About Arn Strasser
Arn Strasser was born in Zurich, Switzerland and grew up in Great Neck, outside of New York City. He began Art at an early age with many members of his family involved in the visual arts. He attended Michigan State University after High School and received his BA and MA. He then worked on a community “Underground” Newspaper for two years in Providence, Rhode Island which provided an education in pre-computer graphic design.
He began actively working in his studio in the early 1990’s and had his first significant show in 1996. This show, Spatial Gestures, featured large wood panels, painted in bold gestures and colors. DK Row of the Oregonian wrote that Strasser’s paintings “suggest a training steeped high in architecture with a natural feel for gestural generosity.”
Strasser received a Masters in Architecture from the University of Oregon in 1998. His training in architecture influenced not only his painting, but the approach he took to his art and his work methods.
Strasser has had a series of one person shows, usually once yearly, since 1996.
“Arrival” a large painting on wood is in the permanent collection of the Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston, South Carolina.
He presently lives in Portland, Oregon where he maintains a studio.