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Lori Nozick

Architectural; Visual Arts: Installation, Murals, Other, Sculpture; Patinaed Metal Panels

Concurrent with my voyage through time and geography, my work explores time through unexpected passages. The forms and reference of my work are of architectural structures and organic materials with primal approaches, an intuitive dynamic informed by the materials and transcending its’ history to new forms. My work is deeply referential, structures we create and discard, offer a mixing of hidden narrative and exposed layers, examining ongoing cycles of cohesion and disintegration. My large-scale drawings and collages use maps and found images, and architectural structures whose scale and perspective is distorted or exaggerated. Art historian and critic Robert C. Morgan has written, “…structure signifies an inventory of shapes and elements that pull together even as they move in different directions…” The archetypal images and forms of my work function as a repository of individual and collective moments, forming a visceral bridge to a blending of time-frames, real and imagined.

Ann Tarantino

Architectural; Visual Arts: Installation, Mosaics, Murals, Other; Low-Relief Wall Mounted Collage

I create drawings and paintings, collages and installations, and public art projects, including murals. My work explores human experiences of place and landscape—including the colors, patterns, light, shapes, and shadows found across the natural world and the built environment—telling stories about people and the spaces they inhabit (or dream of). I use source materials about places and spaces to generate a visual language of color, line, shape, and form, combining and digitally tracing elements before etching or cutting the resulting images into paper, acrylic, wood, and other materials–or using those pieces as stencils for paintings. Each material is thus a building block combined and layered with others to create vibrant multi-dimensional works. Ultimately, my work emerges from the landscape and the built environment; the lives and memories of the people who move within such spaces; and the patterns and imprints we leave upon and learn from the world around us.

Hans van Meeuwen

Visual Arts: Installation, Sculpture

Apart from making shows in exhibition-spaces, I love to go outside and work with an external spot. I let my work play its role within, and interact with this larger environment. I enjoy considering how to relate to the people who use the space in their daily lives and routines. I love to work in a situation where people will unexpectedly come upon my intervention in their surroundings. I seek to elicit a moment of awareness in the flood of anonymity. We mostly go through life in an automatic-pilot state of mind. I would love to have the artwork see the environment with a fresh look for just a second, before going back to the automatic pilot. I would love to have my artwork given a few thoughts someone may pick up. And with that, inspire the passer-by for a moment to think outside the box of our day to day routine mindset, before she/he rushed back into life. I wish to design a work that gives a symbol to the space, to the building and/or the area.

Jenni Ward

Visual Arts: Installation, Mixed Media, Sculpture; ceramics

Jenni Ward is originally from West Orange, New Jersey but has been based in Santa Cruz, California for over 20 years. She earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Hartford Art School in West Hartford, Connecticut in 1998. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally since then including the de Saisset Museum, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History and the Grants Pass Museum of Art. She has been invited to residencies around the world, and most recently spent 3 months at the Yingge Ceramics Museum in Taiwan. She has created public art projects in Sweden, Florida, Washington, Taiwan and California. From 2005 – 2018, she owned and operated Earth Art Studio which offered community clay classes for all ages and she continues to share her creativity through philanthropic art projects, which have involved working with local organizations as well as artists and communities in post-earthquake Haiti. Ward has a passion for adventure and travel often finding inspiration through her exploration of the natural world. She currently leads a semi-nomadic lifestyle in her van with her husband and dog, and they spend a great deal of time on their desert property in Baja Sur.

Kelly Witmer

Architectural; Furniture; Visual Arts: Bas-relief, Fences / Gates, Fountains, Glasswork / Neons, Installation, Mixed Media, Mosaics, Murals, Painting, Sculpture, Site-specific

I work out of my Joshua Tree studio to create paintings and sculptures in ceramic, glass and steel. Public art has been an exciting field to explore, since I love working in different mediums and relish a challenge. I have worked with many interior designers and art consultants for specific installations, and enjoy collaborating towards an envisioned environment. I received my BFA from University of the Arts in Philadelphia,PA, with additional studies at Parsons School of Design in Paris. I have attended residencies at Atlantic Center for the Arts in Florida, Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts in Maine, ArtVallarta in Mexico and Can Serrat in Spain. My public art installations can be found in Los Angeles, Santa Rosa, CA and Las Vegas, NV.

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