Denise Owen

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

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

TC Moore

TC Moore is a painter and musician who was born in Alabama, grew up in the Midwest, and has been based in Oakland/SF since 2007. Moore’s work explores recurring themes of identity and existentialism that are present in our existence. Their work combines disparate elements to create a harmonious whole. Often featuring fragmented figures, distorted

Annie Tull

Annie Tull (b. 1990, Wilmington, Delaware) is a multidisciplinary artist currently based in Oakland, California. Best known for her serene oil-and-string paintings on canvas as well as impossibly ethereal rope installations, Tull’s work is distinguished by a unique aesthetic sensibility that transcends any one medium and speaks to a diverse range of subject matters. Often

Amy Burek

Amy Burek is a printmaker and book artist whose work explores how science and technology have shaped the way we interact with each other, express our emotions, and perceive ourselves. Her publishing project Awkward Ladies Club focuses on memoir, knowledge-sharing, and other non-fiction works. Her books have been collected by the Whitney Museum Library, the

Mojgan Saberi

I create my art with metaphors and images that form in my mind from different fragments in life. Lucid poetry, nature’s intricacy, and its complex relations to human interactions are integral part of my inspirations. I like to conceive and explore my ideas from dreamlike context and transform them to a tangible form of art,

Diana O’Connor

Originally from Boise, Idaho I started and finished my degree in Jewelry/ Metals Arts at California College of the Arts in May of 2013. It took 3 years and some soul searching but the love of jewelry making was again found when I decided to take a jewelry making class my junior year. I essentially

Cyd Burk

Cyd Burk is a revolutionary queer artist based in Oakland, Ca. Cyd do espaintings ( mostly abstract) sculpture, card making, photography, scratch boards, and multi-media work. We have been creating for over 50 years… we are not mainstream… we are in West Oakland. We have been showing our work in SF and East Bay since

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

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

Kim Cardoso

I am a loud person who makes quiet art. I savor the craft-like method of encaustic painting in a meditative exploration of landscape and emotion. Relating to my formal training as a metalsmith and working with my hands as a midwife, I love the physicality of wax, pigments, hand tools, and fire. I know my

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

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,

Fernanda Martinez

Fernanda Martínez is an Oakland based painter and muralist; In her work, she incorporates nature elements as themes, organic shapes, bold textures, and deconstructed patterns to develop intrinsic narratives. Recently her practice expanded to sculptures, where she experiments with different materials to translate her distinguishable shapes and mastery in color into delightful 3D pieces. With

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

Trina Anderson

I’m a painter and printmaker based in Oakland, California, where I’ve made my home for more than three decades. However, my roots trace back to an early age where I grew up on the shores of a Minnesota lake. This blend of urban life and a deep connection to nature shapes my artistic journey and

Pete Villaseñor

Pete Villaseñor moved to the Bay Area from San Antonio Texas 29 years ago. After living in San Francisco for 20 years, he moved with his partner and cat to Oakland, CA, where he had been working as a Senior Librarian with the Oakland Public Library for three decades. After retiring last year, he is

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.