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

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

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

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

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

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

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

David Miller

I was born in San Francisco, and grew up running around in the hills of Pt. Reyes National Seashore. Most of my life has been spent in the Greater Bay Area. My paintings and drawings express my deep connection to this beautiful land, and my fascination with the play of light and weather across the

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,

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

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

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.

Fumiyo Yoshikawa

BIO Fumiyo Yoshikawa is a highly skilled Japanese artist with a rich background in Japanese art and painting. She honed her craft at Kyoto University of Education and trained under the esteemed lineage of the Shijo Maruyama School with Ikeda Yoson. Drawing inspiration from Zen and Shintoism, Yoshikawa’s art seamlessly integrates elements from diverse cultural

Jill McLennan

McLennan’s new body of work explores nature as it is altered through human impact, migration and climate change. Her paintings, drawings and linoleum block prints in this exhibition represent stories of human and animal migration, the houseless in Oakland. In her work, she explores the cycles of the natural world through narratives of nature’s reckoning

Todd Gilens

I am a visual artist working in writing, drawing and photography, and creating unique, site-specific projects for public and private spaces. Through commissions and self-initiated projects, I have made artworks for transit systems, botanical gardens, arts and conference centers, factories, wilderness areas, private gardens and living rooms, among other places. My current work links urban

Joe Dou Draw

I’m Joseph, I’m from Cali but my brother and I were born in Lima, Peru, and were adopted by our American family. We were both babies when we were adopted and my bro and I grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area ever since. I’m a mellow, cool, nice down-to-earth type dude. I am

Deborah Sibony

The relationship between architecture and nature is a central theme which informs my work. I am interested how our landscapes reveal history and sense of place and how it affects the human condition. From industrial sites which have been abandoned and are in the process of being dismantled to transitional landscapes which are in constant

Andrew Brown

I’m here only once in this beautiful, messy world and I’m astonished to find myself—of all things—a full time easel painter in Oakland! I paint because I have to. My only art training is a lifelong obsession with Goya, and thirty years of constantly evolving, expressive, live model drawing. And painting. Lots of painting. I