At A Distance

José Galván Martínez
acrylic, 36 x 36 inches
Not For Sale

Born and raised in Mexico City, José Galván Martínez immigrated to the United States in 2004 and is currently based in Oxnard, CA. Galván Martínez earned an A.A. in Studio Art from Oxnard College and is currently working on his B.A. in Studio Art at California State University Channel Islands.

Galván Martínez has exhibited work at McNish Gallery, California Welcome Center, Carnegie Art Museum, Ventura College Gallery Two, Santa Paula Art Museum, Los Angeles Convention Center and
Museum of Ventura County.

Galván Martínez has been a Curatorial Assistant for Ichiro Irie at Fabrik Art Fair, Studio Assistant at Oxnard College and Volunteer Assistant at the Carnegie Art Museum.

Pieces of a Whole

Jodi Simon
acrylic, 24 x 24 inches
$750

Jodi Simon was born in los Angeles, California. From an early age she demonstrated an innate artistic talent and continues to bring her creative passion to fruition. In 1984 she attended California State University Northridge where she majored in art history. From there she attended the Brentwood Art Academy. She currently resides in Malibu, Ca. Her son, CANTSTOPGOODBOY aka Nick Simon is an accomplished galleried artist as well as her father John Duron.

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Big Blue Marble - Take Care of Our Common Home

Laura Jespersen
Acrylic, 36 x 36 inches
$900

Big Blue Marble - Take Care of Our Common Home 36x36x1.5 inches acrylic painting on canvas by Laura Jean Jespersen

Title references the 1972 Apollo 17 photo and Pope Francis’ environmental document. I was inspired by a NASA photograph from September 4, 2019 showing a chain of cyclones lined up across the Western Hemisphere. Not just a pretty picture, it is a reminder of how things are today and that we need to do more. We are united by the concern for our planet, and every living thing that dwells on it.

Laura Jean Jespersen is an award winning acrylic artist living and working in Ventura, California. She has always been a creative visual person and her background is in architecture, receiving a Bachelor of Architecture from Cal Poly. She draws inspiration from the built and natural environment. Painting is a creative outlet that allows her to connect to others in a visual way through composition and color. http://www.ljjespersen.weebly.com

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Mother and Child

Mary Dee Thompson
acrylic, 18 x 22 inches
$625

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White Bluff

Mary Dee Thompson
acrylic, 25 x 19 inches
$650

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Divided

Mary Dee Thompson
acrylic and cord, 31 x 25 inches
$900

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Torso

Mary Dee Thompson
bronze, 18 x 27 x 18 inches
$15,000

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Dancer

Mary Dee Thompson
bronze, 7 x 8 x 7 inches
$1,800

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Reclaiming the Sacred Source: Morning Glory

Lynn Creighton
bronze, 33 x 15 x 15 inches
$4,300

Lynn Creighton is a ceramic sculptor who has studied shamanism and led Native American Purification Lodges and Vision Quests for many years. These parallel journeys to knowledge have created the opening for understanding of the celebration of feminine energy through form and ceremony. This is the subject of her current work as bronze female figures express their exuberance as they tap the core of their own energy and its connection to the divine.

Her graduate degree is from California State University, Northridge. She has taught in the Art Department at Moorpark College in California and California Lutheran University. Her work was included in an exhibition in Sapporo, Japan; in Exploring a Movement, Feminist Vision in Clay at Loyola Marymount University; in Los Angeles Arts Council’s Catch a Rising Artist; in Luxemburg, France, South Africa. It has been exhibited and collected throughout the United States. The Museum of Ventura County mounted a retrospective in 2019.

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Reclaiming the Sacred Source: Amazon Warrior

Lynn Creighton
bronze, 11 x 9 x 9 inches
$4,100

Lynn Creighton is a ceramic sculptor who has studied shamanism and led Native American Purification Lodges and Vision Quests for many years. These parallel journeys to knowledge have created the opening for understanding of the celebration of feminine energy through form and ceremony. This is the subject of her current work as bronze female figures express their exuberance as they tap the core of their own energy and its connection to the divine.

Her graduate degree is from California State University, Northridge. She has taught in the Art Department at Moorpark College in California and California Lutheran University. Her work was included in an exhibition in Sapporo, Japan; in Exploring a Movement, Feminist Vision in Clay at Loyola Marymount University; in Los Angeles Arts Council’s Catch a Rising Artist; in Luxemburg, France, South Africa. It has been exhibited and collected throughout the United States. The Museum of Ventura County mounted a retrospective in 2019.

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Reclaiming the Sacred Source: Orchid

Lynn Creighton
bronze, 14 x 8 x 6 inches
$4,000

Lynn Creighton is a ceramic sculptor who has studied shamanism and led Native American Purification Lodges and Vision Quests for many years. These parallel journeys to knowledge have created the opening for understanding of the celebration of feminine energy through form and ceremony. This is the subject of her current work as bronze female figures express their exuberance as they tap the core of their own energy and its connection to the divine.

Her graduate degree is from California State University, Northridge. She has taught in the Art Department at Moorpark College in California and California Lutheran University. Her work was included in an exhibition in Sapporo, Japan; in Exploring a Movement, Feminist Vision in Clay at Loyola Marymount University; in Los Angeles Arts Council’s Catch a Rising Artist; in Luxemburg, France, South Africa. It has been exhibited and collected throughout the United States. The Museum of Ventura County mounted a retrospective in 2019.

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Reclaiming the Sacred Source: Desdemona

Lynn Creighton
bronze, 16 x 12 x 10 inches
$3,900

Lynn Creighton is a ceramic sculptor who has studied shamanism and led Native American Purification Lodges and Vision Quests for many years. These parallel journeys to knowledge have created the opening for understanding of the celebration of feminine energy through form and ceremony. This is the subject of her current work as bronze female figures express their exuberance as they tap the core of their own energy and its connection to the divine.

Her graduate degree is from California State University, Northridge. She has taught in the Art Department at Moorpark College in California and California Lutheran University. Her work was included in an exhibition in Sapporo, Japan; in Exploring a Movement, Feminist Vision in Clay at Loyola Marymount University; in Los Angeles Arts Council’s Catch a Rising Artist; in Luxemburg, France, South Africa. It has been exhibited and collected throughout the United States. The Museum of Ventura County mounted a retrospective in 2019.

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Reclaiming the Sacred Source: Fushia

Lynn Creighton
bronze

Lynn Creighton is a ceramic sculptor who has studied shamanism and led Native American Purification Lodges and Vision Quests for many years. These parallel journeys to knowledge have created the opening for understanding of the celebration of feminine energy through form and ceremony. This is the subject of her current work as bronze female figures express their exuberance as they tap the core of their own energy and its connection to the divine.

Her graduate degree is from California State University, Northridge. She has taught in the Art Department at Moorpark College in California and California Lutheran University. Her work was included in an exhibition in Sapporo, Japan; in Exploring a Movement, Feminist Vision in Clay at Loyola Marymount University; in Los Angeles Arts Council’s Catch a Rising Artist; in Luxemburg, France, South Africa. It has been exhibited and collected throughout the United States. The Museum of Ventura County mounted a retrospective in 2019.

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Reaching Out

Honorable Mention

Richard Mortensen
fused glass, 8 x 2 x 7 inches
$125

Coming out of the November General Election of 2020, I started to regain my optimism and hope that we as a country really might be able to "turn things around". Some of this optimism was diminished by events leading up to January 20, 2021, but i held onto my hope and I think that is reflected in some of my late 2020 and early 2021 work which is submitted here for your consideration. A greater use of color, some new techniques and different shapes symbolize, perhaps, a new direction for our country, a new transparency in our government and a hopeful change in how we view and treat one another.

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Emergence

Richard Mortensen
fused glass, 9 x 2 x 5.5 inches
$125

Coming out of the November General Election of 2020, I started to regain my optimism and hope that we as a country really might be able to "turn things around". Some of this optimism was diminished by events leading up to January 20, 2021, but i held onto my hope and I think that is reflected in some of my late 2020 and early 2021 work which is submitted here for your consideration. A greater use of color, some new techniques and different shapes symbolize, perhaps, a new direction for our country, a new transparency in our government and a hopeful change in how we view and treat one another.

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Celebration

Richard Mortensen
fused glass, 15 x 1.5 x 15 inches
$125

Coming out of the November General Election of 2020, I started to regain my optimism and hope that we as a country really might be able to "turn things around". Some of this optimism was diminished by events leading up to January 20, 2021, but i held onto my hope and I think that is reflected in some of my late 2020 and early 2021 work which is submitted here for your consideration. A greater use of color, some new techniques and different shapes symbolize, perhaps, a new direction for our country, a new transparency in our government and a hopeful change in how we view and treat one another.

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I Am Hers and She Is Mine

Susan Webb
graphite and charcoal on paper, 11 x 9 inches
Not for Sale

Media and Consequences #2

Carlos Grasso
mixed media, 13” x 13” (frame included)
$950

Carlos Grasso is becoming more widely known these days for his innovative
“shredded” painting series which he calls “Canvas Deconstruction.” As a native Argentinian, little did he know he was going to spend more than forty-five years abroad (France and USA) making art, with an American passport and three children, and all that after a promising professional career as a musician.

Over the last 35 years, not only has he transitioned from music to making art full time, he’s also shifted from representational works (which he studied with master David Leffel) to abstraction, mixed media, installations and conceptual art.

Visiting his studio (either virtually or in person by appointment) in Ojai, California, one encounters a display of torn canvases, found objects, dis-proportionally big brushes and an inquisitive mind that will tell you manifold stories and techniques
about its creations. He participated in numerous museum and gallery shows; his collector base spreads throughout the United States.

In his own words: “I usually greet collectors, curators and visitors to my studio with a 'welcome to
my playground!' My art requires the essential element of 'play,' either while cutting and shredding painted canvas by hand, assembling found objects on textured panels or designing my own colorful modern mandalas on paper. The more I 'get out of my own way,' the more creativity flows unobstructed and strangely enough, the more I control my medium.

Artists—in all branches and disciplines—are the preeminent voice of both the
collective and the individual unconscious. Art brings to the surface, to our awareness, all the processes that run deep, embedded, and often silently
ignored within. As the ancient philosopher once said, the unexamined life is not worth living.“

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Hang in There

Sandra Stubb
mixed media (scrap metal and pieces found on the ground), 15 x 13 x 18 inches
$125

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The Machine

John Duron
mixed media (300lb fabriano italian paper, oil), 42 x 28 inches
$15,000

Born in 1938, John Duron began his career in the mid eighties at the L.A. Impression Fine Art Gallery located on Melrose in West Los Angeles. In the nineties he had a very successful one man show in Havana, Cuba, making him the first American artist to have a show there in forty years. He studied art at the University of Salamanca, Spain in 1977. In 1992 he traveled to Florence, Italy to study the process of serigraphs, lithographs, and etching mono type under the instruction of Ruth Weisberg (art director at USC). In recent years he has studied and worked with Dan Freeman, master printer for such great artists as Andy Warhol, and Robert Rauschenberg.

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Alone In My Bubble

Second Place

Patti Kunstadt
mixed media, 16 x 4.5 x 4.5 inches
Not for Sale

Discarded masks have replaced used confirms and soiled panties.

Crissy Martin
photography, 11 x 17 inches
Not for Sale

I’m an artist for my own survival and being. Sometimes I share what I do if it has some significance. I enjoy creating mindless stuff too.

Please help....Are you listening?

Crissy Martin
photography, 8 x 10 inches
Not for Sale

I’m an artist for my own survival and being. Sometimes I share what I do if it has some significance. I enjoy creating mindless stuff too.

Texting

Third Place

Crissy Martin
photography, 8 1/2 x 11 inches
Not for Sale

I’m an artist for my own survival and being. Sometimes I share what I do if it has some significance. I enjoy creating mindless stuff too.

Knock on the Door

Joanne Chase-Mattillo
photography, 16 x 20 inches
$400

The beauty of nature surrounding Los Angeles was the impetus for my entrance into the field of photography. In 2000, she graduated from California State University, Los Angeles with a Masters of Fine Art (MFA). During these years, Joanne continued as a tenured teacher for Los Angeles Unified School District.She is now a full-time artist.

I began her life’s journey in Ann Arbor, Michigan and graduated with a BA from Eastern Michigan University. Though the natural settings of Michigan are also quite beautiful, Joanne always dreamed of living in California. It was when she found the Santa Monica Mountains and her many hiking trails that Joanne learned to absolutely love Los Angeles. The fact that many locals in Los Angeles, including the San Fernando Valley where Joanne has lived for so many years have been used in Hollywood movies is also been an important part of my art influencing the creation of two photo books - A MONTH OF COOL DAYS AND HOT NIGHTS and INTERSPECIES DATING IN LOS ANGELES 3D.

In addition to color and black and white film, I now shoot digitally and employ the techniques of infrared imaging and enjoy creating 3D anaglyphs to be viewed with red/blue lenses. I also combine images of nature with movie stills, mannequins, or human subjects in photo montages, with occasional text included in these artworks. I have also experimented with video art.


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The Masked Dancer

Joanne Chase-Mattillo
photography, 12 x 36 inches
$450

The beauty of nature surrounding Los Angeles was the impetus for my entrance into the field of photography. In 2000, she graduated from California State University, Los Angeles with a Masters of Fine Art (MFA). During these years, Joanne continued as a tenured teacher for Los Angeles Unified School District.She is now a full-time artist.

I began her life’s journey in Ann Arbor, Michigan and graduated with a BA from Eastern Michigan University. Though the natural settings of Michigan are also quite beautiful, Joanne always dreamed of living in California. It was when she found the Santa Monica Mountains and her many hiking trails that Joanne learned to absolutely love Los Angeles. The fact that many locals in Los Angeles, including the San Fernando Valley where Joanne has lived for so many years have been used in Hollywood movies is also been an important part of my art influencing the creation of two photo books - A MONTH OF COOL DAYS AND HOT NIGHTS and INTERSPECIES DATING IN LOS ANGELES 3D.

In addition to color and black and white film, I now shoot digitally and employ the techniques of infrared imaging and enjoy creating 3D anaglyphs to be viewed with red/blue lenses. I also combine images of nature with movie stills, mannequins, or human subjects in photo montages, with occasional text included in these artworks. I have also experimented with video art.


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Freedom

Joanne Chase-Mattillo
photography, 12 x 36 inches
$450

The beauty of nature surrounding Los Angeles was the impetus for my entrance into the field of photography. In 2000, she graduated from California State University, Los Angeles with a Masters of Fine Art (MFA). During these years, Joanne continued as a tenured teacher for Los Angeles Unified School District.She is now a full-time artist.

I began her life’s journey in Ann Arbor, Michigan and graduated with a BA from Eastern Michigan University. Though the natural settings of Michigan are also quite beautiful, Joanne always dreamed of living in California. It was when she found the Santa Monica Mountains and her many hiking trails that Joanne learned to absolutely love Los Angeles. The fact that many locals in Los Angeles, including the San Fernando Valley where Joanne has lived for so many years have been used in Hollywood movies is also been an important part of my art influencing the creation of two photo books - A MONTH OF COOL DAYS AND HOT NIGHTS and INTERSPECIES DATING IN LOS ANGELES 3D.

In addition to color and black and white film, I now shoot digitally and employ the techniques of infrared imaging and enjoy creating 3D anaglyphs to be viewed with red/blue lenses. I also combine images of nature with movie stills, mannequins, or human subjects in photo montages, with occasional text included in these artworks. I have also experimented with video art.


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Fading Into Dreams

Joanne Chase-Mattillo
photography, 12 x 36 inches
$450

The beauty of nature surrounding Los Angeles was the impetus for my entrance into the field of photography. In 2000, she graduated from California State University, Los Angeles with a Masters of Fine Art (MFA). During these years, Joanne continued as a tenured teacher for Los Angeles Unified School District.She is now a full-time artist.

I began her life’s journey in Ann Arbor, Michigan and graduated with a BA from Eastern Michigan University. Though the natural settings of Michigan are also quite beautiful, Joanne always dreamed of living in California. It was when she found the Santa Monica Mountains and her many hiking trails that Joanne learned to absolutely love Los Angeles. The fact that many locals in Los Angeles, including the San Fernando Valley where Joanne has lived for so many years have been used in Hollywood movies is also been an important part of my art influencing the creation of two photo books - A MONTH OF COOL DAYS AND HOT NIGHTS and INTERSPECIES DATING IN LOS ANGELES 3D.

In addition to color and black and white film, I now shoot digitally and employ the techniques of infrared imaging and enjoy creating 3D anaglyphs to be viewed with red/blue lenses. I also combine images of nature with movie stills, mannequins, or human subjects in photo montages, with occasional text included in these artworks. I have also experimented with video art.


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Her Dark Reflection

Joanne Chase-Mattillo
photography, 12 x 36 inches
$400

The beauty of nature surrounding Los Angeles was the impetus for my entrance into the field of photography. In 2000, she graduated from California State University, Los Angeles with a Masters of Fine Art (MFA). During these years, Joanne continued as a tenured teacher for Los Angeles Unified School District.She is now a full-time artist.

I began her life’s journey in Ann Arbor, Michigan and graduated with a BA from Eastern Michigan University. Though the natural settings of Michigan are also quite beautiful, Joanne always dreamed of living in California. It was when she found the Santa Monica Mountains and her many hiking trails that Joanne learned to absolutely love Los Angeles. The fact that many locals in Los Angeles, including the San Fernando Valley where Joanne has lived for so many years have been used in Hollywood movies is also been an important part of my art influencing the creation of two photo books - A MONTH OF COOL DAYS AND HOT NIGHTS and INTERSPECIES DATING IN LOS ANGELES 3D.

In addition to color and black and white film, I now shoot digitally and employ the techniques of infrared imaging and enjoy creating 3D anaglyphs to be viewed with red/blue lenses. I also combine images of nature with movie stills, mannequins, or human subjects in photo montages, with occasional text included in these artworks. I have also experimented with video art.


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Banana

Alexander Abeeree
photography, 17 x 11 inches
Not for Sale (Offers Accepted)

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Shut Eye

Alexander Abeeree
photography, 11 x 17 inches
Not for Sale (Offers Accepted)

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This Is The End

Alexander Abeeree
photography, 11 x 17 inches
Not for Sale (Offers Accepted)

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Trapped

Alexander Abeeree
photography, 17 x 11 inches
Nor for Sale (Offers Accepted)

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2020 Moods

First Place

Amanda Armitage
crocheted yarn, 114 x 81 inches
Not for Sale

Amanda works in IT for the Ventura County Library. Her Grandma taught her to crochet when she was little. She doesn't use patterns or really knows how to read them. The artist decided to start 2020 by crocheting a row a day for the entire year, each color reflecting the mood she was in that day. What a colorful year! She started with white for hope and ended it by surrounding the whole blanket in the same white for hope.

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