Portal Of Opportunities II

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

Kahlil Gibran

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

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

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

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

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

My 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)

I started painting very early in life through the encouragement of my mother who also loved to paint. My home was filled with her paintings and there was a steady supply of brushes, pencils, and paints. I was also fortunate to have key teachers early on who recognized and encouraged my abilities. They entered my work in competitions, which led to my paintings being displayed at places like the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion and the Pacific Design Center. I won a few monetary prizes and even a small scholarship for college.

I never took art classes in college but continued to draw and paint on the side. A few years ago, I found Otis College and Franklyn Liegel who would become my painting mentor. Through him, I learned that painting is about process and about responding to images, layers, textures, and colors. I stopped looking for a great idea and just started painting. Strangely, that took me to a place where I had no shortage of ideas.

I found that I have a deep fascination with images of people. I like to paint moody, melancholy, reflective, vulnerable images of people, mostly women and girls. I paint with some element of realism or impressionism, but I also like to combine abstraction. My images are all a bit mysterious. They’ve been called “sad”, but to me they’re not sad. I see them all as hopeful.People often tell me that they all look like me in some ways. Maybe they are me or at least aspects of me.I’m not really sure. To me, they’re simply images that I connect with.

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

My photographic career began in the 70s when I was working for Michael Childers as his Studio Manager. One day Michael asked me if I wanted to buy a camera, a Leica CL. I did, for $80. I took a photography course at Fairfax High and was soon hanging out in the darkroom. I discovered then that I love to print.

Since the late 70s, I’ve roamed the streets, malls, markets and public gatherings of Los Angeles. I’m drawn to places where large groups of people tend to congregate. I take my camera with me every day, shooting “from the hip” because I don’t want people to be aware of me.

I never studied the art of making pictures in an academic setting, but if there is anyone who has influenced me or defined my work, it is Henri Cartier-Bresson. I, too, search for what he so aptly called “the decisive moment.”

Another photographer I worked for, Lou Stoumen, and I used to talk about what we referred to as “the nun.” Lou had a shot of Taos where there was a tiny dark figure off to one side, a nun. Without her it would have been a boring shot of Taos, with her it caught your attention. My photographic project consists of “decisive moments” and “nuns.” May they be plentiful.

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

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.

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

Tom Cruz is a Los Angeles based artist with an emphasis in color theory. He is the resident artist and curator at The Lounge Theatre in Hollywood. He has shown artwork from San Diego to San Francisco and as is a part of The Whole 9 Gallery's travelling Peace Project that has gone as far as Chelsea, New York. Thomas has exhibited artwork with such groups as Project Ethos, RAW, A Reason To Survive (A.R.T.S.), The Whole 9 and more.

Thomas has held solo exhibits at McClain Gallery, Cal State University Fullerton, The Lounge Theatre, The Blue Room.

His artwork is owned by such notable collectors as Dr. Nancy Cervantes, PhD. and New York Times Best Selling Author, Christopher Moore.

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.

“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.

Words From The Artist: William Emboden

Eight layers of paint, Eight failures; but the day will come when this canvas lives and speaks. The necessity of recognizing failure causes many hopeful artists to relinquish their brushes and canvases; often too soon, yet in many instances the failure piece is allowed to represent an artist when he knows that it has no life of its own.

A finished canvas must speak and communicate. Cleverness is failure, and it is much of the failure of the contemporary art world. Don’t seek that which is new or novel for it will not last the moment beyond its creation. Follow that which instinct which is both cerebral and visceral. There should be times in your life when you feel that you must release emotions and thought as paint on canvas. Allow each work to speak that secret language that belonged to you and now lives a life of its own on canvas.

Art is always waiting to be born, and the artist must be prepared for the event. A notebook filled with ideas is a good beginning, but only a beginning. What is it that you need to say in pigments? It should be a part of your life finding itself on canvas.

Art is the poetry that needs no translation or words. It should perplex and leave one with questions or it is too facile. The art must be separable from verbal expression. The need for explanation means that the work is already moribund.

Art may be born of anger, fear or a variety of emotions such as love and sorrow. Yet behind all of these there must be an intellectual basis. The desire to create something that exists

William Emboden began his advanced studies at Purdue University where he was a pupil of the Italian artist Rudy Pozatti. His paintings won first place in his first juried show. At Indiana University he continued his art studies, including stage designs, with Cesare Mario Cristini. Under his guidance Emboden was recognized as Outstanding Artist at the annual Faculty & Student Exhibition. After finishing his MA he went onto UCLA and studied with Kate T. Steinitz (a colleague of Kurt Schwitters) and Carlo Pedretti. At this time he exhibited a number of his collages and was a founding member of the Fluxus movement. After receiving his PhD from UCLA, and having taught Leonardo Studies, Emboden completed his book LEONARDO da VINCI on PLANTS and GARDENS (Diascorides Press) and it was followed by THE VISUAL ART OF JEAN COCTEAU (Abrams Publishing) which was published in five different countries. This was followed by JEAN COCTEAU AND THE ILLUSTRATED BOOK (Santa Susana Press). He has over two hundred and fifty publications to his credit including his book on Alexandra Nechita: DOVE IN HAND and his book JAMES FRANCIS GILL (San Angelo Press) recounting the careers of two foremost 20th Century American artists.

Emboden’s artistry is a celebration of THE WORD. His strongest influences have been Kurt Schwitters, 19th and 20th Century French poets, Middle Eastern calligraphy and Japanese haiku. He is a poet himself and each of his paintings is a manifestation of his poetry. He has had many exhibitions – international and local. His most recent play AN EVENING WITH COCTEAU AND COLETTE

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

My studio is located in Los Angeles.

I 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.

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.

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

Im Gary Vincelli born by the Jersey Shore ,moved to LA, In 1979..As a little boy I new I could capture Time and Moments with my camera .. I had the gift to use natural lighting as well as being able to bring out the best of what i was doing with my camera and the power to move peoples lifes with the beauty of blk and white .. and whatever i felt was worth filming

Lola's visual works have a dark, tribal, and emotionally-layered quality, and has been described as taking 70's and 80's neo-graffiti art to another level.

Lola Gayle is a vocalist & songwriter with husband Mikael Sandgren for Los Angeles based music project MiLO.

She was born in New York City to Jamaican parents and moved with her family to Los Angeles at age seven.

Lola's image has been captured in works by video artists such as Bill Viola and photographers such as Jessica Shokrian. She has also modeled for painting artists in Europe.

Lola was inspired by her seven-year-old daughter to experiment with manipulating her own image by layering photographs with transparencies, and then painting on the final image.

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

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

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

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

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

Participated in many art shows and solo exhibitions throughout the United States, author of art albums such as "Our people in Hollywood," "American Holidays", "Beauty and sorrow," "Women's beauty through the eyes of Edward Goff," "Music of still life", "Windows , doors, balconies, "and many others.

Edward Goff was born in Russia, in Moscow.

Higher education, university. He emigrated with his family to the United States in 1979. Photography has always fascinated, but a serious hobby appeared when the first paycheck, bought fotoaparat NIKON.

Traveled almost all of America and Europe. He photographed landscapes, genre scenes and portraits. Lots of attention to detail. love to create

and shoot still life. They look at it as a vivid pictorial picture. Eduard is real artist. Artist of the photo. He has participated in many art exhibitions.

These pieces are from a series which represents a road map of my internal journey—battling the inertia of life in order to set out on a different path, and find a genuinely new experience amongst all the familiarity of my day-to-day existence.

As a professional musician for more than 20 years, all my visual works have a rhythm to them. By blending the expressiveness of abstraction with traditional form, juxtaposing layers of media, I can access emotional content that would otherwise be unavailable. I explore different levels through color expression, finally bringing in the photographic form once I fully understand the intuitive statement that I want to express.

These works are a celebration of living in the present moment, letting go of the past, and embracing new possibilities.

Robert Grad is a musician and visual artist, forever finding new ways to express what’s in his mind and heart.

He had his first record deal with RCA Records fresh out of high school, as bass player and main songwriter for the band, Kik Tracee. Grad toured the country with Kik Tracee, playing shows with Bon Jovi, Joe Walsh and others. After Kik Tracee, Grad formed Superfine, an alternative rock band, in which he sang lead vocals and played guitar. Superfine gained an international following when they were featured on Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV show and soundtrack. Grad's songs have also been featured on a variety of TV shows and films worldwide.

As his career developed, Grad felt he wanted to manifest his creativity in other ways, free from the constrictions of the music business, so he began painting and getting more deeply involved with photography. Soon he started experimenting and blending both mediums into visual works which expressed his exploration into how we constantly grow and change and move through life--being heavily influenced by his first trips to Europe and his fight to overcome an undiagnosable illness contracted in 2001.

Grad has had multiple solo exhibitions where he has also played music specially written to go alongside the art, as well as participated in several group shows. His piece, "Fantabulous," was awarded a top prize in a juried show in 2010. His work is held in corporate and private collections.

Since helping to ignite the feminist movement in this country with the formation of "Bread and Roses" in Cambridge, 1969, I have been concerned with bringing a "visual voice" to the suffering of women throughout history. After relocating to New Mexico for a five year solo art/meditation/nature retreat, this series of images evolved out of highly visual, solo, movement theatre pieces . They abstract the deep interaction of women's connection with the earth and the yearning for the possibility of peace within one's life and in the world.

BFA from Boston University.

An extensive career as a dancer and performer in both classical and avant -garde theatre and film in New York and LA, from collaborations with Lee Breuer, of Mabou Mines to choreographing the film, "Close Encounters of the Third Kind".

In 1987 I moved to New Mexico to to begin a project that I call a bridge from the stage to paper.

It was provoked by my desire to create art for the women suffering in the middle east .

They have been published in the River Styx journal and exhibited most recently at the No-name Gallery in Atwater village.

"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.

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.

Leader of the International Bunker Art group, Kiki is constantly mastering his abstract expressionist techniques.

His art works are on display in the state museums in Germany, Armenia, Estonia, Kazakhstan and constitute an important part of the Nancy and Norton Dodge collection of the Zimmerly Art Museum in New Jersey.

Nature is filled with subtle colors, symmetry, rhythm, chaos, as well as tactile and visual texture. By enhancing the colors in my photographs of tree bark and carefully cropping these images, I have created natural abstractions. I hope you will be surprised by their beauty and your appreciation of the exquisiteness of nature will expand.

Born: Nov. 22, 1937

Education: BA and MA in Biology from Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY

Employment: H.S. Science teacher for 34 years and Department Chair for 22 years. Currently retired.

ART EXPERIENCES:

1963 ? First Prize for Sculpture, Hofstra University Alumni Show

Architecture ? designed and had built an 8 sided home in Bayshore, NY

Oil Painting

Jewelry design and production

Marquetry ? Grandfather clock

Stained glass

Pottery

Newsletter design and production

Website design and production

GALLERY SHOWS:

6. The Ojai Art Center, Ojai, CA January 2013

5. Caladan Gallery, Cambridge, MA

My mother gave me an oil painting kit when I was ten years old. Later, I received a A.B. degree from Brooklyn College, and an M.F.A. degree from Pratt Institute. I have shown my art in many galleries.

The History of Art in the West brought me to God. As a young man, I puzzled at the rapid changes which occurred from the Medieval Era to the Modern Era. I needed to understand how and why it happened the way it did. When I first accepted the perfect nature of the universe and then turned to God, amazing things happened inside me. My secular life became spiritual, and my goals and aspirations changed.

Helen Savitri Kottler watched Harry Chitrakar Kottler paint in 1985, and in October she wanted to paint too, "Go for it," Harry said, and she did. Helen graduated from the University of Sydney with B.Sc. Her work has been shown at Qusqo Bistro and Gallery, shown to select clients at Gallery KM, shown in 3 Religious Art Festivals in Santa Monica,the Brand Nation Juried Exhibition, L.A. County Municipal Gallery, The Merchant of Venice Restaurant, and Gilles Mansillon Gallery.

I was born on the island of Zanzibar. Then lived in Cape Town and Sydney and now in Los Angeles. I meditate daily and have done so for many years. I am a teacher of high school and adult students. My artist husband taught me to paint 25 years ago and we have been painting side by side ever since. My painting process is a means to contemplate my spiritual experiences and the eastern philosophy I study.

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.

My art name is Lark - the bird that lingers between the earth and the sky. We artists do it at the moment of inspiration and meditation. That's how I create my art. I meditate and start with the spontaneous movements of my instruments; usually it is not a brush. A brush makes me think. My instruments are usually just pieces of cardboard. I also paint on any surface – canvas, board, plexiglass, glass, wood, etc – and I love to experiment and see what happens. My best creations take place in a state of no mind.

Although I begin the way abstract expressionists do and use some sumi-e techniques, eventually most of my creation starts shaping as abstract or impressionistic landscapes as ocean, sky, trees, flowers and mountain views start appearing from the formless. Nature is my source of inspiration, but instead of landscape details I channel nature's moods, the feeling of being one with nature, and swimming in its atmospheric light.

Light is what drives me to continue working. My mission is always to bring more light to people around me with my art, poetry and meditations. I know that viewers feel joy, peace and harmony when they look at my work, enter and settle inside it because it heals their emotional wounds and it makes me happy. Being an artist is an opportunity to express the fountain of my creative energy and at the same time serve people's needs in beauty that will heal the world.

When people perceive the light, the high and playful energy that my paintings emanate, they start feeling they are back in the fairy-tale world of their childhood, when their soul was open to transformations and miracles, and they feel like Alice in her enchanting wonderland.

From the beginning of her art career, Lark’s art caught the attention of art lovers and gained recognition from art jurors including LA Weekly critic Peter Frank, Santa Monica Museum Art Director Lisa Melandri and MOCA curator Alma Ruiz.

Fusing classical and contemporary art traditions, Lark's award-winning artworks carry her signature gestural brushstrokes and vibrant color palettes. They have been featured in the many prestigious exhibitions, art catalogs and sold globally in France, Italy, Germany, Japan, Russia, Armenia, Canada, Sweden and many other countries. In 2021 - 2025 Lark's art was exhibited in the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art and the Shiba City Museum of Art In Japan where Lark got two Gold Awards in the group shows.

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.

As adults we often limit our realities to what we can clearly perceive. Day to day life becomes routine and we grow comfortable in this existence. Although we have been constantly conditioned to perceive nothing except our own world, this does not mean we cannot enter the vast amounts of other realms available to us all.

For me, my art is a connection to the world, which lies just beyond reality. It is an expression of each emotion I encounter and how it affects me at any given moment. I believe my work opens doors for us to wander through a labyrinth of creativity into an Abstract dimension of Surrealism, Magic and Fantasy.

Often referred to as a “Nouveau Bohemian,” Madnaloy is a self-taught artist whose work evokes a magical, abstract, surrealist atmosphere. Her vivid imagination and provocative sense of humor make every drawing a unique and personal reflection of her spirit.

Preferring pen and ink on paper and brush and India ink on canvass she creates work which ranges from whimsical and complex to metaphysical and spiritual. In her images reality and the fantasy worlds collide to create a set of visual stories, which convey something unique to each viewer.

Madnaloy was born into a family that always encouraged art as a form of expression and a means to creating a well -rounded individual. She not only creates abstract art but, “Art in many forms”; be it singing, writing, teaching… was often and still is a part of her life experience. Most of her early years were spent dealing with life as a military “brat”. Attending four High Schools in three different states was difficult. Fortunately, whether sketching in the suburbs of Austin, singing on the noisy trains in Philly or writing on the buses of LA, Art has been her consistent source of companionship.

She currently resides in Los Angeles.

When I touched clay for the first time, I knew that sculpture was the best way for me to tell my story. When I sculpt, I experience feelings

and images that dwell in my subconscious mind. These are revealed to me as I form the clay and fashion the ideas into actual objects. Sculpting is my relationship with life on all levels and its very sacred

to me. It allows me to look inside myself and then out to the world around me. I get great pleasure from following and trusting my intuition and process.

My formative years in Russia provided the context for much of my artistic expression. Drawing upon early cultural and educational experiences, vision and feelings connect and emerge from the clay.

I was born in Kiev Ukraine, where I spent the first thirty years of my life. Thus, Russian culture, in the forms of music, poetry, visual art, and meditation, were an important part of my life there. I was trained as a speech pathologist and worked in that field for eight years.

I moved to the United State to escape religious persecution in the Soviet Union. I arrived without family or friends, knowledge of English, or monetary support. I was a single mother with a 4-year

old son. It took me twenty years to build a new life and to bring my family to this country. As a consequence, I am largely a self-taught artist.

I was not able to articulate my artistic feelings for a very long time.

But, when I felt clay for the first time, I knew I found my medium.

A person has truly lived once their creativity finds a way out of the solitude within, and becomes part of all who encounter it.

I have always loved art and I started painting a few months ago. It has become my passion.

Artists Statement; I began painting in 1999, the year before I began my studies in Otis College of Art and Design. Once I began in earnest, I was lead to the landscape, as I have a deep love for nature. I painted these from my own photographs. As I developed further, I began to paint the natural glories which I have experienced at sea as well as on land. Currently, the photographs that interest me were taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. When they were first circulated on the net, I was immediately struck by the beauty and the immensity of space. My challenge has been to evoke that sense of immense space in paint. Many say that I have succeeded.

Art: a second career for Dr. Robert Newport, following thirty-one years as a psychiatrist. This was a time of deep explorations into the human psyche-- his own as well as his patient--but then, he comes from a family of explorers who arrived with the first settlers in this country in 1607. He was born in the Midwest mid-century, and has never been in the middle of anything since. A maverick in everything he has ever done, he was said to have invented the term ?holistic psychiatry.\\

My Art venture started in 1999, when I met the World

Renowned Russian Artist -Ekaterina Grigoryeva in Moscow.She

discovered my talent, taught me and encouraged me

to paint. I was taken by her unique abstract

flair, passionate style and technique. Stylist and

designer in the past, I always wanted to express my

creative nature.

Art became my way to create beauty! I am able to use

my artistic vision, choosing vibrant colors, textures

and transferring them on canvas. I feel my pallet knife

is the extension to my soul.

Flowers are always been my inspiration, I think there

is nothing in the world more beautiful, than flowers.

Colorful, fragrant-soothing our senses, nourishing the

soul and lifting the spirit!

I feel a blank canvas has an endless possibility to

create organic compositions, movement and colors

that I can discover by painting. As an artist I try to transform my ideas on to a beautiful image on

canvas. My half-abstract impressionistic work not quite and motionless, but rather, dynamical

harmony and three dimensional compositions. For me color is a basic language. Each color

represents state of my soul, my moods and my feelings. It surfaces uninhibited by my thoughts.

My creative process is the highest stage of my inspiration; it's an escape, uplifting and healing.

(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.

Using found objects to create sculptures brings resources to my disposition that are as varied as the material realm of the world we live in; they provide an interesting mirror of our time and society.

My work is frequently narrative or symbolic and deals with social and spiritual issues.

A recent series – 18” x 18” squared – aims to explore the energy of matter and its relationship to the action/manipulation of the artist.

Annemarie Rawlinson, an award-winning artist, works primarily in mixed media and collage and has shown her work nationally and internationally. In 1994, she founded the L.A. Assemblage Group. This group currently has 17 members and networks and exhibits at least once a year together.

Using discarded objects as art materials, Annemarie aims at raising public consciousness of the need to conserve resources and preserve the natural environment. These objects, once useful, bring their own beauty and vibrations with them, expressing symbolic or narrative content.

The landscape is certainly one of our basic primal visions as both living creatures and as artists. It has a visceral effect on our psyche. In my work I want to present the elements of the landscape, scale, texture, earthiness and also its mystery and the backstory of man's footprint on it.

Tony Reynolds is a visual artist focusing on sculptures relating to the landscape both natural and abstract. Schooled in the arts of painting, printmaking and photography he has moved to the arena of the 3 dimensional object as better fitting his creative needs. He has chosen clay as his primary medium in order to relate more closely to the landscape.

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

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.

STATEMENT

I use the power of color relationships to create unique, self-contained color worlds, and to achieve the grammar of art—completeness, appropriateness and unity—in two-dimensional work with a three-dimensional perspective quality.

My work seems unforced, and appears to have been executed instantaneously, but in actuality, I spend many laborious hours layering paint of vibrant color and then scraping to expose the multiple layers underneath, while retaining an intimate feeling and sense of space.

The paintings usually begin by applying slashing, impasto strokes on the canvas. Uncovered areas of the white canvas or paper give color and stroke accuracy and form. Occasionally the paint application becomes a multi-play of gestures without any clear expression of form. I keep the loose images very dense. In other areas I employ paint thinned to the point that it resembles a veil. Despite the delicacy that characterizes my style, clustered areas of impenetrably dense color anchor certain works. It is the tension between colors that will make a painting look three-dimensional.

The images in the recent paintings aren't specific enough for one to see a clearly defined form or place. However, forms are suggested, just not elaborated upon. Finally, I add sinuous lines and forms that, while appearing random, are consciously overlapped and composed without letting the images, become too defined.

I strive for a physical heaviness, seeking to eradicate the white canvas or paper. The challenge is to attain a composition that is both balanced and dense.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree Maharishi International University, Fairfield, IA

Studied with Professors

Michael Peter Cain and Peter Erskine

AWARDS

1988 First Place, Best Photograph, Unity Gallery, Fairfield, IA

1989 Juror’s Choice Award, Faulkner Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA

Santa Barbara Art Association

SHOWS AND EXHIBITIONS — SOLO

2011 “Color X6” UCSB Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA

2010 “Santa Barbara in the Abstract” Corridan Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA – Three Person Exhibition

2008 “Real/Abstract” Elverhoj Museum, Santa Ynez, CA -Two Person Exhibition

2008 “Left Brain Art” The Frameworks, Santa Barbara, CA – Three Person Exhibition

2007 “Color Relationship Series” Delphine Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA

2005 Delphine Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA

2003 Chancellor Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA

2002 “Music Roll Series” Chancellor Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA

2001 Hilton, New York City, NY

1999 Gallery 9, Santa Barbara, CA

1996 McCormick Place, Chicago, IL

1995 “Works on Paper” Faulkner East Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA

1993 Great Western Bank, Santa Barbara, CA

1991 Faulkner East Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA

1989 Fithian 249 Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA

1987 Gallery of Modern Art, Montecito, CA

1986 “Sand Series” Gallery 113, Santa Barbara, CA

1986 Good Earth Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1985 San Francisco Foundation, San Francisco, CA

1984 “Structural Repetition Series” Good Earth Gallery, San Francisco, CA

SHOWS AND EXHIBITIONS — GROUP

2012 “5 x 5 An Invitational” Westmont Mu

Why do I paint???...because ...I need to....because it gives me great pleasure....because..it takes me to a place that belongs to me and only me...because...I love color...because ..I love the texture of paint...because...I have been fascinated forever with the human face.

I paint stylized portraits as I am not interested in creating a photo image. I work mostly in oil and on occasion acrylic. My subjects most often tend to be women. For me, my most successful paintings are those that are the most stylized. The classic beauty has never really been my subject of choice as I tend to look fort something else, a quality that is indefinable...that's what I'm drawn to. For me, Imperfection is Perfection.

1970 & 1985 Art Students League

2004 Painting en Plein Air, Lucca, Italy

2001-2011 Brentwood Art Center, California

2004 Special Art Gallery, Bev. Hills Ca.

2006 James Gray Gallery, Santa Monica Ca.

2008 N.Y. Art Expo, NYC

2009 Roberge Gallery, Palm Desert, Ca.

2010 Craven Gallery, Martha's Vinyard Mass.

2011 Julis Dean Gallery, Hollywood Ca.

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

My work repurposes magazine pages in order to isolate symbolic meaning and strengthen aesthetic elements. Images originally born from our hyper-commercialized society are reclaimed, interwoven, recontextualized and secured to canvas panel board with archival quality acrylic gel medium - creating a meticulous new meaning. Drawing from the traditions of narrative and allegory in classical painting, political propaganda and religious iconography, it attempts to provide an account of the present tense through a retooled assessment of our supersaturated visual vocabulary. By utilizing design elements to assess both instant and long term psychological effects of exposure to media sign inundation, the work is an examination of subconscious image recognition, as well as an identification of the benefactors of such a system. Playful at times, this anthropological quality cooks up its own theories on literal associative understanding. These completely reborn images explore how memories and specifically visual associations sway the emphasis of meaning in storytelling.

Ms. Staser-Meltzer has exhibited widely in shows across the United States including the publication “Direct Art Magazine” and shows juried by Lucinda Barnes, Chief Curator/Director of Programs & Collections, Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive; Anita Shapolsky, Owner of the Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York / New York; Kenneth Baker, Art Critic for the San Francisco Chronicle; Rebecca Morse, Associate Curator at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; artist Robbie Conal and artist Kris Kuksi. Ms. Staser-Meltzer was selected for an ongoing website feature and video screen exhibition for the 20+ nationwide locations of Lucky Strike Lanes and her work was recently shown in a national group show in Brooklyn, New York for Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition’s “Color” exhibit juried by independent curator Brooke Kamin Rapaport. Most recently, she was chosen to be part of the 2013 BAYVAN (Bay Area Visual Arts Network), exhibited in The Haggus Society's "B*TCHFEST" in Los Angeles March, 2013 and looks forward to having work in ARC Gallery's "Approaching 40" anniversary show in Chicago April, 2013. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Master of Fine Arts degree from the California College of the Arts.

DUAL PROCESS ARTWORKS:

The Synthesis of Collage and Photo Processing

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sallie-Anne Swift (a Graphic Designer) moved from Melbourne, Australia to Long

Beach, California in 2008 and started exhibiting in the USA in 2011. With a keen

awareness of her environment, her great love of nature, wildlife and music, she

expresses herself on canvas with an interesting approach using acrylic and

clever use of other mixed mediums giving a fresh approach to her contemporary

abstract art that highlights and reflects our ever changing environment, nature

and wildlife.

For many years she focused on realism and began exhibiting her work in Australia in 1984 and had numerous successes in some of Melbourne’s most renowned Art Exhibitions.

She has exhibited in Art Galleries throughout Melbourne, Victoria and acquired commissions for her paintings both Australia wide and Internationally. In 2001 The Equestrian Federation of Australia

commissioned the artist to do an oil painting of world cup winner, “Kyra Kirkland” for Emirates Airlines who sponsor the prestigious, “Dressage With The Stars” competition held in Melbourne each

year.

Since focusing on her abstracts Sallie-Anne the artist has won several international awards. She was an exhibitor at Miami Red Dot 2011 and this year she received invitations to exhibit in galleries in Florence, Italy, New York and Las Vegas. Her work has been published in Southwest Art Magazine and American Art Collector 2011 and can be seen in “INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY MASTERS V”, 2012.

A SCULPTURE:

I feel the urge of a sculpture as a bubble in my belly similar to the first stirrings

of a new life within.

This bubble needs a meaning, a reason to be,

so I have to stay still and listen and look inside, and find the place of ABUNDANCE.

Abundance offers an inexhaustible flow of ideas.

My bliss is to choose ONE, follow it, track it, catch it, keep it and cover it with layers of CLAY, so it becomes a SHAPE, a solid FORM that we can SEE with our naked eyes: IT'S A SCULPTURE. karin swildens

Please see my website...Art studies in Paris France. Created HERMES scarves in Paris and worked on the restoration of Le Louvre Museum paintings. Designed LP covers. Illustrated children magazines. Authored and illustrated a children's book published by Dessain & Tolra in Paris. Has been creating sculptures since 1980 in Los Angeles. Somehow erotic works found their way into erotic Museums (Paris, Las Vegas, Miami. 4 Galleries and 3 showrooms carry and sell my sculptures in and around LA.

I enjoy capturing,revealing and sharing the beauty and "Life" in the everyday life that surrounds us.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Mark Valinsky is an accomplished actor in the Screen Actors Guild as well as a black belt martial artist and retired board certified physician.

Dr. Valinsky's photographs span the world from across the United States to the Orient; People's Republic of China, Hong Kong, Japan, down to Australia, and across to Spain. He possesses an acute awareness, insightful into the persons and situations. He has the eye of a hunter, patient, quick, accurate, capturing the moment the subject and / or the moment reveals itself.

Mark Valinsky captures the life, the beauty, the art, and the truth in people and situations. Friendly and professional, he's able to bring out the best in people and gets them to express themselves. He brings out their ability to look at themselves with respect.

His portfolio contains vintage photos of Classic Rock and Roll Bands including the Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, The Eagles and other Classic Rock Bands as well as

The American Film Institute

The Golden Globes

Screen Actors Guild Awards

Sundance Film Festival

Los Angeles Film Festival

Hollywood Film Festival

The Frank Sinatra Charity Event

Paris Hilton Fashion Shows

Numerous Hollywood Red Carpet Events

Movie Still Photography

Sporting Events

Landscapes

People and Places

Headshots for Actors

The Golden Globes

His biography has been included in such prestigious records as The American Biographical Institute; National Registry of Who's Who; Who's Who Among Outstanding American Personalities

THE ZEN OF THE LAND

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

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

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

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

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

Selected Exhibitions

2015

LAPhoto – Fabrik Magazine Gallery

Topanga Canyon Gallery – Juried Group Show – Featured Artist

Juror – Michael Zakian, Director, Weisman Museum

2014

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

“Climbing Cardinals” – Best of Show

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

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

LA Photo – Fabrik Magazine Gallery

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.