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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

Catfish Fry

Music: Composition, Instrumental, Other, Vocal

I am an Entertainer/Performance Artist focusing on Dance Music, Blues, and Early Rock n' Roll currently performing in many of the local venues in the Ventura/Oxnard area. I play guitar and sing, usually as a frontman with a band. I also do solo shows. Catfishfry Dance, Blues, Swing, Early Rock & Roll for your next big event, birthday parties, weddings, meetings, get togethers, whatever.... We bring it.

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.

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