Solar Spectrum

As an artist, I strive to create work that not only brings joy to the eye through color and light but also portrays a message within the work itself. I want the piece to speak to the viewer it must be a story within the picture that only the one viewing decides what it is about and draws conclusions from it. I create a variety of subjects and themes but one of my favorite subject deals with humanity itself and how our mind works and behaves. Before I begin I research the subject and create a series of concept sketches, once I am satisfied that the concept I begin to but my idea on canvas and letting the colors flow from my mind in an abstract sort of way. This is how I let the colors set the mood and feeling of the work, straight from my mind to the canvas.

With each work my main goal is to create something amazing, nothing less is acceptable and I will keep working on a piece until I get that feeling of completeness, that my story has been told and I have paved the way for the next one to be told. I hope that my work truly moves people and keeps them talking and deciding what the piece is saying. The best thing about art is one great work can have so many different stories depending on who is the audience and my one satisfaction in life would be to know that my work has moved someone as much as it moved me.

Artist: Michael Alvarez

Shula Singer Arbel is a Los Angeles artist working in acrylic and mixed media. Her work is an exuberant fusion of abstract and representational images; a flattening of form mixed with painterly surfaces. Using bold colors and patterns, she is constantly exploring new territory in her work, evoking the imagination and creating multiple meanings for the viewer

Shula was born in Israel and moved to Los Angeles at the age of three. She has been studying and making art throughout her life, winning accolades and awards along the way. She received a MFA degree from UCLA in Film Production and worked in the film industry as an editor, writer and researcher. Shula was the first recipient of the Barbara Streisand screenwriting award. She wrote and directed short films before leaving the business to teach and raise a family. She is a member of Los Angeles Art Association, California Art League and Women Painters West and received the Best of Show Award for the 2010 Gold Medal Exhibition at Valley Institute of Visual Arts (VIVA).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

the language of life.

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

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

Jenik

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

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

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

Peter Frank Los Angeles January 2010

BIBI DAVIDSON - ARTIST STATEMENT WWW.BIBIDAVIDSON.COM

One is born to a certain talent and passion, which either is in his/her genes, past life or the influence of their environment. At a very early age I observed my surroundings around me and put them on paper,

At a certain point I started to paint my stories, like a diary,

In my stories I often appear as a girl, as a bunny, as a cat or even a flower, this is how I connect with my planet.

Bibi Davidson’s Bio

www.bibidavidson.com

bibiearth@aol.com

Bibi was born in Israel where she discovered her ability to draw and paint at a very early age, through the years she attended private teachings, and went to an art institute.

When her second daughter was born, bibi moved to Los Angeles where she worked as a film editor for 10 years.

At a certain time bibi decided that painting was her calling, she quit everything and started to paint her stories. Since then, she kept painting her subject, the girl who represented herself and tell the story of her life and her dreams.

Photography is a great way to feel the elusive.

I was born in Vladivostok, Russia in 1990. After High School graduation I went to study in Tokyo, Japan in 2007. Learning the Japanese language fluently and graduating from two Japanese language schools I transferred to Digital Hollywood University in Akihabara, Tokyo. I worked as a TV host on the Japanese channels, NHK and MX Tokyo. I came to the US in 2012 to realize my goal of becoming an accomplished filmmaker and was studying at California State University Long Beach as an open university student for one semester. After that I transferred to Santa Monica College to gain the necessary amount of units and transfer to one of the best Film Schools in the world. While studying cinematography at Santa Monica College I realized that photography was another important and magnificent medium for storytelling. I graduated from Santa Monica College with Honors and have transferred to Chapman University Dodge College of Film and Media Arts. Every story starts with one single image and I love photography as much as acting and film making.

Here is the list of my Achievements/Awards in Photography:

- 34th & 35th Annual SMC Photography Exhibition

- Art Streiber Awards - Honorable Mention for Best Portraiture

- LACDA / 4 Photography and 2 Film Exhibitions

- Monochrome Photography Awards - Honorable Mention in Professional Wildlife Category

- LACDA Represented Artists

- World Street Photography Awards - First Curator's Choice and Two Special Mentions

My work has always been influenced by my first exposure to art, the Italian and German Renaissance Masters and then later the Pre Raphaelites and the Impressionists. Even when it was not fashionable to paint in the classical realist style I continued to do so. Recently I have discovered a group of painters called Abstract Realists of which I am now a student. My new work is concerned with beginning a painting with abstract form and then finishing the painting with all of the values and subtle innuendoes of treatment of edges, color relationships and more. This approach ostensibly makes painting all about the process and not about the subject being painted. Ironically the results of this process potentially shows the subject in the most beautiful light and form imaginable.”

Portraits have always been my first love and they will be my last. I also enjoy landscape and still life and love to incorporate one of both into the portrait I am painting. One of my favorite paintings, "The Boating Party" by Renoir includes all three genres, portrait, landscape and still life in the most delightful way. The most wonderful light of the outdoors when it plays across the features of someone’s face and garment provides a truly fascinating complexity of color, form, structure and depth of field. There is also something to be said for the portrait existing within the simple environment of a single color story. The face tells it all, the expression draws us in and suddenly we feel we know that person. Through portraiture I seek connection with the viewer.

Kathryn Donatelli is a portrait artist, still life painter, mural painter and book illustrator. Born in 1947 in central New Jersey Kathryn relocated to Los Angeles in 1986. She has received more than 300 portrait commissions, designed, painted and installed over a dozen Private, Corporate and Public murals and has illustrated 3 children's books. Her work has been exhibited in over 10 juried shows from New York City to Los Angeles including a national juried show. Kathryn is an associate artist member of The California Art Club and an exhibiting member of the California Art League. She is proficient in many mediums including oil, pastel, watercolor, colored pencil, charcoal, acrylic and egg tempera.

Private Collections:

Glynn and JoAn Turman,

JoMarie Payton,

David and Elaine Marmel,

Dick O’Neill,

Gold Coast Capital Investment.

Education:

Graduate, DuCret School of Fine and Industrial Art.

Illustration and Watercolor, Los Angeles City College.

Workshops include: The 7 Color Contrasts of Johannes Itten, Beverly Cassell;

Nicolaides The Science of Drawing, Beverly Cassell;

Master Portrait Painting, David Leffel;

Still Life Painting, Stacy Kamin, ongoing.

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.

Nature’s infinite pallet of color and diversity awaken our hearts and mind.

*** The Law of the Universe:

No matter how dark the night gets, the sun will rise. It always does.

*** Innocent and beautiful colors of sun are ready to dance with you at winter solstice, awaken your heart and mind.

*** Sun’s rays are inviting you to the new year journey! Be ready to fly!

** Galina Kovshilovsky’s paintings derive from her Russian origins. One feels the breath and wildness of a massive country and yet the simple handy work of it dedicated population. Galina’s paintings capture the sprawling epic about the erosion of tradition with visually striking exploration of color in its infinite variety and vitality. Her painting, be they large or small, capture the imagination with visually stunning Swirls and movement of the eye, emotion and the imagination. We are left breathless with the fascinating lovingly layered colors where the rules of organized thought clash and intersect with rituals and beliefs. We are moved. We are coaxed. We are seeing and drawn into a study of inclusiveness always before us.

Her color is gorgeous and she paints energy.

Dr. Marion Somers.

Barry Gordon's art is characterized by the use of vibrant colors and whimsical forms that grow out of recognizable human, floral or animal shapes. The tone is often humorous and the message frequently one of social satire or political commentary. Speaking of his own work, Gordon says, "I try to achieve a kind of musical counterpoint between color, design, composition, optical abstraction and fantasy." His works contain representations and permutations of musicians and music making; biologic and organic forms; social institutions and social relationships.

His drawings and paintings center around three broad categories: perceptions of self or others; social relations between self and society, between couples and within small groups; epics and concepts. Gordon's imagery provides a broad repertoire for the viewer's mind to draw on from his/her own experiential base to impressionistically develop his/her own conceptual/visceral "holistic perception" of a scene, a feeling an experience. What follows is an instantaneous recognition not necessarily analytically or consciously understood--ending in a reflexive interactive smile derived from the pleasure of the journey.

My first exhibit was at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in an exhibit of children's art (1952). My debut professional exhibit was in 1965 at the Bogner Gallery on Gallery Row (La Cienega Blvd, Beverly Hills) and then various other shows nationally (New York; Washington, DC; Seattle; and throughout California) with a 30-year retrospective of 92 pieces in 2004 in a university gallery. I have had shows internationally, in what was formerly Yugoslavia (Belgrade), Russia (Moscow, and St Petersburg), Brazil (Rio De Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Belo Horizonte) and had illustrations published in various newspapers and magazines, including the Washington Post and the New York Times, as well a an album cover for CBS Records and the 1984 Olympics' Georgio Moroder Theme song for Track.

My work is derivative of many influences including Picasso, Miro, Saul Steinberg, Dali, Matta, Tanguey, Kandinsky, Mondrian, Matisse and Klee, among others. If you put these influences in a pot and let them bubble and boil, then throw in California freedom and light and American multiculturalism, that is the direction from which my art is derived.

I have studied with Eula Long (1950 -57), Dorothy Royer, Adelaide Fogg (Los Angeles), David Smith, Tadeusz Lapinsky, Jay Orbeck, Zdzslaw Sikora (Univ of CA & Maryland), Barron Storey, Joe Bowler, Murray Tinkelman and David Passalqua (Syracuse Univ). Of course, I am solely responsible for my own imagery and its uniqueness.

I owned the Gordon Gallery 1985-96.

In my work, I use a series of visual and verbal double entendres to explore the role of latent content in a hyper-erotic yet hypocritical environment. The seriousness of my work is frequently punctuated with a visual pun. I am greatly influenced by cultural diversity which I seek out in my travels. Many of my images are a metaphor for transition and the duality of life and death, as well as our survival in an edgy world. Some artists, through their work, try to find the meaning of life. As for me, I don’t care what it means....I just want to keep it going!

Jane Goren

JANE GOREN has exhibited extensively throughout the United States and internationally as a veteran of the New York and Los Angeles art scenes for more than twenty years. Working in two and three dimensional forms, and with a variety of materials, Goren's work examines themes of disorientation, voyeurism and eroticism, and she often works with discarded materials, raising issues of materialism and relative value. In repurposing the detritus of her world she is able to create a healing experience of resurrection and transformation.

Her work appears in notable public (Mercedes Benz, Nat’l Public Library, Camel’s Garden Hotel Telluride, Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, Paris Bar,Berlin) and private (Fidel Castro) collections.

I studied for over 12 years in the studio of Ilana Bloch. I am a member of three art organizations: Women Painters West, and Los Angeles Art Association and JAI. I have participated in many group shows and received awards on several occasions.

A few years ago, my son created an art website for me. The proceeds of the art I sell on this website, goes to benefit a wonderful local organization: Step Up on Second, where there is help and housing for the mentally ill, It is a very gratifying and pleasurable way for me to use my hands, my time and my inspiration to help others.

I enjoy experimenting with acrylics and collage, exploring layering, pouring and making graphic and soft edges. I like to "mix it up" in one piece, combining the accidental with the planned out, the painterly with the graphic, the atmospheric with the straight edge.

I particularly enjoy adding collage medium. I camouflage the brightly collage pieces within the paintings, so that they can be discovered slowly. They add a vibrant edge and an element of surprise that contrasts with both the graphic or atmospheric background.

I am open to exploring new media, and new techniques each year, but I suspect that color and pattern will remain an important element in my work.

I was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, but have lived in the USA since 1961. I received my Bachelor's Degree from Pomona College and a Master of Arts in Teaching from Yale University. At Pomona College, I majored in French and Art History. My interest in art has been lifelong, although I started painting only in 1998. I was a high school French and Spanish teacher and have been retired since 2006, leaving me plenty of time to indulge my passion for painting. I travel to Italy a couple of times a year where i am always inspired, as many who travel there, by the light, the colors and the art.

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

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

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

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

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

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

My art is imagination of created things which do not exist in everyday life. The purpose of my life - is creation of the fantasies. I was always attracted to science fiction books and movies. I put my images of my fantasy’s creatures in paintings and sculptures.

Faina Kumpan was moved from Odessa, Ukraine as a political refugee. She graduated from the Theatrical Art College in Odessa. In her not very exciting childhood, she was dreaming of other worlds. She was obsessed with science fiction.

Her emigration to New York opens the new opportunities. She worked as a designer and changed a lot of different professions. After moving to LA she returned to her love for art and Science Fiction. She attended numerous classes at UCLA Extension and many private workshops. She exhibited in many important galleries in LA and NY. She creates a fantasy world that is a once surreal and abstract, whimsical and vibrant. Whether creating painting or sculptures, her subjects are mystical creatures from another world, like fantastic figures stepping out of the pages of the futuristic fairy tale. She was participating in many group exhibitions.

She was awarded as a creative artist by City of LA for working together to celebrate Los Angeles as Creative Capital of the world. Her works are in many private collections.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Two of my works are directly created to investigate the Arabic custom of having women wear Burkas and and also placing limitations on outward behaviors.Other paintings poke fun at global trading and religious dogma. Like the Surrealists in the 20's and 30's my art is political and hopefully humorous.

Tom Myrdahl has been in the visual arts business as a Film and Video Director/Cameraman for over 30 years. In the last three years Tom has won 19 AVa awards and one Golden Hermes award for his cinematography for series of Internet market videos. In the last several months Tom has utilized his understanding of composition and light to begin to paint in an Expressionist style. Tom calls his paintings "Cultural Expressionism" in that he looks at the oddities of behavior in different cultures and then adds magic and humor to his concepts .

Nothing interestes me more than watching people on film and in person so I figured why not combine the two and make an art set. I recorded my friends in their natural states and later painted my imaginative visions of how i saw them.

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Elizabeth Parent

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After moving to New York four years ago I quickly began to find my passion. A good friend of mine inspired me to make a collection of our imaginations. It took a while for me to find my medium but once I discovered the gopro I felt enchanted. My time in New York was a hazy reincarnation of everything I've ever studied. I hope that my pieces show a version of the modern mixing with the past.

Art is my way of life

Mark Pol, born 17th October 1943 in The Hague has found an early passion for painting. His interest in drawing and painting started in primary school. And later on he went to the Photo Academy followed by the Free Academy of Art led by George Lampe, both in The Hague.

The work of Mark Pol, also shown on his website (http://www.markpol.nl), is in essence inspired by daily human life, without losing its vulnerability and the animal unpredictability. Despite the timeframe the painting or drawing might seem to be in, humanity is key in his work.

In the early stage of a painting, Mark Pol draws his thoughts and dreams with a pencil and then continues his vision with a basis of oil - or acryl paint on canvas. The expression of Mark Pol are often too much for the two dimensional canvas and the result is a three dimensional world, shown in different materials.

Website Mark Pol: http://www.markpol.nl

Mobile: 0031 6 45410400

I see ...something...I want to make a picture of it. This has been a part of who I am since my early childhood.

I work from human models or people in photographs. I search for forms that interest my eye, sometimes related to the topic of the photograph. My attention is focused on aging beauty, odd shapes, and my family. I love bright, intense color and frequently start with that. Then, stuff happens... I try different colors, tones, lines, and try again...and again. Until some resulting pattern of shape and color pleases my eye: being (in some weird way) "balanced", with large to small and dark to light parts, intense ...but not all over.

I have always been creative. As was my mother. Clothing and fashion were early interests, fostered by both my parents' interests. I needed to be able to draw the human form to show off the clothing I designed, so I figured out how to do that. I have studied art formally since 9th grade: drawing, painting, sculpture, collage.

Of course I have been influenced by my favorite artists and teachers: Picasso, Vlaminck, Mary Cassatt, Ben Shawn, Bonnard, Egon Schiele, De Kooning, Joseph Nyeri, Carl Hertel, Elliot Elgart, Joseph Blaustein, Stanley Mock, Claire Hunzakus, Hilary Taub, Harry Gunderson, and Carla Jerome. From them I learn, and re-learn, color, shape, line, intensity, placement and having a large sense of humor about my work...or is that last part ...all mine?

s.c.price 1948-

price has studied drawing, painting and sculpture at/with: Balboa Park (Joseph Nyeri), La Jolla Art Museum, UCLA (Elliot Elgart(deceased) - FIG Gallery), Pitzer College, UCLA Extension (Joseph Blaustein- FIG Gallery), Otis Art Institute, Santa Monica City College (Stanley Mock), private studios of Claire Hunzakus, Joseph Blaustein, and Hilary Taub. price has been known to associate with Chris Madans (FIG Gallery). price work is featured in the collections of: Steve & Judy Berg (Sausalito), Patti & Allan Kingston, Blythe & Steve Peelor, Nina Siesmasko, Jonathan & Janice Price (Sacramento), Kenneth & Margo Bender (Reno), Joanne & Bon Pipkin (San Anselmo), and Sandy & David Moring.

2 paintings in Art show at Barnes & Thornburg,Law Offices,Century City: Summer & Fall 2014- "heart of the city" and "fall 2013"

accepted as Member, LA Artists Association April 2015

Working exclusively in charcoal, Dan uses a photo realistic style that mimics photography to the point that extra signage has been displayed with his work, confirming that these are drawings, not photos. He loves shadows, contrast, anonymity & using negative space in his compositions. His gifted eye catches timeless ?fragments? of life in his work----- whether it?s the intricate lines of the human hand, or the delicate folds of a garment, they are drawn in detailed simplicity. The mystery of his work lets the viewer use their imagination to interpret the meaning behind each compelling image.

? 2011 ? Celebrations of the Equinox, Group Show ? Long Beach

? 2011 ? Permanent Installation ? Executive Office, Cosmopolitan Hotel, Las Vegas

? 2011 ? Selected Works ? Insolito Home, Palm Springs

? 2011 ? Spring, Love Life, Group Show ? Yorba Linda

? 2011 ? Spring, Love, Life, Group Show ? Long Beach

? 2010 - Permanent Installation ? Corridors, Cosmopolitan Hotel, Las Vegas

? 2010 - Selected Works - Mimo Gallery - Santa Monica

? 2010 - Get Lit-Words Ignite - Fundraiser Auction - Los Angeles

? 2010 - Art Project Los Angeles - Charity Auction - Hollywood

? 2010 - Group Show - Affinity Gallery - West Hollywood

? 2010 - Six Pack 3 - Group Show - Jack Miller Assoc. - Los Angeles

? 2010 - Solo Exhibit - Santiago Art Walk, Santa Ana

? 2010 - Group Show - Antebellum Gallery, West Hollywood

? 2009 - Group Show, APW Gallery, NY

? 2009 - Solo Exhibit - Santiago Art Walk, Santa Ana

? 2009 - Solo Show - Continuum gallery, Palm Springs

? 2009 - Group Show - Continuum Gallery, Palm Springs

? 2008 - Six Pack 2 - Group Show - Jack Miller Associates, West Hollywood

? 2008 - Group Show - Continuum Gallery, Palm Springs

? 2008 - Walk of Art & Design - sponsored by Emerson Hall Fitness, West Hollywood

? 2008 ? Solo Exhibit ? Continuum Gallery, Palm Springs

? 2007 ? Six Pack ? Group Show ? Jack Miller Associates, West Hollywood

? 2007 ? Walk of Art & Design ? sponsor

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.

Jane Serebrenikov’s narrative graphical art works reflect her deeply lyrical and uniquely poetical vision. All her life she is interested in visual art and, grown up on fairy tales, combines magic, vivid imagination and sense of humor in her art works. She also inspired by the arts of Mark Chagall and Reno Magritte.

Jane is started etching 5 years ego and has been taken part of several exhibitions. She sold her arts nationally and internationally. She makes aquatint etchings. This is where the plate is immersed in acid and the lines and tones achieved when the acid “bites” the areas which have not been masked. Than color applied manually and print on printmaking press. Each print is unique.

Jane was born in Moscow, Russia and immigrated to Los Angeles in 1995 with her family. She graduated college as a graphic designer, holds AA degree and contentious working in printmaking studio.

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

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

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

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

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

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

MSME USC 1966; Professor CSUN 1965 - 2007

My paintings come out as attempts to "translate" from ideograms and fantastic hieroglyphs that I see in the patterns of nature, most often in the tree bark.

It is like listening to a song in an unknown language. Everyone will have their own guess of what the words might say, but the main theme of the song will be recognized.I am so thrilled by the moments of gazing into the patterns of nature when intuition gives a glimpse from the world of archetypes. I think that trees are books and libraries that can be read, perhaps as well as any thing around if we attune to it…

My paintings are sort of "snapshots" from the process of reading the Book of Nature by the mind;these "snapshots" are somewhere in between the imagery and the language.The mind projects meanings onto the shapes and lines, but they are being reflected back, startling and puzzling… there is always a sensation of a mirror dialog, of having been "read" yourself by the Book of Nature...

born in Baku, Azerbajan, lived in Moscow since 16 years old, moved to L.A. in 1992;

M.F.A. in Film &Tv( Animation major) from UCLA;

involved in painting, writing and illustrating, cartooning, mixed media, paper theatre, small size dioramas

These images are reflective of my growing body of work around a theme I’ve been exploring for some time now ... my own relationship with male beauty, eroticism and romanticizing a Queer sensibility. I’ve been re-visioning some of the images I’ve collected over the years, establishing them in a new context, from a different perspective. Many of the men in these images have been collected from ‘hard porn’ sites and I’ve re-positioned them, re-imagined them in a different context, merging them with my own photographs as the basis for this re-visioning. So each work is a layering and recombination of two very different images.

The work is rather emotionally driven. Each of these men or couples has touched me on both an emotional and aesthetic level – caught my eye (and my “heart” so to speak) from a perspective other than raw sexuality, and I strive to communicate that vision in each piece. My thought is to perhaps humanize, respect and admire them from another angle than the context in which they were originally captured. Each of these men exists, after all, outside of the context of pornographic performance. My engagement with these images encompasses many hours of re-thinking and re-imagining who these men might be and my own sense of relationship with them.

Ultimately, I consider it an act of romance --

John Waiblinger:

waibling@yahoo.com

johnwaiblinger.see.me

John began his artistic endeavors towards the end of his 5th decade after excitedly discovering that digital tools finally provided him the means to translate the visions populating his imagination into physical form. Possibly he is an accidental artist, but now that he has found his medium, he continues to explore how to best represent and share his inner vision.

As a self identified 'Queer Artist' his work is primarily focused on his own relationship with male beauty, and romanticizing a Queer sensibility.

In 2014:

May 2014, Featured Artist, Sachet Mixte Arts Journal Fifth Edition (http://www.amazon.com/Sachet-Mixte-Edition-Five-Volume/dp/1499533373)

June 2014, Group Exhibition at Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles, CA

July 2014, Featured Artist, Noisy Rain Gay Art Magazine (http://www.noisyrain.com)

November 2014, Group Exhibition at CMI Gallery, Anaheim, CA

December 2014, Group Exhibition at Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles, CA

December 2014, No Going Back Group Show, White Cloth Gallery, Leeds, UK

December 2014, Featured Artist in 1 Model, 100 Artists

In 2015:

January 2015, 215 Movement - Art Takes the Stage, Group Exhibition, Los Angeles, CA

February 2015, Dirty Show 16, International Erotic Art Exhibition, Detroit, MI

March 2015, Electron Salon, Group Show at Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles, CA

April 2015, LACDA 11th Anniversary Represented Artist Exhibit, Los Angeles, CA

May 2015, publication of the book HomoEros, Meditations on Gay Love & Learning (art book

featuring 71 images with text)

(http://www.amazon.com/HomoEros-Meditations-Longing-Sachet-Mixte/dp/1511812087)

May 2015, Exhibited at the Grand Opening, Brad Brafford LGBT Center on 4th, Santa Ana, CA

June 2015, Solar Spectrum, Group Show at M.D. Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

July 2015, Featured Artist, We Are Obscurred #1 (http://www.magcloud.com/browse/issue/956502)

December 2015, Snap to Grid, Group Exhibition at Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles, CA

December 2015, Featured Artist, Sachet Mixte Themes: Male Nudes (Volume 7)

(http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1522898727)

In 2016:

February 2016, Dirty Show 17, International Erotic Art Exhibition, Detroit, MI

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