Sherri Belassen

Sherri Belassen credits her inspiration in design and composition to flights she took with her father in their two-seater airplane growing up. The patterns, colors, and blocks/grids of colors seen from above informed her later aesthetic and is reflected in her work. Her paintings are distinguished by an extensive combination of underpainting, layering, and scratching of the surface, showing a history of hand and a yearning for more.

Lives and works in Phoenix, Arizona.

America Martin

America Martin is an internationally represented Colombian-American fine artist based in Los Angeles. America is a painter and a sculptor. The magnetic pull of Martin’s work is authentic, generated by both her ability to express a unique gesture that speaks to a universal truth (thus, we recognize it instantly) and her exceptional skill at rendering that truth via the human form. She pulls from the stylistic lessons of the classics and its derivations in indigenous subject matter, while redefining what it is to combine abstract and indigenous motifs.

Lives and work in Los Angeles, California.

David Matthew King

Stanley Boydston

Stanley Boydston was two years old when his grandmother, Wanda, placed a paintbrush in his hand. It's unlikely she envisioned a life path that would lead to him becoming a renowned painter.

Boydston is one of only two American artists whose work has recently been shown in the inaugural Biennale of Contemporary Sacred Art in Mentón, near Monte Carlo, Monaco, and in the 58th Venice Biennale. From the outlines, curves and objects of his earlier career to the parallel lines he sees as he gazes at the ocean and the role water plays in all life, Stanley Boydston’s journey has been an eclectic, continually emerging, and gratifying one.

Rafael Gaete

Rafael Gaete was born in Santiago, Chile on July 16th, 1974.  At age fifteen he experienced an important exhibition of Roberto Matta, a Chilean artist, at the Museo de Bellas Artes in Santiago. He was struck by Matta’s perception of space, and that is where his love for Surrealism began.

Rafael began painting seriously in 1999 and his first exhibition, “Microemotions and Microsensations” was presented in the gallery of the Marriot Hotel (Santiago, Chile) in 2001. His drawing and paintings have been inspired by Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism.

Gaete resides and work in Santa Barbara.

Dan Lencioni

Dan Lencioni is a nationally recognized artist who specializes in mixed media art.  His works are accumulations of everyday materials elevated in greater importance by their juxtaposition. Nothing is disguised or enhanced - they are meant to look exactly as they are.

In his most recent works, he explores cultivated accident and deliberately produced disorder by attaching wood, paper and other current photo materials to disrupt the surface structure in a very physical way. This instinctive primal expression personalizes his raw style of work creating emotional feelings and chaos.

The finished picture does not always show the layers of mark-making, but the sense of the painting is clear to see. The contrast between physical resolution or compositional clarity is his conflict. The painting is the energy left behind in that struggle.

Greg Miller

Drawing on the cultural and geographic influences of his Californian roots, Greg Miller creates work that pulls physical remnants of the past and offers a look into the momentary beauty found in the fleeting parts of American culture. Labeled a “neo-pop” artist (Huffpost article) by such critics as Donald Kuspit, Peter Frank, and Shana Nys Dambrot, Miller does indeed draw from the pop-cultural imagery that saturated American consciousness during the 1950s and 1960s.

Greg Miller’s career has spanned over four decades and is featured in numerous museum and private collections around the globe, including the Charles Saatchi Collection and the Frederick R. Weisman Collection.