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	Artist: Johnathan Ahn Jonathan Jungsuk Ahn was born in Seoul, South Korea and immediately displayed talent in fine arts. At age seven Jon moved to the Boston area, where he began studying under and studied under Mrs. Angell-Rickenbacker for over a decade until Jon left for Paris, France. Jon continued studying art in Paris within the hallow Parisian Museums. During this time, Jon produced a substantial body of work all the while studying the works of Old Masters. After several years of traveling the world, Jon settled in San Francisco where he has received his MFA at the Academy of Art University. Jon is skilled in a variety of media, including oil and acrylic paints, charcoal, and pencil, as well as sculpture. He particularly enjoys portraiture and other figurative works. He currently resides in San Francisco, where he divides his time between painting, studying, teaching and doting on his niece, Eloise. View Artist Page
	Artist: J. Scott Cilmi The focus of Scott Cilmi's paintings has been to create a sense of energy and spirit through color, composition, line and shape. The energy could be loud and powerful or quiet and subtle. He is most interested in using juxtapositions of color and exploring how layers affect each other. View Artist Page
	Artist: Thomas Easley Vibrant, cocky and life-affirming, the rooster series are Thomas Easley's answer to the troubled times we live in. What other animal or bird offers such a range of dramatic colors and postures that are a statement of pride and self assurance? The effortless strokes of the palette knife that give pizzazz to the roosters are a result of control and impeccable technique Easley developed as a classical realist artist in Europe. View Artist Page
	Artist: Ken Fader For Ken Fader, northern California is not only his home but lies at the center of his work. The classic landscape with its barns, vineyards, golden fields, livestock and ever changing weather lends itself perfectly to his unique palette knife style. Not being afraid of texture and color his paintings capture the warmth of the afternoon light or the curiosity in the eyes of a cow looking back at you. View Artist Page
	Artist: Bob Ichter Bob Ichter is an award winning artist whose romantic pastels are richly colored and hand-rubbed on board. The strengths of Ichter's pastels include, vibrant, saturated colors and strong compositions. Each piece is designed to evoke a certain time of day and to transport the viewer to another place. View Artist Page
	Artist: Ezra Katz Ezra Katz was born in La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico in 1970 and began studying art at the age of seven. Learning from several teachers who would come from Mexico city and stay for the summer at this family home. He began with academic art and later studied commercial art when he arrived at the University of Texas in Austin and Corpus Christi. In Mexico, he established himself as an artist. In the off seasons, Ezra traveled through the United States, painting commissions for private clients. In Cabo San Lucas, Ezra created a following among restaurateurs and hoteliers creating his highly original murals and etchings. Ezra now makes his home in two places, California and Mexico. He delights in the diverse landscapes of the Bay Area. View Artist Page
	Artist: Robert Kipniss Robert Kipniss is recognized as one the best printmakers in the United States. His work has been collected by over 50 museums including, the Whitney Museum of American Art, The British Museum in London, The Chicago Art Institute, MOMA, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, etc. View Artist Page
	Artist: Georgy Kurasov Georgy Kurasov was born in 1958 in Leningrad now St. Petersburg, Russia. At Thirteen years old his mother enrolled him in the art school attached to the Academy of Arts.In 1977 Georgy was admitted to the Sculpture Department at the Academy of Arts where he trained for the next six years. These years were the best years of Georgy’s life revolving around the intellectual and talented young artists in the city. He also met his wonderful wife Zina, who inspires Georgy and inhabits many of his paintings. After receiving his diploma Kurasov entered and exhibited in many of the national competitions necessary to gain full membership to The Union of Artists which he was able to achieve. This gave Kurasov a small, allocated studio but these were tough times for Russian sculptors so Kurasov turned to painting. Kurasov began showing his paintings in the United States in 1993. His unique colorful, cubist style has gained him much acclaim and a wide audience. View Artist Page
	Artist: Lindsey Kustusch Lindsey Kustusch’s work is a study of observation, a perpetual search for balance between “realism” and the infinite abstract harmonies shaped by form, color, and space in which it’s created. She’s inspired by the seemingly endless possibilities of paint and the city that she lives in. Every encounter in some way is reflected on the canvas. “The Northern Raven, found all over the bay area are absolutely one of my most favorite subjects to paint. They are opportunists and survivors, a force of nature with a presence that commands respect.” Each subject is engulfed with its own mood, executed with its own set of tools, resulting with a unique life of its own. View Artist Page
	Artist: Sandra Sunnyo Lee My art is an endeavor to give expression to the profound formulation of mind and being. Within emptiness is fullness. The full is empty. Existence is a constant coming and going, an unceasingly changes. Out of apparent void-ness comes being. My images mirror this truth of mind and experience. In the series of ‘self-no self’, I try to experience the meditative state and the desire to transcend one’s ego and find connectivity as larger universe. While contemplating the self in the stillness, identity changes to no identity, there is no boundary between you and me or he/she and me, and we are interacting with all nature-form. The idea of self from a position radical subjectivity is no longer is self, it’s a common human condition, self is no self, it’s the Self, beyond the self, just opening the self to the field of love to exists between all sentient being, which it brings the peace on earth with compassion. View Artist Page
	Artist: Ramon Lombarte Ramon Lombarte was born in Barcelona, the Catalan region of Spain. This region is the cultural, financial and industrial center of the country. Lombarte shares the rich artistic heritage of this region with many famous artists, among whom are Miro, Dali, Tobaiasse, Picasso, Gaudi and Tapies. Lombarte graduated from Massana School of Fine Art in 1976, the school also attended by Picasso and Miro. There he received traditional training and learned to create canvases without relying on modern-day short cuts. He typically sketches as many as 60 to 70 preliminary studies in pencil, prepares intermediary "mixed media" studies, and finishes with fully conceived final canvases (acrylic and oil on linen). Being a traditionalist in this sense, Lombarte does not work from photographs, but with live models. Nonetheless, he is surprisingly prolific, producing between 30 to 45 new canvases yearly. Lombarte's work has been tremendously well received due to its realistic subject matter. This approach is quite refreshing in a time when many of his contemporaries follow the current trend towards modern and abstract imagery. Since his American debut in 1987 at the Nippon Club in New York, Lombarte has captured the attention of many serious American art collectors and firmly established his market in Europe - his work can be seen in major museums. Notable European collectors include King Juan Carlos of Spain, Andres Segovia, Antonio Gala, and Waldemar Neilsen. In order to make his work to a greater audience, Lombarte began creating lithographs. True to his painting style, he personally draws the image on each stone to insure that his limited- edition prints are his work and not that of another artist interpreting his images. He is so committed to quality and authenticity that, using antique lithographic presses with the assistance of a French master printer, he hand- pulls each piece of every edition. This serious attention to traditional technique prompted him to set up his own atelier in order to achieve maximum control over the quality of every print. View Artist Page
	Artist: Mihoko Maier Born in Tokyo, Japan, Mihoko (Mee-Ho-Ko) was fortunate to be recognized for her artistic nature at a young age. At three, her keen interest and aptitude for art caught her parent’s attention; soon her elementary school teachers took note. Her teachers suggested that she enroll in Joshibi Junior High School (school specifically developed for artistically gifted children). Later Mihoko enrolled in an all girls University of Art and Design in Tokyo, Japan. Her formal education provided a solid foundation that she continues to nurture through study and diligent work. Travels throughout the world afforded Mihoko the opportunity to see great art and at times to study with teachers from Europe and America. She evolved from being a figurative artist, painting still life’s, portraits, and landscapes to being completely non-objective. Her abstract art evolved from her realistic work. Inspired by Jazz, Mihoko’s art has a distinctive rhythm and tonality. Her forte is translating music into paintings. Sensitive passages of color give way to deeply carved lines, providing body to her compositions. The basic elements of painting space, line color, light, scale, shape and texture are of primary importance in Mihoko’s paintings. Mihoko’s work was selected for the cover of the International Art Expo Show Guide in 2002. Her works have been showcased in major magazines such as Home & Garden in 2003 in the three-page article entitled “A Portrait of Song”. She has done large commissions for major corporations in Hawaii, Japan and the United States. View Artist Page
	Artist: Roberto Matta Roberto Sebastian Matta, born in Chile spent much of his life in France and, beginning in 1939, nearly a decade in the U.S., where he had a great influence on the New York School. the French saw him as a central member of surrealists and the last great survivor of the circle around Andre Breton. Matta embraced the idea of automatic drawing as away of tapping the unconscience. Matta talked about "inscapes" or visualizing the psyche where the past , presentand future are all mixed into one. View Artist Page
	Artist: Fitz Maurice Fitz Maurice- Born in Westchester, NY. Degree - Rochester Institute of Technology, Cum Laude under full scholarship. Winner of the distinguished Jackson Pollack - Lee Krasner Foundation Award 2002 "The Gift", oil on linen View Artist Page
	Artist: D. E. McDermott Sensual form is the hallmark of D.E. Mcdermott's work. Cast in fine art bronze, with various patinas, McDermott's sculpture captures both an elegance and a simplicity. These bronzes represent, in the artist's words, "a wonderful moment when ones perceptions and ideas fall away and the form leads you toward a harmony of its own." View Artist Page
	Artist: Wai Ming The appeal of Wai Ming's art transcends all nationalities and races. Born in Canton, China in 1938, Wai ming moved to Hong Kong in 1949 enduring hardship and struggles in his childhood and youth. Since 1963, using self-taught techniques that evolved into a unique personal style, he has been portraying through his heart the kindness, beauty and hope of human nature. View Artist Page
	Artist: Alan Moore Born in Boston in 1939, Alan Moore traveled to New York where he lived in the mid-sixties, then to Connecticut before finally settling in Northern California. Being such a well traveled individual has influenced his work. His paintings are like brief windows into his life's journey. Moore is self-taught and has created his own mixed media style. View Artist Page
	Artist: Sam Nejati View Artist Page
	Artist: Teresa Onoda Teresa Onoda's aggressive brush strokes and bolder than life colors have caught the eye of art collectors frequesnting galleries in Nothern California communities, in Carmel-by-the-Sea and off the golf course in Palm Desert. After earning a fine arts degree at Creighton University and then teaching art in Omaha, Houston and Memphis, Teresa moved to the San Francisco Bay Area and began painting plein aire. In just a few years her work began to gain attention for its powerful brush stroke technique and use of pure color. Many took the notice of the sense movement and life Teresa imbued in the landscapes she captured on canvas. Teresa favors treks to rural areas, vineyards and farms within a day's drive from San Francisco - beautiful places increasingly threatened by urban sprawl. she hopes to capture the sweeping beauty of these "endangered landscapes" while they are still pristine. While California is her primary focus, Teresa also makes painting excursions to Nevada, New Mexico, Iowa and Colorado. View Artist Page
	Artist: Jonathan Queen View Artist Page
	Artist: Andre Renoux Artist Andre Renoux has been the leading French Artist in what has become known as "Urban Realist" painting. He documented the Parisian streets, each with its own personality and charm. View Artist Page
	Artist: H. M. Saffer Born July 18, 1942 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, H.M. Saffer II launched his career by exhibiting his art at a public art show at the tender age of six. Upon graduation from Temple University in 1965, he traveled to Paris, France to enroll in graduate economics courses. Before returning to the United States in 1970, he completed selected studies at L'Ecole Des Beaux Arts and exhibited in Paris and Brussels, Belgium. In 1981 he began to study the art of Japanese brush painting, Sumi-e. While in Japan, HM adapted his Sumi-e techniques by applying Western styles of painting. HM reentered the United States in 1994 and took residence in Upstate New York. His style of painting shifted from exclusively works on paper to include oils. He began melding his Oriental influences with his Western styles in order to create new and different path towards interpersonal visual expression, and his current works are a reflection of this mélange. HM has instructed at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, MA, Berkshire Community College, and Columbia-Greene Community College. He currently has gallery representation both in the United States and internationally. View Artist Page
	Artist: Marc Sijan Marc Sijan’s Superrealistic sculptures are “homages to humanity’s fascination with its own forms - a fascination which has compelled artists throughout the millennia to mirror life in virtually every medium.” Sijan’s figures are incredibly lifelike, sensuous and graceful. They seem on the verge of movement, a mere instant from action. The pores in the skin, the tiny hairs and veins; bald spots, blemishes, the individual shapes of the faces that make human beings so familiar, yet so unique: these are the essence of what makes Marc Sijans’ work so arresting. “I am seeking to freeze motion rather than suggest life. The sculpture appears passive but there is so much going on inside.” View Artist Page
	Artist: Jon Smith Jon’s training in art began as a child and continued through his studies at the University of South Carolina, the College of Charleston and finally the Leo Marchutz School of Painting and Drawing in Aix on Provence. It was in southern France while painting on location and studying the Impressionists that Jon developed his sense of light and color. The techniques Jon developed in southern France as a plein air painter are carried forward into his interior settings where he is able to capture that same sense of light.As Jon developed as an artist, his interest in painting people as the subject of his work led him to the museum setting. Jon became enthralled with the relationship of the people to the art work. He developed compositions encompassing the fine lines of the architecture of the museum building itself while also capturing the spontaneity of people enjoying the art work. He is known for his copies of the great Masters within his own work, doing his won renditions of such Greats as Rembrandt, Monet, Degas and Sargent to name a few. But most of what Jon has become known for is the way that he is able to capture the very essence of people. Jon’s numerous collectors get a sense of warmth and familiarity with his work wherein Jon uses technique only to the point of getting his communication across with the painting. Jon has traveled extensively in the U.S. and abroad, including New York, Chicago, Washington DC, Paris, London, Florence, Venice, and Madrid and his paintings reflect his travels and his passion for drawing the human form as an integral part of its environment. View Artist Page
	Artist: Dorothy Spangler Born in St Louis Missouri, Dorothy Spangler has spent almost her entire life in Northern California, its abundant variety and natural beauty instilling in her an innate love of color and light. After graduating from the College of San Mateo with an art major, she studied for several years under the distinguished California plein air painter, William Ward. Later she was accepted for study under the master painter, Henry Hensche at the Cape Cod Academy. Under his disciplined and demanding tutelage, she learned the secret of painting sunlight, which so illuminates her paintings. In her quest for new subjects, Dorothy Spangler makes frequent pilgrimages throughout Europe. She is increasingly drawn to Paris, Southern France, Northern Italy and the Italian Riviera. The abundance of light and color found in these areas draws her like so many famous impressionists before her. Thirty-Four solo shows attest to the popularity of Dorothy Spangler’s paintings, including shows in Beverly Hills, Pebble Beach, Palm Desert, Carmel, San Francisco, New Orleans etc. Dorothy has been continuously exhibiting in California for over thirty years and remains one of the best selling artists of her generation. The artist and her husband, Charles are the first Americans to join the Musee LA Grennouillere which is dedicated to restoring the resort on the Seine at Croissy-sur-Seine, the purported birthplace of French Impressionism. View Artist Page
	Artist: Gideon Tomaschoff Gideon Tomaschoff is an Israeli/Canadian painter who describes his art and process of making art as an attempt to extract beauty out of what is commonly perceived as its opposite. His surfaces are built and then scraped mimicking weather worn walls patinated by the passage of time. Tomaschoff has traveled extensively in Cuba, Brazil and Mexico and has been inspired by the beauty and complex color and markings of walls. Tomaschoff’s paintings immediately bring to mind the meditative aspects of Mark Rothko and other abstract expressionist painters. He is inspired by the work of Clifford Still, Helen Frankenthaler and Robert Motherwell. About the surfaces, Tomaschoff explains that they are not merely external elements, they are also witnesses of their surroundings and in the creation process many marks and scars are revealed and a whole new surface is pieced together. As a new surface is being formed, a synthesis between the work and the artist and between the work and the observer are created. Curiosity is awakened in the observer to explore the many secrets visually embedded in the painted surface. The painting begins as a journey, or better, with dislodging experiences lived up until the moment. The Formula: Dislodging of the past > journey of discovery > retreat > memories > Creation View Artist Page
	Artist: Varya Varya graduated from the Art Academy in Sofia, Her works have been exhibited nationally and internationally, France, Luxemburg, Austria etc. Varya perceives the act of painting as a profoundly intimate confession in which intuitive and rational elements generate unusual pictoral motifs, a fusion of spirit and matter, imagination and reality. View Artist Page
	Artist: Vladimir Vitkovsky Vladimir Vitkovsky's inks are real masterpieces not to be imitated, or repeated. They are multi-level magical creations that take you to the unlimited depths of unknown realities. Vitkovsky's works are found in private collections around the world. View Artist Page
	Artist: Robert Watson Robert Watson's career in the arts began five decades ago with his first one-man show at Gumps in San Francisco. He has since had over 100 exhibits throughout the world. His surreal landscapes evoke the imagination of the viewer, intending to lure him away from the commonplace. Here one finds the twilight of reality and the solitude of man. View Artist Page
	Artist: Sam Yeates Having grown up on a farm in north central Texas, I came by my influence late, but no less profound. From my introduction to Renaissance art in high school, to art from Degas to Dali at North Texas State University, I, like most whom received a liberal education, was bombarded by the art and the symbols that represent and define our culture. I am still fascinated by many of these and the stories they can convey or imply if put in such a way that leaves them open to interpretation. I paint in a realistic manner, for lack of a better term. I do what interests me and that is what I look for in other people’s work. I believe, first and foremost, that an artist’s work should be such that it would catch his own eye in a gallery or magazine, without showing too much concern for what’s currently popular. In my work, I try to find a different way of looking at the human condition, be it longing for the unattainable. Perhaps the best way to describe what I seek in my work is a personal mythology that documents the frailties inherent in the human condition. I hope, also, to create a personal world from which a story or a moment (real or imagined) can be portrayed. I like to think that the boundaries of the canvas create a stage from which the absurd and profane can coexist with (or sometimes be at odds with) the spiritual. Hopefully in this storytelling, there’s room for the observer to interpret and read their own thoughts and experiences into them as well. View Artist Page
	Artist: Tatiana Zaits Tatiana Zaits grew up in a family of well-known artists in Russia. Her father was a graphic designer for the major theaters in Moscow. She was exposed to all forms of art from a very young age and she developed an appreciation for design, color, rhythm and gesture. Tatiana's paintings are heavily influenced by her early experiences in the theatrical world. Her figurative work is always dramatic and expressive. View Artist Page
	Artist: Xiang-ming Zeng Xiang-ming Zeng graduated from the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts and is considered one of the best Chinese watercolor painters. He has two paintings in the permanent collection of the Chinese National Museum and he has won several prizes from the National Association of Chinese Artists. View Artist Page
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