Jordan Quintero

I make 2-d artwork using a wide variety of techniques and materials. My work modulates in style, medium and subject matter as the Muse directs. Art, to me, is a spiritual practice; it is an investment in the promise embodied in human consciousness. Through a relentlessly experimental studio process I investigate the meta-physical implications and potential of a picture-object, seeking to form a synthesis of form and content, subject and object, expression and analysis, thought and feeling in my own unique, honest and personal artistic output. I am searching for the Good, and the Beautiful. It is a messy business, yet.

Jamie Banes

My attraction to the energy of the urban Bay Area inspires a playful, excited examination of the frenzied systems around me. Highly active environments such as the Port of Oakland or sub-street San Francisco feel like childhood experiments with Tinkertoys and Legos, or voyages into Richard Scarry’s chaotic worlds. I am only at the beginning of my exploration into the design of these infrastructures as a way to identify my role inside them, and allow myself the pleasure to revisit a youthful mindset that seems more and more fleeting.

Leslie Swift Bernal

Beautiful hand made jewelry by Leslie Swift Bernal at The Cheshire Moon.

Graham Bird – Brearley Photo

Born and bred in the North of England, I traveled and worked around the world for many years before settling in Oakland, CA in 1996. A long time photographer – I literally started on my dad’s knee – I try to record the world from an interesting and, whenever possible, different perspective. As a young man I was fascinated by aviation – it remains a passion to this day – and the drive to photograph aircraft and aviators is still evident in my work today.  Five years at sea traveling the world introduced me to new people and places. People – often outside the mainstream – are prominent in my work, both informal street scenes and in the studio. Different places and cultures fascinate me, their color, their rituals and their attitudes to life – and I seek to capture it as directly as possible.

Kathy Cronin

A great deal of beauty can be found in the details of everyday life where the man-made intersects with the constantly transforming power of nature. Rust, peeling paint, broken glass and the insistent growth in cracks and crevices are places where this beauty can be found and this is where I search for a glimpse of the universal in the moment. I call my Art the Preponderance of the small after the 62nd hexagram of the I Ching.

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Kimberley Russell, B.S., M.F,A,

Animal Portraiture in Watercolors

Commissions and Paintings

Mariah Carle

Mariah Carle is a portrait photographer in Oakland, California. Catering to each client individually, her sessions are as unique as the people she photographs. Each portrait session starts with learning who you are and ends with images that you will love. She loves to create clean, crisp, beautiful images that have appeared in gallery shows, publications and private collections. Both digital and film are used to create her photos.

PJ Calihan

PJ Calihan is a native Californian and a long time citizen of Oakland now residing in the vibrant and exciting Jingletown Arts & Business community. Her photography reflects an interest in colors, texture and looking beyond the obvious in every scene and object.

Chthonic Theater

Chthonic Theater is an emerging theater group under the direction of three sisters. This group’s projects involve collaboration and experimentation with music, dance, theater, written word as well as visual transformation of space through costumes and sets.

Jill Gibson

A native of California, Jill has a background in music, painting, sculpture, and photography.In her early years she played, wrote and sang music with bands in the 60’s, and becamestaff photographer for the International Monterey Pop Festival, distinguishing herself as afine photographer. Although she had been painting during these years, she expanded hervisual arts study at UCLA taking Metal Sculpture with early environmental artist Lloyd Hamrol.She continued to study painting on scholarship at The Art Student’s League in New Yorkwith Frank Mason, a master of classical painting, and with renowned painter David Laffel athis studio in Manhattan. She then moved to Italy and became immersed in Italian culturewhile living in Florence for many years. She showed her work extensively in galleries acrossEurope.
Jill started working on portrait commissions on her return to Los Angeles in the late 70′s. Shemoved to the bay area and studied Chinese medicine and philosophy for several years, bothof which have influenced her work. She continued painting during the early 80′s while livingin Mexico. On her return to the bay area, she began working extensively with paper pulpthat evolved into her cast paper work during the 90’s. She broadened her use of materialsto include clay for sculpting and cement as a medium for casting, and this period of workingwith 3 dimensional forms evolved into her sculptures of today. Her inspiration comes from aninterest in Psychology, Mythology, early Renaissance paintings, classical Eastern imagery,and archetypal Feminine energy and wisdom. Her work has been shown in art galleriesand gift stores throughout Europe and the U.S. and is in numerous private collections. Shecontinues to work with sculpture and painting at her studio in Marin, CA.

Marek Grychczynski

I have always expressed myself through art. By filling a blank page with shapes and colors, I create a world of my own. With every experience and acquired knowledge, I subconsciously create a source from which my art flows. Ancient civilizations, old tales and Nature influence me profoundly. Through my art, I’m seeking to synthesize a tangible world with a metaphysical one, to create a fable which takes on a life of its own. I consider myself to be a visual poet, where my art replaces written verses. My preferred techniques include oil and acrylic painting, and various kinds of graphics. Interesting form and attention to detail are always on my mind when I’m working. It gives me a great satisfaction when viewers perceive my art as visually attractive and thought provoking, where endless interpretations are possible. I was awarded an M.A. from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Poland.

Todd C. Hartman

Born from a desire to express an ever expanding range of dark and light values, this series not only reaches to the far limits of how our eyes perceive physical light but also how our psyche perceives human nature and its relationship to light and dark, good and evil, dominance and submissiveness. Light paintings can often be kitschy with shapes or words drawn into the dark space around a blurred subject, or soft and subtle but with an obvious technique of stroking a soft focused beam across the body or surroundings.  The “LIGHT Bondage” series puts the light beam to good use and transforms it into a visibly tangible binding element which gracefully holds the subject in their position.  The result is an almost impossible scenario of light interaction with the model, as if the light is living and elegantly dancing around the body. This process uses multiple light sources applied at different times during which the photographer is allowed to move around the model, essentially painting with light.  No Photoshop tricks here!  99.9% of what you see here, other than minor blemish control for the models, is the same as what the photographer and model saw in camera when they created the shots. Todd c. Hartman is based in the Jingletown community in Oakland, CA and is a graduate of the Academy of Art University.  His background, among various other disciplines, includes working as a visual effects supervisor and digital artist on a variety of commercials, shorts and feature films.  He has been professionally acquiring various forms of imagery since 1989 and enjoys the process of applying his visual and special effects skills to his individual images with the same attention to detail as his moving images.

Soña Holman

A native of San Francisco, Soña has spent a lot of her life moving. A wild culture ride included stints in Micronesia, Switzerland, Mexico, Canada, Mississippi, New Mexico, and California, both as kid and adult. It impacted her art in a big way. “I think of my work as landscapes of the spirit. The energy of change and transformation stirs my imagination. I paint poetic abstracts of dynamic color and movement. The expressive, organic form is evocative of cellular, figurative and natural elements.” Widely exhibited in Canada and the USA, Soña is a Marin Arts Council Grant recipient and now calls the Oakland Jingletown Arts Community home.

Mary Patrick Kavanaugh

Afterspending a ridiculous amount of time and money polishing her work, Jingletown author Mary Patrick Kavanaugh eagerly awaited news as her agent pitched her novel to a list of New York publishers who, unfortunately, all shot down her dream of landing a book contract. Tired of dragging around dashed hopes and disappointment, the author buried that dream at an open casket funeral. Realizing there was nothing holding her back from publishing it herself, the novel is now available at Amazon, BarnesandNoble.com, or iUniverse.com, and it’s getting rave reviews from more than just her mother.

Lee Krasnow – Pacific Puzzleworks

Lee Krasnow is widely regarded by serious collectors as one of the worlds best designers and craftsmen of interlocking geometric puzzles and secret opening boxes. A self-taught artist, inventor and entrepreneur, Lee has been designing and manufacturing puzzles under the Pacific Puzzleworks brand name since 2001. Several of Lee’s original puzzle designs have received prominent awards in international design competitions, and he has given

lecture on a variety of puzzle-related topics at forums including mathematicians conventions, puzzle collectors conventions, woodworking clubs, inventors clubs, the San Francisco Exploratorium, and the Bay Area Maker Faire. Lee has been living and working in Jingletown since 2007. Workshop tours are possible, but by appointment only please! A fun-to-watch interview with Lee at the 2006 Maker Faire http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OH9JhRalzoY

Kim Larson

Kim is a mosaic artist with a background in graphic art.
So far her proudest achievement is the Virgin of Guadalupe mosaic mural on the Peterson Street Community Art Garden Project in Jingletown.

Idan Levin

I document a world hidden within the world we live in, providing an alternate view: prying, mysterious, lonely, and sometimes resembling a sci-fi post-apocalyptic cinematic scene. My subjects are often everyday places which I make unique through access, vantage point, and time, often scaling buildings, climbing poles, trees and other installations during nighttime. Prowling the streets seeking a unique vantage point from which to capture a story, I alter my immediate surroundings, altitude, temperature, humidity, and light. My images evoke the experience of sweeping movement through space, often translating to the progression of projects or events moving through time, i.e. “life in the fast lane” as opposed to “cross-town traffic.”

Jill McLennan

Through direct observation of the infrastructure of Oakland, I describe the obstacles and challenges that life in the city evokes. Bridges are a path leading to a new level of understanding and fences are a battle waiting to be overcome. I am determined to change a part of our world through art. Artists are messengers who educate generations of people about their time and place. My art shows the persistence of nature to sustain our human society throughout the development of industry and technology.

Russ Osterweil

I am endlessly fascinated and enthralled as I use the camera to observe, preserve and express what moves me, that which I find beautiful and life affirming, and which describes or embodies my sense of grace. I explore my own humanity, by examining the mysterious internal beauty, struggle, humor and irony, strength and vulnerability of others and our environment. I look to capture the ephemeral nuance, the gesture, the moment when light and form and time coalesce to reveal an expression of wonder. Even the banal or horrific can be beautiful and informative, sometimes even inspiring.

Stan Peterson

Stan Peterson is an amazing wood carver and printmaker living in the Ford Street Studios. His work has shown in more than 50 exhibitions over the last 25 years. His art is also in more than 15 private collections, and several galleries.

Darwin Price

Religious symbols, figures and parables, both Eastern and Western, as well their secular opposites, are used freely, open to interpretation and questioned from all angles. Yet all of it used reverently to counterbalance his palate, which threatens to sweep the contents off the canvas. In this mix, he adds texture to bring the interplay of the elements back to a human level.

PJ Reptilehouse

PJ Reptilehouse borrows the multiple image techniques of chronophotography to create beautiful photographs that blur the line between figurative and abstract photography. Custom built LED strobe equipment, controllers, camera mounts and serendipity allow him to capture a unique take on the classic nude, inside the camera, without the use of Photoshop effects.

Fernando Reyes

Every “Body” tells a story.  My figurative works explore dreams, reflections, thoughts, and memories that translates into narrative depictions through the use of body language.  Thematically my work is very much about how our body movements tell stories, through conscious and unconscious signals, typically with greater eloquence than what verbal communication allows.  Whether depicting a single figure or through the juxtaposition and overlapping of multiple figures which appear at first glance to be abstract, each piece stimulates an engaging dialog with the viewer.  I express and communicate an idea, emotion or thought using a common thread of assured and sensual lines creating artworks that are peaceful to joyful, sensual to sexual, alluring to provocative.  I see particular beauty in the strength and sensuality of the human form. Drawing regularly from live models allows me to depict the beauty of anatomy, proportion, balance and movement.  The traditional methodology, however, produces works that are completely contemporary.

Sarah Swell Jewelry

Sarah Swell jewelry is handcrafted using centuries old techniques. Each and every piece is special and of the utmost quality. Often inspired by the natural world, Sarah Swell jewelry has an air of rugged, organic luxury accented by tiny sparkling diamonds. Sarah studied art at The School Of The Museum Of Fine Arts in Boston and goldsmithing at the Revere Academy Of Jewelry Arts in San Francisco. Check out her blog.

John Sheridan

My work belongs to the future because I include the future in my work. Art made not for empire but about empire, not for class but about class, and art made as though there was a culture for which to make art.

Bill Silveira – Automania

A resident of Jingletown since the early 1990′s, slightly curmudgeonly, a bit on the eccentric side, with a maniacal enthusiasm for the automobile since his early youth; Bill Silveira enjoys making art out of discarded auto parts, rusty scrap metal, and other unique items that seem to find their way into his vast collection of interesting and eclectic junk. On other occasions you may also find him with a paintbrush in hand creating something usually inspired by the automobile with acrylic paints. Additionally, this semi-retired used car dealer is also well known in the filming industry as the guy who can provide you with just about anything you need from classic cars to caskets for your shoot. Think Sanford and Son-ish with a slightly twisted bent. t’s also been rumored that he’s worked for wine and cheese in his not-so-distant past, but that fact hasn’t been wholly substantiated just yet.’

Rob Stiles

Rob Stiles’ architecture provides an integrated approach to design, fabrication, furniture and construction. Our focus is on natural and industrial materials such as concrete, steel, and wood, and we attempt to combine them to create a new modern vernacular aesthetic.

Styrous®

Raised in San Francisco, I have been involved with the Jingletown area of Oakland for almost 30 years and finally moved there almost 10 years ago. I have had a career as dancer, actor, production coordinator, fashion show producer and music composer.My work, described as formalist and romantic-realist, is in private collections in Spain, Switzerland, Italy, France, Mexico and the United States. It has been shown in solo and group exhibitions.

Laurel True

Laurel True is a Bay Area artist specializing in mosaic, mixed media and public art. She is the co-founder and director of the Institute of Mosaic Art in Oakland, and principal of True Mosaic Studio, a professional mosaic studio specializing in site-specific architectural commissions and public art. Working with conceptual themes, True weaves together fine art and craft based techniques, utilizing both natural and unnatural materials to achieve varying effects in her two and three- dimensional artworks.

Linda Vaughn

Lindamay creates jewelry designs using metal clay (bronze, copper, silver), wire, plastic, fabric, paper, resin, cement and whatever materials that are at hand and functional. She uses found elements and vintage ephemera, along with inspirations from nature, to build her designs.

Saundra Warren

In addition to greenmen, leafmen, pears, dishes, wall decor, wind chimes and birdseed feeders, she creates mosaics of tiles she has made by hand. The mosaics are on plant tables, birdbath basins, fountains. Saundra makes each tile carefully by hand.

Jan Watten

Photographer Jan Watten has a passion for expressing the essence and core of her subject’s being. “My work really revolves around the idea of identity. It is really difficult to capture the completeness of someone, and what I am interested in is capturing an aspect of them,” she says, “an isolated moment.” Watten chooses to photograph her subjects in black and white, because “I see in black and white. It reduces an image and you don’t have distractions of color. You are getting rid of extraneous information, and it’s very pure.” This vision of purity and simplicity was nurtured during her 13 years living abroad in Taiwan, where she found artists’ works to be very minimal.

Jon Zax

My view of reality is that everything in our known universe is only the thin film between larger unseen forces.
It is my goal to represent this visually in the photographs that I make.

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