John Natsoulas Gallery

Underneath, there’s a hint that they might bite

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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….

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…

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…

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…

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

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…

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…

Dark, somber and foreboding

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…

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…

  “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…

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…

Playful, mysterious, contemplative

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…

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

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

One of the founding fathers of American ceramic sculpture

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

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…

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

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