Colors of Life

\\"Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.\\"

Kahlil Gibran

These compositions suggest forms that are present and forms that are absent. Layers that hide and reveal. Out of disorder comes order, out of darkness comes light, out of time to present, from ignorance to enlightenment.

lives and works in Los Angeles, California and has exhibited in New York City and Los Angeles as well as various venues across the United States. She has been exhibited internationally in Krakow, Poland. Her work is in various collections, including, Barry Zito, San Diego; Elinor Turner, Beverly Hills CA; Paul Lussier Company, Hollywood, CA; Ellie Blankfort, Los Angeles, CA; SRO Housing Corporation, Los Angeles, CA; Bob Crewe, Los Angeles CA; Xorin Balbes, Sowden House, Los Angeles, CA; Susan Camiel, The Bond House, San Diego, CA; The Walker Art Collection, Garnett, Kansas; Lawry Smith, Director, La MaMa Galleria, NY, NY; Elizabeth Hastings Peterfreund, NY, NY; Margaret Thomsen/Thomsen Gallery/Tappan NY and the Merrill G. & Emita E. Hastings Foundation, NYC.

Abel’s work has been published in “Energy” 2011 Catalog, OCCCA, Howard Fox; the Los Angeles Art Association 2009 Catalog, Sammy Hoi, Juror; Art In Southern California (2009, Project Concept and Coordinator Irina D. Costache, Ph.D., Professor of Art History) "Insight/Inside LA" Exhibit, Jose Drudis-Biada Gallery at Mount Saint Mary’s College Curator: Jode Baral, CD Catalog; "Eleventh Annual Los Art Show - Five Centuries of Art", Exhibition Catalog, p. 117; "Streetwise art from skid row", by Susan Carpenter, Los Angeles Times Weekend Calendar, May 29, 2003, p. 12; MAC 21 Feria Internacional De Arte Contemporaneo (Marbella, Spain, 2002); Architecture & Business, December 2000 (Poland); Invited to publish in "California Artists Directory", October 1998; Alexandria Museum of Art, 1998 September Exhibition Catalog.

Her Public Art and Commissions include the Hawthorne Police Department in Hawthorne California, the Borgata Hotel Casino and Spa in Atlantic City and the Casino Aztar in Evansville Indiana.

Abel is the founder of The Art Workshop in downtown Skid Row, Los Angeles, whose mission is to mentor the Artists of the community. This Workshop is featured in the Documentary “Humble Beauty” by Letitia Schwartz & Judith Vogelsang “Humble Beauty” has been screened at many film festivals, recently at the Carmel Film Festival, and was aired on KCET TV Public Television. humblebeauty.com

My paintings are an emotional expression of my environment, moods, seasons, landscapes and/or personal experiences.

I like the way colors interact and enjoy creating textures and shapes that invite the viewer to find a very personal meaning and understanding in my work.

My hope is to create work that lives and provides a continuous interaction in the eyes of the viewer.

Born and educated in Germany. Immigrated to Santa Barbara in 1963. Attended painting and ceramics classes at local College.

1968 - Small Image Show, 3rd place award.

1970 - Became full-time potter and operated a ceramic studio until 1981.

1982 - 1996 was Art/Crafts Coordinator and Teacher at Braille Institute in Santa Barbara and still continued work in own ceramic studio. My ceramic work has been sold throughout the US and Canada.

1996 - 2000 continued to work in clay, making one of a kind pieces in stoneware and porcelain, high fired, and Raku.

2000 - 2005 I returned to painting, dividing time between painting and working in clay.

2005 - to present - full time painting.

Shows:

2003 Artist-in-Residence at Vermont Studio Center

2004 Cody Gallery,one-woman-show, Los Olivos, CA

2005 Maritime Museum, Santa Barbara, Special Juror\'s Award

2006 Fielding Institute Show

2006 Step One Gallery, Second place Award

2007 Artamo Gallery, Santa Barbara

2008 LACMA Sales and Rental Gallery Show

2009 Artiste winery selected painting for winelabel, Santa Ynez, CA

2009 Artamo Gallery, SB, one women show

2009 Fielding Institute Show

2010 Corridan Gallery Show, Santa Barbara

Education

California State University, Los Angeles 1976-1978 M.A., Fine Art

California State University,Fresno 1968-1972 B.A., Fine Art

Awards and Honors

Second Place, cash award, “Without Alarm III: Custody, Captivity, Containment”,

LAPD Experience Museum and Educaton Center, Los Angeles, CA, sponsored by Arroyo Arts Collective, July, 2003

Honorable Mention,“Member’s Exhibit”, Long Beach Arts, Long Beach, CA, May, 2001

Student Art Council Award, California State University, Los Angeles, CA, September, 1977

Kappi Psi Honorary Art Fraternity, Gamma Tau Chapter, California State University, Los Angeles, CA, 1978

Dean’s List for Academic Excellence, California State University, Fresno, CA, 1971

Installations ( in partnership with Victoria Taylor Alvarez)

“Dia de los Muertos”, ”,2nd City Council Gallery, Long Beach, CA, October, 2008

“6th Annual Women’s Festival”,2nd City Council Gallery, Long Beach, CA, March, 2007

“Offerings/Ofrendas”, mixed media installation , The Acorn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, November, 2005

“Home and/or Homeless, installation piece in patio, 2nd City Art Gallery +Performance Space, Long Beach, CA, October, 2005

“BID” (Business Improvisation District), installation piece at Botanica Madre De Agua, Highland Park, CA, sponsored by Arroyo Arts Collective, May-June, 2004

“Without Alarm III: Custody, Captivity, Containment”, installation piece at LAPD Experience Museum

and Educaton Center, Los Angeles, CA, sponsored by Arroyo Arts Collective, July, 2003

“Trail Markers 2: What Desert?”, on site installation at Lower Arroyo Park, sponsored by New Town, Pasadena, CA, September, 2002

“River Visions”, on site installation along the Los Angeles River, sponsored by the Arroyo Arts Collective, Los Angeles, CA, April, 2000

\"LArt Exhibition\", outdoor installation piece in the piazza, California State University, Los Angeles, October, 1998

\"Downtown Lives! \'98\",enviromental room installation piece,sponsored by DADA, Los Angeles, CA, October, 1998

“Without Alarm II: Public and Private Security”, installation piece in Lincoln Heights Jail, Los Angeles, CA, sponsored by the Arroyo Arts Collective, 1998

Online Exhibitions

“Five Women Artists”, millenniumartgallery.com, Millennuim Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada, October, 2002

“Six Artists”, millenniumartgallery.com, Millennium Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada, July 2001

Solo Exhibitions

“Openings”, solo exhibition, Gallery 825/LAAA, Los Angeles, CA, March, 2002

“Complex Boundaries”, solo exhibition, Studio 343, San Pedro, CA, November 2001

“Project Red Line”, Gallery 25, Fresno, CA, 1980

“Local Girl Makes Good”, solo exhibition, Gallery 25, Fresno, CA, 1976

Gallery Exhibitions

“ Venus, Goddess of Love”, juried group show, LAAA/Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA, March, 2009

“Gem”, special group exhibition/auction, LAAA/Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA, April, 2008

“Penumbra”, group show, LAAA/Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA, February, 2008

“Off the Wall”, group show, PalosVerdes Art Center,PalosVerdes, CA, September, 2007

“Summerstock”, LAAA/Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA, August, 2007

“Member’s Exhibition”, Long Beach Arts, Long Beach, CA, July, 2007

2007 Juried All- Media Exhibition, Palos Verdes Art Center, Palos Verdes, CA, July, 2007

“Puppets on the Wall”, Arroyo Arts Collective, The Acorn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, June, 2007

“ 6th Annual Women’s Festival”, 2nd City Council Gallery, Long Beach, CA, March, 2007

“Hausguests”, The Brewery, Los Angeles, CA, February, 2007

“Petite Works”, LAAA, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA, December, 2006

“The Bird Show”, Arroyo Arts Collective, The Acorn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, July, 2006

“Member’s Exhibition”, Long Beach Arts, Long Beach, CA, July, 2006

“Petite Works”, LAAA/Gallery 825 at Bergamont Station, Santa Monica, CA, November, 2005

“Offerings, Ofrendas”, The Arroyo Arts Collective, The Acorn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Oct. 2005

“In The Abstract”, juried group show, Gallery 825/LAAA, Los Angeles, CA, February, 2005

‘‘Critique LA”, group show, Roark’s, Los Angeles, CA, January, 2005

“Impressions of LA”, members’s exhibit, SCWCA Brewery gallery, Los Angeles, CA, June, 2005

“In The Abstract”, juried group show, Gallery 825/LAAA, Los Angeles, CA, February, 2005

‘‘Critique LA”, group show, Roark’s, Los Angeles, CA, January, 2005

“Voyages and Explorations”, members’s exhibit, SCWCA Brewery gallery, Los Angeles, CA, June, 2004

“Members Exhibit”, Long Beach Arts, Long Beach , CA, May, 2004

“The 50/50 Show”, juried group show, Gallery 825/LAAA, Los Angeles, CA, May, 2004

“White Planes”, juried group show. Gallery 825/LAAA, Los Angeles, CA, April, 2004

“$200.00 Takes Any Piece” Andrewshire Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, December, 2003

“Petite Works”, Gallery 825 at Bergamont Station, Santa Monica, CA , December, 2003

“It’s A Fine Line”, juried group show, Gallery 825/LAAA, Los Angeles, CA, June, 2003

“Small Works”, members’s exhibit, SCWCA Brewery gallery, Los Angeles, CA, June, 2003

“Members Exhibit”, Long Beach Arts, Long Beach , CA, June, 2003

“The 50/50 Show”, juried group show, Gallery 825/LAAA, Los Angeles, CA, May, 2003

“Found Object Exhibit”, juried group show, Long Beach Arts, Long Beach Arts, Long Beach, CA, May, 2003

“100% Natural”, juried group show, Gallery 825/LAAA, Los Angeles, CA, February, 2003

“Members Exhibit”, Long Beach Arts, Long Beach , CA, November, 2002

“Members Exhibit”, Long Beach Arts, Long Beach , CA, July, 2002

“Earth Alchemy”, juried group show, Avenue 50 Studio, Highland Park, CA, April, 2002

“Color Outside the Lines”, juried group show, Long Beach Arts, Long Beach, CA, February, 2002

“Members Exhibit”, Long Beach Arts, Long Beach , CA, November, 2001

“2001 Juried All Media Exhibition”, Palos Verdes Art Center, Palos Verdes, CA, June 2001

“Lofty Ideas”, group show of SCWCA members, Loft Gallery, San Pedro, CA, June 2001

“A Circle of Altars: Women Celebrate the Feminine Divine”, The Women’s Center, California State University, Northridge, CA, May, 2001

“National Open Juried Show”, Long Beach Arts, Long Beach, CA, January, 2001

“Grotesque Art”, juried group show, Long Beach Arts, Long Beach, CA, October, 2000

“Paint”, juried group show, Gallery 825/LA Art Association, Los Angeles, CA, September,2000

“Abstract Exhibit”, juried group show, Long Beach Arts, Long Beach, CA, July 20,2000

“River Visions”, an exhibition of photographs and documentation of the April, 2000, Los Angeles River artists’ event,The River Center, Los Angeles, CA, June, 2000

Edouard Alabilikian was born and received his art education in Russia. After moving to United States he continues to take classes in Art College and creats art in different media

Approaching art history with a flair for abstract expressivity and a designer's confidence in choreographing fundamentals of color and shape, Schwartz wields a palette knife along with brushes to animate prismatic color stories in thickly applied oil paint. Her Crystal Auras series are opalescent mixed media paintings created with countless layers of acrylic saturated with mica, interference pigment, and natural minerals that glisten like geodes, and bounce light across their auric topographies. Her largest project, Ricordi d'Italia, merges her explorations of the mellifluous properties of color, light, and surface with direct inspiration drawn from travels to Italy. While these paintings still possess the ethereal presence of Crystal Auras, they demonstrate a more formally definitive, architectural sensibility, being derived from photographic source sketches highlighting geometric details culled from vistas and ruins. At the same time, operations of memory, deconstruction, and fantasy combine to render them in an abstract language, producing moody palimpsests and evocative scenic impressions. With Burst, Schwartz's newest collection, we see small, intimate sections of works from Ricordi d'Italia enlarged into wholly new paintings -- gestural compositions whose exotic rhythms are deeply influenced by her studies of Asian Sumi-e ink painting, which reveal their inner lives as she teases their essences forward from within their faceted depths.

Anne Brawer Schwartz is a dedicated abstractionist whose painterly imagination remains grounded in the world of places and things. While pursuing a degree in Graphic Design from the University of Oregon and further studies at the Gemological Institute of America, Schwartz always maintained a painting practice, which she kept up during her 25-year career as a renowned couture jewelry designer. The legacy of her expertise as a designer is apparent in her abstract paintings and their considerations of detail, drawing, design principles, color, texture, and refracted light. Having some years ago rededicated herself to her painting studio, today her canvases have been shown in numerous group shows and are represented in collections around the world. She frequently works with art consultants and interior designers, placing her works in businesses, hotels, private homes, and design firms. Being based in LA, her paintings have naturally also been featured in numerous television shows and motion pictures.

Avdeev Vladimir Aleksandrovich.

Novosibirsk was born on September, 19th 1957года in a.

The artist of theatre, the costume designer, the designer inside of theatrical space,еhe painter.

The beginning of creative activity 1979год. Work in drama schools of Novosibirsk.

Participation in the first zone exhibition « Theatrical artists of Siberia » Novosibirsk, Barnaul.

For the period with 1979 for 2013 has issued 138 performances in different cities of Russia, in 95 from them worked, as the costume designer, 50 dramatized shows, 3 films, 17 design of projects has carried out. Has lead 119 personal exhibitions. The participant of various All-Russia and international exhibitions, competitions and theatrical festivals.

Member of the Union of artists of Russia with 1991года.

Member АСЕА (Association of artists of Catalonia) with 1998года. Member OISTAT(International organization of set designers, theatrical architects and technologists.)

In 1993 has ended the Ural State university it. M. Bitter. Faculty the theory and history of arts. Degree work « Architectural imaginations », scientific руководитель-the Candidate of art criticism Raskin And. M.

The student of the International interior of plastic arts « Barcelona 99 ». The second premium for surrealistic painting.

The student of an exhibition « Stage России-2004 » Moscow. A gold medal.

The student of the international competition of scenography it. I.Ushakova.2007g. Minsk. The diploma of fund of Culture of republic Belarus.

The participant of an exhibitio

Nature inspires me, from walking in the Italian forests surrounding Florence, to primordial volcanic landscapes in Japan to hikes in the hills of the Santa Monica mountain range. I’m interested in the natural world that we view and the relationship to the metaphysical space of the inner world.

In my art the idea of journey and process merge – daily drawings that map a mindscape and idea process in automatic drawing that reflects walks in nature and things seen visually in the inner and outer world combining.

My art also encompasses ideas about structure(s), habitat and space shaped harmoniously in a continuous process inspired by musical composition.

Painting is the laboratory where I explore ideas in a formal structure that holds play and whimsy. I’m exploring biomorphic shapes and word compositions which reflect an environment I live in presently that reminds me of my childhood.

Lisa Bahouth studied art at Rhode Island School of Design and received her BFA from the Cooper Union School of Art and Architecture. The award-winning artist and concert pianist exhibited her work in New York City before moving to Los Angeles.

Her art encompasses ideas about architecture, structure(s), habitat and space shaped harmoniously in a continuous process inspired by musical composition.

As she puts it in her own words: "Painting is my primary laboratory where I explore concrete and vague ideas simultaneously, in a formal structure that hopefully holds some play and whimsy. Although my work has the appearance of abstraction, it is not non-objective; conveying references to rooms, interiors and conceptual spaces. Paintings, drawings and installations often refer to each other as I build upon groups of work. "

In her more recent works, she has been exploring the creation of biomorphic shapes and word compositions merging into an all-encompassing metaphysical style.

Bahouth’s work is currently on exhibit internationally in Japan, Russia, Armenia, and the US.

My work tends to come from a vivid imagination, filled with wild colors, dragons, angels, the night sky, clouds and dreams. My favorite media to use are the computer, pencil, ink, color pencil, acrylic, and oil.

My life really started about 7 years ago when I started taking my talent seriously. Since then I have sold at the San Diego Comic Con, the Orange County Fair, Laguna Beach, fairs, parks you name it. I am having a blast!

My artwork takes several forms. An idea that develops in a print may suggest the possibility of exploring that idea in sculptural form or become an installation. In printmaking, I find the monotype particularly suited to working in the immediate and pushing further into a series of images. The prints make connections with each other and present a story as some of the elements change and others are added. It is through the process of working that the how and why of a project comes to light. Elements of memory, a line from a poem, contemporary issues, communication or lack thereof, something pushes it?s way to the surface and becomes the catalyst behind the image.

Sandra Beard is from Orillia, Ontario and is now based in Sacramento, California. She received her B.A. in Fine Art from the University of Ottawa, Canada and a Master of Fine Arts degree from San Jose State University. Other studies include working with Master Printer, Joe Zirker and residencies at KALA, the Edna St. Vincent Millay Colony and the Vermont Studio Center. Her prints and paintings have been exhibited locally and internationally: Spain, France, England, Korea, New Zealand and Denmark. Sandra?s art related experience includes teaching, curating exhibitions, and producing art programs for the community. She is a juried member of the California Society of Printmakers, the Los Angeles Printmaking Society, the Boston Printmakers. Exhibitions in 2010 include solo exhibits at Axis Gallery in Sacramento, CA and the Fire House Gallery at Rogue Community College in Grants Pass, Oregon

My new series is much evolved from my previous works. In the past, although I had a feeling of the intangible and of freedom when I worked, my quest was to cull the vivid chaos of color and forms by repeatedly sanding and repainting many layers of paper and paint into a more peaceful, organized surface. It was an expression of the infinite complexities that I found surrounding me, and my desire to tame them.

Rather than being spurred (on) by a categorical statement, I was following an unformed artistic thought through to the end, feeling freedom and energy from spontaneity, the love of form, composition and color and the nostalgia that these energies stimulated. Color, form and composition, and the harmony their combination can elicit, vibrate as a grouping of musical notes might do and touch the nostalgic thinking that first brought such experience into my sights – my musical and artistic family. They were the major creative influence in my life and provided the personal trials of the complex and puzzling world I grew up in.

In my latest series I have taken this need to embrace and contain my memories

a step further. I have develop/nurtured/ my reactions to color and form to

another level. I try to capture what I feel is the essence of my creative experience.

I render my love of form, color and composition down to it’s minimum and

present them in a purer, simpler context – the grid. No less emotionally complex

but perhaps calmer, subtler if a little more intricate and peppered with

a touch of subterfuge…

Helen Berger was born in London, England to Russian émigré parents. It was a family of musicians/painters/singers and she grew up surrounded by these artists, making her sensibilities pretty much pre determined. She has been an artist all her life. After years of family influence and guidance, independent study in Paris, London and Los Angeles, assisting established artists and attending numerous workshops, she considers herself self-taught.

After using many different mediums over the years - wood, paper, clay, found objects, fabric and the camera. – Helen then settled into working with wood, paper and acrylic.

Her previous process was to layer paint, painted and cut paper onto a wood panel, continuing in multiple sanded layers and finishing with a distinct application of paint to emphasize the negative spaces. This work started out as a chaos of color, she challenged herself to recreate a mood of coherence, clarity and harmony on the panel.

Her latest series, although still on wood panel and using vellum, gesso and acrylic, blends the simplicity of repetitive shape with simple color and textural contrasts to create a play between tension and harmony.

I spent over three decades drawing and painting people in places of communal exchange. My works brought opportunities to exhibit locally nationally and even internationally. Like Alice Neal I looked for the soul of each person.

In 2020 the pandemic brought change from the beauty and pain of each person to the serenity and spirituality inherent in nature. The world had become too overwhelming.

I had always added animals and birds and creatures into my works of people. Now birds in nature are the focus. I am blessed to have friends and others who offer their photography of bird moments from birding, hikes and moments catching a shot of a feathered friend. I am blessed with references that offer me inspiration. I embellish the backgrounds, interpreting foliage, trees, and skies with the patterns and forms from nature and my imagination. Insects both flying and otherwise are present or hidden.

Process is a huge part of my practice. I love mixing colors and relate to the colorist Pierre Bonnard. I never worry about the result, as this is a projection of a future, which none of us knows. I do the work and the shows follow.

My biggest joy and inspiration for all my artwork has and will always be my son. Being a mother forever teaches us the preciousness of all life.

Jodi Bonassi is from Los Angeles. Her narrative paintings and drawings explore diversity, and the human condition.

Exhibiting since 1991, her works have garnered reviews, awards and articles, locally and nationally. On “Chungking Alley” Mat Gleason quotes: “My impressions of the piece are that it asserts its own art historical narrative instead of submitting to academic structures and choices. An amazing dreamscape narrative with painterly precision”. (2015, Genie Davis, “LA Art Scene Mural-On Canvas”)

Bonassi’s work has been reviewed/published in the Boston Globe, LA Times, Flavorpill, Hair's How Magazine (Russia),The Chronicle Review, Art and Living, Harpers Magazine, Studio Visit Magazine (2012, 2008, Ocean Press) and Los Angeles Art Association Volume 1 Catalogue (2009, Samuel Hoi, President of Otis College of Art and Design). She has exhibited locally and nationally and has been published internationally. She is the recipient of the Hans Burkhardt Memorial Scholarship and other awards of merit. Curators who have chosen her works for exhibition include Franklin Sirmans, Head Curator at LACMA, Ali Subotnik, Curator for the Hammer Museum and others. She also was selected to paint on a 9 foot fiber glass guitar to honor Lou Adler and the other founders of the Sunset Strip. The guitar sold in the top ten at Julien's Auction House. This was part of a re-vitalization program. Her work has been recognized by esteemed Los Angeles art critic, Peter Frank, Mat Gleason (renown art critic and gallery owner), Betty Brown, Highly respected Art Historian, Art Writer and Curator and others. Other noted curators are Jonathan Greene, Director of exhibitions for the Hunterdon Art Museum (2012), Ann Philbin from the Hammer Museum (2006), Cliff Benjamin from Western Projects (2008), Marc Pachter from the Smithsonian Institute, and other noteworthy curators. Jodi Bonassi’s work has been selected for her unique take on the public narrative and how community links people in interesting ways. Her depictions of the world are slightly skewed based on her own vision. Jodi Bonassi has an extensive exhibition record in regional institutions and galleries and is fiercely committed to her painting career. Affiliated galleries: The Loft At Liz's, Coagula Curatorial and other LA galleries. jbonassi@aol.com. 818 274-7393

www.jodibonassiart.com, resume is available upon request

Art is one of the most important elements of my life. Through art, I release emotions and express myself without verbal explanation.

My work explores the impingement of mass media by means of isolation in communication, stereotyping, and the loss of personal singularity, which inadvertently dominates the way we live.

Due to the influences of mass media, people often question their own judgment and live in boxes that isolate them from everyone else. As labels are placed on others, we take a step back in defining our own individuality and our ability to make accurate judgments on our own. I hope to increase social awareness of how people divide others into categories and live their lives in a mold that someone else has created. With labels comes separation, most commonly seen when public venues, such as Starbucks, slowly become places of solitude and privacy, where friendly greetings become unwanted annoyances. Because of this, there is an invisible barrier that we create for ourselves that causes us to question who we are and what we think of others. Not only do we isolate ourselves from one another, we have become co-dependent and bound to various sources of technology. As people live their lives they are contingent upon the use of machines to assist in activities, communication, and overall day-to-day function. Our future generations are born into a world in which simple things such as knowing how to calculate, talking to someone in person, or hand-writing a letter has become obsolete. We have lost our face-to-face connection. Because of this, technology has also created an invisible barrier between humans and nature. In the decision to focus my work towards issues that may be neglected or ignored, I hope to counter the effects of mass media with social awareness.

Kaleeka Bond was born in Virginia and grew up in Southern California. She received her BFA in 2006 and her MFA in 2008 from Laguna College of Art and Design (LCAD) in Laguna Beach, CA and has been exhibiting her work regularly for 18+ years. After obtaining her MFA, Kaleeka went on to teach drawing and painting at numerous colleges throughout Southern California. She currently teaches five classes and owns multiple businesses, while continuing to exhibit her work. Alongside her husband, Harith, Kaleeka owns and operates an apparel line, Adinkra Stitch.

Influenced by behaviors in society and the impingement of mass media, she hopes to counter the effects of these disconnections with social awareness through her artwork. When interviewed about her work, Kaleeka stated; “Art has a way of opening our eyes to things that we refuse to see. I want my work to compel people to see beyond the superficial and seek the profound, ultimately allowing them to live beyond what they think of as the obvious and understand that individualism and the ability to communicate shape the uniqueness of the world.”

My love for the abstract and the infinite line started when my mother made coloring pages for me by simply drawing a single curvilinear line around, across, around again, creating areas just waiting for color. The works here are equally innocent and playful. In this body of work I collaborated with God in ‘divine play’. I contend that God is a ubiquitous awareness and the core element of all matter in multiple dimensions and infinite realities. I honor God in my stories of sub-microscopic aspects of the ‘string theory’, dimensional portals & the macro expanse of the infinite universe. Color, atmosphere and depth are essential participants in these works I’ve created using various techniques resulting in intuited and calculated ef

Gary Frederick Brown

2010

Selected Selections, jan-feb, 18th St. Art Center, Santa Monica

Macrocosms & New Topographies, feb-apr, Brand Library, Glendale

Water Project, mar-apr, SMC Barrett Gallery, Santa Monica

AMP Juried Exhibition, June, SMC Barrett Gallery, Santa Monica

FourArtists Singular Impressions, jun-aug, Manhattan Beach Art Center

2009

Endless Possibilities: The Unique Print, mar-may, Lynn Arts, Lynn, MA

Fresh Voices of Contemporary Jewish Artists, aug-dec, Hebrew Union College, LA, CA

Works on Paper-Beginnings, sept-oct, Brand Library, Glendale

2008

Monotypes: Art under Pressure, feb-mar, USC Hillel Gallery, LA, CA

Diverted Destruction, jun-sept, Liz’s Loft, LA, CA

String Theory, sept-oct, USC Hillel Gallery, LA, CA

Linear Motion, sept-oct, Liz’s Loft, LA, CA

2007, Singular Impressions, mar-apr, USC Hillel Gallery, LA, CA

2006, Line of Sight, oct-nov, ArtHouse Gallery, Santa Monica

2005

Under the Tuscan Sun, aug-sept, USC Hillel Gallery, LA, CA

Art Auction XI, may, Long Beach Museum, CA

2004, Le Bal des Bijou, may, Long Beach Museum, CA

Solo Exhibitions

2008

Atmosphere Color Dimension, feb-feb 2010, Cake Gallery, Los Feliz

La Terza, jan-dec, Orlando Hotel, LA, CA

Infinite, mar-apr, P.D.C., LA, CA

Flavour of Colour, jul-dec, Bulthaup, LA, CA

2007

Strings:Collaboration with Chaos, mar-apr, ArtHouse Gallery, Santa Monica

Choreography of the Inherent Chaos, oct-dec, P.D.C., LA, CA

Education:2004, trained w/ Ruth Weisberg, Florence

It is about following your dreams. Painting what you feel and not letting someone tell you what and how you should paint. It should come from the heart.

There\\\'s an illusion to this world. We want to sweep away the fear and the negativity and only see the story where everything ends happily ever after. My illusion of this world was broken when my mother passed away when I was eight years old. I knew then that my story wouldn\\\'t end in a fairy tale. That was quite possibly when I knew I wanted to be an artist. After seeing Dali\\\'s \\\"Accommodations of Desire\\\" and seeing why the ants congregated on the stones in it, I started to see what Dali saw. What a terrible surreal world we live in. We live in a world where Pro-Life advocates murder abortion doctors. A world where men of the cloth have sex with underage children and a world where my skin - color makes me less of a man. My art reflects that. How else would a non-African American know what it means to be an African American male. Through my art I try to break down these illusions. I want others to see through the lie, to see the harsh reality and be seeing, therefore changing it, so we all might live happily ever after.

Born in Columbus Georgia in 1965. Upon graduating from high school enlisted into the United States Air force serving in Texas, Spain and Nebraska. After being honorably discharged, moved to Las Vegas and attended UNLV majoring in Fine Art.

Art for me is a living thing.

BORN IN BALTIMORE, MD.

LIVES AND WORKS IN LOS ANGELES, CA

MS, NEWHOUSE SCHOOL, SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY, SYRACUSE, NY

BA, TRINITY COLLEGE, HARTFORD, CT

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2010 THE JAPAN PAINTINGS, THE WATER GARDEN, SANTA MONICA, CA

2009 NO SUCH THING AS REALITY, 1820 INDUSTRIAL STREET GALLERY, LOS ANGELES

2008 THE ROSE DRIP SERIES, CHEARNEY STUDIO GALLERY, LOS ANGELES

OUT OF THE BODY, CHEARNEY STUDIO GALLERY, LOS ANGELES

THE FLOWER SHOW, DSI GALLERY, LOS ANGELES

2007 FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION, CHEARNEY STUDIO GALLERY, LOS ANGELES

LIVING COLOR 2, CHEARNEY STUDIO GALLERY, LOS ANGELES

THE ART OF ENTERTAINMENT, DSI GALLERY, LOS ANGELES

2006 DEEP CONNECTIONS, WEST HOLLYWOOD CHAMBER OF COMMERCE GALLERY,

WEST HOLLYWOOD,CA

LIVING COLOR, CHEARNEY STUDIO GALLERY, LOS ANGELES

RAW EMOTION, CHEARNEY STUDIO GALLERY, LOS ANGELES

CREATIVE FREEDOM, DSI GALLERY, LOS ANGELES

2005 NAKED PASSION, CHEARNEY STUDIO GALLERY, LOS ANGELES

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2010 THE BEST SHOW, CRUSSELL FINE ARTS GALLERY, ORANGE, CA

REVISITING BEAUTY, ORANGE COUNTY CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART, CURATED BY PETER FRANK

2008 DISCOVERY, ARTFUTURA, CHICAGO CULTURAL CENTER, CURATED BY

JAMES RONDEAU, ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO

2005 LIFESCAPES, PACIFIC DESIGN CENTER, WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA.

2005 ARTLA, SANTA MONICA CIVIC AUDITORIUM, SANTA MONICA, CA

2008 RAW EMOTION, COVER ART, WEST HOLLYWOOD CHAMBER OF COMMERCE DIRECTORY

2006 ABOVE AND BEYOND, PERMANENT INSTALLATION, WEST HOLLYWOOD CHAMBER

OF COMMER

"I dream, therefore, I am"

"I create art because I must.

It is a necessary extension of my life.

It identifies and substantiates my existence.

It is my profile and my legacy.

I want to intrigue and entertain.

I want to initiate wonder and questions.

I want to communicate my thoughts, dreams and desires.

Most of all, I want to be!"

Ione's art has shown nationally since 1998 when, after years of world travel, a successful television, radio, theatre and film career in the performing arts, she decided to focus her richly diverse talents on the visual arts.

Ione's artistic expression, creativity, and passion for communication have resulted in numerous awards for her painting, sculpture, mixed media, and assemblage. Her work has also been featured in several important publications. Ione maintains an extensive exhibition schedule in juried, non-juried, and invitational arts venues.

Ione is an avant garde artist whose artistic expression takes fantastic shape through her diverse oil and watercolor paintings, bronze sculptures, found object collages and mixed media assemblages. Her contemporary paintings and sculptures range from abstract to realistic to impressionistic - all visionary interpretations from her imaginative soul.

Ione uses only one name but a variety of styles to soothe her wild imagination. A native of Chicago, she is a former television star and commercial voice-over artist. Now she wins awards and sells her creativity through her hands instead of through her larynx. Her art is as original as she is - bold, colorful and highly decorative.

the language of life.

The type of Art that I do is beyond the spoken words.

When it emerges spontaneously because of the process, I accept it with gratitude.

Jenik

No question but the painting of Jenik Cook - and hardly less the work she realizes in other media (most notably ceramics) -is abstract-expressionist. But it is not necessarily Abstract Expressionist. That is, however much it may evince the DNA of mid-century American "action painting," or even European counterparts such as tachism, l'art informel, or CoBrA, Cook's art only incidentally revives the method, much less the look, of these bumptious, scrappy art movements. Rather, to power her vision, she goes back to the roots of gestural modernism, finding dancing line, elastic contour, and fervid color in surrealism, in fauvism, in expressionism itself. The painting of Pollock and Kline, and of Fautrier and Jorn, gives Cook permission to work unfettered like this, and gives us the context to comprehend fully - even to empathize kinesthetically with - what she does. But she is not emulating, much less imitating, Afro or James Brooks in her graceful, muscular paintings on paper or rehashing Sam Francis or André Lanskoy with the rhythmic clots and scatterings of pigment that collect on her canvases (well, on a wide variety of more-or-less canvas-like support material). Look instead to Miro, Masson, Marc, or Münter, Pechstein or Picasso, Marcks or Matisse, for Cook's sources.

Indeed, look into Cook's own cultural heritage. The line that whips and loops throughout Cook's oeuvre, whether hurling forms across canvas expanses or tracing them on the sides of pots, whether describing slashing trails of pure pigment or the sinuous contours of human bodies, is no more a painted line than it is a written one. It is made less with the whole body - although one can sense a change of stance, a hip motion, in so many of these dancing whiplashes - than with the whole arm. These gestures issue from the wrist and the shoulder. They are in fact as much inscribed as painted. Their energy is not just telegraphic; it is calligraphic. If the vivacity of the image bespeaks Cook's Armenian blood, the rhapsodic curvaceousness of her line betrays her Iranian childhood. As comfortable speaking and writing Farsi as she is Armenian, Cook marries her disparate cultural sources -which of course now include the western European and American influences of her adult life - into an aesthetically cohesive mix with a surprisingly broad formal reach.

Perhaps the breadth of that reach, given the variety of sources, isn't actually so surprising. But it is always a bit startling to witness - that is, to be allowed to witness - an artist master such a conceptual and expressive range. Most artists have this range in them, but so many suppress it. For her part, however, Cook refuses to suppress her stylistic multivalency. Not only does she not limit her vision, but she uses that vision very consciously to drive her artmaking in as many ways as it needs to go. She may edit, but she does not self-censure. Her style, ultimately as coherent and personal as a signature, emerges from and among her plethora of approaches, approaches which themselves spring from her persistence, her prolific output, her knowledge of art, and her irrepressible verve. Jenik Cook's art springs forth -in several directions at once.

Peter Frank Los Angeles January 2010

Los Angeles-based artist Sandra Cooper is renowned for her distinctive abstract expressionist style. Her paintings and drawings are unique in their ability to stimulate viewers visually and emotionally with both passion and contradiction. Her striking images encourage viewers to use their own mind’s eye to interpret the movement of paint across canvas. Cooper wants to evoke an emotional response to her art, rather than merely object recognition. “If I wanted to recreate exactly what I saw, I would use my camera. My style celebrates the randomness of abstract expressionism.” “Why paint the entire scene when it’s the negative space that fills my imagination with the creative possibilities of ‘What if’” Cooper says.

Cooper’s “Heart Felt Series,” painted under her “nom de art”

R. Vega, is reflective of the powerful abstract nudes for which she is known.

Cooper’s style and technique are reflected in the media she uses. Whether it is watercolors, mono prints, mono types, charcoal line drawings, acrylics or collage, her work is recognized as a consistent signature of talent.

Cooper?

Exhibitions/Tours/Representations

1) Februrary 20th from 3:00-4:00PM (PST) BlogTalkRadio. The ORACLE Speaks, hosted by Denise L. Cook, with special guest Artist Sandra Cooper. UK Songwriter Artie Q\'s single \"Not a Lot of Love\", which was inspired by Cooper\'s \"Out of Control\", will be played.

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/denise-lyles-cook

Call In: (805) 285-9772

2) In 2011 Daily Art Calendar, All For Love, www.ArtWanted.com/SandraCooper

3) The Whole 9 Gallery - Culver City, California - The Peace Project

http://www.thewhole9.com/thepeaceproject-merchandise.php

4) In 2010 Artist Sandra Cooper was featured on BlueHighways TV in conjunction with Lark Gallery Online. The show was viewed in over 220 countries.

http://country-cooperative.com/index.php/artists/category/mixed_media .

5) In 2010 Sandra Cooper artwork Out of Control was chosen by internationally renowned UK songwriter and singer Artie Q for LarkGallery Online E-exhibition Colors of Life - Music

6) In 2010 The Whole 9, juried competition, The Peace Project, Culver City, CA

In 2010 The Pop/Lock Gallery, Global Art Exhibition , Los Angeles, CA

Animoto

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2009 Woman\'s Club of Hollywood, guest artist, 12th Annual Rose Variety Arts Show, Hollywood, CA

2009 Woman?s Club of Hollywood, featured cover artist for Denise Cook, The ORACLE, Speaks just because, Hollywood, CA

2009 The Hive Gallery, Art & Action, Los Angeles, CA

2009 LarkGalleryOnline.com, featured artist, Sandra Cooper, Santa Monica, CA

2009 Fantasy 2000, Sherman Oaks, CA

2009 Clouds, ?Heart Felt Series? painted under R. Vega, Santa Monica, CA

2008 Malibu Art Assn, Memories and Appreciation, Juried Exhibition, Malibu, CA

2008 Malibu Art Assn, Colors, Colors, Colors, Emeritus College, Juried Exhibition, Santa Monica CA

2008 Beverly Hills Country Club, Rose Breast Cancer Foundation, Visions of Hope, Beverly Hills, CA

2008 No Ho Gallery, Visions, North Hollywood, CA

2008 Haziaz Gallery, Art48, Sun Valley, CA

2008 Finegood Art Council of the Valley Alliance Jewish Federation, Studio Tour, Los Angeles,CA

2008 Malibu Art Association Juried Exhibition, The Challenge of Colors, Pacific

Palisades, CA

2008 APA Art Association Members Only Exhibition, The Washington Convention Center, Washington DC

2008 Art Treasures of Los Angeles, the Hidden Gems Art Collection, curator: Pasqual Bettio,Westmoreland Art Lofts, Los Angeles, CA

2008 Clouds, ?Heart Felt Series? painted under R. Vega, Santa Monica, CA

Inspired by the primary colors and surrealism of Joan Miró and the abstract expressionists, Donna Dos Santos studied impressionism and abstract painting at Otis College of Art & Design under the tutelage of Bonita Helmer (a protégé of Françoise Gilot). Though Donna works in a variety of mediums, she taught herself the art of encaustic painting.

She has always loved to draw, but it was being house-bound by a torn Achilles tendon which allowed her to return to serious painting. Her paintings are dominated by bright primary colors tickled with dulls for color balance. Texture, color, balance and movement all come together as a whole to bring life to her paintings.

Visual artist and poet Ruth Dutoit was born in 1925, the eighth of ten children in the coal mining region of southwestern Virginia. She received her B.A. at the University of Miami, Florida (1948) and her Master of Arts Degree from New York University’s School of Education (1955). While pursing her passion for academics, she also took a profound interest in the diversity of people and love of the earth, leading her to worldwide travels and studies. She completed her arts education by attending master classes at the Art Students League of New York City. From 1955 to 1956 she studied privately with Amedée Ozenfant in Cannes, and attended classes at the École des Beaux Arts of Aix-en-Provence, France.

Ruth then spent several decades in Switzerland, after getting married there 1959. Ruth exhibited in numerous European countries and developed a long standing relationship with the prestigious Jeanne Wiebenga Gallery near Lausanne, Switzerland. She also wrote and published poetry in English and French, illustrated with her ink portraits in black and white. In the early 1990s, Ruth moved back to the United States where she continued to experiment with various art forms in Washington DC. She continued to travel internationally, tapping into various cultures that influenced her vision and paintings. Ruth lived in Round Hill, Virginia in early 2000, where she pushed the envelope of her creations, before moving to Southern California in 2005 where she currently resides and works.

Now 84, Ruth continues to bring her vision to the forefront of the art world, bridging the gap between traditional art and multimedia. From the beginning, Ruth’s interest have had one underlying theme: Changing Perceptions for Changing Times. Ruth says “the more you learn, the more you keep your mind and spirit open, the more your life will be free flowing and in sync. Each moment is just another milestone in the unfolding of one‘s destiny. Perception, whether it be visual or otherwise, can only take place when there is no division between the observer and the observed. In retrospect -- everyday, every moment is a new beginning. Just my cup of tea!\"

Employing two separate metaphors, my recent work concerns the relationship of our fragile Earth to our own cycles of life and mortality:

The 'Fragments' Series was created following the devastating death of my husband. The images reflect my return to life using my yoga experiences as an inspiration.

The 'Wetlands' Series is an exploration of water in its various forms. I often use multiple perspectives to create an image within a reinvented space permeated by the erasure of a human presence. These landscapes are residues of experiences rather than actual locations.

In my series 'Liquid Assets', the divisions within the canvases flow together with a sequence of cause and effect. They include observations of urban sprawl consuming the last vestiges of what once were rushing mountain streams. Graffiti echoes the primal desire to leave evidence of our brief existence on earth. I challenge myself to express my concerns by depicting the beauty of the Earth with gestures of its degradation.

In my most recent series 'Google It', I use several media to depict a fanciful journey through the miracle of instant access to understanding that Google provides us. Google has changed my life.

I was born into a creative family, which included artists, architects and engineers. Following their lead, oils became my first medium. I was exposed to the works of the Masters at a young age taking my first formal art classes when I was eight years old. I studied art at Kansas University and have continued my education throughout my life.

In addition to oils, I have also worked with pastels, acrylics, watercolors and several area of printmaking. For my sculptures, I have used wood, stone, metal and ceramics. The emotional layers of glazes by Turner and Monet have influenced many of my landscapes. The multi-media commentaries of Robert Rauschenberg on modern culture, along with the meditative graffiti-like markings of his friend Cy Twombly inform my recent pieces.

My studio is located in Los Angeles.

I love to do watercolor, oil and ceramics. I paint from my head, and mostly everything that is good comes out by accident. I enjoy the color's more than the drawing.

My photographic collages are layers of my reflections and observations, being personal, political or historical.

Like our life experiences, these thoughts accumulate on top of each other, to create my feelings and emotions that get expressed in the artwork.

The layering process coincides with the synthesis of creating visual pieces that invites one to investigate and explore the given information.

Like in previous works of mine, made on glass, the technique and the transparencies in my photographic digital collages are an important part of the art, they emphasis the build-up process and the blending which creates the images.

Vered Galor has been involved with the fine art world as an artist, curator and educator for over thirty years. She received her BA and MA in Fine Art from California State University in Northridge in 1975 and 1978.

Mrs. Galor started her career as glass sculptor. In 1981 she established a business doing curatorial projects and consulting in Contemporary Fine Art.

She lectured, participated in discussions and wrote art programs to encourage the collaboration of Art and Architecture.

Since 1989 Mrs. Galor has been concentrating on photography. She has been creating here own work, teaching photography and showing with galleries in Los Angeles California, Fort Collins and Loveland, Colorado and Las Vegas Nevada.

I have always enjoyed the creative process. In addition to being a means of expression and a source of great enjoyment, art is a means of healing ourselves and facilitating the healing in others. I have worked in a variety of media, including printmaking, pen and ink, colored pencils and markers, watercolors, acrylics and oils. My favorite themes include Judaica, landscapes, leaves and doves. I also enjoy exploring the abstract.

Debora Gillman has studied art at UCLA, UC Santa Cruz, Otis and Los Angeles City College.

Exhibits include a group show in the Adult Education Division of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; individual and group shows at Park La Brea, including their annual “Art in the Park” events,where she has contributed a variety of award winning banner art and Tower Art designs. Other venues include The American Museum of Science & Energy in Oak Ridge, Tennessee; the Don O'Melveny Gallery, Los Angeles and The JAN Gallery, Los Angeles. Her work is also part of the permanent collection at Cedars Sinai, Los Angeles.

Debora has taught workshops for children and adults at Park La Brea and the Craft and Folk Art Museum. She has also coordinated and help put on numerous local community events. “Debi Doodles” is her popular coloring book creation for kids for the holidays as well as other themes. Debora has written and illustrated three books for young readers: THE PAINTER'S DREAM; DRAWING FROM THE MASTERS; and AN UN-BEAR-ABE SITUATION: BEARS AND THE ENVIRONMENT. She co-wrote and co-illustrated the third book with her mother, Miriam Gillman, who is also an artist/writer. Debora thanks her mother for "sharing her creative gene with her." All books can be seen at www.Xlibris.com and at www.barnesandnoble.com. More information is available on her website at www.DebiDoodlesART.com.

latest artist statement:

I have been expressing my joy of art with paint, shapes and colors

since I was very young. I began as a painter, evolved into a photographer, and eventually began painting on individual photographic

prints over thirty years ago. I hand painted vivid colors on my Cibachrome prints, creating a wonderful new reality. Now I scan my one-of-a-kind hand-painted prints, enhance them with Photoshop and produce limited edition archival ink-jet prints.

“Color is luscious to me. It’s a luxury to be able to fill my life with color. Color is energy; it evokes emotion and feelings. It’s the other side of intellectual, and it makes you feel good—it really does pick

you up, and it makes you smile.”

My art has been exhibited worldwide in many solo exhibitions:

Butler Institute of American Art; Carnegie Art Museum in Oxnard, CA; Laguna Art Museum. CA; Petersen Automotive Museum, LA, CA;

LA County Museum of Natural History, CA; Monterey Museum of Art,

CA; Louis Stern Gallery, West Hollywood, CA; Wall Space Gallery,

Santa Barbara, CA; Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York City;

L’Image Gallery, Rome, Italy.

I have been included in countless group exhibits over the last 30 years, and collected by museums, foundations, corporations and individuals worldwide. Many magazine articles, magazine and book covers, two museum exhibition catalogues and two books have been published of my art, Garden Tales and Car Tales.

I am proud to announce that I have just installed 65 large art

works in two important venues at UCLA, on exhibit for the next ten years. I am about to install my first mural size images at UCLA too.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2000 - PRESENT

Jane Gottlieb: Beyond Belief - Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, CA

Jane Gottlieb Joy Rides. Patty Look Lewis Gallery, SB, CA,

Jane Gottlieb: Celebrating Monet? - Nancy Hoffman Gallery, NYC, NY,

Central Park - 717 5th Avenue Public Space, NYC, NY,

Art for Two Billboards: Perfect Score & Pink Cadillac Fin,

Universal City Walk, Los Angeles, CA

1995 - 2000

Jane Gottlieb Photographs - Nancy Hoffman Gallery, NYC,

Jane Gottlieb: Garden Works -

Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio ,

Jane Gottliebs Joy Rides - Three Year Exhibition

Los Angeles County Natural History Museum - Los Angeles, CA

Jane Gottlieb s Joy Rides - The Auto Art Gallery - World Wide Web Digital Dreamscapes - Palos Verdes Art Center - Palos Verdes, CA

Jane Gottlieb's Dream Machines - Saporiti Italia - Milan, Italy

1985 - 1995

Dream Machines - L'Image Gallery - Rome, Italy

Daydreams - Louis Stern Gallery - Beverly Hills, CA,

Dreamscapes - Art / LA 93 - Int'l Art Fair - Los Angeles, CA,

Jane Gottlieb Color - Ginny Williams Gallery - Denver, CO,

Imaginary Daydreams - Leband Art Gallery,

Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA ,

Jane Gottlieb Daydreams - Sternberg Gallery - Chicago, IL

Dream Machines - Francine Ellman Gallery - Los Angeles, CA

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"My art allows me to see the beauty – the color and design – in ordinary everyday objects, in buildings, in clothing, in nature.

We are all surrounded by beauty. All we need to do is stop, look and take it all in."

Georganne Aldrich Heller, daughter of the famous fashion designer and art collector Larry Aldrich and a successful designer is an artist in her own right. She makes collages building on the vision that drove her long career as a theatrical producer in New York. Each collage and boxed construction represents a setting of evolving mysteries, opening the way to surreal dramas inviting viewers to enter the world of her dreams, yet unruled by any sort of literary content. Instead, Heller favors a lucid, iconic approach where the “thingness” of shapes and substances is allowed its own expression, her visual reasoning riding on the dynamic that powered western art through a half century of experiment, from cubism to De Stijl.

Drum kit art began as an experiment in the exploration of alternative painting surfaces, materials, and dimensions. Since I work almost exclusively with oils on linen in my serious body of work, the prospect of developing new techniques utilizing unfamiliar materials on a 3-dimensional surface was very exciting.

Concertgoers today are mature, sophisticated professionals. I realized the concert arena was the perfect venue to exhibit my art. Graphic artists have airbrushed drum wraps for decades however;plastic is not a viable surface for fine artists. As an environmentalist, I wanted to provide eco-conscious drummers with an alternative to toxic plastic drum wraps and fine art that would reflect their level of sophistication and achievement

BORN: Brooklyn, New York, 1952

RAISED: Washington, DC Metro Area

CURRENTLY: Live/Work in South Bay, Los Angeles

MARITAL STATUS: Divorced, No Children

SEXUAL ORIENTATION: \\\"Hetero\\\"sapian

LIFESTYLE: Organic Vegan. Environmentalist. Pacifist. Rocker.

Envisioning the Future Project: Judy Chicago and Donald Woodman, 2003

One of 10 painters selected to participate in a collaborative project involving 100 artists of diverse disciplines. (Left project due to artistic / political differences.)

Creative and Performing Arts Scholarship: University of Maryland, 1987

(Unable to accept scholarship due to personal issues.)

San Francisco Art Institute BFA Graduation Exhibition, 1992

Reality is subjective. We all have our interpretations of what we see around us and often times we don’t notice much of the world around us. My paintings convey the ordinary world and the real world in new and extraordinary ways. The color and movement in my work is there to connect the viewer to life around them with emotion and passion. In this way, I hope to start a dialog with the viewer about our connections to and with daily life.

Ms. Eder first began her art studies in design, photography, and calligraphy at Immaculate Heart College in Los Angeles. She then attended San Diego City College and graduated from the Technical Illustration program. For the next 13 years Ms. Eder worked as a Technical and Graphics Illustrator for companies that included Disney Imagineering. In 2007 Kikki began painting under the mentorship of artist Margaret Garcia. Since then, she has exhibited at Casita del Pueblo in Whittier (two-person show with Margaret Garcia), Heritage Square, the Casa de Adobe, Brooklyn/Boyle Gallery, and KGB Gallery in Los Angeles, and the Fremont Gallery in South Pasadena, where Ms. Eder had her first solo show in April 2010.

ROBERT KOSS

The Life Box Series

Earth, plants, grass, trees and sky are the subject of the Life Box Series. It is based on images of the natural world. Idealized, patterned images on cloth, influenced by nature, frame more complex and wild views of it. The inner image, shaped to suggest depth, perceptual and symbolic. Through contrasting color it competes with the frame for dominance, posing a perceptual ambiguity. Two views of nature, one wild and complex, the other repetitive and ordered, vying for prevalence.

Education

M.A., Art, California State University, Northridge, May 1987

B.A., Studio Art, University of California, Irvine, June 1976

Awards/Fellowships

1994

Aaron Siskind Foundation Photographer\'s Fellowship

Public Art

2008 “Art Stop Project,” Santa Clarita, CA

2005 “Newhall Art Walk,” Newhall, CA

Solo Exhibitions

1998 \\\"ROBERT KOSS : PHOTOGRAPHS,\\\" Brand Library Art Galleries, Glendale, CA

1986 \\\"Visual Illusions,\\\" bebop records & fine art, Reseda, CA

Group Exhibitions

2008 \\\"Black & White (with shades of gray and a pinch of color,” LAX Terminal 1, Los Angeles, CA

“2008 Torrance Juried Art Exhibition,” Torrance Art Museum,Torrance, CA. Curated by Gosia Wojas

“Made in California,” City of Brea Art Gallery, Brea, CA

“postcards from the art edge,” I-5 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2007 \\\"Photo-Chimera: Ten California Photographers,”Brand Library Art Galleries, Glendale, CA Curated by Gloria Williams Sander

“CUT,” i-5 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Curated by Stephanie Mercado.

“Inaugural Group Art Exhibit.” Micro Los Angeles Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2006 \\\"Photography,\\\" Palos Verdes Art Center, Rancho Palos Verdes, CACurated by Scott Canty and Phil Lohmann

\\\"Made in California,\\\" City of Brea Art Gallery, Brea, CA

\\\"Art Crawl Kick-off Party and Group Exhibition, \\\"The Echo,Los Angeles, CA

Reviews

2007 Saltzman, Michael. “Picturing the New Wav

My works generally are the result of a continuous refinement of established techniques and experimentation painted on canvas or paper with mixed media materials. Mostly subjects are based on abstracted impressions and memories of different architectural sites I have visited throughout the world. Ancient, and far away places and their unique moods created by light and changing color evoke intense responses and compel me to create my work. In order to capture every mood to my personal satisfaction,

the surfaces have to be superimposed and juxtaposed, creating major and minor accents with some kind of harmony.

I feel that the completion of my paintings is a journey unto itself, of color and feelings. At times I insert snapshots and add

J. Natasha Kostan lives and works in Los Angeles and has been painting in multimedia for the past 30 years. She has studied Fashion and Interior Design in England and Fine Arts and Art History in the United States, and received her BFA from Immaculate Heart College. Her work includes oils, acrylics, mixed media and collage on canvas and on paper.

She studied printmaking extensively under Maurizio Barattucci, a well-known and highly respected artist and instructor. The printmaking process has been an inspiration for developing intriguing primary surfaces and the metamorphosis of Natasha's works on paper. Natasha states: "Ancient, and far away places and their unique moods created by light and changing color evoke intense responses and compel me to create my work. In order to capture every mood to my personal satisfaction, the surfaces have to be superimposed and juxtaposed, creating major and minor accents with some kind of harmony."

Her eclectic style is a manifestation of her multi-hued vision of the world. Her work expresses her experience of living in and traveling through several cultures. "Her palette reflects warmth, balance and strength," said the late Barbara Hagar, California artist, teacher and mentor with whom Natasha studied for many years. Numerous corporations as well as private collectors throughout the United States and England own her paintings. She has exhibited solo and in groups in the United States and Armenia.

The land has always been a reference and source of inspiration for my art. My first paintings were watercolor landscapes. But wanting to work more conceptually, I began to ask questions regarding issues that combined formalism, globalization and those concerning the environment. These queries led to using both abstraction and representation in an attempt to bring an awareness of the earth’s profound beauty and fragility. However, deciding to do something more proactive about the environment led to a four-year gardening project; one that fed artist/gardeners and built community within a community.

The projects that followed began my investigation of perception using photography, but always viewing it from the eye of a painter. Photographing the garden, I created close up images of the heirloom tomatoes and their insides.

Then began my experimentation with process and perception. The first series realized a life-long dream of combining painting and photography in the same image, using photographs of walls and natural objects from my travels. The second series experimented with emulsion, releasing the translucent image of a photo from its paper background. Current bodies of work use the emulsion technique, in addition to archival pigment prints on Slickrock creating a synthetic three-dimensionality.

Kunik was originally a plein-air watercolorist, but wanting to work more conceptually, she returned to school, earning a BFA from Otis College of Art and Design. Informed by environmental and global issues, Kunik’s abstract paintings began referencing these same issues, prompting a four-year community gardening project, which also explored photography and perception. Thus began her investigation of process: combining photography and painting and a unique emulsion process for photographs.

Kunik has been in more than 100 exhibitions in galleries and museums in California, New York and internationally, including Italy, Germany, Japan, Thailand and Peru. She recently received three Gold Awards and five Awards for Excellence for her work at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum. She has shown at Art Basel, Art Basel Miami, and Photo LA. Kunik was born in Chicago, Illinois, earning a BA degree from the University of Illinois and an MS from DePaul University. She moved to California in 1978, where she currently resides.

I relate to the canvas by composing landscapes of irrealities. Rooted in emotional ties, and transposed by interchanging the concepts of design, I attempt to create a meaningful composition for the eye. The purpose being that the project becomes a story, and the story is told in an abstract, yet emotional manner. Each story of the irreal is given a sense of realism by my use of abstraction.

I use abstraction to create an image. The character of the project, urban but organic, becomes a playground for representation, suggesting its theme. The placement of each element changes the entirety of the project. From my experience, character, obvious or underlying, embodies the vision, circumstance, or situation within. I express this dialogue of character with images, not words.

I superimpose images that the eye can distill, complete, reinvent, and/or canonize by using the image to explain what is seen as a kind of narrative.

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but having new eyes.” –Marcel Proust

Meaning is found through imagery and/or other conceptual devices adding to the work. The environment of the image is telling. It helps define what is in front of you.

With each project, my ideas grow. Conceptually, there are many intertwining ways in which these images can be connected. My work is an exploration of such a journey, a journey that is ongoing and reinvents itself through constant change.

My work has an amorphous form and function; encompasses an evocative use of light, shape, and form; and, each composition is different depending on the project and the message. I visually identify with a space and its components through the relationship of the project to its entirety. My projects embrace the mundane, the intellectual experience, and the passions of my life.

Born in South Africa, Teresa Lakier currently lives/ works in Los Angeles. Teresa is best known for her Geometric Abstractions, and her Digital Art. She received a Bachelor of Arts for Art at California State University at Northridge and studied at the California Institute of Art, Westlake.

During her career as an artist, Teresa has exhibited at Bergamot Station in galleries: Secant/Sulkin and Beyond the Lines Gallery. She has also exhibited at Gallery 825, Hale Arts, LACDA, Lark Gallery, MOLAAA, TAG Gallery and Wallspace LA. Teresa has received awards in shows/publications, including Circle Quarterly Art Review Magazine, LA Municipal Art Gallery, MD Art Gallery, Mujeres al Pincel y la Lente, Phantom Galleries, West Hollywood Pop-up Gallery, and VIVA Gallery. Teresa has been represented/affiliated with Hale Arts, LAAA.org, and Wallspace LA. Online she is/ has been represented/affiliated with Artist.com, Bslog.com, Fineartamerica.com, and Saatchi.com.

Teresa is currently working on three bodies of work: Geometric Abstractions, Digital Prints and Portraiture.

Through her work, she reinvents herself using images, the correlation of line, shape, form, and perspective. She challenges the viewer enough to affect them, confuses them enough for them to ask the question, and then, again, challenges them enough to respond to what they see in front of them.

In the past, she has collaborated with three artists: Karen Kinney, Liz Duer, and Odenis Vitorelli.

My eyes see the world formed by shape, color, line and contrasts. The details of reality are nearly beside the point, only that they contribute to the entire. I see forms dominating my environment as one might experience the blur from unfocused eyes. An anecdote may explain it best. Recently, I was driving along a very curvy road beside a hill, and came upon a design in the road: tire tracks going off at a diagonal, toward the hillside. It wasn’t until several minutes later when, still driving along, I felt my brain catch up with my eyes and was shocked to realize the implications of the dark parallel lines angled against the center line. Reality had escaped me.

Still, my unmanipulated digital photographs capture the real. Suggesting mystery within the reality is what inspires me. Representing facts on one hand, and enigmas on the other, the forms take me where they will.

Catherine Roberts Leach was born in New York City and currently lives in California. She is a self-taught, fine art photographer focusing on above and below, mood and mystery. Her images have been exhibited at the Los Angeles International Airport, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s Art Rental and Sales Gallery, the Los Angeles Art Association/Gallery825, and through juried exhibitions online, and at galleries in New York, California, Texas, Oregon, Washington DC, Georgia, Connecticut, Virginia, and Missouri.

Although primarily an abstract artist, her war protest photograph, “Imagine,” appeared on the front page of ImaginePeace.com, a website of Yoko Ono’s, at Ms. Ono’s invitation in 2008. Catherine’s images have won numerous international art awards, and have been published in the juried 2009 Artist Catalog, Los Angeles Art Association, The World’s Best Black & White Photography, 2008 (Black & White Spider Awards), and Best of Photography Annual 2004, Photographer’s Forum Magazine.

Among the jurors and curators selecting her work for exhibition include artist Chris Burden, gallerist Craig Krull, and curators Scott Canty and Mark Steven Greenfield of the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Sarah Bancroft of the Orange County Museum of Art, and Samuel Hoi, President of the Otis College of Art and Design.

These four images represent the Colors of Life in both harmony and variety. Nature provides us with many opportunities to focus on the hues of a single color: yellows, blues, and reds. Contrast this with a man-made rainbow of colors, textures, and shapes.

Nancy Lehrer has been using photography to capture her unique world-view through out her life. Although she holds Masters degrees in Music and Computer Science, she has always held on to her passion for photography. She is currently the Co-President of the Ventura County Camera Club and regularly presents workshops and lectures on composition and digital processing at both the Ventura County Camera Club and the Thousand Oaks Photo Group.

Nancy has been distinguished with many awards throughout the community including several 1st Place honors. Her 1st place honors include the 2009 and 2010 Ventura County Fair and the 2009 Ventura County Camera Club Annual Print Competition. She was awarded Best In Division for Color Photography in the 2009 Ventura County Fair. She has received additional awards at the 2010 Westlake Arts Guild Wide-Open Juried Digital Art show, the 2008, 2009, 2010 Ventura County Fair, Thousand Oaks Photo Group Print Competitions, and the Ventura County Camera Club Print Competitions. Her work has been shown at the Thousand Oaks Community Gallery sponsored by the Westlake Arts Guild. A selection of Nancy?s work is currently on exhibit in the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Center, Kavli Theatre.

Nancy has published two books on photography. ?Los Angeles: Yesterday, Today? documents life within the historic buildings of downtown Los Angels and Hollywood. ?2 Mega-Pixels or Less?, explores the use of low-resolution camera-phones as a means of photographi

Live now

Born in China.

Graduated from Muchina Academy of Art and Design.

Nothing makes us more human than the expression of a personal vision through art. For me it is photography. Black and white, color, film or digital. It is all good. Life is giving me little gifts all the time and to share my vision is my giving back.

Born in Cleveland, Ohio. Moved to Los Angeles at age 18. Studied photography at Glendale College.

NoHo Art Scene 2008

Carmel Art & Film Festival 2009

I feel strongly that art has a fundamentally important role to play in our lives,

and in society as a whole. Yet often I feel that the real essence of painting has

disappeared from our world. Materialism, commercialism and other aspects of society

have come to endanger painting from one side, while new styles in art mean that engagement

in painting itself can be low. Real Painting should never be the hostage or either

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Nizamov Robert

20.04.1970 was born in Kazan, Russia

1985-1992 Studied in the Kazan Art school at teachers Hamidullin A. G. and Vagapov M. A.

1992-1998 Moscow State Academic Art Institute named after V. I. Surikov (the Surikov art institute in Moscow)

workshop of theatrical painting of Kurilko-Ryumin M. M, Lebedeva R. I.

and a workshop of monumental painting of Maksimov E. N, Lubennikov I. L.

Since 2001 a member of the Moscow Union of Artists

Lives in Moscow, Russia

Website: http://www.nizamovrobert.ru

e-mail: rob7@mail.ru

tel: +7(916)563-23-47

Exhibitions:

24.03.2010-11.04.2010 Broadway Mall Community Center Art Gallery, New York, USA

10.04.2010-23.04.2010 Gallery Sigvardson, Rodby, Denmark

30.04.2010-21.05.2010 Camden Art Gallery, London, England

Родился в городе Глазове в 1969 году. Окончил Глазовскую художественную школу в 1982 году. Занимался в студии-мастерской скульптора, живописца, графика и педагога Леонида Андреевича Мордвина и готовился поступать в институт им.В.Сурикова, а поступил в институт физической культуры в городе Москве, параллельно посещал школу акварели С.Андрияки, а также мастерскую Н.Смирнова.

В данный момент занимаюсь творческой деятельностью и преподаю в вузе живопись и рисунок. Мобильно переключаюсь на разные виды техник. Мне интересно все - в чем я вижу жизненную энергию.

Жизненное кредо: \\\\\\\"Не останавливаться на достигнутом!\\\\\\\"

В 2003 г. вступил в Творческий Союз Художников России.

2002 г. - городские, областные выставки

2005 г. - участие в выставке посвященной 65-и летию Кировского отделения Союза Художников России

2005 г. (октябрь) - п�

Organic is the source.

I explore my vocation by executing landscapes with oil paint on site.

The celestial paintings are experimentation with a more spacial aspect using acrylic.

These are the beginnings of all landscape and special happenings I am working to reinvent in my art.

Inspired by nature, the figure and weight. There is a continuum that feeds itself. I feel every color has its own movement, defined within all communication. Vibrations touch each individual in a completely different way and it was my exploration to tap into mine and start discovering how it affects perceptions.

What moves a person's soul?

How does the work tap into that universality?

There is a thread, you can choose to pick it up and start tugging or just ...

Every piece of art has been a training ground, a land of discovery and exploration through lines, shapes and color. All of my projects will take the rest of my life.. and when I pass it will be complete.

I have always been attracted by landscape. As a subject it weaves in

and out of my work.

Wolves and Kimonos are emblematic of my work over a long period,representing a search for spirit, with the wolf as guide and the kimono a metaphoric actor on the stage of life. Landscape provides the background.

Born Chicago, Illinois, studied University of Michigan, resident American Academy in Rome, resided 12 years in Italy. Presently residing Ojai, Ca.Work internationally exhibited and in many important public and private collections.

Love art

Fine Arts - Paintings, drawings, sculptures, and exotic dolls shown in galleries throughout southern CA. and eastern TN. Active member of art groups Bunker (Los Angeles), FAB (Fine Arts Blount), Knoxville Art and Culture Alliance, and A1 Lab Arts (Knoxville).

Two paintintings:

1/xxx1, canvas, mixed technique, 200x200 cm,2009

2/XXX2, canvas, mixed technique, 200x200 cm,2009

Education:2007-2009 Grad Master, Art Academy of Latvia, Department of Conceptual Painting, I. Henrikssons workshop

2003-2007 Grad BA, Department of the Glass, Art Academy of Latvia

EXPERIENCE:

2007-2010 design agency H2E, 2D designer

1999-2007 design gency \\\"Five Lakes\\\", the artist

Exhibition:

2010 Exhibition \\\"Gaismas ēnas\\\", Naujene, Latvia

2009 Exhibition \\\"Forma. Krāsa. Līnija \\\", gallery Rigas space, Riga

2009 Exhibition Gallery Profile, Poznan, Poland

2008 Exhibition \\\"The horse-3\\\", Riga, Art Academy of Latvia

2008 Exhibition Art Academy of Latvia student,s, gallery 1 st floor

2007 Exhibition\\\"Fragile\\\", Mencendorf Nams, Riga, Latvia

Award

2010 Adwards Latvia contest finalist, category Graphic Design, calendar, H2E

2009 Adwards Latvia contest finalist, category Graphic Design, \\\"Arhis architecture\\\", H2E

2009 Award for Best Map contemporary corporate identity for Latvian stand book fair in Gothenburg (1 place),

book \\\"Arhis-architektura\\\" (3 places),

exhibition \\\"Arhis architecture\\\" (2 place)

Lola Ramona?s drawings fuse mythology, religious iconography, fairy tales, and pop culture into exquisite composites. She filters the world through stories and metaphors in order to create an ?emotional taxidermy?. Lola?s draws freehand- using memories, historical art references, still life, and photography as ?models?. The details that often go unnoticed in life become the pivotal tensions in the images- they reveal vulnerability and tenderness: a tragic/comic poetry.

Using materials such as graphite, acrylics, oil paints, glitter, and gold leaf, the drawings illuminate

precious moments that have the power to bring forth recognition, nostalgia, and humility.

Lola Ramona has been making art since she was very young. She began her training with her mother, copying pictures by John Singer Sargent and Gustav Klimt. Lola?s love of art eventually led her to New York, where she graduated with honors from the School of Visual Arts MFA program.

In addition to her drawing and painting, Lola?s work is often collaborative and performance based. For two years she traveled the United States with the ?Cloud Seeding Circus of the Performative Object?, as both a ?bear trainer? and a showgirl, and she gained local celebrity as a Burlesque dancer in New York.

Born on a naval air force base in California, She herself has lived in Japan, the Philippines, Taiwan, Hawaii, Texas, Georgia, Boston, and New York. Lola now lives in Los Angeles.

Lola?s work has exhibited in New York, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Japan, and London and graces the homes of numerous collectors.

My paintings at this time of my life are very often abstraction of landscapes. I try to convey more the mood and my perception of color than the contour of the land.

The creative process of art should always explore the new and unknown but revisit the old. In my art-making I attempt to express more than just what I see. I allow the subject to guide me and in return let the colors speak.

Born, raised and educated in Germany

1955 Work in Switzerland

1958 Immigrating to Canada, Cassiar B.C.

1963 Move to Burnaby B.C.

1980 Joined the Guild of fabric Art of Vancouver B.C.

1993 Move to Kaslo, B.C. Art studio “4711 Art gallery”

2008 Move to Abbotsford B.C. ” Ursula’s Fine Art studio”

I received several awards and recognitions and have collectors in Europe, USA and Canada

Art Education: 2 years Private tutoring with Slovakian artist Peter Estok.

Workshops: Erika Northcot, Bev Peabody and many others in drawing, color theory and plain air.

2 semesters in painting at the Nelson B.C. Arts Center

Born and raised on the beach in Malibu, I spent my childhood treasure hunting in the tide pools and high tide lines of the sea. I have never given up my love of found objects and take quite a lot of meaning from the things that I find. Now I use discarded objects and unimportant throwaways to talk about important things: social and political and personal concerns that I hope touch and resonate with others. Bringing up thoughts and feelings that lie just beneath the surface to conscious realizations, is my objective in what I do and create.

Having studied and practiced various medium; clay, bookmaking, acrylic and watercolor painting I fell upon my creative gold mine when I attended a workshop with Alexis Smith at OTIS. I had collected found objects all my life but had been completely unaware of the medium of assemblage. It was such an exciting opportunity to meet other assemblage artists and discover a community of like-minded artists. The group 8Women was formed and we exhibited twice as a group at the Helms Building.

I have drawn upon my graduate degree in Art from Cal State University, Long Beach and it has deepened my work and widened my perspective. I have been exhibiting locally and nationally in juried shows for the past three years and recently received an award from Peter Mays of Gallery 825 in Los Angeles.

Would Untitled work as an artist name? Does the umbrella actually protect the rain from the dry man? Where does the deer jump from? These questions, and many more, are precisely answered by art.

Long before I learned to read and write, I sketched islands full of pirates; and flying machines; and unseen worlds. Since then, my travels have blessed my hunger for stories and adventures to interpret in my work.

I?ve learned that Nature by far is the unsurpassed teacher. Primitive stories come forth in the reading of a bird?s trail in the sky. For me, watercolor is an exercise in beginner?s mind and infinite heart.

I?ve learned that beaches after a storm bring great driftwood. Assemblage resembles the process of a city: disparate thing

J u a n R o s e n f e l d t

Group Shows

2010-February-A Month of Music- The Loft At Liz?s-Los Angeles, California

Assemblages

2009-December-A Song in my Heart-Santa Monica, California

Assemblages

2009-August-Diverted Destruction-The Loft At Liz?s-Los Angeles, California

Assemblages

2009-May-Nature?s Calling-The Loft At Liz?s-Los Angeles, California

Assemblages

2003-June-Open Studios-Westchester Arts Council-White Plains, New York

Drawings

2002-June-Open Studios-Westchester Arts Council-White Plains, New York

Watercolors

2002-April-Westchester Biennial 02-New Rochelle, New York

Video Art

2001-June Open Studios-Westchester Arts Council-White Plains, New York

Watercolors

1998-July-Municipal Gallery at Barnsdall Art Center-Los Angeles, California

Watercolors

1994-February-FLECHA 94-Madrid, Spain

Watercolors Oils Acrylics

1993-December-Caballo de Troya-Madrid, Spain

Watercolors

1993-September-Espai Hartung- Es Mercadal, Menorca, Spain

Painted Ceramics

1993-July-Arths- Alaior, Menorca, Spain

Painted Ceramics

1993-June-Masha Prieto-Madrid, Spain

Watercolors Oils

1993-February-FLECHA 93-Madrid, Spain

Watercolors Oils Acrylics

1992-December-Caballo de Troya-Madrid, Spain

Watercolors

1992-February-FLECHA 92- Madrid, Spain

Watercolors Oils Acrylics

1989-December-Seccion Aurea-Madrid, Spain

Watercolors

Solo Shows

1994-January-Caballo de Troya- Madrid, Spain

Born in Leningrad. Graduated from Academy of Industrial Art Muchina.

Art has always been in my life. At times it existed merely in the background, but I have always sensed its influence. Whether in the clean lines of an exotic car, the perfect assemblage of architecture or the complexity of an idea coming to life on the canvas, art was ever present. For the last several years I have been fortunate enough to concentrate solely on my craft, resulting in the natural evolution of my abilities. I paint in a contemporary impressionistic style using thick, slow drying oil paint. I am often times amazed at the results of letting a painting flow along its own course without forcing my will upon it. Artists that have inspired me are Prosper de Roover, Rolf Harris, Claude Monet, Charles F. Goldie and Andy Warhol.

Born on the North Shore of Auckland New Zealand, self-taught artist Steven Sotogi\'s interest in art was cultivated from an early age. Steven grew up surrounded by the surreal beauty of Aotearoa (New Zealand). His appreciation for his surroundings allowed him a visual awareness present in his artwork. His rich cultural background provides an esoteric piece of folklore that Steven has the ability to transfer to canvas. He also has found inspiration through travels to many parts of the world, including the Pacific Islands, Australia, the United States and Asia.

Early on, Steven focused mainly on drawing, continuing to nurture his artistic talent. He then began to experiment with different mediums and methods, finally being drawn to his medium of choice in 2004, when he worked in oils for the first time. Steven prefers to use palette knives in his work, which gives him the ability to create a rich flowing texture and either finite or sweeping detail.

Steven\\\'s paintings are featured in many public and private collections throughout New Zealand, and he has become known throughout the country for his unique style, outstanding quality and superb technique. Steven\\\'s reach and recognition are not limited to his home country, having received commissions from clients in the United States, Canada, England, Ireland, Scotland, Japan, Australia, Hong Kong, Dubai, Rarotonga and Austria. Steven continues to hone his technique believing that the evolution of talent is a never-ending process.

I have been painting now for 8 years after retirement from research and teaching in the fields of Structural Optimization and Design Theory at California State University, Northridge. All the while enjoying abstract art as one of the purest forms of creativity.

My approach to painting is just to follow an inner spark which moves me forward - a joyous and satisfying experience, difficult to put into words.

I really enjoy experimenting with the blending of multimedia on canvas to create novel and thought provoking effects. Visual impact is what I strive to achieve.

I have also experimented with the computer manipulation of my painting images.

All my work can be seen at www.spuntart.com

MSME USC 1966; Professor CSUN 1965 - 2007

I have been oil painting since I was 8 years old.

My first paintings were of the Breck Shampoo Girl illustrations on the backs of magazines. I now believe I was engaged in an attempt to connect with the Feminine as a result of not living with my mother from the age of 3. I felt a deep need to express myself and my pain through painting and writing.

Eventually I came to a place of wanting to paint for its own sake and I chose flowers as a vehicle to allow me to explore with color, light, and composition, to play with paint, squeezing and mixing luscious colors onto my palette and canvas. I\'m not interested in the subject as I work, but in an abstract game with rules that allow me to ultimately dance with energy--emotional and spiritual.

Again, I enjoy the paradoxical edge of the surface skin of paint that alludes to a deeper reality that unifies it all. I want to express/allow freedom, joy, spirit.

Steinberg has exhibited nationally in numerous galleries and museums. She has taught drawing, design, and painting at Los Angeles City College, Cal State University at Northridge, and Otis Evening College. She earned her MFA at CalArts and BFA and BA from Cornell University and has received scholarships from art programs around the country.

Her work has been published, won prizes, been listed as an LA Times ?Best Bet? and chosen for Eddie Murphy?s film Daddy Day Care, as well as other film and TV projects. In the fall of 2008, a dozen of her paintings appeared on the award winning TV show House in an episode about a painter with a disturbing vision problem.

Critics have said ?Steinberg can really paint with confidence and swagger?She paints in volumes and in strong personal tonalities of mood and color. Vibrant blues, greens and purple, raw, unpainted canvas, erotic or banal, the compositions express a balance of strenuous oppositions?Even a brilliant bathroom portrait takes on an atmosphere of carnival brightness.?

DUAL PROCESS ARTWORKS:

The Synthesis of Collage and Photo Processing

Understanding the photage process gives insight into the unique abstract images I achieve in digital painting. Photage is not the odd juxtaposition of visual language you generally associate with collage. For me it is an expressionistic, painterly, problem-solving process that begins with finding a rich and cohesive palette of fragments from recycled magazine pages. I then help each piece find its niche based on light and shadow, color, and texture dynamics. This focus on cooperation and symbiosis of parts is what paradoxically imparts a sense of calmness, strength of structure, and serenity in an otherwise very busy environment, a metaphor of my vision for a healthy earth.

"In a future series I expect to explore many more interesting color combinations and visual effects and perhaps create more loose, dynamic photages with more simplified patterns. However, since unpredictable is part of the definition of photage, I will be as surprised as my patrons to see what comes out next," I wrote in a previous artist's bio. Rereading this today, imagine my pleasant shock of realization that I have done just that, but not in the way I imagined. Digital painting has allowed me to push the photage images in the direction my artistic sense wants to take unfettered by the physical limitations of cut paper. I find that the interests piqued by photage, such as experimenting with light and shadow, depth of field, the balance of space, visual porosity of elements, mood and interaction of color, simultaneous micro/macro perspectives, and the commingling of straight lines and curves, can all be indulged using a stylus and powerful photoprocessing tools.

Traditional art training has been an immeasurable benefit in creating abstract depictions of qualities and sensations found in the collages and digital paintings. But while I can draw and paint, I consider myself more a constructionist and have always been inclined towards building, layering, combining found material, and the frugal and resourceful person's excitement in making something new and different out of something else. This seems to be the Nature's way of creating, and these new media dual-process artworks are my homage to and idealization of its many mysteries.

For a view of both photage and its spawn, digital painting, please visit: www.marlenestruss.com

Life-long artist Marlene Struss is a native of California. She received her bachelor's degrees in fine art and social sciences from the University of California Santa Barbara and found the climate, both physical and spiritual, so conducive to creativity that she never left the area. Since that time she has produced a large body of work in a variety of disciplines, including drawing, etching, painting, surrealistic and political collage and, most recently, digital painting. She is best known for the striking collages she calls "photage" to distinguish the unique technical process and the visual effect achieved.

Ms. Struss's collage and photage has been widely exhibited and acclaimed in group and solo shows throughout the United States. She is the recipient of the coveted Independent Artist Award in Collage/Assemblage from Santa Barbara Arts Fund. She is an award winner in the National Collage Society's 23rd annual Juried Exhibition and a juried member of the National Association of Women Artists. Her work has appeared in several publications, including Kennedy Publishing's juried books Best of California Artists & Artisans and Best of America Mixed Media Artists & Artisans. Recently she has been selected by invitation to participate in Kennedy's Best of Worldwide Genre volume.

She started learning and experimenting with digital photo processing in early 2010 using high-resolution images of her photage as starting points. She soon realized that she had a natural affinity for this state-of-the-art technology and the stylus "paintbrush." It didn't take long for the new media artworks to be selected for several competitive group exhibitions.

She refers to these large abstract organic-looking scapes printed on canvas with archival pigment as digital paintings. They are distinguished by their lively fluidity, sophisticated color, impression of dynamic space, and dramatic use of light and shadow. In addition to her experience with layering paper, the meticulous interlacing of layers involved in her new method harks directly back to the layering technique she was noted for in her early etchings. And like all her previous abstract work, she prefers to allow the image to evolve without preconception by means of a series of aesthetic decisions. The beauty and mystery of the final creation then becomes its own message.

To view examples of both photage as well as digital paintings, please visit www.startran.com/artweb.

One of the things that we do as humans is perceive, experience and feel things in ways that are

individually unique. The fact that a mere expression from one individual can induce a very personal response in another is a wonderful part of human interaction and connection. In my work I strive for a balance that is expressive yet disciplined; deliberate yet free.

Born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri Troy\\\'s creative streak began when he started

drawing around the age of 4. Primarily self-taught he honed his skills as a painter in the mediums of oil, acrylic and watercolor. He has studied under accomplished artist Carol Bishop at Los Angeles Valley College and is work may be found in many collection across the country. Troy is currently living in Los Angeles, California.

Irina Ternovskaya was born in 1977 in

Choybalsan citi ( the Mongolian People`s

Republic). In 2002 she graduated from the

Moskow State University of indusrial and

Applied Arts named after S.G. Stroganov

I was a writer before becoming a painter, but I drew as many pictures in the margins of my paper as words on the page. Painting liberated me from a linear narrative structure. Some stories simply have no ending; others have many.

My paintings are visual allegories of the personal, political, cultural and moral questions I have regarding our time on earth. In the aerial series of paintings, I distance myself like a bird flying overhead, to see if there?s a pattern or some grand design as to why people converge or disperse.

In the aerial series, I like to tell just enough of the story that the viewer makes up the ending.

Education:

1974 BA U.C.L.A. (Writing)

1999-2004 Otis College of Art and Design

Grants/Awards:

2006 Artist-in-Residence, Big Sur

Exhibitions:

Over and Above, Studio Arts Gallery, Laguna Beach, Ca., 2010; Our Struggle: Responding to Mein Kampf, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, Ca., 2010; Exhibition, Studio Barndiva Gallery, Healdsburg, Ca. 2010; Found Object Sculpture, Fine Art Base Gallery, Sand City, Ca. 2009; Group Show, Ventana Inn, Big Sur 2009; Exhibit, The Phoenix Shop at Nepenthe, Big Sur 2008; Open Studio Monterey, Monterey, Ca; 2008; Group Show, Studio One, Big Sur 2008; Group Show, Unitard Gallery, Downtown L.A. 2007; Solo Exhibit / New Works Anderson Miguel Fine Art Gallery, Healdsburg, Ca. 2006; Big Sur Artist Residency Exhibit, Carmel, Ca. 2006; Red Light/Green Light, Lauryn Taylor Gallery, Carmel, Ca. 2005; Miniatures, Studio One, Big Sur, Ca., 2005; Evolution: The Process of Abstraction, Bolsky Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, 2004;

Home Is Where the Art Is, Solo exhibit Los Angeles, Ca. 2004; Juvenilia, group exhibit, The Gardner Stages, Hollywood, Ca. 2004; Bridgin\' The Gap, a group show, The Glasshouse, Pomona Ca. 2004

Teaching:

Otis College of Art and Design

Boys and Girls Club of Venice

YMCA, Westchester, Ca.

SCI-Arc (co-Founder of Kids-Arc (Architecture for Children)

Biography

Name/Surname. Abay Tokshebayev.

Was born. In Almaty of republic Kazakhstan. 2 October 1950.

Education.

1969-1973 Almaty art college, faculty design. (Almaty)

1973-1979 All-Union State Cinematography Institute. Art faculty. Animation section. (Moscow).

1982-1984 High Courses of Director and Scenery. Animation section. (Moscow).

Speciality.

Director and artist of animation, animator, designer.

Employments.

1979-2010 \"Kazahfilm\" cinema studio. Director and artist of animation films. (Almaty).

1984-1986 Almaty art college. Teacher of animation. (Almaty).

1995-1996 .National Art Academy. Teacher of painting. (Almaty).

!996-1997 \"Denge Animation\" studio. Animator. (Ankara, Turkey).

2001-2002 National Art Academy. Teacher of computer animation.

Selected Exhibitions

2001 Group Exhibition. Gallery “Challenger” (Almaty).

1998 Exhibition of cinema artist. Central exhibition hall. (Almaty).

1986 All-Union exhibition of cinema and theater artist. (Moscow).

1984 Exhibition of cinema and theater artist. (Almaty).

1981 Exhibition of cinema artist. House of cinema. (Almaty).

Address. Orbita 2 - 31 kv. 11 Almaty. Kazakhstan.

E-mail tokshabay@mail.ru

My work is a form of meditation on the beauty, wisdom and grace of nature. The constant interplay of light and weather as it interacts with the sky,land and sea.

Lisa Tomczeszyn trained at Parsons School of Design, Southampton College and the Yale School of Drama. Ms. Tomczeszyn has always maintained dual disciplines in theatrical and film design in addition to her fine arts work of watercolor, pastel and oil painting.

The inspiration for my work comes from the needlework that women have done over the centuries as creative expression at home and in the factory. Growing up and observing the interactions between my mother, grandmother and other women enlightened me to the common bonds women share. The different facets of sewing connected the women together as they shared their expertise, ideas and supplies with one another. The frustrations and tedium of the day seemed to fade away as they began their creative process.

My work relates to the memories I have of observing these interactions and my experiences with my mother and sister as we engaged in similar activities over the years. It speaks about the constraints that women have found themselves in

Susan Tratechaud Kurland is interested in 3-dimensional and the human figure as they pertain to women’s work. Ms. Tratechaud-Kurland has worked with textiles as a seamstress in theaters and private industry as well as a weaver. In addition to textile experience, she has completed her education in ceramic sculpture where these elements are combined to create her unique sculptures. It is through these experiences as well as the interactions she has shared with her mother, sister and friends working together in what has traditionally been thought of as women’s work that she draws her inspirations.

These five images rediscover wonder by making unexpected connections between real scenes and imagined contexts.

Mexican Dream recalls various facets of a recent trip to New Mexico. Just a few pieces from Alexander Girard’s Folk Art Collection form the basis of a hallucinatory dream set within New Mexico’s remarkable skyscape.

Jain Lions at Play shows the fierce guardians of the Shree Sheetalnathji Temple, Kolkata, in a gentle and playful mood. Transported, in a child’s imagination, to a mythical fractal landscape, the lions can forget, for once, their onerous duties as temple guards.

Ascent to Salvation Mountain gives expression to Leonard Knight’s lifelong work in creating his Salvation Mountain, made out of mud, straw and paint. Located in the desert of Imperial County, California, this vision sees Leonard floating aloft amid towering azure skies.

Flying Elephants illustrate a story that hasn’t yet been told. They are from Sonagir, a Jain pilgrimage site in Madhya Pradesh, and here they have been given an aerial life which belies the heavy and static reality of their normal existence.

Kite Sky shows stills from a moving artwork built with Processing. A cloudy New Mexican sky forms the backdrop to an imagined kite flying festival in which a multitude of shapes with variegated patterns and colors perform a complex dance.

Terry Trickett is an architect who has recently developed an interest in digital art. His architectural and design projects http://www.trickettassociates.com , which focus mainly on exhibitions and interiors, demonstrate a close involvement with graphic design and often incorporate photographic or illustrated imagery.

As a result of one particularly fruitful relationship with a significant client, the Wellcome Trust, Terry Trickett instigated a wide-ranging project (Sci-Art) in which scientists and artists, working in partnership, are encouraged to pool their ideas and, thereby, maximise one another’s creative potential. This initiative is now poised to enter a second stage, Sci-Art Lab http://www,sci-art.org.uk

Terry Trickett exhibits his digital artworks, viewable at http://www.trickettimages.com , at a number of venues world-wide:

Three artworks produced under the title ‘From Bucky to Gehry’ have recently been on display at the New York Hall of Science. These works are viewable on line http://www.asci.org/index2.php?artikel=1072 and in October of the same year they were on display at the Packer Collegiate Institute in Brooklyn, NY.

\\\\\'Cubic World at Sea\\\\\' was selected for display at PRINT NOW, an exhibition of innovative print, held at the London Art Fair 2010, 13-17 January 2010.

\\\\\'Ascent to Salvation Mountain\\\\\', \\\\\'Datia Heptagon\\\\\' and \\\\\'Varanasi\\\\\' were accepted for inclusion in the 9th Lessedra World Art Print Annual 2010 (Produced in Sofia, Bulgaria.

Since my youth in the '60s, exploring oil painting to drawing, carved wood to cast cement, I have invented a personal world of the imagination that I desire to share, crossing all ages, races and creeds.

The color pencil drawings appear as an alternative universe, familiar at the same time as strange, recalling Yves Tanguy or De Chirico. The scenes turbulent, yet inviting, are dreamlike and meditative, evoking emotions according to the individual viewer's own visceral reaction. My work demands the viewer to keep scouring the surface of the compositions, searching amidst the ethereal shapes to find what their imagination and spirit shows them. For me they parody the human condition and origins, perhaps their future.

Art Venti phone: (310) 578-7677

607 Victoria Avenue, # d, email: artventi@yahoo.com

Venice, CA 90291 website: www.artventi.com

Art Education:

1971-74 School of Visual Arts

New York, New York

Selected Group Exhibitions since 1991:

2010 Video Army. Venice Art Crawl. September.

2007 2004 1998 Artists Council Show

Palm Springs Desert Museum

Palm Springs, CA

1997 Southern California Open Juried Exhibition

Laguna Art Museum

Laguna Beach, CA

1997-91 Los Angeles County Museum of Art,

Art Rental Gallery

1996 Southwest ?96?

Museum of New Mexico,

Santa Fe, NM

1995 Fine Art Institutes S. Cal. Open Exhibition

San Bernardino County Museum, Redlands, CA

Juror Suzanne Muchnic.

Hon. Mention Award

1994-95 Fidelity Arts, Santa Monica, CA

1994 29th Annual Exhibition

San Bernardino County Museum

Redlands, CA

Brand XXIII, Annual Juried Show

Brand Library

Glendale, CA

1992 John Thomas Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

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Fantasy and Reality,

Past and Future,

Fire and Earth,

Hate and Love.

Broken shadows.

Where is the border line?

I guess I know the answer ... it's our life.

http://www.genesiscards.com/2011/04/pictorial-synchronicity/

http://www.genesiscards.com/about/

Artist Statement

Roland Derrell White

We are spirits that have come from a place where there is no space and there is no time, we have our dependence\\\\\\\\\\\'s on this earth, and one of which is in the artist, the keepers of our times. Being one of the Artists of now, I thank you for your viewing of my works and I thank you for your support. A tear comes to my eyes and I get that lump, you know what I mean, when I realize that the will of GOD has touched and ordained this spirit with the gift of creativity and the vision of the art and the suffering to do the works, and his will be done. I am sure from his all knowing mind that he knew what he was doing, and I thank him with all my heart and all my soul and blessed spirit.

I like workin

Roland D White

645 West 9Th Street Unit 110-365

Los Angeles, California 90015

323-252-2702

rdwhiteart@yahoo.com

Education

1966

Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, Ohio

Awards: Alumni Association Scholarship

Art History/Painting Model

1972

Dean Call School of Design, Worthington, Ohio

Interior Design/Color Concept

Exhibitions

2005/2006

“The Art of Peace: Works by Veterans”- Contemporary art exhibition featuring military veterans, revealing what brings peace to their lives. This exhibit was a part of “Healing Art” project founded by Jackie Wolf, in conjunction with the National Veterans Foundation.

2004

Trans/African Trade Conference at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles- One man exhibit.

2001/2002/2003/2004/2006

Wallace Art Foundation, - Contributing Artist, Inglewood, CA.

Advisory Board member and volunteer for this non-profit community-based art agency.

2001

World Conference Against Racism, Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance.

Prepared by the World Conference Secretariat Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Invited showcase Artist, Durban, South Africa (August 31 – September 7)

1996/1997/1999/2001

African Market Place & Cultural Faire, a Group showing of contemporary and Afro-centric works. Sponsored in part by the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs and support by the state of California.

THE ZEN OF THE LAND

unites a visual trilogy of country people, their landscapes and lifestyles in humanist, spiritual, pictorial harmony. Willat brings a centered, thoughtful and organic approach to photography and to the living of a purposeful artists' life. The serenity in her images is both pensive and evocative; mirroring her contemplative intellect and ebullient personality. The artist’s best works percolate with a Mandala-full of life forces that emanate from her subjects, which she shoots in situ. Her most interesting pictures linger in the mind's eye. They move the viewer into spaces where we breathe deeper and slower- harmonizing with those who inhabit the visual world that Willat creates.

“I can get lost in the moment. The shutter seems to click on its own when I'm fortunate enough to capture someone at one with their environment. My favorite shots are not portraits and they’re not landscapes. I like to shoot people going about the living of their lives within their lands. They become defined by how and where they live. That’s what I’m known for.”

Jemmaa El Fna, a cityscape of Marrakesh’s town square, is a pageant of humanity where horse drawn carriages, push carts and shoe shine stands are readying the famous marketplace for day’s end. It perfectly expresses the interchangeability of Willat’s desire to characterize those she shoots by the places they inhabit and to portray these places by the persons who populate them.

Felice Willat is an award-winning travel photographer and publisher, whose images from Burma, Morocco, China, Vietnam and Argentina, capture the beauty of the human landscape across cultures. Willat's photographs have been juried into the Los Angeles Center for Photography, Photo LA, Photo Independent, TAG Gallery, Bergamot Station, the Brand Library, Glendale, CA, and numerous other venues across the United States and in London, UK and Italy.In 2010, Felice won First Prize, for her Travel images in the Southern California Council of Camera Clubs’ annual juried exhibition. In 2009 Felice published The Quiet Between, Song of Burma, a book of photography and poems.

Felice sees her camera as providing a sense of time expansion and stillness. She says, “I could capture a moment, something sacred or commonplace, an unconscious gesture, a tattered clothesline, a red plastic pitcher, or a worn prayer book. I like to leave the familiar, travel to far-away places, and find the gift of really being present.”

Selected Exhibitions

2015

LAPhoto – Fabrik Magazine Gallery

Topanga Canyon Gallery – Juried Group Show – Featured Artist

Juror – Michael Zakian, Director, Weisman Museum

2014

Captured 2 – Second Annual Photo Competition – Santa Barbara Tennis Club

“Climbing Cardinals” – Best of Show

Los Angeles Center of Photography – First Annual Member’s Show

Photo Independent – Raleigh Studios – Inaugural Debut - Zen of the Land

LA Photo – Fabrik Magazine Gallery

1995-1997 B.A. University of California, Irvine, Studio Art

1966-1969 B.A. University of Hong Kong Kong, History & Political Science

My lifelong passion in art could be dated back to the sixties, when I was taking private classes by local artists including Ng Po-wan (1965-1970), and afterwards, Chen Hok-shu (1971-1973), who cultivated my interest in traditional Western art and equipped me with a store of painting techniques. After graduating at the University of Hong Kong in 1972, I served as a social worker, and later, administrator in the Hong Kong government for two decades. It was, however, not until 1991, after immigrating to the United States, that I resumed her artistic endeavour.

Works

2010-11 Bondage

2008 Assemblage

2007 Ellipses...

My City 2007

2006 Unbottled

2004 Crooked Metal : 'Blue Nude' Deconstructed

2002 Untitled

2001 My City

1999 Double Boiler

1997 Boxes filled with colors

Solo Exhibitions

Sept 2004 Economist Gallery Hong Kong

Oct 2003 Hong Kong Cultural Centre Hong Kong

Sept 2001 Fringe Club Hong Kong

Group Exhibitions

Oct 2012 NinaTorres Fine Art Miami USA

Sept 2012 Hong Kong Cultural Centre

Jan 2011 Hong Kong Cultural Centre Hong Kong

Jun 2010 Southern Nevada Museum of Art USA

Jul 2010 Galerie Le Createur Hong Kong

Oct 2004 Tai Koo Place Hong Kong

Apr 1999 Galerie Lindenberg New York USA

May 1999 Galerie Gora Montreal Canada

I\'m a visual journalist who uses paint to collide Abstraction with Realism.

William Wray began working in the animation business as a teen-ager eventually enrolling in The Art Students League in New York to study fine art in the academic tradition. Uninspired by the conceptually dominated fine art world of the eighties, William went back to work in comic books, animation and illustration. He is best known for his painting style on the Ren and Stimpy Show and his work in Mad Magazine.

A concentrated series of oil painting workshops over the last several years has led to a maturing reformation of his art style to an Expressionist kind of realism. He has two book collections of his paintings entitled ?Dirty Beauty? and ?Sparrow.? He is a member of LAPPA, the California Art club and the OIL Painters of America.

Bill recently had a one-man show at the Bakersfield Museum of art and is in the Vault Gallery in Cambria Ca., Annie Irwin fine art In Georgia and Windrush in Sedona. Also in numerous Plein art shows, Bill?s profiled in the July ?09 Southwest Art July, 2008 American Art Collector, and The Artist Magazine March 2008.

While he still going out Plein Air Painting occasionally, Bill has ?retired ? to working in the studio, concentrating in an ever-increasing more personal style of contemporary expressionism. Bill lives In Sierra Madre California with his girlfriend Sharon and his vocally talented parrot Mookie.

Some of his many contest wins are listed on his website: http://williamwray.com/

An exhibition history is availabl

In my work I examine systems such as library catalogues, and their progressions away from physical paper. Much of this paper exists as a chaotic storm that settles as landfill once the system has died. It is our belief and use of these systems, and our sudden shifts in technology that creates enormous waste. Library cards are but one of many such systems. Office equipment suffers a similar critically important, yet short life span, machinery is outmoded and often discarded in full working order. Many of my earliest toys were office supplies; rubber stamps, staplers, out of date calendars I would reuse as notebooks. Office paraphernalia, library cards and ledgers, often-handled objects and evidence marks of the human touch in frayed edg

Penny Young is a sculptor, poet and arts educator. Her practice includes paper and ceramic sculpture, installation, drawing and kinetic works. Ms. Young graduated from the University of California Santa Barbara, and received her M.F.A. from California State University Northridge.

Penny has been an artist-in-residence at Mt. St. Mary?s College in Santa Monica, California and at the Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena, California. She was the Chairman of the Art in Public Places Committee for the City of Burbank, and consulted on set as an artist and prop-maker for Hungry Man Productions and the HBO Series Six Feet Under.

She has taught at California State University Long Beach and Northridge, the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts and Inner-City Arts in downtown Los Angeles. At Wonderland Avenue Elementary, Penny worked as a Coordinator for parent volunteers teaching art. Penny currently lives and works in the Los Angeles area creating large-scale paper mache objects, ink drawings and writing poetry.

These painterly collage pieces are a continuation of my Beach Rock painting series. I was initially inspired by rocks on a deserted beach. Submerged in water, they reminded me of strange creatures pulsating with spirits, and inspired me to reimagine them on my canvas.

The idea behind my collages was to bring out the mysteriousness I felt about these rocks and make their strangeness even more vivid.

Each collage piece has several vignettes generated in the process, either intentionally or incidentally. They are like mini dramas within a bigger show and, when viewed as a whole, meant to heighten surreal feeling.

The way I see and express nature might have been influenced by shamanistic spirit that I had witnessed as a youngster in my old country.

Young Yun Summers is a Los Angeles based artist. She was born in Korea and came to USA as a high school student. She inherited a love of art from her family and always knew she would be an artist.

Majoring in design in fine arts, she earned her BFA from the University of California, Los Angeles, and worked in retail advertising for many years. However, her passion to be a serious fine artist was not pursued while she was working full-time and raising a family.

After her son went off to college to study piano, she finally decided to fully commit herself to art.

Young started out painting her favorite subjects, such as her family, trees, rocks, things in nature. Then, she began to incorporate collages, as a way to enhance her paintings. Soon the painterly collage took over and became her signature medium, garnering great responses and awards. Lately, her collages have become more sculptural and experimental. Finding beauty and harmony in most unexpected way from items soon to be discarded, while reducing waste and recycle are important aspects of her artistic life.