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Alegria, Saul |
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The entire animal kingdom is the subject of Saul Alegria's whimsical watercolor paintings. Working from various animal books as source material, Alegria treats each animal in a unique manner and often deviates from the natural color scheme creating his own renditions and scenes in a vivid and simplified fashion, stripping each animal down to its bare essentials and characteristics. more... |
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Barnett, Ann Lois |
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In Lois Ann Barnett's landscape paintings and drawings, style is content.
She takes scenes from books and magazines and remakes them so that, as she says,
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Blevens, Lisa |
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Lisa Blevens creates elegant drawings, paintings, prints and fabric art,
all patterned with color in a myriad of small shapes-hearts, flowers, circles,
triangles and stripes. Some of her art suggest radiating stars or suns or
feature fanciful butterflies, pinwheels or clown faces. In some works on paper,
the "negative" white space defined by the dynamic outlines of surrounding patterns
comes alive and is as equally important to the composition
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Brown, Ray |
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Originally from Texas and born in 1957, Ray Brown is a relative newcomer to NIAD. Since arriving one year ago he has compiled a large body of work resulting from his very ambitious work habits. Ray doesn’t waste too much time at NIAD and when he’s not making art he’s proudly showing it off to visitors and
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Burleson, Jeremy |
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Jeremy Burleson literally finds his artistic inspiration from his own life experiences.
Having spent much of his time in hospitals as a child, Burleson's art reflects his
fascination for all things medical-hospital scenes, medical equipment, syringes and
medicine bottles. Burleson also loves to paint his childhood joys
like jellybeans and lollypops.
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Colbert, Deatra |
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Deatra Colbert's favorite subjects for her artwork are the athlete and the
television actor. One does not need to be a fan to enjoy her fanciful
paintings, drawings and prints. Her art is strewn and garlanded with
flowers, small arbitrary forms and wavy lines with words and names
associated with sports stars or TV actors.
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Diaz, Emanuel |
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Emanuel Diaz came to the United States from El Salvador with his family in 1998
when he was twenty years old. A personable young man, Diaz's zest and talent for
art brought him recognition soon after he came to the NIAD Art Center in 2002.
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Englin, Metrius |
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Metrius Englin brings a strong, sure line and color to her artwork.
Drawing is simply doing what has come naturally to her since she was a
young child growing up in a series of foster homes. She began taking art
seriously when she came to NIAD in 1995 at age 22.
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Fragoso, Sylvia |
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Sylvia Fragoso appeared on a Bay Area TV show in 1992 and was asked if she
was a good artist. "I am. Yes, I am," she responded. As well she might.
Ms. Fragoso's artwork has been exhibited in Miyazaki, Japan and Shanghai,
China; at the Webb and Parsons Gallery in Vermont; Very Special Art Gallery
in Palm Beach; Community College of Southern Nevada; in NIAD's traveling
exhibit, The Creative Spirit; and at the Berlex Biosciences Corporate Offices
in Richmond, CA.
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Griffin, Felecia |
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Felecia Griffin works freely in various arts: printmaking, painting,
collage, ceramic sculpture, textiles and jewelry. Her monoprints have the
gestured quality of drip painting-loose and graceful. Other prints are
patterned with small circles or identical strips that are actually
outlines of popsicle sticks, which she collects.
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Harper, Shana |
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Shana Harper came to NIAD in January 2005. In the short time
she has spent at NIAD Ms. Harper has been very productive producing jewelry, paintings, prints, and beautiful hand made scarves. Her two dimensional work has been highly influenced by Vincent Van Gogh and her choice of subject matter ranges from bucolic natural phenomenon to portraits and interior scenes. more... |
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Harper, Tammy |
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Tammy Harper likes to “paint colors,” regardless of the medium. Some paintings are purely abstract forms on paper with sensuous brushstrokes that show textures and color. Other paintings and drawings depict her continuous passion for music, particularly the Motown genre of the 60’s and 70’s.
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Harris, Peter |
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Peter Harris' love of carving transcends through his printmaking as his
wooden plates are cut with lively energy. His plates, also works of art,
resemble Asian-style landscapes. From the printed images of these plates,
aerial landscapes of forests and mountains are depicted.
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Harris, Willie |
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Willie Harris' multitude of sprightly ink drawings and prints of a
wide-eyed elfin figure with outstretched arms, ears and hair are
self-portraits of the artist. A second but less common theme is of
his home. The tension between his fine black lines and dense clusters
of scribblings energizes these and other Harris artwork.
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Ingram, Harry |
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For Harry Ingram, the arm and hand movement are important elements,
which are captured in his paintings. The use of bold and explosive color with broad,
small brush strokes of paint swirl, curve and loop over the page into a consistent pattern
fully covering the paper. Ingram's strokes of color continuously layer and overlap each
other.
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Keppel, Debra |
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Debra Keppel's art is characterized by brilliance of color and precision of
line. She asked to come to NIAD Art Center in 2001 in order to learn more
about art and start painting on her own. Her work reflects a sense of strong
concentration and the powers of observation,
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King, Lacee |
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Lacee King has been working at NIAD for years and creating art is her favorite activity. "I make art for fun, to calm my nerves, to decorate my home, and for a sense of accomplishment." Although she was born blind this does not impede her ability to transform paper or fabric into wonderful creations.
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Lane, Martha |
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Martha Lane likes to draw and paint houses and people in bright colors.
He cityscapes are full of tall buildings, small people, and an occasional
plane or balloon in the sky. Her portraits show oversized heads with
small facial features and eyes drawn wide apart. It is the innocence of
her artistic style that is most appealing to collectors.
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Malpass, Sara |
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All of Sara Malpass' work expresses the delicacy and acuity of her own
physical presence. She came to the NIAD Art Center in 1994 at the age of
twenty-six and has grown in many directions since those early years.
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Martin, David |
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David Martin first came to NIAD in 1999 when he was 56 years' old.
His talent for representational drawing, particularly of human faces and
figures in varied contexts, is impressive as well as fascinating.
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McElvane, Jean |
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Jean McElvane is a talented and skilled artist whose work ranges in style from realism to abstract, in scale from
miniature to life-size, and her choice of media include clay,
pastels, and paint. McElvane is particularly gifted in portraiture and has
painted several pieces on commission working from photos.
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McIntyre, "Dan" Joseph |
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Joseph "Dan" McIntyre was already 49 years old when he came to NIAD Art
Center in 1986. In the many ensuing years, his work has changed and
strengthened with his increased concentration on the infinite small details of
his excellent draftsmanship and use of color.
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Mohr, Gail |
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An exceptional sense of design and color are signature elements of
Gail Mohr's carefully crafted art pieces. Specializing on small ceramics,
Mohr's work on the wheel is precise and uniform.
Her bowls are perfection and mirror those being sold in many retail stores.
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Mullen, Marlon |
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Marlon Mullen is described as a "painter's painter." His subject,
regardless of what form it takes, seems to be the paint itself.
He enjoys the process of mixing the paint and applying it. Mullen
puts his whole body behind each brush stroke. At times, he seems to
be almost dancing to an inner rhythm.
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Pardo, Rosita |
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Rosita Pardo paints and sculpts figures in the naïve or folk art
tradition, drawing from sources as diverse as the Bible, early American
Indian lore, the boxing and entertainment worlds, and most recently, the
Egyptian and Medieval periods. "I like to do my art in my own way," she
says, "without anyone telling me what to do."
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Pedemonte, Tony |
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Tony Pedemonte has been making art at NIAD since October of 2004. Typically a man of few words, Tony chooses to work in relative solitude in the studio when creating paintings, drawings, and sculpture. Recently, Tony has been spending most of his time in the ceramics department at NIAD where he has been vigorously working on a series of sculptures resembling functional forms such as a coffee cup or pitcher.
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Randolph, Kevin |
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Kevin Randolph's art often resonates with the translucent quality of
layered colors. Overlapping veils of color seem to float beneath the
surface of his collage prints. In his linoleum-cut prints, a dark
ground imparts a depth to his surface colors. He achieves a similar
effect by sometimes using colored paper for his color pencil or pastel
drawings.
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Reid, Dorian |
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When Dorian Reid first came to NIAD Art Center in 2003, "Dorrie" had not only been living independently
for fifteen years, she had already crocheted more than 500 brightly colored afghans, and had given them
away to nursing homes in the Richmond area. Born in 1957 with a mild brain disorder,
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Rogers, Angela |
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Angela Rogers uses a wheelchair and has the free use of one arm.
She paints, draws, cuts linoleum prints and sculpts with papier-mâché and
clay. Her painting has developed from whimsical, childlike depictions of
human figures and faces to vivid abstractions composed of swirls and waves
of colors that seem at play with each other.
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Simon, Tamara |
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Tamara Simon is an artist who shows innocence and passion in her art.
Ms. Simon's portraits may seem naively rendered, and upon closer inspection,
one can feel the spirit of her subject.
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Smedley, Ellen |
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Ellen Smedley works in a playful narrative style to create colorful line
drawings. Some are of her family and friends, and some are of different
animals and people occasionally aloft on kites or balloons, while others
are of flying objects such as birds, angels and airplanes.
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Starosky, Michael |
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Michael Starosky first came to the NIAD Art Center in 2002 at the age of 48.
He had previously expressed an interest in art but had never worked in any art medium
with particular intensity.
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Stratford, Maurice |
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Maurice Stratford had already demonstrated a long-standing interest in art
when he returned to NIAD in 2001 at the age of twenty-nine.
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Sutton, Michael |
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Michael Sutton is legally blind but not to color. Whether in tempera, pastels or pencil,
his circular, vertical and diagonal strokes lay on colors in clouds and sprays that light up the
paper. Even more, he enjoys clay modeling. For despite his poor vision, he can know through
his hands the reality of the forms he wants to create.
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Thomas, Cheryl |
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Cheryl Thomas joined NIAD Art Center almost 5 years ago and has lately
focused on printmaking with woodcut and linoleum plates. Unlike her
carefree approach towards her paintings and drawings, Thomas is deep in
thought with her new medium. Rather than following the traditional
process of initially using lighter ink colors under darker tones,
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Trieber, Beverly |
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When Beverly Trieber took up art at age 65, he made up for lost time.
Working with NIAD's staff he has created stunning abstract collages,
prints and painted constructions made from all manner of found objects.
Some of the materials he uses are scraps of printed fabric, yarn,
textured paper, cardboard, magazines, newspaper pages, and other
recyclables.
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Villanueva, Vincent |
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Vincent Villanueva's artistic style stems from his musical personality-he can be seen
moving, swaying, and speaking in rhythm. His art is free, airy, and energetic with
an emphasis on brush strokes that swing from side to side.
His color palate varies from dark and moody grays, purples, and blacks to bright
and colorful oranges and yellows.
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White, Billy |
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Arstanda (Billy) White is a natural storyteller. He
weaves stories through scenes he creates around his
“portraits.” He says that stories form in
his head while he is drawing. He often has several pictures
in progress, and he spins a separate tale for each one.
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Wise, Susan |
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Susan Wise has used her interest in crafts to develop as an artist in all mediums-quilting,
basket weaving, painting, printmaking and ceramics. She especially enjoys making quilts,
both patchwork and embroidered. She will embroider within and area to accentuate or contrast
color and design. Her works generally reflect her fascination with animals.
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