Using graceful lines and translucent color, Janet Bartlett Goodman’s encaustic landscapes convey the feeling of quiet solitude and tranquility. Her mixed media encaustic works are about moments in time. She is intrigued with the history of a place and the idea that its history has a felt presence. Each piece preserves a single moment but…
Read More Comments Off on Winter Open Studios: Janet Bartlett GoodmanHowie Katz uses software, projections, and physical objects to create interactive installations that bridge the virtual world and the real one.
See Howie’s work at Winter Open Studios on Saturday, December 6 from 4 – 9pm.
Anna Valdez combines her academic background in anthropology and video to make paintings about personal identity, but also cultural meaning. Currently, she is working on various narratives that explore my own traditions and history through a visual format. This process has led her to rely on photographs, stories, family recipes, horticulture, and the…
Read More Comments Off on Winter Open Studios: Anna ValdezKarla Works depicts found objects/ architecture, often from around the Norton Factory neighborhood, by way of block prints, monotype and assemblage. Come visit Studio 12 during Winter Open Studios on Saturday, December 6 from 4 – 9pm to see her methods and most recent pieces.
Kanna Aoki’s work is inspired by a passion for light, color, geometry and space, and by the physicality of paint. She celebrates contemplative moments in time, embracing both the immensity of our surroundings and the smallness of the individual immersed within it, exploring feelings of solitude, nostalgia, humor and grace,…
Read More Comments Off on Winter Open Studios: Kanna AokiTo achieve the rich, textured surface of her mixed media paintings, Bar Davi work mostly in layers – both physical layers on the pieces and interior layers such as memory, emotion and hope, surrendering to the materials and the process, iteratively engaging with the painting until its completion.
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Read More Comments Off on Winter Open Studios: Bar DaviKathryn Rummel of Kreate Photography is a passionate and driven photographer and multi-media artist. Kathryn sees the human form as a powerful work of art in itself. Her series Every-body is Beautiful {Body Scapes + Impressionist Form} was cultivated from a deep desire to celebrate the unadorned human form; to…
Read More Comments Off on Winter Open Studios: Kathryn RummelKelly DeFayette is a Bay Area colorist who works on wood panels with a high gloss finish. Shapes vary from the traditional to irregular and tessellating polygons. The shape of the panel informs the materials used, with taped angles and lines spray painted on, to acrylic and graphite gestural tangles….
Read More Comments Off on Winter Open Studios: Kelly DeFayetteVictoria Remler creates images with intention, considering lines, shapes and symmetry as seen in everyday natural environments. She appreciates order amid chaos.
Drop by Norton Factory’s Winter Open Studios on Saturday, December 6 from 4 – 9pm to see Victoria’s and 20 other artists’ work.
Cydne Kaye is a Bay Area native who grew up surrounded by art and music. A mostly self-taught artist, she is taking a break from her career as a pastry chef to devote her time to being a full-time artist. See the rest of Cydne’s collages at Norton Factory’s Winter…
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