Inez Mary Romanoff, known as Inez Storer, is an American painter and mixed-media artist who creates work in the magical realism genre.
13 Facts About Inez Storer
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When her mother was on her deathbed, Inez Storer learned that her mother fled Germany to escape Nazism.
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Inez Storer had believed that there was more to her family's past than she had been told and had suspected that she had Jewish ancestry since the age of thirteen.
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Inez Storer's mother said that all of her relatives had died, but after her mother's death, Inez Storer reportedly located more than two dozen cousins, some living in California.
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From 1951 to 1955, Inez Storer attended the San Francisco College for Women, and she earned a bachelor's degree in art from the Dominican College in 1970.
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Inez Storer earned her master's degree in 1971 from California State University, San Francisco.
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Inez Storer held a teaching appointment at San Francisco State University from 1970 to 1973.
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Inez Storer taught briefly at UC Santa Cruz in 1976 and then at Sonoma State University from 1976 to 1988.
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Inez Storer taught at the San Francisco Art Institute from 1981 to 1999.
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Inez Storer was a visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome in 1996 and 1997.
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Inez Storer's paintings are richly textured, mixed-media collages that often include a playful juxtaposition between contemporary cultural icons and historical objects or references.
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Inez Storer's work has been compared to that of artists such as Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Henri Rosseau, Marc Chagall and Salvador Dali.
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Work by Inez Storer is held by museums including the de Young, the Reno Museum of Art, the San Jose Museum of Art, the Monterey Museum of Art, 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.