Janet Neuwalder

Janet Neuwalder

Janet Newalder Sculptor/Installation Artist Janet Neuwalder is a sculptor and installation artist specializing in clay and ceramic processes. Some of Neuwalder’s installations are modeled after anthropological displays often found in Natural History Museums. Her wall...
Dennis Oppenheim

Dennis Oppenheim

Dennis Oppenheim (1938 -2011) Conceptual Artist Portrait © Donna Granata 2002 Dennis Oppenheim created Bus-Home, the large functional sculpture graces the Bus Transfer Center at Ventura’s Pacific View Mall. Stanford educated, Oppenheim was a world famous pioneering...
Ruth Pastine

Ruth Pastine

Ruth Pastine Painter Portrait © Donna Granata 2008 The paintings actively engage the viewer to experience light and color from black, from a perceptual place where visibility is ambiguous and is free from preconceived notions, and is redefined. Ruth Pastine Intense...
Elisse Pogofsky-Harris

Elisse Pogofsky-Harris

Elisse Pogofsky-Harris (1941 – 2018) Painter Portrait © Donna Granata 2004 Dreamy and surreal images, ripe with symbolism, gradually reveal to the viewer a world of multiple possibilities. Elisse Pogofsky-Harris worked mostly in oil on canvas. She spent 11 years...
Astrid Preston

Astrid Preston

Astrid Preston Painter “Silence” by Astrid Preston, 2002oil on canvas, 28″ x 35″ Astrid Preston has been called “one of America’s most important contemporary landscape painters.” She joins a love for Renaissance and Chinese/Japanese art with...
Bob Privitt

Bob Privitt

Bob Privitt Sculptor Portrait © Donna Granata 2008 Visiting with Bob Privitt is like gliding through a history of civilization on roller skates. His conversation is peppered with references to Plato, Icarus, Langston Hughes and Countee Cullen. We are dazzled with the...