ARTIST”S BIO Denise Owen is a contemporary visual artist who lives and works in Oakland, CA. Born in Johnstown, PA, she earned Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Architecture, was a Peace Corps volunteer in the Ivory Coast, and is Professor Emeritus of Art and Interior Design at Ohlone College in Fremont, CA. She discovered her…
Vida Pavesich
Vida Pavesich makes digital collages based on her photographs of children, forests, oceans, sunsets, polluted environments, and more. She teaches philosophy at the University of San Francisco and maintains an art practice. She has been profoundly affected by teaching environmental ethics the past few years. She relished diving into the literature, not knowing how much…
Joyce Ertel Hulbert
Joyce Ertel Hulbert is a multi-disciplinary artist working in drawing, collage and assemblage, prints, tapestry, and archive. Joyce’s work has a Zen quality and can be seen as contemplative in nature. Found objects and layers of construction add density and intrigue to her explorations. Artwork is both for wall and space display. In the current…
Marlene Walters
Marlene Walters is both an oil painter working primarily in realism and a maker of large scale collage based on her paintings. She has shown her work in many galleries throughout the Bay Area, in Southern California and in New York City and environs. The work has been juried into many national and international exhibitions…
Bushra Gill
Bushra Gill is interested in finding order within the chaos of everyday life through art. She was born in Karachi, Pakistan, and emigrated to Houston, Texas, with her family as a small child. Drawn to art from a young age, she graduated from Pratt Institute in 1994, with a BFA in sculpture. She spent many…
Susan Tuttle
Susan Tuttle strives to capture humor, depth, and emotion in the unusual as well as the familiar. She creates jewelry, photographs, collages, and mixed media pieces.
Pamela Fingado
Pam Fingado is a native Californian born in San Francisco and living in the East Bay. She is a mixed media artist who works primarily with paper. She uses a variety of different papers from her collection which include exotic papers, printed calendars, wrapping papers and, repurposed paper from her own art pieces. A printmaking…
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…
JS Webster
My work is inspired by math genius Alan Turing’s algorithms that simulate organic graphic patterns in nature. These Turing Patterns I create on my own computer, using photos or digitally generated pictures as seed images. Finally, I combine them with hand painting or drawing on paper, and use them to create cutout paper and wood…
Joe Gegan
My interest is in building paintings from intuition, allowing my hand to work one step faster than I think I can control – always searching, moving, finding as I feverishly edit and re-edit until I achieve completeness. I find painting to be a physical way of thinking, an internal discourse made concrete. Recently, I have…
Ryan LaLonde
Ryan is an illustrator, artist and designer. Having worked as a commercial creative design director for two decades, Ryan has refocused his unique vision in fine art creations that revolve around color, whimsy, juxtaposition and storytelling. Ryan’s work used to only reflect found paper and objects to create beautiful pieces that range from natural landscapes,…
Gina Papen
I am a dedicated, practicing artist, involved in the creative process for a very long time. My works have evolved over the years, benefiting a variety of professional art teachers, including CCA Foundation year, and as an Illustration major Parsons School of Design (BFA). I grew up in San Francisco, and after 28 years on…
Fernando Reyes
Will NOT be open Saturday June 8th Bio Fernando’s early career was defined by an academic style of painting, heavily dedicated to figuration and landscapes. In 2014, Reyes’ work shifted profoundly after seeing a Matisse exhibition called “The Cut-Outs” at MoMA. Reconsidering the painted compositions he had spent his career refining, he began to explore…
Judith T. Irwin
Bio Judith T. Irwin is a visual artist. Her talents lie not only in the visual arts but also in the horticultural. She has a bachelor degree in from California Collage of the Arts, alumni 1996. For 20+ years she has freelanced as a fine maintenance gardener and aesthetic pruner. The combination of the being…
Kitty Muntzel
Kitty Muntzel has her BA in Printmaking and Sculpture and her MA in Creative Arts Education. She spent 10 years teaching in the schools and then discovered a love for costuming. She spent over 30 years as a Costume Draper, her last 25 years at Berkeley Repertory Theatre as their Women’s Draper. She is very…