Local Art Walk

Rick Ortiz

I work at Biggs Harley-Davidson in San Marcos CA. I painted this piece simply named Semper Fi. Everyday we serve our Military Men and Women here at Biggs and every weekend they come in from there day of motorcycle riding and we serve them food, My family are very Military proud and it makes me feel good to see and serve these guys and girls, Basically because they get to see and do things us "normal" citizens do not, possibly even wouldn't/couldn't do. 2'x4' Acrylic on Wood panel. So I will be painting more Military related pieces in the Future.

Ruth Jameson

A lasting love affair with the images of Henry Moore, and Rodin are my guiding truth. Both sculptors had their own unique genre, and both were true unto their inner drummer.

Finding Bronze was my doorway to the visions always there in my heart. The strength of bronze gave birth to forms and connected them to the silver strands that drift down through time which become blended into my own visions of time and human awareness. The Sea is the underlying web that holds this world of desires together, and the bronze makes it possible.

Check out more on the artist website ruthjameson.com

Christine VH Schaffer

My mission is to create a whimsical world filled with the wonder of nature in the modern day world, using mixed media. I look to build small worlds and creatures with found objects, paper, markers, and paint . Always seeking my Muse in a whimsical way, I have found inspiration in human invention and nature. Intrigued by the paradox of both belonging to nature and humanity's desire to manipulate nature, I have sought to create a balance between these two worlds, the one in which creativity and invention lies. All the while, in search of a Modern-Day Muse. Natural beauty and machine coexisting in the creation of something with both the whimsy of the natural world while containing it all in a box, it's own little world. Throughout my art career I have played with the idea of perceptions in nature and the role of humanity within nature. I would describe my art as whimsically creepy.

David Wilcove

My mission as an artist is to express the deepest levels of spirituality. Illumination of the soul, directly related to meditative contact with the divine. My current works revolve around self realization of the spirit and its bond with the divine source of all.

I use the human figure to represent a human spiritual experience ..awakening ..enlightenment , service and devotion to the spirit.. I studied 17th century baroque artists and their techniques to represent the human from and acquired my "style" after carravaggio.

Laura Shafer

"Art is why I get up in the morning, but my definition ends there. You know, it doesn't seem fair that I'm living for something I can't even define, but there you are, right there, in the meantime." - Ani Difranco

 

My name is Laura Shafer, I am a Photographer, represented by the BeHUMAN Gallery in Houston, Texas. My agent is out of Paris, France and is also the Co Owner of the gallery. I am the single Mother of seven children, five sons/two daughters, ages 26, 23, 22 and a half, 22, 20, 14 and 10 and Grandmother of two grandsons and one granddaughter ages 3, 4 months and 2 months old. I am also a Certified Paraprofessional, I have worked for the Fulton County Board of Education in Atlanta , GA  , I am a Certified Nursing Assistant and I have also worked for the Department of Defense at Travis Air Force Base in California as a CIV GS Pharmacy Technician, inside David Grant Medical Center with the US Air Force. My father was an MP in the US Marine Corps back in Philadelphia, where I was born and raised, a very long time ago. My complete passion is photography and my family has always had love for the Arts.

 Check out more on the artist website: redbubble.com/people/lsphotography1

Renée Garcia

As a biological anthropologist I work with human bones regularly. Though I have come to really appreciate the variation of forms within the skeleton, my drawings in color pencil and marker, include many of the skull. The skull carries some of the most interesting bones of the skeleton, but also demonstrates the variation in humans that are genetically based, but also tells the story of who we are. Our skeletons can show what we do from working, lounging or just being strong when we need to be. They tell the story of each of us.

I have taught anthropology at Saddleback College for 8 years, though throughout my life I have used art as my form of meditation.

My first commissioned piece was for Sargentos cheese company who sponsored a mural of Italian fishermen for San Diego's Little Italy community. The mural is 14' x 10' and the largest piece I've ever done.

Siddharth Katragadda

Sid Katragadda’s figurative paintings collate modern culture with the influence of Old Masters. Incorporating a range of vernaculars culled from art historical references, Katragadda’s work melds a fluid concept of modern culture, ranging from the Romantic era to today’s urban landscape. By collapsing history and style into a unique contemporary vision, Katragadda interrogates the notion of what art ‘was’ and ‘is’, and if time could be fused together. Vividly colorful, Katragadda’s large-scale figurative paintings are within the field of power reminiscent of old world artists such as Waterhouse and Klimt, their age-old models revisited in a modern setting.

His lifelong artistic endeavor has been to blend the east with the west, and the one common union between the two is the concept of ‘The Woman.’ Women, in all its meanings, have always played a role in culture. As far as paintings go, he believes that an artist's primary objective should be to capture a culture – and that a culture, or ethnicity, can be best understood through its women. His paintings and murals emphasize the way a culture has sculpted the woman as a whole, especially the colors. Indian women are depicted in brightest of colors - reds, saffrons and yellows – the most essential Indian colors – whereas the western counterparts are shown in vibrant, complimentary palettes to bring out their essence.

Check out more on the artist website: sidpx.com

Mark Jesinoski

Mark Jesinoski is a native of Minnesota and has lived in San Diego since August, 2008. Mark relocated to San Diego to complete his doctoral residency in Clinical Psychology at the University of San Diego, followed by Post-­‐ Doctoral rotations at SDSU and UCSD respectively. Mark is a self-­‐taught artist and from the moment he arrived in San Diego became highly active in the local arts community, getting his start painting live at underground art events thanks to Johnny Tran of Thumbprint Gallery. Mark has been involved in many local gallery shows, most notably as a featured solo artist with Pulse Gallery in 2012. Over the course of his tenure in San Diego Mark has steadily nurtured his career as a painter while continuing to be an activist in the local arts community, as well as building a focused area of study in the area of trauma, taking a special interest in combat trauma and the effect of war on our culture over the past ten years. Mark is currently working as a full-­‐time artist and is living with his wife and baby girl in Oceanside.

Check out more on the artist website jesart.com, Facebook JesinoskiArts , Twitter ArtSpeaksNow

Corene Bussey

I’m here creating art that transforms me every single day, in every single way. I blend abstract and expressionism to create visual works that transform my spiritual journey and audible art into its visual forms. I’m eagerly anticipating every chance to share that…

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Taylor Gallegos

Taylor Gallegos has been exhibited in solo and group shows in art galleries and businesses throughout the western United States and abroad. His work is in public and private collections from Hawai’i to Italy.

Taylor has always loved, created and studied art. He was born in Boulder, Colorado, and received a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts with a double concentration in both Painting and Drawing from Colorado State University. To expand on his formal education and artistic practice, he went abroad in 2004 to study, paint and draw in Castiglion Fiorentino, Italy. Since then he has lived and worked in the world of art practicing his craft in many different mediums and styles. Taylor now lives and makes art in Fallbrook, California, twenty minutes from the ocean that he visits often for fun, connection to the world and deep inspiration.

Check out more on the artist website taylorgallegos.com

Frankie and the Invisibles

A Sonic Blast from the Past…

Classic Rock & Roll Instrumental Guitar featuring the music of The Ventures, Link Wray, Duane Eddy, plus 50’s & 60’s hits, Surf tunes, and of course those classic Beatle rockers!

I’ve been a resident of Fallbrook since 1999. When I first arrived I didn’t know any musicians in the area, so I began experimenting with using pre-recorded back-up tracks to accompany my guitar playing. This led to developing a jazz/Latin guitar sound which I called “Guitar Moods”. For the next 10+ years I played in and around the Fallbrook area, most notably playing for a year at the old Wildwood Restaurant and another year at Rio Rico in Bonsall. In addition, I played at several other restaurants in Fallbrook, as well numerous times at the Fallbrook & Cultural Center. I also played at private parties throughout the area.

After retiring “Guitar Moods” I developed a real love for instrumental rock n’ roll music from the late 50’s early 60's. This included artists such as The Ventures, Duane Eddy, The Shadows, Link Wray, and many of the surf bands that recorded in the pre-Beatle era of rock n’ roll; groups like The Chantays, The Lively Ones, The Pyramids, and the Astronauts. This is first generation rock n’ roll that evokes an era of simply having fun, along with a good beat to dance to.

Out of this has come my latest musical venture...a “virtual” band I call “Frankie & The Invisibles”. Playing electric guitar~along with high quality instrumental accompaniment which I personally arranged and developed~I’ve created a full band sound that works really well in many venues where a more “energized” sound is wanted, but full bands are not an option. Over the last 14 months I’ve played a variety of venues in Fallbrook, Bonsall, Escondido, as well as Carlsbad and Encinitas. In addition I’ve done many gigs in Old Town Temecula, which has developed a very dynamic music scene over the last few years.

As a guitar player for 45 years, I have immersed myself in a variety of styles from Rock n’ Roll, Blues and Jazz, and even Classical. The one constant has always been my love of the power and passion expressed through the guitar.

Check out more on Facebook Frankie and the Invisibles

Steve Wallace

Steve Wallace is one of the first photographers in the United States to go completely digital back in 1994. His work was published in Photographic Magazine that year. Since then his work has been published in Popular Photography, Digital Photo Pro Magazine, Photoshop User Magazine, photographic instructional books and advertisements for Nikon’s Mentor Series. In 2012 he was named “Professional of the Future” by Digital Photo Pro Magazine. His photography appears on NGO web sites and will be in the Fall edition of University of San Diego Magazine.

My works are a combination of photography and digital painting. I start with a photographic image with good composition then add paint digitally. My favorite subject is an interesting face from a foreign land.

Check out more on the artist website: stephenwallace.zenfolio.com

Carl Heidenreich

The STAR Theatre has received a gift of 10 original watercolors that have not been seen in decades by renowned artist, Carl Heidenreich, from collector Emanuel L. Wolf and Patricia J. Recendez.

Carl Heidenreich (1901-1965) was at the center of Germany’s avant-garde. He was a student in the first school of Modern Art opened by Hans Hofmann in Munich in 1915. Hofmann moved to New York in the early 1932 and in 1941 helped Heidenreich escape the Nazis just before the outbreak of WWII. Most of Heidenreich's early works, left behind in Germany, were destroyed during the war, but the artist returned to painting after establishing himself in New York.

Heidenreich's surviving works "tell a tale of a man who lost everything — family, possessions, and all of his art in the escalating progress of war — struggling to replace and recuperate his loss." Heidenreich's efforts to absorb and come to terms with the traumas in his life are evidenced in abstract compositions in which effects of space, illumination, and other phenomena combine to set up an internal dynamic flow (what he called "pictorial motion"), in which recognizable images and forms emerge, recede, and at times disappear completely, spiraling through layers of colors and marks. Today Heidentreich's work is included in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.  The UC Berkeley Art Museum, which was founded by Hans Hoffman, has several of Heidenreich’sworks in its permanent collections.

Emanuel L. Wolf "Manny" is an avid collector of Heidenreich’s paintings.  Emanuel L. Wolf as head of Allied Artist Pictures was responsible for many major films including Cabaret ( 8 Oscars), Papillon, The Betsy, and The Man Who Would King.