Artwork Listing

Ann Phong

Living in Southern California, we have the opportunity to visit the sea shore at any time. I enjoy watching and sharing the water with
other creatures as our lives pass by together. It seems like the more civil we are as humans, the more trash we create. Today in many places on earth, people carelessly deplete the earth’s resources. In this series of work, I use the circle form juxtaposes with the rectilinear shapes to express my thoughts about many aspects of life. We see beautiful nature in some places and at the same time we witness the pollution in other places. During the process of creating art, I look around at my surroundings and use the daily household products and other found objects as part of my statement in my work. When the visual part flows with my feelings, it’s time for the actions stop.

Ray Kampf

In 2013 I hoped to volunteer as part of the crew with AIDS Life Cycle (ACL), a 7-day cycling tour through California starting in San Francisco and ending in Los Angeles. The tour includes up to 2,500 bicyclists and more than 500 support crew participants who raise funds for HIV/AIDS services & raise awareness of HIV/AIDS. As the ride takes place during the end of our school year, I was unable to volunteer on during the ride, but I was able to use my talents to design the cycling jerseys for The Payasos. The Payasos (Spanish for Clowns) are a group of Latin men who dress in clown make-up and entertain at children’s hospitals and hold a variety of fundraising events for various children’s charities. I was only too happy to become the designer of their jerseys – which they also sell to raise money. As a result, The Payasos have been named one of the best uniformed teams on the ride and have raised over $180,000 over the past 3 years.

Rebecca Hamm

"I am intimately connected to the natural locations where I have lived my life.  The environmental changes I have witnessed continue to be terrifying and instructive; fascinating and awesome; mysterious and comforting.  The views found here call me to respond to their unsettling beauty and evidence of transformation. The images I choose from nature, anthropomorphized as overcoming destruction, begin a powerful point of departure for contemplation. Where the painting process leads is mysterious and unpredictable. These works are not intended to be a record, yet they shimmer as memorials.  They present points where nature overcomes and reclaims --gradually or dramatically-- human constructs."

Juliana Rico

Abuela, or grandma, is a very important person in Mexican culture. She embodies strength, love, and family. Socorro (2015-present) is an ongoing project that documents the artist’s grandmother, Socorro, in her home of the last 50 years.  Socorro the backbone and matriarch of the family.  The work focuses on the last chapters of her life as an elderly woman who faces many health challenges. The energy and climate of her home has shifted as well as her role in the family. The photographs record this transitionary time and the details of her daily life. Socorro’s home is no longer the place where family frequently comes and goes, meeting for menudo or tamales, birthdays and holidays. It is now a place where Socorro moves along slowly and quietly watching her novelas and news. It is a peaceful home full of memories of joy, love, care, and loss.

Gina Lawson Egan

The sculpture, Bridge presents the reoccurring theme of balance, metaphorically addressing the physical, emotional and intellectual realms of our lives. The universal challenge of balance is present in the sculpted position of the bridge, which rests precariously and joins the man and woman, as they rest firmly on the ground. These works lead the viewer in with a playful exploration of the narrative form, then, upon a closer look, layers of meaning are revealed through these animated characters.

Stephanie Wagner

Stephanie Wagner makes prints, drawings and sculptures that are often shown together as an installation. Repeating color palettes and forms explore geometry as a way of organizing information. Her works are made through self-imposed rules that can be perceived as liberating constraints. The separate pieces create a formal interdependence, while simultaneously forming a new singular body. The spiraling torus shape is a representation of a continuous energy field which is ever moving yet self-contained. Multi-layered images cross in front of and behind each other with pastel colors pulsating in and out of focus. Central to the work is an exploration of the human desire for essentialism, simplicity, and order in an otherwise chaotic world.