After moving south to another metropolitan area, a member of this region's Figurative Movement painted the abstract Ocean Park series.
An artist from this region painted herself calmly sitting in front of paintings of raging water in a series completed after she almost died during a one-and-a-half mile swim race. In this area, Joan Brown was part of the Rat Bastard Protective Association with the artist of a sculpture of an electrocuted Child in a high chair, Bruce Connor. The interior scenes featuring women looking out windows that an artist from this region started painting in the mid-1950s, such as Coffee and Girl Looking at Landscape, were inspired by the work of Elmer Bischoff and David Park. A movement based in this area influenced a painter who used off-white backgrounds in his paintings of lines of food items, such as hot dogs and cakes, (*) Wayne Thiebaud. After moving south to another metropolitan area, a member of this region's Figurative Movement painted the abstract Ocean Park series. For 10 points, Richard Diebenkorn worked in what area's cities of Berkeley and San Francisco?
An artist from this region painted herself calmly sitting in front of paintings of raging water in a series completed after she almost died during a one-and-a-half mile swim race.
San Francisco Bay Area [or San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward Metropolitan Area until "San Francisco" is read; or SF Area; prompt on Northern California, California, or the West Coast]