Artists
Aaron Giesel
ABOUT THE WORK: I am where looking and perception meet the landscape, circled by certainty and/or doubt.
Ann Le
ABOUT THE WORK: The purpose of these portraits were meant to be keepsake memories of that time, but instead acts as a barrier and metaphor for absence and separation.
Annelie McKenzie
ABOUT THE WORK: dolls and blobs.
Becca Shewmake
ABOUT THE WORK: The shapes and characters that I create have a special function in the work and offer clues to unlock a code for the visual dialog that I am creating.
Catherine Davis
ABOUT THE WORK: I collect stuff in my studio.
Christian Ward
ABOUT THE WORK: In my installation arrangements, prints and found objects signal the viewer to put together histories and mythologies both personal and universal.
Cody Norris
ABOUT THE WORK:Commander Mark's Secret City...
Connie Lane
ABOUT THE WORK: My work reflects who I am and where I come from.
Dane Klingaman
ABOUT THE WORK: I examine the communication between buyer and seller, a naturally disconnected relationship furthered by the emergence of the internet.
David De Boer
ABOUT THE WORK: I am interested in modernism's influence on the landscape and how my relationship to that landscape evolves.
Elise Preiss
ABOUT THE WORK: An incurable optimist I humbly play to honor my love and respect for materials.
George Barker
ABOUT THE WORK: My Photographic work is an interplay within the theoretical disciplines which concern three of the driving forces of modernism: Expressionism, Surrealism, and Absurdism.
Jamie Meckel
ABOUT THE WORK: Most of the work is geared towards children and the inner child in all of us.
Joel Woodard
ABOUT THE WORK: My work is an imagining of outsider art from a future, post-apocalyptic world.
Katharine Sikorski
ABOUT THE WORK: Kate will graduate with her MFA fall 2011 and is currently working with local Muslim women on a project and subsequent exhibition that will take place in Long Beach in 2012.
Lana Lingan
ABOUT THE WORK: My interest is in the silence, and that the experience is expressed in my art which is also silent.
Lisa Talbot
ABOUT THE WORK: Cycles began as a psychological portrait about her self, and evolved into a series of photographs documenting the changing progression of the emotional and physical landscape that lives within her.
Michael Nannery
ABOUT THE WORK: There are shards of clarity encased within these blurred forms that surround you and me.
Natalie Hribar-Kelly
ABOUT THE WORK: In my most recent artworks I am investigating concepts of breathing and respiratory awareness.
Nicole Sloan
ABOUT THE WORK: My work focuses on the recollection of memory, popular culture and identity.
Nurit Avesar
ABOUT THE WORK: The paintings are about identity uncertainty, as well as growth.
Renee Chartier
ABOUT THE WORK: Renee Chartier is an artist working with photography whose practice is motivated by absurdity within seemingly banal situations and occurences.
Stefan Meyer
ABOUT THE WORK: Tracing time when pacing hurts.
Tina Linville
ABOUT THE WORK: My work is familiar yet strange, combining found objects with processes like sewing and wrapping.
Yevgeniya Mikhailik
ABOUT THE WORK: My most recent body of work is a series of paintings and prints based on personal experiences with relocation and the role that this nomadic life style has played on my development as a person and an artist so far. ItŐs about isolation, memory, adaptation and exploring new territory.