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Carrie Burckle

The accretion of words, gestures, and feelings add layers of memory and meaning to one's life. We build our lives by incremental acts. Each act enriches and adds to a purposeful life. I value the invested time, intention, and labor in my work through the repetitive acts in textile making. Repetition creates mindfulness and centers attention on the task at hand; whether it's throwing a shuttle across a set of yarns, punching a needle into cloth, pulling ink with a squeegee across a table, or looping yarn through rows of chain stitches.

My work embodies a physical and psychological presence connecting through our senses and our emotional underpinnings. It is through these accumulative actions and the seduction of materials that my work attempts to be experienced and understood. carrieburckle.com

Anna Faye Korngute

As an improvisational dancer, movement is where my artistic process begins:

Toward that place we feel exposed.

Where our primitive secret feelings live.

That jagged, frenetic, outburst.

An eruption of euphoria, ecstasy and pain.

A secret place because it’s personal.

Revealing, yet Universal.

I believe, this is a gift of the human condition and never changes.

I translate movements into abstract gestural figurative calligraphy using cloth, paper, dye, ink, stitch and other mixed media elements. Some of my work is two-sided, transparent and sculptural representing the face of what we present, versus that which we keep hidden. The dye process itself, furthers the relationship of my work to the body — dye unites with cloth on a cellular level.

Through visual movement dynamics, scratches and frayed edges - like wrinkles and silver strands of hair, my work celebrates and represents a story of the effects of time, aging and imperfection — a universality to the human condition. @anifaye

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Josh Friedman

Josh Friedman uses nature and memory as a starting point for his abstractions. They are meditations on light, time, texture and surface design. The work takes form in a range of materials and modalities, sculpture, mixed-media drawing and collage.

Working with fire and paper in his practice, the thousands of individual residual marks draw as much attention to absence, as to what is present. Burning holes through the surface of the picture plane challenges the physical integrity of the paper, and heightens the tension and awareness of the delicate edge between form and emptiness. Making the fragile, more fragile. @Joshfriedmanart

Jane Bauman - 515 Bendix

Jane Bauman was born in Burbank California and considers growing up in the Los Angeles area to be a formative influence. Surf culture, the hippie movement, psychedelic music and Hollywood were all there and combined to make for a provocative 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. Jane Bauman

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Cameron Taylor-Brown

My artwork reflects a passion to shape order out of chaos—to start with bits of threads and fabrics and make something complex and satisfying where nothing existed before. As I create, I embrace and celebrate the ancient heritage and language of cloth and the material culture that textiles inherently express. My inspiration often comes from exploring the nature of cloth itself – an exploration of weave structures, the physical properties of fibers and the colorful interplay of warp and weft - and also springs from travel experiences with different cultures from around the globe. My processes are grounded in my deep love of weaving, combined with quilting, surface design and stitching. Cameron Taylor-Brown

Elise Vazelakis

Driving With My Eyes Closed: Elise Vazelakis Weaves Tradition Into Trash

In Driving With My Eyes Closed, Elise Vazelakis reclaims the overlooked. Twining together strands of plastic yarn made from discarded Amazon mailers, she transforms what would otherwise be waste into textured, vessel-like sculptures.

“The work is about what we miss when convenience becomes our default,” says Vazelakis. “I was drawn to twining, one of the oldest known weaving techniques, because it connects to something ancestral, something slow and intentional. But I’m weaving with the very opposite: synthetic waste.”

Through this tension between technique and material, Vazelakis invites reflection on our relationship to excess, disposability, and how consumption becomes invisible over time. The series is a quiet but pointed gesture—calling us to notice what we might otherwise ignore.

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MartyO

Wielding a needle and thread, using thread-worn, deconstructed and reconstructed patchwork quilts as her pallet, MartyO’s wearable art and art quilts are pointed commentary on the stereotypic, disempowering and oppressive roles forced onto women by our society over the last century, and to this very day in many countries in the world. MartyO further explores a variety of themes including: reproductive and voting rights, the environmental damaged caused by the overconsumption of clothing fueled by cheap fast fashion, and the exploitation of cheap labor in modern “sweat shops.” Her more surreal and abstract art quilts reinforce her warm connections to her ancestors (and her unrealized dreams). Zero-waste design principles often determines the size, shape, and direction of her work. Often the provenance of the textiles have been lost, yet new narratives emerge in her textile reincarnations. marty-o.com

Jim Jenkins

As the son of an U. S. Air Force mechanic, Jim Jenkins realized at a young age his own interest in combining mechanisms and art. Early influences include the work of Swiss sculptor Jean Tinguely (1925-1991) and American sculptor George Rickey (1907-2002), both pioneers in kinetic art. Coincidentally, both also have ties with Jim’s home state of Indiana (USA). Rickey was born in South Bend and taught at Indiana University. The town of Columbus houses one of Tinguely’s only U.S. commissions, a thirty foot tall work entitled “Chaos I” completed in 1974.

Jim received his BFA from Murray State University in Kentucky and a MFA from Syracuse University in New York. In 1981 he moved west to head the sculpture program at California State University, Fullerton. He retired from teaching in 2018.

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Instagram @thejimjenkins

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Tony Pinto

Tony Pinto is an award-winning designer and art director with over 20 years of professional experience, having collaborated with clients such as Disney, Edison, Cedars-Sinai, and Kaiser Permanente. In recent years, his practice has focused on designing books for art museums, galleries, and individual artists. Tony oversees every stage of production—from concept to completion—often serving as both designer and producer. His process includes shaping the creative direction, suggesting essays, quotes, or alternative imagery, and guiding the overall vision to ensure a cohesive and beautifully crafted result. (He truly loves books and the art of designing them!)

Tony is also an accomplished photographer, specializing in portraits of artists and creative professionals.

A long-time member of AIGA, the national design organization, Tony has served on the board of his local chapter and remains deeply involved in the design community.

Beyond design, Tony is a practicing fine artist with extensive experience in painting, drawing, photography, and screen printing. His work is exhibited regularly, with selected pieces featured in the Art & Photo section of this website.

His creative interests span widely—books, photography, illustration, architecture, film, underground comics and zines, punk/new wave/no wave music, and the dynamic 1970s–80s New York art and music scene.

Most weekends, Tony can be found exploring art openings across Los Angeles, continually inspired by the city’s diverse and ever-evolving creative landscape.

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Carolin Peters

Carolin Peters is an artist, teacher, and meaning spinner, born and raised in Germany.

In 2002, the desire to learn representational art techniques and an unceasing urge to escape her native surrounding’s small-town mentality triggered a move to southern California. There she graduated in 2008 with a BFA and MFA degree in Fine Art from Laguna College of Art and Design.

She’s participated in many group, juried and solo exhibitions and won several awards for her art, including the Art Renewal Center Merit and Purchase Awards, Best of Show Award from the Pacific Art Foundation and the Passport to China Scholarship from the Contemporary Chinese Fine Art Gallery.

Carolin has taught drawing and painting in multiple art colleges and in her own mentoring program.

In her artwork she combines her love for nature, introspection and image making, with either meticulous, imaginative charcoal drawings or colorful oil paintings.

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Her works reflect a longing to understand oneself as well as the mystery of being in this wondrous world. By combining a visual dark, moody atmosphere with storytelling, she creates an engaging art form that stimulates our imaginative, aesthetic and intuitive sides. The characters she depicts often take on the roles of spiritual icons or mythological archetypes pointing us to reflect on the complex layers of human existence.

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Caesar Alzate Jr.

Alzate transcends ideas and builds forms, shapes, and texture on the canvas with paint, through the accumulation of his actions and activity. The canvas receives his ritual of brushing thousands and thousands of layers of paint with a heat process. After many hours, days, and weeks devoted to the crafting of the artwork, the paint and the canvas is transformed into a meaningful painting that engages the mind generating interpretations and significations.

Alzate is included in numerous private collections.

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Tom Lamb

Tom Lamb is a aerial, architectural, landscape and ethnographic , panoramic and interpretive photographer, based in Laguna Beach, California.

He uses photography, as his primary tool, along with pioneering trends in new media. Tom has dedicated his life to not only creating, through the art of storytelling, memorable photographs, but also championing environmental awareness.

His images, both from the air and the ground, are of the built and un-built, often abandoned or in transition, landscapes. His images examine how we interact with the planet’s most valuable but increasingly threatened resources.

Tom is interested in the balance between the natural world and man’s mark on the land. He travels extensively. His work is published, exhibited and collected internationally.

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Michelle Ohm

Michelle Ohm is a visual artist and educator based in Long Beach, California. Since 2008, Michelle has been actively involved in both creating and teaching art. Her teaching philosophy emphasizes inspiring and empowering students, reflecting her commitment to education. Michelle's artistic practice spans various media, including drawing, painting, ceramics, book arts, and fiber. Her work often explores themes related to the representation of women in media and pop culture, influenced by her upbringing in Los Angeles. She has exhibited at venues such as the Samuel Freeman Gallery, Lora Schlesinger Gallery, and the Forest Lawn Museum. In her personal life, Michelle resides in Long Beach with her husband, Matt, who is also an artist, and their three dogs, Melon, Finn and Winston.

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Karen Thayer

Artist Karen Thayer explores ceramic processes, using earth materials and minerals to create unique interpretations of landscape and geologies described by her as “reductive fiction, or physical poems”. She is a keen observer of the physical world, allured by its forms, structures and organization. Her first awareness of this fascination came from the aerial perspective of flying in her father’s small plane as a child. This curiosity deepened further after the Eames film, Powers of Ten, gave her an even larger opening to imagine worlds both micro and macro. Geologic events, along with time, combined with overlays of human activity mark the earth’s surface. Karen Thayer is a Southern California native, has traveled the US extensively, receiving degrees from Syracuse University and Ohio State University. She has exhibited and taught ceramics for over 35 years but is currently enjoying retirement, allowing her more travel and studio time.

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William Wray

William Wray began working in the animation and Comic Book majors as a teen-ager. He is best known the Ren and Stimpy Show, Mad Magazine and the Art Director on the Harley Quinn Show. He stared doing fine art seriously in midlife, but has not had a paintbush out of his hand since he was 5. His Fine art subjects have focused on the Urban scene, Cosplay Superhero’s and Landscape Abstraction. Always changing direction currently he doing abstracted figurtive. He has 8 sold out books collecting his fine art work, the latest is titled Everything. He represented by Sue Greenwood fine art, the Vault Gallery, the Bag Gallery in Sierra Madre and the Whitney Gallery. His third one man show at the Bag Gallery in Sierra Madre in the fall of 2025.

Mitch Katz

Born in Brooklyn - Moved to California in 1982

Retired after a 50 year career in medicine during which time he directed a division in a major children’s hospital, He was an internationally recognized expert in the treatment of children with feeding problems.

Along with his wife, collecting art for more than 45 years - mostly California minimalist and light and space.

Collecting watches (not with his wife) for over 25 years.

Author of Time On My Hands: A Collector's Journey In the World Of Watches and the soon to be released Time Eternal the first in a series of murder mysteries involving watches - “The Time Series”.

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Kim Martindale

For four decades, Kim Martindale has been producing many of the countries most prestigious and successful art shows. Closely involved in the art world from an early age, Mr. Martindale has brought his professionalism and enthusiasm to all areas of his work.

When Kim was only 16 years old, he helped coordinate and implement the ground breaking and influential Santa Fe Antique American Indian Art Show (Whitehawk).

In subsequent years, he co-produced a number of outstanding antique shows including the Ethnographic Art Show, Winter Antiquities Show, the Summer Antiquities Show, and the Old West Show.

After graduating from high school in 1979, Kim’s specific areas of interest led him to intensive studies at various University of California campuses as well as universities in Iowa, Japan and Taiwan. Concurrently, for many of those years he continued his education by getting hands on experience working for Sotheby’s, Los Angeles and Hong Kong.

Martindale was a formative partner in establishing January of each year, officially, as Los Angeles Arts Month. He is a past co-chair of the Los Angeles Arts Month Committee with Ron Hartwig of the J. Paul Getty Trust. Martindale’s credits also include the Tribal Art Show, held in association with the Denver Art Museum. In addition, he produced the Scottsdale Antiques and Fine Art Show, and ARTscottsdale, both in association with the Phoenix Art Museum and Art and Antiques Magazine.

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