Hartini Gibson

Artist Biography

Born in Philadelphia PA

BFA Pennsylvania State University.  Studied painting with visiting New York artist Steve Sherman.

MA The University of Iowa.  Studied painting with Professors John Dilg and Ben Frank Moss.

MFA The University of Iowa.  Studied painting with Professors Howard Rogovin and Stephen Schultz. 

Hartini's figurative work has been exhibited in numerous juried shows and galleries throughout California including Los Angeles, San Diego and San Francisco.  Her work was included in two curated museum shows.  At the Rahr-West Art Museum in Wisconsin, her painting "Garden Muses" was the catalog cover for the "Bright Visions" exhibition.  Three paintings were included in an exhibition at the Coos Bay Art Museum and the University of Oregon Museum of Natural History. 

Hartini returned to the East from California to raise a family and settled in Hopewell, New Jersey.  She had a solo show entitled "Sky Flowers" in the Hopewell Gallery and was included in group shows at Prallsville Mills in Stockton New Jersey.  She continued to paint and teach painting, but gave up entering shows until the year 2017.

In April 2019 Hartini moved from the East Coast to Boise Idaho.  Her current Landscape Paintings and Mixed Media Abstract Artwork will now be composed and created from memories and travel to California, the Pacific Northwest, the East Coast, and the Northwest.