The Art of Now

I am passionate in my work and would love to eventually sell my art in the US. So far in Australia I have sold over fifty pieces.

Penny Arnold is an Australian portrait artist who works mainly with acrylics. She can deliver a commission within four weeks. www.pennyarnold.com email art@pennyarnold.com. Penny executes a good use of colour. People love the energy of her animal pieces and often gets a good likeness of the subjects she paints. Penny hopes to eventually become a full time artist.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Maria Bjorkdahl was born in Morocco and raised in Sweden. She moved to the US in 1984 to attend graduate school at San Francisco State University. In 2004 Bjorkdahl took up fine arts inspired by studio art/art history classes at El Camino College and Dominguez Hills State University.

Bjorkdahl is a visual artist working predominantly in oil. Her figurative work has an expressive narrative quality and centers on the body.

Her work has been exhibited at Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Park and City Art Gallery in Long Beach.

Recently she has diversified into co-curating shows: Tel-Art-Phone at the Beacon Arts Building and Smorgasbord Art Show at Sangria Fine Arts.

The inspiration for my recent paintings comes from images of landscapes; the urban landscape and the narrative of my "inner landscape." Within these worlds I express my vision of the intertwined tensions between beauty, spirituality, and turmoil, which are reflective of the inherent struggle of life. Using recognizable but abstracted imagery against the flat surface of two dimensional space, shifting figure-ground relationships, creates a "push-pull" effect suggesting a deeper internal dialogue within representational and non-objective formal painting.

My turning to the subject of landscape came from a need to connect with the natural order as a way of healing myself. Adding structures represents my strength growing out of the process as well as the strength of form through the power of the cityscape. I express the life energy of the landscape using gestural brushwork. The gestural freedom is juxtaposed against areas of intricate detailed passages. An atmospheric light quality created with bold color and high contrast gives the paintings a glow that reflect the joyfulness of life, while the darker tones of forms intimate the frustration and anguish in life. All of these elements combine to create a charged sensual image.

As a formal element, rhythmic pattern brings structural organization to the paintings, capturing the pulse of the city. As an artist I am engaged with the historical tradition of pattern painting as it integrates with my own early history. In moving from Czechoslovakia to the Mediterranean and Mideastern influences of Israel, I retained memories of visual patterns – the Persian rugs of my home and of the Czech and Mideastern folk arts. The geography of the landscape has had a profound impact on my life and my work. The patterns of the Los Angeles urban landscape are a powerful influence on my visual geography. Incorporating a border, a window effect, invites my viewer to take an intimate glimpse into my personal world.

Ilana Bloch was born in Prague and raised in Israel. At the age of 12 her family moved to Los Angeles where she later received her BFA and teaching credentials at Cal State University Northridge.

The inspiration for Ilana?s paintings comes from images of landscapes; the urban landscape and the narrative of her ?inner landscape.? Within these worlds she expresses her vision of the intertwined tensions between beauty, spirituality, and turmoil, which are reflective of the inherent struggle of life. She expresses the life energy of the landscape using gestural brushwork. The gestural freedom is juxtaposed against areas of intricate detailed passages. An atmospheric light quality created with bold color and high contrast gives her paintings a glow. All of these elements combine to create a charged sensual image.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

www.jodibonassiart.com, resume is available upon request

My works, for the most part, address societal issues that cover the spectrum from birth to death and everything in between. They have been produced in a variety of mediums, i.e.: small to mural-sized expressive figurative oil paintings; pencil or pen & ink line drawings; mixed media constructions, to name a few. I like to produce my works using a variety of mediums for it keeps my works fresh and exciting for me. Works may be viewed at: michaelchomick.com

Born in Vancouver, Canada, and was exposed the making of art at any early age since both parents sculpted and painted as a hobby. After departing Canada have traveled and lived throughout the southern states, eventually relocating to Los Angeles, where I have continued my commitment to being a contemporary artist for the past 25+ years.

"I dream, therefore, I am"

"I create art because I must.

It is a necessary extension of my life.

It identifies and substantiates my existence.

It is my profile and my legacy.

I want to intrigue and entertain.

I want to initiate wonder and questions.

I want to communicate my thoughts, dreams and desires.

Most of all, I want to be!"

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

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

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

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

the language of life.

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

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

Jenik

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

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

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

Peter Frank Los Angeles January 2010

“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.

In 1997 I began the body of work called “Visual Coding of the Archetypes on the Basis of the Bible and the Biblical Mythology”.

I use symbolic primitivism to present biblical images in a unique and unprecedented manner, similar to the ancient Chinese tradition of telling stories in the form of pictures rather than words.

My exposure to Carl Jung's theory of archetypes, brought forth a series of drawings that reconsidered the raw imagery of icon painting in the context of unconscious reflexive narrative, the kind Jung proposed, that lies at the very back of our brains and motivates us invisibly. I am drawn to cultural archetypes, symbols and motifs that recur in all forms of mythic and fabulistic discourse and in some way bind all of the arts - literature, theater, fine art, dance and music. I have sought to make overt the presence of these archetypes in my own art, not propagandizing for or illustrating Jung’s theories but simply manifesting them in the process of telling tales and setting scenes.

Eugene Vishnevsky (GenVish) was born in 1960 in the city of Kiev, Ukraine. In 1990 he immigrated to Israel, and then to Canada. Eugene has lived in Los Angeles, California since 1993. According to the artist, his style, black and white symbolic primitivism, appeared in 1985. While growing as an artist, GenVish was greatly impressed and influenced by art of Heieronymous Bosch, Pavel Phylonov, Marc Chagall.

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

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

2019 Vertical Wine Bistro, Pasadena, CA

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

2018 Bunker Open Doors" LarkGalleryOnLine,West Hollywwod,CA

2018 “Fahrenheit 2018 Biennial” AMOCA, Pomona, CA

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2010 “Phantom Galleries, Long Beach, CA

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2009 Phantom Galleries, Pasadena, CA

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

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

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

2008 “Bunny Gunner’s 1st

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

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

2007 Los Angeles County Fair, Pomona, CA

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

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

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

2007 Pyoung Taek International Art Festival, Korea

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

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

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

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

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

2003-2004 California Fine Art Market, Pasadena, CA

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

2003 The DA Center for the Arts, Pomona CA

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

Birthday”, Bunny Gunner Gallery, Pomona, CA

Pasadena, CA

2002 Bedlam Gallery, Los Feliz, CA

2000 Prufrock Gallery, Pasadena, CA

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1995 Silent Auction, Space Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1994 “DADA Downtown Lives”, Los Angeles, CA

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

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

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

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

1992 The Cultural Factory, Pasadena, CA

1992 Space Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

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

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

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

1991 Nemiroff-Deutsch Fine Arts, Santa Monica, CA

1991 Space Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1991 “Scripps 47th

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

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

1989 Vorpal Gallery, San Francisco, CA

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

Rancho Cucamonga, CA

Ceramic Annual”, Scripps College, Claremont, CA

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Three years at USC Shool of Architecture and Fine Arts.

Graduated Magna cum Laude from UCLA in Philosophy.

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

Open minded free spirited potter at heart.

Ceramic artist living w/handicap, has adapted and really wish to share with the world my gratitude.

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.

I want to participate in your competition,besauce its very interesting for me.And im interesting to know what you thing about my pictures.

born in Yerevan.1983-1986TerlemezyanArt College.1987-1991 Yerevan State fine Arts institute. 2012 personal exhib.Beirut.2012Epicenterspecial eventby Moko and Hayk melikyan Modern Art muzeum.2012 group exib.Kuwat.2011 Gulbekyan ,hall NY 2011. Optimizm-Armenian New art.2010 Armenian abstrakcionists Modern Art museum Yerevan.2009 Personal exib.Gallery 1 Yerevan. 2008 Personal exib.in commenmoration of Rudolf Khachatryan- Gevorgyan gallery.2004 A Way t0 Neo-abstractionism exib.- Moscow.1996 Quite a New Grup Central House of Moskow 1996 Tretyakovka Hosting Tretyakovka Nina Gallery.1995Masquerade- Latin American Embassise,Nina Gallery.1994 Moskow artists -Old Library.Emmanuel gallery.1993 personal exib.Eastern gallery Moskow.1983 Third floor exib.Les Ceent.Paris France.

The Inspiration -

In 1998, while pursuing a doctorate in (which I received in 1999), I created a completely original CD-ROM entitled From Stoneage to Rock. It became my all-consuming passion for the summer. After a performing and recording career as a classical concert pianist for twenty-five years, I was excited to discover I could express complicated and interdisciplinary ideas on a multitude of levels simultaneously. The computer became my keyboard, camera, and paintbrush. Most significantly, I experienced a profound joy in creating “something from nothing” while combining my instincts as a musical and visual artist with the sophistication of “cutting edge” technology.

Since then I have become intensely interested in discovering the point at which an idea becomes an inspiration, an “entity unto itself.”

As a pianist, I worked with someone else’s creation. I viewed the printed page as the composer’s shorthand to his or her thoughts and feelings, comparable to a “figured bass” in Baroque music, which provides numerals below a bass line to indicate the harmonies and melodic movement above. The composer’s intentions (and feelings) can never completely be notated musically. There does not exist a symbology comprehensive enough to do so, nor a page large enough (without being impractical or absurd) to accommodate all the additional markings required to express every nuance of his or her concept and emotion. As a visual artist, I therefore look upon my work as a “re-composition” or a sophisticated and complex improvisation of the nature’s “figured bass.”

One of my favorite composers is Johann Sebastian Bach. He worked with traditional Baroque forms such as the fugue and variation, synthesizing these compositional styles already in use, rather than developing new ones. His genius not only perfected these forms but also transcended them, making each work an innovation of both form and style. The key to his creations was in the simultaneous overlapping of musical ideas, often disparate in rhythm and melody, creating exciting cohesive and beautiful musical gems.

Three modern-ear artists have influenced me and demonstrate an artist expression similar to Bach’s. Each of the artists, Escher, Durer and Van Gogh, worked within the conventions of art – respectively using pen and ink, watercolors and oils – yet each transcend the implied boundaries of their media by creating innovative forms and styles. Escher used perspective to explore and “prove” how two-dimensional relationships can appear as three. Durer, the Renaissance painter and engraver, also had the ability to draw the viewer into the picture and believe in its reality, sensitively using the techniques of perspective, detail, color, and texture to create an overall sense of photographic realism. Van Gogh used color and gesture to enunciate his experiments with spatial relationships and rendered them on a two-dimensional plane.

BM - University of Cincinnati;

MM - Yale University;

DMA - University of Southern CA

After returning to college later in life, Jo Ann earned a

BA degree in art from California State College,Northride. She almost completed a master's degree in art therapy but decided to train as a commercial artist.

Jo Ann worked as an artist at Disney Studios in the

inking department.

Jo Ann has exhibited at the Folk Tree Gallery, the Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles Bridge Gallery, the Atlanta Airport, VIVA Gallery and Terrill Moore Gallery. She has been represented by the Arts for Earth Gallery. More information available upon request.

jo Ann has written and illustrated four children's books that have been e-published and appeared on several websites. She has exhibited her children's illustrations at the Modest Fly Gallery. She is a member of Society of Children\'s Book Writers and

Illustrators, Women Painters West, Collage Artists of America and the Photographic Society of America.

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.

I am interested in the accumulation, repetition and presentation of humble materials to question perception and the nature of reality. I am after a kind of precarious monumentality, built from repetitious labor and craft. I want to point to transcendence in my work and remind the viewer of her or his physicality. I feel sculpture and installation work engages in this kind of sensory experience in a unique way.

2006, M.A. in Theology,

Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, CA

2002, B.A. in Studio Art & B.A. in Art History,

University of California, Riverside, CA

2000-01, U.C. Education Abroad Programme in Art History,

University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom.

Select Exhibitions:

2012 , Array II, Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA.

2012, For the Land, Feature Installation, Palm Springs Fine Art Fair, Palm Springs, CA.

2012, Escape from the Landfill, Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, CA.

2012, 20th Annual Juried Exhibition, Korean Cultural Center of Los Angeles, CA Jurors: Douglas Fogle, Chief Curator & Deputy Director of Exhibitions & Public Programs, Hammer Museum; Alma Ruiz, Senior Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art; Max Presneill, Curator, Torrance Art Museum.

2012, Momentum, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA.

Juror: Rita Gonzalez, Associate Curator, Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

2011, Burst, Public Installation, Playhouse District Association, Pasadena, CA.

2011, LA Art Association Open Show 2011, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA Juror: Charlie Manzo, Gagosian Gallery, New York.

2011, South Bay Focus 2011, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA Juror: Carl Berg.

2011, CIVA 2011 National Juried Exhibition, Biola University Art Gallery, La Mirada, CA Juror: Patty Wickman.

2011, Reflections on the Harbor: The Land, Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA.

2011, Liturgy+Lab: Compline, CB1 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.

Color, line and imagery are hallmarks of my work. Painting is an internal dialogue.Everything I wish to paint is already inside me as I begin to paint. Art moves me into a space where I can concentrate on one fragment at a time without external distraction. I then combine these fragments into varying designs and compositions. My work is completely intuitive. In my quest for self expression I have found mixed media to be the most personal means of communication.

I am a Canadian artist born in Montreal, Quebec on October 1, 1945. I have been an artist all my life and come from a family of great talent in music, dance and fine art. Art has always been an outlet for my emotions. It has acted as therapy as well as a catalyst for personal growth. Some of my most productive periods have been when I was in touch with primitive life. I spent 2 years in rural Jamaica as a peace corps volunteer and was greatly influenced by the island\\\\'s natural fauna and flora. That experience was both formative and sensitizing and served as a nucleus for my involvement in art. I can say that my art has included many phases of the art spectrum ranging from oriental to abstract art forms. The oriental influence can be seen in any of my paintings as mystic symbols. It seems that my art evolves as an integral part of my unconscious being. I use mixed media as a natural expression of my interest in various art forms. I earned a Masters degree in California and have taught for over 20 years.

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

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

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

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

-Michael Ned Holte

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

- William Sheehy, Latin American Masters

Bergamot Station

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

Much of my work manifests as content based sculptural installations. These installations incorporate theatrical suggestions of props and sets to create an atmosphere that examines the edge of memory and history. The medium matches the message. The objects I make are meant to be intrinsically recognizable, but there is always a twist with a conceptual underpinning.

My sculptural series called Bernini–Bernana looks at the history of Power and Piety from the female perspective in direct response to the 2008 exhibition “Bernini and the Birth of Baroque Portrait Sculpture” (of popes and cardinals) at the Getty Center. The title of my series relates to (a) Bernini, with sculptural busts on pedestals but flipping the gender to female and (b) Bernana, incorporating the word Nana (women who sacrifice for and/or serve others). This selection of historical/mythical women examines the origins of our present beliefs (historical and spiritual) and attitudes regarding Power and Piety.

Laura Larson graduated from Carthage College in Kenosha, Wisconsin with a dual major Bachelor of Arts degree in Fine Art and in Speech Communications/Theatre Arts.

During the last 30 some years in Los Angeles, Laura Larson been in numerous exhibitions and awarded 7 public art commissions in Los Angeles and Pasadena, California. In 2007 she completed a public art piece (through the L.A. Department of Cultural Affairs) for Fire Station #65 in Watts, CA, which commemorates the Watts Prophets. In 2011 she created "House Trees" for TarFest.

In the recent past Larson has created four sculptural installations. The most recent creation was a site specific installation for the Brand Library Art Gallery (dealing with nature and science) exhibited in 2011. The Clearing, (musing on burnt forests and transcendence) was exhibited at Main Street Gallery in Pomona in 2009. EPIDERMIS EMPORIUM (a tongue-in-cheek look at the skin we live in) premiered at the Kristie Engle Gallery in downtown Los Angeles. The Looking Glass Lounge (which explores the issue of self-esteem with the use of mirrors and the voice of female authors) exhibited at HAUS in Pasadena, Los Angeles Art Association/Gallery 825, The Phantom Gallery, and the Riverside Art Museum. Larson received a Durfee Foundation ARC grant to enhance this exhibition.

Swanica finds a connection with Mother Nature and meaning of life through the creation of ceramic art. When she moved to Japan in 2006 she won awards in Mashiko and Mino for her raku horsehair technique work. With this technique one removes red hot pieces from the kiln and applies horsehair and other materials and fumes them. This results in exquisite earthenware colors and express the elegance and harmony of nature through her abstract designs, the interplay between line and form, and surface treatment.

Living in Kamakura, Japan, with its rich culture and history and its long heritage of wood carving allowed her to create a unique style. Her “Kamakura-Red Ware” is inspired by the texture and red pigmented color of the Kamakura Bori Wood Carving Art. Her multi-layered red glaze symbolizes love, passion and strength. My last work is inspired by the Flower of Life symbol. This symbol is known for its perfect form, proportion, and harmony and of sacred geometry, depicting the fundamental forms of space and time. It is the form beneath our being and point towards a divine order in our reality. It is a visual expression of the connections life weaves through all mankind.

JURIED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2003 Hakone Gardens, Saratoga, CA.

2004 The Artery in Davis, CA.

2004 Olive Hyde Gallery, Fremont, CA.

2008 California Clay 08 Exhibition from ACGA, Fresno, CA.

2009 San Diego Art Institute: 50th Internat. Juried Awards Exhibition.

2009 International Contemporary Teapot Exhibition, Scottsdale, Arizona.

2009 Koyasan Exhibition, Happymaker Group, Koyasan, Japan.

2009 The Kamakura-Red Peony Vase is accepted at the Jingdezhen International Ceramic Fair, Nov., China.

2010 Shanghai International Modern Teapot Biennale Exhibition.

2010 Exhibition with goldsmith family in Museum "Het Valkhof" in Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

1998 Gallery House, Feature Show: “Open Heart”, Palo Alto, CA.

1999 La Galerie Internationale, “Blue and White” exhibit, Palo Alto, CA.

2000 Gallery House, Feature Show: “Cosmic Space”, Palo Alto, CA.

2002 Gallery House, Feature Show: “As White as Snow”, Palo Alto, CA.

2004 Gallery House, Feature Show: “Build Connections”, Palo Alto, CA.

2007 Toko Gallery, “Horsehair” Show, Mashiko, Japan.

2009 Ginsuzu Gallery, “Horsehair + Kamakura Red”, Kamakura, Japan.

2010 Feature Exhibition: “Wings: Love is a bird, she needs to fly” Horsehair and Kamakura-Red Exhibition in Toko Gallery in Mashiko.

JURIED GALLERIES:

1997-1999 P.R.Coonley Art Store, Palo Alto, CA.

1997-2009 Gallery House Co-op, Palo Alto, CA.

1999-2001 Elemental Art Store, Los Gatos, CA.

2004-2006 SOBI Gallery, Burlingame, CA.

2006- Coupa Cosas Gallery, Palo Alto, CA.

2006- Pez Gordo Gallery, Los Cabos San Jose, Mexico.

2007- Toko Gallery, Mashiko, Japan.

2008- Yufuku Gallery, Tokyo, Japan.

2010- First Light Gallery, Tokyo, Japan.

JAPAN:

2006 Groups Show in Mitsukoshi Store in Tokyo.

2006 Ceramic Art Museum in Mashiko, Special-Judges Award.

2007 Groups Show in Mitsukoshi Store in Tokyo.

2007 Feature Exhibition: “Horsehair” Show in Toko Gallery in Mashiko.

2007 “Box” Show in Gallery In The Blue, Utsunomiya.

2008 Serving Ware+Food Exhibition, Yufuku Gallery, Tokyo.

2008 Museum of the Ceramics Park Mino, Tajimi City, Honorable Mention.

2008 Ceramic Art Museum in Mashiko, Judges’ Commendation Award.

2009 Koyasan Exhibition, Happymaker Group, Koyasan, Japan.

2009 Ginsuzu Gallery, “Horsehair + Kamakura Red”, Kamakura, Japan.

2010 Opening of “Swan Art Gallery” in Kamakura, Japan.

2010 Feature Exhibition: “Wings: Love is a bird, she needs to fly” Horsehair and Kamakura-Red Exhibition in Toko Gallery in Mashiko.

2010 Ginsuzu Gallery, “Kamakura-Red Sakura” Exhibition, Kamakura, Japan.

MUSEA:

2004 Los Gatos Art Museum, Los Gatos, CA.

2004+2005 Star artist in San Jose Art Museum.

2009 China Jingdezhen Ceramic Art Museum: Kamakura-Red “peony Vase”.

2010 China Shanghai Pot Museum: Kamakura-Red “Bamboo Teapot”.

2010 China Yixing Ceramic Art Museum: Kamakura-Red “Bamboo Teapot” in International Hall of teapots.

My current work frequently involves animals. Although I do love animals and would probably enjoy bashing about on the moors with them, my interest is driven more by the unique and often hilarious expression I find in these animals rather then the animal as subject.

I was born an artist in a family that appreciated art but appreciated being a lawyer or doctor more.

My first vivid art moment happened at catholic kindergarten where I was sent to get a “good education”. We had to complete a project, folding paper and cutting the corners to produce a cross, before we could leave for the day. By the end of class I was alone with a desk full of snowflakes and one very sweaty, very pissed off nun. Both of us had missed the others magic.

Several twists and turns later, I now understand that whether I make art or not, art is my inherent POV this life. But I love to make art so it looks like it’s all going to work out.

I took as many art and writing classes as I could in grade school and some amazing design classes in college. I also have a business degree, which has saved my life many times. I am a multi media artist. I use painting, writing, drawing, math, poetry, collage, and would like to add performance and video when I figure it out.

Today I am sending you some paintings. Thanks for looking and for asking, it’s been fun.

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.

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

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

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

Texture is reality's lens. I like to make the invisible visible because life -such as what is taken for granted, what surrounds us and creates the fabric of our existence- can feel very, very small. Life is an eternal combat between light and darkness. A corridor of peace and violence, movement and stillness , a quiet desperation that reaches into one's soul and grabs hold of our heart in one swift swoop. Look deep into the core of these images and find yourself in it. Find your own road and go beyond its frontiers...

Dr. Caroline Mercier has taught, designed and exhibited her work for more than 15 years. She spent 5 years in the British Isles, studying and creating new work. Her PhD Fine Arts, specialized in Creative Design is the first one of its kind in the Western World. She now divides her time between teaching full time, designing professionally as well as creating and exhibiting her fine art work.

As an educator, she was granted early tenure at CSU Stanislaus for her high commitment to students and the community. She is presently the Vice-Chair of Design and Technology for the KC ACTF, an organization sponsored by the Kennedy Center, and has been asked to sit on judging panels in Art institutions such as Delta College and Cal Arts. She has been invited as a guest artist in residence in Art Centers in England, Ireland, France and Thailand where she had a silk and painting exhibit in Bangkok. Last year, she was asked to publish work on her last solo textile exhibit in Paris at the Talmart Gallery. This year she studied masks, puppets and weaving in Bali with Alit Bagus, and she’s just back from a master class in Florence Italy, sketching and painting the Renaissance.

I started to paint 16 years old and I stoped it . Now I am paying from my 29 age , when I came homo from Spain. I am member of amateur artist in Kysuce. I had some pictures on the expocicion and I am doing plener. I visited the international one in Poland. I did the course of interies design. I like to work in this. I am in the proces of selecion in Andalucia to be the director of gallery and I have my blog in Elle. fr.

Basically seen it’s a most classical form of painting. And yet, with a whole new and indeed the real canvas for the future, a possibility of a deeper and much more profound i.e. multi dimensional approach than any possible oil outcome it can ever come to produce? Therefore, because of that, up till now it is still only available on DVD, signed and numbered, as well as maybe in the long run an Internet version to be seen and downloaded directly.

Painter, born in Denmark, living in the French Pyrenees but not too far from Barcelona – only working with computers and particularly specialized in (animated) computer graphics.

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!»

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

and out of my work.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Born, raised and educated in Germany

1955 Work in Switzerland

1958 Immigrating to Canada, Cassiar B.C.

1963 Move to Burnaby B.C.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I find my material everywhere, because, by working in this medium, I believe you learn to “see” the beauty of the discarded

and turn it into “art”.

I present my reality in two different manifestations. They are either internal, elusive, suggestive or external, dynamic and

engaging. They reflect my duality, which encompasses both.

“How I use the material at hand is often more important than the material itself”. – Kurt Schwitters

My artistic goal is to illuminate the feelings that can be evoked by the colors;

The main thing for me is the expression of fluid motion, reflection of the movement of internal energy.

Born in Argentina, he has resided in California for more than thirty years. He graduated from the Universidad del Aconcagua with a Psychology and Art degree applied to Advertising and Communication Media. He has been painting since a very early age but is in the last few years that he starting dedicating himself full time to paint.

Hugo’s paintings represent a unique fusion of powerful energy of expressionism, intense personal symbolism. Pictorial, fluid and emotional components are of equal significance in his works.

The main thing for him is the expression of fluid motion, reflection of the movement of internal energy. When asked to describe his work he replied, ''I paint my Insides my guts, my feelings''

Review by Paola Trevisan from Trevisan International Art Ferrara Italy:

Hugo’s vibrant, intense, powerful art research together with his creative imaginary; add personal and unique inputs to any art exhibition. His singular abstract language where the interaction of spaces, forms and colors connection, create such rich and emotional results able to go beyond the physical limits of the canvas.

The high level of his paintings are full of vitality and experimentation; multicolored yet harmonious patterns, freedom of thought, purity of expression and above all, free creative energy of art.

Currently showing at International Contemporary Masters

Future shows: Las Vegas - Southern Nevada Museum of Fine Arts - USA

International Exhibitions

2009 - International ArtExpo, China.

2008 - Castel Sant Angelo, Rome, Italy.

2007 - Exhibition Orangerie du jardin du Luxembourg, Paris.

2007 - Exhibition , France.

2007 - Exhibition Arteclasica, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

2007 - Exhibition International ArtExpo, New York.

2006 - Exhibition International ArtExpo, New York.

2005 - Galleria d\\\\\\\\\'Arte Rinascimento, Florence.

2004 - WCAF Show, Hilton Convention Center, Las Vegas.

2004 - A Gallery \\

Education:

1980-1986 Panos Terlemezian Fine Arts College in Yerevan, Armenia

1987 Fine Arts Institute, Yerevan, Armenia; joins Alternative Art Movement, the Third Floor

1988 Three months in Paris

1991 UK, France

International Exhibitions

2009 - International ArtExpo, China.

2008 - Castel Sant Angelo, Rome, Italy.

2007 - Exhibition Orangerie du jardin du Luxembourg, Paris.

2007 - Exhibition , France.

2007 - Exhibition Arteclasica, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

2007 - Exhibition International ArtExpo, New York.

2006 - Exhibition International ArtExpo, New York.

2005 - Galleria d\\\\\\\\\'Arte Rinascimento, Florence.

2004 - WCAF Show, Hilton Convention Center, Las Vegas.

2004 - A Gallery \\

Was born in 1964. Russia.

I draw color pencils.

Participant more than 40 exhibitions. 11 personal exhibitions.

International exhibitions:

The 4th International biennial of graphics in St. Petersburg «White Inter-nochi 2008».

Personal exhibition on the IV International a festival of graphic art (St. Petersburg, 2008).

Personal exhibition in Gallery Arte gallery (Sofia, Bulgaria, 2009),

VI Novosibirsk International biennial of modern graphics (2009).

The international competition of graphics within the 10th Russian week of arts (Moscow, November 2011, the 2nd place in the nomination "Graphic drawing").

International art exhibition "Person and city" (Irkutsk, December 2011).

I was born in Volgograd, 09.1986. I have got muzical high education in this city(I am a pianist). Now I am studing history of arts in St.Petersburg. Most of all,I am working in graphic manner. Many of my works are booking illustrations.

Student of the Bezalel Academy. Jerusalem.

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.

MISTERIOUSLY ADDICTIVE UNBELIVEABLY INEVITABLE TO QUITE AFTER STARTING.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

interested in social issues , images express emotion from knowing my subjects, spending time in their world and capturing the essence of their culture .