I have been an artist almost all of my life. I was born in Havana Cuba and raised in Brooklyn, NY. I then moved to Miami Beach, Florida where I lived till 2013. I currently reside in the San Francisco Bay Area. You could call me an Urban Caribbean artist. Cuba and the Caribbean have…
Alicia Dunn
licia Dunn, b. 1960, Havana, Cuba. A visual artist, Alicia creates spirited paintings which capture the energy of the natural world. The work achieves a luminosity that is both invigorating and serene. Raised in Brooklyn, she currently lives and paints in Oakland. Alicia’s first career was in advertising. Once she picked up a paint brush…
Julie Feferman
Bay Area Native Sorytelling through fragments of associative memory
Bron Wynn Kalis
Painting and assemblage are my personal forms of meditation. I aspire for my art to genuinely resonate with viewers.
Jillian Shea
Jillian Shea (she/they) is a realist painter who is interested in light and classical painting techniques. Shea looks to 19th century painters such as Sargent and Waterhouse for inspiration. Their practice evokes a sense of nostalgia, working from personal life and experiences to translate memories into paint. These translations live on as art objects, an…
Julie Cohn
Artist Statement “I’m excited to tell you about three series I’m working on. The first is about the landscapes that emerge out of my subconscious with the flow of watercolor. My reverence for landscapes blossoms onto paper in a spontaneous way, and I work on small and large scale pieces that I call Spontaneous Landscapes.…
Charlie Sullivan
Charlie Sullivan re-purposes found and discarded items, combining them with lenses and mirrors and furniture parts to create emotionally inspired freestanding sculptures and hangings. Everyday items are rearranged in a playful balance and are built to be viewed in the round to encourage shifting perspectives.
Lightbox Collective
The lightbox collective is a small community of artists who have turned their cramped garage into a studio space for printmaking, ceramics, stained glass art, and music. Come see how we make it work in such a small space, and our wide variety of crafts. @Orbit.Press draws inspiration from collective living and hopeful futures to…
Deb Sullivan
My pottery begins with a hand-rolled slab from local red clay. I texture each slab with my one of a kind, designed stamps and rollers. After each slab is formed into a vessel, I decorate with underglazes, washes and glaze. All cone 6 pottery is lined with glaze and is food, dishwasher and microwave safe.…
Elizabeth Wayman
Mark making is the soul freeing exercise in beginning a painting, as well as a way into a blank slate which can induce dread! I am on the 10,000 hour journey of establishing my own painting language, but with a steely determination and mostly joy on that path. Having had a career in the commercial…
William Burch
Farm to table glassware. Non GMO.
Linda Dittes
I live in the Oakland Hills and paint the scenery around the Bay Area. I have a degree in Painting from MICA in Baltimore but never had the opportunity to paint until I retired the years ago. With all the great nature Northern California has, I have endless subjects. Nature and the capturing of it…
Sarah McAllister
Artist Statement Connect with every wing, every bud, every breath of wind, the light and the dark to feel absolutely alive. My paintings are a way to reconnect through nature, like a deep breath, that for a moment nothing else matters than the tingling of our senses, absorbing the shifting color of a single petal,…
Juliet Mevi
I am a professional artist living in Emeryville, CA, and a studio in Berkeley. I have been practicing art for over 30 years and I have a large inventory of artwork. I started as a painter, but now I have added printmaking, papermaking, and mixed media skills. My work materials are canvas, paper, wood, found…
Matthew Felix Sun
Matthew Felix Sun grew up in Manchuria (northeast China), and has been perfecting his craft since childhood, when a visit to an exhibition of Italian Renaissance art cemented his passion for painting. After an education and brief career in the sciences, which enabled him to escape his repressive native country and relocate to the US,…
Josée Berlin
BIOGRAPHY Josée Berlin has been painting since the 1980s. However, starting in 2018 the artist has dedicated all her time to her art practice. Working primarily with oil on wood panel or canvas the artist also experiments with creating paper and fabric objects as well as mixed media paintings. A long career in design has…
Jules Kobelin
With over 30 years of experience in the realms of commercial art, design, and film, I embark on abstract explorations that blend the ethereal with a touch of representation. My creative journey is a combination of memories and emotional responses, woven into the fabric of landscapes, florals, and portraits. These creations tell unique stories, capturing…
Mark Lightfoot
I have been a practicing artist, teacher and gallery director and owner for many years. A few years ago, I began creating wall sculptures and functional pieces using fused glass, which is glass artwork formed in a kiln. Glass allows me new ways to create with color and light and has opened up a whole…