Mia Mya Dawson
About: Mia Mya Dawson is an artist with NIAD Art Center who works in pencils, watercolors, ceramics and fiber.
“It’s so challenging not to think so much and just to do the work. I create work from different experiences in my life. They show up in my mind.”
Website: niadart.org/arista-dawson
More info:
1. “Untitled” mixed media on paper 22 x 30” $60
2. “Emma” mixed media on paper 30 x 22″ $60
3. “Toxic Kool-Aid” colored pencil on black paper 20 x 16″ $50
Lorraine Bonner
About: Lorraine Bonner turned to art to deal with personal trauma. Her work has moved from personal/political betrayal, in the Perpetrator series, to a vision of humanity beyond socially defined “color” in the Multi-Hued Humanity series. She calls her current series Mending, creating new beauty from our scars and broken places.
Lorraine Bonner lives and works in Oakland, California.
Website: www.LorraineBonner.com
Genesse McGaugh
About: Genesse McGaugh is a 1999 graduate of Oakland’s California College of Art. The words “and Craft” had been removed from the name. As a precocious 5 year old, she certainly did her share of craft making, while attending Berkeley Child Art Studio. Though a child with extensive sight impairment, she participated in those Art classes until she was 14 years old. During high school, while the teacher read stories, Genesse loved to doodle figurative sketches while fantasizing about teenage love. Using her artistic talent in this way began to compile into pictorial diaries. She also learned how to paint, draw, create PaperMache and works on wood. Then Genesse had a stint in U. C. Davis’s Art program. She made a choice of learning how to create Linoleum prints. Once she transferred to CCA, she added fabric collage as her media of choice. Because she is legally blind, in order to see what she’s composing, the scale of her Art is usually 30″ x 40″
Her favorite subjects are personalities, food and landscapes.
More info: I welcome commissions of interpreting with flair, your favorite photo as a Fabric Collage. My price range is flexible. Contact my mentor Tōmye either (510) 823-9150 or email tomyegouache@sonic.net
Elmarise Owens
About: I am an artist and a photographer. During this pandemic and subsequent quarantine, I decided to learn something different but still within the art world. I decided to learn how to do acrylic pours and alcohol ink. I have watched countless numbers of YouTube videos and decided to give it a try. I really enjoyed working with the same acrylic materials but in a different way. It was interesting to see how those same materials mixed with other additives produced such different results.
I have shown work in AOTAD, the Richmond Art Center, the O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, the San Pablo Art Gallery, the Rhodes Gallery, the Bridge Art Space, El Cerrito Art Association, and various other galleries. I have sold several pieces of my photography over the years including this year while in quarantine.
I usually submit a photography image or a painting or a pastel/conte piece for AOTAD, I decided to submit something different this year for this virtual show.
The submissions for this virtual show are three of my new pieces and I hope you enjoy them.
You can follow me on Instagram @1reeses1
Instagram: www.instagram.com/1reeses1
More info:
Figure 1: Elmarise Owens, Fire and Ice
Figure 2: Elmarise Owens, Blood Flowing Agony
Figure 3: Elmarise Owens, Rabbits Foot
Raymond L. Haywood
About: I am an abstract expressionist painter. Improvisation and color are the essential elements of my abstract seascapes and landscapes. Dominant motifs and inspiration for my work are land, sea and sky. I have recently begun incorporating cowrie shells as emotional avatars into my paintings.
Painting is the praxis that facilitates an entry point to share my unique gestural drawing style and historical content, creating a visual diary of my emotional terrain. Drawing and distressed or layered surfaces provide a foundation for the memories my paintings evoke.
I create large scale paintings on wooden panels inviting the viewer into my physical space to explore my action style of painting.
Abstract Expressionism, Action and Color Field painting and the improvisations of Jazz are both muse and foil to my dynamic surrealist landscapes.
Website: www.raymondlhaywood.com
More info: I am a painter who sculpts with color and texture. Wooden panels are my ground and paint is my voice, I extract memories of my interior emotional landscapes and present them as paintings.
My travels to Australia, Tahiti and New Mexico have informed the essential element that light manifests in my paintings. Distressed wood surfaces covered in vibrant gestural color and textures provide provide a glimpse of a moment in time crystallized in acrylic paint.
Derrick Bell
About: Cincinnati, Ohio native and Oakland based Fine Artist, Educator, Entrepreneur and Philanthropist. His work is thought provoking and capable of arousing strong emotions that cut across ethnic, national and generational barriers. The artistic renderings convey a deep sense of emotion, spirituality, dignity, history, strength and grace.
Bell’s works are inspired by his personal journey through life, music, nature and spiritual beliefs that transcend race and creed. Bell’s mission is to impact the world with his creative expressions. It is through this creative energy and passion that he seeks to evoke emotions and motivate the viewer.
The work is vibrant, colorful, and impactful. Bell’s use of shape, color, rhythmic patterns, gossamer line, and brilliant storytelling is striking. Realism, Cubism, Abstract Expressionism and Afrocentric iconography is all at play. With the use of geometry, harmonious color compositions and design motifs, he stylistically forges a unique and distinctive statement that has found tremendous resonance with his audience.
Bell says of the work- “The process begins with preparing the paper or canvas with a ground and then applying paint and even metallic leaf to the surface. I begin to transform the surface with sheer layers of glazed color. Numerous layers are later applied to the surface in an additive and subtractive process, either with a brush, rag or scraper. The forms are created in the moment resulting in an expressive alchemy process. This layering process also adds another dimension of depth to the paintings.”
Materially, the work has been a continued exploration of media ranging from drawing, painting, and sculpture to create a sense of abstraction and splendor, which gives Bell a vehicle to explore the history of Black identity both in the United States and in Western art.
Website: www.derrickbellart.com
More info: Contact Information:
Email: derrickbellart@gmail.com
Instagram: @derrickbellart
Dent De Loin video: https://youtu.be/hIw9sjpJwNI
Donna Meke’da Bradley
About: Art for me has always been a vehicle to escape through imagination and creates excitement for me in the process. I was born in Texas, and raised in Gardena Ca, Although I started out as a poet/writer, mentored by the Legendary Watts prophets of Los Angeles, visual art became another way to transcend my written metaphoric thoughts and ideas later in life. After attending Otis College of Art And Design as a sculpture new genres major I began to focused more on visual arts using recycled
materials.
The Mixed Media Monotype series, began two years ago when I relocated to Northern ca., unable to bring my artwork from storage in LA here, I gave myself a challenge of creating 100 monotypes. I paint with photo developer, and expired darkroom photo paper. It is an experience of little sight from working in the dark that becomes what is imagined in my mind. The after effects often intrigue me as how the paper reacts on it’s on. After I rinse away the developer with water I am left with a design created this process. This is where I think of a concept relating to what I see, or it’s the catalyst of the next look with applied layers. Often my work begins with a poem I have written, made abstract visually, illusionistic, or surrealistic ideas. Each is unique in design. I use monotype technique for it is important that the design is more of a print, than a painting, for I see more as a photographer. I have recently started using airbrush to add to these designs. I like the flatness it creates, but also it’s ability to create three dimension in form. The interpretations through layers, and what’s visualized by the viewer in the final work is interesting to me.
Instagram: www.instagram.com/dee_m.bee_
More info:
https://www.mekedadesign.com
https://www.artwanted.com/Mekeda
https://www.facebook.com/peacebots
The price for the original monotype prints is $650.00 ea.
16″ x20″ or contact me for other print sizes and prices
Image 1 Entitled: The Dawning
Image 2 Entitled: Love Like Nature
Image 3 Entitled: Rebirth
Current Exhibit: ReImagining Our Footprint Abrams Calghorn Gallery Albany Ca. 1/20/21-2/28/21
Naomi Floyd
a. d. floyd
Website: www.anjuellefloyd.com
Jason Powell-Smith
About: Places are important to Jason Powell-Smith who regularly expresses pride in being a Bay Area native, explaining “I like the Bay Area because it’s where I grew up.” Bus lines and regional transit stations remind him of specific films and television shows which reappear throughout Jason’s art works.
Printmaking is also of import. Powell-Smith credits the Art Center’s Printmaking Department as a significant influence on his creative process.
Website: niadart.org/jason-powell-smith
More info:
1. “Golden State” (D8531) acrylic on paper 12 x 18” $30
2. Untitled (D9977) acrylic on paper 11 x 17” $30
3. Untitled (D9966) acrylic on paper 13 x 19” $30
