For Lucy Ames, creating a painting is a little bit like a walk in the woods. She approaches her art with a sense of adventure, using experimental techniques along with her tried and true methods, but always hoping for a delightful discovery. A key component of her art is the use of tree silhouettes. These…
Christine Rossi
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…
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…
Keith Petersen
Keith Petersen is an artist and photographer based in Oakland, California who explores the connections between science, nature and art. Working with photography and mixed media in a studio practice, his works capture the alchemical interactions between pigments and other reactive substances. The process reveals the complexity and beauty inherent in the smallest elements of…
Terri Scheid
Terri Scheid began her career as a ceramic artist as a young girl in the backyard of her family’s southern Ohio home: she mined her own clay from the veins (of clay) found in the mud after heavy rainstorms, pinched some pots, and baked them on top of the shed in the hot summer sun.…
Kirsten Bramstedt
Go on the Fool’s Journey through the Major Arcana in the Subterranean Tarot Temple. Experience the basement art installation of The Crimson Tarot, by Kirsten Desdemona Bramstedt, a mixed media art deck of the 22 Major Arcana of the Tarot, a powerful and esoteric set of cards representing an ancient system of wisdom using archetypal…
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…
Mary Ann Leff
As an abstract artist, my concerns have always been less about content and more about formal composition. I see the elements of design (color, shape, line, form, space, and texture) as the “subjects” I work with. For many years, color, and producing vibrant sensual surfaces was what was most important for me. These days I…
Jánaka
My creative work takes shape through different media, watercolors, drawings, photography and mixed media. Janaka is my artistic-spiritual name. I was born and raised in Mexico City but I have been living in the US for the last 35 years. Now I am based in Oakland, California.
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…
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…
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…
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…
Sarah Comey Cluff
I am a life-long amateur art maker. I regularly produce printed and embroidered fabric housewares (curtains, tablecloths and napkins, dish towels, wearable art) as well as travel drawings, nature photography, mixed media paintings, and comics. My desire to participate in Open Studios is to show my work for feedback and to hold space for a…