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John Nava

John Nava

Painter
The realism of John Nava’s paintings and tapestries stuns the viewer. His mastery of light and shadow is reminiscent of Old Master paintings. Nava’s work invites intimate observation. Often expressive, his life…

Marta Nelson

Marta Nelson

Painter/Printmaker
Since winning her first art scholarship at age 10, Marta Nelson has continued a career in fine arts. A life-long love affair with drawing the human figure developed when she attended her first…

Janet Neuwalder

Janet Neuwalder

Sculptor & Installation Artist
Janet Neuwalder specializes in clay and ceramic processes. Some of her installations are modeled after anthropological displays often found in Natural History Museums…

Arnold Newman

Arnold Newman

Photographer
In a career that spanned almost 58 years, Arnold Newman was a significant contributor to the history of photography. His photographs are part of permanent collections at the most respected museums…

John Nichols

John Nichols

Photographer
Yogi Berra may have counseled “when you get to a fork in the road, take it,” but photographer John Nichols is apt to not only take the fork, but will probably examine it, learn from it, and happily follow…

Margaret Nielsen

Margaret Nielsen

Painter
The canoe, encased in golden vines, floats in darkness, illuminated by stars, anchored by vein-like roots. Is the canoe waiting to take you on a journey through the unknown? Through memories? Will it navigate a…

Valerie Noelle

Valerie Noelle

Environmental Artist/Ceramist
Valerie Noelle’s work is greatly influenced by her childhood exposure to the diversity of human culture as well as nature’s myriad forms, through her extensive travels as a result of her…

Paula Odor

Paula Odor

Painter
Odor’s watercolors emphasize composition and design, establishing an equilibrium of all the elements within the picture plane. Paula Odor Painter and etcher Paula Odor began her studies at the Texas State College for…

Dennis Oppenheim

Dennis Oppenheim

Conceptual Artist
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…

Rondal Partridge

Rondal Partridge

Photographer/Master Printer
The son of renowned photographer Imogen Cunningham, Rondal Partridge grew up surrounded by some of America’s most iconic photographers, among them Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange and…

Ruth Pastine

Ruth Pastine

Painter
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…

Michael Pearce

Michael Pearce

Painter
Neolithic man aligned massive stones with the sun, building places of worship and ritual. Alchemical philosophers distilled elements to find pure essence, creating allegories and symbols to express their…

Rafael Perea de la Cabada

Rafael Perea de la Cabada

Multidisiplinary Artist
The artist describes himself as a visual poet, offering a powerful dialog that resonates with the plight of humanity. His intuitive approach draws from his personal experience, incorporating deep narratives layered in symbolism…

Susan Petty

Susan Petty

Painter
Susan Petty paints because she has to. Her works chronicle timelessness and continuity. Her technical expertise resonates in both tightly detailed images of delicate lace and barren tracks of land. Yet she continues to…

Joseph Piasentin

Joseph Piasentin

Painter/Mixed Media
Joseph Piasentin is a professor of painting and drawing at Pepperdine University. It has been said that Piasentin encourages his students to be responsible for every choice, every decision made…

Gail Pidduck

Gail Pidduck

Painter
“There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor.” The quote is Oscar Wilde’s and the words have a special significance for Gail Pidduck. She has, with paint and the eye of a discerning…

Patti Post

Patti Post

Painter
“The arts exist, so that we might give voice to what we cannot say any other way. I am amazed and inspired by the profound insight and awareness that our students realize through their images and their willingness to…

Len Poteshman

Len Poteshman

Painter/Sculptor
Len Poteshman‘s dreams of being a concert violinist came to an end due to injuries sustained in World War II. He pursued an arts education at the Chicago Art Institute, the American Academy of…

Peggy Pownall

Peggy Pownall

Painter
Peggy Pownall is a mixed media painter working as an Artist-In-Residence at Studio Channel Islands in Camarillo since 2008. She received her B.A. from Pepperdine University and has…

Astrid Preston

Astrid Preston

Painter
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 the emotions…

Sandra Price

Sandra Price

Tatto Artist
Rock stars and celebrities sport them. A tattoo can be decoration or can express solidarity among those who have served overseas. An exquisitely colored song bird may be a way of overcoming…

Bob Privitt

Bob Privitt

Sculptor
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…

Chris Provenzano

Chris Provenzano

Sculptor
The mystery of stones guides sculptor Chris Provenzano’s fingers. “There’s always a surprise within each stone…

Keith Puccinelli

Keith Puccinelli

Assemblage/Performance/Installation Artist/Draughtsman
In a world that is increasingly chaotic, is it the role of the artist to eliminate chaos? Or, is he simply to pick up the pieces of a shattered world…

Richard Rackus

Richard Rackus

Painter
Having studied under some of California’s foremost teachers and artists – Frank Tolles Chamberlin, Laurence Murphy and Sam Hyde Harris – it was natural for Rackus to remain in the school of the California plein air painting…

Roxie Ray

Roxie Ray

Painter
Roxie Ray’s paintings capture field workers laboring in rising heat, bathers languidly floating. The paintings are at once realistic depictions of everyday life and socio-political statements. The viewer is…