Marti Fast, Allan Hancock College art instructor, has work featured in two high-profile venues. Two of her figure drawings have been selected for inclusion in a new book: Strokes of Genius 2: The Best of Drawing Light and Shadow, set for release this month. Her work is also being featured in a Central Coast gallery.
This is the second time Fast’s work has been selected from a North Light international call for entries. In 2007, two other drawings were published in Strokes of Genius: The Best of Drawing. Both volumes were compiled by Rachel Rubin Wolf and published by North Light Books.
In a separate accomplishment, Fast is half of a two-person show at the C Gallery in Los Alamos. The exhibit, titled East/West, is on display through Oct. 22 and features the work of both Fast and Luis Ramirez, one of her former students.
Fast is showing oil paintings along with her ink and ink wash drawings, while Ramirez, who studied in China last year, is displaying work reflecting his foreign experience.
This article appears in Oct 8-15, 2009.