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Christina Altfeld

Visual Arts: Photography, Printmaking, Sculpture

I have been a photographer for most of my life and was introduced to printmaking a few years ago. The polymer etchings seem to be a natural extension of my work. Printmaking gives me the opportunity to expand my initial impression of an image. Printmaking reminds me of my days printing in the darkroom. There is a similar feeling of anticipation and excitement when you pull out a photo that has completely developed in the tray to when you pull back the blankets and see your first print on the etching press. Member of Los Angeles Printmaker's Society Santa Barbara Printmakers Inkspots of Buenaventura Nature Printing Society

Asandra

Visual Arts: Painting, Printmaking

ASANDRA is a painter and printmaker. She studied at Parsons School of Design in NYC, and was an Art Director at Art & Auction Magazine, NYC, from 1980-85. She has exhibited in NYC, Washington, Florida, Colorado, North Carolina and California. Her work is in the collection of Marriott, and Renaissance Hotels, and The Omni Int’l Resort and Spa, Orlando, FL. Exhibitions include the Fort Lauderdale Art Museum, FL, Andrews Art Museum, NC, and The Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum in Santa Barbara, CA. Asandra is included in the groundbreaking book, Miami Contemporary Artists (Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 2011). She is a member of The Inkspots, a printmaker’s cooperative in Ventura, California, and Santa Barbara Printmakers, Santa Barbara, CA. Since relocating from the East Coast to California in 2011, she has exhibited in over 14 shows including a two-person exhibit at Gallery 525 in Ojai, CA, Coastal Collections, Santa Barbara, CA and Sylvia White Gallery, Ventura, CA.

Mark Azm

Media: Audio, Film, Other, Video; Visual-Sonic Bass Music Therapy

Known throughout Southern California for devotion to the fine broken beat bass music arts. Favorite styles are breaks, drum & bass, dubstep and jungle.

Dane Baylis

Literature: Poetry; Music: Instrumental, Vocal; Theatre: Acting, Technical; Visual Arts: Painting, Photography, Printmaking

DANE FRANCIS BAYLIS was born in South Boston, Massachusetts in 1952. He has traveled extensively through North and Central America, Europe, the Near and Far East while in and out of the military. His first published work appeared in the STONE SOUP ANTHOLOGY, published by Stone Soup Press, Boston, in 1975. He has since appeared in a number of anthologies and journals, most notably, TEN CALIFORNIA POETS, ARTLIFE, RIVERTALK, THE ARCADE POETRY PROJECT, PANGOLIN, VERVE, THE DANCE OF THE IGUANA, ASKEW POETRY JOURNAL, LUMMOX PRESS, THE MEN’S HEARTBREAK ANTHOLOGY, and POETRY IN MOTION PUBLICATIONS. He also served on the editorial committees of RIVERTALK and THE POULTER’S MEASURE. Dane is presently a member of the Ventura Artist’s Union and Editor-In-Chief of DANE BAYLIS PUBLICATIONS where he brings to bear a multi-faceted background in art, photography, music, and prose in the production of his distinctly urban style of poetry. His Irish heritage informs his love of the poetic form and his uncompromising belief that everything tells a story creates a unique voice full of wry compassion and unbending artistry.

Aliza Bejarano

Literature: Poetry; Visual Arts: Painting

My work is born from the idea that Adults are the children they came into the world as; now beings filled with insecurities and temperaments of their past. The Inner Child buried beneath a façade of what the adult believes to be socially acceptable. Like the fate of that child, I may influence the work that I create, but the result of my Mock Resin method is sometimes unpredictable and out of my hands. I build and improvise until the piece seems to make evident that there could be another world away from this one. One in which the Inner Child knows well but the Adult can only see.

David Benders

Crafts: Fiber Art; Media: Audio; Visual Arts: Painting

David Benders Visual Arts: Collage, Fabric, Hand-made books of vintage papers and ephemera. Media: Radio Broadcaster, Writer, Interviewer, Producer, Sound Curator. Ventura, CA. I have been a radio broadcaster for 42 years. I worked at the NPR station in Buffalo, NY, WBFO, as program director and assistant general manager. I enjoy listening, sound, recordings and program presentation. I arrived in Ventura in June, 2014. I am also an artist working in fabric, sewing, collage, vintage papers, ephemera, collectables and souvenirs. I have been a field producer/contributor for NPR (National Public Radio) with recorded live music performances, edited, produced, scripted and interviews for episodes of “Folk Festival, U.S.A.,” “Options,” and “All Things Considered.” • Author/editor: WBFO program highlights & local events list WBFO-L (1993-2003). Listserv online resource. • Author: “On Segues and Other Smooth Transitions” (2008), Buffalo Rising.com • Audio artist, "Artpark: 1974-84" (exhibit) University at Buffalo Art Gallery, “Hobbs and Alberty: Artpark Mobile Ranch.” (interview, recorded music),2010. • Artist, contributor (group exhibit), “LANGUAGE TO COVER A WALL: Visual Poetry Through Its Changing Media.” University at Buffalo (2011) • Author/Contributor/community stakeholder: Letters To The Superintendent, A Community Responds. (2012) Book by Dr. Peggy Brooks-Bertram. Communication makes the world go round. I am communication, facilitator. Connect, communicate, cooperate, collaborate, build community. My purpose, my passion, values -- people are good but we need to be able to navigate the info/idea stream, the info glut. Improve info services because the world is complex, in a fragmented media landscape with many different platforms. Literally we need a sort of literacy literacy. Build our sensitivity to the information ecology: text, sound, visual. These days we lack the cultural pedestal (foundation) on which to build consensus. I invite you to join me in this next adventure.

Megan Bisbee

Crafts: Jewelry; Visual Arts: Painting

I am a recent east coast transplant. I moved to California less than a year ago to attend Pacifica Graduate Institute, following my passion for exploring the psyche through art, movement, meditation, and psychotherapy. In my studio, I make colorful paintings and whimsical found-object sculptures. In each piece I create surreal vignettes by re-contextualizing recognizable imagery, and combining it with exuberant abstraction. I do not pre-plan my artwork. Instead my work guides me through an intuitive, nonlinear process of inspiration, awareness, and integration of newly conscious experience. My creative practices function for me like a psychotherapeutic relationship between therapist and client, or between healer and patient within and shamanic ritual. Psychologist Philip M. Bromberg calls the space where the unconscious and conscious meet the “interface of dissociation” in psychotherapy. Holding this safe space within my studio allows previously unknown parts of my psyche to show up as imagery and emotional experience. The integration of these experiences endows a sense of wholeness that Bromberg calls, “the primary source of healing and growth.” Aesthetically, My works speaks to Surrealist artists Max Ernst and Gorgio D’Cirico, Visionary artists Mati Klarwein and Pablo Amaringo, and contemporary artist Sarah Sze. The contemplative function of my artistic practice along with the visceral and emotional qualities of my imagery, speak most directly to the work of artist Frida Kahlo. The imagery in my work is not representation, rather a journey itself. Lately, I am especially inspired by the Katie Sanford and Carl Jung's use of painting in their individuation processes.

Jason Brock

Media: Audio, Video; Music: Composition, Instrumental, Vocal; Visual Arts: Illustration, Painting, Photography

Composting reality one chord change at a time.

Bonny Butler

Bonny Butler always loved creating art but raising a family had her go in a different direction. Family grown, she returned to art, her first love, first with watercolors and Chinese brush, then onto alcohol inks and encaustic wax. Most currently acrylics and oil pastels. She explores, creates, and relishes the ever-changing outcomes and spontaneity of her mediums. Her whimsical, loose-style paintings, now exhibited around the world, range from blooms and gardens, to expressive landscapes, to abstracts, the occasional portrait of people and pets and most recently her exploration into abstract art. Her art is a technique and process-oriented practice which focuses on colorful expressive imagery. Butler’s objective is to transfer to her audience the joy of creation through a constantly animated wealth of bold colors, shapes and form.

Elizabeth Butterfield

Crafts: Ceramics, Other; Music: Instrumental; Visual Arts: Painting, Sculpture

I have always been interested in some medium of art expression. My current venue includes torn paper art, clay sculpture and floral design. The last is my day employment the others are my night rendezvous. Most start without a pattern. The process is the most challenging but rewarding.

Mary Cacciapaglia

Media: Video; Visual Arts: Other, Painting, Photography, Sculpture; alcohol ink painting, pyrography

Mary Cacciapaglia is a representational and abstract painter, pyrographer, photographer, sculptor and videographer who strives to find and see what many may miss in everyday life and express what she finds in her art. Please visit SNG Studio Ventura, California. Gallery ∞ shows art of Mary Cacciapaglia, Steve Neill other local artists. All art here are for your viewing pleasure and available for purchase.

Joe Cardella

Literature: Poetry; Media: Other; Visual Arts: Illustration, Other, Photography, Printmaking, Sculpture

Founder, Publisher & Editor of ARTLIFE LIMITED EDITIONS, 1981-2006. Distributed 276 consecutive monthly editions of Original Artworks & Poetry throughout the U.S., Europe & Japan. Personally handled 2.5 MILLION pages throughout every step of this process including personal editions each month. "Monthly from 1981-2006, ARTLIFE is the Longest Continually Published Artists' Periodical of the Twentieth Century." www.art-life.com, ARTLIFE MUSEUM on FB, MrArtlife1 on UTube for many videos & interviews re History, Personal Collection, Archive, Studio Tour & Events. Degree in Design, Experimental Studios & Advertising from Syracuse University. Graduate of U.S. Naval Communications School, Great Lakes, Illinois. Global Communications Specialist 1967. Design, Graphics, Sculpture, Multi-Media, Research & Product Development, Performance & Conceptual Art. Extensive Museum Exhibition experience from coast to coast. Publisher Emeritus, ARTLIFE LIMITED EDITIONS

Julieanne Case

Literature: Non-Fiction; Visual Arts: Other, Painting, Photography

For many years, cooking and dancing were my means of creative expressions. At a very young age I would lose countless hours painting, using those paint by numbers kits most of the time and I loved it. Family circumstances changed and the painting stopped. I begged my mother to teach me how to cook at the ripe old age of 11. Luckily for many, including myself, she acquiesced and taught me the basics. Although a math major in college, I loved taking classes studying art in various cultures. Western Civilizations was my favorite class. After graduating college, I moved to California. Sometime in my mid 20s, I enrolled in a figure drawing class and found I was quite adept at capturing the essence of the person being drawn. Once again the art stopped. My knowledge of cooking grew and my natural talent for cooking was fed by experimentation and exploration. My dining room table was my palette for many years where I created a visual painting using the table setting and the food to nourish the person and their soul through sight, smells and tastes. I am also a life-long photographer. Things changed again and life brought me back to painting. I learned that I have a natural sense of color, I love mixing my own colors too. I paint in oils. I paint from photos I’ve taken and sometimes I free form, sometimes creating representational abstract. I love large big flowers and many say my paintings remind them of Georgia O’Keefe unplugged. I have studied with Marcia Cummings, a sculptor and painter, with Glen Orbik, a well-known American illustrator, at the California Art Institute, with Bob Moskowitz, Head of the Art Department at Ventura College and an accomplished artist and with Jill Sattler at Santa Barbara City College, a well known abstract painter. I have been commissioned to do oil paintings of dogs and an abstract. I also completed a triptych of digital flower paintings using healing frequencies while creating them. I am doing more abstracts now, studying with Jill Sattler, growing, learning and expanding. My painting is changing and growing. Studying abstracts has really opened me up more. Many of my paintings have an unplanned space theme. They are filled with feelings and are full of light, love and joy. Many are filled with healing frequencies as well. In the last few years, I’ve begun writing and have a blog. It has become another creative outlet for me as well. I would love to heal the world with my paintings and my photos. My dream is that this comes through in my work. Enjoy! Life is to be savored either through taste, feel, smell, dance,visual or sound! Take your pick. I love them all! How about you? Exhibits: Ventura Art Walk August 2003 Ventura Art Walk November 2003 Ventura Art Walk April 2004 Ventura Art Walk August 2004 Ventura Art Walk November 20042004 Ventura County Fair Ventura Art Walk April 2005 Ventura Art Walk August 2005 Ventura Art Walk November 2005 Ventura Art Walk April 2006 Ventura Art Walk August 2007 Ventura Art Walk Solo November 2007 Digital Diversity Show Juried Show October 2007 Buenaventura Art Gallery Juried Show November 2008 Ventura Art Walk April 2008 Buenaventura Art Gallery Juried Show April 2008 Harbor Village Gallery Juried Show January 2009 Artists Union Gallery Juried Show March 2009 CMH Exhibit March 2009 CMH Exhibit June 2009 CMH Exhibit September 2009 Harbor Village Gallery Juried Show July 2009 CMH Exhibit December 2009 Harbor Village Gallery Juried Show January 2010 Buenaventura Gallery Juried Show February 2010 CMH Exhibit March 2010 CMH Exhibit June 2010 Ventura Arts Council Juried Show May 2012 Ventura Comm. College Juried Annual Student Awards Show 2012 Award of Merit in Painting Ventura County Fair 2012 - Honorable Mention from the Fair Board Gallery 28 Exhibit December 2012 WAV Size Matters Show Feb 2013 Gallery 28 Collaboration Show Feb 2013 Gallery 28 Paintings of California Show Mar 2013 VCAC Juried Show March 2013 Gallery 28 Collaboration Show April 2013 VCAC Juried Show “Reflections” April 2013 Ventura Community College Juried Annual Student Awards Show 2013 Gallery 28 Collaboration Show June 2013 See|Exhibition Space , Long Island City, NY July-September Show 2013 VCAC Juried Show “Collaborations” August-October 2013, Honorable Mention Gallery 28 Final Show August-October 2013 VCAC Juried Shows: “Anything Goes” and “Digital Works” May 2014 VCAC Juried Show: “Patterns” July-August 2014, Honorable Mention See|Exhibition Space, New York Times Square, July 24, 2014 Casa Gallery Juried Show in Santa Barbara: “Time” August 2014 VCAC Juried Show: Bigger Is Better Sept 2014 Casa Gallery Juried Show in Santa Barbara: “Returns” September 2014 Casa Gallery Juried Show in Santa Barbara: “Vertical” November 2014

michele chapin

Visual Arts: Other, Sculpture

About the Artist: Michele Chapin has been a working California artist for the past 30 years, exhibiting and receiving countless awards for her sculptures and contributions to the community where she has lived. She attended the University of California in Santa Cruz studying drawing, printmaking, jewelry, sculpting in bronze, clay and metal, art history and psychology. As a founding member of the Santa Cruz Art Center, she had the opportunity to work with several professional artists working in a variety of mediums, and it was there, she carved her first stone. In 1987, Michele relocated to Ventura and with the purchase of a minimal amount of tools, began teaching herself to carve. Many of her sculptures are created from stones that she has quarried from local deserts in California, as well as purchased from other states and countries. Desert Flower, a sculpture created during this time, was one of the first pieces purchased for the Ventura Municipal Art Collection on permanent display at City Hall. Several of her first major projects, collaborating with Master Gardner Richard Sanders, were creating sculpture gardens for the Ventura County Symphony Design House. Her sculptures included stone benches, and fountains that incorporated carved hydroplaning marble spheres. From these projects she was commissioned to create and install a monumental granite sphere fountain by U.S. Sales Corporation in Moorpark, California. These fountains were the first of their kind to be created in the United States. In 2009, Mayor Christy Weir awarded her with the Mayor’s Arts award for her achievements and contributions. In 2011 she received an Art Star Award from the Ventura County Arts Council for her achievements as a sculptor, and outreach in the community. In July 2010 she was featured with a 3-month solo exhibition, at the grand reopening of the Ventura County Museum. The Museum showcased 14 of her stone sculptures, with major works on loan from several private collections. In 2011 her sculpture Divine Balance was purchased by the Ventura County Museum for their permanent collection. In 2013 Michele collaborated with artist Susan Petty producing a 3-month exhibit “Old Hands New Works” where she exhibited a time capsule of sculptures including her first carving to present day. In April 2014 Michele had a Solo Exhibition - “Chasing Beauty” at Minan Gallery in Los Angeles of new works. This year’s body of sculptures are created from the inspiration of images captured daily with an Iphone 5 camera. At present, Michele works as a community arts activist, teacher and stone sculptor creating public and private commissions. Her studio and gallery are open during First Fridays Ventura and Westside Ventura Artwalks when she and partner, Guy Wilson, host monthly free community exhibitions showcasing Michele’s sculptures and several artists and musicians of all ages. As a community arts activist, one of her goals is to bring art to the people and people to the art, by putting art back into the community through classes and exhibitions in her open air Stoneworks Studio, and garden.

Gabriel Chavez

Drawing/Colored Pencil

My name is Gabriel Chavez, and I currently reside in Ventura, California. My passion has always been in the arts, specifically in drawing and painting. I have originally developed my art through portraiture, and while in college, I utilized colored pencil to make portraits that were photo-based. I continued this and expanded into oil painting, driven by the techniques of the medium and its concepts. A more recent inspiration took place, in which I began to re-access art altogether. After spending a few years diving into metaphysics, I reinformed my paintings with inner vision. Now my primary subjects are abstract, and I focus on the representation of inner reality. I use the traditions of sacred geometry and biomorphic forms which relate to Nature and to the Cosmos at large. Chiaroscuro is also a dominating force in my paintings. Currently, I am working on a new series of abstract paintings that relate to the intimate processes of the Earth and of Life.

Susan Cook

Visual Arts: Painting

In 1998, long-time resident of the City of Ventura Susan Cook re-entered college. While attending Ventura College with hopes of becoming a landscape designer she found her true passion, painting. Under the tutelage of such remarkable faculty as Hiroko Yoshimoto, Carlisle Cooper and Robert Moskowitz, her formal art education began. She transferred to California State University, Channel Islands and earned her Bachelors Degree in Art, graduating Summa Cum Laude in their first class of 2003. Cook is the proud recipient of numerous awards for her paintings and service to the Ventura arts community that include: the 2011 Mayors Arts Award, Artist in the Community, 2014 1st Place Award Ventura County Arts Council, 1st Place Award 2012 Ventura County Fair, the Barney Dietz Purchase Award and Award of Excellence from the Ventura College Fine Art Department, the Presidential Award from Ventura College Foundation, and the Outstanding Student Award from Ventura College Friends of the Arts. Her work has been exhibited throughout Ventura County including solo exhibitions at Accolades, Fox Fine Jewelry, Jonathan’s at Peirano’s and the Buenaventura Art Gallery. She has participated in group exhibits at 643 Project Space, CSUCI, Affinity Bank, Carnegie Museum, Studio Channel Islands Art Center, Artists Union Gallery, Ventura County Arts Council, Ventura College Art Gallery and Ventura Music Festival. Cook currently serves on the Standards Committee for Studio Channel Islands Art Center. She served as a Ventura Public Art Commissioner, as well as board member for Bell Arts Factory, Buenaventura Art Association, and Ventura Music Festival. She is an active member of Focus on the Masters and Studio Channel Islands Art Center. Cook's paintings are inspired by a devotion to nature and evidence an interest in experimentation with the rhythm of figuration and color. She prefers to work from unostentatious imagery that conveys a sense of reality. Her subject matter is in part a reaction to the pressure exerted by an infringing media that we experience everyday, the frantic pace of modern life and also demonstrates a keen interest in the primacy of the painting process. Spontaneous combinations of color and shape reflect the importance that she places on both the structure of the composition and the sensual effect color has on the viewer. The progression of the paintings is a journey through a broad range of emotional, intellectual and technical territories as each evolves with color, losing the original tactile memory and growing in the spirit of the painting. The vibrant colors play interchangeably between background and foreground redefining the elements within the images, obscuring detail, in order to convey a feeling about the moment that will change for each onlooker as he or she brings their own perceptions to the work.

Steve Cook

Visual Arts: Painting

Steve Cook is a painter who specializes in painterly photo-realism. He paints both in the studio and plein-air. The subjects of his work range from land and seascapes, surfing culture, old buildings and cars, gardens and the people who live in all these arenas. He has studied with some of the best modern plein-air painters (Ken Auster, John Comer, George Strickland and Ovanes Berberian). The plein air experience has enhanced his comprehension of color and light. He also likes to paint big paintings and often does oil paintings using old surfboards as a canvas. His work has been on display at galleries in Ventura, Santa Barbara and Carpinteria, several local restaurants and surf shops. He also has pieces in many private collections in around the world. His paintings have been featured on wine labels for Discoveries Vineyard and Firestone Vineyard for Foley Family Wines. He has worked extensively with the Ventura Visitors and Convention Bureau, with his paintings featured on many of their promotional materials and national advertisements. He was in Skywest Magazine as their featured cover artist. Also he was a featured artist in Coastal Living Magazine and was featured in Sunset Magazine in September of 2012. Steve's studio is in Pierpont Beach, Ventura and is always open to visitors (call ahead). He is a life-long surfer, a former Peace Corps Volunteer and a graduate of San Diego State University. He and his wife, Carol, have lived in Ventura for almost four decades and truly enjoy being part of the burgeoning art scene in their hometown.

BiJian Fan

Visual Arts: Sculpture

BiJian Fan was born in Beijing, China, where he learned paper art from his grandmother. Today, BiJian resides in Camarillo, California, still creates cutting-edge paper sculpture to carry on the tradition, but his media have expanded to metal, polymer, and other materials. BiJian is a multi-cultural and inter-disciplinary breed. He studied in China, Japan, and the USA, earned his BS and MS in Mathematics, and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering. Upon accomplishing a scientific career, BiJian moved on to visual art. He combines science and art, explores aesthetic and physical properties of various materials, integrates his spatial and temporal sense in sculpting, transforms 2D static material into 3D kinetic sculptures. His transformation represents an evolution in space and time. Through visual art, BiJian found his voice. BiJian has exhibited internationally and earned numerous recognitions. He exhibited in his home town for Beijing Olympics. His artwork is featured in McDonald's advertisement, Los Angeles Dodgers' event, Yahoo! Noticia, and other online media in more than 20 countries. BiJian's local recognition includes artist spotlight of Focus on the Masters, featured artist of 2009 Ventura Artwalk and 2012 Moorpark Arts Festival.

Sarah Flesher

Visual Arts: Painting, Printmaking, Sculpture; Papier Mache

Sarah is originally from West Los Angeles, settling in Ventura some 20 years ago. Sarah is an “Outsider” artist, heavily influenced by primitive Mexican folk art, color, and whimsy. She has won several awards from Ventura College, including the Bernard Dietz award of Excellence. She regularly shows at Stoneworks Studios, C & C Gallery, and her work has also been shown at Bell Arts Factory, Tool Room Galley, Vita Arts Center, The WAV, and Pride Ventura, as well as the Ojai Valley Arts Center and Gallery 525 in Ojai. Her work has also been shown at Tech Studios and Beyond Baroque Gallery in Venice, Ca. Some of her pieces are in the permanent collection of John and Sylvia White, Stoneworks Studios, and the Haberfelde Collection in Pasadena, Ca.

Yvette Franco

Visual Arts: Illustration, Painting, Sculpture

I am a mixed media artist from Ventura, California. After years of trying different mediums, I am the most creative using a variety of material in my process. I use acrylics, watercolors, papers, inks, charcoals, pastels, small hardware, wood, glass and pretty much anything else I find interesting! I typically do not create a piece of art about one specific subject. The materials in front of me often inspire my subject matter. Other times I am influenced by nature, animals, music, movies, people or just everyday life. Much of my work is abstract, colorful and tends to range from a simple watercolor to a more complex mixed media piece. My love of art started at a very young age. I can't remember a time that I wasn't doing something creative, but in a very private way. My art was something I shared with only a few family members and friends. In 2007, I first showed my work in public. That year I won the Ventura College Award of Excellence, first place, in the mixed media category. It was the first time that I showed in a juried exhibition! In 2011, I won first place in a show at the Atrium Gallery for a mixed media piece entitled “Bound by Fear.” In addition, I have shown my work at events in conjunction with the Museum of Ventura County, Red Brick Gallery, Stoneworks Gallery and Ventura Artists Union. I have participated in several street fairs like Art Walk and Paint Ventura. In January 2015, I started an art blog: ymf13.tumblr.com. I've challenged myself to create art every single day for a year: “365 Days Project.”

John Golson

Visual Arts: Photography

I went active as a visual artist in 2010. I have created photographs and digital pieces for Ventura Charter School, Ventura County Behavioral Health, Buenaventura Gardens and the Grant Park Conservancy. Also, there are pieces in the collections of and on display at Ventura Unified School District and Community Memorial Hospital. My work in photo documentary has appeared in VC Reporter and Ventura County Star. Beginning in late 2020 my focus has been on seascapes. Combining elements of impressionist abstraction with the immediacy of street photography. I enjoy the way light moves through the water. Primal origins of life on this planet. Waves are beautiful things. Luminous travellers.

Scott Gordon

Visual Arts: Painting

SCOTT GORDON 175 S. Ventura Avenue, #208 Ventura, CA 93001 (818) 442-7748 tagore31@yahoo.com EDUCATION 1993 M.A., California State University Northridge - Painting 1987 B.A., California State University Northridge - Art 2-D ONE/TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS 2015 human stain, VITA Art Center, Ventura, CA 2014 Yoella Razil & Scott Gordon: a Collaboration, LA Artcore Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2013 incidents and accidents, Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston, TX 2009 Scott Gordon: Five Years, Beeville Art Museum, Beeville, TX 2008 In the Shadow of Doubt, Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston, TX 2007 Gridsnap, Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston, TX 2004 Paperwork, Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston, TX 2003 Songs of a Stranger, Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston, TX 2001 Gathering Vapors, Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston, TX Scott Gordon: small wonders, Galveston Art Center, Galveston, TX 2000 New Work, Joan Grona Gallery, San Antonio, TX 1999 Scott Gordon, Joan Grona Gallery, San Antonio, TX Scott Gordon, Yukiko Lunday Gallery, Houston, TX 1998 Scott Gordon, Takara Gallery, Houston, TX 1994 Scott Gordon, Space, Los Angeles, CA SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS Epoch Internet, Costa Mesa, CA Law Offices of James Elisaer, Los Angeles, CA Commotion Films, Beverly Hills, CA New Age Electronics, Los Angeles, CA Zelle, Hoffman, Voelbel, Mason & Gette, Los Angeles, CA Levene, Neal & Bender, Los Angeles, CA Ark of Refuge Church, Los Angeles, CA European Investments Managements Services, Los Angeles, CA Motion Picture Corporation of America, Los Angeles, CA Pachulski, Stang, Ziehl & Young, Los Angeles, CA Rubin Postaer & Associates, Santa Monica, CA William Simon & Sons LLC, Los Angeles, CA Zelle & Larson LLP, Los Angeles, CA McNeese State University, Lake Charles, LA Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK Pacific Strategic Investors, Houston, TX International Museum of Collage, Assemblage and Construction, Fort Worth, TX Vinson & Elkins LLP, Houston, TX Texas State University, San Marcos, TX American General, Houston, TX The Jung Center of Houston, Houston, TX Beeville Art Museum, Beeville, TX

Donna Granata

Media: Audio, Film, Other, Video; Visual Arts: Photography

Donna Granata is the Founder and Executive Director of Focus on the Masters (FOTM), a highly respected non-profit educational program documenting contemporary artists. Founded in 1994, the goal of FOTM is to demonstrate the importance of the arts to society by bringing highly accomplished artists to the forefront of the community. The program presents its research to a broad public through photographic exhibitions, the Artist Spotlight Series, a video-taped interview series, Learning To See educational outreach to schools and youth centers. Focus on the Masters has been the recipient of numerous awards in recognition of its outstanding contributions to arts education including the 2005 inaugural Ventura Mayor’s Art Award – Arts Educator and the 2007 Ventura County Arts Council Art Star Award. Focus on the Masters is recognized as one of the leading arts organizations in the state of California. In addition to her ongoing lecture series for Focus on the Masters, Donna teaches classes for the Road Scholar Elderhostel International including an Introduction to the J. Paul Getty Museum and Getty Roman Villa. Special lectures trace the careers of photographer LIFE Horace Bristol and painter John Nava, creator of the tapestries commissioned for the Cathedral of our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles, CA. In addition, she has lectured for the journalism department at UCLA on the ethics of photography. She was named Teacher of the Year in 2005 by Elderhostel International. Among her most recent awards is the 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award in the Arts from the City of Ojai, CA. An accomplished artist in her own right, Donna Granata is an internationally published and award winning painter turned photographer. Her photographs have been displayed across the United States. Selected works from her FOTM portrait series are housed in the Smithsonian's Archive of American Artists; in the photographic Collection of the George Eastman House, Rochester, New York and other public institutions that house the personal archives of the artists documented. Donna received a Bachelor’s of Art Degree and Honorary Masters of Science Degree from the Brooks Institute of Photography where she was an adjunct professor in the Portrait Department. She is listed in Marquis Who’s Who of American Women.

Stephanie Grant

Visual Arts: Painting

I was born in Wales and now live in California having had the good fortune to visit most of Europe and some of America along the way. I find almost everything around me to be an inspiration. I work mostly in pencil and acrylics but I will experiment with any medium to achieve the effects I desire. I love to draw animals, from pets to wildlife. Some of my portraits are quite silly, intended to bring a smile, others have a more serious message. My "Barely There" collection of mixed media works represent a few of the fast disappearing exotic species. I often work with minimal color palette but if I'm in digital mode, anything goes, it all depends on my mood. I think my motto if I had one would be "You're never too old to learn." Some of my designs are now available on pillows, pots, purses and a few other things for the home. All works in this portfolio are owned and copyrighted by me. Any reproduction, modification, publication, transmission, transfer, or exploitation of any of the content, for personal or commercial use, whether in whole or in part, without written permission from myself is prohibited by law. All rights reserved.

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