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Monica Furmanski

Monica Furmanski

Photographer
Monica Furmanski, photographer and installation artist, directs the viewer’s experience, blurring the lines between image and reality. In 2002 Monica placed window-sized, slightly out-of-focus transparencies…

Matt Furmanski

Matt Furmanski

Sculptor & Land Artist
Matt Furmanski — educator, artist, public arts commissioner and, oh, yes, surfer dude.– is driven by passion — passion for his art, passion for teaching, passion that drives him to make…

Orazio Fumagalli

Orazio Fumagalli

Sculptor
A renowned sculptor and teacher, Orazio Fumagalli was known for his “figure fragment” sculptures of the human form that evoked fragments from ancient ruins. Fumagalli also worked in…

Barbara Fumagalli

Barbara Fumagalli

Engraver
Barbara Fumagalli knew she would be an artist at around age seven when she began sketching and painting on family outings. Instead of playing volleyball and baseball, the family would pack up sketch pads, paint…

Aimee French

Aimee French

Fiber Artist
Silk painter Aimee French loves the tactile sensation of moving the paint onto the silk with her brushes. Whether abstract or realistic, that sense of motion and color are inherent elements in her paintings. Her…

Carl Friedlander

Carl Friedlander

Fiber Artist
Carl Friedlander, a retired computer scientist, is well-known for creating prayer shawls worn at Jewish religious services. His fiber art gene seems to have come…

Rich Deppe

Rich Deppe

Fiber Artist
Rich Deppe’s involvement in fiber arts dates to his early childhood, when his grandmother introduced him to knitting, at which he proved very adept. His fascination with…

Richard Franklin

Richard Franklin

Figurative Artist/Ceramist/Architect
“Creativity,” says Richard Franklin “is what life is all about. It is important to all our humanity.” When FOTM designates an individual as a “Master Artist,” various criteria are…

Richard Flores

Richard Flores

Ceramist
Voraciously curious ceramicist Richard Flores says, “After food and shelter, art is everything.” First introduced to clay in grade school, art forever became an integral part of his creative existence. As an…

Alberta Fins

Alberta Fins

Expressionist
Alberta’s paintings and prints commented upon the human condition. She was an artist for whom the process of making art was more than a means to an end. The final artwork is, by her testimony, only…

BiJian Fan

BiJian Fan

Environmental Artist/Ceramist
It seems that BiJian Fan – paper sculptor extraordinaire – is everywhere. Strictly speaking, his art is not all paper as he employs a number of different materials,…

Robert Eyberg

Robert Eyberg

Glass Artist
Robert C. Eyberg received a Bachelors of Fine Arts from the University of Nebraska in 1972. He has exhibited paintings in New York City until moving west to Ventura, CA. He studied glass blowing at the Pilchuck…

Robert Engel

Robert Engel

Painter
Robert Engel has pursued a career in art since the early 1970s. After completing his formal education in fine art at Cal State Fullerton, Robert worked professionally in painting, drawing and ceramics. In 1978…

Linda Elder

Linda Elder

Sculptor
Linda Elder was first introduced to her favorite art form when an art teacher in high school allowed her to do sculpture in the back of the class while the rest of the class worked on drawing projects….

David Elder

David Elder

Sculptor
A son of a Lutheran minister at Wittenberg University, David Elder was slated to go to seminary, but instead turned out to be a sculptor. Upon completion of a Masters degree at Ohio State University, he had the…

Michael Dvortcsak

Michael Dvortcsak

Painter
Dvortcsak is an artist whose work defies categorization. Although his paintings speak to the intellect, they contain elements that are as primal as a scream. His imagery is realistic, yet dreamlike;…

JoAnne Duby

JoAnne Duby

Sculptor
JoAnne Duby began her art career as a ceramist over 25 years ago by studying at the Seaward Ceramic School in her hometown of Seattle, Washington. Growing up in Seattle fostered her appreciation for the natural…

William B. Dorsey

William B. Dorsey

Painter
Primarily self-taught, William was best known as a California Landscape Painter. His paintings were reminiscent of the California Impressionists with rich atmospheric perspective and depth. It is important…..

Don Bachardy

Don Bachardy

Painter
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…

Sergio Aragones

Sergio Aragones

Mad Magazine Cartoonist
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 notoriety.

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.

Laddie John Dill

Laddie John Dill

Sculptor/Painter/Light & Space Artist
Los Angeles native, Laddie John Dill graduated from Chouinard Art Institute in 1968. At 28 he was offered his first one-man exhibit at the Sonnabend Gallery in New York. Today he is an internationally…

Karen Carson

Karen Carson

Painter
Karen Carson, a major figure in the Los Angeles feminist art movement, has employed varied techniques and materials to reflect and comment on the turbulence of everyday life….

Sally Miller

Sally Miller

Painter
Sally Miller was revered as a painter par excellence, compassionate critic and inspiring teacher. Josef Woodard, writing in the Los Angeles Times, called her work…

Nuvi Mehta

Nuvi Mehta

Violinist/Conductor
Mehta began violin studies at the age of six. Attending Indiana University as a student of the famed Josef Gingold…

Mary Michel

Mary Michel

Painter/Printmaker
Mary Michel remarked that she had been an artist as long as she could remember. Known for her bold yet delicate paintings and serigraphs, her signature style was an elegant and refined technique…

Leslie McQuaide

Leslie McQuaide

Sculptor
Clay, bits of old jewelry and thrift shop cast-offs are the tools of Leslie McQuaide’s trade. Her work can at first seem humorous, but humor is merely the door through which we enter into her personal history. …