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Artist Biographies -
Art: Recycled
and Found
August 12-21, 2006
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Lili Artel
Lili Artel was
a late bloomer starting her artwork in her fifties. She didn’t
obtain her art education until long after an A.B. in English from
Hunter College in New York City and a M.A. from San Jose State
University, San Jose, California in Librarianship. Her art
studies were received at California State University, Hayward,
CA. She received her Fine Arts credential in 1972. Her
primary focus in art school was in sculpture --ceramic, direct
metal, cast metal (bronze), wood and stone carving. Lili uses primarily
non-art materials, rope, all kinds of paper, nylon hose, hair,
fur, leather, feather and found objects to create her work. She
uses craft/ textile techniques (embroidery stitching, knitting,
knotting, wrapping and weaving often distorted and transformed
to achieve textures. She calls in “needle drawing”.
Lili
describes herself as a process artist who creates through curiosity
and play. “What if I tear rather than cut?
What if I unbraid the rope or yarn? What if I glue two pieces of
paper together and then pull them apart? Play enters into my work
in that I do not start out with a blueprint. My hands and
the materials do a dance and chance plays a part in the process.”
Art Brandenburg
Art
Brandenburg has been creating art for over 60 years. He
received a B.A. degree in commercial art from San Jose State
University and a secondary teaching credential as well as a Masters
Degree in Art Education from Cal State, East Bay. After
teaching secondary art in Fremont schools, he retired and now
devotes his time to his creative work and to supporting the art
organizations in the Hayward area. He has worked in oil,
acrylic, watercolor and mixed media painting, printmaking, sculpture,
photography, video and performance art. His work has been
shown at San Francisco Art Institute, the Sun Gallery, the Green
Shutter Gallery, the John O'Lague Galleria, Adobe Art Gallery,
Cal State, East Bay Gallery, the SFUU Gallery, Mendocino Art
Gallery, DACA Gallery and is in many private collections. In
June of 2005, he had a retrospective show at the Sun Gallery.
Colleen Calhoun
Colleen Calhoun creates
jewelry and assemblage from scrap metal, rubber and other found
materials. She was formally educated in fine arts and interior
design. She worked in the field of interior design in Minneapolis
and San Francisco for 12 years. She began experimenting with
scrap metals and rubber and has been selling and exhibiting her
work since 1997. She has been in a number of shows including the
annual Berkeley Trash to Treasures Show. Her goal is to make
compositions that allow viewers to appreciate surface up close,
both the raw and the refined, from the throw-away industry and
the natural world.
Barbara de Groot
Barbara de Groot is
a local Berkeley Artist and teacher of art who works in various
types of media such as monotypes; Chine Colle with other
media; Wood Block prints; Linoleum Block prints; Mixed Media Collage,
as shown here; Drypoint ;Transfer Methods; painting and
drawing. She was an Art Major in Hunter College in New York,
where she learned basic printmaking under noted printmaker, Gabor
Peterdi and later attended Academie Goetz in Paris, France where
she learned many of her specialized printmaking skills. Her
work is in many private collections and has appeared in many exhibits
in various galleries here and abroad and is archived in the Women’s
Museum in Washington, DC and in the National Portrait Gallery in
Washington, D.C.. The work pictured here are both collages. The
one on the left is called: All The News That’s Fit
to Print and recycles newspaper clippings as part of the
image in this monotype and collage. The one on the right is called:
The Offering and uses found objects as part of the collage.
Ella Driscoll
Ella Driscoll is
a native San Franciscan. She attended the University of California,
Berkeley and graduated with a B.S. degree in Public Health. For
many years she worked as a medical technologist in bay area hospitals
and clinics. Regarding her formal art training, she studied
art at Berkeley Evening High School, City College of San Francisco,
and with Richard Yip , watercolor artist, and with Rupert Garcia,
Chicano artist. She also studied photography with master
photographer, Allen Stross and at San Francisco City College and
San Francisco State University and continued her formal art education
when she was awarded a scholarship to the Academy of Art in San
Francisco, California. Ella has had a number of solo and
group shows and has received a number of prestigious awards
for her work. Her work has been shown in juried shows in New Mexico;
Idaho; Washington; Krakow, Poland and locally at the San Francisco
Women Artists Gallery. Her awards include, Purchase
Prize, San Francisco Art Festival, Best of Show, San Mateo Art
Festival, New Brunswick Bureau of Tourism, State of
Alaska, Photography, Pacifica, California, Photography. She
has several Merit Awards from the San Francisco Women Artists.
In this show, Ella uses found objects in her assemblage pieces
that comment on today’s changing world and states: “I
try to portray in my work the area between life and reality and
the unreal or fantasy, while still maintaining a sense humor. I
find this leads me to collage, assemblage., sculpture, "shoe
art" and boxes.
Mark Fischer
Mark Fischer is
a Cetacean Acoustic Artist -- an artist who works with the sounds
of whales, dolphins and birds he records while out on the ocean. He
then uses a mathematical formulas and a computer to convert these
sounds into images each unique from each other. He was born
in Pennsylvania , stationed in Amberg, Germany in the US Army and
earned a B. S. in electronics and computer engineering from George
Mason University . For 10 years he worked in software development,
defense and telecommunications and since 2002 has been doing independent
research in cetacean acoustics using wavelets, exploring both the
science and the art of the way they use sound.
Rinna B. Flohr
Rinna
B. Flohr is an interior architect and designer who makes
jewelry from left over building materials she encounters while
doing interior architecture and design or from discarded underwater
cameras which she gets from a relative who’s business is
to fix these cameras. She takes the discarded parts and
makes intricate and interesting “sculpture for the ear”. Rinna
believes that in a world where we have become so mobile and where
we no longer have offices but cubicles that walls have disappeared
and that our bodies have once again become the pedestals for
art as in times long ago when we wandered as nomads and wore
our trophies and precious adornments. She is also a floral
designer and has had her floral designs exhibited in the Legion
of Honor Museum and as part of the San Francisco De Young ‘Museum’s
Bouquets to Art show. For this show her jewelry and her
floral art is featured. Her floral art for this show uses
flowers she dries and recycles in arrangements she makes to compliment
and express the artwork next to which it is placed as in the
Bouquet to Arts . This is one of the only galleries that
features floral arts. Her work is on display as part of Art:
Recycled and Found, August 12 - 31. Rinna is also the
founder and Director of Expressions Gallery. More of her earrings
and floral art can be seen on her website: http://www.designideas.us.
Sofia Harrison
Sofia Harrison is
self-taught, she started creating artwork in 1999 and since then
has participated in numerous gallery and juried exhibitions in
the bay area, with selected shows in New York. She lives and works
in Napa and has been commissioned by clients across the country.
Sofia
uses glass and words with an entirely fresh perspective to create
a mixed-media piece that is visually pleasing, intelligent and
soulful. "I gather words in much the same manner as a
painter mixes paints," she explains. Magazine advertisements
are her favorite source for words and phrases: "When taken
out of context, they become either particularly funny or especially
poignant." Her work embodies the collective thought patterns
of our society: fractured but connected, expressing individuality,
desire, spirit and reason.
She affixes the words to the hand cut
glass pieces and then attaches them to mannequins, boxes, sash
windows, baby dolls and furniture. The framework chosen is often
dictated by what she can, to put it plainly, garbage-pick. "I
was driving in Berkeley and spotted an old stool half buried in
tall grass in a vacant lot. I almost caused an accident by making
a b-line to nab it." Now encrusted
with verbiage, the work is entitled Tossed in Berkeley. "I love
the process of reincarnation."
Clint Imboden
Clint Imboden works
in both photography and three-dimensional forms of art. He has
had a number of solo and group shows throughout the United States
and a traveling show in Scotland. His art career began with
photography, using the camera as a tool to connect what he saw
in his mind to what he wanted to produce as art. Later he became
more open to, and comfortable with incorporating found images,
objects, and text in his art. “I integrated these elements
slowly into more of my work, producing work that looked more and
more like mixed media pieces and installations and less like photography.
Recent work has included found x-ray, vintage 35 mm black and white
movie film; hack saw blades, text, Braille and Morris code. ”
He is attracted to objects, the artifacts of daily living, the
things that people discard, overlook or are taken for granted. “Objects
for me are broken down into two groups. The first group consists
of objects that I need to finish a particular project. The second,
and ultimately the more important group, is composed of random
objects that I come across while searching flea markets and junk
stores. It is not always clear to me why I find this second group
interesting; they just call to me. An interesting thing happens
to objects in group two; they compel me to think about them and
in doing so serve as catalyst for new projects and greater insight. ” Shown
at Expressions Gallery are his globe series using found objects
recycled into interesting sculpture.
Roz Joseph
Roz Joseph's photographs
have been exhibited and published since l978. Her
work has appeared in calendars, note cards, magazines and on the
Web. Her photographic book, 'DETAILS: The Architect's Art" with
text by Sally B. Woodbridge, was published by Chronicle Books. Her
photos are in the corporate collections of IBM, Security Pacific
Bank and Transamerica Corporation. Roz’s work
captures things we see everyday but often do not notice -- found
art. She captures the image with her creative skill, with
an eye for the richness of color and presents it in a way
we can’t help but notice it. Her subject matter has varied
over the years from natural subjects, to architecture, to festivals
and celebrations and to detailing city scenes. She turns these
images of everyday encounters with our world into modern abstractions. Color
is definitely a driving force in her photography. She says that
she used to work primarily in Black and White when she lived in
New York, but since having moved to bright and colorful California,
color photography has become her prime medium.
Athens Kolias
Athens Kolias known
as Athens K Designs, lives in the Bay Area and handcrafts elegant
and whimsical purses. A veteran of the fashion accessory
world, Athens started designing her handbags as an answer to the
need to carry some essentials when she went out dancing. She
has been a textile packrat for many years. She uses many wonderful
recycled fabrics collected over the years. These include fabrics
from the window displays of the high-end fashion world and scraps
from the interior design worlds. All her bags are made individually,
with no purchased handles. All zippers are embellished with
either a tassel or a bead or something interesting. Linings
are just as important as the visible side of these purses, and
many times present a whimsical design sense. Tassels, beads
and dangles frequent these artful wrist bags. Athens fabric
art is on exhibit at Expressions Gallery from August 12-31,2006.
Kristin Lamb
None available at this
time.
Rafael Landea
Rafael Landea is
a local Bay Area Artist who came to the United States from Argentina.
His works are exhibited and admired in galleries around the world. He
recycles old 33 1/3 records which he uses as his canvas and
paints various
scenes of people listening to their record players. The records spin if
you spin them manually. Much of his art depicts music, dance and theatre.
His art is on exhibit as part of the Art: Recycled and Found show at Expressions
Gallery from August 12-31st.
Jennifer Wallace Mack
Jennifer Wallace
Mack has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the San Francisco
Art Institute. She works in various media: painting,
photography, mixed media, and jewelry. Her work is consistent
in the quality and detail in each medium she applies. She
has exhibited at a number of solo, and group shows, many of which
were juried. Shown at Expressions Gallery are her mixed
media paintings and her magnificent jewelry. Jennifer
has served on various Board of Directors for long standing Artist
Organizations such as the San Francisco Women Artists where she
was a past President and continues n the current Board as Vice
Treasurer and The San Francisco Gem and Mineral organization
where she is currently Treasurer. Jennifer has an eye for
detail she can work in minute scale with tiny beadwork or large
scale with paintings. She has a desire to and accomplishes finding
new ways to use the tools of her art to create beautiful and
out of the ordinary pieces of work. Her jewelry uses recycled
beads and her paintings that are part of this show, are collage
that contain found objects that she incorporates as part of her
art. Her work is on exhibit at Expressions Gallery from August
12-31st.
Sonia Melnikova
Sonia Melnikova was
born and trained as an artist and then architect in Moscow, former
USSR. She holds a Master’s degree in Architectural Design
from the prestigious Moscow State Architectural Institute, and
at various times worked as an architect, graphic artist, exhibit
curator, and interior designer, first in Moscow and later, since
1987, in San Francisco. Her artworks in various media were exhibited
in art salons in Moscow and The Jewish Museum San Francisco, as
well as Virginia Brier Gallery, Spectrum Gallery, Fort Mason, Show'n
Tell Gallery, The Painted Lady Gallery, Gallery Route One, College
of Marin, Bradford Gallery, Euphrat Gallery, De Anza College, Koret
Gallery, FLEUR't, and other venues. Her works in this exhibit represent
three portfolios: “Concrete Art”, “Rusty Things”,
and “Still Lifes on Sand’, all of which in some
way reflect on the central theme of this exhibit, recycled and
found art. Its message is that real worth is not necessarily in
the preciousness of the material or conventional attractiveness
of things, and that beauty and artistic ideas can be found even
in a pile of trash, a fragment of a decaying concrete wall, rusty
fence, or the broken stairs.
Udi Peled
Udi Peled is
a local artist whose work has been purchased for exhibit at the
Berkeley Jazz School. In addition, his work adorns many a
catalogue cover for UC Berkeley. He has shown his art at
various select galleries. Born in Israel, he is now living
permanently in the United States. Udi blends expressionism with
a style based on raw talent. Udi’s versatile works
are a favorite amongst local art collectors. He is available for
commissioned art works as well as the artwork that is displayed
in this show for which he painted a man drinking beer and tossing
the cans into the recycling truck. His is one of the few works
in the show that have painted man engaged in the recycling process.
Kimiko Sakuma
Kimiko Sakuma is
an innovative artist who experiments with various mediums and material.
She finds inspiration in the re-use of objects, such as newspaper
and recycled material, because it is the process of transforming
an ordinary item and redefining the way that people identify with
it.
She holds a B.A, from the University of California,
Los Angeles in World Arts and Cultures and a M.A. in Instructional
Design from San Francisco State University. She is currently the
Artist and Founder of Work Art World (www.workartworld.com), a
program incorporating Art within the office and cubicle space.
Her work is currently in various office buildings and restaurants
within the Bay Area.
Her Artwork is currently on exhibit at the
Artist Exchange Gallery in San Francisco. Kimiko has also been
selected to create an Art piece depicting Fisherman’s Wharf
at the eleven mile mark for the San Francisco Marathon 2006. Kimiko
has been an Art Editor for Tea Party and Arts and Culture Magazine
and a promoter of Masterteecom, a website which supports Japanese
Art and Folklore. Her work is in mixed media and is on exhibit
at Expressions Gallery as part of Art: Recycled & Found show
August 12 – 31.
Mikio Sakuma
Mikio Sakuma is
an imaginative artist who uses found objects in nature to create
tranquil zen scenes using his signature Japanese Miko Doll. He
believes that objects found in nature possess an organic beauty
and conveys various levels of energy when arranged in different
artistic ways.
Mikio grew up in a small town in Chiba, Japan and
over the years has evolved his craft in the United States. He was
a contributing Artist in Tea Party an Arts and Culture Magazine
for issue #16 He is currently the Artist and Founder of Miko Dolls
(www.mastertee.com), a website which displays Japanese Dolls and
explores Japanese folklore in addition to illustrations, decorative
food carving, and comics.
Mikio has exhibited his work at the Artist
Exchange Gallery in San Francisco as well as various craft shows
throughout the Bay Area. His work is on exhibit at Expressions
Gallery as part of Art: Recycled & Found
show August 12 – 31, 2006.
Andrew Wickens
None available at this
time.
Artist Biographies -
Art: Recycled
and Found
August 12-21, 2006
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Lili Artel was a late bloomer starting her artwork in her fifties. She didn’t obtain her art education until long after an A.B. in English from Hunter College in New York City and a M.A. from San Jose State University, San Jose, California in Librarianship. Her art studies were received at California State University, Hayward, CA. She received her Fine Arts credential in 1972. Her primary focus in art school was in sculpture --ceramic, direct metal, cast metal (bronze), wood and stone carving. Lili uses primarily non-art materials, rope, all kinds of paper, nylon hose, hair, fur, leather, feather and found objects to create her work. She uses craft/ textile techniques (embroidery stitching, knitting, knotting, wrapping and weaving often distorted and transformed to achieve textures. She calls in “needle drawing”. Lili describes herself as a process artist who creates through curiosity and play. “What if I tear rather than cut? What if I unbraid the rope or yarn? What if I glue two pieces of paper together and then pull them apart? Play enters into my work in that I do not start out with a blueprint. My hands and the materials do a dance and chance plays a part in the process.” |
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Art Brandenburg has been creating art for over 60 years. He received a B.A. degree in commercial art from San Jose State University and a secondary teaching credential as well as a Masters Degree in Art Education from Cal State, East Bay. After teaching secondary art in Fremont schools, he retired and now devotes his time to his creative work and to supporting the art organizations in the Hayward area. He has worked in oil, acrylic, watercolor and mixed media painting, printmaking, sculpture, photography, video and performance art. His work has been shown at San Francisco Art Institute, the Sun Gallery, the Green Shutter Gallery, the John O'Lague Galleria, Adobe Art Gallery, Cal State, East Bay Gallery, the SFUU Gallery, Mendocino Art Gallery, DACA Gallery and is in many private collections. In June of 2005, he had a retrospective show at the Sun Gallery. |
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Colleen Calhoun creates jewelry and assemblage from scrap metal, rubber and other found materials. She was formally educated in fine arts and interior design. She worked in the field of interior design in Minneapolis and San Francisco for 12 years. She began experimenting with scrap metals and rubber and has been selling and exhibiting her work since 1997. She has been in a number of shows including the annual Berkeley Trash to Treasures Show. Her goal is to make compositions that allow viewers to appreciate surface up close, both the raw and the refined, from the throw-away industry and the natural world. |
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Barbara de Groot is a local Berkeley Artist and teacher of art who works in various types of media such as monotypes; Chine Colle with other media; Wood Block prints; Linoleum Block prints; Mixed Media Collage, as shown here; Drypoint ;Transfer Methods; painting and drawing. She was an Art Major in Hunter College in New York, where she learned basic printmaking under noted printmaker, Gabor Peterdi and later attended Academie Goetz in Paris, France where she learned many of her specialized printmaking skills. Her work is in many private collections and has appeared in many exhibits in various galleries here and abroad and is archived in the Women’s Museum in Washington, DC and in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.. The work pictured here are both collages. The one on the left is called: All The News That’s Fit to Print and recycles newspaper clippings as part of the image in this monotype and collage. The one on the right is called: The Offering and uses found objects as part of the collage. |
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Ella Driscoll is a native San Franciscan. She attended the University of California, Berkeley and graduated with a B.S. degree in Public Health. For many years she worked as a medical technologist in bay area hospitals and clinics. Regarding her formal art training, she studied art at Berkeley Evening High School, City College of San Francisco, and with Richard Yip , watercolor artist, and with Rupert Garcia, Chicano artist. She also studied photography with master photographer, Allen Stross and at San Francisco City College and San Francisco State University and continued her formal art education when she was awarded a scholarship to the Academy of Art in San Francisco, California. Ella has had a number of solo and group shows and has received a number of prestigious awards for her work. Her work has been shown in juried shows in New Mexico; Idaho; Washington; Krakow, Poland and locally at the San Francisco Women Artists Gallery. Her awards include, Purchase Prize, San Francisco Art Festival, Best of Show, San Mateo Art Festival, New Brunswick Bureau of Tourism, State of Alaska, Photography, Pacifica, California, Photography. She has several Merit Awards from the San Francisco Women Artists. In this show, Ella uses found objects in her assemblage pieces that comment on today’s changing world and states: “I try to portray in my work the area between life and reality and the unreal or fantasy, while still maintaining a sense humor. I find this leads me to collage, assemblage., sculpture, "shoe art" and boxes. |
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Mark Fischer is a Cetacean Acoustic Artist -- an artist who works with the sounds of whales, dolphins and birds he records while out on the ocean. He then uses a mathematical formulas and a computer to convert these sounds into images each unique from each other. He was born in Pennsylvania , stationed in Amberg, Germany in the US Army and earned a B. S. in electronics and computer engineering from George Mason University . For 10 years he worked in software development, defense and telecommunications and since 2002 has been doing independent research in cetacean acoustics using wavelets, exploring both the science and the art of the way they use sound. |
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Rinna B. Flohr is an interior architect and designer who makes jewelry from left over building materials she encounters while doing interior architecture and design or from discarded underwater cameras which she gets from a relative who’s business is to fix these cameras. She takes the discarded parts and makes intricate and interesting “sculpture for the ear”. Rinna believes that in a world where we have become so mobile and where we no longer have offices but cubicles that walls have disappeared and that our bodies have once again become the pedestals for art as in times long ago when we wandered as nomads and wore our trophies and precious adornments. She is also a floral designer and has had her floral designs exhibited in the Legion of Honor Museum and as part of the San Francisco De Young ‘Museum’s Bouquets to Art show. For this show her jewelry and her floral art is featured. Her floral art for this show uses flowers she dries and recycles in arrangements she makes to compliment and express the artwork next to which it is placed as in the Bouquet to Arts . This is one of the only galleries that features floral arts. Her work is on display as part of Art: Recycled and Found, August 12 - 31. Rinna is also the founder and Director of Expressions Gallery. More of her earrings and floral art can be seen on her website: http://www.designideas.us. |
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Sofia Harrison is self-taught, she started creating artwork in 1999 and since then has participated in numerous gallery and juried exhibitions in the bay area, with selected shows in New York. She lives and works in Napa and has been commissioned by clients across the country. Sofia uses glass and words with an entirely fresh perspective to create a mixed-media piece that is visually pleasing, intelligent and soulful. "I gather words in much the same manner as a painter mixes paints," she explains. Magazine advertisements are her favorite source for words and phrases: "When taken out of context, they become either particularly funny or especially poignant." Her work embodies the collective thought patterns of our society: fractured but connected, expressing individuality, desire, spirit and reason. She affixes the words to the hand cut glass pieces and then attaches them to mannequins, boxes, sash windows, baby dolls and furniture. The framework chosen is often dictated by what she can, to put it plainly, garbage-pick. "I was driving in Berkeley and spotted an old stool half buried in tall grass in a vacant lot. I almost caused an accident by making a b-line to nab it." Now encrusted with verbiage, the work is entitled Tossed in Berkeley. "I love the process of reincarnation." |
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Clint Imboden works in both photography and three-dimensional forms of art. He has had a number of solo and group shows throughout the United States and a traveling show in Scotland. His art career began with photography, using the camera as a tool to connect what he saw in his mind to what he wanted to produce as art. Later he became more open to, and comfortable with incorporating found images, objects, and text in his art. “I integrated these elements slowly into more of my work, producing work that looked more and more like mixed media pieces and installations and less like photography. Recent work has included found x-ray, vintage 35 mm black and white movie film; hack saw blades, text, Braille and Morris code. ” He is attracted to objects, the artifacts of daily living, the things that people discard, overlook or are taken for granted. “Objects for me are broken down into two groups. The first group consists of objects that I need to finish a particular project. The second, and ultimately the more important group, is composed of random objects that I come across while searching flea markets and junk stores. It is not always clear to me why I find this second group interesting; they just call to me. An interesting thing happens to objects in group two; they compel me to think about them and in doing so serve as catalyst for new projects and greater insight. ” Shown at Expressions Gallery are his globe series using found objects recycled into interesting sculpture. |
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Roz Joseph's photographs have been exhibited and published since l978. Her work has appeared in calendars, note cards, magazines and on the Web. Her photographic book, 'DETAILS: The Architect's Art" with text by Sally B. Woodbridge, was published by Chronicle Books. Her photos are in the corporate collections of IBM, Security Pacific Bank and Transamerica Corporation. Roz’s work captures things we see everyday but often do not notice -- found art. She captures the image with her creative skill, with an eye for the richness of color and presents it in a way we can’t help but notice it. Her subject matter has varied over the years from natural subjects, to architecture, to festivals and celebrations and to detailing city scenes. She turns these images of everyday encounters with our world into modern abstractions. Color is definitely a driving force in her photography. She says that she used to work primarily in Black and White when she lived in New York, but since having moved to bright and colorful California, color photography has become her prime medium. |
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Athens Kolias known as Athens K Designs, lives in the Bay Area and handcrafts elegant and whimsical purses. A veteran of the fashion accessory world, Athens started designing her handbags as an answer to the need to carry some essentials when she went out dancing. She has been a textile packrat for many years. She uses many wonderful recycled fabrics collected over the years. These include fabrics from the window displays of the high-end fashion world and scraps from the interior design worlds. All her bags are made individually, with no purchased handles. All zippers are embellished with either a tassel or a bead or something interesting. Linings are just as important as the visible side of these purses, and many times present a whimsical design sense. Tassels, beads and dangles frequent these artful wrist bags. Athens fabric art is on exhibit at Expressions Gallery from August 12-31,2006. |
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Rafael Landea is
a local Bay Area Artist who came to the United States from Argentina.
His works are exhibited and admired in galleries around the world. He
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Jennifer Wallace Mack has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the San Francisco Art Institute. She works in various media: painting, photography, mixed media, and jewelry. Her work is consistent in the quality and detail in each medium she applies. She has exhibited at a number of solo, and group shows, many of which were juried. Shown at Expressions Gallery are her mixed media paintings and her magnificent jewelry. Jennifer has served on various Board of Directors for long standing Artist Organizations such as the San Francisco Women Artists where she was a past President and continues n the current Board as Vice Treasurer and The San Francisco Gem and Mineral organization where she is currently Treasurer. Jennifer has an eye for detail she can work in minute scale with tiny beadwork or large scale with paintings. She has a desire to and accomplishes finding new ways to use the tools of her art to create beautiful and out of the ordinary pieces of work. Her jewelry uses recycled beads and her paintings that are part of this show, are collage that contain found objects that she incorporates as part of her art. Her work is on exhibit at Expressions Gallery from August 12-31st. |
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Sonia Melnikova was born and trained as an artist and then architect in Moscow, former USSR. She holds a Master’s degree in Architectural Design from the prestigious Moscow State Architectural Institute, and at various times worked as an architect, graphic artist, exhibit curator, and interior designer, first in Moscow and later, since 1987, in San Francisco. Her artworks in various media were exhibited in art salons in Moscow and The Jewish Museum San Francisco, as well as Virginia Brier Gallery, Spectrum Gallery, Fort Mason, Show'n Tell Gallery, The Painted Lady Gallery, Gallery Route One, College of Marin, Bradford Gallery, Euphrat Gallery, De Anza College, Koret Gallery, FLEUR't, and other venues. Her works in this exhibit represent three portfolios: “Concrete Art”, “Rusty Things”, and “Still Lifes on Sand’, all of which in some way reflect on the central theme of this exhibit, recycled and found art. Its message is that real worth is not necessarily in the preciousness of the material or conventional attractiveness of things, and that beauty and artistic ideas can be found even in a pile of trash, a fragment of a decaying concrete wall, rusty fence, or the broken stairs. |
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Udi Peled is a local artist whose work has been purchased for exhibit at the Berkeley Jazz School. In addition, his work adorns many a catalogue cover for UC Berkeley. He has shown his art at various select galleries. Born in Israel, he is now living permanently in the United States. Udi blends expressionism with a style based on raw talent. Udi’s versatile works are a favorite amongst local art collectors. He is available for commissioned art works as well as the artwork that is displayed in this show for which he painted a man drinking beer and tossing the cans into the recycling truck. His is one of the few works in the show that have painted man engaged in the recycling process. |
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Kimiko Sakuma is an innovative artist who experiments with various mediums and material. She finds inspiration in the re-use of objects, such as newspaper and recycled material, because it is the process of transforming an ordinary item and redefining the way that people identify with it. She holds a B.A, from the University of California, Los Angeles in World Arts and Cultures and a M.A. in Instructional Design from San Francisco State University. She is currently the Artist and Founder of Work Art World (www.workartworld.com), a program incorporating Art within the office and cubicle space. Her work is currently in various office buildings and restaurants within the Bay Area. Her Artwork is currently on exhibit at the Artist Exchange Gallery in San Francisco. Kimiko has also been selected to create an Art piece depicting Fisherman’s Wharf at the eleven mile mark for the San Francisco Marathon 2006. Kimiko has been an Art Editor for Tea Party and Arts and Culture Magazine and a promoter of Masterteecom, a website which supports Japanese Art and Folklore. Her work is in mixed media and is on exhibit at Expressions Gallery as part of Art: Recycled & Found show August 12 – 31. |
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Mikio Sakuma is an imaginative artist who uses found objects in nature to create tranquil zen scenes using his signature Japanese Miko Doll. He believes that objects found in nature possess an organic beauty and conveys various levels of energy when arranged in different artistic ways. Mikio grew up in a small town in Chiba, Japan and over the years has evolved his craft in the United States. He was a contributing Artist in Tea Party an Arts and Culture Magazine for issue #16 He is currently the Artist and Founder of Miko Dolls (www.mastertee.com), a website which displays Japanese Dolls and explores Japanese folklore in addition to illustrations, decorative food carving, and comics. Mikio has exhibited his work at the Artist Exchange Gallery in San Francisco as well as various craft shows throughout the Bay Area. His work is on exhibit at Expressions Gallery as part of Art: Recycled & Found show August 12 – 31, 2006. |
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