Khaled Al Awar

Khaled Al Awar

Khaled Al Awar Gallerist Khaled Al Awar, a 1970 emigrant from Lebanon, moved to Ojai in 1982 from Chicago with his wife, Sheryl. He established the Primavera Gallery which features international and local artists, both individually and in group shows. He focused on...
Richard Amend

Richard Amend

Richard Amend Painter | Set Designer “Richard Amend believes in the transporting pleasure of beauty. His paintings and drawings embody the sublime ‘essence’ of Nature, abstracted and amplified,” writes art critic Jo Lauria. His work is exciting and mysterious, his...
Sergio Aragones

Sergio Aragones

Sergio Aragonés Mad Magazine Cartoonist Website: www.sergioaragones.com Sergio Aragonés considers himself just a regular guy with a great job, even though illustrating for Mad Magazine since 1962 has earned him numerous accolades, tremendous respect, and considerable...
Dawn Arrowsmith

Dawn Arrowsmith

Dawn Arrowsmith Painter Portrait © Donna Granata 2010 Dawn Arrowsmith’s paintings are meditations in color.  It has been said that each is a kind of minimalist luxury – pure, distilled, economical, but also rich, luscious, erotic.  Her work is intuitive, greatly...
Don Bachardy

Don Bachardy

Don Bachardy Painter Don Bachardy Self-Portrait Santa Monica-based portrait artist Don Bachardy studied at the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles and the Slade School of Art in London. Bachardy’s decades-long relationship with writer Christopher Isherwood inspired...
Neal Barr

Neal Barr

Neal Barr Photographer Neal Barr, 1973 Susan Foristal Bill Blass dress His work appears in glossy magazines. Beautiful faces. Couturier fashion. Nameless models or super-celebrities. Neal Barr opened his NYC studio in 1962, and it was obvious that whoever he...