Artists Archive

In the experience of Mark Abildgaard’s art the emphasis is on transformation.

A visual language consisting of narrative sculpture using humans and anthropomorphic animals.

Almeida offers us much more than the immediate satisfactions of well-painted celebrations of the visual world. On closer inspection the careful viewer desiring greater range…

Influences of Modigliani’s elongated faces and the monumental heads of Easter Island

The intent of my work is to allow the viewer to interpret meaning using their own experience.  My feelings/ thoughts behind it are directly related…

One of the founding fathers of American ceramic sculpture

  Bar Shacterman is a Northern Californian ceramic sculptor with a diverse, international background. Born in Odessa, Russia, his family immigrated to Israel when he…

The American landscape plays a vital role in the definition of national identity and pride, both a tribute to the glorious past and a testament…

A piercing visual language, one that motivates us, if not to act, then to think differently

Assembling her sculpture from junk materials, defining her skills as a true constructivist

In the 1950’s, when Bay Area painters turned away from abstract expressionism and began painting the figure, it was not the figure painted by the…

Born in Indiana and a graduate of Ball State University with a BS in Art Education, Chella came to Modesto in September 1956 and over…

Playful, mysterious, contemplative

Dan Corbin’s figurative sculptures are a convergence of conceptual tendencies and the human figure. In Corbin’s intersection of figuration and conceptualism, past, present and future…

  “Frank Damiano’s work has always had an emblematic side. In his early collages and paintings, objects were presented rather as one finds them displayed…

For more than three decades, David Gilhooly has worked from a handful of humorous themes in pressing together a vision of the universe unrivaled in…

David Hollowell’s work exhibits clearly his exacting technique, a kind of Pointillism and photorealism, and his concern with illusion and the nature of pictorial space.  …

Roy De Forest, one of the preeminent artists of the Bay Area, has long worked on his stunning visual tales. He has constructed exciting images…

Dwarka Bonner, born in Palo Alto, CA in 1949, was immersed in the sensibility of the Bay Area Figurative Movement from an early age. From…

Finley Fryer was born August 18, 1952 in Santa Monica, California. In theearly 70’s he enrolled in Davis, studying with Roy Deforest, Manuel Neri,William T….

Boyd Gavin, “…paints in a very straightforward manner, with a loose brushstroke and bright palette that lends itself well to painting small, easily recognizable objects…

Sean Henry’s nearly (but never quite) life-size sculptures of human beings are more mundane than monumental. They’re expressive but expressionless, individuated yet general. They engage…

David Hollowell’s exquisite figures inhabiting the spaces are rendered in carefully formed historical illusions often with a disorienting sense of perspective. For many years, he…

Born in Akron, OH in 1970, Janis Mars Wunderlich received her BFA from Brigham Young University in Utah and MFA from Ohio State University. Her…

Originally from Buffalo New York, Jeff Downing discovered the art of ceramics in 1982 while studying music composition at the State University of New York…

Jennifer Pochinski, born 1968, was raised in Kailua, Hawaii. She received her BFA in Painting from the University of Hawaii in 1991. From the age…

Kanna was born in Tokyo in 1963 and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. In 1985, Kanna earned a Bachelor of Arts degree cum…

Kerry Rowland-Avrech is a true American Painter. As an art historian, I find the strength in her art to be her great understanding of color…

Leslie Toms is a contemporary American painter focused on landscapes, cityscapes & still life. These paintings are filled with rich colors and dramatic brushstrokes. Her…

The inspiration for my artwork comes from several sources.The natural world provides infinite variations of beauty, textures, patterns, color. Some images I choose to paint…

Lush landscapes and poignant still lifes, which reflect years of study of the characteristics of light

Margaret Keelan received her BFA at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada and her MFA at the University of Utah.  In 2003 she juried the California…

Marie Pascal studied in a school of graphic art in Paris. What she gained from her training in Paris is still very useful to her…

Much like a portrait painter, Martucci produces three-dimensional portraits of dogs in addition to making artwork on other subjects. One of the most enjoyable aspects…

William Maul graduated from Central Michigan University in 1980. His primary media are oil and acrylic. Maul’s most successful works express his deepest interest: “I…

California artist Michelle Gregor lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area.  Her career as a sculptor spans 27 years.  Michelle heads the Ceramic…

Tomoko  Nakazato narrates the contemporary tales of human experiences through her animated ceramic sculptures.  Although Tomoko’s love for all things cute, animation, and West coast…

Royal Nebeker is a highly regarded Oregon narrative painter and teacher. During his academic tenure, he was the Director of the Art Institute on the…

Gladys Nilsson, a founding member of the Chicago Hairy Who, studied at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) from 1958 to 1962….

 James “Jim” Nutt attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, in Chicago, Illinois.  Nutt was a founding member of the Chicago surrealist art movement known…

The years Emmy Lou has lived have enriched her pictorial language but have not destroyed in this fine painter of today, who handles beautifully, fresco,…

Implying bizarre narratives, Avery Palmer’s sculptures encourage engagement of the imagination. HIs dreamlike combinations of figurative and architectural elements with other objects of ambiguous symbolism…

It has been written that “David Post comes by his feeling for art naturally,” his father and mother being a painter and sculptor respectively (Sacramento…

At first glance, Robert Ransom’s paintings may show the viewer a backyard barbeque or a roadside diner; the characters seem comical and somewhat blocky, each…

Lisa Reinertson had been creating monumental sculptures cast in bronze at Artworks Foundry since her first major commission: “Martin Luther King, Jr.” in Kalamazoo, MI…

Underneath, there’s a hint that they might bite

My work is influenced by post-modernism and American imagery: The humor and graphic nature of the Pop artists, like Warhol and Liechtenstein and the figurative…

Yoshio Taylor has worked in clay for over two decades and has become one of Sacramento Valley’s foremost artist in the field of ceramics. Taylor…

Wayne Thiebaud received his Master of Arts in 1953 from California State Sacramento and has been a professor of art at the University of California…

When you or I drive, walk, or sail to a new place, we often use maps and charts to help visualize our journey and to…

“My affinity for the outdoor environments of my home state of California has, in great part, driven my desire to create artwork with the durability…