Michele Rushfeldt - Painting
My new collection of paintings is the result of a experimentation with color in regards to the priming of the canvas. I decided to use the background color of Cerulean Blue, and to use this color as the darkest value on my paintings. To create deep shadows, I wiped the wet oil paint off with a paper towel to expose the background blue. To use this technique effectively, all these paintings were created in six or seven hours maximum, before the painting could dry at all.
The human figure is fascinating to me, especially the face. In my past work, I have focused on elderly portraits. In my newer works, I have kept the same focus on imperfection and flaws, but instead of aged faces, I have used mug shots for my references. Some are mug shots from as far back as the early 20th century, allowing for different lightings, interesting characters, and emotional facial expressions.
My work can also be found at my website http://michelerushfeldt.weebly.com.
Jacqui Fiels - Photography & Photo Art
My passion for photography runs deep. Since I was 7, I have had a camera in my hand. In the decades since then, my Nikon and I have travelled the globe, creating images from my travels...of presidents, princesses, car wrecks, criminals, newborns, native Americans, resorts, rodeos, fjords, flowers, children & celebrities… I have made my living with my Nikons fueling my fire.
When the shutter snaps, sometimes that image is a picture perfect capture of what I see, imagine or feel. Sometimes it is a foundation upon which I “paint” in the computer...every pixel, every inch, every layer....applying each stroke and lavishing glimmer, light, muted tones or snap upon the image…creating an entirely new view of what was photographed - what I have come to call my Photo Art.
To the Spring 2014 show I am bringing some new pictures that have caught my eye as I travel around this magnificent City by the Bay. Check out my last Shutter & Stroke ll show art on jacquifielsfineart.artistwebsites.com
www.jacquifielsphotography.com
Scott Grabowski - Painting
I started out as an Art Major at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell. After a year, I left to attend a technical school for Mechanical Design in Boston. Graduating at the top of my class, I began a ten-year career in Mechanical Engineering. By night, I studied drawing with wildlife artist Bill Velemure. In 1986 I went on a photo safari to Africa with Bill, then made several subsequent trips to the art capitals of Europe. Having explored the East Coast from Maine to Margaritaville, I left Boston for Los Angeles.
Getting as far as San Francisco, I spent the next ten years working in High Tech, Biotech and Telecom. Wanting to finish my degree, I enrolled at the Academy of Art University part time at night. In 2001 I accepted a job transfer. I left the Academy, moved out of San Francisco and headed for Dallas. After a year abroad in Texas, the Telecom Industry collapsed and my job ended. I moved back to San Francisco, and enrolled back at the Academy of Art full time. In the fall of 2003 I completed my undergraduate degree and received a B.A. in Illustration. Spring 2008 I finished my Academic education with a Masters
Degree in Fine Art Painting. Upon leaving school I established a painting studio at 340 Bryant Street in San Francisco’s South Beach District. Today I am a full time painter exploring subject matter caught under dramatic lighting conditions.
Suzy Kuhr - Film Photography
I am an 'old school' Black & White photographer; I process, develop and print all my film in my darkroom in Rio Nido, CA. I have studied photography at the University of Nebraska/Lincoln and Foothill College in Los Altos CA.
I love the contrast , depth and moodiness that B&W film allows. I always shoot with a Red filter and find that near infrared film gives me the rich blacks and whites that I love. I shoot landscapes, architecture and anything that catches the monochrome beauty found anywhere and everywhere in my life. I hope you can see in my photos what I see through my eyes.
"One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind." DOROTHEA LANGE
My new collection of paintings is the result of a experimentation with color in regards to the priming of the canvas. I decided to use the background color of Cerulean Blue, and to use this color as the darkest value on my paintings. To create deep shadows, I wiped the wet oil paint off with a paper towel to expose the background blue. To use this technique effectively, all these paintings were created in six or seven hours maximum, before the painting could dry at all.
The human figure is fascinating to me, especially the face. In my past work, I have focused on elderly portraits. In my newer works, I have kept the same focus on imperfection and flaws, but instead of aged faces, I have used mug shots for my references. Some are mug shots from as far back as the early 20th century, allowing for different lightings, interesting characters, and emotional facial expressions.
My work can also be found at my website http://michelerushfeldt.weebly.com.
Jacqui Fiels - Photography & Photo Art
My passion for photography runs deep. Since I was 7, I have had a camera in my hand. In the decades since then, my Nikon and I have travelled the globe, creating images from my travels...of presidents, princesses, car wrecks, criminals, newborns, native Americans, resorts, rodeos, fjords, flowers, children & celebrities… I have made my living with my Nikons fueling my fire.
When the shutter snaps, sometimes that image is a picture perfect capture of what I see, imagine or feel. Sometimes it is a foundation upon which I “paint” in the computer...every pixel, every inch, every layer....applying each stroke and lavishing glimmer, light, muted tones or snap upon the image…creating an entirely new view of what was photographed - what I have come to call my Photo Art.
To the Spring 2014 show I am bringing some new pictures that have caught my eye as I travel around this magnificent City by the Bay. Check out my last Shutter & Stroke ll show art on jacquifielsfineart.artistwebsites.com
www.jacquifielsphotography.com
Scott Grabowski - Painting
I started out as an Art Major at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell. After a year, I left to attend a technical school for Mechanical Design in Boston. Graduating at the top of my class, I began a ten-year career in Mechanical Engineering. By night, I studied drawing with wildlife artist Bill Velemure. In 1986 I went on a photo safari to Africa with Bill, then made several subsequent trips to the art capitals of Europe. Having explored the East Coast from Maine to Margaritaville, I left Boston for Los Angeles.
Getting as far as San Francisco, I spent the next ten years working in High Tech, Biotech and Telecom. Wanting to finish my degree, I enrolled at the Academy of Art University part time at night. In 2001 I accepted a job transfer. I left the Academy, moved out of San Francisco and headed for Dallas. After a year abroad in Texas, the Telecom Industry collapsed and my job ended. I moved back to San Francisco, and enrolled back at the Academy of Art full time. In the fall of 2003 I completed my undergraduate degree and received a B.A. in Illustration. Spring 2008 I finished my Academic education with a Masters
Degree in Fine Art Painting. Upon leaving school I established a painting studio at 340 Bryant Street in San Francisco’s South Beach District. Today I am a full time painter exploring subject matter caught under dramatic lighting conditions.
Suzy Kuhr - Film Photography
I am an 'old school' Black & White photographer; I process, develop and print all my film in my darkroom in Rio Nido, CA. I have studied photography at the University of Nebraska/Lincoln and Foothill College in Los Altos CA.
I love the contrast , depth and moodiness that B&W film allows. I always shoot with a Red filter and find that near infrared film gives me the rich blacks and whites that I love. I shoot landscapes, architecture and anything that catches the monochrome beauty found anywhere and everywhere in my life. I hope you can see in my photos what I see through my eyes.
"One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind." DOROTHEA LANGE
Stephany Houghton - Watercolor Painting
Shadows feature prominently in my art; I am fascinated by the multitude of possible effects, of how shadows can define, enhance or distort an image.
I am relatively new to watercolor, coming from a background in oil painting, and I enjoy the challenge of creating paintings that blend aspects of both media - the precise detail work possible with oil and the ethereal, suggestive nature of watercolor. I find my inspiration in many places - a photo or memento from travels, an intriguing found object, a luscious bowl of fruit.
A connection is made and I feel compelled to paint... not so much the image itself as an answer.
Jordan Cavalier - Drawing
I grew up in the California hills, where sprawling human progress meets open spaces. I am fascinated by the relationship /non-relationship between our human society and nature: our use and abuse if it, its inexorable hold on parts of ourselves we are all too often unaware of. Humans conquer animals, but it will be the 'lowest' animals that build their webs among the bleaching bones of our civilization when we are long gone.
I seek to capture this relationship in juxtaposition of insect form with human spaces; architecture and landscapes shaped to fit our needs. The creatures' lines are perfectly tuned organic chaos, the structural lines more controlled, muted. While I do not share quite the obsessive zeal shown by the Surrealists towards psychoanalysis and Freud, I find the need to explore my own
emotional life through art.
The human face, the place of confluence between our subconscious and emotional currents, is, despite its ubiquity within artistic expression, an endlessly fertile vehicle for journeys into my own thoughts, and for capturing often surprising aspects of others.
Shadows feature prominently in my art; I am fascinated by the multitude of possible effects, of how shadows can define, enhance or distort an image.
I am relatively new to watercolor, coming from a background in oil painting, and I enjoy the challenge of creating paintings that blend aspects of both media - the precise detail work possible with oil and the ethereal, suggestive nature of watercolor. I find my inspiration in many places - a photo or memento from travels, an intriguing found object, a luscious bowl of fruit.
A connection is made and I feel compelled to paint... not so much the image itself as an answer.
Jordan Cavalier - Drawing
I grew up in the California hills, where sprawling human progress meets open spaces. I am fascinated by the relationship /non-relationship between our human society and nature: our use and abuse if it, its inexorable hold on parts of ourselves we are all too often unaware of. Humans conquer animals, but it will be the 'lowest' animals that build their webs among the bleaching bones of our civilization when we are long gone.
I seek to capture this relationship in juxtaposition of insect form with human spaces; architecture and landscapes shaped to fit our needs. The creatures' lines are perfectly tuned organic chaos, the structural lines more controlled, muted. While I do not share quite the obsessive zeal shown by the Surrealists towards psychoanalysis and Freud, I find the need to explore my own
emotional life through art.
The human face, the place of confluence between our subconscious and emotional currents, is, despite its ubiquity within artistic expression, an endlessly fertile vehicle for journeys into my own thoughts, and for capturing often surprising aspects of others.
Jessica Levant - Photo Art
Unexpected views of the ordinary - Ordinary views of the unexpected'. What this means is that I love finding new ways to see what's around me. I am drawn to shapes, juxtapositions and visual irony, mostly in urban settings.
Combining my love of photography and my passion for computers, I began calling myself a Photo Artist rather than a photographer because of my post-photography processes. Often that involves my using digital filters to manipulate the photographs I take. Sometimes I change backgrounds; build composites of several images; or very selectively change colors. I love to play with the pixels to achieve something beyond what was visible into something that stretches the imagination. In this show I will be highlighting a new body of work that I call 'Fancy'. That can mean both glittery or fanciful. You choose.
Also an avid jazz lover, I have recently published a photo book called San Francisco Bay Area Jazz and Bluesicians which includes 117 portraits of local musicians taken during performances.
Much of my work can be seen at jessicalevant.com
Tiffany Laszlo - Painting
Tiffany Laszlo is inspired by textures, elements, as well as her experiences growing up in Southern California. Her memories and experiences from trips to the beach and the mountains, as well as travels around the world and throughout Europe are inspirations in the making of her work. Currently living in the city of San Francisco, she thinks about life and how the ocean is the connecting element around the world that gives and takes life. Tiffany Laszlo believes in the ideals of astrology. Pisces is the sign symbolized by two fish – one down and one up showing that Pisces are frequently torn between two pathways in life. Tiffany’s artwork is an expression of these two different pathways or the contrasting currents that make up life. Since her natural element is water, she often feels connected to these elements and ideas which are all abstractly conveyed in her body of work.In the Studio, Tiffany uses these ideas to create her abstracted work. By using a combination of techniques, such as the old masters thick impasto and modern day techniques like paint poring and Paper Mache work, she is able to create her unique textures, expressive paint marks, and applications.
Tiffany Laszlo is a BFA, (Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts Graduate of The Academy of Art University in San Francisco, CA.
www.tiffanyjlaszloart.com
Carolyn WarmSun - Painting
Painting for me is a journey. And my intention is to paint in such a way that you can enter the piece, travel through and around it, and have your own experience -- you own journey. I want you to be able to interact with my work in such a way as to evoke your memories and your spirit. I hope my paintings are a portal for you.
Art in some form has been part of my life always, but only recently has it become my life's work. I started with watercolor, then moved to acrylic. I started painting what I saw, and now paint what I remember, or think about, or feel, or just what comes off my hands to the brush to the canvas. I LOVE texture and typically create a lot of it in my work. Sometimes I texture the canvas or board before beginning to paint, and sometimes I texture as the work progresses. To see more of my work, visit www.warmsunart.com
Craig Gillooly and Golda King (Collaborative Team) - Mixed Media painting
Craig Gillooly and Golda King are two San Francisco based artists who are collaborating on a series about the warrior archetype.
Unexpected views of the ordinary - Ordinary views of the unexpected'. What this means is that I love finding new ways to see what's around me. I am drawn to shapes, juxtapositions and visual irony, mostly in urban settings.
Combining my love of photography and my passion for computers, I began calling myself a Photo Artist rather than a photographer because of my post-photography processes. Often that involves my using digital filters to manipulate the photographs I take. Sometimes I change backgrounds; build composites of several images; or very selectively change colors. I love to play with the pixels to achieve something beyond what was visible into something that stretches the imagination. In this show I will be highlighting a new body of work that I call 'Fancy'. That can mean both glittery or fanciful. You choose.
Also an avid jazz lover, I have recently published a photo book called San Francisco Bay Area Jazz and Bluesicians which includes 117 portraits of local musicians taken during performances.
Much of my work can be seen at jessicalevant.com
Tiffany Laszlo - Painting
Tiffany Laszlo is inspired by textures, elements, as well as her experiences growing up in Southern California. Her memories and experiences from trips to the beach and the mountains, as well as travels around the world and throughout Europe are inspirations in the making of her work. Currently living in the city of San Francisco, she thinks about life and how the ocean is the connecting element around the world that gives and takes life. Tiffany Laszlo believes in the ideals of astrology. Pisces is the sign symbolized by two fish – one down and one up showing that Pisces are frequently torn between two pathways in life. Tiffany’s artwork is an expression of these two different pathways or the contrasting currents that make up life. Since her natural element is water, she often feels connected to these elements and ideas which are all abstractly conveyed in her body of work.In the Studio, Tiffany uses these ideas to create her abstracted work. By using a combination of techniques, such as the old masters thick impasto and modern day techniques like paint poring and Paper Mache work, she is able to create her unique textures, expressive paint marks, and applications.
Tiffany Laszlo is a BFA, (Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts Graduate of The Academy of Art University in San Francisco, CA.
www.tiffanyjlaszloart.com
Carolyn WarmSun - Painting
Painting for me is a journey. And my intention is to paint in such a way that you can enter the piece, travel through and around it, and have your own experience -- you own journey. I want you to be able to interact with my work in such a way as to evoke your memories and your spirit. I hope my paintings are a portal for you.
Art in some form has been part of my life always, but only recently has it become my life's work. I started with watercolor, then moved to acrylic. I started painting what I saw, and now paint what I remember, or think about, or feel, or just what comes off my hands to the brush to the canvas. I LOVE texture and typically create a lot of it in my work. Sometimes I texture the canvas or board before beginning to paint, and sometimes I texture as the work progresses. To see more of my work, visit www.warmsunart.com
Craig Gillooly and Golda King (Collaborative Team) - Mixed Media painting
Craig Gillooly and Golda King are two San Francisco based artists who are collaborating on a series about the warrior archetype.