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Karen & Tony Barone

Architectural; Visual Arts: Murals, New Media / Technology, Painting, Sculpture

Karen & Tony possess a formidable wit. They create mind-boggling works of art that challenge our sense of scale and spatial reality. Their larger-than-life sculpture and their over-the-top public art ensemble installations, place us in an Alice-In-Wonderland state of disbelief and visual adventure. They believe art can be a powerful force for good and human enrichment and that’s their M.O. and they support many causes to that goal. PRESENTLY – The Barone’s continue bringing joy & happiness to art lovers and are immersed in multi-disciplined high-level Crypto Art projects which have become vehicles for Karen’s VIDEO EXPERIMENTALIST PERFORMANCE ART and Tony’s PAINTINGS, which are derivative of Karen’s videos. … the future has arrived! Videos and paintings are viewable in the virtual museum at BaroneArt.com

Miguel Barrios

Visual Arts: Painting

Miguel was born in the tropical Colombia in Espinal, Tolima. He was surrounded by a family of singers, motivated by rich folklore, music and regional dances. He was trained as a physician, health and wellbeing is one of his interests. He was living in New York City, where he started his passion for painting. His favorite museums in New York are the Whitney Museum, Gladstone, the Metropolitan, and Moma. During every trip to Chicago, Miguel stops at the Art Institute of Chicago to enjoy “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte” of George Seurat. One of his favorite cities is Puerto Vallarta, visiting art galleries. Miguel paints colorful abstract paintings, sinusoid curvy shapes, to transport the viewer to a meditative state of mind, calm and peace. Life can have harsh moments, taking breaks to enjoy simple things is crucial to recharge our energies. Miguel nurtures his craft from the art work of several artists: Georgia O’Keeffe, George Seurat, Gaugin, Van Gogh, Da Vinci, Botero, Luis Romero, Ronnie Landfield, Salvador Dali, Vermeer, David Hockney, Alexei Biryukoff, Tom of Finland, Keith Haring, Frida Kahlo, Robert Mapplethorpe, and the list goes on. Music has a marked influence in the artist, from Colombian folkloric, salsa, vallenatos, boleros, ballads in Spanish, Broadway tunes, music from Latin-America, America, Spain, Italy, France to the classics like Beethoven, Mozart, Mendelsohn, Chopin, Tchaikovsky. Cinema provides a source of images to resemble memories and feelings. Filmmakers like Krzysztof Kieslowski, Sergio Cabrera, Steven Spielberg, Quentin Tarantino, Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu, Alfonso Cuaron, Pedro Almodovar give the best emotions and memorable moments. Miguel is an avid reader, and several writers have a spot in Miguel’s Library: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Jorge Luis Borges, Oscar Wilde, Juan Gabrial Vasquez, and Pablo Neruda.

Julia Baucom

Visual Arts: Murals, Painting

I am originally from the Washington D.C. area, I graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA with a Painting and Printmaking degree. I moved to California in 2014 and lived in Los Angeles before moving to Palm Desert in 2022. I have lived in the area for a year now and have spent my time as a professional muralist. I hope to continue with this career path and work on public projects for the city.

Phoebe Brunner

Visual Arts: Painting

My paintings reflect the tension between pure beauty and the threat of nature’s devastating potential…. Sublime imagery with a slight ominous warning, between mystery and faith, between what we can control in our environment and what we cannot. And with this reverence for nature, hopefully an understanding of our responsibility to protect our environment. As a visual artist, I use beauty as a tool, a hook, to seduce the viewer into awareness, and hopefully engender a greater stewardship….Created by tapping into a huge visual reservoir of memories, I utilize field notes, photos, and thumbnail sketches. A third generation Californian, I spent a large part of my childhood on a 15,000 acre coastal cattle ranch – one of the original Spanish Land Grant ranchos – near Santa Barbara, where I currently live and work. Featured image: “We Are Floating, We Are Gifted”, 60″ x 50″, oil on canvas

Dayton Claudio

Visual Arts: Bas-relief, Painting

I have enjoyed a successful career in public art from 1995 to the present having successfully completed many projects around the country. I have an MFA and 12 years college teaching experience. My work is an investigation into the processes of nature. Using clay, with it’s unique primordial properties, I capture highly detailed textural surfaces. Painting with oils on these, “clay-formed canvases,” yields a versatile and ever changing platform of expression.

Johnathan Fonoti

Visual Arts: Mixed Media, Murals, Painting, Site-specific, Watercolor

I grew up in the Coachella Valley. I have four kids and own Sacred Symbols Tatau, a Tattoo Shop, as well as an Art Gallery. Both are in the High Desert. I am stylistically diverse in multiple mediums. I like doing illustrative style portraits. I am inspired by history and culture.

Gerry High

Visual Arts: Abstract, Fine Art, Murals, Painting, Printmaking

Started my life in art with a commission to create 100 30” x 40” watercolor paintings for the Ocotillo lodge in 1984. The started showing my art at The Art Connection in Palm Springs in the 80’s. Worked with designers to make paintings for the many new country clubs all through the desert. Opened an art studio in Cathedral City in the 90’s on Perez Road. Created many paintings and started a faux finish business. Worked with Marshal Arts Studio for a few years working to decorate chain restaurants like El Toritto’s and Chi Chi’s. Opened a new Gallery on Highway 111 in Cathedral City for a couple of years. Opened and maintain Artspresso Gallery in Idyllwild,Ca.

Sarah Soward

Visual Arts: Fine Art, Illustration, Mixed Media, Murals, Painting, Printmaking

Sarah Soward (pronounced SOH-wurd) is an artist with a focus on endangered wildlife and color. She holds a BFA from the California College of the Arts (view her art C.V.). She shows and competes internationally. Highlights of her career include the acquisition of a painting by the Kentucky Derby Museum at Churchill Downs, acceptance of her work into the Wildlife Artist of the Year (WAY) 2013, 2015, and 2017, 2023 exhibitions at the Mall Gallery in London, England, with her giraffe painting, Sky Creature, ending up in both the Londonist and the BBC Wildlife Magazine. Her work was also accepted into the 2021 WAY exhibition, but due to the pandemic, the exhibition was virtual. Two of her rhinoceros paintings traveled with the Artist4Rhino exhibition in Italy, one of which was exhibited with the show at the Museo Civico de Storia Naturale di Genova. Her painting, Luna, is going to the Moon as part of the Lunar Codex’s digitized Polaris Collection. She works in traditional art media, like oil painting, as well as digital art, design, animation, and authors and designs books. She will not stop learning and incorporating new skills or taking risks. She enjoys jumping headfirst into things. (This might be why she’s nearly drowned five times.) She believes that persistence and resilience are key so she never stays out of the deep end long.

Ravi Wilkie

Visual Arts: Fine Art, Illustration, Mixed Media, Murals, Other, Painting, Wall Treatments, Watercolor; Art Restoration

Growing up in an unstable household I began to use art as my own form of meditation at a really young age. When I was 13 I got my first job in Boulder Colorado, as an artist’s assistant, and have been working as a professional artist ever since. Before I graduated high school I studied art at Colorado University, and at 18, I left Colorado, and moved to New York City. There I got a job hand finishing at one of the top fine art frame shop in the industry and began to master my craft. After several years I ended up in showbiz where I managed the paint department at a scene shop in Brooklyn. There I spent most of my time painting back drops and set pieces for film, theater, television and trade show events. This enabled me to hone my faux finishing and paint treatment skills. While living in NYC I also ended up doing a fair amount of freelance illustration and even a bit of tattooing. During that time I met my wife, Elena and in 2013 we got married. Then we decided to move, and we started our new life in Redondo Beach, California in 2015. I landed a job at Poster Mountain, an art restoration shop, conserving and restoring original artwork and print media. In 2020 when the pandemic hit we decided to move out of LA and head to the desert, where we settled in La Quinta. I worked part time as a chalk artist, but by that point I was really itching to do my own thing. I started getting more commission work, which began to grow really quickly and before long I was booked up with murals. I was growing so fast that I needed help. Elena decided she also needed a change and she left her 25year career as a hairstylist. We were then able to focus on growing our business together and finding a new creative outlet for Elena. This gave way to making her own jewelry and me creating more art, so we sort of became an artist hub for each other and Wilkie Studios was born. Since then we have been busy painting murals, doing pop up festivals and finding more local shops to partner and grow with.

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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