Find Your Roots

Style: Erna Avan is an Armenian artist who moved from Armenia to US in 2010. She is one of the Abstract art representatives who started painting in 2009. Her style is mostly abstractionism and her art expresses departure from reality. Erna mostly works with acrylic and gouache paints. She uses mixed technology. Her style varies from one work to another and is very complex to explain. The dominant part of her work is psychological expressions of abstract portraits. In her work Erna also used some elements from her childhood (Fairy Tale abstract representations). Another part of her work represents the life of another dimension such as her cosmic and space metamorphosis representation. Many of Erna's works have religious foundation because Christianity was a defining part of Armenian history.

Erna Avan was born in 1961 in city Baku, Republic of Azerbaijan. Her father was a Geography teacher and her mother was Director of Scientific Library of Baku. Erna started attending teaching practice at conservatoire when she was 5 years old. Her major was piano. In 1982 Erna completed conservatoire with exceptionally highest grades. She is a very talented musician and composer. In 1983 she had her first and the only son Roman. She lost her husband in 1994 and continued raising Roman alone. As a result of enormous creative energy and a stressful period of her life in September 2009 (48 years old) Erna suddenly started showing her talents in fine art. She was very inspired by famous painter Edvard Munchs art work "Scream" and the next morning she created her first art work (The Beginning). Erna has worked individually starting in 2009 and already had a chance to be introduced to Union of Armenian Painters in 2010. In 2010 due to circumstances she has moved to US. She has about 300 art representations. She had her first exhibition in July 2010 at XPress Art Center Royale Gallery located in Glendale, California. She continued to create new art works. In 2012 unfortunately she was diagnosed with cancer, and went through required procedures and now is hoping to continue to work towards expressing herself and her feelings in art.

My journey as an artist began over 30 years ago painting colorful semi-abstract Southwest landscapes in oils and watercolor.

Captured by collage and mixed media, the direction of my work has changed dramatically over the years. And, although I still paint, my "paint brush" is now often through the lens of a camera or iPhone. My photo collages allow me to meld together captured images of light and shadows, architectural elements and the mood inducing landscapes of L.A. and DTLA. Day or night, freeway blurs, building facades, distorted landscapes, graffiti, billboards, glitches, store windows, reflections are translated into seductive, colorful virtual reality-scapes.

Susanne Belcher, a native Californian, and award winning mixed media semi-abstract artist, began incorporating photography into her paintings and collages several years ago. Her experimentation with transparency film, scanning images, layering, overlaying and collaging these elements into her creations extended her visual language. Her images, always compelling, whether minimal or complex, retain a consistent emotional narrative component that is unique, sophisticated and often surreal and mysterious. Her innate ability to distill images through layers of reduction and compilation in mixed media provided a natural transition to digital photography.

She has exhibited in Germany and galleries throughout So. California in both solo and group exhibitions since 1991. The recipient of numerous awards, her work is held in private and corporate collections in the U.S. and Europe. She was a founding partner and represented artist of the former Abbot Kinney Art Gallery (Venice, CA), is currently represented by Gloria Delson Contemporary Arts Gallery (DTLA). She is an active member of Women Painters West, Thousand Oaks Art Association, California Art League and currently sits on the Board of Collage Artists of America and The Fine Arts Club of Pasadena. She is also co-author of an art/nature essay book “Looking for 527” about the journeys of a Yellowstone Wolf killed in 2009 during the first Montana wolf hunt (available on Amazon.com)

Images that are subliminal appeal to multiple levels of our awareness. The figures in my work speak to your unconscious; rather than representing something literally. Detailed or expressionistic these figures merge with water based mediums, mostly Sumi ink on paper. The work is a way for me to engage directly with my imagination from point zero, inspired by over three decades in the study and teaching of Zen.

Study and practice in meditation and the Japanese sword, and my work with people in hypnosis and NLP (Nero Linguistic Programing) inspires me. Simple moments that wake us up from a different kind of sleep, moments that connect us back into our lives in an empowered way.

I am a multiracial woman whose art is greatly influenced by my Japanese ancestry and Moroccan and European Roots.

Co-founder of Five Changes and Manzanita Village Retreat Center in Southern California. I mentor and certify coaches, healers, artists, people in leadership roles, conscious business owners and entrepreneurs, in Hypnosis and NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programing) Constellation work, and mindfulness, facilitating workshops and retreats throughout the US.

Born in 1955 in Southern California. I am of mixed Japanese, North African and European-American heritage.

A self-taught artist, with artist parents so I was encouraged to paint and draw for as long as I remember, selling my art as early as age 9.

I was hired by Zox Studios, a thriving commercial airbrush studio in the San Fernando Valley while I was still in high school. After graduating in 1972 I continued there until 1976 as head designer, supervising up to twenty other artists. From 1976 to 1984 I became a freelance commercial artist.

I began teaching mindfulness and Zen meditation, and Iaido sword and Aikido around 1984 which greatly influenced my move from illustrative work to the fine arts.

From 1984 I focused solely on Fine Art, working in various mediums: watercolor, oils, pastel, pencil and sumi ink. I have my artists studio and Retreat Center in Warner Springs, CA.

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.

Albert Einstein suggested that the tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives. To prevent these kinds of soul sacrifices, I started to paint.

The whole idea of painting abstract images gives my imagination freedom to roam.

I apply a generous amount of paint with brushes that I purchase at the paint store and work in layers adding depth and texture. Textures actually interest me very much and are a big part of my paintings. Some of my canvases have been around for years, getting more and more paint applied, until the perfect picture emerges. I incorporate geometric shapes and lines which create both balance and tension within a painting. Often I use charcoal and pastels as drawing elements.

Artist Biography

Education:

3 year art program at Mission Renaissance , Irvine, CA.

Coastline Community College, Costa Mesa, CA

Goldenwest College, Huntington Beach, CA

Studied under Roger Armstrong in Laguna Hills, CA

Exhibitions/Shows/Competitions:

Solo Show – From Dreams to Realty – Tully’s Coffee, Irvine, CA / 2007

Solo Show - Five Painting Palettes - Laguna Hills / 2007

Juried Art Show “Points of View”, Laguna Beach, CA / 2008

John Todd Community Center, Lakewood, Fall Show / 2008

Huntington Beach Art Center – Center on the Center / 2008

Orange County Fair / 2008

”Paint San Clemente”, San Clemente, CA / 2008

Art Expressions – Long Beach / 2008

Coastline Community College Student Show / 2009

“Pastel Plus” Laguna Beach / 2009

“All Media Show”, Irvine / 2009

“Provisional Art” – OCCCA Santa Ana / 2009

Solo Show – My Inspiring Muses - La Muse Café, Long Beach / 2009

Sparganzo Gallery, Long Beach / 2010

Pomona Gallery, Pomona / 2010

Huntington Beach Art Center – Center on the Center 2011

“Art for Haiti” – OCCCA, Santa Ana / 2011

Coastline Community College Student Show / 2011

Fallbrook Fall Show / 2011

Brandon Gallery Small Works show / 2011

Fallbrook Art Association Spring Show / 2012

Brandon Gallery Portrait Show / 2012

Art 4 all People,Phoenix Rising Malibu, 2012

Judging:

Murrieta Valley Council Reflections Program Art pieces from Primary schools to Senior grades – Nov 3, 2011 Murrieta Mesa Libary

Gallery Representation:

Copperwood

Painting and drawing gives me deep satisfaction. The process of creating art makes life more meaningful to me, and motivates me to further explore and participate in life.

I am of Jewish Russian heritage. Recently, I visited Ukraine and Russia, to connect with my ancestry. I was born in Galveston, Texas, and since the age of 9 have lived in the San Fernando Valley. I majored in art at UCLA, later to become an elementary school teacher. I am now retired from teaching, and have delved into painting. I am a member of Artist Coop 7, and have been exhibiting and painting with this group.

Highly influenced by artists like Hopper, Warhol, Lichtenstein, and Diebenkorn, I paints multicultural urban Los Angeles with all its contradictions and poetry.

I am trying to blend my classical European artistic background with contemporary conceptual approach. In the LA urban environment I am looking for and finding manifestations of eternal human values, such as love, faith, longing, and the strife for a better life. I try to see real people and their life through the facades of the buildings depicted with much love and connection.

Born in Moscow , Russia /f. USSR/

Moscow's Art School at Kropotkin St.

MA graphic design from Stroganovskaya School of Art and Design, Moscow.

Graphic Design Workshop Artist Union USSR

Group Show at Bienalle/ Chekhoslovakia, Praga

1989- Came to USA, Los Angeles

1990-2009 Decorative painted furniture and murals

2008-1st Solo show TALK TO ME LA1 Modern Art Gallery

2010-2nd Solo show TALK TO ME LA 2 at Modern Art gallery

2012 Group show at Santa Monica Art Studios

2013 Group show "Seen and Unseen"Downtown LA

Phantom Gallery

curator and artist

2013 Group show "Oneness"Phantom Gallery

2015 Group show at Civitella d'Agliano

2015 Group show at Nuremberg ,Germany

2016 Solo show at Lark Gallery Hawthorne

and curator for CALIFORNIA show

I am a professional scientist, but my genetic makeup always pushed me to the artistic world. I preferred company of artists to the company of peers, which even manifested in my choice of spouses. So, being immersed in the artistic world all my life, I finally realized I needed to let my personal artistic juices out. And allow visceral part of me to kick in and get out.

As a scientist, I thought it will be a good idea to find a balance between cognitive and visceral sides. Hence, I decided to use opto-electronic approach to create images never existed before. But building blocks for creating these novel images are everyday very familiar objects. The closest definition for the final images will be ‘digital still-video’. The reason for that is that either the object involved in the creation of image is moving, or the imaging device, or both.

When creating an image, I seek, by transformation, to reveal in objects of everyday life what they can be, or manifest, given they are brought in motion, which is not particularly pertinent to their nature. So, it’s the opposite of what I try to do as a scientist, where molecular motion at nanoscopic level is translated into steady-state observations with opto-electronic devices.

I hope the approach to creating my images results in new and unexpected visual creations enriching viewers with new emotions and thoughts.

My life is a cascade of transitions, transformations, and quite unobvious and unpredictable revelations regarding what I was, am, and/or potentially can be. There are several examples of that throughout my lifespan. The pertinent one is that I started my adult life as a Ph.D. in Biophysics and may retire as an ‘artist’. The start happened in Russia, and retirement will, hopefully, happen in the US.

Never stop, move forward despite obstacles and misunderstandings from others. You just have your Way and your own Guiding star.

Irina Ciszczon is a Russian-born artist and photographer, embarked on a new chapter on a new chapter of her life in 2015 when she moved to the United States at the age of 50. Starting from scratch in a new country, I found solace and purpose in my passion for the arts. My artistry is inspired by my life experiences and the challenges I faced during my transition to a new culture and way of life. My work often reflects my personal journey, showcasing resilience, hope, and perseverance. My Life story is a testament to the power of passion and creativity to transcend boundaries and overcome adversity.

Sandra Cohn

It has been said that poets and artists, in their highest calling, are the ones who express Being itself; who enlarge human consciousness by inviting the viewer to engage in an experience that inspires a deeper search for an understanding of the nature of existence. Even as a young child, my inner world was absorbed in an encounter with the immense mystery of the Universe. At six years old, I spent endless hours lying on the carpet in my playroom with eyes closed, imagining (unsuccessfully!) the borders of an infinite Universe. Trees, to me, were portals of Light. I pondered the meaning of who we really are and what we are doing here while the rest of the children happily made mud pies and ran through the streets. I spent most of my adult years reading, peering, studying, working in the field of neuropsychology, hospice and grief work, and advanced clinical hypnosis; absorbed in a meditative quest for higher truths. Key to my experience was a near death encounter at 26 years old while giving birth to my first son, which both surprised and delighted me with a direct experience of an all encompassing joy and beauty. My work as an artist and writer reflects this journey, both from compassion for each of us as we reach for heightened clarity and awareness during our often challenging journey of life, and in direct relationship to the translucence of the mystery itself.

I engage with my art and writing as metaphor for deeper wisdom, a portal to an encounter that hopefully uncovers insight and acts as a gateway linking us to the greater universe of conscious.

Sandra Cohn

As an artist, I have a wealth of experience that permeates my work. For most of my life, beginning as a young child , I have been fascinated by consciousness, where it arises and resides, and how it affects our understanding of reality and beyond. This interest shows up in my work as an artist, compelling my work forward into deeper discovery.

At the age of 26, I had a near death experience. During this profound experience, I pierced the veil of our everyday consciousness. Additionally, I worked In Neuropsychology at UCSF Medical Center in California, studying the effects of brain conditions that affect personality and the nature of consciousness. Throughout my life, my defining interest has been exploring spiritual consciousness as our true nature; the embracing of the Whole, of Light and Dark. Art as a window to expansion is deeply interwoven in my work.

Along with my love of clay, and my love of color and texture in paint, I am drawn deeply to story, to words. I write poetry, perform, and mix it into my work or remix others poetry to reflect my work.

I am drawn to exploring the mix of these three mediums as well as sound. The materials I use reflect the history of our lives, Rusted found metal pieces mixed in with sculpture each have their own story to tell and are used in a new form. House paint on roofing paper forms the texture of our daily life used in an artful form. It is in these multitude of mediums that the viewer drops the veil and begins to experience deeper truth and understanding.

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

Self expression and awareness, inspired by others, by ideas; by the effects of light, color, and texture, is satisfied within me by the creation of paintings. I have always been attracted to patterns of color more then the detail of objects, explaining my attraction to abstraction.

While painting, I often find myself taking my eyes out of focus in order to simplify the work. Paint is applied in a thick and forceful manner in order to convey energy and movement. I choose light and temperature of color as a tool to create a specific fee.ling. Acrylic, metallic, permanent marker, and oil paint are combined as a means to achieve contrast.

By painting impressions and abstractions, I believe the viewer becomes involved in a process to understand the work, to contribute to the work, making a connection between my art and the viewer.

2013 Sulkin/Secant Gallery, Bergamot Station, group show. Curated by lark. 2012 Harveys Gallery, L.A., 3 person show. Curated by Mr. Tony Clark. 2012 Love Birds Gallery, solo show. Curated by Star and Martha Higgins. 2010 - 2011 Disneyland, Anaheim, created an exterior mural.

2008 - 2009 Four Seasons Hotel, Westlake, created murals. 2006 - 2007 Lincoln Library, Illinois, created paintings and murals. 2005 Caesars Palace Hotel/Casino, Vegas, created murals. 2004 Venetian Hotel/Casino, Vegas, created murals. 2003 Disneyland Gran Californian Hotel, Anaheim, created paintings. 2001 - 2002 Disneyland, Japan, created paintings and murals. 2000 Ritz Carlton Hotel, Atlanta, created murals.

Private Collections

Mr. Rod Stewart Ms. Janet Jackson Mr. James Earl Jones Ms. Beverly Harris American Red Cross

Review

Paintings by Nigel Cooper appeared to be seen through the dark prism like Le Sidenier with illuminated figures and buildings in the distance. The technique of painting was very original in that the pigments appeared to be drawn with some force across the surface of the canvas.

Mr. William A. Emboden, PhD, FL.S. Art-to-Art palette Journal, 2013

Education

Attended California Art Institute

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

http://animoto.co/play/kcodPxjQSc56io2yu6LQOA

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

Unshin's current preferred mediums are the pen and pencil, and current genre portraiture. Her work is a ballad of fantasy and drama with a tragic disposition. Unshin's art is extremely intricate, and she hopes that with every passing glance, the viewer can discern a new detail unknown to them before.

Unshin is a Los-Angeles-based artist, born and raised in Mongolia, where she attained a BA in Fashion Design and Decorative Art from the College of Arts and Culture. Unshin also owned a fashion house from 1995-98, where she released a series of consecutive avant-garde lines, on top of teaching fashion design and modeling. Although perpetually involved in artistic endeavors, Unshin is a newcomer to the American art scene, having held her first exhibition less than a year prior.

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!\"

“EliZe” da Jose – Artist Statement

I understand art as a way of emotionally experiencing reality and a universal language of

communication.

Without conscious e?ort and thought, I try to fill my paintings with expressions strong

enough to let the spectator feel the energy put in the depth of the canvas, transforming the

perception of picture into his own art act.

Most recently, I find myself inspired to focus on developing and exploring the connection

between iconography and abstraction in light of Cosmism philosophy. The inspiration of

this uniquely blended style came about as briefly explained in the following.

I believe that abstract painting was and still is an artist’s attempt at capturing and

expressing Plato's world of ideas which is invisible to the earthly eyes. Then, at the

beginning of the 20th century came the avant-gardism of Filonov and Malevich which was a

rebellion against physicality, materialism and petty-bourgeois consumption.

Iconography takes its roots from the symbiosis of antique vivid imagery and spiritual

practices of Ancient Egypt. From ancient times to the present day, man has never stopped

asking himself questions about who he is and what his true role in this world is.

My newfound unique style of blending iconography and abstract painting is somehow an

endeavour to continue humanity’s perennial e?ort and desire to capture and express the

depth of the invisible world via visible materials, to have a glimpse of the heavenly realm via

earthly instruments, akin to Plato and Malevich’s line of thinking.

In my work, I try to find an image of the elusive other shore - where every soul aspires to go -

and trying to find artful means to communicate what is di?icult to express in words.

ELIZAVETA DAJOSE (Artist Name: Elize)

Elize daJose is a professional artist, sculptor, iconographer and illustrator.

Her artworks primarily consist of a unique blend of abstract art and icon painting, experimenting with various materials, although her favorite media remain acrylic painting and ceramics.

Born in Moscow, Russia, her life as an artist started at a very young age. One day on a snowy street in her hometown, she bought Kazimir Malevich’s book from a peddler which turned her consciousness upside down and defined her entire life path.

From 1996 to 2000, she religiously undertook painting, sculpture, and graphics in various workshops of Moscow artists.

Since 2001, she has been working in the creative workshops of the Babushkinsky Sculpture Combine and in 2002, she became a member of the Moscow Union of Artists, sculpture section.

From 2002 to 2010, she actively participated in group exhibitions at the Central House of Artists, Gallery on Kuznetsky Most, Darwin Museum, and Timiryazev Museum.

In 2010, she participated in the Annual Art Juried Competition in Los Angeles, CA, and became a laureate.

In 2011, she took part in the collective exhibition "Woman Day Art Exhibits" at the Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, CA, and in 2012 she had a solo exhibition "Three Artists" at Liz Loft Gallery, LA, CA.

In 2016, Elize moved to California and actively participated in collective exhibitions, including the "Summer Exhibit" at Bergamot Station Art Center in Santa Monica (2016), "Brain Art Event" at Lark Gallery/The Chiari Project in West Hollywood (2017), and "The Art of Transformation" at Brick & Mortar Loiter Galleries in Long Beach (2023), among many others.

In 2025, Elize was awarded the Silver Medal at the New York International Art Juried Competition, "The Light from the Other Shore."

In 2026, an essay featuring Elize's creativity and spiritual development was published in the book "Revelations of the Artist - Deep Calls to Deep", curated by ArtServe International.

Elize is an active member of the Los Angeles Art Association and Riverside Community Arts Association. She is currently represented by Lark Gallery in West Hollywood and Literary Engineers, LLC in Benicia, CA.

I am a primarily a sculptor working in varied media. A painter, a curator, an educator, and builder of large architectural/environmental landscape works formed out of rock, metal, often megalithic in size. My work continues to evolve through the exploration of new media. The use of clay to captivate me, serving as an extension of my imago mundi.

2019 “All U Can Eat”, Bunny Gunner Gallery, Claremont, CA

2019 Vertical Wine Bistro, Pasadena, CA

2019 “Evolve Women Wisdom”, LarkGalleryOnline, Long and Great Hall, West Hollywood, C

2018 Bunker Open Doors" LarkGalleryOnLine,West Hollywwod,CA

2018 “Fahrenheit 2018 Biennial” AMOCA, Pomona, CA

2017 “Forces of Nature II”, LA County Arboretum & Botanic Garden, Arcadia, CA

2017 “:Hollyweird Tube Formed in Fire”, Ventura College, Ventura, CA

2017 “Evolving”, Bunny Gunner Gallery, Claremont, CA

2017 “All U Can Eat”, Bunny Gunner Gallery, Claremont, CA

2015 “The Nature of Sculpture” LA Arboretum, Arcadia, CA

2015 “Off the Wall”, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA

2014 “Sculpture in the Garden”, Sam and Alfreda Maloof Foundation for Arts and Crafts, Alta Loma, CA

2013 “2013 Ceramic Biennial”,AMOCA, Pomona, CA.

2013 “International Womens Day”, LarkGalleryOnline, West Hollywood City Building, W. Hollywood,CA

2013 “Abstract Contemplations”, LarkGalleryOnline, Sulkin/Secant Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

2012 “Forces of Nature”, The Los Angeles County Arboretum, Arcadia, CA

2012 “Sculpture in the Garden”, Sam and Alffreda Maloof Foundation for Arts and Crafts, Alta Loma, CA

2012 “New Beginings” , The Loft Galleries and Studios, LarkGalleryOnLine, San Pedro, CA

2011 “Exposed”, AMOCA Permanent Collection, Pomona, CA

2011 “The Art of Clay”, AMOCA, Pomona, CA

2011 “Rossinian Night”, House of Balsamic, Irvine, CA

2011 “Off the Wall”, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA 0

2010 “The Gallery Repertoire”, Gallery Armstrong’s Pomona, CA

2010 ”Moon Light Discovery”, Long Beach Art Walk, LarkGalleryOnLine, Long Beach CA

2010 “Phantom Galleries, Long Beach, CA

2010 FreshArt”, Arena Gallery Santa Monica Studios, Santa Monica, CA

2010 “Reaching Within”, LarkGallery OnLine, Los Angeles, CA

2010 “Los Angeles Art Show”, Armory Center for the Arts, Los Angeles, CA

2009 “Muddy’s Wood Fire Special”, The Myers Gallery-Muddy’s Studio, Santa Ana, CA

2009 “Hidden Treasures”, LarkGalleryOnLine, Los Angeles, CA

2009 “Rhythms- Small Pleasures and Vessel Forms”, Bunny Gunner Gallery, Pomona CA

2009 “Clay and Ink” California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, CA

2009 “Off the Wall”, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA

2009 Phantom Galleries, Pasadena, CA

2008 “Art Without Boarders”, LarkGalleryOnLine, Los Angeles, CA

2008 “Diversity In Clay”, 2008 AMOCA/ACS-DC Show. Pomona, CA

2008 Presidents Show”, 2008 American Ceramics Society, Burbank, CA

2008 “Bunny Gunner’s 1st

2008 “Fred’s Friends”, Armstrong Gallery, Pomona, CA

2008 “Alchemy of Art”, LarkgalleryOnLine, Los Angeles, CA. (Honorable Mention)

2007 Los Angeles County Fair, Pomona, CA

2007 “Open Call LA 2007”, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2007 “Small Treasures”, Palos Verdes Art Center, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA

2007 “Extreme Clay”, American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, CA

2007 Pyoung Taek International Art Festival, Korea

2007 “Off the Wall”, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA

2007 “L.A. International Art Festival 2007, ASTO Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA

2006-Present Armstrong’s Ceramic Art Gallery, Pomona, CA

2005 “Recording Memories of Three Generations Through the Arts”, Armory Center for the Arts,

2004 Dynamics of Scale”, Xiems Ceramics Center, Pasadena, CA

2003-2004 California Fine Art Market, Pasadena, CA

2003 “2003° Fahrenheit”, Glendale City College, Glendale, CA

2003 The DA Center for the Arts, Pomona CA

2002 Armory Center for the Arts, Faculty Exhibition, Pasadena, CA

Birthday”, Bunny Gunner Gallery, Pomona, CA

Pasadena, CA

2002 Bedlam Gallery, Los Feliz, CA

2000 Prufrock Gallery, Pasadena, CA

1999 “Patricia Ferber Recent Works”, Prufrock Gallery, Pasadena, CA

1997 L.A. River Festival, Los Angeles, CA

1997 “Patricia Ferber Recent Works”, The Art Bank, Los Angeles, CA

1996-1997 Art You Can Live With, L.A. Artcore, Los Angeles, CA

1996 “Vessels”, The Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA

1996 Bella Lewitzky Dance Foundation Silent Auction, Sotheby’s, Beverly Hills, CA

1995 Exploring A Movement: Feminist Visions in Clay”, Wingnall Museum/Gallery, Chaffey College,

1995 “One Vision”, Space Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1995 Silent Auction, Space Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1994 “DADA Downtown Lives”, Los Angeles, CA

1994 “Cups”, Space Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1994 “The World of Cups”, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA

1994 “Grants for the Arts, 1993-1994 “Fellowship Recipients, Pasadena, CA

1993 “Clay Currents”, Southwestern College, Chula Vista, CA

1992 The Cultural Factory, Pasadena, CA

1992 Space Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1992 “Transformed From Clay 14 Southern California Artists”, The Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA

1992 “An Odyssey In Clay and Drawing”, 801 N. Brand, Glendale, CA

1992 “Clay Works”, Space Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1991 Nemiroff-Deutsch Fine Arts, Santa Monica, CA

1991 Space Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1991 “Scripps 47th

1990 Downey Museum of Art, “Metals Now”, Downey, CA

1989 Downey Museum of Art, “Ceramics Now”, Downey, CA

1989 Vorpal Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1986-1988 FISID, Design Center of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

Rancho Cucamonga, CA

Ceramic Annual”, Scripps College, Claremont, CA

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, the art of transforming the delapidated into the beautiful!

Rusted doors and peeling paint are magnified and high- lighted to the point where we begin to see them in a whole new light. Old becomes new, defunct becomes living, and rather than function, it is \"form\" that becomes the purpose of these inanimate subjects and their expired registrations

Biography

Erik Fischer, born in historic Aachen, Germany is a former private chef turned photographer. He used to refer to himself as the "chef in exile" while working and traveling the world for various influential families.

Fischer studied art history and drawing, yet at age 16 decided to pursue the culinary arts which led him to Los Angeles and then New York. With his camera as a constant companion, he captured landscapes all over the world while maintaining up to 15 hour work days.

After 24 years in the food industry he decided to hang up his chef's coat and pick up the camera full time. He found that while food is created and consumed immediately , a picture lasts a lifetime. He currently resides in Los Angeles, CA and continues to travel the world, collecting photographs for various projects.

Exhibitions

Very Venice Art and Design Gallery, group exhibit September 2011- 2012 \"Metallic & Chrome\" The Happening Gallery, Marina Del Rey. Sept-Oct. 2011

\"HDR\", group exhibit. Ensele Art Gallery, 03/2011

Group show at Monk Space ( chocolate and art fest) 2011

Group show at the Dragonfly club, Hollywood 2011

\"Jeane Andree\'s Bones\", solo exhibit. ECF Gallery, 12/2010

\"LA and what comes after\" solo exhibit at the Doheny, 01/2010

Hope, Courage, Compassion, Wisdom, and Confidence LAFC, LA 2009.

Group art show King King Club, Los Angeles. 2009.

\"Tales of the Heart\" New York Culture Centre, New York. 09/ 2002.

\"Transformations\" Los Angeles Friendship Centre, Los Angeles. 09/2007.

I embarked on my journey as an artist just a few years ago, initially experimenting with colored pencil sketches. As my artistic exploration evolved, I delved into the realm of digital manipulation, utilizing graphic software to transform my creations in diverse ways. However, it was my collaboration with AI that truly ignited a new chapter in my artistic development. Working alongside artificial intelligence infused my creative process with fresh inspiration and boundless possibilities. With each artwork, I strive to evoke emotion and resonance, hoping that my pieces will resonate with your hearts and find their rightful place in your lives.

Was born in Moscow, have been living in Los Angeles since 1992.

Nina Gabriel’s Artist Statement

“May our walking on Earth be gentle as the Union of a Butterfly and a Flower”

Traditional Buddhist Blessing

Rainbows are the same all over the world, and they are the same at any time we look at them. Our perception of them is however different every time we see them as it is ever – changing, according to our mood, feelings and state of mind.

My earliest recollection and recognition of rainbows goes back to when I was a little girl, sitting beside my grandfather, at his famous desk where he used to make amazingly interesting and beautiful things. At the same time, he taught my brother and me the colors of the rainbow and that is where it all began – my love for beauty, color and art for things of beauty and for things that were left for us to interpret.

I felt connected to nature and its boundless beauty since my childhood. I also enjoyed making things – of clay or any other media. My grandfather taught us many of those techniques and approaches to expression. From my grandmother, I learned crochet, knitting, embroidery and some sewing. Later on, I learned to work with many different media, which I enjoy to this day.

The process of making a thing of beauty through connection with my inner self is the greatest meditation and a gift that I appreciate so much. The ideas and possibilities are endless. Life and nature offer me inspiration and feelings that provide basis for many of my works. Working with that kind of art allows me to connect with nature and the universe. At this stage of my life, the colors of the rainbows beco

Nina Gabriel’s BIO

“Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I –

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.”

Robert Frost

Nina Gabriel is an artist, poet, writer working from her home-based studio in Los Angeles, California, USA.

For many years she worked at several major corporations here in California and in Canada.

In the year 2001 she established her company Nina Gabriel Refinement & Style.

Along with her working career, she always kept studying, majoring in Psychology and Naturopathy, currently doing Masters Degree in Natural Healing/Naturopathy.

Her interests include Music, Art, Poetry, Design, Philosophy, Numerology, Astrology, Esoteric Astrology, Mythology, Metaphysics, Kabbalah, Chinese Calligraphy, Feng Shui and many natural therapies such as Aromatherapy, Healing Touch, Reflexology, Reiki, Yoga, Tai Chi and many more.

Her art represents many philosophies, combining her deep interest in different cultures, beliefs and many forms of expression.

Nina Gabriel’s art has contributed enormously to her own spiritual growth, at the same time testing her patience, persistence and will.

It is her sincere wish that her art brings peace, happiness and joy to anyone that appreciates it, bringing forth many positive feelings such as love, faith, confidence and truly all the good that art has to offer.

Participated in the Fifth Annual International Biennale of Contemporary Art Exhibit, which took place in Fortezza da Basso in Florence, Italy in December/2005- http://www.florencebiennale.orgCollag

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.

My work owes a debt to many past and present masters of figurative drawing, painting, photography and sculpture, although it is the result of a search for a modern and personal response to those masters and their traditions. The imagery in my work is usually recognizable and taken from our everyday lives and observations; at the same time, it is often juxtaposed in unexpected ways. Familiar but sometimes unsettling, there are references to the uncanny and psychological phenomena such as repressed dream wishes and the compulsion to repeat. Recurrent themes deal with issues of masculinity/femininity, ambition, longing, and our relationship to Nature as well as the nature of our own relationships.

In this series, “WUNDERWALD,” the forest stands as a metaphor for the tangled secrets of adulthood, rooted precariously in the perspective and memories of a child. Full of wonder, enticement and enigma, the forbidden figures meld with the ground of experience and waves of collective unconscious. Cartoonlike and anthropomorphic drawing outlines are gradually and increasingly overlaid with impasto as experiences weave their tendrils throughout our encounters, connections and revelations, lacquered over with a sheen of nostalgia and selective amnesia.

Linda Ganus, an adjunct faculty member at Lehigh University, holds an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts, and received her undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI. She is active as both a visual artist and a performing musician in the Lehigh Valley and New York metropolitan areas. She has received Best-in-Show and First Place awards in exhibits held at the Nurture Nature Center, Lehigh University and Moravian College, among others. Ms. Ganus has also studied at the New York Studio School and the New York Academy of Art, and has exhibited widely in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. Her work has been commissioned by organizations such as the New York Philharmonic, David Sarnoff Research Center, Musical America, G. Schirmer, Inc., and the Kinhaven Music Institute, as well as numerous private collectors. Linda is a member of New Century Artists Gallery in New York City and currently lives in Easton, PA .

Dave Gardner has enjoyed recycling objects and materials his entire life. Always one to see potential in discarded, underused, or uncared for items, this also is projected in his outlook for life. He just takes things and makes them better. All of his artwork incorporates items, and reuses them a second or third time around.

Dave also sees this in the people that surround hin. He is positive, and is always looking for the inner personalities of those he includes in his inner circles.

While Dave takes great pride in creating new objects of art from recycling, he also is fascinated by close up photography, and creating balanced and striking prints from shat we normally just pass by.

Education.

Cal Poly San Luis Obispo BS Horticulture

University of New Zealand Palmserton North

MS Horticulture

Woodbury University Los Angeles

MA Organizational leadership

2009

LA Center fo r Digital Art Los Angeles CA

2010

Affinity Galleries, West Hollywood CA

Mimo Gallery, Santa Monica CA

Shumei Foundation, Pasadena CA

City of West Hollywood CA

Sunset Strip Gibson Foundation, West Hollywood CA

Endangered Planed, Laguna Beach CA

Mimo Auctions, Santa Monica CA

City of West Hollywood 25th Anniversary

2011

Plantages Theatre Los Angeles CA

Long Beach Art Walk, Affinity Galleries CA

Long Beach Art Walk, Phantom Gallery CA

Long Beach Art Walk Blue Cafe Gallery CA

Lark Galleries, Yorba Linda CA

Out There, Los angeles Art Association

Organic Art, Afinity Galleries, Long Beach CA

2012

City of West Hollyeood CA, Public Ary

Christies Auctions Beverly Hills CA

The earth offers her beauty in grandiose as well as diminutive scale. My photographs are moments of observing what goes unobserved: of honoring that smaller part of the whole. And in its grandeur, that part becomes an abstract world unto itself. My intention is to remove all notions of time, view with clarity, and transcend the materiality of the image in order to honor the harmony of Nature’s grace, beauty and power.

The images meet the viewer dynamically, evoking a sense of compassion and awe as they are reminded of the beauty in the smaller and more immediate parts of the environment. It is my experience that a photograph of a ripple of water can elicit a stronger sense of fragility than an image of a mighty river. By cropping the landscape into smaller gems, viewers often more readily appreciate the vulnerability of nature. They comprehend the complexity of a tiny portion of tree bark and recognize, in an emotional way, that not even a single piece of our natural world should be sacrificed. Through this visceral connection, the viewer’s appreciation of the natural resource is deepened, and in so doing, they become more engaged in preserving it.

EDUCATION:

Bachelor of Arts in Sociology, with honors

University of California Berkeley

Master of Arts, California State University Los Angeles

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2012 Arlee Celebration: Montana Powwow

Chamber Gallery, City Hall, Las Vegas

2011 Elemental

Tecopa Artist Basin Gallery, Tecopa, California

2000 New Works: Photographs by Anita Getzler

Marjorie Barrick Museum, University of Nevada, Las

Vegas

1986 Reflections on Doubtful Sound

Sierra Nevada Museum of Art, Reno

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2012 What those Who Teach Can Do

The Art Institute of Las Vegas Gallery, Henderson

The Year of the Dragon Exhibit

Historic Fifth Street School Gallery, Las Vegas

2008 Goldwell Open Air Museum Artists

The Water Street Gallery, Henderson

2004 Arlee Fourth of July Celebration

University of Montana, Missoula

People’s Center, Pablo, Montana

2002 eight: An Exhibition of eight Las Vegas Photographers

Marjorie Barrick Museum; University of Nevada

2001 REGIONAL VIEW: Seven Western States Artists

College of Southern Idaho, Twin Falls, Idaho

2000 Contemporary Art 2000: 20 years/20 artists

Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles, California

1999 F - STOP Gallery, Santa Barbara, California

1998 H20 An Exploration of the Element Water

Smallworks Gallery, Las Vegas, Nevada

1997 Unto Every Person There is a Name

Jean Weinberger Museum of Jewish Culture, Las Vegas

Yosemite Renaissance XII Exhibition

Yosemite, California (traveling exhibition)

1996 Mona, Mona, Mona

Heat, Contemporary Arts Collective, Las Vegas, Nevada

The Dedication Exhibit

Marjorie Barrick Museum of Natural History, Las Vegas

1987 Rebirth

Jones Visitor Center Gallery, University of Nevada, Reno

1986 17th Annual Juried Photography Exhibition

Houston, Texas Juror: Van Deren Coke

Resolutions: A Group Show, photographs

Nevada Gallery, Reno Gazette Building

1984 Four Photographers

Photography Gallery, Otis/Parsons School of Design, LA

1983 Solidarnosc in Paris

St. Andrew's Priory Fall Festival, Valyermo, California

1982 Water Images

Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, Ca.

Ocumicho: The Real and Surreal

Sonrisa Gallery, Los Angeles, California

GRANTS AWARDED:

2011 and Professional Development Grant, Nevada Arts Council

2002

2000 Jackpot Grant, Nevada Arts Council

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

2012 “Art -Time Jobs”, Las Vegas Review Journal, Steve

Bornfeld, February 9, 2012

2001 “20 years/20 artists: Contemporary Art 2000”,

Catalogue for Juried Art Exhibition at the Korean

Cultural Center

Los Angeles, California

2000 “Streams of Consciousness”, City Life, Gregory Crosby,

January 6, 2000.

“City Picks”, Las Vegas City Life, February 2000

1997 “Unto Every Person There is a Name”, Scope Magazine,

Gregory Crosby, May,1997

1996 “Arts”, Scope Magazine, Gregory Crosby, May 1996

“Capturing fire and ice on film”, Las Vegas New Times,

Christel Wheeler, June 20-26, 1996

"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.

Merging of Acrylic Painting, drawings and photography through a digital process of photomontage. Collecting past art work, which I have done, destroying it and reassembling it so that all becomes a cybernetic, virtual reality. My roots are in the dirt of California. My first memories were of California. The sky was blue the sun was yellow. The grass was green. On the grass sat empty, pink stucco bungalows. It was before anyone moved to California. It was vacuous, silent and waiting. It was the emptiness inside which my life would happen.

Three years at USC Shool of Architecture and Fine Arts.

Graduated Magna cum Laude from UCLA in Philosophy.

Showings at Gorky\\\'s Downtown LA, Richard Evans Gallery in Glendale, Recently at Beyond Baroque in Venice, CA.

Working Artist Statement: Ceylan Hulya M.A.

My paintings recently have been wanderings into time, place, and gathering with people of the unknown world. The more I trust the unknown, the more I experience an alignment with my being. I see my daily art-making practices as an answer to my soul?s call. I see my paintings meditation in motion. I work on large canvas mainly with acrylic paint, and mixed media. I feel the freedom, joy, and playfulness while I am in the moment-to-moment action with my whole body applying the paint over and over in a daydream state.

I believe in the power of objects. I intuitively collect objects until the object tells me what to do next. I listen to the story embedded in each object as I put an installation together. I work with memory, remembrance, my relationship with my mother, focusing mainly on my matrilineage for the sourcing of my core being, my message. I like to create solitary spaces through my on-going altars in memory of loved ones. I mean to create a balance between my inner knowing self and my outer self. My artwork is all about the process, the links, the connections, and our collective knowledge. I tap the larger reality through my personal discoveries while art making informs me about myself.

I make art because I have to. Art making keeps me aligned and balanced. Art making is my breathing space. Art is my way to balance the inner needs with the outer needs. My art is personal, my inward eye in constant search of the unknown. I work from within with belongings, hair, leaves, stones, dirt, sand, shells and beads in my

Ceylan Huyla is an award wining Artist and Educator. She co-founded a new paradigm Arts & Consciousness Center in Malibu, Art 4 All People LLC in 2012. She is a Turkish entrepreneur and an international transformative artist whose works include installation, painting, performance, and video-art.

This body of work is an investigation of my personal history through the lens of a camera my father used to record our family growing up in my native Japan. Other photographic sources for these paintings come from my brother's more recent documentation of his young family.

I have used these photo sources as a spring board to create paintings on canvas that transcend the particular time and place of their origin to speak in a more universal voice creating images that are at once intimate yet anonymous. Using the expressive language of invented color and interpretive form derived from these fading artifacts, I intend to spur the empathetic imagination and individual consciousness of the viewer.

Born in Japan, living and working in Los Angeles, CA.

Education:

2003-04 The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Bachelor of Fine Art, Painting

2000-02 San Francisco Art Institute, studied painting and printmaking

2000 Fall The School o the Art Institute of Chicago

1997-99 Los Angeles City College, general education and studio arts

Exhibitions:

2013, 10-11. Awagami Internationl Mini-print Exhibition, Tokushima, Japan

2013, 3 Where East Meets West Art Show, dA Center for the Arts in Pomona, CA

2013, 1 Shikishi Art Exhibition "hatsu mato", Japanese American Cultural And Community Center

2012, 10 Terrestrial Life, juried show, Gallery 825/Los Angeles Art Association

2012, 7 Small Works, Juried show, Barnsdall Art Center, Los Angeles, CA

2012, 6 Out There, juried show, Gallery 825/Los Angeles Art Association

2010, 9 Tarfest, Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA

2007, 12 Open Show, juried show, Gallery 825/ Los Angeles Art Association

2007 10, Tarfest, Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA

Silent Auction, Venice Art Walk & Auction, Venice, CA

Get Naked, group show, The Gallery Waugh, 704 S. Spring St. #1202 Los Angeles, CA 90014

Group Show, Regent Gallery, downtown Los Angeles

2004, 6 The Contemporary Art Workshop, Chicago, IL

2004, 4 BFA Show of the School of the Art Insitute of Chicago

Honors:

2004, 8 George & Barbara Pratt Benefactor Award, Rhinelander, WI

2004, 5 BFA Fellowship prize, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Biography of Matthew A. Kaufman

Los Angeles, CA 1967 – I am born. Whether I turn out to be the hero of my own story, only time will show.

In 1987, I took one art class at the University of California at Berkeley. Thereafter, I became a lawyer.

In 2013, I started painting after my wife threw me out of the house for being just a plain old louse – I didn’t even have an affair (I should have because I got thrown out after all). Now I am dedicated to painting and artwork. I am also writing a novel about someone who is writing his own autobiography.

When I am not painting, I am being suspicious and telling people what to do.

Presently, I lurk about in Agoura Hills, California.

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.

Post modern, multimedia art and design

Luka Krstich is Los Angeles based artist, born in Serbia , Yugoslav.

He worked as set designer for Hollywood movies, free lance graphic designer and furniture maker.

Luka's fine art was shown in USA and Korea many times. His paintings were sold at big action house Bonham & Butterfield.

Deep knowledge of art gives artist freedom to create elegance, perfection and great composition in all media.

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 art, whether abstract, figurative, or combinations of both, explores dimensional vibrations through the use of line, color, symbolism, and form. Geometry, particle physics, holonomic brain theory, mythology, and Jung's theories of synchronicity and the collective unconscious all inform my work.

Perceiving the concepts contained in the above theories, I strive to reveal the deeper dimensions and innate spirituality that exist in the here and now of every moment.

I am a mixed-media artist whose works include traditional media (watercolor, pastel, pen and ink, oil, acrylic), digital or new media, and combinations of both. Upcoming plans are to work with LED panels (backlit) and animation.

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“Employing an arsenal of digital tools, Melissa Lambert mines a hallucinatory territory embedded with personal codes and signals that lend her dizzying, pixelated surfaces unusual depth.”

-Michael Ned Holte

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Melissa Ann Lambert is definitely in the inner worlds mode of Matta, Onslow-Ford, and Pallen. The blurring of inner and outer, micro and macro, she has that. Count me amongst her fans.

- William Sheehy, Latin American Masters

Bergamot Station

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Influences include the latest fantastical discoveries of particle physics, synchronicity, superstring, holonomic brain and biotic theory, and Taoism. Authors as diverse as Gary Zukov, Brian Greene, Daniel Goleman, Carlos Castenada, Aldous Huxley, Joseph Campbell, William Blake, and Carl Jung have influenced my perception and vision.

The style and beauty of Valentina Maksimova's work is not easy to categorize. Is it textile collage? Appliqué? Perhaps found object art? How does an artist comment on the relationship between reality and illusion, color and light? What medium does she choose?

Valentina works with textile or seemingly random pieces of mix-matched cloth. Thousands of ordinary patterns and textures are transformed by Maksimova’s patchwork to become winter landscapes, musical instruments, expressionist portraits or fairy tale birds.

Valentina draws her inspiration from what surrounds her: the quiet and magical land of the old Russian city of Uglich. A tourist on a weekend trip from a cosmopolitan capital city may see the mighty Volga river and onion domes of old churches on its high bank, but Maksimova invites us to see the tradition and eternal order of nature within these landscapes. In her textiles, Maksimova portrays ice breaking and drifting down the river, autumn leaves in the pale northern light, apples on a country home kitchen table in her own creative style. The artist created her Macondo where harmony is everything and time means little.

Valentina Maksimova started painting with acrylics and watercolors but later discovered that working with patches of textile gave her the freedom to make unusual combinations of harmony and tension through color and helped her extend her composition through texture patterns.

Valentina Maksimova’s work has been featured in numerous exhibitions throughout Russia, Germany and France. Her work can be found in institutional and private collections throughout Europe. She is delighted to make her debut in the United States.

Life and land forms, layers of space and time and deep nature- drive my work. As environments are changing and balance is turning to discontinuity, a kind of paradox which I believe resides in all deep truth emerges. My work is an exploration of this mystery and energy, and a celebration of the astonishing beauty of life on this planet.

These ideas have always infused my work, in the intaglio etchings that I have done and the new work. Currently I am working on a series of mixed media pieces which are developed with ink drawing, paint and layers of other materials.

I earned a BA in Fine Art at Long Island University and an MA from the University of New York at Stonybrook, where I began a lifelong commitment to printmaking, especially intaglio etching. I studied drawing and painting at the Art Students League in NY, and color intaglio techniques at Pratt Graphics Manhattan Center,and with Ruth Leaf in Douglaston New York. My intaglio editions have been published in Los Angeles, New York and in London.

I’m an abstract symbolist who works with color, texture, shape and storytelling imagery to convey my wonder and appreciation for this earthly experience we call life. I want to excite the sensibilities, to engulf, saturate. I have many messages but, mostly, my work invites others to address and confront the power of simple beauty, the incunabula, the unknown, rites of passages, epiphanies, rebirth. Transformation is a constant in life and essential to our evolution. Each step we take is sacred and decides the journey. Every breath requires a new commitment to courage. My paintings examine the personas, the bodies, the heavens, dark and mysterious corners, the stopping places and launching pads of the soul. I’m deeply affected by the style of the original artists, the cave painters. Scientists opine they were women. These days my studio features drawings by DaVinci, photos from the Webb telescope and undersea animals. I live in the crossfire of science, art and personal healing.

I am often thoughtful of unity and through-line, I seek to convey a freedom and visceral truth that is unencumbered by any one message or agenda. This allows me to construct each work with a joyful, exploratory energy.

Montealegre’s art education emerged under the tutelage of abstract painter, Robert Kingston.

She is a recipient of the Puffin Foundation Grant for her performance art piece: Portrait of the First Woman.

Montealegre has continued to win prizes for her paintings and her works are featured in several publications.

Montealegre’s recent BELLINGHAM'S WHATCOM MUSEUM presentation of her painting, Heal Thyself! was featured in the Lightcatcher building where Eva performed a joyful song to introduce the curator's presentation.

2015 Eva is included in the prestigious Latina Art Initiative founded by Linda Vallega. She is vetted as one of the best Latin Artists in the country.

2015 Eva Montealegre is named a BEST ARTIST when ARTAVITA chooses the BEST ARTISTS in an international contest.

HIGGS BOSON, PORTRAIT OF THE FIRST WOMAN, the original painting by Eva Montealegre, a 64" x 96" oil on canvas, is featured in FIRST POST to announce the Nobel Prize Award to Peter Higgs for his creation theory explaining the origin of the Universe.

Eva’s painting, MOON ONE, is featured in the art book, ART TAKES TIMES SQUARE. Her figurative painting of a woman titled, CREATIVE CALL, is featured in the art book, WOMEN'S RIGHTS: An Artist’s Perspective sponsored by UniteWomen.Org. Her work has been honored by the City of Los Angeles in calendars and catalogs. She has participated in a number of Los Angeles community events.

2012 Eva's painting of the sun, IT'S ALRIGHT, receives first prize from WOMEN'S CAUCUS FOR ART. That same year Eva's painting DEEP VEIN #3 is presented at MOLAA'S WOMAN FESTIVAL.

The ‘Celtic’ Cross is a significantly important icon in Western Europe. Although the Celts were more or less subsumed by the Roman, Anglo, Franc and Germanic cultures by the end of the fifth century, the Celtic influence has remained. Carved stone so-called ‘Celtic’ High Crosses are found across Ireland, Scotland, Britain, Wales and Cornwall from the seventh century to this day.

For generations the ‘Celtic’ Cross in America has denoted Irishness and this is not lost on me. One of my ancestors was kidnapped as a child in Ireland around 1640, brought to Massachusetts and sold for his labor. Several others left Ireland early in the seventeen hundreds due to land confiscations there and still others left Ireland during the “famine” of the 1840’s - many of them more or less prospered in America but most were silent about their origins.

The influences of those people, their experiences and traditions, inspire me to overlay, intuitively, my impressions and emotional inheritance onto the ever abundant ‘Celtic’ Cross which they in their time beheld daily in Ireland.

Séamus Ó Dubsláine

Professional Experience:

1967-2008: Tool Designer/Numerical Control Programmer with the Boeing Company (formerly Douglas Aircraft Company, then, McDonnell-Douglas Corp.)

1996-2006: Owner/Director, the Corridor Gallery of art in East Hollywood, CA,

showing established and emerging artists.

Volunteer:

1999-present: Trustee/Vice President, Noah Purifoy Foundation, Los Angeles, CA

Art Education:

1970-1973: Santa Monica College, Santa Monica, CA

1996: Wittenberg University, Springfield, Ohio

1955-1956: Central Juvenile Hall, Downtown Los Angeles, CA

(thin places) an exploration of the in between or betwixt

Lisa Rasmussen is a painter, art advocate, environmental artist, and educator. She was born in Wisconsin and has her roots in Scandinavia and Ireland. Lisa comes from a working class family, who has always supported her to follow her dreams to become an Artist. Her late Mother, Mickey was Lisa’s Muse, she fostered in her the practice of Art as being a form of expression and personal healing. Early on Lisa developed a thirst for travel and distant cultures. A key conceptual element of her artistic process is the study and travel to ancient cultures and sacred sites around the world. Some of her travel adventures include Nepal, Peru, Ireland, and Brazil. She has also lived and taught English in the mountains of South, China, as well as she had studied antiquities, the Art of the Renaissance, and Ceramics in Florence, Italy.

For her painting is a very visceral, physical, and metaphysical process. Rasmussen’s paintings have been called abstract expressionism, with a spiritual twist. Her paintings reflect her holistic worldview and her deep connection with the natural world. For Rasmussen, art making is a transcendental experience. When she paints, Rasmussen taps into a force greater than herself; a force that creates through her. Each painting is a product of her dance with divinity. Through her process she hopes to invoke in herself and the viewer a deeper connection to the world within and around.

Lisa Rasmussen is an award winning artist and educator. She is the Co-founding Executive Director of the new paradigm, award winning Art 4 All People LLC in Malibu. . She has over 6 years experience working at high-end fine art galleries in Chicago and San Francisco. She has sold original works created by Picasso, Chagall, Rembrandt, Dali, Miro, among others.Lisa is also a professional Transformative Artist and Teacher. Currently her work is being represented at a San Francisco Bay Area Fine Art Gallery. Additionally, Lisa pioneered an award-winning expressive art program for emotionally traumatized and abused youth in Oakland, and developed a professional art gallery for the residents of Lincoln Child Center. She has also taught expressive art to elders, at-risk teens, and has been an art coach to adults. Lisa is also the Co-Director and Co-Founder of the Non-profit Art is Moving and Art Break Day, which is community art reach event offering people the means and the space to bond with their community via the art-making process.

My art pieces are reflective, contemplative snapshots of human experiences and natural elements.

I love the use of rudimentary tools: graphite, charcoal, oil sticks, colored pencils. The connection of hand-to-tool-to-paper is extraordinary. Equally, I love the fluidity of acrylics and pastels. My most recent works are dominated by utilizing wood as a recipient of these mediums. Wood as an organic surface has unique, innate absorption tendencies that require a cooperative effort with: the wood, the mediums and me. Often when working with these varied mediums on wood, I will incorporate pressing techniques and casual brush strokes to achieve blendings that result in a harmonious visual experience.

I create artwork with passion and with purpose. The human experience embossed upon the canvas of nature requires nothing less.

2011

* July - September

Los Angeles Municpal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, Ca.

* October

Bradford Stewart Gallery, Los Angeles, Ca

2012

* Februray

RAW Artist Show Case, Los Angeles, Ca.

* May

Juried Art Show, 56th Annual National Orange Festival, San Bernardino, Ca

* June

E.N.U.F. Art Show, SAC Studio, Los Angeles, Ca

* September - October

Portals Juried Exhibit, AY Gallery, Malibu, Ca

* October

JCW Institute, Los Angeles, Ca

* December

Pancakes and Booze, Los Angeles, Ca

2013

* January

27th Annual BAA Juried Show, Ventura, Ca

* February 2-28

Solo Art Show, Dysonna Art Gallery, Los Angeles, Ca

* January 14 - March 16h

'Winter to Spring' Juried Group Show, Ventura, Ca

* February -

Neon Venus Theatre, Los Angeles, Ca

* March 5 - April 28

International Women's Month Juried Show, West Hollywood City Hall, West Hollywood , Ca

* February - April

R & B Divas- L.A., TV One Network Cable Series

* April 20 - May 20

Galeria Obscura, Juried Group Show, Los Angeles, Ca

* October 30 - November 30

SoPas Gallery, Juried Group Show, Los Angeles, Ca

* December 14 - January 10

Gallery 825, L.A. Art Assoc. Juried Group Show, Los Angeles, Ca

2014

* November - February

Art is Healing Juried Group Show, USC IGM Gallery, Los Angeles, Ca

* February - April

Find Your Roots Juried Group Show, West Hollywood City Bldg., W. Hollywood, Ca

Being raised in somewhat strict home I was taught what the rolls of a man, woman and child were. The man of the house was a provider and the woman and children were in submision to the father! When I left that controlling way of life I soon started looking at others with a new appreciation for the choices one has the courage to make and the diversity of humanity that I could see without judgement. Having very little school and college not an option! I was feeling trapped.

My creativity was suppressed. Not knowing for years I was dyslectic I developed other skills and always wanted to paint portraits. Humans are to me the ultimate work of art from the universe! Now I have learned to surrender to my intuition and paint with intention.

I am self taught artist who has been working in watercolors for many years but recently have started showing in gallery shows.

Arc Gallery, SanFrancisco CA

My love is Zen painting an expression of no thought. A burst of energy.

As a child I was good at drawing and painting landscape scenes using vivid colors. I returned to painting in the 90's while I was traveling in India. I studied with Meera, a well known abstract Japanese artist, who used a no-mind, zen approach to painting.

Creative expression is a willingness to be open to what evolves on the canvas.

With no goal or result in mind, the time spent on the painting, the journey, is the result.

Whether or not it is pleasing to the eye, or to someone elses eye is another story.

My joy in painting is the appearance of shapes and colors rapidly forming before me. It takes me into quiet space inside.

My work is a visual dialogue between the discarded and the resilient. I find beauty in "fragments"—crushed metal, torn envelopes, weathered stamps, and forgotten notes—transforming these remnants of urban life into harmonious compositions.

In the series submitted for "Bridging Through Colors," I use mixed-media assemblage as a metaphor for healing. Just as a crumpled piece of paper or a discarded object can be integrated into a new, balanced whole, our fragmented experiences and diverse backgrounds can find unity through the universal language of art.Each piece serves as a "bridge": between the industrial and the organic, the personal and the collective, the chaotic and the serene. My process involves layering textures and colors to create a space for quiet reflection. By giving a second life to materials that have been cast aside, I invite the viewer to see the possibility of rebirth and transformation in the world around us.

Tatiana Savchenko is a Los Angeles-based mixed-media artist whose practice explores the intersection of urban materiality, personal memory, and emotional resilience. Her work is characterized by a "visual dialogue" between found objects—such as industrial remnants, vintage correspondence, and discarded fragments—and expressive layers of acrylic and watercolor.In 2026, Savchenko’s presence in the Southern California art scene was highlighted by several key exhibitions. She was featured in the "March/Forward" showcase at Shoebox Projects within the Brewery Arts Complex and participated in the StARTup Art Fair at Venice Beach. Her collaborative artist book, LA: Two Voices, One City, created in partnership with Gregory Desgouttes, exemplifies her commitment to exploring unity and connection through shared creative narratives.By transforming everyday debris into layered, atmospheric compositions, Savchenko invites viewers to find tranquility and "healing" within the chaotic textures of modern life. Her work serves as a bridge between the mundane and the spiritual, aligning perfectly with the global call for empathy and connection through the universal language of art.

“In my early days I had limited myself by only drawing. My transition into painting forced me to explore new materials pushing various scientific principles. As I continue to discover painting it becomes more and more intriguing. My art is not driven by creating finished work but merely the courses I take to get there. In a sense I am a problem solver...The choices I make will overall impact the final piece. As I continue to practice my craft these complex decisions become more instinctive. I feel my best art takes form when I follow that innate voice. Art is less a struggle and more a natural pursuance of ideas. As I grow I hope to find harmony between each material to illuminate the influence of these instincts.” Ian M Sherwin

Ian M. Sherwin is a 2000 graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, which he attended on full scholarship. He is a contract artist for the Field Museum, designing programs for children and families that are at the intersection of art and science. He also teaches art classes at his art gallery in Chicago and has worked with special needs children in the Chicago Public Schools. Several years ago, Ian lost the sight in one of his eyes and had to re-learn to paint and draw. He continues to complete private commissions in painting and drawing and recently featured his work in the L.A. BE MINE art show sponsored by L'art Pour L'art.

How color affects me is an important issue in my paintings. Certain color combinations can cause an immediate emotional response. This might happen while looking at flowers, photographs in a magazine, or simply selecting colors of paint that capture my attention at that moment.

I create my paintings outdoors, under the California sun, where I have the freedom to work physically, without restraint. There is an organic quality to the process, utilizing fluid color to create movement. I never use brushes. Paint is applied to the canvas by dripping, pouring and splashing, with water sprayed onto the surface. Painting for me is about capturing the physical and emotional energy that I experience while being completely lost in the process.

My paintings are open to interpretation. Each person will find their own meaning in the work.

Born St. Petersburg, Russia

Lives and Works in Los Angeles, CA

Education

Bachelor?s Degree in Economics, Institute of Soviet Trade, St. Petersburg, Russia

Fashion Design, Los Angeles Trade Technical College, California

Self-Taught Artist.

Member of Laguna Art.com. Member of LA FAN group of artists

Member of Aleatoric Modern Artists /MAMA/

Solo Exhibitions

2012-2013

Divided Sky bar, South Lake Tahoe, California

2011

Chrysalis, Gallery GoDo, Glendale, California

Elements Restaurant, Santa Barbara, California

Krystal Salon, Studio City, California

Group Exhibitions

2013

Townley Gallery ,Laguna Beach ,California

2012

Laguna Gallery of Contemporary Art, Laguna Beach,California

Gloria Delson Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California

Walk Art Way Gallery GoDo, Glendale, California

January 20th,March 23 rd Gallery Godo, Glendale, California

2011

Florence Biennale Internazionale D?Arte Conetemporanea, Firenze, Italy (catalog)

Happy 2, Gallery Godo, Glendale, California

Spring Brewery Art Walk, Diavolo Theater, Los Angeles, California

Save Japan, Gallery GoDo , Glendale, California

American Art Salon, Finalist, Juried Internet Exhibition, www.artjury.com

Projekt 30, Finalist, Juried Internet Exhibition, www.projekt30.com

Erotica, Gallery GoDo, Glendale, California

2010

Hotter Than July, Gallery GoDo, Glendale, Californ

Egor Sovtsov explores the concept of object-as-it-is, contemplating quotidian thing as a unique phenomenon. He extracts the objects from immediate environment and incorporates them onto the empty canvas to illumine the native perception of them. In the state where subjects have no physical orientation or weight they display the marks and language of their own source. Objects and activities presented in such manner bring viewer back to the infant reminiscences or awaken the experience of ancient cults.

Approaching creation as a visual performance of inner consciousness, he invites spectator to participate in the creative process that depends on viewer?s activities. To achieve this he uses a wide range of techniques and media.

BORN:

1975 Saint-Petersburg, Russia

Lives and works in Los Angeles since 2007

EDUCATION:

1997 Graduated from Saint Petersburg State University, Master in Genetics and Molecular Biology

EXIBITIONS:

United States

2011 Bleicher/Golightly Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2010 Bacchanal Event, Los Angeles, CA

2007 The Summer of Love, Himmelberger Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Private Collections:

Mr. David Himmelberger, San Francisco, CA

Ms. Nancy Larrew, Los Angeles, CA

MISTERIOUSLY ADDICTIVE UNBELIVEABLY INEVITABLE TO QUITE AFTER STARTING.

My inspiration comes from my surroundings, from nature, and from my life.

I draw upon my past and my present, as well as from the various cultures that I’ve been exposed to.

I have a fascination with the thought, “What would happen if…” and I love to experiment with color, placement, and texture. My art is constantly evolving and changing as I experiment with new techniques and materials.

Recently, my work has been primarily using collage and mixed-media, as these mediums are so exciting for me. I love the look and feel of papers, fabrics and metals, and I like to create texture in my work. My work frequently includes layers of handmade papers, stamps, paint, texture, found objects, inks, metallic, gold leaf, fabric, and elements from nature, such as leaves and flowers.

. Most often, I will get nearly finished with a piece, and then spend some time looking at it to determine what is needed to complete it. Inevitably, I will be moved to make some finishing touches; a process that feels as if the piece is creating itself

For others, I hope that my work brings about wonderment, discovery and re-discovery-- seeing things in a new or different way.

I earned a bachelor’s degree at David Yellin Teacher's College in Israel and has held teaching positions in Israel , Africa and the United States .

Today,I am an active artist who employs mainly collage and mixed media in my artwork. I am exhibiting in juried shows, galleries,museums and numerous locations around Southern California .I have had solo shows, have been invited to participate in small group shows and I do custom work for clients. l My work is in private collections in Israel , Canada , and the United States .

I am an exhibiting member of Women Painters West, Jewish Artists Initiative, California Artist Guild and Pasadena Society of Artists. I am also a member of Collage Artists of America, Southern California Women’s Caucus for Art, and LA Experimental Artists.

I am on the board of the Fine Arts Council, for the Platt Gallery at the American Jewish University in L.A.

Spiritual signs, universal symbols, music, numerology, philosophy, astrology, mathematics, cartoons, advertising strongly influenced him daily. Tivetsky is much like a researcher within the context of an ever-changing constantly broadening epistemology. For Tivetsky “visual cues function like a language in which visual signs work to suggest non-visual messages”.

Sergei Tivetsky was born in 1949 in Moscow, Russia. He has been living and working in West LA for more than 20 years.

Sergei's unique life experience and great spirituality made him one of the kind artist, capable to express " life of the soul" in colors and rhythms in his enigmatic paintings.

Any small dot or sparkle of color, movement, layers and fluidity has a Rembrandtesque meaningful depth.

EDUCATION 1961-1967 School of Fine Art (Moscow, Russia) 1972- 1977 Art Institute (Moscow, Russia). EXHIBITIONS:

1979 March- exhibition “GROUP-4” – Academy of Sciences (Moscow).

1981 July- exhibition in Stanford University (California).

1981 November- exhibition in Monterey University (California).

1982 January- exhibition in Parklane Gallery (New York).

1983 February- exhibition in Kuros Gallery (New York).

1984- 1985- exhibition in Miro/ Shpizman Gallery (London).

1986-1987- Anita Neal Contemporary Art Gallery (Laguna Beach, CA).

1987 February- Artist Society International (ASI) Gallery (San Francisco, CA).

1991 September- Center of Contemporary Russian Culture (Paris- New York- Moscow).

1992 October- Personal show in Nina Frost Gallery (Santa Monica, CA).

1994 July- “The Art Speaks for Itself XIV” show in Directors Guild of America (Los Angeles, CA).

1995 February- “First Annual International Art Exhibition”- ADR Fine Arts (Los Angeles, CA). 1997 May- exhibition in Los Angeles Country Museum of Art (Los Angeles, CA).

Currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California.

I paint about the beauty of change, inspired by my own personal life experiences, and expressed through images of the short-lived butterfly and the progression of its existence. The colors in my paintings symbolize feelings and emotions that cannot be expressed in words while the traces of pure white untouched canvas represent hopes, dreams and desires that are now unknown but will become clearer in the future. The process of painting nourishes my soul by revealing cocooned memories of life. My art is complete once I feel I have recalled certain stories, capturing and preserving them forever in my images. In similar ways, we all recall our feelings, emotions and experiences, reliving and enjoying them again. Holding onto certain aspects of our pasts and sometimes letting go, we dream of tomorrow.

I was born to Armenian parents in 1979, in Beirut Lebanon. At the age of seven I discovered my passion for art and began creative adventures. Surrounded by different cultures, I adopted painting as a universally understood language of expressing my inner thoughts and emotions. While living through the regional and civil wars of Lebanon between the years of 1982 - 2006, I found refuge and beauty in my art as contrasted with the chaos of my circumstances. In 1993, at the age of 14, I won a first prize in painting from the Armenian Cultural Center, which encouraged me to attend academic art courses and to later develop my talents at Emmagoss Art Center. After graduating high school in 1998 with a diploma in Philosophy, I pursued my passion by specializing in Fine Arts at ALBA (Academie Libanaise des Beaux Arts), where I received my Master's Degree in 2003. From 1995 to 2007, I participated in collective art exhibitions in Lebanon. In 2008 I moved to the States with my family, where I currently work and exhibit my art.

Currently I am creating a series of digital art using Mayan Petroglyphs' It is a way to rediscover my own roots using forms and primary colors.

My art focus on social issues that are important to me as an artist.

I describe my art: “it is free spirited, colorful and profound.”

I am a self-taught artist; I was born in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala in 1964.

I am a mixed media artist, focusing on recycled materials.

My most recent group exhibits from 2012-2013 are:

State Latin American Visual Arts in Rhode Island where I got a citation by Governor Lincoln D. Chafee. 2012

“COMMUNICATION” group art show in Casa 0101, Los Angeles, California 2013

“EARTH” show in Buttler’s Café, Palmdale, California 2013

“ENDANGER SPECIES” Lancaster, California (I was the curator for the exhibit) 2013

“NEW TRADITIONS JURIED SHOW” at the Lancaster Museum of Art and History 2013

Group Show at the Forge Gallery, Lancaster, California June 2013

THE HIGH DESERT ARTIST group show at the Forge. June 20th 2013

“AN ARTISTIC EVENING” Sponsored by Friendship Bridge. A fundraiser to help Indigenous Guatemalan Women. Artists participating: Ramon Ramirez, Sergio Hernandez and Edwin Vasquez 2013

“DON’T SLEEP”!! Group art show at The Latino Art Museum. Pomona, California July 2013

ART SHOW – MIXED MEDIA CLASS at Strata Sport Center, Cal City Park July 2013

I'm an artist making collage pieces from vintage books, photographic images, antique fabric pieces, and various types of paper ephemera that I've been collecting and dealing with for more than 20 years, which fits in nicely with my work as a dealer in vintage books and other printed collectible matter.

Still living in Los Angeles where I've spent most of my life, born in Hollywood and now residing in the Pico Robertson area, with my wife, Gisele, my father Frank who is also an artist, and our 7 cats.

As an artist I am fascinated with creating a heightened reality.Whether painting recognizable imagery or abstraction, I am always in search for what can't be seen with the 5 senses. I'm looking for the intangible. The space between dreams and the waking state. I am always searching for the poetic,the ethereal and rhythms that create mystery in my work. The paintings take there cues from nature and reflect my inner connections,responses and observations of being part of the human experience. There meanings are not literal, but are meant to evoke a response in the viewer.The paintings are left as an open ended story that the viewer is invited to make his/her own conclusion.

Hal yaskulka was born in Brooklyn Ny.

Studied at School of Visual arts,Taught at Art Center College of Design ,Pasadena

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.