Biography

DONALD PALLIA
“Live Through Your Eyes”

Donald Pallia is an artist with many facets. Always interested in creative expression, he pulled from his experiences in engineering and art training for his inspirations’. You will find him using metal, ceramics, wood and canvas for his paintings. Each media inspires a different subject matter.

Upon moving back to California, he adapted his media to acrylics on canvas for its drying time and flexibility over Oil. “My paintings always have a sense of whimisy either in the subject matter or the title”. Don paints Wine Art; Decorative Art; Garden Art and Figurative subjects in a minimalist style. He has studied under Susan Sprigg, Lorenzo, and Heather Roddy.

In 2010 Don, joined the Sergeant Art Group. As a past member of the San Diego Museum Artist League; Carlsbad/Oceanside art gallery; Oceanside Museum Artist Alliance and the Redlands Art Association, he has exhibited and sold his art in over 20 Southern California venues. Don is currently represented at the Del Mar Art Center
Gallery

He has exhibited and sold his art in 20 Southern California venues such as:

• Riverside Art Museum,
• National Orange Show
• Redlands Art Association Gallery,
• Loma Linda University Art Alliance
• City of Carlsbad Phantom Gallery,
• Carlsbad COAL Gallery,
• El Camino Country Club,
• Omni La Costa Resort and Spa,
• L’Auberge Hotel,
• Solana Beach Library
• Front Porch Gallery
• Rancho Buena Vista Adobe Gallery
• Spanish Village Gallery 22
• Herbert B Turner Gallery
• The Carlsbad FORUM
• Oceanside Artist Alley
• Emerald C Gallery
• Ruby B Gallery
• Wine Steals Grotto
• Cinepolis Theater

Prior to his adventures in Fine Arts, he produced and directed several Television shows about Space Exploration aired on the Discovery Channel. “Space Station-The Next Step” was purchased by the Department-Of-State for viewing in Embassies World Wide. These shows have been shown in the Science Museum of Charlotte, North Carolina, the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in Giengen/Brenz Germany and at the Eugenides Planetarium, Athens Greece to name a few. Don has produced Planetarium shows for the University of Redlands, Redlands California and the Hansen Planetarium, Salt Lake City, Utah.