2024 Artist statement: Christine approaches the blank paper or canvas with an openness that allows images and stories of the natural world, both seen and unseen, to emerge. Images reflecting the nature of reality and inner landscape are balanced with touches of humor and fantasy in gouache on paper, charcoal or mixed media on paper…
Kim Thoman
Artist Bio Kim Thoman has been exhibiting nationally and receiving grants for more than 35 years. She has art degrees from the University of California at Berkeley and San Francisco State University and was an art professor in the Peralta Community College District for over 30 years. Selected grants include the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of…
Audrey Heller
My photography draws from my background as a director and lighting designer for theatre. Since 2000, I have been a full-time artist, showing at top juried art festivals around the country, and sharing my work around the world via the web. I published my first book, “Overlooked Undertakings” in 2009. I have been published, collected,…
Kathleen Gadway
I’m creating a sense of place with these paintings, made in my Berkeley studio, outdoors in the foothills of Amador County and in my travels around my adopted Sate of California. I started painting outdoors as a child in summer classes and continue to love the magic of pushing paint around to form an image.…
Angela Jernigan
Angela Jernigan is a painter and mixed media artist who creates visual medicine that supports the integration and clarification of her work as a community-based minister and soul care counselor with care providers of underserved young people. Her creative work grapples with questions of personal and collective power, individual and community healing, female bodies and…
Roger Morgan Art
“I paint from nature. I love color. I lose myself in my paintings.” Roger Morgan is a native of Berkeley, California. For over 60 years, he has painted the mountains and flowers of California and the West. From the serenity of his backyard to majestic national parks, nature serves as inspiration for his works. Known…
Mokhtar Paki
Mokhtar lives in the Bay Area and works as a visual artist and an art teacher. Hi murals notably Sinbad Voyage in central Berkeley is one of his latest epic works. Mokhtar creates and shows his his works at his studio Firehouse Art Collective regularly. His Daily Sketches, reflecting social, cultural and political environment has been…
Ann Ben Shalom
I have a BA in fine art from UC Berkeley. Having just retired from careers as a Sign Language Interpreter and then a Preschool Teacher, I am now devoting all my time to painting. I have exhibited in a show called Things With Wings at the ACCI Gallery, Berkeley. I paint intuitive abstracts and semi-abstracts…
Leonard St. John
Bio I’m Leonard St.John, originally from Chicago, Illinois. Born in 1943. My interest in art began at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Hyde Park Art Center. In 1966, I moved to Berkeley, California to paint and study History of Art. I painted a mural as an artist-in-Residence at UC Santa Barbara in 1971,…
Monika Mayer
Monika is a visual artist and educator who lives and works in Berkeley, CA. Born and raised in a rural area of Germany, she was exposed to a rich tradition of textile craft and making from a young age. The iterative design process became a second nature in her work and life. Throughout her career…
Gustave Carlson
Artist Statement The ideas that I paint come from the agricultural landscape, particularly barns and farm like cabin architecture. I am drawn to the flat planes of landscape, exploring color and the study of my paintings over time. Richard Diebenkorn, Wayne Theibold, Hilary Pecis and Andrew Wyeth are among my strongest influences for my work.…
Ben Trautman
Ben Trautman is an artist living in Oakland. He has a Master of Architecture from UC Berkeley and has done several public art projects and museum installations located in the Bay Area, Philadelphia, and Calgary. He is currently developing a new body of work focused on interior mobiles, wall pieces, and drawings. Studio is accessible,…
Kenneth Wilan
Kenneth Wilan is based in Berkeley, California. Wilan’s styles include modern, pop, expressionism, figurative and abstract. He works with ink, acrylic, oil, digital and mixed media. Wilan’s paintings are available on paper, cloth and digital canvases. Wilan has lived in New England, San Fransisco, Basel Switzerland and New York City. His formal education includes Kala…
Susan Brooks
Susan Brooks: Drawing on Metal/ Building with Clay/ Painting my Thoughts I move freely between my mediums of non-traditional fine jewelry in sterling silver and gold, figurative layered paintings and drawings, and miniature ceramic and mixed media anthropomorphic sculpture called 1000 Objects of Desire and Mirth. I work mostly with the face and figure, decorative…
Michelle Sweeney-Fillmore
Michelle Sweeney-Fillmore is a photorealistic painter based in the Bay Area. She grew up in Las Vegas, Nevada, and graduated with a BA in Painting and Drawing from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in 2015. Fillmore’s paintings are autobiographical metaphors. Having grown up with a family member that wrestled with mental illness, her work…
Christopher Peterson
Mr Peterson’s paintings are fundamentally urban landscapes, featuring familiar scenes from the highly mechanized and complex life we all live. Working most of the time (but not always) from photographs, he’s constantly shooting and editing, to find the best combination of light, color and design for his paintings. He works primarily in oil on canvas,…
Dobee Snowber
Dobee Snowber holds a BA in Intellectual History/Feminist Studies from Kirkland/Hamilton College and a BFA in Printmaking /Painting from the Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine. She has participated in several residencies including at the Vermont Studio School and Penland Art Center. She has shown extensively in various venues including museums, galleries, solo exhibitions, group…
Janet Lee Smith
As a child in a small, rural New England town, my family exposure to art was color-books and crayons. I feel I was guided by the Universe when I became friends in high school with a young woman who came from a family of artists. After attending the Philadelphia College of Art, I spent 18…