JoEllen Lee

JoEllen Lee

JoEllen Lee Beader Gold Sex and The Necklaces by JoEllen Lee When does jewelry become art? Is important jewelry made only with precious metals and gems? How does jewelry transform the wearer?  Master beader Jo Ellen Lee earned a Ph.D. in Medical Genetics and worked...
Gary Lang

Gary Lang

Gary Lang Painter Portrait © Donna Granata 2008 Gary Lang is a radical painter in the modernist tradition whose free hand process has earned the artist international acclaim. Brilliant lines and circles of color draw the viewer deeper into the canvas. Freeform plaids...
Jordon Laby

Jordon Laby

Jordon Laby Inventor Photo supplied by Jordon Laby Credit for much of the vibrancy of our arts community can be traced to a pool vacuum. How is that possible? Jordan Laby, dyslexic and partly color-blind, knew from an early age how to take things apart and put them...
Virginia Kron

Virginia Kron

Virginia Kron Cellist Portrait © Donna Granata 2011 Accolades abound for Ojai resident Virginia Kron. She is called “a remarkable musician [with a] distinctive cello style.” Kron received her Bachelor’s in Music degree from University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1977;...
Gerd Koch

Gerd Koch

Gerd Koch (1929 – 2020) Painter Portrait © Donna Granata 1992 – 2020 Every great achiever knows that at least one person who has come before them has greatly influenced their life at some point. This influence can derive from close study of this...
Karen Kitchel

Karen Kitchel

Karen Kitchel Painter | Documented 2016 Karen Kitchel’s landscapes are definitely not traditional. Of her work Karen states: “I paint them with the traditional craftsmanship of the genre’s past, and a critical eye on the geography of the present. She narrows her...