Pacha's Golb

Pacha began her art career in East Germany while still in high school, earning numerous prizes in art competitions. Always a curious thinker and an avid reader, she is generally more captivated by the idea and the content of a piece of art than by its means of execution. Encouraged by her art instructors, she started painting in her free time as a vehicle for self-expression, and over the years cultivated her own style of conceptual art.

After graduation she completed an intensive three-year graphic design apprenticeship and worked as a graphic designer and art director in advertising agencies throughout Germany. During her apprenticeship and until leaving her hometown of Gotha in 2001, Pacha participated very actively in a homegrown arts association, made up primarily of student actors, artists and musicians.

Upon her arrival in San Luis Obispo in 2004, Pacha wasted no time in making herself known in the local arts community, showing her work in numerous galleries and spearheading the Holonic Art Movement, a collaborative art project that has brought together more than 70 local and international artists, and for which she received the “Art Inspires” grant from Arts Obispo, the San Luis Obispo County Arts Council, and the San Luis Obispo Community Foundation in 2008.

Her education as a graphic designer has deeply influenced her fine art and is clearly visible in the use of fonts and typefaces throughout her canvases. While taking art and design classes at a local community college, Pacha discovered new methods of combining traditional painting techniques with digital, large-format printing.

After joining CorkStop Studios in December 2008, she began a new body of work. Inspired by the ideas of Ken Wilber, Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell, she has set out to explore the genre of self-portraiture by investigating human psychology and incorporating all her skills as a painter, designer, and digital artist, meanwhile carrying the definition of “print” into new unexplored territory.