Bill
Kirsch is a Sausalito Abstract Artist,
Architect and one of the founders of the
modern Sausalito Art Festival. He
designed, coordinated and organized the
festival in 1965 and 1966 with artists
Al Garvey and Michael Bry.
Bill's work is ?visually exciting and
provocative, he does marvelous things
with colors and his paintings exhibit
thought, control and personal attention
to detail.
Subtly delineated nudes float through
rich, and at times vaporous, colors
while a recurring theme of figures
diffused into space lend a sensuousness
and mystery to his work?.
He was drawing and painting with pastels
and water colors at young age and became
passionate about painting with oils at
the University of Cincinnati. While he
was in the Marines stationed in Japan,
Okinawa and the Philippines his drawings
came alive. He travelled extensively
and drew the people he saw, the ambiance
of his surroundings and people he met in
the bars and geisha houses.
In addition to painting and raising a
family Bill has been working full time
as an architect since 1958. He designed
over 400 structures that include art
galleries, custom and market
homes, ranches, restaurants, floating
homes, bed & breakfasts and commercial
buildings. Many of his projects have
won awards and been published in more
than 30 books, magazines and newspapers
as well as featured in two films.
Bill recently semi retired from
architecture and now has more time to
devote to his painting. He is currently
living on a houseboat in Sausalito and
in addition to living on the water he
recently completed a floating studio
where he paints.
The change in lifestyle has given him
the time to organize his vast body of
work and limited edition, museum
quality, signed, giclee prints are now
available for purchase in addition to
his original work.
His body of work expresses his wide
variety of interests, mediums and
styles. His paintings have been
exhibited in galleries and private
collections throughout the United
States.