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Born and raised in Quito, Ecuador, my memories of life in that country merge with my life here, in Southern California. I am members of the Silver Lake Artist Community (SLAC)

Erna Avan was born in 1961 in city Baku, Republic of Azerbaijan. Her father was a Geography teacher and her mother was Director of Scientific Library of Baku. Erna started attending teaching practice at conservatoire when she was 5 years old. Her major was piano. In 1982 Erna completed conservatoire with exceptionally highest grades. She is a very talented musician and composer. In 1983 she had her first and the only son Roman. She lost her husband in 1994 and continued raising Roman alone. As a result of enormous creative energy and a stressful period of her life in September 2009 (48 years old) Erna suddenly started showing her talents in fine art. She was very inspired by famous painter Edvard Munchs art work "Scream" and the next morning she created her first art work (The Beginning). Erna has worked individually starting in 2009 and already had a chance to be introduced to Union of Armenian Painters in 2010. In 2010 due to circumstances she has moved to US. She has about 300 art representations. She had her first exhibition in July 2010 at XPress Art Center Royale Gallery located in Glendale, California. She continued to create new art works. In 2012 unfortunately she was diagnosed with cancer, and went through required procedures and now is hoping to continue to work towards expressing herself and her feelings in art.

Born: Detroit, MI

Schools: Wayne State University; University of California

at Long Beach; Arizona State University.

B.A. in Art and Sociology.

Graduate Certificate in Counseling.

I have been working and exhibiting as a fine artist for twenty years. I am also a poet and performance artist.

For fifteen years, I worked as the Director for a mental health program. I emphasized the benefits of art and writing to help clients control symptoms. I developed and facilitated several art and writing workshops for mental health consumers.

Since 2003, I have devoted my full attention to art. I work in collage, assemblage, painting and digital imagery. My work has been featured in several Palm Springs galleries including Evocative Arts, M-Modern, The Vault, and Gallery Mystere. I was represented by the Karen Long Gallery in Long Beach, CA. My newest art combines both assemblage and digital prints. Recently I've also experimented with more traditional abstract painting.

Co-founder of Five Changes and Manzanita Village Retreat Center in Southern California. I mentor and certify coaches, healers, artists, people in leadership roles, conscious business owners and entrepreneurs, in Hypnosis and NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programing) Constellation work, and mindfulness, facilitating workshops and retreats throughout the US.

Born in 1955 in Southern California. I am of mixed Japanese, North African and European-American heritage.

A self-taught artist, with artist parents so I was encouraged to paint and draw for as long as I remember, selling my art as early as age 9.

I was hired by Zox Studios, a thriving commercial airbrush studio in the San Fernando Valley while I was still in high school. After graduating in 1972 I continued there until 1976 as head designer, supervising up to twenty other artists. From 1976 to 1984 I became a freelance commercial artist.

I began teaching mindfulness and Zen meditation, and Iaido sword and Aikido around 1984 which greatly influenced my move from illustrative work to the fine arts.

From 1984 I focused solely on Fine Art, working in various mediums: watercolor, oils, pastel, pencil and sumi ink. I have my artists studio and Retreat Center in Warner Springs, CA.

Helen Berger was born in London, England to Russian émigré parents. It was a family of musicians/painters/singers and she grew up surrounded by these artists, making her sensibilities pretty much pre determined. She has been an artist all her life. After years of family influence and guidance, independent study in Paris, London and Los Angeles, assisting established artists and attending numerous workshops, she considers herself self-taught.

After using many different mediums over the years - wood, paper, clay, found objects, fabric and the camera. – Helen then settled into working with wood, paper and acrylic.

Her previous process was to layer paint, painted and cut paper onto a wood panel, continuing in multiple sanded layers and finishing with a distinct application of paint to emphasize the negative spaces. This work started out as a chaos of color, she challenged herself to recreate a mood of coherence, clarity and harmony on the panel.

Her latest series, although still on wood panel and using vellum, gesso and acrylic, blends the simplicity of repetitive shape with simple color and textural contrasts to create a play between tension and harmony.

My photographic career began in the 70s when I was working for Michael Childers as his Studio Manager. One day Michael asked me if I wanted to buy a camera, a Leica CL. I did, for $80. I took a photography course at Fairfax High and was soon hanging out in the darkroom. I discovered then that I love to print.

Since the late 70s, I’ve roamed the streets, malls, markets and public gatherings of Los Angeles. I’m drawn to places where large groups of people tend to congregate. I take my camera with me every day, shooting “from the hip” because I don’t want people to be aware of me.

I never studied the art of making pictures in an academic setting, but if there is anyone who has influenced me or defined my work, it is Henri Cartier-Bresson. I, too, search for what he so aptly called “the decisive moment.”

Another photographer I worked for, Lou Stoumen, and I used to talk about what we referred to as “the nun.” Lou had a shot of Taos where there was a tiny dark figure off to one side, a nun. Without her it would have been a boring shot of Taos, with her it caught your attention. My photographic project consists of “decisive moments” and “nuns.” May they be plentiful.

Born in Moscow , Russia /f. USSR/

Moscow's Art School at Kropotkin St.

MA graphic design from Stroganovskaya School of Art and Design, Moscow.

Graphic Design Workshop Artist Union USSR

Group Show at Bienalle/ Chekhoslovakia, Praga

1989- Came to USA, Los Angeles

1990-2009 Decorative painted furniture and murals

2008-1st Solo show TALK TO ME LA1 Modern Art Gallery

2010-2nd Solo show TALK TO ME LA 2 at Modern Art gallery

2012 Group show at Santa Monica Art Studios

2013 Group show "Seen and Unseen"Downtown LA

Phantom Gallery curator and artist

2013 Group show "Oneness"Phantom Gallery

2015 Group show at Civitella d'Agliano

2015 Group show at Nuremberg ,Germany

2016 Solo show at Lark Gallery Hawthorne and curator for CALIFORNIA show

Born in in the former Soviet Union, Alex Cheremisov started his photo career at high school in Odessa. He continued his love affair with photography at military service as an air-photographer. After that he got involved as still photographer in movie industry, news media and advertisement. At the same time Alex devoted himself more and more to fine art photography and received numerous prizes, awards and reviews by prestigious art critics.

Sandra Cohn

As an artist, I have a wealth of experience that permeates my work. For most of my life, beginning as a young child , I have been fascinated by consciousness, where it arises and resides, and how it affects our understanding of reality and beyond. This interest shows up in my work as an artist, compelling my work forward into deeper discovery.

At the age of 26, I had a near death experience. During this profound experience, I pierced the veil of our everyday consciousness. Additionally, I worked In Neuropsychology at UCSF Medical Center in California, studying the effects of brain conditions that affect personality and the nature of consciousness. Throughout my life, my defining interest has been exploring spiritual consciousness as our true nature; the embracing of the Whole, of Light and Dark. Art as a window to expansion is deeply interwoven in my work.

Along with my love of clay, and my love of color and texture in paint, I am drawn deeply to story, to words. I write poetry, perform, and mix it into my work or remix others poetry to reflect my work.

I am drawn to exploring the mix of these three mediums as well as sound. The materials I use reflect the history of our lives, Rusted found metal pieces mixed in with sculpture each have their own story to tell and are used in a new form. House paint on roofing paper forms the texture of our daily life used in an artful form. It is in these multitude of mediums that the viewer drops the veil and begins to experience deeper truth and understanding.

No question but the painting of Jenik Cook - and hardly less the work she realizes in other media (most notably ceramics) -is abstract-expressionist. But it is not necessarily Abstract Expressionist. That is, however much it may evince the DNA of mid-century American "action painting," or even European counterparts such as tachism, l'art informel, or CoBrA, Cook's art only incidentally revives the method, much less the look, of these bumptious, scrappy art movements. Rather, to power her vision, she goes back to the roots of gestural modernism, finding dancing line, elastic contour, and fervid color in surrealism, in fauvism, in expressionism itself. The painting of Pollock and Kline, and of Fautrier and Jorn, gives Cook permission to work unfettered like this, and gives us the context to comprehend fully - even to empathize kinesthetically with - what she does. But she is not emulating, much less imitating, Afro or James Brooks in her graceful, muscular paintings on paper or rehashing Sam Francis or André Lanskoy with the rhythmic clots and scatterings of pigment that collect on her canvases (well, on a wide variety of more-or-less canvas-like support material). Look instead to Miro, Masson, Marc, or Münter, Pechstein or Picasso, Marcks or Matisse, for Cook's sources.

Indeed, look into Cook's own cultural heritage. The line that whips and loops throughout Cook's oeuvre, whether hurling forms across canvas expanses or tracing them on the sides of pots, whether describing slashing trails of pure pigment or the sinuous contours of human bodies, is no more a painted line than it is a written one. It is made less with the whole body - although one can sense a change of stance, a hip motion, in so many of these dancing whiplashes - than with the whole arm. These gestures issue from the wrist and the shoulder. They are in fact as much inscribed as painted. Their energy is not just telegraphic; it is calligraphic. If the vivacity of the image bespeaks Cook's Armenian blood, the rhapsodic curvaceousness of her line betrays her Iranian childhood. As comfortable speaking and writing Farsi as she is Armenian, Cook marries her disparate cultural sources -which of course now include the western European and American influences of her adult life - into an aesthetically cohesive mix with a surprisingly broad formal reach.

Perhaps the breadth of that reach, given the variety of sources, isn't actually so surprising. But it is always a bit startling to witness - that is, to be allowed to witness - an artist master such a conceptual and expressive range. Most artists have this range in them, but so many suppress it. For her part, however, Cook refuses to suppress her stylistic multivalency. Not only does she not limit her vision, but she uses that vision very consciously to drive her artmaking in as many ways as it needs to go. She may edit, but she does not self-censure. Her style, ultimately as coherent and personal as a signature, emerges from and among her plethora of approaches, approaches which themselves spring from her persistence, her prolific output, her knowledge of art, and her irrepressible verve. Jenik Cook's art springs forth -in several directions at once.

Peter Frank Los Angeles January 2010

2013 Sulkin/Secant Gallery, Bergamot Station, group show. Curated by lark. 2012 Harveys Gallery, L.A., 3 person show. Curated by Mr. Tony Clark. 2012 Love Birds Gallery, solo show. Curated by Star and Martha Higgins. 2010 - 2011 Disneyland, Anaheim, created an exterior mural.

2008 - 2009 Four Seasons Hotel, Westlake, created murals. 2006 - 2007 Lincoln Library, Illinois, created paintings and murals. 2005 Caesars Palace Hotel/Casino, Vegas, created murals. 2004 Venetian Hotel/Casino, Vegas, created murals. 2003 Disneyland Gran Californian Hotel, Anaheim, created paintings. 2001 - 2002 Disneyland, Japan, created paintings and murals. 2000 Ritz Carlton Hotel, Atlanta, created murals.

Private Collections

Mr. Rod Stewart Ms. Janet Jackson Mr. James Earl Jones Ms. Beverly Harris American Red Cross

Review

Paintings by Nigel Cooper appeared to be seen through the dark prism like Le Sidenier with illuminated figures and buildings in the distance. The technique of painting was very original in that the pigments appeared to be drawn with some force across the surface of the canvas.

Mr. William A. Emboden, PhD, FL.S. Art-to-Art palette Journal, 2013

Education

Attended California Art Institute

Bibi Davidson’s Bio www.bibidavidson.com bibiearth@aol.com

Bibi was born in Israel where she discovered her ability to draw and paint at a very early age, through the years she attended private teachings, and went to an art institute.

When her second daughter was born, bibi moved to Los Angeles where she worked as a film editor for 10 years.

At a certain time bibi decided that painting was her calling, she quit everything and started to paint her stories. Since then, she kept painting her subject, the girl who represented herself and tell the story of her life and her dreams.

Vered Galor has been involved with the fine art world as an artist, curator and educator for over thirty years. She received her BA and MA in Fine Art from California State University in Northridge in 1975 and 1978.

Mrs. Galor started her career as glass sculptor. In 1981 she established a business doing curatorial projects and consulting in Contemporary Fine Art.

She lectured, participated in discussions and wrote art programs to encourage the collaboration of Art and Architecture.

Since 1989 Mrs. Galor has been concentrating on photography. She has been creating here own work, teaching photography and showing with galleries in Los Angeles California, Fort Collins and Loveland, Colorado and Las Vegas Nevada.

Debora Gillman has studied art at UCLA, UC Santa Cruz, Otis and Los Angeles City College.

Exhibits include a group show in the Adult Education Division of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; individual and group shows at Park La Brea, including their annual “Art in the Park” events,where she has contributed a variety of award winning banner art and Tower Art designs. Other venues include The American Museum of Science & Energy in Oak Ridge, Tennessee; the Don O'Melveny Gallery, Los Angeles and The JAN Gallery, Los Angeles. Her work is also part of the permanent collection at Cedars Sinai, Los Angeles.

Debora has taught workshops for children and adults at Park La Brea and the Craft and Folk Art Museum. She has also coordinated and help put on numerous local community events. “Debi Doodles” is her popular coloring book creation for kids for the holidays as well as other themes. Debora has written and illustrated three books for young readers: THE PAINTER'S DREAM; DRAWING FROM THE MASTERS; and AN UN-BEAR-ABE SITUATION: BEARS AND THE ENVIRONMENT. She co-wrote and co-illustrated the third book with her mother, Miriam Gillman, who is also an artist/writer. Debora thanks her mother for "sharing her creative gene with her." All books can be seen at www.Xlibris.com and at www.barnesandnoble.com. More information is available on her website at www.DebiDoodlesART.com.

Born and raised in Los Angeles, California, Brenda Hurst received a BA degree in

Art, with an emphasis in photography, from California State University, Northridge. She has always worked in creative fields, whether it was as a scenic artist for the television & film business, as the Assistant to the Director of the Craft & Folk Art Museum, or later as a Director of Still Photography and Photo Producer at NBC Universal.

Brenda continued her exploration of various materials and methods at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, and now works as a full time artist at her studio located in northeast Los Angeles.

The focus of Brenda’s work is not only on painting, but also on mixed media assemblage, encaustic & photography. While incorporating a wide variety of materials and found objects, she’s interested in the process of discovering ways to bring them together in intriguing textural relationships, patterns, thoughts and inspirations.

Aazam Irilian was born in Iran and has resided in Southern California since 1977. Her extensive experience in a broad range of mediums is led by her passion for painting and sculpture. Aazam received her Bachelor of Arts and Masters of Art Education from California State University, Northridge. She has been a working artist and art educator for over 20 years—sharing her passion with students of all ages. Aazam has shown in galleries throughout the Southern California as well as Oregon and her works are in various private collections around the world. She is a member of Southern California Women’s Caucus for Art, Women Painters West, LAAA and Fusionart International.

I grew up in Southern California & was a nationally ranked figure skater during my teens & early 20's. While studying graphic design at Cal St. Long Beach I made the switch to fashion photography. I have lived & worked shooting for editorial & advertising clients in Los Angeles, New York, Paris, Milan, Chicago & Miami. Publications include: VOGUE Mexico, TV Guide, USA Today, Women?s Wear Daily & W Magazine. Ad Clients include: Bugle Boy, Joe Boxer, Coldwell/Banker, Miss Universe Corporation, Vuarnet/FRANCE & the Walt Disney Company. I am also a contributing writer/reviewer for the Yahoo Network & the Zagat Guide and was once chosen their

Faina Kumpan was moved from Odessa, Ukraine as a political refugee. She graduated from the Theatrical Art College in Odessa. In her not very exciting childhood, she was dreaming of other worlds. She was obsessed with science fiction.

Her emigration to New York opens the new opportunities. She worked as a designer and changed a lot of different professions. After moving to LA she returned to her love for art and Science Fiction. She attended numerous classes at UCLA Extension and many private workshops. She exhibited in many important galleries in LA and NY. She creates a fantasy world that is a once surreal and abstract, whimsical and vibrant. Whether creating painting or sculptures, her subjects are mystical creatures from another world, like fantastic figures stepping out of the pages of the futuristic fairy tale. She was participating in many group exhibitions.

She was awarded as a creative artist by City of LA for working together to celebrate Los Angeles as Creative Capital of the world. Her works are in many private collections.

Born in South Africa, Teresa Lakier currently lives/ works in Los Angeles. Teresa is best known for her Geometric Abstractions, and her Digital Art. She received a Bachelor of Arts for Art at California State University at Northridge and studied at the California Institute of Art, Westlake.

During her career as an artist, Teresa has exhibited at Bergamot Station in galleries: Secant/Sulkin and Beyond the Lines Gallery. She has also exhibited at Gallery 825, Hale Arts, LACDA, Lark Gallery, MOLAAA, TAG Gallery and Wallspace LA. Teresa has received awards in shows/publications, including Circle Quarterly Art Review Magazine, LA Municipal Art Gallery, MD Art Gallery, Mujeres al Pincel y la Lente, Phantom Galleries, West Hollywood Pop-up Gallery, and VIVA Gallery. Teresa has been represented/affiliated with Hale Arts, LAAA.org, and Wallspace LA. Online she is/ has been represented/affiliated with Artist.com, Bslog.com, Fineartamerica.com, and Saatchi.com.

Teresa is currently working on three bodies of work: Geometric Abstractions, Digital Prints and Portraiture.

Through her work, she reinvents herself using images, the correlation of line, shape, form, and perspective. She challenges the viewer enough to affect them, confuses them enough for them to ask the question, and then, again, challenges them enough to respond to what they see in front of them.

In the past, she has collaborated with three artists: Karen Kinney, Liz Duer, and Odenis Vitorelli.

A native of Pennsylvania, Dorothy Magallon's early interests were in oil painting. Through art classes and studies at the Otis College of Art and Design, she discovered a new passion working in three-dimensional Assemblage. Both mediums have offered her fertile imagination the flexibility to pursue her artistic language.

Dorothy Magallon has received numerous awards and accolades for her work and currently shows in competitions and art galleries around the United States. Her artwork has been the subject of many articles and reviews in national and regional publications. She is a member of the Los Angeles Art Association, Long Beach Art Association, and San Diego Art Institute.

EDUCATION

California University of Santa Barbara, B.A. with a major in Fine Arts, 1980

SOLO SHOWS

2014 Carr Winery, Santa Barbara, CA

2014 Curious Cup, Carpinteria, CA

2013 Anacapa Brewery, Ventura, CA

2013 ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL

INVITATIONAL EXHIBITIONS

2013 Carnival, Flow Art Space, Minneapolis, MN

2013 Rebirth Through Time, Joyce Gordon Gallery, Oakland CA

2012 FISH 2012 International, Lightwell Gallery, University of Oklahoma School of Art and Art History

2012 Modern Masters Group Exhibition, Art in Focus: Broken Boundaries, Chelsea, NY

GROUP/ EXHIBITIONS

2014 CA 101 3rd annual, Pier Plaza Galleries, Redondo Beach CA

2014 Art Comes Alive, Art Design Consultants’ Gallery, Cincinnati, OH – Award, Sculptor of the Year

2014 Petite Landscapes, Santa Barbara Tennis Club, Santa Barbara, CA

2013 Compass, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA

2013 UnHinged, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Brooklyn, NY

2013 26th Annual September Competition, Alexandria Museum of Art, Alexandria, LA

Honorable Mention

2012 PINNACLE, Foster Tanner Fine Arts Gallery, Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, FL

First Place

2012 LaGrange National XXVII Exhibition, Lamar Dodd Art Center, LaGrange, GA Purchase award

2011 98th Annual Exhibition, The National Arts Club, New York, NY Sculpture cash award

2011 PINNACLE: National Juried Art Exhibition, Foster Tanner Fine Arts Gallery, Tallahassee, FL, 3rd Place

2006 International Assemblage Artist Exhibition, Gallery

I have always loved art and I started painting a few months ago. It has become my passion.

Honored Artist of Ukraine,

Associate Professor of Humanities at the University of the Crimea,

Member of the Union of Designers of Ukraine,

Member of the National Union of Artists,

Member of the League of Architects Yalta,

Sergei Milokumov born in 1961. in Cherkassy (Ukraine). He graduated from the Art Academy of Kharkov (cum laude). Was an intern at the Higher School of Art & Design HIF (Halle / s) (Germany).

In May 2002 Sergey Milokumov received from the President of Ukraine title of the Honored Artist of Ukraine.

Born in Johannesburg, South Africa, I trained as a graphic artist at The Johannesburg School of Art. After working in advertising for J.Walter Thompson, I later freelanced in Fashion Illustration for ten years. Political consciousness propelled both my husband and I to immigrate to the United States in 1973 where he continued his studies. I attended various art classes at both The Decordova Museum School and Boston University.

My studies in Printmaking, drawing and painting continued at UCLA and The Brentwood Art Center when we relocated to Los Angeles in 1978.

Working professionally since 1984 I exhibited and sold work throughout the United States as well as internationally.

I have introduced and taught new techniques of solar plate etching, Gum Arabic Lithography and other forms of non-toxic printmaking as well as Drawing, Papermaking, Mixed Media and Acrylic Painting.

About the Artist:

A self-taught, accomplished artist, Lily is influenced by the Fusionart style of painting, derived from mysticism, a Near-Eastern meets West spirituality, and a foundation in European painting technology. Lily’s one-of-a-kind finished works takes viewers on a spiritual, dream-like journey with techniques developed by using rags, brush and “hands on” the canvas painting. Lily is also an accomplished designer of several product lines of functional art. Lily paints from a soul level inspired by the essence of what she sees in others and nature.

Education

BA Studio Art - Photography, Stanford University. Stanford, CA 1989

Professional Affiliations:

Los Angeles Art Association – Artist member.

Group Shows:

May 2010 Branches & Leaves - SMAS Hangar Gallery, Santa Monica, CA;

Feb 2011 Back to Basics: New Paintings - SMAS Hangar Gallery, Santa Monica, CA;

May 2011 - SMAS Hangar Gallery, Santa Monica, CA;

June 2011 - The Happening Gallery, Venice, CA;

Oct 2011 Baked - SMAS Hangar Gallery, Santa Monica, CA;

Sept 2012 The Style's the Limit - SMAS Hangar Gallery, Santa Monica, CA;

March 2013 - SMAS Hangar Gallery, Santa Monica, CA;

March 2014 - Hale Arts Space, Santa Monica, CA.

Other Recognition:

Winner "Open Theme" Competition - artquench.com online gallery, Nov 2013;

Featured Artist - artsyshark.com online art e-zine, Nov 2013.

EDUCATION

2009 - 2011 MFA, Laguna College of Art and Design (LCAD), Laguna Beach, CA

Twice Awarded Albert K Murray Art Scholarship for artistic merit

1991 BFA, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

1988 AA, Cottey College, Nevada, MO

Here is an edited list of exhibitions and awards.

2014 Torrance Art Museum, MAS Attack 3, Juror Kio Griffith, Torrance, CA

2014 Studio C Gallery, Annual Women’s show, Juror: Ada Brown, Los Angeles, CA

2014 “Honorable Mention Award”, Contemporary Art Center, 25th AJS, Juror: John Seed, Las Vegas, NV

2014 Warehome, Solo show, Orange CA

2014 University North Carolina Ashville, 5th Annual Drawing Discourse, Juror: Tim Lowly, Group Show, Ashville, NC

2014 City of Brea Art Gallery, Made in California Exhibition, Juried Group Show, Brea, CA

2014 Saddleback College Gallery, Faculty show, Mission Viejo, CA

2013 West LA College Art Gallery, Group Show, Culver City, CA

2013 Garboushian Gallery, Group Show, Beverly Hills, CA

2013 USC Hillel Center Art Gallery, Group Show, Los Angeles, CAUSC Hillel

2013 Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Wide Open 4 National Juried Show, NY

2013 Nude Nite, National Juried Nude Art Expose, Orlando, FL

2011 “3rd Place Award” The Amarillo Museum of Art, National Juried Biennial: Figurative Painting, TX

2010 TAG Gallery, California Open Juried Exhibition, Santa Monica, CA

2009 “President’s Choice Award” Redlands Art Association, Juried Group Show, Redlands, CA

Born in Argentina, he has resided in California for more than thirty years. He graduated from the Universidad del Aconcagua with a Psychology and Art degree applied to Advertising and Communication Media. He has been painting since a very early age but is in the last few years that he starting dedicating himself full time to paint.

Hugo’s paintings represent a unique fusion of powerful energy of expressionism, intense personal symbolism. Pictorial, fluid and emotional components are of equal significance in his works.

The main thing for him is the expression of fluid motion, reflection of the movement of internal energy. When asked to describe his work he replied, ''I paint my Insides my guts, my feelings''

Review by Paola Trevisan from Trevisan International Art Ferrara Italy:

Hugo’s vibrant, intense, powerful art research together with his creative imaginary; add personal and unique inputs to any art exhibition. His singular abstract language where the interaction of spaces, forms and colors connection, create such rich and emotional results able to go beyond the physical limits of the canvas.

The high level of his paintings are full of vitality and experimentation; multicolored yet harmonious patterns, freedom of thought, purity of expression and above all, free creative energy of art.

Currently showing at International Contemporary Masters

Future shows: Las Vegas - Southern Nevada Museum of Fine Arts - USA

Tatiana Savchenko is a Los Angeles-based mixed-media artist whose practice explores the intersection of urban materiality, personal memory, and emotional resilience. Her work is characterized by a "visual dialogue" between found objects—such as industrial remnants, vintage correspondence, and discarded fragments—and expressive layers of acrylic and watercolor.In 2026, Savchenko’s presence in the Southern California art scene was highlighted by several key exhibitions. She was featured in the "March/Forward" showcase at Shoebox Projects within the Brewery Arts Complex and participated in the StARTup Art Fair at Venice Beach. Her collaborative artist book, LA: Two Voices, One City, created in partnership with Gregory Desgouttes, exemplifies her commitment to exploring unity and connection through shared creative narratives.By transforming everyday debris into layered, atmospheric compositions, Savchenko invites viewers to find tranquility and "healing" within the chaotic textures of modern life. Her work serves as a bridge between the mundane and the spiritual, aligning perfectly with the global call for empathy and connection through the universal language of art.

BS Edu, Univ. of Illinois; 7th International Fiber Art Biennale, Nantong, China; Colorida Art Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal; Beyond Function, de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University, CA; Poetic License, San Jose Museum Quilts & Textiles; 4th Riga International, Museum of Decorative Arts & Design, Latvia; Art by Women, Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE; Quilt National '13;

Ararat Regional Art Museum, Victoria, Australia, solo; Puke Ariki Museum, New Plymouth, NZ; Renwick Gallery/Smithsonian 25th Anniversary Exhibition;

Awards: Rochester Institute of Tech, The Art Quilt, Best of Show; Tokyo International Forum, World Quilt, Gold; Southampton, New York Silk Institute Purchase Award; City of Palo Alto Purchase Award; 2009 Skylark Prize, Los Angeles; Quilt National, The New Quilt, Innovation Award; State Fair CA Fine Art Exhibitions, Silver Award;

Jane Serebrenikov’s narrative graphical art works reflect her deeply lyrical and uniquely poetical vision. All her life she is interested in visual art and, grown up on fairy tales, combines magic, vivid imagination and sense of humor in her art works. She also inspired by the arts of Mark Chagall and Reno Magritte.

Jane is started etching 5 years ego and has been taken part of several exhibitions. She sold her arts nationally and internationally. She makes aquatint etchings. This is where the plate is immersed in acid and the lines and tones achieved when the acid “bites” the areas which have not been masked. Than color applied manually and print on printmaking press. Each print is unique.

Jane was born in Moscow, Russia and immigrated to Los Angeles in 1995 with her family. She graduated college as a graphic designer, holds AA degree and contentious working in printmaking studio.

I started taking photos during college. I began working with film, but discovering digital jumpstarted my becoming committed and dedicated. It freed me up to be more adventurous in following my being inspired by what I saw, without having to worry about costs of processing and buying film. Now I shoot digital only.

I began having photos shown in juried exhibitions in 2011. Since then, I have been in several juried exhibitions, and I have a solo exhibit now running.

Born St. Petersburg, Russia

Lives and Works in Los Angeles, CA

Education

Bachelor?s Degree in Economics, Institute of Soviet Trade, St. Petersburg, Russia

Fashion Design, Los Angeles Trade Technical College, California

Self-Taught Artist.

Member of Laguna Art.com. Member of LA FAN group of artists

Member of Aleatoric Modern Artists /MAMA/

Solo Exhibitions

2012-2013

Divided Sky bar, South Lake Tahoe, California

2011

Chrysalis, Gallery GoDo, Glendale, California

Elements Restaurant, Santa Barbara, California

Krystal Salon, Studio City, California

Group Exhibitions

2013

Townley Gallery ,Laguna Beach ,California

2012

Laguna Gallery of Contemporary Art, Laguna Beach,California

Gloria Delson Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California

Walk Art Way Gallery GoDo, Glendale, California

January 20th,March 23 rd Gallery Godo, Glendale, California

2011

Florence Biennale Internazionale D?Arte Conetemporanea, Firenze, Italy (catalog)

Happy 2, Gallery Godo, Glendale, California

Spring Brewery Art Walk, Diavolo Theater, Los Angeles, California

Save Japan, Gallery GoDo , Glendale, California

American Art Salon, Finalist, Juried Internet Exhibition, www.artjury.com

Projekt 30, Finalist, Juried Internet Exhibition, www.projekt30.com

Erotica, Gallery GoDo, Glendale, California

2010

Hotter Than July, Gallery GoDo, Glendale, Californ

Life-long artist Marlene Struss is a native of California. She received her bachelor's degrees in fine art and social sciences from the University of California Santa Barbara and found the climate, both physical and spiritual, so conducive to creativity that she never left the area. Since that time she has produced a large body of work in a variety of disciplines, including drawing, etching, painting, surrealistic and political collage and, most recently, digital painting. She is best known for the striking collages she calls "photage" to distinguish the unique technical process and the visual effect achieved.

Ms. Struss's collage and photage has been widely exhibited and acclaimed in group and solo shows throughout the United States. She is the recipient of the coveted Independent Artist Award in Collage/Assemblage from Santa Barbara Arts Fund. She is an award winner in the National Collage Society's 23rd annual Juried Exhibition and a juried member of the National Association of Women Artists. Her work has appeared in several publications, including Kennedy Publishing's juried books Best of California Artists & Artisans and Best of America Mixed Media Artists & Artisans. Recently she has been selected by invitation to participate in Kennedy's Best of Worldwide Genre volume.

She started learning and experimenting with digital photo processing in early 2010 using high-resolution images of her photage as starting points. She soon realized that she had a natural affinity for this state-of-the-art technology and the stylus "paintbrush." It didn't take long for the new media artworks to be selected for several competitive group exhibitions.

She refers to these large abstract organic-looking scapes printed on canvas with archival pigment as digital paintings. They are distinguished by their lively fluidity, sophisticated color, impression of dynamic space, and dramatic use of light and shadow. In addition to her experience with layering paper, the meticulous interlacing of layers involved in her new method harks directly back to the layering technique she was noted for in her early etchings. And like all her previous abstract work, she prefers to allow the image to evolve without preconception by means of a series of aesthetic decisions. The beauty and mystery of the final creation then becomes its own message.

To view examples of both photage as well as digital paintings, please visit www.startran.com/artweb.

Originally from Michigan, Maria was trained in Advertising and Graphic Design, but throughout her life has loved art. She began oil painting at 12, progressed into photography, and any other form she could get her hands on. Maria met her husband Scott through his mother and an oil painting class, and he sparked a whole new phase of artwork and experimentation. Together they created a line of masks that were sold in the Lake Michigan resort community of Grand Haven. While attempting to simulate a beaded mask, Maria discovered a technique that she has not yet stopped - Dimensional Pointillism.

The love of the desert and the Southwest has been a recurring theme in many of her works. Her unique style combines fabric, paint, markers, and found objects into pointillist works reminiscent of Australian aboriginal dotted paintings.

Maria has been a Board Member of the Vegas Artists Guild for three years, and is a strong supporter of Arts in Las Vegas. Her work as been shown at the PeaceNart Studio, La Chica Gallery, Jenny Valdez Gallery, and Jana's Red Room in the Arts Factory, the N.O.I.S.E. Project, the College of Southern Nevada, Southern Nevada Center for the Arts, City of the World Gallery, Dinosaurs and Roses, Studio 810, Circadian Gallery, RAW Vegas (2011 and 2012 Semi-finalist), FAM by JimiCTO, City of Las Vegas Celebrating Life Show and Guild shows throughout Las Vegas.

I was born to Armenian parents in 1979, in Beirut Lebanon. At the age of seven I discovered my passion for art and began creative adventures. Surrounded by different cultures, I adopted painting as a universally understood language of expressing my inner thoughts and emotions. While living through the regional and civil wars of Lebanon between the years of 1982 - 2006, I found refuge and beauty in my art as contrasted with the chaos of my circumstances. In 1993, at the age of 14, I won a first prize in painting from the Armenian Cultural Center, which encouraged me to attend academic art courses and to later develop my talents at Emmagoss Art Center. After graduating high school in 1998 with a diploma in Philosophy, I pursued my passion by specializing in Fine Arts at ALBA (Academie Libanaise des Beaux Arts), where I received my Master's Degree in 2003. From 1995 to 2007, I participated in collective art exhibitions in Lebanon. In 2008 I moved to the States with my family, where I currently work and exhibit my art.

born in Baku, Azerbajan, lived in Moscow since 16 years old, moved to L.A. in 1992;

M.F.A. in Film &Tv( Animation major) from UCLA;

involved in painting, writing and illustrating, cartooning, mixed media, paper theatre, small size dioramas

Cheryl Walker has been actively exhibiting her work in Los Angeles and nationally for three decades and her work is held in private collections internationally. She has created live visual effects in collaborative performance at REDCAT and MOCA. Walker has performed with Emilie Conrad, the founder of Continuum Movement, Rachel Rosenthal’s TOHUBOHU! Extreme Theater Ensemble, Simone Forti, and many others. Walker was recently commissioned to create a nine-venue participatory public art project in Minneapolis, MN and, she has created numerous public art installations in the greater Los Angeles region.

Walker completed an MFA in Drawing and Painting at California State University, Long Beach as well as graduate studies in Design at UCLA and English at the University of Minnesota. She currently teaches at Long Beach City College and Santa Monica Emeritus College. Through her long affiliation with the MOCA education department, Walker has also facilitated numerous educational partnerships and collaborations with LA Master Chorale, LA Opera, LA Philharmonic, UCLA Live, LAUSD Teachers, LA County Museum of Art, Craft and Folk Art Museum, Japanese American National Museum, Torrance Art Museum, CityLife, Armory Center for the Arts, LA Municipal Art Gallery, and the National Council of Jewish Women.

Barbara Wurdens' creative talents are expressed in several ways; she's an entrepreneur, fine artist, decorative painter and video producer.

Wurden was raised on a farm in northern Minnesota and graduated from college in 1985 from there she began to pursue her passion as an artist. She began by developing a decorative painting business and her creative signature is found in homes and commercial businesses throughout Southern California.

Friends and clients loved to watch her work and frequently inquired about the processes which consequently inspired her to create an instructional video to show them the steps. The idea blossomed into a ten title Faux Fun DVD series and the decision to be a one woman production company came from her thriving on the artistic challenges of product creation, packaging and design and sales and marketing, which lead her to selling her video in Home Depot.

She then went on to creating and producing a home improvement web show. It?s delivered with a feminine twist and she tags herself The Handy Goddess. She?s the Diva of Demolition and Design and has even managed to land her face on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno where she pitched to America.

However, Wurden expresses herself best through her fine art. It is on canvas where you can see her creative energies in a more mystical manner as her paintings go beyond packaging and design. In her portraits the expression of her life is mirrored in that point in time. Her paintings are abstract or abstractly coupled with realism and reflect vibrant colors with lively gestured brush stokes.

Hal yaskulka was born in Brooklyn Ny.

Studied at School of Visual arts,Taught at Art Center College of Design ,Pasadena

Young Yun Summers is a Los Angeles based artist. She was born in Korea and came to USA as a high school student. She inherited a love of art from her family and always knew she would be an artist.

Majoring in design in fine arts, she earned her BFA from the University of California, Los Angeles, and worked in retail advertising for many years. However, her passion to be a serious fine artist was not pursued while she was working full-time and raising a family.

After her son went off to college to study piano, she finally decided to fully commit herself to art.

Young started out painting her favorite subjects, such as her family, trees, rocks, things in nature. Then, she began to incorporate collages, as a way to enhance her paintings. Soon the painterly collage took over and became her signature medium, garnering great responses and awards. Lately, her collages have become more sculptural and experimental. Finding beauty and harmony in most unexpected way from items soon to be discarded, while reducing waste and recycle are important aspects of her artistic life.