“Music is moving moments…my paintings are frozen ones.” Kurt Albert Waldo
Kurt Albert Waldo, Los Osos/Baywood mixed media abstract expressionist, died under hospice care at his home in Prunedale, California, on June 22, 2024. At his side were his significant other Noreen Dahlstrom and son, Texas resident Erik Waldo.
In addition to son Erik and daughter-in-law Cynthia, Kurt leaves behind daughter Yvonne Rae and son-in-law Shelvie Taylor who live in Maryland as does son Robert Waldo.
An Oakland, California native, Kurt spends teen years in Santa Maria, California, studying at Allan Hancock College and enjoying Saturday mornings at the Columbia Records pressing plant buying over produced albums at a dollar apiece.
His love of music came to fruition most recently as the host of the “Where’s Waldo” show on Morro Bay’s public radio station The Rock. KEBF Morro Bay and KZSR Paso Robles.
He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in printmaking/painting at CSU Chico in 1977. Kurt worked twenty-one years in the printing department of the University of Maryland specializing in commercial offset lithography and original graphic design.
Kurt described his artistic progression through time on his website: kurtwaldo.com. In the 1970s he creates prints and paintings, collages in the ‘80s, and graphic design in the ‘90s before returning to painting and textural exploration in three dimensional pieces in 2014.
His process he described as being “like I’m having a conversation with the paper I have before me. I add layers and layers to my work…each layer weaving in and out, back and forth, from one to another. The trick is to know when to stop!”
Kurt was a member of the Central Coast Artists Collective of Sculpture, Craft, Photography, and Painting, serving SLO County Arts.
In respect for Kurt’s final wishes, no memorial service or celebration of life is planned.