Robin Sarner
Robin Sarner
Robin Jack Sarner is a Los Angeles-based artist specializing in abstract expressionism inspired by mid-century American masters. After earning a degree in Art Education and exploring a career in finance and parenting, she returned to her passion for art, focusing on painting emotions and visual narratives.
Using large canvases, mixed media, and upcycled materials, Robin creates works that explore nostalgia, honor influential loved ones, and celebrate the analog era. Her art has been exhibited locally and internationally, published in magazines, and collected worldwide.
Committed to arts education, she designs abstract art curricula for local schools, reaching over 10,000 children annually, while continuing to expand her own artistic practice. Robin’s goal is to develop a body of work rooted in self-discovery and archival connections. More about Robin
Richard Chang is an arts, entertainment, education and news reporter and editor, as well as a college educator.
He serves as senior arts and culture editor for Voice of OC, a nonprofit news website that covers Orange County. He also works as a writer and communications specialist for Cal State Long Beach.
Richard has contributed articles to the Los Angeles Times, L.A. Weekly, The Daily Pilot, Coast magazine, Modern Painters, Art + Auction, artinfo.com, ARTnews, UC Irvine’s Connect magazine, Laguna Beach Magazine and other publications.
He has taught journalism at CSULB, Cal Poly Pomona, Orange Coast College, UCLA, Cal State Fullerton and Glendale Community College. From 2018 to 2020, he served as faculty advisor for The Poly Post, the award-winning student newspaper at Cal Poly Pomona.
Richard has worked as arts and culture editor for L.A. Weekly; associate editor of T.H.E. Journal, a national education technology magazine and website; and editor-in-chief of Premiere OC, a biannual performing and visual arts magazine.
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SoCAL Art Culture/ Artist Housing/Real Estate Skeith is a designer,art dealer Founder Santa Ana Arts Walk and revival of Abbot Kinney Arts District. More about Skeith
Lisette Thierry has been a Designer/Jeweler for over 30 years. She studied design, jewelry and metalsmithing at California College of Arts and Crafts, and received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from California State University, at Long Beach.
The timeless simplicity of design, as well as attention to detail evident in each of her pieces can be attributed to her background in architectural studies.
Ms. Thierry creates and produces a line of jewelry for galleries and retail outlets, and also designs one-of-a-kind pieces on commission. The artist currently resides in California. More about Lisette
Cody Jimenez is a Mexican-American artist working in Southern California. His work focuses on the natural world through a lens of Imaginative Realism. Jimenez often explores a world where emotions are embodied in physical forms. The emotions are represented through vibrant colors and shapes that affect their environment and characters around them. By using physical representations of those emotions, he investigates the dualities of beauty and danger that mirror mysterious forces he experiences in life.
Cody Jimenez received his BFA in painting from NMSU in 2014 and MFA in painting from LCAD in 2017. His work has been exhibited internationally, including Los Angeles, CA, Denver, CO, Baton Rouge, LA, Santa Fe, NM, Dublin, Ireland, and Amsterdam, Netherlands. More about Cody
Mike Tauber is a professional artist, working in paint, and ceramic tile. He earned his bachelor’s degree in art at San Diego State University, and has completed indoor and outdoor murals internationally.
Much of his work is by commission, architectural in scale, site-specific, and is often permanent. Themes and content are drawn from client needs, location, audience and view, and desired message. Works range from traditional to contemporary. More about Mike
Barbara Kolo was born and educated in New York. Having developed an appreciation for art from an early age, her interest in drawing and painting lead her to attend the High School of Art and Design, followed by the School of Visual Arts where she received a BFA.
During the 1980's Barbara built a career as an award-winning art director in creative advertising for films and television. She is the recipient of several Key Art Awards, a Don Belding Award, and a New York Festivals Gold Medal among many others. Her career brought her to Los Angeles in 1989. As an independent freelance art director she worked directly with major film studios and design studios specializing in film advertising. In 1991, she became the Director of Print Advertising at Universal Studios. More about Barbara
Joan Gladstone studied at Boston University's School of Fine Arts. An oil painter for more than 25 years, it brings her joy when people say her work is "colorful, beautiful and happy." Joan and her husband Ed Gillow have lived in Laguna Beach for more than 30 years. She enjoys painting coastal scenes, teaching classes at the summer Sawdust Art Festival and serving as a Laguna Art Museum docent.
Joan is well known for her vibrant yet serene oil paintings that capture California beach life. They include classic VW buses to Ferris Wheels and lifeguard towers. Her playful paintings evoke a sense of nostalgia, while her sunsets and ocean scenes portray the beauty of the coastline. Her artwork is in the permanent collections of the City of Hope Orange County and UCI -Health, Irvine
Lance Carlson was born in Long Beach, California. He studied drawing and painting at California State University, Long Beach, and is influenced by the Abstract Expressionist movement of the 1950’s, jazz music, as well as his own local urban environment. Carlson’s paintings have been featured in both domestic and international exhibitions, and his work is included in collections in the United States and abroad. He currently lives and works in Long Beach. More about Lance
Tony Pinto holds a BA in Fine Art (painting) from the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and an MFA in painting and photography from California State University, Los Angeles.
Pinto is a practicing graphic designer, and partner in the Vim & Vigor design studio with his wife, Adrienne Grace. He has worked as a designer for more than two decades, with clients including Edison, Disney, and Princess Cruises.
Tony also teaches classes in art, photography, and design, working with diverse student populations at multiple colleges in Southern California.
Tony Pinto continues his art practice, focusing mainly on photography, specifically portraiture.
Orange County-based multi-disciplinary artist Kingsley is a creative force with a rich background in graphic design and traditional painting. As a progressive designer, he embraces a wide range of styles, taking bold risks to achieve original results. Kingsley crafts hand-made artworks that merge seemingly incompatible worlds into a cohesive new universe, blurring the lines between digital and reality with a sense of rigid elegance. More about Kingsley
3 of the Artists who participated in
Glimmers and Hues
A glimmer is a small moment of joy or peace that can make someone feel calm, connected, peaceful, and safe. A glimmer is a therapy term that is essentially the opposite of a trigger. Glimmers can be brought up by appreciating simple things such as the smell of freshly cut grass. For this exhibit, we hope that each traveler who passes by will catch a small moment of joy to take with them.
There is a quiet vibration and unexpected beauty in commonplace elements found in the urban coastal environment. My work describes this in an atmospheric and dreamlike, yet familiar, manner. Through my paintings, join me where the city meets the sea - driving on a busy city street with neon signs, taillights and road signage in front of us, and a glowing sunset in the distance, or, on a misty beach just off the bike path, a lifeguard tower on the sand, waves crashing on the shore, a surfer in the distance. Website
The paintings I make are traditionally inclined toward outdoor landscape, still life and portraiture. I am honored to have won awards for my work and to have been shown in several museums, galleries and events. Many of my paintings are part of several private collections. I teach privately and for groups and am a strong advocate for increasing the importance of recognizing the function of art in our everyday lives.
From the soil, the flower blossoms.
From the noise, the song is plucked.
In my work I like to experiment with different ways of representing the urban landscape, which I use as the basis for combining my formal interests in color and design with my conceptual interests in politics, religion, and capitalism. The key elements of my paintings are architectural forms, colors, and patterns and how they contradict, relate, and interact with those of nature. These interests are superficial, but out of that superficiality emerge words and messages covering the surfaces of everything that immerses us in our capitalist society. I find these words to be fascinating, things like storefront and restaurant signs, publicity, remnants of wheat-pasted flyers, and deteriorated billboards, all of which tell a history of subliminal consumer brainwashing. These words function as short, efficient corporate slogans or representations of ideals, principles, or styles that these institutions want to transmit to the public. instagram
M.C. Sungaila works at the intersection of new frontiers in the law whose work seeking the return of Holocaust era artwork and protection of space cultural heritage intersects with the art focus of this podcast.
M.C. is an award-winning appellate attorney who has briefed or argued more than 170 appeals. Many of them involved complex and cutting-edge issues in employment, class action, product liability, franchisor, probate, and constitutional law. She has also developed special expertise in appeals involving Holocaust art recovery. She has handled appeals before the U.S. Supreme Court, multiple state supreme courts, numerous federal and state appellate courts, and even the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
M.C. also teaches Space Law & Policy at LMU Loyola Law School in Los Angeles and serves as a Leader in For All Moonkind’s Space Law & Ethics Institute. Her work proposing a Space Cultural Heritage Dispute Commission, first presented at a 2024 international conference, will be published in the Space Law Journal.