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Mark Azm

Media: Audio, Film, Other, Video; Visual-Sonic Bass Music Therapy

Known throughout Southern California for devotion to the fine broken beat bass music arts. Favorite styles are breaks, drum & bass, dubstep and jungle.

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Jason Brock

Media: Audio, Video; Music: Composition, Instrumental, Vocal; Visual Arts: Illustration, Painting, Photography

Composting reality one chord change at a time.

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Bonny Butler

Bonny Butler always loved creating art but raising a family had her go in a different direction. Family grown, she returned to art, her first love, first with watercolors and Chinese brush, then onto alcohol inks and encaustic wax. Most currently...

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Mary Cacciapaglia

Media: Video; Visual Arts: Other, Painting, Photography, Sculpture; alcohol ink painting, pyrography

Mary Cacciapaglia is a representational and abstract painter, pyrographer, photographer, sculptor and videographer who strives to find and see what many may miss in everyday life and express what she finds in her art. Please visit SNG Studio...

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Gabriel Chavez

Drawing/Colored Pencil

My name is Gabriel Chavez, and I currently reside in Ventura, California. My passion has always been in the arts, specifically in drawing and painting. I have originally developed my art through portraiture, and while in college, I utilized colored...

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Yuliya Greben

Visual Arts: Painting

I am a Ukrainian-born artist based in Southern California. At the heart of my work is the female figure — not portrayed in the literal sense, but as a timeless symbol of intuition, transformation, and inner strength. Through each painting, I...

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Chris Grimm

Crafts: Fiber Art; QUILTING ARTS

Juried Shows and Exhibits: “MODERN QUILTS: Redesigning Traditions” Ontario Museum of History and Art – December 1 2016 -January 22, 2017 “QUILTS ABOUND” ATRIUM GALLERY – October 13th – November 28th 2017 Ventura County Government...

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Chris Harris

Crafts: Ceramics, Jewelry; Dance: Ballet, Modern; Media: Film; Visual Arts: Painting, Sculpture

Chris Harris is a California-born artist whose work blends dance, music, painting, and film. A classically trained ballerina with a BFA in Choreography and Art, and an MFA in Film and Television from UCLA, she brings movement, rhythm, and...

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Rebecca Heinicke

Visual Arts: Painting

About the Artist Consistent with her own unorthodox and provocative concepts, LA-Based Artist Rebecca Heinicke is looking to inspire emotional equality through her complex Abstract and Expressionist paintings. Rebecca's creative process involves...

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Amy Jennings

Visual Arts: Painting; Interior Stylist

Amy Jennings has been a lover of nature and all things beautiful since childhood. She would spend endless hours coloring, drawing, painting and making craft projects. Art classes were always her favorite growing up! After getting her Associate's...

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Kel Jordan

Visual Arts: Painting, Photography

I explore freedom through the lens of female resilience—the quiet, enduring strength that emerges when vulnerability and courage exist side by side. My work explores the tension between strength and softness—where doubt becomes courage, and...

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Susan Lorenzana

Visual Arts: Illustration, Other; Mixed Media Glass Artist

Artists and craftsmen of every kind run in my family, so I grew up surrounded by creativity. Naturally, my parents weren't surprised when I began drawing at an early age. After graduating from high school, my father encouraged me to study...

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Rima Muna

Visual Arts: Painting

Born in Lebanon, Rima Muna lives and paints in California. Raised in a diverse cultural background, Rima's work is influenced by her love of travel. Places like Bali (Indonesia), Andalusia (Spain) and San Miguel de Allende (Mexico) have been...

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Mariana Peirano Royuela

Visual Arts: Painting

I was born an artist yet at some point in my early adult life I unconsciously moved away from that idea and became an elementary school teacher. Once my family moved away from my native Argentina, my life changed completely. My struggles as an...

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Galina Richardson

Visual Arts: Illustration, Other, Painting; Fine Art, Watercolor, Charcoal, Pastel, Mixed Media

Galina Richardson was born in Volgograd, Russia and has been drawing and painting ever since she was a young girl. Growing up, she was also interested in languages and she ultimately sought a formal education in the field of linguistics. While...

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Abigail Spector

Visual Arts: Painting

Abigail Spector is an American artist currently based in Los Angeles. Having grown up in a community surrounded by the Santa Monica Mountains, nature has been influential for her practice. Her work focuses on wildlife and environmental issues caused...

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Phil Taggart

Literature: Poetry; Media: Video; Visual Arts: Photography

Phil Taggart has four collections of poetry. Walking the Dog in a Time of Rage, Rick Sings, Opium Wars and an art book with artist Ann Harithas, Cowboy Collages. He has been a poetry editor for over twenty years for Art Life limited edition,...

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