Bounce Art Bounce - Fall 2023

Serena Potter is known for her figurative narrative oil paintings. The paintings contrast the vibrant hues reminiscent of the golden age American Illustrators (such as Norman Rockwell and J.C. Lyendecker), with an often sardonic narrative, that place the subjects in childlike or unlikely scenarios. By pairing contemporary and vintage elements, the paintings speak to the transitory nature of time, and the relevance of early experience in shaping who we become. Certain imagery has begun to emerge and re-cycle through the work, eggs being one of them. They have come to represent those things that we as women nurture and protect, they are fragile but also embody a certain strength. Her work is largely personal, drawing on her own challenges and those of friends and family to evoke a response from the viewer. Her goal is to create art that will draw people in, and allow them to connect, to ask questions and ultimately, to find their own stories in the work.

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Kerri Sabine-Wolf is a Contemporary Realist painter living and teaching in Orange County, Ca. Her paintings are predominately oil, but she often falls back to her passion for drawing, it’s all about the mark making. Frequently she layers in drawing techniques or leaves the original drawing exposed to reveal the history of the painting. She enjoys working with the human form, as well as, introducing other animals or objects into her compositions to suggest a small part of a much bigger story.

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Michael Davis received his MFA from CSU Fullerton and maintains a studio in San Pedro, California. He has had over thirty-three solo and sixty-five group exhibitions in the U.S. and abroad for museums and galleries and city, state and federal arts agencies. Davis has received two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, the Hand Hollow Arts Fellowship, and an AIA Award of Excellence and has been a visiting artist and guest at numerous university forums.

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Suzanne Walsh. Graduated from the Savannah College of Art and Design in Illustration, I have exhibited my pyrography through Southern California. I currently create out of Santa Ana, California.

Curated exhibitions both large and small are an outlet for me to engage in my community while supporting the work of artists that I admire. I work to build simple, open and fun to attend exhibitions that illuminate the work of contemporary creators often building in educational components along STEAM guidelines. My focus is collaboration (with institutions and venues) and inclusive practices (with artists of all backgrounds).

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Tom Dowling. Growing up and being schooled in Southern California left its mark on me. The particular types of minimal art that emerged here (Hard Edge, and California Light and Space) are the main influences on my aesthetic. Painting is at the core of what I do. I use the term minimalism to describe my work for lack of a better term. My preferred term would be reductive painting: a bare-boned formal approach to image making. I have a formally reductive sensibility that (in over 40 years of painting) has developed into a language of my own. This language has a particular color and compositional footprint. From the Cantos, which are mostly color field paintings, through my geometric abstractions and constructions, to the group of works I like to think of as baroque minimalism, I maintain a thread that is unmistakably mine. tomdowling.com

Katie Stubblefield (Cookeville, Tennessee) lives and works in the Los Angeles area. She received her BFA from Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, and an MFA from California State University, Long Beach in 2001. She is an adjunct professor teaching art survey courses to adults with intellectual disabilities and autism at Coastline College. Though their Special Programs and Services Department, Stubblefield develops both vocation-centered certificated programs and individual creative courses for adults with autism. katiestubblefield.org

Jane Bauman was born in Burbank California and considers growing up in the Los Angeles area to be a formative influence. Surf culture, the 60’s hippie movement, psychedelic music and the Hollywood movie industry were all there and combined to make for a really enriched environment.

After graduating from Santa Clara University Bauman went to graduate school at the San Francisco Art Institute where she became an active participant in the punk/no wave culture of the late 1970s and began to do her first street art as well as making paintings and sculpture. This was also when she began to do collaborative work with fellow artists Jack Johnston and Mark C. artatjanebauman

Heather Bowling (she/they) is a curator and (sometimes) visual artist residing in Orange County, California. After spending over a decade curating at the Brea Gallery, and putting together dozens exhibitions throughout Orange County as part of the dynamic curatorial duo Day Job Projects, Heather is now focusing their creative energies on re-imagining the Arts Program at John Wayne Airport.

Her curatorial efforts focus on creating meaningful experiences for both artists and visitors alike, while striving to make art approachable to all. As an artist, Heather bounces between fiber, printmaking, and installation art to explore personal perspectives of neurodivergence, mental illness, and queerness within the crushing patriarchal, capitalist society. heatherbowling.com