Roland Reiss

[3][1] While he attended Pomona High School, he was inspired to become an artist after hearing Millard Sheets speak on art.

After winning a national art price he managed forty artists working at Camp Roberts.

[1] In the 1960s he shifted to working with plastics in order "to move away from the brushstrokes, paint, and canvas of Abstract Expressionists.

The technical elements of painting could be replaced with new surfaces, colors, textures, reflectivities, and physical strength.

[3][10] In his retirement, he directed Painting's Edge, a summer artist's residency for Idyllwild Arts from 2000 to 2007.