is a San Francisco Bay Area painter and mixed-media artist, in the magical realism genre.
Biography
Storer was born in Santa Monica, California, in 1933. She was raised Catholic but her mother was Jewish. When her mother was on her deathbed, she found out that her mother had left Germany to escape from the Nazis. Storer's mother said that all of her relatives had died, but after her mother's death, Storer located more than two dozen cousins, some living in California.
From 1951 to 1955, Storer attended the San Francisco College for Women and earned a bachelor's degree in art from the Dominican College in 1970. She earned her master's from California State University, San Francisco (now San Francisco State University) in 1971. From 1968 through the 1970s she taught at the College of Marin in Kentfield. She held a teaching appointment at San Francisco State University from 1970 to 1973. She taught briefly at UC Santa Cruz in 1976 and taught at Sonoma State University from 1976 to 1988. Storer also taught at the San Francisco Art Institute from 1981 to 1999. Her work has been exhibited throughout the United States and is included in the permanent collections of the de Young the Reno Museum of Art, the San Jose Museum of Art, the Monterey Museum of Art, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the Missoula Museum of Art in Montana, the Linda Lee Alter Collection of Art by Women of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and the National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia.
Storer is a confessional artist and paints in a faux-naïve style. An article in the Philadelphia Weekly pointed to the influence of Storer's ancestry in her art, saying, "The frustration at being kept from the truth has given Storer's art a kind of angry edge." A 2003 review in the San Jose Mercury News said, "Pictures, we like to think, should yield up their meanings easily - at least pictures of the real world: flowers, animals, people and the like. So it can be a bit discomfiting when our expectation of such instant understanding is thwarted, as so often happens in the art of Inez Storer."
Storer was a visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome in 1996 and 1997. In 1999 she was named Distinguished Woman Artist by Fresno Art Museum's Council of 100 and received a grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation.
Storer lives in Inverness, California, and is married to Prince Andrew Romanov, an artist and the grandnephew of Nicholas II, Russia's last Emperor. She was a friend of author Philip K. Dick.

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