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Lola NA

Visual Artist

A cityscape with a Bulls scull and Roses

Irene Bee Kain

Painter; Visual Artist

Distressed wood from an abandon building

Donna Ward

Mixed Media; Painter; Photographer

Lawrence Buford

Ceramics; Illustrator; Painter

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lauren ari

Illustrator; Instructor; Mixed Media; Muralist; Painter; Sculptor; Visual Artist

Born: Buffalo NY Lives in: Richmond, CA Education : Masters in Art/U.C. Davis Artist/Educator/Dancer/Gardner/Mother/Cook and lots of other stuff too

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Brian Conery

Mixed Media; Painter; Photographer; Sculptor; Visual Artist

Brian has a BA in Painting from CSU Chico, where he grew up, identifying as an artist from an early age. He began painting at 12 and was selling his work by age 15. He also spent a year studying illustration at Art Center College of Design in...

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John and Beth Dzenitis

Fabricator; Mixed Media; Sculptor; Visual Artist; Furniture Artist

John and Beth are Dzenitis Art and Engineering, a small design-and-build shop in the San Francisco Bay Area making unique furniture. We are inspired by math, natural sciences, and our clients’ unique interests. We work through custom commissions...

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Mark T Ebner

Sculptor

There is nothing so amazing as to watch two pieces of steel heat to over 2,200 degrees, glow red, become fluid and then join into one piece. That’s the art of gas welding and forging. Mark T Ebner works as an abstract sculptor, utilizing...

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Todd Gilens

Earthworks/Land Artist; Sculptor; Visual Artist

Todd Gilens is a visual artist and garden designer working with people, places, and ideas. Trained in landscape architecture, he uses drawing, photography and writing to investigate and express people and places. He creates projects that can be...

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Rosalinda Grejsen

Ceramics; Instructor; Sculptor

I create handmade ceramic pieces inspired by the natural character of clay and the grounding process of working by hand. Each form is shaped slowly, leaving traces of touch and intention, and celebrating the beauty of organic texture and earthy...

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Saira Grube

Ceramics; Mixed Media; Painter; Sculptor; Visual Artist

I am a Concord California based ceramic artist and a member of the Martinez Art Association. I create wheel thrown, hand carved, one of a kind pieces. I gravitate towards creatures of all kinds and botanical motifs in my work. I also create...

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Nathaniel "Bronze" Holbein

Sculptor

Nathaniel Holben (A.K.A. Bronze Holbein) is a metal manipulator from Martinez, CA. Nate has been summoning sculptures from the void since 2009, when he made his first steel sculpture at Cuesta College in San Luis Obispo. After discovering his love...

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Kimiko Kogure

Mixed Media; Sculptor

“A profound awe of nature forms a common thread throughout my life, and dominates my artistic career. Growing up in Japan at the edge of the gently sloping Kantou plain 60 miles from Tokyo, my world was bounded by three mountains under a vast sky. I...

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Sarah Lee

Mixed Media; Sculptor

Sarah Lee was born in San Francisco, and currently lives and works in the Bay Area. She has studied illustration and received her BFA at Art Center College of Design, and has completed a MFA for painting at California College of the Arts. Although...

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Sean Orlando

Fabricator; Media Arts: 3D Modeler; Mixed Media; Sculptor; Visual Artist; Immersive Art, Public Art, Placemaking

Sean Orlando is a sculptor and cultural project manager focused on experiential and immersive artwork that shapes our shared civic spaces. Orlando is the founder of Engineered Artworks, a public placemaking firm; Artifact Logistics, a fine arts...

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Les Phillips

Mixed Media; Painter; Sculptor; Visual Artist

Born in Portland Oregon, I came to San Francisco in the early 1980s to study art and have resided in Contra Costa County since the early 2000s. My work is in private collections and trashcans worldwide.

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Patricia Pintner

Mixed Media; Painter; Sculptor

Born in Los Angeles, I have lived in the Bay area for over 30 years and in Richmond since 2005. I am drawn to the variety and potential of different materials, natural and man-made, and how they can be combined and reassembled to create thought...

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Sara Pisheh

Ceramics; Fabricator; Graphic Artist; Jeweler; Media Arts: 3D Modeler; Painter; Sculptor; Visual Artist; Set Designer and Scale model maker

I’m a designer and maker based in the East Bay, creating handmade fabric jewelry using ethnic textiles from around the world. Rooted in Middle Eastern, Iranian, and Indian traditions, my work blends cultural heritage with modern style. Each piece...

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Raf Podowski

Mixed Media; Painter; Sculptor; Woodcarver

Raf Podowski is a surrealist artist and sculptor, and a scientist. He holds a Ph.D. in functional genomics from Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden and a Masters of Science in Engineering Physics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy,...

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Julee Richardson

Sculptor

“I am a sculptor. My formal undergraduate art training began in Buffalo at the State University of New York. My sculptures are inspired by what I see. C. Wright Mills talks of the ‘sociological imagination,’ an understanding of the social forces in...

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Lori Rutledge

Graphic Artist; Illustrator; Jeweler; Mixed Media; Painter; Sculptor; Visual Artist

Lori Rutledge specializes in acrylic paintings featuring animals, nature and abstract art. She began practicing and studying art in childhood, when she developed a passion for the natural world. Lori studied art at City College of San Francisco at...

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Lucy Snow

Ceramics; Sculptor

“I may start with a very specific idea or image to interpret/make three-dimensional. Or some invention of process may be what motivates me. Each stage of clay, from soft to firm to hard, rough, smooth, shiny, etc., requires its own methods and...

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Twirbutt

Muralist; Painter; Sculptor

Josef Twirbutt was born in Lithuania. He graduated from the Gdansk Technical University in Poland receiving his Master of Architecture Degree in 1957. Lived and worked in Paris, France and in New York City from 1959 to 2012. In 1960 he started...

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Melissa Wang

Mixed Media; Painter; Sculptor

Melissa Wang grounds her work in abstraction, using painting, sculpture, and installation to explore human and nonhuman entanglements. As a former researcher and designer in tech, she is concept-driven, looking to ecofeminism and science-fiction for...

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