Karol Hilker’s paint is built up in layers of color to create an environment for the figures. She likes to show the despair, hope, tension, love, and passion that we all experience through her images. Her paintings show the chaos and balance we can create in our lives. Karol has had the joy of being…
Lisa Levine is a photographic artist who has been working in the area of public art creating large scale commissioned artworks for public spaces. She has been commissioned to create photo-based works for university campuses, hospitals, public transit, recreational facilities as well as private architectural projects and corporate art commissions. Lisa Levine’s personal work has…
Barry Ebner is a printmaker specializing in monoprint and etching. The majority of his work is abstract, embracing texture and markmaking to create visual spaces that echo mapmaking and ways which we define borders. His most recent exhibitions were with Vessel Gallery in Oakland CA and at Taller 99 in Santiago, Chile. He has taught…
I design my fabric with a specific process and do the sewing for scarfs, bags and purses, pillows and necklaces with unique embellishments such as ribbons, yarns, beads and buttons. Occasionally I do abstract work and my original drafts such drawings and paintings for the fabric can be used as abstract work as well. It…
I have always loved painting abstract landscapes. With every layer of paint I spread across the canvas, I become more deeply involved with the colors, textures and movement of the imaginary space emerging before me. More recently, I’ve also fallen in love with figures! I marvel at how each mark I make creates a character,…
As a landscape photographer, I have explored how I can portray my maligned home city of Oakland California, through an original new view. The way I make my pictures pursues an awareness of the cityscape as being an invention and an evolution, a way of seeing how we change our town on our own terms,…
My name is Bradner Bond and I’ve been turning wood for over 20 years. My grandfather taught me to turn – he was a master furniture maker in his spare time, and he helped me get my start on the lathe. I specialize in small, ornate turned boxes, and I use an ornamental lathe that…
Mila Moldenhawer was born in Berkeley, California in 1996, embracing a unique identity as a trans man and first generation American, born to Polish and Indian Immigrants. Growing up in the culturally rich Bay Area, Mila has drawn as much inspiration from his cultural background as he has through urban culture, contemporary queer aesthetics, graffiti…
For 55 years I have been making photographs with the same 35mm film camera and a single lens. Enjoy the magic of light and shadow rendered in crystals of silver. Black-and-white, Silver-Gelatin Prints, handmade by the artist. Represented in major museum collections (including The Art Institute of Chicago. The Getty, MoMA NY, SFMOMA). See my…