22″ x 17″

ultrachrome digital print

From the Salt Flats of Bolivia to Grand Forks in the U.S., and Maasai Mara, Kenya to Pine Ridge, Oglala Sioux Tribe, our skies portray the connected parts of our place on this earth. 

Kim Abeles’ art crosses disciplines and media to explore biography, geography and environment. She has created projects with California Bureau of Automotive Repair, California Science Center, Department of Mental Health, and natural history museums in California, Colorado and Florida. She received her MFA in Studio Art from the University of California Irvine. Her work is in public collections including MOCA, LACMA, Berkeley Art Museum, and the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency. Abeles received the 2013 Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, and her documents are archived at the Center for Art + Environment, Nevada Museum of Art.

24″ x 18″

chroma depth 3D painting

I was born in the city of Rezayieh, former name for Urumieh, in Iran. This is the Turkish region of Iran that is a melting pot of many religious and cultural heritages. My family, being aware of the upcoming revolution, sent me to the USA to attend University.

I attained my Bachelors of Arts degree from Sacramento State University and began a process of soul searching that resulted in much traveling for many years. Having had a variety of experiences, living in many cultures, ignited my passion for the art making process.

I formally began painting 24 years ago and showing my work in various venues. I have been lucky enough to be living in Topanga California which has allowed me access into an already existing and ever growing artist community.

I am mostly interested in creating art that is Transformative and Transcendental in its theme and content. I define these types of art works as any performing or visual art that evokes a higher state of consciousness. It seems to me once one touch upon such a state, there arises a greater understanding of oneself, humanity, nature, the cosmos and their interdependence.

I have shown my work throughout Los Angeles including LACMA Wet paint project, Beverly Hills; Stephanie’s Gallery, La Canada; Merging One Gallery, Santa Monica; Phantom gallery, Los Angeles; Art Foe All People, Malibu; Arm Gallery, Glendale; Topanga Canyon Gallery Open Artists Studio since year 2005; Loyola Mary Mount University at the Immersive Education Conference; International Plein Air Art Residency, Oswiecim Poland, Honorary mention and a show at Ace Gallery, Hud gallery, Ventura Ca.

24″ x 53.75″

silkscreen on paper
Lita Albuquerque is an internationally renowned installation, environmental artist, painter and sculptor. She has developed a visual language that brings the realities of time and space to a human scale and is acclaimed for her ephemeral and permanent art works executed in the landscape and public sites.

Albuquerque’s work questions our place in the enormity of infinite space and eternal time. Lita Albuquerque has not flinched from the scale of such a challenge. She is one of the rare artists and humanists who are responsible for thoughtfully and imaginatively placing the elemental concepts for a living, functional cosmology for 21st century culture within public consciousness.

She was born in Santa Monica, California and raised in Tunisia, North Africa and Paris, France.

36″ x 36″

acrylic, aerosol, and resin on wood panel

Angry Elephant pieces by AngelOnce, the “real pink elephant kat,“ started showing up on walls, signs, canvas and toys in 2011.

The Producer BDB (born Bryan Avila in Riverside, CA), is a contemporary artist, primarily recognized for his street art. He creates images that blend pop icons with current fashion trends. His distinct style merges elements of street, pop, fashion and fine art. His street art has been showcased across the world in the streets of Rio De Janerio, Madrid, Paris, Miami, Berlin, and Los Angeles, where he currently resides.

mixed media

Where do your memories live?

Emily Anne graduated from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago with a BFA in Photography and Visual Communications and has exhibited at multiple venues throughout Chicago. Commercially she has extensive experience in marketing and publishing, working primarily with creatively based organizations and businesses, artists and writers. When she has time, Emily experiments with a variety of media to address the truth of paradoxes.

30″ x 30″

The Art of Chase is known for his quirky and humorous paintings that create disruption in our day to day lives. After moving to Los Angeles from Belgium in the 1990s he began his foray into the street art world on a large scale, seeing a raw city open to creation, offering a new mode of communication through imagery and quirky text. His determination, fueled by his mantra “where there’s a wall, there’s a way,” has given rise to international opportunities and over 300 murals worldwide. The psychedelic, graphic, and positive aesthetic of his work add to the urban landscape, but also seek to create a dialogue between city inhabitants and within ourselves.

Chase has worked with CBS, UBER, Pepsi, Vans, Google, Ray-Ban, KIK, TOMS Shoes, Flip Skateboards, Altamont, Corona, Vitamin Water, Western Union, Rolling Rock, Aquafina, KIK, Budweiser, Puma, Levi’s, Scion, Acura, Andaz Hotels, Bloomingdale’s, and more.

24″ x 44″

archival print on cotton rag paper

From Auerbach’s ICONS series, Audrey Hepburn sits atop a collage of fashion magazine covers from the 1950s – 1970s, depicting fashionable and independent women over time.

24″ x 24″

Archival print

Krista Augius is a multimedia artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, CA and has an art studio at the Santa Monica Art Studios in Santa Monica, CA. Krista Augius studied Biology and has been mainly a self taught artists from childhood. Her influences in art stem from multiple familial generations. She incorporates the Mische technique to her paintings that she learned in a visionary art course in the hometown of El Salvador Dali in Cadaques, Spain. Her artwork includes working with oil painting, sculpture, installation, photography and short film.

Krista takes pride in being from a family of artists such as her grandfather, Paulius Augius, a lithographer and her great uncle Maironis, a recognized Lithuanian poet and spiritualist. Her most recent body of work, Mythical Codes, explores relationships between contemporary optical illusions and their effects on the brain while using folkloric Lithuanian symbology that have historical roots in Indian Vedic mythology as well as historical transcontinental influence in South America during pre-Columbian times.

Krista has dedicated her time to painting for wildlife causes to support endangered elephants, bees and cats and has supported various wildlife organizations.

5″ x 7.5″

photograph

Sunny Bak is an American photographer. She shot the gatefold image of the Beastie Boys on the Licensed to Ill album, and the infamous Lesbian cover for Newsweek in June 1993, which still ranks among their top ten selling issues.

Bak began shooting pictures in 1972 in Queens, New York for her school paper at the age of twelve. Her first subjects for the paper included The Supremes and the Broadway show casts of 1776 and Two Gentlemen of Verona. The school paper rejected her interview with Carly Simon on the grounds that Simon was an unknown at the time. Bak sold the interview to Aktuil, an Indonesian rock magazine, for $100—her first sale.

Bak opened her first studio in 1976 on in Manhattan while attending City-As-School. At the same time, Bak was studying photography under Philippe Halsman at The New School for Social Research in Manhattan.

30″ x 26″

oil on canvas

My work exposes the post-colonial paradigm of suffering and resilience, through a collision of cruelty against compassion.

Lili Bernard is a Cuban-born, Los Angeles-based visual artist and actor. Her work examines issues of trauma born of sexism and racism, past and present. She has exhibited her work in a multitude of galleries and institutions, including Coagula Curatorial, Walter Maciel Gallery, Charlie James Gallery, Forest Lawn Museum, Torrance Art Museum, LA ArtCore, Barnesdall, ArtShare LA, Watts Towers Arts Center, Angels Gate Cultural Center, William Grant Still Arts Center, Avenue 50 Studio, For Your Art and Bolsky Gallery, among others. In Spring 2017, Museum of the African Diaspora will display Lili’s first solo museum show.

A mother of six children, to whom she gave birth in a ten year span, Lili is also a published writer and longtime arts activist/community organizer. She first created and ran HABLA (Harvesting Asian, Black, Latino Artists) in order to provide platforms for underrepresented artists in LA. Realizing that Black artists were the most marginalized of the group, Lili then founded and organized BAILA (Black Artists in Los Angeles), a movement aimed at building bridges of access for Black artists into the mainstream art world. A public figure anti-rape activist, Lili is a spokesperson for EndRapeSOL, a grassroots campaign to end the statute of limitations on rape and sexual assault prosecution in California.
Lili received her MFA from Otis College of Art and Design in 2014, under the tutelage of professors Suzanne Lacy, Charles Gaines, Ulysses Jenkins and Andrea Bowers.  She did her undergraduate studies at Cornell University and City University of New York, earning a B.A. in German.

30″ x 40″

mixed media on canvas

From the beginning my life has taken some very unexpected turns. I grew up in a culturally rich Hungarian enclave in Romania until my family and I moved to the US when I was eleven years old. I was married and divorced by the time I was 24 and then I ventured out to California to start a new life. Eventually, I remarried, but lost my husband. However, no matter which way life took me, I always kept coming back to art. Art saved me. I now live and work in Downtown Los Angeles where the energy, light, colors and people of the city inspire me every day.

I love layering so I start with my favorite texture and then add and remove paint until the essence of the painting is revealed. Some days I use minimal colors and sometimes there is an explosion of reds, blues, and yellows. This process of layering, building, and then learning to let go, trust, and allow the magic to happen is how I have learned to deal with life. I never know what the outcome will be until the process is complete. Whether it turns into a face, a mountain, a wave or something else, I truly enjoy discovering where the paint takes me and what people see in its flow.

18″ x 39″

constructed silkscreen

Every scrap of paper is precious and has an intrinsic beauty just as everything in nature is a miracle and has the potential for beauty and meaning. All that is needed to express this dormant potential is juxtaposition (of a paper to a context) or meaningful arrangement. In all my work, I have searched for the hidden qualities in paper, i.e., its essential nature and, when they are revealed to me, I apply them as metaphors for my world.

30″ x 30″

found and welded metal

Discarded and forgotten relics, such as whellbarrows, car doors, road signs, are the medium for David Buckingham’s work. After finding these objects, they’re muscled into works of art with a bewildering array of power tools and force of will. All colors are originals — David Buckingham is no painter.

12″ x 9″

mixed media

Hollie lives in Tennessee. She works mainly with paper, mixing vintage and found images with modern colors and compositions, to create work full of originality and narrative.

40″ x 49″

watercolor, ink, gouache

Car engine is like its heart.

Exploring identities and cultures in scientific, psychological conditions are my main practice with various approaches using mixed mediums and found objects through drawings, paintings, sculptures and installation. Different places have different cultures, and human beings will naturally change and adapt to different environments. When people travel, they bring their culture and identity with them. Sometimes the culture and identity that they bring with them changes and adapts to that new environment. In the end, it changes to a modified new culture or a different identity. I always put myself in the situation to make the subject matter more personal to me, so my work gives an intimate and personal account of my own exper­iences while simultaneously encouraging the viewer to recall their own.

20″ x 16″

spray paint on canvas

LOVE.

Chor Boogie, a.k.a. Joaquin Lamar Hailey, is a critically acclaimed spray paint artist based in San Francisco, California. He was recently honored by Société Perrier as being number three among the Top Ten U.S. Street Artists. His visionary murals and art exhibitions have appeared all over the globe including venues such as the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, the Smithsonian, Museum of Public Arts in Baton Rouge, Museum of Art Puerto Rico, LA Art Fair, Scope Art Fair Miami Beach, Torrance Art Museum in Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego, Museum of Man in San Diego, San Diego Museum of Art, Children’s Museum in San Diego, Syracuse University Museum, and the Vision Arts Festival in Crans-Montana, Switzerland.

In October, 2010 Chor Boogie’s “The Eyes of the Berlin Wall”, sold for 500,000 euro making history for the street art genre. Clients include Google, Ritz Carlton, MTV Arabia, Anthony Robbins, Heineken, the Blackstone Group, Zazzle.com, Playboy, Rock the Bells, and the TJ Martell Foundation.

Chor Boogie is recognized for having achieved a groundbreaking level of technical and emotional virtuosity in the medium of spray paint. He is primarily a self taught artist, though he was first nurtured by the world of street art.

Through his dynamic range of artistic styles, Chor addresses issues of environmental preservation, social justice, and indigenous peoples rights.

40″ x 40″

mixed media on panel

Life is an abstract painting – a discovery – an unearthing of words yet to be known.

James Randall Chumbley’s art encompasses contemporary landscapes, abstracts and nudes using oil, wax, varnish and photography. His work has been in several galleries and is in many impressive private and corporate collections across the country. As well, he is passionate about donating his work to many organizations to raise funds for AIDS, Youth, Homeless, Equal Rights and Mental Health. He is also a writer with three published books and is working on his fourth book project. You can view his art at: jrchumbleyart.com.

50″ x 30″ x 2″

chromogenic print on aluminum

“Sarah Danays effects such radical juxtaposition with such remarkable craft” – Peter Frank.

24″ x 20″

acrylic on canvas

Born in El Paso, Tx. and raised in Boyle Heights, Ca., Fabian Debora has been creating art since his childhood.  Beginning his art career in 1995 as a member of the East Los Angeles Streetscapers, Fabian was mentored by many Chicano artists and muralists and was introduced a creative expression in all forms, from graffiti to murals to sketching and fine art painting. Over the years Fabian has created murals throughout East Los Angeles and continued to develop his style through work on canvass.  He has been showcased in solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States, including Santa Barbara, Ca., Los Angeles, Ca., and Kansas City, Mo.

Fabian is currently a counselor and mentor at Homeboy Industries in Los Angeles and works in collaboration with OTIS College of Design as a liaison between community artists in Boyle Heights and students in the classroom.

Fabian continues to use art as a vehicle to communicate and educate and touch people throughout his journey.  By conceptualizing and interpreting his personal experiences as well as the experiences of his community, Fabian believes that he too can effect change.  He is determined to continue to expand his horizons and to fully and honestly express himself through his art.

12″ x 24″ x 2″

carved cement, tempered glass

Laddie John Dill, a Los Angeles artist, had his first solo exhibition in New York City with Illeanna Sonnabend Gallery in 1971. He was one of the first Los Angeles artists to exhibit “light and space” work in New York. He exhibited the “Light Sentences” and “Light Plains” in institutions across the United States and globally, and has enjoyed a resurgence of interest in these pieces in the last decade as well, including a recent acquisition of a “Light Plains” sculpture by the Museum of Modern Art in New York. It it currently on view in Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan. Dill has been crafting light and earthly materials like concrete, glass, sand, and metal into luminous sculptures, wall –pieces, and installations since the 1970s. Referring to his choice of materials, Dill explains: “I was influenced by [Robert] Rauschenberg, Keith Sonnier, Robert Smithson, Dennis Oppenheim, and Robert Irwin, who were working with earth materials, light, and space as an alternative to easel painting.” When Dill does use canvas, he paints with pigments derived from cement and natural oxides.

5.5″ x 3″ d

acrylic on plexiglass

Art, the bridge between illusion and realism.

5.5″ x 3″ d

acrylic on plexiglass

Art, the bridge between illusion and realism.

13″ x 13″

computer resistors on paper

Mitra Fabian is a sculptor and installtion artist, working almost exclusively with manufactured materials – the leftovers, the by-products, the remnants of human industry.

24″ x 30″

oil painting

40 years in the San Gabriel Valley and surrounding areas inspire my work.

Born and raised in Pasadena, to Artist/illustrator Charles E. Schneeman, Lynne has been a working artist for over 40 years. Starting as a graphic artist and illustrator, she switched to painting outdoors when her friends and fellow artists encouraged her to break out of the studio for a more fulfilling experience. In 2015 Lynne Fearman was the Grand Prize winner of the Los Angeles Plein Air Festival. Winner of multiple awards over the years, her work has been juried into the Pasadena Museum of History, and the Riverside Museum of Art. She is an active member of California Art Club, California Plein Air Painters, American Impressionist Society, Oil Painters of America, and past President of Mid-Valley Arts League.

8″ x 8″ each

oil pastel on paper

My work flows out of my personal experience. I work in series so I can allow the details of an idea or experience to germinate and find total expression. Spontaneous response to color and line with a discipline to the basic form. My work deals with circles and cycles of time and life, day and year.

25″ x 12″

ceramic

Over the past few years, Danny First has been sculpting ceramic busts of fictional characters. These imaginary portraits consist of subtle variations on a pared down face: two holes for eyes, a nose, and a horizontal line for a mouth. By slightly altering the arrangement of these four elements, the subjects of his work each take on their own personality. Their blank gaze is haunting and uncanny.

Each of these characters is a little pathetic, which makes them all the more human. By working with such a strict visual language, First leaves room for the viewer to recognize their self in the sculptures. First is interested in playing with the divide between the formality of traditional sculpture and the empathy he has for his characters. He balances the material heaviness with humor, levity, and above all, pathos.

15″ x 12″

hand pressed staples on paper

Known predominantly for her work with staples and office labels, Alison Foshee creates dichotomies between man-made objects and natural forms to reveal the hidden metaphors in the functional origins of everyday materials.

34″ x 24″

etching

I think of my work as visual fables…where the “moral of the story” is left to the viewer.

Mitchell Friedman is a painter / printmaker who grew up in Chicago, Illinois, reading folklore and mythology, and roaming the friendly confines of the Art institute and Wrigley Field. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture as a recipient of the graphics scholarship award.

The artist became a master printer and the director of his own graphics workshop, first, in Vermont, and then in New York City, for twelve years. At that time he worked with a diverse group of artists, including Jim Dine, Wolf Kahn, and R.B. Kitaj.

He has taught and lectured on printmaking and drawing at Dartmouth, Harvard, Williams, the Toledo Museum, California State University and the Center for Contemporary Printmaking. His artwork has been exhibited in numerous exhibitions in Connecticut, New York and Los Angeles.

His work is represented in many collections including: The Toledo Museum of Art, The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, The Hood Museum, The New York Public Library Print Collection, The Oakland Museum, The Achenbach Foundation for the Graphic Arts, The San Diego Museum of Art, and The Library of Congress.

24″ x 24″

high gloss on aluminum

Lisa Golightly is an artist living in Portland, Oregon. With a BFA in art, her initial focus was photography, the influence of which can be seen in her paintings. Her work revolves around memory and how snapshots shape, influence, change and even create memory. She works with acrylic and house paint,using found photos to create work that is both anonymous in nature but also very personal.

17″ high

ceramic

Yossi Govrin has exhibited nationally and internationally, working in multiple media. In the “Night Watch” series the sculptures relate directly to “human conductivity” and are made from hemp and cement; emphasizing the transient nature of humans and their environment, and a single mold reflecting our common origin. The added elements such as chandeliers, stones, and rope reintroduce the sense of individuality and uniqueness and resonate across cultural and national boundaries. These themes are revisited in his other series of work, such as “Sky Dancers”, and “Random Flight”.

He has been awarded numerous commissions, among them a monument in honor of the late Prime Minister, Yitzhak Rabin (installed in Rabin Square, Tel Aviv City Hall, the site of the Prime Minster’s assassination) and the bust of General James H. Doolittle, placed at the Santa Monica Museum of Aviation.

17″ x 22″

photograph

“You don’t take a photograph, you make it.” – Ansel Adams

Erin Hall is a photographer currently living in Pennsylvania. She was born in 1988. Her B.F.A. in Visual Arts was received from The Pennsylvania State University. Subsequent to that she attended the San Francisco Art Institute where she received her M.F.A in Photography. Erin has traveled to over 20 countries photographing the landscape.

21″ x 18″

archival pigment print

My photographs are visual poems, small stories that evoke universal emotions.

My degrees are in printmaking, but I have slowly moved away from that process to collage and then photography.  I am interested in layering and constructing images, but also creating the layered image as I shoot.  I am a Los Angeles Artist who often manipulates images by sewing on them.

36″ x 26″

acrylic and epoxy resin on canvas

Language without words.

Kerry Krenzin is a self-taught so-cal native currently residing in Los Angeles.  Her pieces are in collections all over the world, including:  Paris, London, Beverly Hills, Australia, Canada, and all over the United States.

36″ x 29″

acrylic on canvas

This is one of my abstract nature paintings, part of a series in which I try to connect people back to nature that is around them even in the densest of cities.  They are inspired by the play of light and form in the urban environment, but by abstracting them, they become timeless and placeless.

Margaret Lazzari is an artist, writer and Professor of Painting/Drawing at the Roski School of Art and Design of the University of Southern California. Her current works are abstractions based on landscape-like spaces and biological imagery.  Her paintings have been exhibited in various museum and gallery settings.  She has public art commissions for L.A. Metro, the City of Pasadena, the City of Santa Monica, the City of Palmdate, and Tripointe Homes in Huntington Beach.  Lazzari is the co-author of Exploring Art: A Global, Thematic Approach, an award-winning art appreciation text.  She is one of three authors on Drawing: A Text and Sketchbook, published by Oxford University Press.  Her single author text is The Practical Handbook for the Emerging Artist.

6″ x 14″

ceramic

Galia Linn is a sculptor and site-specific installation artist living and working in Los Angeles. Linn constructs relationships between subject, object and their environments by creating elemental tensions; a delicate balance between the mediums’ limits and Linn’s exploration with life’s imperfections.  Influenced by an early childhood in Israel, a land full of ancient and contemporary relics of past and present civilizations, Linn’s work absorbs both her physical body through the manipulation of the material and the emotional and historical resonance of the artists’ life. What appears fragile, in the end is rock strong, the cracks become symbolic; a window into the internal makeup of the vessels, a metaphor for strength and beauty; a testament of surrender.

Galia Linn has shown extensively nationally and internationally, and is a part of numerous private collections. Recent exhibitions venues include ESMoA, Marine Projects, LA><Art, Emma Gray 5 Car Garage, 18th St Art Center, and Shulamit Nazarian Gallery in Venice, California. In September 2016 Athenaeum presented Linn’s first solo exhibition in La Jolla, California. Also in September of 2016  Linn was featured in a duo Exhibition at MaRS Gallery in Los Angeles, California.

22″ x 30″

giclee on paper

Devin Liston is a multi media artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Devin Liston’s career started in collective art teams including CYRCLE and DEVNGOSHA, and at the end of 2014 he began his solo career. The scope of his art ranges from large scale murals to oil paintings, drawings and design. He has worked and shown in Los Angeles, New York, London, Paris, Puerto Rico, Seattle, Iceland and Hong Kong.

27″ x 27″

oil, ink & acrylic on paper

37″ x 47″ x 1.5″

steel

My work reflects an intuitive commentary on orders and disorders in nature and the civilized world. It attempts to develop a narrative language that offers an alternative way of seeing what things are, were, or could be. These ideas are expressed through painting and sculpture with a dimensional interplay of layered materials. I work intuitively, changing, erasing and piecing  together images as they emerge through  ideas and materials.  An activity of making; changing physical properties within a creative context.

optical   –   compositional   –      representational

I  research and work from written and visual sources that I collect for specific pieces and  projects. I search for ways of integrating them  in a fresh and coherent statement. Everyday imagery has always been a significant part of my work. These familiar images are powerful symbols. Symbols can be transformed and reinvigorated when used in different contexts.  I remain open to new ways of making the art process a bridge between concept and finished product.

16″ x 20″

archival pigment print

Photographed in 1997, when David returned to England to paint the countryside of Yorkshire, his birthplace. This was the beginning of a massive series of landscapes.

Famous for his recent large format Polaroid prints of Los Angeles, Jim McHugh has been photographing common things in an uncommon manner for thirty years. McHugh attended the Masters Program the UCLA Film School. He has since been a contributing photographer to People Magazine, the official photographer for the Grammy Awards and is currently on the masthead of Architectural Digest.

Jim’s photography has garnered many awards and is included in prominent collections such as The Museum of Modern Art, The Walker Art Center and The Polaroid Collection. Jim has exhibited widely; nationally and internationally, with large solo exhibitions at the Santa Monica Museum of Art and the James Corcoran Gallery in Los Angeles. A selection of these pictures was shown at Art Miami 2009 presented by Timothy Yarger Fine Art. An exhibition of new work will be shown at Timothy Yarger Fine Art in Beverly Hills opening March 27th through May 1, 2010.

Known equally for his portraiture, McHugh has published several books of artists portraits including “The Art of Light and Space” by Abbeyville Press and “California Artists: New Work” by Chronicle Press. His portrait of David Hockney is the cover of Hockney’s book “That’s the Way I See It.” Jim Mchugh won the International Photography Awards’ First Prize for Fine Art Photography 2007 and The George Eastman House Best of Show for Architectural imagery of Los Angeles.

12″ x 9″

gouache on wood paper

Working in sculpture and drawing, I replicate and reinterpret everyday objects and materials in an attempt to inspire awareness through creating a renewed experience. I see objects as embodying meaning and see beauty in their banality, inclusivity in the language of the ordinary.

For more than twenty years, Maryrose Cobarrubias Mendoza has been making art in the form of objects, sculpture, drawings, and installation. Her work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions throughout Los Angeles, the United States, and Canada, including solo exhibitions at Commonwealth & Council (L.A.), Solway Jones Gallery (L.A.), YYZ Artists Outlet in Toronto, and in a forthcoming exhibition at Cincinnati’s HudsonJones Gallery in 2018.

Mendoza’s practice has been honored with some prestigious awards, including a 2012 COLA award, and a New York ‘Art Matters’ grant. In 2003, she was chosen for an artist residency at YADDO in Saratoga Springs, NY, and she was recently Artist-in-Residence at Joshua Tree Highland Artist Residency in January 2017.

Mendoza is a full-time Associate Professor at Pasadena City College. She completed a year of foundation studies at Otis/Parsons, received her B.A. in Studio Art from California State University, Los Angeles, and later, an M.F.A. in Painting from Claremont Graduate University.

14″ x 36″

photo transfer and watercolor

My work is interdisciplinary and investigates musical concepts and theories.

Nancy Mooslin is a Los Angeles based visual artist who did her undergraduate work in painting at UCLA, and received an MFA in painting from CSU Long Beach. In addition to her studio work, she has been active in the public art arena, completing projects for the cities of Reno, NV, and Whittier, Ventura, Anaheim, Escondido, Laguna beach, Sunnyvale, West Hollywood, Palm Desert, and Pasadena, CA.

All her studio work and most of her public work is a visualization of musical theories, harmonics, and compositions. She has collaborated often with composer and choreographers, and has taught at Chapman University and the Laguna Beach College of Art.

Mooslin has an extensive history of solo and group exhibitions, and is included in a long list of public and private collections. She was featured in a PBS SoCal broadcast about her work, and was awarded a 2015 residency at the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, and a 2016 residency at le Moulin a Nef, in Auvillar, France.

28″ x 39″

photograph

I love to create ethereal work that transports the viewer to a different world.

Mallory Morrison is a Los Angeles based conceptual underwater fine art photographer. She has been honing her skills in underwater photography for the past several years and utilizes the weightless environment to explore the possibilities of movement and composition. Originally a dance photographer, Mallory blends her photography skills with her twenty-five years of dance experience, bringing about a perfect marriage of her two passions.

9″ x 3″ x 2″

bronze, edition of 10

Art is Transformative.

An abstracted embodiment of our emotional and spiritual experiences, MaryLinda’s sculptural and installations have an ancient, earthy quality. They delve into the ephemeral, the transitional, the transformative in ourselves; the vulnerable point from which we come to a new awareness of self. The intricacy of detail and the sensuality of surface invites an intimate, fresh look at how we experience the body and ourselves. Depicting the body and its functions she suggests our spiritual and actual, physical connection to the earth in its most basic elements- continual, perpetual sloughing off and regeneration. Her use of organic matter in conjunction with other materials is aesthetically engaging, but also presents a concept essential to the work. With inspiration from the natural world, she uses a variety of materials and media including bronze, wax, stone, and natural fibers to create sculptures and installations that relate to the body and its processes. Her works tend to be a response to current situations, though resonate with intimate and personal experience, giving plenty of opportunity for exploration of the essence of who we are and how we relate to the world around us.

16″ x 20″

archival digital print

“Only Connect!”

Sandra Mueller is an interdisciplinary artist, curator and arts facilitator. She spent much of the 1990s working on the cutting edge of interactive media before returning to make her own visual art and launched the BeARTrageous Workshops for Women. Mueller serves on the national board of the Women’s Caucus of Art. Her colorful, abstract paintings and photographs have been shown throughout the US and Pacific Rim region.

acrylic

I have developed a drawing language based on the invisible connection between humans and machines.

Born in 1969, Nobel graduated from UCSC, lived in NYC at the Hotel Chelsea, and Rome, and now lives in Los Angeles. She shows with Jason Vass in Los Angeles.

5″ x 7″

vellum, monofilament, paper

Popular and recurring motifs for Artist Shannon Rankin include geometry, astronomy, anatomy, and nature. She works across disciplines in areas such as illustration, installation, and fine art collage.

47″ x 47″

oil on canvas

My Ricordi d’ Italia series continues my exploration of color, light, and surface. Paintings are Inspired by travels to Italy.

Anne Brawer Schwartz is a Los Angeles based Artist. Her paintings are in collections world wide. Anne frequently works with art consultants and interior designers on commissions and sales. Paintings have been placed in businesses, hotels, private homes and interior design firms. Her paintings have been featured on numerous TV shows and motion pictures. Anne earned her Bachelor of Science in Graphic Design from the University of Oregon, and she also attended the Gemological Institute of America. Anne’s twenty five year career as a successful jewelry designer informs her fine art painting.

24″ x 30″

engraved Lucite

My work is about the beauty and energy of the natural world.

Karen is a self taught artist working in the meduims of paper and Lucite. Her art is inspired by the beauty and energy of the natural world. She works with interior designers, art reps and private collectors.

36″ x 36″

Screenprint on Lenox Museum Board

Andy Warhol started working on the imagery of Marilyn Monroe after her tragic death in 1967.  He produced what would become one of the most iconic and memorable representations of the actress, and consequently one of the most sought after printed editions of his work.  Warhol created a series of 10 variations in what is now referred to as the Marilyn Series, each with virtually the same composition, but different color variations. There were only 250 portfolios made in total.

The original Marilyn screenprints were 36 inches square and were printed on museum board. Andy Warhol signed some of them, others he only initialed, some he dated and others he didn’t, which was his typical inconsistent style. There were also twenty-six sets of Artist Proofs, which Warhol signed and lettered on the back. These original prints were published by Factory Additions and are therefore referred to as the Factory Additions version of the Marilyn suite.  These are by far the most expensive Marilyn screenprints, which auction anywhere from $100,000 for a single print, to over $1.5 million for the suite. For collectors, the turquoise version of Marilyn is the most coveted.

In 1970, these original silkscreens were reproduced to create a new series of Marilyn screenprints in ten new color variations. These were named “Sunday B Morning” prints. These prints are recognized as authentic reproductions inAndy Warhol’s catalogue raisonne, with some of them being signed by Warhol himself using the phrase: “this is not me. Andy Warhol.” In 1985, a third series was produced with a stamped signature and these became known as theEuropean Artist’s Proof Editions. It is unknown how many of these were made.

The Sunday B. Morning screenprints that we have for sale on our gallery website comprise the fourth Marilyn series. These prints are made from reproductions of Warhol’s original silkscreens from 1967. They are stamped in blue ink on the back and are referred to as the Blue Ink series. Their dimensions are 36 inches square and are printed on museum board with high quality archival inks just like the originals. These Sunday B Morning prints are produced with the same quality and integrity as Warhol’s original Marilyn screenprints. The only significant difference is the cost, which means everyone can enjoy a Warhol without breaking the bank.

32″ x 24″

oil on canvas

The images I create are about life and the sheltering aspects of Nature.

Born and raised in Los Angeles, I studied at Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles, the Academy of Art/Lone Mountain College in San Francisco & Santa Monica School of Design, Art & Architecture. My paintings have been exhibited widely here in Los Angeles and across the country including the Museum of Art + History (MOAH) in Lancaster, USC Hillel Art Gallery and Tobey C. Moss Gallery. My work on “Sycamore House,” a project where I designed a “shadow” motif of sycamore trees that was sandblasted onto the entire outside of a new home in Pacific Palisades, was recently featured on HGTV’S “Extreme Homes.”

12″ x 10″

brushed black ink on rag board

The figure is my way of expressing an existential means of searching what bothers me and the need to know why we are here. Sometimes, I use symbols to express this need, such as eggs, and other still life imagery, trying to find order in colors and patterns. It is never tiresome.

My work consists of oil paintings on prepared canvas, and drawings on paper mostly done in pen and ink. I create portraits, still lives and narrative images. However, these traditional categories have a personal female perspective born out of my experience.

The portraits render a specific subject, not a general idea of a person. The still-life study the composition of structure, color, light and shade. The narrative images are visual stories whose suggestions and associates are left open to interpretation by the viewer.

7″ x 7″ x 7″

stoneware

“Do not judge me by my successes. Judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.” Nelson Mandela

Moye Thompson was born and raised in Georgia — from twelve generations of Southern farmers  — and has always felt a connection to the earth, to dirt and mud and clay. After earning a bachelors degree in Fine Arts from Harvard, she moved to New York, working as a magazine writer by day and a ceramist by night, first as a student, then teacher, and finally owner of Earthworks Studio in Manhattan.

Since moving to Santa Monica Canyon in the late ‘90s, her work has been strongly influenced by the rich history of design and architecture in Southern California and by the light and colors of its canyons and coastline. The dark glazes of New York have given way to the greens and blues of California, and her forms, once strictly functional, now bring pebbles, twigs, wire, paper, and words into play.

20″ x 20″

mixed media on panel

The works I create carry vibrational frequencies that promote transformation.

Emily Van Horn lives and works in Venice.  She divides her time between her private healing practice, specializing in helping individuals heal from all types of trauma and abstract painting.

9.5″ x 12″

collage

Hagar Vardimon lives and works in Amsterdam. She is known for her threads and collage works. She has exhibited internationally.

20″ x 24″

digital archival print

Taiyo Watanabe is an Architectural photographer, with a degree in Architecture from SCI-ARC. He lives and works as a photographer and designer in Los Angeles.

21″ x 26″

mixed media on matte board

“All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.” G.G. Marquez

Alexandra Wiesenfeld is a German-born, Los Angeles based artist who has exhibited throughout the United States and in Europe, at venues including Klowden Mann, Happy Lion, Angles Gallery, and the Eagle Rock Cultural Center in Los Angeles, The Irvine Fine Arts Center and the Torrance Art Museum in California, the Dactyl Foundation in New York, the Roswell Museum of Art in New Mexico, the Missoula Museum of Art in Montana, Anton Gallery in Washington, DC, Kunst Karlshütte and Landshut in Germany, and art fairs in San Francisco, Miami, Dallas, and London. Her work is held in public and private collections nationally and internationally.

27″ x 17″ x 3″

casein, graphite, acrylic, foamcore

The ideals of WabiSabi, the wisdom and beauty of imperfection.

Born in San Diego, CA., Valerie Wilcox currently lives and works in Los Angeles. Along with receiving a BFA in graphic design, she has studied printmaking, painting, photography and sculpture at Otis College of Art & Design, Art Center Pasadena and CSULB. She is represented by Galerie Kunstkomplex in Germany. Wilcox’s calls this body of work, “Constructs” and she relates it to the WabiSabi aesthetic of a Japanese world view centered on the acceptance of transience and imperfection. Characteristics of this ideal include asymmetry, asperity (roughness or irregularity), simplicity, economy, austerity, modesty, intimacy, and appreciation of the ingenuous integrity of natural objects and processes. In today’s Japan, the meaning of WabiSabi is often condensed to “wisdom in natural simplicity.” In art books, it is typically defined as “flawed beauty.” Her work uses repurposed, found and common materials. The imperfect, left-over or mistakes found in our structural environment manage to transcend their base materiality, as her source materials are elevated and imbued with newness of form and function.