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PAISANOS trashumantes, creadores anacrónicos ...de origen disímil
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COUNTRYMEN transhumants, anachronistic creators ...of dissimilar origin
PAISANOS trashumantes, creadores anacrónicos ...de origen disímil
USA
PAISANOS trashumantes, creadores anacrónicos ...de origen disímil
Founder
Luis Alderete www.luisalderete.com luis.alderete@live.com
Luis Alderete © 2016 PAISANOS trashumantes, creadores anacrónicos... de origen disímil All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any way without written permission from the author.
The first definition of the word paisano in the dictionary of the Real Academia de la Lengua Española is “said of a person: Someone
who is from the same country, province or place as another”
The cultural wealth of the world is its diversity in dialogue. Creation draws on the roots of cultural tradition, but flourishes in contact with other cultures. One of the main missions of UNESCO is to guarantee dialogue and mutual understanding for all cultures of the world. As such, it is not a question of identifying and preserving cultures as separate entities but rather of recognizing them, in order to avoid reducing them to ghettos, while counteracting losses of identity and preventing conflicts. This dialogue of cultures acquires a new meaning in the framework of globalization and the current international political context, thus becoming an indispensable way to guarantee the maintenance of peace and the cohesion of the world. UNESCO Declaration on Cultural Diversity as a World Heritage Site Paris, 2001
PROLOGUE
_______paisanos (countrymen) We exist on the edge of what we are not. Our identity inhabits a continent of names and concepts, which both explain and obscure reality. For us, being and existing in a space are ephemeral conditions that only manage to name places, archetypes and foods. Because we move.
Where am I from? -from where you are. This project attempts to construct –diagonallythe voice of the migrant individual through a multidimensional creative document: we-arewhat-we-do while we-are-where-we-are. In this wandering collective of creators, each "responds" sincerely from their own creative self, in this way integrating, by inertia, a rhizome of raw emotions and mysterious notes on the theme of non-being; why? Because this is nationality; an indicator of something unknowable. Our "contemporary" world has codified a system of references and immediate associations in order to describe the ways of being according to geographic origin, topology and such. Absurd.
Understanding that life IS movement, we should condemn the concept and the moral construct of permanency. We should make a culture of change and transformation. Those who inhabit the cultural borders of our world have a deep emotional understanding that while the world was looking to find "form", it actually created prisons. This curatorial initiative-without-shape describes (as homage to liberty) the personal identity of those who find their country in movement and migration. Neither in nomadism nor in escape. Not in abandonment, nor in forgetting. Migrants are universal. Not in order to be everywhere: But to understand the universe, and inhabit it.
Luis Ramaggio, -curator.
Greda / 2015 │ Mixed Media (watercolor & acrylic) / Paper │ 66" x 112"
Luis Alderete
AWARDS
Honorable Mention, Drawing “XX Bienal Plástica de Baja California" Instituto de Cultura de Baja California 2015 Winner, Painting “XIX Bienal Plástica de Baja California" Instituto de Cultura de Baja California 2013 Selected "Blanco... y Vacío" Art Site of Chiayi. Taiwan, China 2013
EXHIBITIONS
founder PAISANOS Mexico 1959
“Mexico-Thailand Printmaking Exchange 2019" Bangkok Art and Culture Center. Bangkok, Tailandia 2019 “PAISANOS, México en Europa" Consulado de México en Barcelona. Barcelona, Spain 2018 “Selección de Ganadores de la Bienal de Artes Plásticas de Baja California" Centro Estatal de las Artes. Mexicali, BC 2018 “PAISANOS, México" Valencia Gallery. San Diego, CA, USA 2017 “El Arte de Baja California" Consulado de México en Tucson. Tucson, AZ, USA 2016 “PAISANOS, México" Consulado de México en Fresno. Fresno, CA, USA 2016
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
architect
Since the late 70's my artwork has evolved and permuted from the stoic capture of the rural landscapes of the Baja California region, to the kinesthetic movement of the human figure. However, my profession is not art, nor painting ... it is architecture, and this has allowed me to appreciate the physical distance between humans and their environment, forming an essential part of the origin of my aesthetic appreciation for the creation of art, particularly painting. As an architect, I need the physical space to build,just as a tree needs space to grow and form roots; that is why I find in the shadow of a tree the direct vein that invites me to be a creator and metaphorically emulate my rural, city and human surroundings. In my work I explore dreams, desire, time, disenchantment, grief, joy, nostalgia and many other feelings parallel to those of a writer, typical of the artist and my being; allegorically intertextualizing an association with my subjective aesthetic vision and the physical creation of the artistic work. The language of my work is simple and clear. I try to capture scenes, portraits and contemplative landscapes within an accessible and friendly language for the viewer. The above leaves superficiality aside and adds themes that address repulsion, violence and human pain; of course without leaving behind the desire for the female figure. The techniques I use are diverse: graphite, pastel, ink, watercolor, acrylic, oil, mixed media and experimentation with materials that are adverse, diverse and of random use. During the search, I stumble over my own ideas and opinions, however, I work with them until I transform them into subjective realities. I intend for my painting to have few strokes and that color gives life to the form and delimits its content and feeling. The intention of my work does not exist as such but rather as part of my search for the diversity of feelings, analogies and metaphors that invite the viewer to perceive and expand on the sensations, experiences and emotions molded in my plastic work.
www.luisalderete.com
It’s My Nature / 2014 │ Acrylic / Canvas │ 20” x 30”
Laura Lehman
coordinator PAISANOS USA Kentucky 1949
EXHIBITIONS
2014 President’s Award at Cuyamaca College Annual Show 2010 Juror’s Award at National Art Show at SDAI in San Diego
2018-2019. PAISANOS USA: San Diego, San Bernardino, USA; Rosarito, Mexico 2017 National Show at Art On 30TH, San Diego, CA 2017 & 2015 International Show at SDWS, San Diego CA 2017 New Works @ New Space, Studio C in El Cajon CA 2017 & 2016 Through the Eyes of An Artist 1 & 2, Studio Door, San Diego, CA 2016 & 2015 Black and White Show, 2015 and 2016 at LJAA in La Jolla, CA 2010 National Show at SDAI in San Diego CA
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
AWARDS
graphic and fine artist / bfa
I’m interested in portraying that part of reality that is not tangible, not easily perceived. Just because one can’t see it doesn’t mean it isn’t real! I want to incorporate the unpredictable with the obvious. And encourage a viewer to look for the mystery of possibilities that dwell beneath the surface of expectations... to Look Farther, Dream Bigger, Do Better, Care More!
www.lauralehmanart.com
Attitude / 2017 │ Wax Pastel / Paper │ 25.5" x 19.7"
Jorge Egea
special guest Spain 1975
EXHIBITIONS
2011 – Guest of honor at the “XXXème Salon d’Art de Le Fousseret”, France. 2009 – “José Castillejo” Postdoctoral Research Grant, Spanish Ministry of Culture. 2008 – Video Creation Prize. Fuendetodos Film Festival, Zaragoza, Spain. 2018 'Spititus Classicus' - UNED - Open University (Spain) 2017 'For Real' Passenger Terminal Amsterdam. (The Netherlands) 2012 'Sotto Luce: Apollo, Light and Image'. MNAT - Archeological Museum of Tarragona (Spain) 2012 'Et in Arcadia… A re-embodiment of the frieze of temple of Apollo Epikourios'. Museum of Classical Archaeology of Cambridge (United Kingdom) 2011 'Trans·formare: Interpretations of the Transformation of the Museu Frederic Marès'. Barcelona (Spain) 2008 'Dopo il Museo (After the Museum)'.. Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli (Italy)
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
AWARDS
phd in fine arts
The presence of the body and the search for beauty through the human figure has have been the main concept in the development of my artworks. From my initial contact with clay as a fundamental medium for creation, I believe that at the base of every art work there is a personal relationship with the material, a search for the origin of art itself. The material is like a screen; simultaneously the entrance to the materiality of the image but, paradoxically, also its limit: the padlock that closes its outline. The corporeality of the sculpture is a primordial experience that allows us to speculate, seeking new forms, immersing ourselves in a buried vision, in which the gaze is hidden beneath the appearance of the matter. My works have no theme, the theme is the body, or beauty itself. The reference to the classical world, in a title or an attitude is only the track that connects with all the classical world, which defines us as the West. They are works that convey harmony, and they want the public to connect and meditate with their own natural beauty. They are sculptures that want to capture the life of the models with whom I work, as if it were a body portrait, since I do not seek to repeat canons or copy what antiquity did, but to rescue the classic sense of beauty in the bodies that I see around, that allows us to abstract from the concrete and transcend from the corporal to the spiritual. I believe classical is always a revolution against academical art (that is its degraded version) therefore in a society like the current one, in which we have had all the experiences of the avant-garde, the conceptual movement..., where there are economic, political and social convulsions, classical art continues to be a revulsion, a rupture even again.
www.jorgeegea.com
New Mexico
Oklahoma
MÉXICO│U S A
Baja California
PAISANOS
Canada
Texas
transhumants,
EspaĂąa
Wisconsin
New Hampshire Rhode Island
Ohio Washington DC Virginia Kentucky
Florida
anachronistic creators... of dissimilar origin
Green A7 / 2017 │ Mixed Media / Canvas
Victoria Alexander Marquez California 1949
EXHIBITIONS
Member, Fallbrook Artist Guild
Artist Guild Show. Fallbrook, CA. 2013-2017 "Tzompantli" Instiuto de Cultura de Baja California. Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico. 2010 "Puro Muerto: Contemporary Imagery of Day of the Dead " Central Library, Getty Gallery. Los Angeles, California. 2006 "Espíritu de Colaboration" Self Help Graphics. Los Angeles, California. 1999 "Festival de la Frontera" Museo Del Chamizal. Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico. 1998 Art Rental Gallery, Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Los Angeles, California. 1991-1999
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
AWARDS
artist
My artwork is a way for me to show the patterns of color and movement that I see and feel in the landscape of the surrounding world. Important to me is the Wilds, where Nature flows freely, the wind blows, and every element fits together in the great symphony of the Earth. I am fascinated with color, pattern and space. First, while working with my drawings to create silk screen textiles, I began my search for layers. Layers gave me depth and enhanced color and organized my method of application. In the back and forth of color I found the rhythm of the visual plane. Through colors and shapes, in this visual plane, our eyes can imagine movement and depth, and our feelings can be soothed as well as stimulated with each different arrangement.
www.victoriaalexandermarquez.me
Silent Prayer / 2015 │ Acrylic / Canvas │ 48” x 48”
Kate Ashton Washington DC 1948
EXHIBITIONS
Decor & Style Magazine, March 2007 “Spotlight on Kate Ashton” Member of Ray Street Artists Group Artwork featured in article I California Homes May/June 2005 Numerous Shows at Ashton Gallery in San Diego, CA 2016-2019 San Diego Reparatory Theater/Lyceum Art Gallery 2014 Featured in San Diego Art Department Showcase Fall 2013
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
AWARDS
owner, art on 30th in san diego, ca
Art is my calling. It is difficult for me not to paint. The creative spirit is restless and I find myself heading for the easel the way some people come home. It is the most authentic career I could ever have chosen! “If you want to be an artist, then get up every day and paint.”
www.kateashton.com
Wyoming II / 1993 │ Mixed Media / Canvas │ 36” x 18”
Debra S Babylon
AWARDS
1998 - First Place “Collage, Mixed-media, and Sculpture” National Exhibition at Long Beach Arts, CA 1998 - Juror’s Choice Award, So. California Regional Art Exhibition, San Diego Art Institute, CA. 1994 - Second Place "California Open" Exhibition at Long Beach Arts, CA.
EXHIBITIONS
Ohio 1956
2006 “California Open Exhibition”, Tag Gallery, Santa Monica, CA. 2000 Invitational Four Person “Painting” Exhibition at Southwestern College, CA. 1998 “Collage, Mixed-media, and Sculpture” National Exhibition at Long Beach Arts in Long Beach, CA. 1994 "Global Issues, Global Concerns" (National) 14th Annual Exhibition (O.C.C.C.A.), Santa Ana, CA. 1994 "California Open" (Statewide) Exhibition at Long Beach Arts, CA.
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
art educator / bfa, ma, mfa
The “Wyoming II” landscape exhibits my continued interest in rearranging (in horizontal bands) bits of reality and presenting a “visual travelog” of my vacationing experiences. I have found my memories of travels to be similar to my art – in that I remember things in bits and pieces as a whole experience. The addition of textured watercolor paper represents my desire to “loosen up” and is an influence from the textures of Jean Dubuffet. These textured surfaces are still being used in my most recent work – some with strategically placed torn edges and a camouflaging of others
dsbabylon11@cox.net
Virtual Isolation / 2018 │ Oil / Panel │ 8” x 10”
Lisa Bryson
AWARDS
2018 Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant, Montreal Canada 2017 Manifest 8th Annual Manifest Prize, Top Ten Semi-Finalist, Manifest Creative Research Gallery, Cincinnati, OH 2017 Manifest Grand Jury Prize Finalists for Season 13, Manifest Creative Research Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
EXHIBITIONS
California 1967
2018 Cas’Caras Art Exhibition, Studio C Gallery, El Cajon, CA 2018 14th Annual Magnitude Seven, Manifest Creative Research Gallery, Cincinnati, OH 2018 Small Image Show, Gallery 21, CA Juror, Maria Mingalone, Executive Director Oceanside Museum of Art, CAManifest 2017 Manifest 8th INPA (International Painting Annual), Manifest Creative Research Gallery, Cincinnati, OH 2017 Master Pieces Exhibition, National juried exhibition of artists and their professors, Manifest Creative Research Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
artist / mfa
Through direct and purposeful manipulation of the physical representation of the human form and media, my work examines the state of being. Overtness and subtlety consistently interplay and enhance the complex visual dialogue. The work further examines the effects of social media, popular culture and media technology on interpersonal communications and personal identity. These multifaceted narratives simultaneously exemplify and redefine the burden of humanity.
http://lbryson.com
Walk the Walk │ Oil / Canvas │ 30” x 24”
Therese Cipiti Herron
AWARDS
AJN Magazine Cover Silver Award 2010 Edition Hardcover ‘Nursing The Finest Art’ by Patricia Donahue (10 paintings from Nursing Series) National Museum of Women in The Arts Museum Archive Washington D.C.
EXHIBITIONS
Ohio 1952
Columbus Museum Of Art 2017 Atheneum’s Annual Awards Exhibitions International Juried Exhibitions at San Diego Art Institute Oceanside Museum Orange County Center for Contemporary Art L Street Gallery
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
registered nurse
My work is based on autobiographical references. Looking a little longer at things I’m familiar with and presenting them in a non-sequential relationship so that thoughts and ideas are experienced rather than a narrative structural framework. Ruthless editing is employed to arrive at a seemingly simple exposition. I like to think of my art work as connected to history, yet personal and current in time and place. It's how I see things, with enough left unsaid. I work with a variety of media, hoping to engage the viewer with many sensations. My "Uniformed" series stems from my parochial school upbringing and working for three decades in the field of nursing. I typically produce art works in series on topics ranging from dogs to politics, landscapes to hula dancing.
www.theresefineart.com
Childhood Memories Last the Longest / 2017 │ Mixed Media / Canvas │ 36” x 36”
Kris Daniels Virginia 1955
EXHIBITIONS
San Diego Award, San Diego County Fair First Place, Oil Painting at Cuyamaca College Art Show
San Diego County Fair juried art shows, 2016-2018 “Through the Eyes of An Artist” in San Diego, 2017
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
AWARDS
nurse practitioner
”Childhood Memories Last The Longest” is the title of my current series. These are the memories which, chronologically, have been with us for the most years. They are also those memories people afflicted with Alzheimer’s Disease lose last. My theme reminds us of how important positive childhood experiences are to us all. The artwork is, in addition, a tribute to those dealing with the devastating effects of Alzheimer’s Disease. In this piece, new memories are being created by the two boys on boogie boards while memories held in photos from over 100 years ago fade in the waves.
verndaniels@cox.net
Nearing the Haight │ Mixed Media / Canvas │ 36” x 36”
Ellen Dieter Ohio 1955
EXHIBITIONS
Purchase Award from the State of Hawaii Foundation Multiple Juror's Choice Awards from The San Diego Art Institute Juror's Choice Award from Ashton Gallery in San Diego, CA among many other awards.... 2020-2021 Oceanside Museum of Art Artist Alliance at the Museum 2017-2018 Solo Show "Color, Joy, Shape, Vitality" Oceanside Museum of Art 2017 DBA Show at Cedar Street Galleries in Honolulu, Hawaii 2017 Solo Show "Beneath the Surface" at Martha Pace Swift Gallery in San Diego, CA
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
AWARDS
artist
When I paint, I throw caution to the wind, letting it out, expressing from the inside, deliberate, yet free... arbitrary, yet intentional. Moving paint around, mixing colors, trying new ideas thrills me and I cannot not paint. My work is about the process. The image often comes secondary to the actual art making. I tend to work a lot in the abstract world of shape and color, line and form, painting intuitively, one brush stroke leading to the next. I find that there is a poetic spirituality in the process. Figures or landscapes may appear. Lines cross the canvas, words pop up out of nowhere. What happens next can be surprising and exciting. There is a definite chaos through which each work evolves. What is left behind may be visible or not, but I always know it is there. Creating, destructing, recreating.... Figuring it out, as in life, it is the why of it all for me.
http://ellendieterartist.blogspot.com
End of the Thing / 2017 │ Mixed Media
Roberta Dyer Rhode Island 1946
EXHIBITIONS
Signature Member of SDWS Signature Member of WFWS Signature Member of ISAP Annual National Show, Honorable Mention, Art on 30th SDWS International Exhibition Signature and American Watercolor Exhibition Western Federation of Watercolor Societies Watercolor Art Society of Houston International Exhibition NWS Annual Members' Show
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
AWARDS
artist / mfa
Roberta’s art is best described as expressive, whether figurative or abstract. She uses a combination of bold color and mixed media techniques to present her subjects in unusual ways. “I am constantly pulled by two loves - painting figures and painting abstracts. It makes me happy to work with the push and pull of these two disciplines. I want to explore how design and pattern interact to make a realistic subject more abstract and enhance the theme of the painting. For me, the process of painting involves adding and removing and editing as I go along. If something doesn’t work, I simply paint it out and go in a different direction. I don’t try to paint likenesses, that is a task for portrait artists. I use figures as shapes in a painting. While I love painting with traditional watercolors, acrylics lend themselves well to my technique.”
www.robertadyer.com
700 Million / 2017 │ Acrylic / Canvas │ 36” x 36”
Kenda Francis California 1970
EXHIBITIONS
Kenda Francis featured in Culture Trip's "6 Artists from San Diego to Know" Honorable Mention: 2017 Text and Memories a Juried Exhibition, Art on 30th, San Diego, CA Honorable Mention: 2014 Wildlife in Art, Juried Exhibition, Foothills Art Gallery, La Mesa, CA “Through the Eyes of An Artist” Studio Door and Studio C Gallery, San Diego, CA 2017 Awarded best “50 to Watch” San Diego California at the Studio Door, 2016 “Endangered” National Juried Exhibition, San Diego, CA 2016 Solo Exhibition “Animal Graffiti”, Encinitas Public Library, Encinitas, CA 2016 “West/East A Group Art Exhibit” an invitational, Olaf Weighorst Museum, El Cajon, CA 2016 “California Dreaming: An International Portrait of Southern California” a texhibition to the Palazzo della Provincia de Rosinone in Frosinone Italy, Riverside Art Museum and Oceanside Museum of Art, 2015
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
AWARDS
art educator / mfa
Kenda's mixed media images show animals as part of urban landscapes, in a modern graffiti style. The contrast of animal subjects against urban tags is an attempt to show how animals are so often living in spaces where they can't be free, where they don't belong. 700 Million was inspired by the sickening fact that an estimated 63 – 273 million sharks are killed by people per year (11,417 per hour), and represents the vital, ancient and essential creatures that are being killed at an unsustainable rate, mainly for Shark Fin Trade which is a Chinese cultural symbol of wealth and respect, when served in shark fin soup.
https://kendafrancis.com
In Living Color / 2017 │ Acrylic / Canvas
Ann Golumbuk
AWARDS
In Living Color - 1st Place - Ashton Gallery, San Diego, Ca Hanging By A Thread - Best In Show - Ashton Gallery's National Show, San Diego, Ca Left-Handed Guardian - MOLA International Exhibit - San Diego, CA
EXHIBITIONS
Oklahoma 1961
Rhythm and Hues - Ashton Gallery, Ca Orange Is The New Black - National Show - Ashton Gallery, San Diego, Ca 3rd Times A Charm - Ashton Gallery, San Diego, Ca Everything New, Everything Now - LeftBank Art - NYC, NY In Wonderland - Solo Show - San Diego, Ca MOLA International Show - San Diego, Ca
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
abstract artist
Ann was born in Enid, Oklahoma, and educated at the University of Oklahoma, with a degree in Interior Design. She moved to San Diego in 1984, where she lives today with her husband and three children. While her artistic impression was constant throughout her life, her recent foray into the art world was developed over the past 15 years working as a volunteer art teacher for the San Diego public school system. During this time she also worked as the prop, costume and backdrop designer for the elementary school’s performances and directed the art and talent shows for many years. Now coming full circle, Ann is once again involved in instructing new and aspiring artists on her painting methods. In her commitment to being a green artist, Ann is able to create unique paintings by using recycled materials, finding items of interest in her environment, and using every drop of paint to add dimension to her paintings.
http://anngolumbuk.com
Palo V / 2018 │ Oil / Canvas │ 68” x 54”
Martin Hanek California 1982
EXHIBITIONS
2007. "Martin Wong Foundation Scholarship Award" Humboldt State University, California, USA
2018. Artilex Gallery, El Cajon, Ca, USA
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
AWARDS
artist
Observing reality and painting my thoughts
www.martinhanek.com
The Long View │ Oil / Canvas │ 36” x 36”
Frank W Higley New Hampshire 1947
EXHIBITIONS
2014 SDAI Regional Show - Honorable Mention 2008 SDAI International Show - Award of Excellence 2008 SDAI Regional Show - Honorable Mention 2014 SDAI - Regional Juried Show 2009 Long Beach Arts - Regional Juried Show 2008 SDAI - International Juried Show 2004 Long Beach Arts - Open National Show
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
AWARDS
tool & die maker
This picture was inspired by the poem ‘Ozymandias’. Written by Percy Bysshe Shelley. I will let the poem be my artist statement. I met a traveler from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip. And sneer of cold command, Tell that the sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed; And on the pedestal these words appear: “ My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!” Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.
drgnsmk7@cox.net
Beauty Without Adornment / 2012 │ Mixed Media / Paper │ 36” x 26”
Nancy Jacobson Wisconsin 1941
EXHIBITIONS
2009 First Prize for Painting, Cuyamaca College Student Show
2017 Group Show “Through The Eyes Of An Artist” at The Studio Door, San Diego, CA 2008 – 2012 Participated in student shows at Cuyamaca College
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
AWARDS
artist
This piece attempts to compare the natural beauty of the human body to commercial icons representing style and beauty.
crestpalace@cox.net
Deep Deep Blue / 2018 │ Mixed Media / Canvas │ 10” x 12”
Kirby Kendrick
AWARDS
San Diego Watercolor Society International Exhibition, 4th Place, 2015 San Diego Watercolor Society International Exhibition, 3rd Place, 2014 San Diego 50th International Exhibition Award of Excellence, 2009
EXHIBITIONS
Texas 1949
Oceanside Museum of Art at University Club, San Diego, CA, 2018 National Watercolor Society Exhibition, San Pedro, CA, 2017 Athenaeum Museum Shorts & Briefs, La Jolla, CA, Eat At Art video - 2016 National Weather Center Biennale, Norman, OK, 2013 KA-POW! Solo Exhibition Presentspace Gallery, Portland, OR, Long Beach, CA, 2011 Katharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club Annual Open Juried Exhibition New York, NY, 2011, 2010, 2006
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
artist
My passion is art history and its relationship to contemporary art. After being trained classically at the New York Studio School, I am infatuated and enamored with Renaissance art, pop art, installations, filming art videos, and publishing an art history/contemporary art blog…all while having a jolly good time!
www.kirbykendrick.com
In the Woods / 2017 │ Oil / Canvas │ 34” x 30”
Judy McClain California 1959
EXHIBITIONS
Honorable Mention in Annual Juried Award Exhibition, San Diego Art Institute in San Diego, CA
2016, Through the Eyes of an Artist, Studio C Invitational Exhibit, The Studio Door, San Diego, CA 2016, East West Art Exhibit, Olaf Wieghorst Museum, El Cajon, CA 2012, Solo Exhibition, Adams Ave Grill, San Diego, CA 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, Annual Juried Award Exhibition, San Diego Art Institute 2008, San Diego Art Institute Exhibition
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
AWARDS
ba in biological sciences / artist
I paint natural, commonplace scenes that make the viewer remember and yearn; views from a distance, the calm of water, the quiet among trees, and ďŹ gures in repose. There is stillness, space, and distance in these subjects that pushes back against the rush and bustle of our stressful lives. They are a reminder of the beauty in the everyday.
www.judymcclain.com
Llama Fun / 2007 │ Oil Pastel / Digital Photo │ 28” x 31”
Susan J Osborn California 1946
EXHIBITIONS
Juried Biennial, Cannon Art Gallery, Carlsbad, CA, 2019 Karen Rhiner Platinum Pencil Award given by West Coast Drawing, 2017 Listed in Who’s Who of American Women, 25th edition, (2005 - 2007) Visual Artists Assistance Grant from California Arts Council, State of California, 1977 “The Artist Portrait Project: Fifty San Diego Artists, 2006 - 2016,” Central Library Art Gallery, San Diego, CA, 2019 33rd National Juried Exhibition, National Collage Society, Union Street Gallery, Chicago Ill, 2017 “Part and Parcel,” San Diego Art Institute, 2016 “Intimate Views,” West Coast Drawing, Oceanside Museum of Art, 2011 “Objects of Desire,” Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, Ill, 2008 Artists Guild Presents Four Artists, San Diego Museum of Art, 1999 Permanent Collection Museo Internacional de Electrografia, University de Castilla-La Mancha, Cuenca, Spain, 1990
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
AWARDS
artist, ma / teacher
My drawings reveal a love of energy through line. I have also been attracted to shape and texture. I can take images and cut them, put them back together and alter them by adding drawing. The drawings closely relate to my work in collage and assemblage. "There is something very special about the process of rearranging objects, cutting them and recomposing into a new image on paper. It's a metamorphosis giving new life to old”.
http://osbornart.com
Eysianville / 2018 │ Mixed Media / Illustration Board │ 46” x 38”
Mick Phelan
AWARDS
2004 First Place, Annual Juried Show, Anthenaeum, La Jolla, CA US 2011 Juried Biennial, William D. Cannon Art Gallery, Carlsbad, CA US 2012 Southern California Juried Exhibition, San Diego Art Institute; San Diego, CA US
EXHIBITIONS
us citizen British Columbia, Canada 1959
2010 Presentation: “ A Field Guide to Suburbia” Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA US 2015 Book: “Super Angry” Martianwolf Press, CA US 2016 Exhibit: “Greyscale” Bg Gallery, Santa Monica, CA US 2017 Exhibit: "Rara Avis" Sahara West Gallery, Las Vegas, Nevada, US 2018 Exhibit: "3 Artists” LA ArtCore Brewery Annex, Los Angeles, CA US 2020 Exhibit: "Paisanos MEX/USA/ESP" Palau Falguera Gallery, Barcelona, ES
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
artist
I was raised in suburbia. The first time I remember being bored, I was three years old. Everybody in my neighborhood was busy and they were all doing the same things. Everybody was exactly the same all the time. I though it was better to watch. I daydreamed a lot, a lot about being someplace else. I have been told that’s why I am an artist. I have never thought that. I like being bored. I can turn off my phone. I don’t mind. Entertainment takes up too much time. Boredom is more interesting. Someone said that boredom is a malady of a surfeit class, but I don’t care. I imagine boredom as the space between distractions. It’s the place where things really happen, not where we pretend things happen. I try to be bored as long as I can. I don’t know much about reality. I was raised in suburbia.
www.mickphelan.com
Knees and Elbows │ Mixed Media / Paper │ 34” x 23”
Judy Pike (†)
AWARDS
Awarded 5 solo shows at San Diego Art Inst. (SDAI) 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014, 2016 2003 Long Beach Women s Festival, 3rd Place - Ruth Weisberg, Juror 2000 Master s of the Moment, Best of Show, Gail Roberts, Juror
EXHIBITIONS
California 1942
2016 Solo Exhibition SDAI “Part and Parcel” 2013 SDAI International Exhibition 2011 SDAI International Exhibition 2010 West Coast Drawing Show, Oceanside Museum of Art 2009 Cannon Juried Biennial 2004 Stanford Univ. 40th Reunion Exhibition, Nathan Oliveira, Juror
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
artist, with postgraduate work in drawing and painting
Judy Pike is a San Diego artist whose focus is the human figure. She uses a variety of media and techniques to portray individuals, as examples of everyday situations, moods, fashions and attitudes. Her current work explores episodes and transitions in lives —often not smooth or seamless — suggested by addition of machine stitching to overall compositions. Most of the work begins in a Tuesday morning life drawing group founded by other like-minded artists. Models are invited to collaborate with artists in creating vignettes for artists to portray in various media. FIG - Figurative Inspiration Group 12-year drawing group
www.judypike.com
Grace / 2015 │ Colored Pencil / Paper │ 17” x 20.5”
Susan Salazar California 1945
EXHIBITIONS
2018 Juried into the International Colored Pencil Society of America (CPSA() Exhibition 2014 Awarded the Colored Pencil Society of America (CPSA), CPX signature Published in Ann Kullberg’s Colored Pencil Cats and Dogs & CP Treasures–Volume 5 2017-2019 Gallery 21 Small Image Exhibition 2018 Cas’Caras Art Exhibition, San Diego Art Institute International Art Exhibition CPSA Explore This Exhibition
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
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artist
Susan Salazar seeks to capture the very essence of beautiful, treasured moments in life, a universal understanding and representation of shared experiences in family, society and in nature. The emotional connection is made through constructed portraits–both representational and metaphorical narratives. The artist invites the viewer to partake in the universal language of love, friendship, compassion, joy and humor; dialogue between artist and viewer becomes interwoven and interchangeable. Joy and passion drive her work; each piece represents her internal, personal journey that assists in capturing the emotion(s) portrayed.
www.susansalazarartist.com
The Tower of Babble / 2016 │ Oil / Canvas │ 40” x 30”
Cree Scudder Florida 1952
EXHIBITIONS
2017 (Honorable Mention); Pen Women Show, Emmerson Center, Vero Beach, FL 2016 (Honorable Mention); La Jolla Library, La Jolla, CA Library Gallery, 2016 (Two Honorable Mentions); Fine Art, Floral Division Del Mar Fair, Summer 2014 (Juror's Choice Award); Southern CA Juried Show, SDAI, Regional Show 2020/2019 “Art by the Sea” Exhibition, Vero Beach Museum of Art, Vero Beach, FL 2019 Solo Show “Over the Rainbow and Out of the Box”, BluSeed Gallery, Saranac Lake, NY 2018 “Celebration of Creativity”, Orchid Island, FL 2017 “RED” and ”3rd Times a Charm” Show, Art on 30th, San Diego, CA 2016 La Jolla Library Exhibitions, La Jolla, CA 2014 SDAI Regional Show and Southern CA Juried Show 2012/2010 Solo Shows Speedy Spa, Lake Placid, NY
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artist
At first glance, I would say “almost anything” tends to inspire me to begin a painting. But, if I get myself under the microscope, I would say that my having my paint brush in my hand, and moving paint along the surface of the canvas creates enough energy to start everything flowing. Then my painting truly begins. The golden opportunity of creating is the kindest gift I can repeatedly give myself. And, in turn, that becomes another opportunity to explore more new ideas. There is a form of abstraction that holds my hand, as well as a playful tone that bubbles beneath, holding my attention and hopefully yours as well.
www.creescudder.com
Homestead Flux / 2016 │ Mixed Media / Board
Kathy Serrano Zanot
AWARDS
Juried exhibition, “THE B&W INVITATIONAL”, Studio C Contemporary, El Cajon, CA. Juried Biennial exhibition, Peoples Choice Award, Wm. D. Cannon Gallery, Carlsbad, CA. Design selected and executed for large scale mural (17’-3’ x 93’), Cuyamaca College, CA.
EXHIBITIONS
California 1967
“RARA AVIS” at Sahara West Library Gallery, Las Vegas, NV. 2017 “If You Lived Here” at Hyde Gallery, San Diego, CA. 2017 “On the Edge” at Art on 30th, San Diego, CA 2017. “The Endless Line” at Fallbrook Library Gallery, Fallbrook, CA. 2016 “Gesture and Mark” at Southwestern College Art Gallery, San Diego, CA. 2016 “Drawn” at Cannon Art Gallery, Carlsbad, CA. 2015
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
nursery stock purveyor, manager / artist, bfa
Reaction to my surroundings, observing human nature and recognizing reactions that make us all human. An attempt to create an exuberant, thought-provoking look at the tragicomical condition. An uncanny assemblage of musings which juxtapose ordinary with extraordinary, disturbing with inviting. I hope to produce a playful consideration of the evolving relationship between humanity and imaginary while considering placement, movement and contrast amongst itself. A universal connection through image and line, creating brief glimpsecommentaries of life.
createartz@att.net
Dividido Entre Dos Países / 2018 │ Acrylic / Canvas │ 24” x 24”
Anna Siqueiros
AWARDS
2000/2001 Participant in City of Los Angeles Community of Angels Project, sponsored by Wilshire Grand Hotel 1989, Art director and counselor for the American Cancer Society in New Mexico Outstanding Participation Award, Triton Museum of Art in Santa Clara
EXHIBITIONS
California 1963
2017, Joined group of artists showing as Paisanos USA, with pieces on display internationally. 2012, Established a non-profit “Siqueiros Foundation of the Arts” 2010 & 2011, Venice Art Walk 2009, One-women show, “Paintings of A Parallel Universe,” at California State University, Channel Islands. 2008/2010 Work published in Latino heritage month calendar for the Cultural Affairs Department of Los Angeles
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
artist / certificate of fine arts
My present work is a personal statement about movement. I try to express that it is a dance about creation and a message that I want the viewer to feel. I often find that I use themes that have a symbolic meaning that one can relate to through my paintings. My color pallet can range from contemporary whimsical to a dream-like state to a suggested notion of calmness, safety and the struggles of the human spirit. The subject matter of each body of work determines the materials and forms the work of art.
www.annasiqueiros.com
Delphinium and the Sea │ Mixed Media / Canvas │ 30” x 40”
Colleen Veltz New Mexico 1972
EXHIBITIONS
Fischoff, National Chamber Music Assoc. Artist Guinness Book of Records for largest painting in the world 1996 Liquitex Artist Award Seyhoun Gallery, West Hollywood Solaris Gallery, West Hollywood Sandstone Gallery, Laguna Beach FUZE Gallery, San Diego Ice Gallery, University of Notre Dame Liberty Station Resident Arts District, San Diego Villa Con Coure, Fallbrook
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artist, mfa
Motion in nature holds the most beautiful qualities of life. As an artist, I love to create surfaces that share this sublime observation. My process begins with observation of creation in nature. Life cycles and gestures of leaves, flowers, branches and seeds are dissected and studied. Thousands of relics are collected and brought back to the studio to be used not only as the subject but also as the brushes used to create the texture of the artwork. I have been prolifically sharing contemporary paintings for the past 25 years internationally. I work with not for profits and team building projects to use art to affect a positive change in our community.
www.veltzfineart.com
A Sky Full of Song / 2018 │ Acrílico / Madera │ 36” x 36”
Gigi Woodward Texas 1947
EXHIBITIONS
2018 Honorable Mention in “Going Green” Show in San Diego, CA 2018 Best in Show in “Papered” Show in San Diego, CA 2017 First Place in “Summer in the City” Show in San Diego, CA 2018 “Blackout”, a national exhibition in San Diego, CA 2017 Featured artist at Ashton Gallery in San Diego, CA 2009, 2011 Featured in international juried shows at SDAI in San Diego, CA
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artist
Gigi has been a member of many art associations, participated in countless shows and donated her art generously for some time. Market Street Group, Ashton Gallery, San Diego Art Institute are but a few examples. Recently her efforts are applied to a Master Class Painters group at Art on 30th. A recent show in which she was featured described her paintings: “Ebullient! Her most recent work is characterized by vivacity and audacity. It is full of rhythmic line and color. Bright, bold hues dance across the surface of the canvas as though blown by an etheric wind. Pulsing and unpredictable, each piece comes alive with marks, splotches, color patches, and occasional ‘characters’—laid down layer by layer, buried in strata of rich personal history.”
glwoodward@me.com
“It is the creative migrant, the paisano of any origin, who by bringing his culture with him, makes a regional aesthetic that is a channel of ideas for the production of artistic work, creating routes of multicultural dialogue, resulting in a vision of global contemporaneity, generating and contributing new ways of production" Griselda Rosas Antonio Oceguera Luis Alderete
luis ramaggio (campeche, 1973) he is a philosopher. he works as a contemporary art curator and editor. he is a professor of semiology, art theory, discursive analysis, and epistemology. he coordinates a series of projects related to cultural manifestations and the consumption of artistic production. he writes, lectures and advises artists and projects. love frightens him, and he is always in search of emotions that destroy the paradigms that justify the reality of the world. he lives in Colonia Roma.
luisaramaggio@gmail.com
PAISANOS USA
Luis Alderete, founder PAISANOS Laura Lehman, coordinator PAISANOS USA Jorge Egea, special guest
Mexico Kentucky Spain
1959 1949 1975
Victoria Alexander Marquez Kate Ashton Debra S Babylon Lisa Bryson Therese Cipiti Herron Kris Daniels Ellen Dieter Roberta Dyer Kenda Francis Ann Golumbuk Martin Hanek Frank W Higley Nancy Jacobson Kirby Kendrick Judy McClain Susan J Osborn Mick Phelan, us citizen Judy Pike (†) Susan Salazar Cree Scudder Kathy Serrano Zanot Anna Siqueiros Colleen Veltz Gigi Woodward
California Washington DC Ohio California Ohio Virginia Ohio Rhode Island California Oklahoma California New Hampshire Wisconsin Texas California California BC, Canada California California Florida California California New Mexico Texas
1949 1948 1956 1967 1952 1955 1955 1946 1970 1961 1982 1947 1941 1949 1959 1946 1959 1942 1945 1952 1967 1963 1972 1947
Coordinators
PAISANOS trashumantes, creadores anacrónicos ...de origen disímil
MEXICO
USA
Carlos Castrejón Laura Lehman www.carloscastrejon.com
www.lauralehmanart.com
SPAIN
Jorge Egea
Tijuana BC Mexico / March 2020
www.jorgeegea.com
ASHTON GALLERY
USA
PAISANOS trashumantes, creadores anacrónicos ...de origen disímil
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