Intense color and natural subjects have always been key elements of my work. My style combines realistic depictions with abstract and decorative elements. I work in acrylic and have recently begun experimenting with combining the simplified designs of block printing with various surfaces and painted backgrounds. My work has been included in shows at the Millard Sheets Gallery, Hillcrest Festival of Fine Arts, Associated Artists of the Inland Empire Annual Shows and Pomona Valley Art Association.
I’ve always been an artist. I began drawing using pencils, charcoal and pastels. As my interest grew I began experimenting with different techniques and color. My fascination with bold colors over the years has had a profound effect on my present style, which is mostly abstract and whimsical. My work is not only inspired by my imagination, but the world around me. My goal is to create paintings that are either insightful, humorous or both.
Born in 1962 in Mineola, N.Y. Started drawing, painting, creating my own attempts at comic books and animation at age two. I’ve never formed a barrier between fine art and cartooning. My very young childhood was during the era of “pop art”, when fine artists were freely inspired by comics and other popular culture; I remember being captivated by these works during trips to museums and galleries in New York. Graduated from BOCES Cultural Arts Center (Syosset, N.Y.).
Figurative bronze sculptures are my passion, and life size bronze portraits are my specialty. My realistic bronze sculptures capture a moment in time and reflect our relationships to other peoples, other creatures, and to the environment which we all share. Beauty comes in many forms in the world around us—in people of all sizes, sexes, colors, ages, and cultures, in animals both familiar and unusual, and in creatures both real and imagined. I use this rich variety to create unique, intimate, representational bronze portraits.
I’m known as BG Callahan, AKA Bonnie Sue Bergstrom GoodKnight Callahan. I’m not Irish, Brit, German but rather the anomalous Swedish, Lithuanian, Russian, with perhaps a smattering of French, Belgian, Latvian, or Tartar. This may account for my decidedly exotic and diverse taste in the arts, along with my confrontive sense of color. If I have even a ghost of a wish in the time remaining to me on this planet, it is only that I desire to share moments of joy via my paintings, photographs, illustrations, crafts, and graphic designs.
My medium is watercolor. I started out ten years ago and love the transparency I get when I create a painting. Watercolor is not easy and I am constantly amazed at the things I learn when I run into problems. Solving them always brings something new and exciting to the image. I believe art is a necessity and not a luxury. It fills our souls and brightens out spirits. It’ hard for me to imagine a rich and fulfilling life without the inspiration of artists and the art they create.
Gerald became interested in sculpturing after reading Irving Stones’ The Agony and the Ecstasy. This story about Michelangelo inspired him to create works of art from clay. He attended Monrovia’s Adult School for 10 years, developing his skills in sculpturing. Modeling clay into vases is like a language. Vases “speak” through lines, shapes, colors, textures, and images instead of words. All of these are arranged into a composition that is both aesthetic and functional.
My search grows from a necessity – the exploration of uninhabitable angles and the wish to mold them on a plastic piece of work as a chat with the spectator. I try to reach expressions, a bridge between the spectator and the work beyond objects, where perceptions and spiritual phases deepen into the work itself. My ideas are based on human shape, its position as an axis of communication in a dimensional voice of a concert of shadow and light.
Debby’s interest in photography has always been part of her life. It has only been in the last twenty years that this passion has become serious. After many years of working as a secretary in educational institutions and raising a family, she decided to return to college. She started taking computer classes and in 1996 earned a printing technology Certificate of Achievement in Imaging and Composition at Pasadena City College.
In my landscapes, I hope to capture that fleeting moment in time and space when a subject is at its best. Over time, people, animals, trees, and buildings will disappear, but a good painting can preserve that magical moment. In figurative painting, I try to tell a story that the viewers can shape on their own; it is my hope that you will find some enjoyment in my efforts to represent and re-create the world in paint.