November 7, 1964 – October 9, 2013
Paul Candler, 48, artist, son, teacher, brother, thinker, friend, and dreamer, passed away Wednesday, October 9, 2013 in San Francisco. Paul, a graduate of Ringling School of Art and Design in Sarasota, Florida, was an explosive bundle of dichotomies; intense and mild, compassionate and harsh, obsessive and cool, free and compulsive, selfish and caring, destructive and creative. His uniqueness will be forever missed and never forgotten by his friends and family.
Paul, an accomplished artist working in the field of digital design, was an arts educator who taught in university and community-based settings, and was the curator of three exhibitions of comics art. A lifelong fan of underground comics and graphic artists, in 2002 he curated the exhibition Raw, Boiled, and Cooked: Comics on the Verge for the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. It was a dream come true for him to gather and exhibit the works of some of his artistic heroes.
Paul was an avid collector of art, music, books, games, comics, and much more. He has taught drawing, printmaking, sculpture, and origami in community-based workshops, private schools, Ringling School of Art and Design, and has taught comics history at the San Francisco Art Institute. He has volunteered his time leading children's tours of art exhibitions at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. He enjoyed reading and volunteered to read at the Lighthouse Center for the Blind.
He is survived by his parents, Larry and Margie Greene Candler; his sister, Susan, and her partner, Laura Stanton, and their daughter, Eliza Rain Stanton-Candler all of Greenville, South Carolina. He was predeceased by his younger brother, Davis Candler, and his beloved black Labrador, Xerox.
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