WE Labs at the Packard Opening Exhibition

April 8th, 2016 to July 8, 2016

Grand Opening Artist Showcase WE Labs at the Packard

Curated by Nicolassa Galvez With Michelle Marie Engelman Berns, Copeland Holt, Ron Feldman, Megan Lynch and Dustin Berlin

Art Viewing: Monday - Friday, 9am-5pm, 205 E. Anaheim Street, Long Beach, 90813

Greetings, On Friday, April 8th we marked the Grand Opening of the new co-working space: WE Labs at the Packard. The new space boasts over 15,000 square feet of communal, dedicated desks and offices, event, and maker space to better serve and support our local creative entrepreneurs.

Our aim with the newest location is to provide our community with access to a space that is not only suitable for work, but is also cross-disciplinary in nature, to support collaboration where creatives can also learn and grow. We’re excited for you to check out our location’s newest amenities which include a courtyard, a massive event space, a dedicated classroom, and a home for our incubator.

Thank you to the curator of the exhibition, Nicolassa Galvez. Nicolassa has professionally served the community as a volunteer, program developer, grant writer, and leader for the last fifteen years. Target populations have included low-income families, people experiencing homelessness, people crossing the U.S./Mexican border, employees overcoming mental illness, and women escaping domestic violence. Most recently, she developed programs, increased the financial stability, and hosted community activities as the former director of the ArtExchange. In May, Ms. Galvez graduates with her masters degree in Social Justice and Education from CSULB. Despite, or perhaps because of, obstacles faced growing up, Nicolassa has always had an internal drive to succeed and contribute to her community. She sees this same passion in artists who use art to grapple with the past, to engage current social and political context, and to envision new possibilities for the future. Nicolassa is excited to combine her experience in community building with her education in Social Justice to build support of community and activist art in Long Beach.

As always, WE Labs will continue to be sustainability focused, and support local businesses as much as possible. And, did we mention that we provide our members with free coffee and beer?

Robbie Brown, Co-Founder

Contact Nicolassa Galvez at ​ NikoGalvez@gmail.com​ or 562-331-1095 for information about the artists.

Contact WE Labs at ​ 562-264-5883 or www.welabs.us for information about memberships

Roxanna Agin I am interested in bright colors, shapes and lines. I am attracted to buildings, I like to simplify and focus on shapes and colors. I enjoy depicting a viewpoint, I like to direct the eye of the viewer in my work. I tend to represent aspects of myself, specific periods of my life. There was an appeal to walking around unknown streets, a sense of comfort where none was found at home. I found some sense in structure, I found interest in the design. It wasn’t about finding beauty where there wasn’t but there was some comfort in finding that.

It tends to be areas that don’t seem populated, areas not associated with people yet people are there.

Little Tokyo, 2015 Oil on canvas 11x14 inches $150

Street View, 2014 Oil on wood panel 24x28 inches $500

Lori Clark Lori Clark, a native of Long Beach, says her upbringing and education not only cultivated her love of the rich local art found here but also developed her love of art history. Lori has learned to express herself artistically in many different mediums including oil, acrylic, watercolor, graphite, pastels and charcoal. She has been showing her artwork and jewelry at the Long Beach Gallery EXPO in their month long shows since 2012. Lori has displayed 100+ paintings and drawings in local galleries.

Hills of Valhalla (top), 2015 Watercolor gouache 16 x 20 inches $200

Hills of Valhalla (bottom), 2015 Watercolor gouache 16 x 20 inches $200 Don’t be Koi, 2015 Mixed media 12 x 18 inches $100

Thomas Cloutier Thomas is currently a Docent at CSULB Art Museum and a Board Member of the Fine Art Affiliates Art Liaison.

Movement, 2015 Oil on canvas 30 x 40 inches $250

E-Motion, 2004 Oil on canvas 30 x 40 inches $250

Music, 2009 Oil on canvas 30 x 40 inches $250

Clara Crossman Clara was born in Seattle where she first fell in love with the Pacific Coast. She learned to draw when she was a child; her father who had painted in his youth, insisted on teaching her drawing and color theory. As a graduate of Environmental Science and Biology she developed a deeper appreciation of nature and the natural world which now provides many of her subjects. She currently lives on the Pacific Ocean in Mexico, where she paints nature, people at work and play, the wine and vineyards of Baja, and her palm frond animals!

Afternoon on 5th St, HB, 2016 Acrylic on canvas 18 x 24 inches $300

Volleyball on the Pier, HB, 2016 Acrylic on canvas 16 x 20 inches $250

Sunset at Adobe Guadalupe Winery, 2016 Oil on canvas 27 ½ x 20 inches $500

Vendemina in Valle de Guadalupe, 2016 Oil on canvas 27½ x 20 inches $500

Afternoon in San Felipe, 2016 Oil on canvas 16 x 20 inches $300

Gabriela DiSarli Gabriela Di Sarli is a freelance designer, illustrator and artist working out of Long Beach, California. She obtained her bachelor's in Illustration with a certificate in Biomedical Illustration at California State University Long Beach in 2015. She was raised in Southern California and is a first generation Argentinean American and second generation Cuban American. She loves spending time at home designing and drinking lots of coffee with her cat Joey.

Geisha, 2014 Gouache and acrylic 9 x 13 inches $350

Melancholia, 2013 Oil and canvas 18 x 24 inches $500

Pattern Memory, 2016 Watercolor and gouache 6 x 7 inches $100

Lori Dorn I didn't know I was a visual person till I took an interest in photography many years ago. It was exciting to become so aware of light and shadows everywhere around me. Twenty plus years later I discovered a new passion for painting and found an even purer way to express my love of beauty. I thoroughly enjoy the solitary experience of starting and building each painting, jumping in sometimes with only an idea of colors to discover what transpires into composition and texture until I hopefully arrive at a place I somehow recognize Auric, 2016 Acrylic on canvas 48 x 30 inches $2,000

Zeitgeist, 2016 Acrylic on canvas 30 x 60 inches $2,400

Amethyst (1), 2016 Acrylic on canvas 20 x 20 inches $700

Amethyst (2), 2016 Acrylic on canvas 20 x 20 inches $700

El Imagenero My art photography is focused on cutting through pretense, assumption, and pre-conceived ideas to show relationships revealing truths about where and with whom we live on this planet. The artwork owes equal parts to my formal education in engineering, religion, philosophy and law on the one hand, and awareness of the everyday desires, triumphs and disappointments of life on the other.

The Illegals, 2014 Ink on canvas 30 x 40 inches $375

Winter Storm Threatens Long Beach, 2011 Ink on paper, mounted on gator board 24 x 48 inches $275 ​ (SOLD)

Dawn on Queensway Bay, 2015 Ink on canvas 16 x 48 inches $275

Fireworks over Queensway Bay, 2011 Ink on canvas 20 x 30 inches $175

Michelle Engelman-Berns Photographic Imagery along with the Written Word satisfy me immeasurably. I have early memories of making origami hearts as well as drawing a colored pencil portrait of my second grade teacher while in elementary school in the farming town of Aurora Missouri. I can still smell the fragile newsprint; folded in quarters tucked away in my take home folder. As that drawing is now brown with age, it sits quietly tucked away in my archival keepsakes file, while the thought of it feeds my continuing need to create something beautiful and meaningful in this life.

Poe Poe and Everett and Elmo, 2013 Digital photograph on paper 31 ¼ x 31 ¼ $500

Wake Up, 2015 India ink on gesso panels, vintage alphabet blocks, found distressed shadow box, archival glue 15 x 20 x 3 ⅜inches $250

Kay Erickson Traveling to distant places allows me to capture people and pieces of their culture and environment. Red Bundles was taken in India, a sacred city on the Ganges River where people are cremated on the shores of the river to clear their karma for their next life. The two boys were carrying up laundry that was washed in the Ganges. Citroen was taken in Paris in the early morning after the night of music celebrating Spring Solstice. The photo was taken using black & white film, then sepia toned and hand-tinted.

Red Bundles, 2008 Photo on stretched canvas, 30 x 20 inches $300

Yellow Citroen, 2000 Digital print of a hand-tinted photograph 20 x 30 inches $200

Hope Ezcurra Painting is a somatic experience for me. Applying acrylic paint to wood or canvas is like meditation. My imagery tends to be slightly morbid. The memento mori that I paint are not meant to be ominous though.

I mean them to be uplifting. The skeletal imagery is a reminder that all life is finite. This transient nature of existence is what makes it so beautiful. I hope that you enjoy viewing it as much as I did making it.

Siva the destroyer, 2015 Acrylic on found wood 45 x 46 inches $700

Owl/Lechuza, 2016 Acrylic on found canvas 30 x 30 inches $500

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Angelica Fegley Angelica Fegley was born in Puerto Rico. She lives and works in Long Beach. “As an artist the most beautiful thing I love about art is you are surrounded by it, nature, our own body, and the air we breath, that brings that inner feeling to create what is within us. I mostly paint abstracts and mixed media. My work flows from impulsive emotions to bursting energy that represents all those encounters one goes through facing everyday personal or world events.

Immersed, 2015 Oil on canvas 48 x 36 inches $5,000

Emotions, 2015 Oil on canvas 48 x 36 inches $5,000

Aleks Figueroa Traveling tattoo artist, Aleks Figueroa likes cooking clean/makes mean pizzas, is on a sustainability run and surfs anything from ankle biters to head high breaks.

Animal in Man: Kalinga Waves, 2015 Vinyl on Wood 24 x 24 inches $600

Animal in Man: Borneo Flip, 2015 Vinyl on Wood 24 x 24 inches $600

Animal in Man: Robert, 2015 Vinyl on Wood 24 x 24 inches $600

Animal in Man: Aaron, 2015 Vinyl on Wood 24 x 24 inches $600

Animal in Man: Mick, 2015 Vinyl on Wood 24 x 24 inches $600

Catheryn Franklin Catheryn is a graduate of Newark School of Fine and Industrial Art. The direction of my art has shifted through time in response to new experiences, close observation and experimentation. Some steps were giant, others a meander.

Day of the Dead, 2016 Acrylic on canvas 40 x 30 inches $650

Outside of Boundaries, 2016 Acrylic on canvas 20 x 20 inches $450

Under the Bridge, 2015 Acrylic on canvas 18 x 24 inches $450

Levi Gadson Local good guy.

[Untitled], 2016 Acrylic on matte board 50 x 50 inches $800

Rachel Gibas Rachel has been chasing creativity and making art since she was a kid. After earning a bachelor's degree in art education and teaching at public schools, she moved to California to work as a decorator at Disneyland and made art in her spare time. Rachel loves ideas, the absurd and roadside americana. The figure has always been central to her work, whether created from life, photos or directly from imagination. Color, line and emotion are key elements of her work.

Allegory of a Cubicle Exile, 2014 Oil on canvas 30 x 22 inches $450

Guy, 2011 Oil on canvas 18 x 24 inches $250

Doctor, 2016 Acrylic on canvas 20 x 16 inches $250

Nurse, 2016 Acrylic on canvas 20 x 16 inches $250

Goez It's not how splendid or bold an artist's stroke is that make their Arts & efforts honorable, nor is it the compelling words they utter that give flight to their achievement. It is the passion which burns within the artist's mind & soul that moves the spirit in man called, Art. Color is my passion. Color drives my passion. Color infused with texture defines my paintings."

Tres Botellas, 2008 Acrylic on canvas 36 x 48 inches $3,200

Juan Gomez I am interested in expressing the barriers and solutions that exist within human experience by creating work that is physical and intuitive. My work begins as a simple drawing and evolves into a multilayered work using multiple mediums and methods. Areas within a work remain and others are eradicated by the scrapping of a knife, sanded down, or painted over. My work is complex, the viewer is not given the literal meaning of what I’m trying to communicate but I use subjects that the viewer can utilize to form an understanding of my work.

Cause 1, 2016 Graphite and acrylic on canvas 6 x 6 inches $200

Disintegration in the Next Room, 2015 Oil on panel 10 x 6 inches $160

Drowning effect, 2016 Mixed media 10½ x 12 inches $200

Process, 2016 Mixed media 6 x 12 inches $200

Roy Gomez I started off as a commercial art design major in college. Although I ended up getting a degree in Chicano Studies and Marketing instead, my love for art did not change. I am now a project manager and I paint as a hobby. It is an honor for me to have someone display one of my paintings in their home. I hope they enjoy looking at it as much as I enjoyed painting it.

Tupac, 2015 Acrylic and gesso on wood 40 x 30 inches $120

Jimi Hendrix, 2015 Acrylic and gesso on wood 40 x 30 inches $120

Frankie Greco I am an abstract painter based in LA. I found a connection with music and that affinity became the profound influence for my paintings. I answer the question, “What does music look like?” Incorporating influences from cubism, combined with transparencies and a non-representational language color speaks through music, I unite high art with blues, jazz and hip-hop to invent contemporary paintings.

This is the process used in my series, Jazz Boogie Good Times. My influences are Picasso, Van Gogh, Jacob Lawrence, Kandinsky and Basquiat. I want my paintings to connect to real life rather than to an abstract concept.

Playin Hooky, 2015 Oil on canvas 36 x 44 inches $2,000

Excursions, 2015 Mixed media on panel 36 x 48 inches $1,500

Crazy Piano, 2016 Oil on canvas 30 x 24 inches $550

MJ Allday, 2015 Oil on canvas 24 x 20 inches $550 Eggroll Bebop, 2015 Oil on canvas 42 x 44 inches $1,500

Copeland Holt Everything I create on canvas is my natural reaction to to world we reside in. To me there's no wrong way to paint. I prefer to use primary and complementary colors. Early in my career my work consisted purely of large-scale Abstract Imagery. Today most of my work is painted En Plein Air (Outdoors) in landscape format. I try to capture life and light as it is happening. To me it's a process of trying to capture life in motion, constant & chaotic. Painting outdoors has been a life changing event for me. I've driven across the country and back, stopping at many landmarks, setting up my portable easel and painting whatever I see in front of me. I've met so many interesting people and I'm amazed by how much of a bridge art can be from me to a total stranger. I believe the only real rule for art is to have the desire to create something, regardless of skill or talent.

Fire (Phoenix Spirit), 2009 Acrylic on canvas 4 ½ x 3 inches $450

Water (River Spirit), 2010 Acrylic on canvas 4 ½ x 3 inches $450

Smoke (Native Spirits), 2010 Acrylic on canvas 4 ½ x 3 inches $450

Green Hope, 2009 Acrylic on canvas 8 x 4 inches Not for sale

Bixby Skate Park (Live), 2016 Acrylic on canvas 11 x 14 inches $100

Matthew Humphries I am an untrained, unsold artist. My art is a way for me to express my feelings and just shut the world out for a while. I work in many different styles. I love to paint abstract and impressionist styles. My tool box is small but effective. I have been practicing landscape illustrations and found where actual detail that I put into the drawings left no room for imagination. I’m always imagining life somewhere more simple than our busy lives of today.

Blood River, 2015 Ink, oil, krink on paper 14 x 17 inches $200

Greg Jacobs I look ​

to expose the beauty in unexpected places. It may be a band in a sweaty rock club, a candid image of a stranger on the street or shooting a barren landscape. Whatever the locale, these images aim to capture the energy and emotion of the subject, and bring the viewer along for the ride. Ferris Bueller said it best: “Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in awhile, ​ you could miss it.”

X (Billy Zoom), 2014 Gelatin print 19 x 14 inches $200

Off! (Keith Morris), 2014 Gelatin print 19 x 14 inches $200

The Replacements, 2015 Gelatin print 14 x 19 inches $200

NOFX, 2015 Gelatin print 14 x 19 inches $200

Phil Alvin, 2014 Gelatin print 14 x 19 inches $200

Ken Jones I remember first being drawn to art as a young boy with comic books. The bright colors and drawing would fascinate me.

After high school art took a back seat.. and during that time I always felt that something was missing. The photography represented at WE Labs at the Packard were taken during long walks with my daughter as we explored our new home in Long Beach. I feel fortunate to be able to share these experiences with you and that I have been able to make a life long dream a reality, and for that ​ I thank ​ Odd ​ every day.

Cat on a Ledge, 2015 Photograph 18 x 24 inches $175

Color My World, 2015 Photograph 18 x 24 inches $175

Covered, 2015 Photograph 18 x 24 inches $175

Impressed, 2015 Photograph 18 x 24 inches $175 Studabaker, 2015 Photograph 18 x 24 inches $175

Victor Ladd I use photography as a means to see and document the world around me that ordinarily is unseen. I try to capture images that call attention to a vision that too often goes overlooked. The exploration of things unseen or overlooked helps me see, understand and engage more deeply with who I am and where I am in space and time.

My objective is to create photographs combined with art that draws the viewer in and invokes breathtaking emotions. When I look through the lens I see the wonder of the world in each moment where time no longer seems to exist. It is all about that split second when my subject and I become one.

Nature Meditation, 2016 Photography 11 x 17 inches $75

Crashing Waves, 2016 Photography 11 x 17 inches $75

Peaceful Easy Feelings, 2016 Photography 11 x 17 inches $75

Sunset Gold, 2016 Photography 11 x 17 inches $75

Dance of Possession and Summoning, 2015 Photography 11 x 17 inches $75​ (SOLD)

Sean Laughlin As a child, I remember my grandfather taking photos. I was fascinated with the cameras from a mechanical point of view, they were heavy and full of buttons and knobs to fiddle with. After high school I put the camera down until summer of 2014, I came across grandpa’s old camera again. I decided that there would be no harm in running some film through it. I have not put the camera’s down since, here are some of the photos from those first few rolls of film.

Eiffel Tower, 2015 Glass print 20 4/5 x 15 3/5inches $225

Catacombs, Paris, 2015 Glass print 20 4/5 x 15 3/5 inches $225

Number 6, Paris, 2015 Glass print 20 4/5 x 15 3/5 inches $170

Debbie Lewis I got hooked on watercolor in the 90s and my fascination with the medium continues to this day. Since moving to Long Beach in 2008, my paintings have focused mainly on Long Beach landscapes, waterscapes, historic homes, iconic buildings and special commissions. In 2011, I was hired to paint several historic homes in the Willmore District. Those commissions inspired me to paint other iconic buildings.

On the Beach, 2014 Watercolor 28 ¾ x 28 ¾ inches $950 ($1,800 pair)

Angels Gate Lighthouse, 2014 Watercolor 28 ¾ x 28 ¾ inches $950 ($1,800 pair)

The Look of Curacao, 2015 Watercolor 16 ¾ x 20 ¾ inches $450

Chris LoWail In 2015 for my next collection of paintings, I decided to return to my artistic roots. When I was young and learning to draw and paint, animals were almost always the subject matter. I thought about human evolution (and de-evolution) and what kind of society would emerge after humans have perished or devolved to a point that would be unrecognizable to us today. I re-read George Orwell’s Animal Farm and listened to Pink Floyd's Animals several times over. These were the inspirational building blocks on which I constructed my next series of paintings entitled Animalism. But as with most artistic endeavors it evolved into something else.

Something within the realm of human and animal spirit interaction. Basically, I realized that I was attempting to illustrate the native animal essence within a person and how they might interact with other animal spirits.

Barking News, 2015 Oil on canvas 16 x 20 inches $900

Dividing the Spoils, 2015 Oil on wood panel 16 x 20 inches $1,500

The Animalist, 2015 Oil on canvas 16 x 20 inches $1,200

Prey for the Healer, 2015 Oil on wood panel 16 x 20 inches $800

Drinks and Dinner, 2015 Oil on wood panel 16 x 20 inches $800

Megan Lynch Abstract painter using spray paint and elements of nature such as sand, plants and flowers. Uses a layering process with various elements and paint to create organic designs. I have a formalist approach when creating art, my work is not focused on the subject in the piece, rather the emotions that arise while viewing my art. My work gives the viewer a chance to engage with the art and free their minds from trying to find an explanation and enjoy the feeling that comes over them. “Formalism speculates on the intensity and possible longevity of tangible art that elicits an instantaneous visual or emotional confirmation.” - Dave Hickey Doily Explosion I, 2014 Spray paint on canvas 35 x 35 inches $400

Doily Explosion II, 2014 Spray paint on canvas 30 x 39 inches $400

Kaleidoscope Visions, 2016 Spray paint on Plexiglas 24 x 30 inches $300

Long Beach, 2013 Spray paint on canvas 24 x 28 inches $250

Psychedelic View from the Top, 2014 Spray paint on canvas 36 x 48 inches $500

Marlon Marinero Creating artwork is a mixture of feelings and imagination.

Using Acrylic to experiment with bright, organic, abstract forms and intensely detailed line work. Capturing momentum and energy, which is composed of many types of emotions such as happiness, failure, melancholy and disappointment to create colorful abstract representations.

Mixed Up (Blue), 2015 Acrylic on canvas 18 x 18 inches $700

Mixed Up (Red), 2015 Acrylic on canvas 18 x 18 inches $700

Rare Form #2, 2015 Acrylic on canvas 48 x 50 inches $2,500

Art Martinez To be perfectly truthful, I don't believe in Artists' statements. I'm 72 years old and have retired after a career of 45+ years. I do what I want artistically and aesthetically to suit myself. Are writers expected to write about what they're trying to do in their writings? Since they don't, I feel that neither should I. Do I have a philosophy about my work? Not really since I consider myself a Designer more than an Artist. Each work is the result of solving design problems that I established for myself.

Pride & Prejudice, 2015 Acrylic on canvas 30 x 20 inches $1,000

Break Glass in Case of Institutional Racism, 2015 Constructed assemblage 13 x 25 x 4.5 inches $2,200

Brenda Marie Matea I create multi-layered compositions using a digital camera and iPhone. My experience with photography started when I was in a new environment where I felt disconnected. My discomfort caused me to hide behind a camera. I could still see without being seen. I created visual stories of others. I shared them and others enjoyed them. Now I create my own stories. I no longer hide, instead I find freedom and boldness in expressing life personally through the images I compose. When creating, I intentionally believe the idea that my story is unique and beautiful, multi-layered and worth telling.

Lassen/Cambria, 2015 Photograph, archival material 2 x 2 inches $225

Ferndale, 2015 Photograph, archival material 2 x 2 inches $225

McCloud/Ojai, 2015 Photograph, archival material 2 x 2 inches $225

Paula McColm Born in Los Angeles and grew up in Long Beach, California. In 1997 Paula received a B.S. Degree from the University of the State of N.Y. "Since 2008, I've enjoyed exhibiting my paintings & mixed​ media in southern California galleries while striving to portray the human experience within my representational and abstract artworks. Artists of diverse backgrounds must gain greater access in the exhibition & recognition of their works!"

Gonzalo Cienfuegos Painting Replication, 2010 Acrylic on canvas 30 x 15 inches $200

Katie McGuire I create portraits and images of people in an altered, dreamlike, and magical way using color, pattern, shape, and texture of paint. I use bright, unrealistic, and skewed combinations of color to show different senses about parts of the body or aspects of the personality. I use the way in which the paint is applied and the touch to transmit an emotion or feeling. I take pictures of people that I saw on walks through the city of Los Angeles. In the process of painting, I tried to capture a dreamlike feeling about the subject using bright colors. The colors used in my paintings are chosen for both symbolic and formal reasons.

Fortune Teller, 2012 Oil and mixed media on canvas 30 x 40 inches $3,000

Woman Surround by Ink Suns, 2015 Spray paint, oil, mixed media on masonite 36 x 48 inches $5,000

Man with Flower, 2010 Oil and mixed media on canvas 30 x 40 inches $3,000

Man with Flower II, 2013 Spray paint, oil, mixed media on masonite 36 x 48 inches $5,000

Flower Child, 2013 Spray paint, oil, mixed media on masonite 36 x 48 inches $5,000

Elissa Patterson Style—what’s that? Mix a bunch of colors together, add three layers of paint and voila! From a very young age, I’ve always been attached to my creative side. From crayons and pastels to state-of-the-art acrylics and watercolor paint, I create anything using different mediums that ultimately make me feel happy–and I hope that my work evokes the same feeling in those who view it. Self-taught with a yearning to learn so much more, I hope to continue this adventure, connecting with like-minded creative souls who genuinely want to bring people together through art.

Queenin’, 2016 Acrylic on canvas 10 x 10 inches $40

All that Matters, 2016 Acrylic on canvas 12 x 24 inches $75

Michele Rene

I like to experiment with color. There is something almost meditative about pushing and pulling paint on a canvas. Painting is such a solitary experience, and one in which I feel most connected to my authentic self. If I didn't have that, I wouldn't truly be living.

Margaret, 2015 Acrylic on canvas 24 x 36 inches $225

Pine, 2015 Acrylic on canvas 24 x 36 inches $225

Strawberry Blond, 2015 Acrylic on canvas 14 x 11 inches $175

Tranquility, 2013 Acrylic on canvas 36 x 36 inches $500

Rachel Rifkin My photo project highlights family resemblance, showing that many different family members’ features can be found in one person’s face. It illustrates the lasting effects of the many people who came before us and to get people thinking about the similarities and stories in their own families. As a ghostwriter/ personal historian, I’ve had many people tell me they regret not knowing more of their family stories. I hope this project encourages people to take an active interest in their family history. Because the more we know about our family history, the more we know about ourselves. The name of the project is Family Resemblance and it is $50 per photo pairing.

Samuel Schirner-Grace Mark, 2015 Graphite 24 x 18 inches $20

Katherine Sheehan One of my earliest memories is of creating elaborate drawings based on the engravings of birds and animals I saw in the dictionary. As an adult, I have continued my close observation of nature in my visual work. However, the conflicted relationship of man and the environment means that my uncomplicated relationship with flora and fauna has assumed a darker hue. I am now inspired by the imagery of mourning and remembrance when I think about nature. I create layers of visual information in my work, combining drawing, painting, printmaking, and collage, and using such materials as pastel, watercolor, gouache, sumi ink, Asian papers, beeswax and thread.

Serval and Oil Rigs, 2011 Lithograph 20 x 30 inches $300

K in for KingFisher, 2008 Screen print 8 x 10 inches $150

Arabesque, 2011 Screen print 10 x 12 inches $200

Dropped Line, 2013 Woodcut 18 x 24 inches $250

Coyote and Junkyard, 2008 Linoleum cut 11 x 15 inches $150

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Amelie Simmons Amelie Simmons is a Long Beach artist using acrylic paint as her primary medium of choice to create traditional representational impressionism, abstract, and dimensional (3-D touch me) paintings. Inspired by images and places that move her, Amelie shares her interpretations with others and hope they are also touched by what they see. Her dimensional (touch me) artworks are dedicated to the visually impaired and those that "feel" the urge to touch artwork as she does.

The Bowl, 2015 Acrylic and dimensional media 16 x 20 inches $300

Surf City Sunset, 2015 Acrylic on canvas 16 x 20 inches $300

Solitude, 2015 Acrylic with glass and beads 16 x 20 inches $300

A Dog’s Life, 2015 Acrylic on linen 9 x 12 inches $250

Robert Stowe The Artist Robert Stowe has been a passionate photographer for more than 40 years. He worked as a sports photographer for a daily newspaper for more than a decade, winning both local and national awards. As a photographer/ artist, Robert creates images as clean and uncomplicated as possible. Creating art brings immense joy to Robert, and has allowed him to delve into a wide variety of subjects including seascapes, extinct volcanoes and wildlife.

Inferno, 2015 Acrylic on canvas 36 x 12 inches $350 (set of three, $900)

Purgatorio, 2015 Acrylic on canvas 36 x 12 inches $350 (set of three, $900)

Paradiso, 2015 Acrylic on canvas 36 x 12 inches $350 (set of three, $900)

Akira Usagi I am an aspiring muralist/painter with a background in chemistry. My creative process can be summarized by the chemical equation: Lead (Pb) becomes Gold (Au) when I paint because it is the one thing that uncomfortably provokes me to question my sanity yet comfortably assures me that I am far from insanity. I become more intimate and honest with myself in how I breathe, think, and feel because ultimately, it will reflect on how I treat the people and the world around me. It provides me with an overwhelming sense of freedom during the few moments I am able to liberate my ideas from the lead (Pb) prison, into the gold (Au) palace.

Bunny Ears, 2016 Acrylic on canvas 16 x 20 inches $150

Colorblind, 2015 Spray paint on canvas 36 x 48 inches $350

Reflection, 2015 Spray paint on canvas 36 x 36 inches $200

Rembrandt’s copy of Portrait of an Old Woman, 2015 Oil on canvas 16 x 20 inches $120