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I was born in Los Angeles in 1951 and grew up in Manhattan Beach, California. From a young age I accompanied my father, watercolorist Keith Crown, on painting trips. In 1973 I received my BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in conjunction with Tufts University. During my early career I painted abstract watercolor landscapes, many inspired by the American Southwest. I began creating figurative sculptures and paintings in the 1980s, while continuing to paint landscapes. After moving back to Southern California in 2000, I began a series of beach scenes in oil that combine landscape and figurative subject matter, reconnecting with my California childhood.
I work in oil painting, watercolor and ceramic sculpture. My oils and sculpture celebrate my love of the cartoon. I feel like life is a cartoon, and I try to evoke that spirit in my figurative landscapes of California beaches and in scenes from Arizona. They mix the comic with the noir aspects of humanity: While the people are droll, the palette is often shades of gray or brown. My oils and watercolors display my love of pattern. I express my admiration of nature in abstract watercolor landscapes while my dance-series watercolors are dynamic by way of color and form. My sculptures explore audience and cafe scenes. With each audience I try to evoke a different mood. The cafe scenes often deal with obsession for food. I like to juxtapose grave-looking figures with objects that are associated with happiness. The effect is fun but also conveys the idea that material objects cannot bring happiness.
Katie Crown - Really Big Drawings | Press Release | View works in exhibition
Above: Katie Crown - Really Big Drawings | Press Release
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Website: https://www.katiecrown.net
Sally Jacobs, a contemporary botanical artist living in Los Angeles, studied botanical art at Otis College of Art and Design and the New York Botanical Art Certification Program. She has taught botanical illustration at the Otis College of Art and Design, the Los Angeles Arboretum, and the J. Paul Getty Museum. Her early education included a BA from Cornell University, MA from Harvard University, and an EdD from UCLA.
Her work was selected many times for the International Juried Botanical Art Exhibitions in New York City; several New York State Museum’s “Focus on Nature” exhibits; several Juried Botanical Art Exhibits at Filoli in Woodside, California; and the Fredrick R. Weisman Museum International Botanical Art Exhibition in Minneapolis. She was chosen as a member of a grant review panel for the National Endowment for the Arts and her work was shown on fCNN during a show on “new collectables.” Sally is a member of the American Society of Botanical Artists where she served as treasurer and vice president of the Southern California chapter. She is one of the artists included in “Todays’ Botanical Artists,” a book of contemporary, well-regarded, nature artists.
Sally Jacobs - California Grown | Press Release | View works in exhibition
Above: Sally Jacobs - Really Big Drawings | Press Release
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Website: http://www.sallyjacobs.com/
Shelley Lazarus was born and educated in New York, where as a teenager she attended Pratt College. She later attended Syracuse University studying fine arts and at the Parsons School of Design.
Living in a crowded city she became infatuated with the buildings around her. The urban landscapes that she captures in this series of paintings are from sketches she made while on location or peering out of windows. Never a purist watercolor artist, she renders her works with her signature style incorporating these works with pencils, pens, crayons, and different mediums.
Lazarus is a founding member of TAG Gallery and has served on its board since its inception. She has taught watercolor medium at the Brentwood Art Center for over 26 years. Her award winning works and can be found in both private and corporate sector collections domestic and abroad. Lazarus is also a member of various art related organizations including the Watercolor Honor Society. The proceeds of all of Lazarus' exhibitions is donated to the Robert David Lazarus Pulmonary Rehabilitation Unit at Cedar-Sinai Hospital in memory of her son Robert.
Shelley Lazarus - Mostly H2O | Press Release | View works in exhibition
Above: Shelley Lazarus, Mostly H2O | Press Release
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All of her work begins in clay and pieces are either fired and painted or have been cast into other materials such as plaster, resin, liquid stone. She is a figurative artist but has introduced organic objects and industrial finishes so work becomes more contemporary. She clearly shows knowledge of the human form.
Toni is influenced by the men and woman she has met and the dramatic stories of survival. Her current body of work includes “issues” such as dementia, depression, solitary confinement and military sexual trauma (MST). A description of the issues can be found on the website. Some of the information comes directly from people whose lives have been impacted by unjust policies or discrimination.
“Looking but not seeing” is what is driving Toni’s work. She now wants to tell the story through her sculpture and help people to not just look at her art, but to really see the emotion and sometimes pain of others.
Toni Reinis - Go Figure! | Moral Stain | Press Release | View works in exhibition
Above: Toni Reinis - Go Figure & Moral Stain | Press Release
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Website: http://www.tonireinisart.com/
Not in a trunk, not in the Princess Theater, not in Pocatello, Idaho and his name is not Judy Garland. He was born in a hospital bed at Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia on January 8, 1938, and his name is Michael Becker. Not on the Main Line, did not go to prep school, did not ride to the hunt and is not a Philadelphia WASP. He is from an upper middle class Jewish family, his grandfather was a rabbi and from the time he was three years old all he wanted to do, and did do was draw, paint, design clothes, design rooms and design just about anything.
In 1998 with back injuries resulting in surgeries, pain and ultimately insomnia. He began spending sleepless nights working with the travel photos he had taken, but not in Seattle. His only education in photography is a few hours with some retired people teaching Photoshop on the cruise ships he was on. He does very little with Photoshop and relies only on cropping, some saturation of color and yes, his eye. He is self-taught and has no resume of any shows in any London gallery or museum. He is Michael Becker, and he is a fraud.
Michael Becker - Dancers | Press Release | View works in exhibition
Above: Michael Becker - Dancers | Press Release
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Website: michaelbecker.me