Past Exhibits
Phyllis Meyer and Lenore Stribley
“Discovery: A Mother & Daughter’s Journey to Art”
Oct. 24th – Nov. 28th, 2004
Phyllis Meyer was born in 1938 in Long Beach, California and graduated from U.C.L.A. in 1961, the same year she got married. She and her husband Bill had two boys. In 1972, Phyllis achieved her Masters Degree in Library Science and worked as a librarian and administrator in the California State University System. She retired at age 50 and started painting in 1994.
Phyllis’s mother, Lenore Stribley, began her art career when she was 55 years old, with no idea of her creative talent. Phyllis also began painting at age 55 (six years after her mother’s death) with no expectation that painting 
would be the passion of her later life. Although their painting styles are very different, they share humor, whimsy, love of color and ideas in their work. Phyllis’s work is intuitive, while her mother’s is carefully researched and planned.
“Lenore died in 1987 and never did get to see my art or even know me as an artist, but I believe she is up there looking down on me and enjoying every bit of it. This show is certainly the most meaningful of any in my art life. To share a show with my mother’s artwork touches my heart.”
