Synthesis

I have always possessed a great affinity to nature, thirst for knowledge, and a deep appreciation of beauty in all of its forms. These innate qualities have found expresssion in many areas. In my paintings, I have seen patterns emerge that express harmony, joy, order, and beauty. My belief in the fundamental unity of all cultures and peoples has led me to create art pieces that relflect the depth of our collective souls, the beauty of our beings, and the ability to expand to fully embrace our lives.

I was born and raised in a small city in the northern region of Iran called Rezahyieh. In 1978 I moved to the United States to attend college and received a business degree from California State University Sacramento. I then traveled extensively for several years encountering various cultures in different countries. I developed a feeling of expansion that included all of humanity. While living in Brazil, I was inspired by the European and Brazilian artists I met, so began creating one of a kind garments and bags that were sold through high end boutiques in Los Angeles. While working with fabric dyes on hemp canvas, I shifted my artistic direction towards painting. Over the years, I have experimented with a wide variety of mediums and cherish the discovery of something new. My work has evolved over time, allowing me to switch forms of expression as I feel inclined. My most recent pieces I call Nouveau Surrealism - ordinary printed photos that have been transformed to reflect unseen realms. Over the past four years, I have shown in the Topanga Artist Studio Tour and have participated in numerous shows in various venues around LA. The most recent show was called Down the Rabbit Hole, representing portals into the mysteries within each of us.

Avdeev Vladimir Aleksandrovich.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Art has called to me as my expression of the things I perceive but cannot say. At first when I climbed the Catalinas in Tucson or the Rockies in Colorado, I sat on precipices, and gazed over the trees and rocks; my painting was a substitute for the camera I could not afford. Soon I found a meditative state in my visage, seeing not only the rocks and trees but other things. This was the birth of my connection with nature. Over 40 years ago, looking and using my eyes to fondle the landscape became my mantra for future paintings. The process of painting while backpacking limited me to watercolors. These were easy to carry, use, and light. So watercolor became my medium of choice out of necessity. I’ve improved my techniques, and find watercolors offer that piece of uncontrollable mystery that makes a painting unique. I inadvertently put the horse before the cart with my training in art. Raised in a family of purpose driven people, career choices had to do with earning money and not expression of artistic ideas.

On the weekends, art was my release, my place of respite. Why do artists create? I can answer with another question: what is creativity? But the essence of all of us, for me it is the string that lingers inside our communications, it sparks the mind from the hum drum of churning. Art can be a little bump that makes you feel the road.

My project, “California Oaks as Art”, is an artistic expression of the beauty of the oaks, and a historical, environmental catalog of their stories. Yes, there goes that goal driven orientation. Yet on a deeper level the oak tree of California, although one of the most common trees, it is also one that is very unique to its climate. It is everywhere, and even in some places considered a weed. It pops up and takes root and before you know it, those leathery leaves are all over your yard. Common but not so common. This project has taught me so very much about the California natives. We study Indians and early people of California, but not much is known about its early oaks and current oaks. Like my backcountry experiences in the Desserts of Arizona, and the mountains of California, there is a richness of nature that cannot be described in words. One quote I like about nature and the new generations, is that how can you expect someone to care about nature, if they have never experienced it? To describe sleeping under the stars, hearing the wind through the pines, smelling the morning dew of a meadow, tasting the clear clean water from a spring, and sitting under an oak, are all sensual and transient. Understanding the role oaks have played in history, in ecology, and their uniqueness is one of the goals of my art project. On one level, I want the audience to walk away and say, I never knew this about the oaks, I think I’ll take another look at the oak in my yard, I want to visit this oak, or on another level; although I am one of many like the oak, I have a unique story, nature is a common denominator, under the surface there is more, the roots of each being are what make them unique.

My project has stimulated conversation both in writing and in conversation. I have had an article in the California Poppy, a publication of all the California Garden Clubs. The President has contacted me and asked for a follow up article on the oaks and their stories. I have presented a short slide show to the Los Angeles District Arboretum in Arcadia. This exhibit has been shown in Thousand Oaks Community Gallery and received a lot of positive responses. I have even been commissioned to paint a significant oak tree at Caltech. The grand Engelmann Oak is fading and I was commissioned by Caltech to paint it as a memory of how it once grew. This painting is now on display at California Institute of Technology.

My paintings themselves represent my journey through painting and expression. I have found some of the oak trees are quite plain and have decided to use an unusual technique such as Chinese Brush Painting to make the tree more interesting. As in the case of the 13,000 year old Palmer Oak, it is a low growing scrub oak, which is far more interesting when I painted it using Chinese Xuan Paper, Chinese Brushes, and Chinese Paint. This painting has won many awards which leads me to believe that the medium helps to spark the interest in the subject. I use watercolors which are my first love for most of the works, sketches, and preliminary paintings. I have created oils from the watercolor studies which are in this exhibition.

My style of painting is what I call environmental impressionism. There is an overt goal to encourage appreciation and knowledge of California’s Oak Trees, and there is a subliminal goal to see the limbs of the oak as we see the limbs of our own bodies. And how can you not love your own limbs.

Jennifer Bentson

3181 Linda Vista Road, Glendale, CA 91206

Cell (818) 243-5405

Email: jb@jenniferbentson.com

Web: www.jenniferbentson.com

Mediums:

Watercolor, Oil, Sketch - Charcoal, Pencil, and Pastel, Print, Chinese Brush Painting.

Commissions

California Technical Institute, Engelmann Oak, 2011

State of California, Air Resources Board, 2004

Publications

Six Visions, Wapshott Press

Storylandia, Wapshott Press, Cover 2013

Erotique, Wapshott Press Cover 2013

Chevy Chase Garden Cub, Member’s Directory, 2012

California State Garden Clubs, California Poppy, 2012

Current Correspondent for Art Quench Magazine, www.artquenchmagazine.com

Exhibits:

Chevy Chase Country Club – Solo Show 2009

Highland Taffy Art Assn., Summer Art Shows 2009, 2010, 2011

Brand Library, Glendale, CA , 2010

Modern Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, March, 2010

Descanso Gardens Art Gallery, La Canada, CA 1995, 1996

Montrose Art Walk – 2010, 2011

Bluebird House Art Gallery, Juried 2010

California State Air Resources Board, 2000-2010

The Advocate Gallery, 12-6- 2010 to 1-20-2011, Hollywood, CA

Segil Fine Art Gallery, Juried 2011, 2012

North Hollywood Performing Arts Center, Juried 2011

Gallery 800, Juried 2011, Juried 2012 winner of watercolor award. Juried 2013

Bonham and Butterfields 2011, APLA Juried 2012. 2013, 2014, 2015

California Institute of Technology, Permanent Collection 2011- present

Thomas Payne Foundation, Juried 2012

GAA – Silverlake Citibank Gallery - Group Show 2012

White’s Gallery 2012 – ( Two Shows) Fall Salon and October Show

Huntington Gardens and Library – Juried Show, 2012

La Canada Library – 2013 April Show

Anzoh Gallery – GAA – June 2013 Show

Burbank Creative Arts Gallery – July 2013 – Winner 2nd place, Watercolor

Glendale Youth Alliance, Juried Show, Nov. 2013

Valley Visions, Juried Show, June 2014, Winner “First Place Watercolor”

Thousand Oaks Gallery, “California Oaks as Art” 27 pieces with interpretative information.

Theodore Payne Foundation, Juried Art Show, 2014

GAA, Juried Show, October 2014, Winner “Honorable Mention” Sculpture

Lark Gallery, Brea Show, 2014-5

Aquarium of the Pacific, 2014, One of 20 artists juried into show.

Aquarium of the Pacific, 2015, One of 23 artists juried into show

Glendale Youth Authority, Juried Show, 2015

Far Niente, Curator, Oct. 2014 to March 2015, over 40 pieces of art hung on a rotating schedule, combining the artwork of two organizations.

Glendale Area Loves Art, Curator, Spring Show, 2015

White’s Gallery, GAA Spring Show, Juried, Winner “Honorable Mention” Figurative 2015

Blick Art Store Gallery, Pasadena, May, 2015

Exhibitions Produced

2013, Love of Art, Gallery 800, 50 participants, 95 pieces of art, SFVAC

2013 Masters of SFVAC Exhibition, CSUN Gallery, May, 2012, 22 artists, 34 pieces of art

2013 Small is Beautiful, White’s Gallery, 31 artists, 76 pieces of art

2014 Theodore Payne Foundation, Paint Out and Subsequent Gallery Show, 22 artists

2014 Thousand Oaks Gallery, open call, 43 artists, 87 pieces

2014 Thousand Oaks Gallery, 6 Visions Show, 6 artists, 95 pieces of art, published catalog created featuring the artists.

2014-5 Far Niente Restaurant, Glendale, CA, negotiated management of the walls of art for the restaurant. New show every two months, since October, 2014

2015 GALA, Glendale Area Loves Art, As GAA President, I curated and organized this show in a short period of time.

2015 GAA, White's Gallery, Spring Salon, Winner Honorable Mention, Figurative

2015, Children's Network Art Auction, Juried

2015 Bonham's, Art Project Auction, Juried

Presentations on “California Oaks as Art” Project

Chevy Chase Garden Club – 2012

Los Angeles County Arboretum – 2013

Delegate to China representing SFVAC – September 2014

Education:

BA Education, University of Arizona

MS Post Graduate Coursework in Educational Psychology

Professional Art Courses

Chinese Brush Painting, Xiamen University, Gulangyu Island, China

Figure and Portrait Painting – Animation Guild, Burbank, CA

Ceramics – La Canada Adult School – 2 sessions

Watercolor Painting – Glendale Adult School (7 sessions) and Monrovia Adult School (1 session)

Oil Painting – Glendale Adult School (3 sessions)

Figure Drawing – Glendale Adult School (3 sessions)

Perspective, Animation Guild, Burbank, CA

Leadership Roles

President, Glendale Art Association, 2015 - current

President, San Fernando Valley Art Club (2013-4)

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.

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

Discarded ranch equipment and metal parts are the source of my inspiration for creating sculptures which explore perceptions of the female form and psyche. Serendipitous discoveries are made each time I delve into the metal scrap pile at the ranch where I work. From visit-to-visit there is no guarantee what will be available, the element of chance is part of the process and challenge of forming the narratives of unrelated components.

Furthermore, the chance effects caused by small explosions, fires, and molten splatters, inherent in welding and melting metal that is rusty, greasy, dirty, and often with remnants of paint, are all part of the creative process which defines the sculptures.

A piece of a pole with a bolt that appears to be randomly welded onto it was the inspiration for "Screwed." The body consists of broken blades which follow the curves of a woman's figure. Similarly,"She Has Balls" is comprised of a pole and blades; the narrative is derived from the discovery of the metal balls which I welded onto the blade base.

Rebar is always available in the scrap pile which influenced my preplanning of a tall sculpture. However, when I arrived at the ranch I could only find small pieces and had to rethink the concept which resulted in “Standing In A Forest.” A woman is cut out of a long piece of steel and the resulting curves allow her to stand out instead of simply standing tall.

My artwork has been exhibited internationally in galleries and museums.

Jana Charl was born in Los Angeles and currently resides there. Not married to a single medium, she paints with acrylics and also sculpts metal and polymer clay. Her artwork reflects a fascination with capturing the human form and psyche with minimal, distinguishing curves.

After receiving her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Art at the University of Redlands, California, she was in her first group exhibition at Ars Futura Galerie in Zürich. Since 1993, her artwork has been exhibited internationally in galleries and museums. As a dual US-Swiss citizen, she has also lived in Zürich and enjoys traveling between the two countries.

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.

the language of life.

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

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

Jenik

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

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

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

Peter Frank Los Angeles January 2010

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

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

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

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

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

Private Collections

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

Review

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

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

Education

Attended California Art Institute

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

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

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

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

Cooper?

Exhibitions/Tours/Representations

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

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

Call In: (805) 285-9772

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Animoto

http://animoto.co/play/kcodPxjQSc56io2yu6LQOA

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

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

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

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

2009 Fantasy 2000, Sherman Oaks, CA

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

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

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

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

2008 No Ho Gallery, Visions, North Hollywood, CA

2008 Haziaz Gallery, Art48, Sun Valley, CA

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

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

Palisades, CA

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

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

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

I am influenced by Hawaiian flora and marine life- the riot of color, the diversity of shape and the primal beauty I see in Hawaii. My art is my path back to this tropical Eden, by recreating through sculpture the plants and animals of those warm waters and lush forests.

I transform hard and flat into curved and flowing. What begins as plain metal sheet or rod embodies the expression of what is to be. And though my hands move and shape the raw material, the medium determines where we go and where we end. The project takes on its own dynamic and direction, and I am as much fellow traveler as I am director of the work.

I spent most of my adult life as a father, a martial artist, an Aerospace Quality Engineer, and until recently, not noticeably an artist.

Fatherhood teaches many, many things. Two things I learned are: expect the unexpected, and recognize that sometimes boundaries are meant to be crossed.

Martial arts also teaches many things. Two things I learned are discipline to persevere, and to always seek the way to peace.

Aerospace engineering… too many things to even list but essentially, I learned how things go together and how they work (or don’t work) together. Space is an unforgiving environment and to send things there is one of the most challenging of human endeavors. A great deal has to go right.

I have become familiar with and in some cases expert in technologies, processes and procedures governing hardware that once deployed, can never be repaired. Technologies that most people are unaware of yet affect many aspects of everyday life. Very sophisticated, sometimes extremely expensive, and not the environment where you would expect to find artistic expression or inspiration but I’ve learned that life is like that- you find inspiration and opportunity in the most unusual or unlikely places.

Somewhere on this journey I began to feel there was something that I needed to be doing but seemed to have no tangible foundation. Like a feeling one tries to explain but can’t find the right words for, but something that has to come out. And then it started.

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.

Nina Gabriel’s Artist Statement

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

Traditional Buddhist Blessing

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

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

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

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

Nina Gabriel’s BIO

“Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I –

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.”

Robert Frost

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

latest artist statement:

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

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

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

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

you up, and it makes you smile.”

My art has been exhibited worldwide in many solo exhibitions:

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

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

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

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

L’Image Gallery, Rome, Italy.

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

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

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

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2000 - PRESENT

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

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

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

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

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

Universal City Walk, Los Angeles, CA

1995 - 2000

Jane Gottlieb Photographs - Nancy Hoffman Gallery, NYC,

Jane Gottlieb: Garden Works -

Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio ,

Jane Gottliebs Joy Rides - Three Year Exhibition

Los Angeles County Natural History Museum - Los Angeles, CA

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

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

1985 - 1995

Dream Machines - L'Image Gallery - Rome, Italy

Daydreams - Louis Stern Gallery - Beverly Hills, CA,

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

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

Imaginary Daydreams - Leband Art Gallery,

Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA ,

Jane Gottlieb Daydreams - Sternberg Gallery - Chicago, IL

Dream Machines - Francine Ellman Gallery - Los Angeles, CA

As a professional makeup artist for many years in the entertainment industry. I love transforming and sculpting faces of every kind, but I often wish I could freeze-frame my work, which some how vanishes with the night. Now, through my passion for working with my hands and creating hot bronze and cold cast bronze sculptures. I am able to forever capture subtle emotion and beauty with the finest detail. I am embracing this process with the utmost wonder and zest for what lies ahead. Now, when people view or touch my work, I am filled with joy and satisfaction that they will be able to enjoy it for a very long time.

I am a Professional Makeup Artist working in the Entertainment Industry for many years. As a sculptor I have shown my Collection of Bronze Sculptures in the 2008 Beverly Hills art show \"The Affaire in the Gardens\"

2008 Malibu Art Festival, Malibu Ca.

5th & 6th Annual Thousand Oaks Arts Festival

2008,2009.

From the 6th Annual Thousand oaks Arts Festival I was invited for the month of October 2009 to have my sculptures on display at the Thousand Oaks Community Art Gallery.

My sculptures can be viewed on my website:http//www.bronzedlife.com

My photographs are not generally planned in advance, and I do not anticipate that the onlooker will share my viewpoint. However, I feel that if my photograph leaves an image on the viewer’s mind, something has been accomplished.

Awarded, Published and Internationally Exhibited photographer:

Born in Paris, raised in Tehran and Boston, with a little over 2 years of dormancy in Lisbon, Armineh is an

iPhoneographer now based in Los Angeles, capturing moments since 2009. She is one of the early members of

the iphoneography movement. She has had no professional training however her vision has been the driving force behind her creations. She also shoots with her DSLR camera. For the time being, photography is a hobby.

I avoid painting what I see directly. Instead, I paint what I feel from an object and thereby give new life to the object.

I believe that every object has a life and soul, similar to the five elements in Chinese culture, everything consists of five basic elements: water, fire, metal, earth and wood.

Whenever I see a particular object, I see a particular essence and attempt to re-create this essence through art. Additionally, models or objects are mirrors; they reflect the real world and the way I see the world. Therefore, by painting the objects, I learn about myself.

MFA, Fine Arts,Painting

Academy of Art University, San Francisco, CA

Bachelor of Arts Degree,Fine Art-Oil Painting

Sep 2004 - Jul 2008

Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts. Xi’an, China

I’m a painter and a mixed media assemblage artist. Conceptually, the idea of inexhaustible life has emerged as a common thread in my work. Often consciously but other times not.

My pieces are inspired by a sense of reverence for the beauty of life, with its decay and erosion, and then the emergence of, or rebirth of what grows from that. They reflect my fascination with nature’s ever-changing pantheon of shapes, patterns, surface qualities and colors that go along with the cycles of life.

Being influenced by mixed media artists like Joseph Cornell, Louise Nevelson, and George Herms, I create hand-built assemblages to explore my interest in an ideology associated with the destiny of change and transformation. I keep in mind the concept of one’s renewed growth, after allowing the collapse of old structures and outgrown values. My work represents the ability to move forward without being trapped by any outmoded perceptions and belief systems of the past. Like the phoenix rising from the ashes myth, I use parts of the old to build something new. I’m fascinated by the imagery invoked by the vision of a life force that’s not in our control, which shakes us from our complacency, and pushes us to a renewed life... if we want it or not.

These ideas also lead me to create painted pieces where I cut up, break apart or paint over, one of my already existing art pieces. In this way a new piece emerges from the old.

Born and raised in Los Angeles, California, Brenda Hurst received a BA degree in

Art, with an emphasis in photography, from California State University, Northridge. She has always worked in creative fields, whether it was as a scenic artist for the television & film business, as the Assistant to the Director of the Craft & Folk Art Museum, or later as a Director of Still Photography and Photo Producer at NBC Universal.

Brenda continued her exploration of various materials and methods at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, and now works as a full time artist at her studio located in northeast Los Angeles.

The focus of Brenda’s work is not only on painting, but also on mixed media assemblage, encaustic & photography. While incorporating a wide variety of materials and found objects, she’s interested in the process of discovering ways to bring them together in intriguing textural relationships, patterns, thoughts and inspirations.

Rita Janikyan was born in Armenia, Yerevan in 1991. She moved to Russia with her family when she was seven years old. In Russia she attended the kids art club “Brigantina” where she learned the Thread Mosaic techniques at age ten. She had many art shows in Russia. In 2007 she got Irkutsk Region diploma the 3rd place on art and craft. During the same year she also received her diploma as a Master-Instructor of Thread Mosaic. On Feb. 29, 2008 she had a personal art exhibit where more than 1500 people attended from different parts of Russia in three days. “I create piece of art to express the deepest level of my emotions, they also are my diary. They make me feel complete and happy.”

The truest means of expressing the real is to accept the process of discovery. To experience the process, rather than perfecting a formula, will come closer to making a drawing or painting believable.

The horse race has been a reoccurring theme in my work. It represents strength, energy, and motion as well as the bond between man and horse. Ancient symbolic meaning is another aspect that is present. The communication between horse and jockey reveals that aspect in a very long two minute space of time.

1976-A.A. Degree, Lane Community College, Eugene, Ore.

1977- Juried- Centrum Master Painting Workshop, Instructor, Nathan Olivera, Port Townsend, WA.

1979 Painting, University of Oregon

1978- Fellowship, Centrum Master Painting Workshop, Instructor, Elaine DeKooning, Port Townsend, WA.

1979- Juried, Centrum Critique, Jack Tworkov, Port Townsend, WA.

1978- Drawing Workshop, Tom Blodgett, Eugene, Or.

1975-1978 Through the courtesy of the professors and the Department Chairman, I monitored studio classes daily. If there were no classes I would be in the art library.

1975-1985 Participated in open drawing and painting sessions four days a week.

1985-1996 Hiatus. Life, kids, divorce. Life in progress.

Exhibitions: Juried

1985- Pacific. N.W. Figure Drawing Competition 1984, Alfred Leslie, Visual Arts Center, Anchorage, AK.

1985- Fifth Annual Juried Art Show, The Art Gallery, Umpqua Community College, Roseburg, Ore. Selected participant.

1984- Figure Study Show, Alvin Gallery, Hong Kong.

1984- Three Person Show, University of Oregon Art Museum, Eugene, Oregon.

1983- Oregon Biennial, Portland Art Museum, Portland, Ore.

Most recent:

2004- Marghitta Feldman Gallery, One Man Show, Early Drawings, Portland, OR.

2008,'09, '10-Annual Visual Arts Showcase, Beaverton, Ore.

2010- Oasis Gallery, Juried Exhibition, 1st place award.

2010- Real People 2010, Juried exhibition, Woodstock, IL.

2011- Nude Nite, Tampa, FL.

2011- Nude Nite, Orlando, FL.

2014- Emerald Spring Exhibition 2014, Emerald Art Center, Springfield, OR., May 2014.

2014- Au Natural International Juried Exhibition, Clatsop Community College Art Center Gallery, Astoria, OR., January - March, 2014, juror, Charles Froelick, Froelick Gallery, Portland, OR.

2013- Los Angeles Art Association’s 2013 Open Show, Gallery 825, Hollywood, CA. Dec.-Jan, 2014, Curator, Jenny Gheith, Assistant Curator, San Fransico Museum of Modern Art.

2013- California Open Exhibition, August, TAG Gallery, Bergamot Station Arts Center, Santa Monica, CA, August, 2013, Honorable Mention Award.

2013- Real People 2013, Old Court House Art Center, August- September, Woodstock, IL.

2013- All Media Juried Show, July-September, Chase Gallery, Spokane, WA.

2013- Real People, August through September, Old Courthouse Arts Center, Woodstock, IL.

2013- Story of the Creative, July through September, See | Exhibition Space, New York City, NY.

2012- Annual Visual Arts Showcase, Beaverton, OR.

2012- Real People, Woodstock, IL.

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.

I was born in the country that has already gone (USSR). The city when I was born had been changed its name (Leningrad city). And even the avenue when my maternity home is situated replaced its name as well (former Gaza avenue).

Geography of my growing was spreading from the south-east of the country (Vladivostok city) to the north-west of it (Murmansk city). Thousands miles.

I’m taking a photograph from the air to collect myself together, in time and in space.

Hayk Matsakyan was born in 1981 in Armenia, Vanadzor city.​ Currently residing in the United States of America , Los Angeles , California.

1992-1996 Studied at Vanadzor School of Fine Arts named after S. Aghajanyan.

1993 Attended private classes of fine arts in St. Petersburg, Russia.

2005 Worked as an artist-designer in Museum Of Local Lore Of Lori Pambak in Armenia.

2005 First Prize winner in contest of artist-designers in Armenia, BDSC NGO.

2005 Second Prize winner in National Poster Contest in Armenia, CRINGO NGO.

2006 First Prize winner in National Poster Contest in Armenia, UNFPA.

Group shows:

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2012 Gallery Godo - AvantgArt, Glendale

2012 Hotel Alexandria - DTLA Artwalk, Los Angeles

2012 KGB Studios - Chocolate and Art, Los Angeles

2012 Devour Media at SAC Studios - Midnight Vision, Los Angeles

2012 Seeley's Studios - 12.12.12, Glendale

2013 KGB Studios - Chocolate and Art, Los Angeles

2013 Exchange LA - 6 Degrees of Elevation Productions presents Genesis, Los Angeles

2013 The Holding Co - L'art pour L'art presents Transit, Los Angeles

2013 Keller Williams Realty - corporate event, Los Angeles

2013 June 13 Exchange LA - 6 Degrees of Elevation Productions presents Genesis, Los Angeles

2013 Down And Out - The Overflow show, Los Angeles

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My artwork focuses on spiritual, technological and environmental issues. In my art, I deconstruct the American dream, government missteps, the overwhelming presence of the digital age and our effect on the ecosystem that are part of the fabric of our controversial history. Having engaged subjects as diverse as atomic testing, human experimentation and the ever expanding presence of technology, my work reproduces familiar visual signs, arranging them into densely conceptual pieces.

Often times themes are combined into a collage of technology juxtaposed with old world imagery, that may be often embellished with hi-tech details. The juxtaposition of past and future, establishes a dream-like surreal quality and suggests an other worldly realm out of time & space. My personal dream language provides clues to content and visual interpretation.

While I primarily work in the computer for my dream paintings and with found objects for my sculptures, I also incorporate my drawings and photography layering each idea to evoke a new mythology. Although there may not always be visual similarities between the different projects, they are linked by recurring social concerns. The subject matter of each piece determines the colors, textures and the objects used to create it.

Each series often consists of multiple works, grouped around specific themes and meanings. I consistently research varied topics creating new areas of interest from which arises the next body of work.

Born in St. Louis, Vincent Mattina began his love affair with art at a very early age. When he was first able to hold a pencil he knew he loved drawing. Throughout his early years and onto high school his love of art captured his soul. His passion and resolve to educate himself in visual arts led him to Columbus College of Art and Design. There he graduated with a BFA in Fine art & Illustration. In 1990 he moved out of the Midwest and into the Los Angeles area. He gained recognition in the commercial art world by working at companies in the Fashion, Marketing & Advertising industries. Also free-lancing with many companies such as Hanna-Barbera, Disney, Warner Brothers and Activision.

Feeling the need to express himself as well as having a visual story to tell, Vincent decided to follow his first love and branch out into the fine art world. In his first show he was highlighted in a group show at the City of Brea art gallery titled “For Love or Money”. This show was the crossroads between his commercial & fine art career and the first environment to feature his “Entomechanical” series that intertwines nature and machines inspired by photo realism, digital collage and technology.

Since then he also has ventured into the Steam-Punk movement. Vincent was invited to show several of his “Professor Flux Repurposed Ray-Guns” at the Muzeo museum in Anaheim and the San Diego Automotive Museum.

In 2012 his art work “Victorinsect Box 3“ was voted 1st place in the digital category juried art show. Also in 2012 his piece “All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (Adam)” received best of show at the Art for All People Gallery show entitled “Phoenix Rising”.

His richly detailed works transports you to an alternate reality in which science, nature and spirituality evolve. Vincent has shown in galleries throughout the southern California and his works grace the homes of various collectors.

I like to make pictures that explore the inner life. The physical works are expressions of a life within my life. They are also a way I can connect directly with people through their eyes.

The core of my work is a search for beauty. When I find it, I feel gratitude. This experience of gratitude is, for me, the heart of my worship.

I use a camera and Photoshop, mostly, to find my images these days. I experience them first on a light screen and they evolve there. Some of my pictures are transformations; photos of natural objects that I import into Photoshop and some I build from scratch there.

My pictures are closely connected to music (particularly as they relate to harmony). I vertically stack and blend layers, typically using 10-20 layers

in a piece.

I've also discovered a new way to work. As my pictures evolve, I save history states and create new starting points from them. They are like branches extending from the main trunk. These branches are developed in parallel with the original image. I can move motifs back and forth from one file to another and I finish with a family of pictures with a similar essence.

Three recent families I call "Angels", "Light Chord" and "Light Wave".

There are a number of wonderful tools in Photoshop which allow me to generate waves, morph between rectangular and polar coordinates, build spheres and spirals, etc.

My art is opening into a new world today. I find my inner feelings and visions reflected there.

I made pictures from the time I was the tiniest child my parents tell me. Since a career as an artist wasn't honored much in the 50's in America (the two words most associated with artists at the time were starving and crazy), I studied chemistry as a possible career path.

My love for art unexpectedly reawakened in my sophomore year in college and I knew then that my calling was to the senses, particularly to beauty in art and music.

I studied art at the Art Students League in NY during my vacations and went on to get a Masters Degree in art from the University of Hawaii.

I was briefly a partner in a gallery in Greenwich Village in the 60's and moved from there into a 30 year career, designing home textiles.

In evenings and on weekends I pursued my personal art which evolved from painting into photography and then to the digital dimension.

I license some of my floral and leaf images into posters through Editions Limited.

I live in Badger California in the foothills of the Central Sierra. It is a small community of cattlemen, small farmers, semi-retired world class scientists and spiritual devotees.

It is near a spiritual and educational retreat center called Seven Circles Retreat which I helped establish as a manifestation of my spiritual practice which is called Subud.

I expect to see my little town of Badger develop into a "learning community" for new arts, agriculture and science in the future (a probable impossibility). A community that integrates human life.

“Strong enough for the outdoors, fine enough for the indoors” is our slogan. Our work is made for the outdoors but works indoors as well.

More than a hobby, “mosaicing” is rewarding, fulfilling and therapeutic. Our hope is that our art gives you pleasure. We encourage you to visit us on Facebook as we continue to improve

Mosaics by Myatt began several years ago by creating a new patio, tabletop, pictures and pots for our yard. It was love at first endeavor. We started displaying pieces indoors as well and gifting to interested family members. After the positive and encouraging comments from family, friends and neighbors, we decided to start selling to the public.

In the fall of 2010 we participated in our first public event and were pleased with the positive response. We do a few events a year, commissioned work and also donate pieces upon request.

We have no formal artistic education and have not received any awards. We have not exhibited anywhere yet, but we currently have 13 pieces on display at a Fresno restaurant.

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.\\

Self-taught artist.

Born in 1973 in Balashikha, Russia.

Never received a classical art education:

Graduated from Moscow State University of Electronics and Mathematics in 1999.

Started to paint in 2006.

Participation in exhibitions and competitions:

2010

XV International Festival of Slavic Writing and Culture «Slavonic meetings». The exhibition-competition of artistic and decorative arts «Slavonic tree».

Diploma of I degree in the category "Arts and Crafts".

Balashikha, Russia

Winner of the Grade II of city art festival "Slavonic world" in the "Fine and crafts."

Geleznodorozniy, Russia

2012

XI Russian Art Week (www.artweek.ru)

1st place in the "International Competition of arts and crafts"

Moscow, Russia

Member of the exhibition-competition of artistic and decorative arts "Slavonic tree."

Balashikha, Russia

Member of XII Russian Art Week

Moscow, Russia

2013

The exhibitor winners of the international art project and ArtWeek Cup for Russia in 2012.

Russian Centre of Science and Culture Berlin

Member of Naive Art Festival in Katowice Poland

I was born and lives in Voronezh, Russia. I have been drawing a lot since childhood, and was crazy about building castles on sand and modeling utensils in clay.

I passed the Children Art School where I learned 3 years. After finishing Secondary School I worked as a designer for 1,5 years.

In 1991 I entered the Voronezh Art College the Department of Ceramics. In 1996 I graduated from the college. In 2005 I finished the course of Interior Design.

In 2011 I entered the Voronezh State Pedagogical University the Department of Fine Arts and now I am a 3nd year student.

A ceramist by training, I give lessons at children's art studio and continue to create images in clay, which come from dreams, meditations, experience, and music. I take interest in the plasticity of a human body and like all shades of dark blue color. I go in for batik, oil, gouache, acrilic, paints in watercolors.

My favorite style in the painting is Impressionism. My favorite artists are Monet and Renoir. One of my favorite sculptors is Rodin.

My credo is «Don't stop!»

Peto works with watercolor without any mixed media.He is focused mainly on cityscape, finding and analyzing focal points of the city. Peto tries to represent calm and bustle of city life in a unique form. His works are in many private and corporate collection in Armenia and abroad, most important of them are American University of Armenia, Armenian Embassy in China.

Solo exhibitions

1 . 2008 - Falk Art Museum, Yerevan

2 . 2009 - Artbridge, Yerevan

3 . 2011 - Artbridge, Yerevan

4 . 2011 - Bureaucrat bookstore, Yerevan

5 . 2012 - Claboratoria, Yerevan

6. 2013- UN House in Armenia, Yerevan.

Group exhibitions

1 . 2012 - Armenia Japan Art exhibition, The Gallery Ginza 1-Chome, Tokyo

2. 2012 - Shanghai International Watercolor Biennial 2012

3. 2013- “Outstanding Watercolor” award –BoldBrush Painting Competition, 2013 June.

Peto Poghosyan was born in1983 in Gyumri, currently lives in Yerevan,Armenia. Peto has attended courses of Sculpture and Graphics in Gyumri branch of Fine Arts Academy(1998-2000) and painting courses of Fine Art Academy in Yerevan (2000-2005). Peto has received Masters degree at Yerevan State University, faculty of international relations (2000-2006). Served in army(2006-2008)

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.

Be thankful for the bad things in life ...for they open your eyes to the good things you weren't paying attention to before ...

In 1971 I was born in Kyrgyzstan , then part of The Soviet Union. I grew up in a large family and was a very sick and weak child. At the age of 13 I underwent surgery and then began suffering from various allergies and asthma. In 1990's I moved to Russia for my health.

In 1994 I married and gave birth to my only child, a lovely daughter. After fourteen years of marriage ,during which time I was constantly humiliated .In 2008 I applied for a divorce . My husband ,being Russian and living in Russia ,had all legal advantages .I was forced to give all my assets ,including property ,my jewelry and he even arranged to deprive me of my child .It was a nightmare.

During this awful time, a friend of mine was dying of cancer in Russian Hospital. He was a United States citizen and before he died ,he asked me that when he passed away , to bring his body back to his parents in the United States .I fulfilled his wish and I decided to stay in the United States . I became a legal resident and I worked very closely with autistic children and started to paint .

In 2010 ,I met a wonderful man who became my husband. He has filled my life with love and became my Muse .It is through him that I have devoted most of my life to painting. During the last three years I have been able to express myself about things I couldn't talk about ,like pain ,joy and sorrow. Most people who view my art think that I have been professionally trained .I can only tell them my art comes from my soul.

I only hope is that I share my joy with you!

Sincerely,Tatiana.

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

My earlier work investigated what technology has uncovered for us by way of exploration space and discoveries in quantum worlds. My recent praxes have segued into more celebratory stances, a concession perhaps to a ten-year involvement with Spanish dance. Flamenco is a discipline that incorporates spins, spirals and swirls that are metaphorical for the motions of particles and galaxies.

So my perceptions of the rhythms and energies of inner and outer space have been redesigned to offer a glimpse of one of multiple interconnections linking us to these other worlds.

The media used in these pieces include iridescent and interference colors. This is not always apparent in photos because they rely on the light source to be seen. They are, however, effective because as with any reflective element, another dimension is brought into play.

Canadian-born artist, Norma Squires has exhibited nationally and internationally. Those venues include: the East Hampton Gallery, NYC; New York's Museum of Modern Art lending library; Gallery Moos, Toronto; Galeria Vandres, Madrid, Spain; a solo at the Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY; La Jolla Museum of Art and, more recently, Nagasaki Museum, Japan; Pyong Taek City, Korea; Bangkok University, Thaiand; Yerevan, Armenia and Galerie Gronard, Paris, France. In addition to being represented in many private collections her work is in such public collections as Sterling Forest Gardens, NYC, Warner Bros. Records, Burbank, CA; Seiman's Pacesetter Systems, L.A. CA; Redwood City Pubic Library; the Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA; Le Chateau des Reaux, France, etc.

Squires is also a writer with feature articles published in various catalogs. She has curated several exhibitions among which are, "Angels, Ancestors and Spirit Guides" and "Quarks to Quasars". She has illustrated several children's books and a book titled, "Poem Into Life" featuring a suite of her paintings was available in April of 2010.

She has a BFA from The Cooper Union in New York City and her Master's degree is from California State University, Northridge

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.

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

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

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