Sylvia Megerdichian Sylvia Megerdichian has attained a reputation for her exciting, abstract, and imaginative watermedia paintings. Over the years, she has developed a special technique in which she combines and layers conventional watercolor with Caran D’ache watercolor pencils or collage. This unique style gives her paintings a vibrant and glowing quality. Sylvia always commences a painting with line, color, texture, and shape. However, she allows her paintings to unfold with some randomness, taking advantage of the unexpected. Every painting becomes a new experiment of brilliant ideas and color.
Exhibition Title: EXPERIENCE 10 (Dec. 2006)
Phoebe Fuller-Graham Shape and form, line and edge, color and surface design, are all of most importance to me in the process of composing a painting. I elect to use treasures, possessions and familiar objects as a means to convey these things.It is the composition of chosen shapes and forms that will define, for me, the basis of a successful painting.
I like to activate these chosen shapes and forms with color and surface design.
Color is charged with power and meaning. I use if to project mood and to manipulate visual movement, depth and direction. It defines volume and further grants me playfulness.With the emphasis of juxtaposing and overlapping surface design, form is further defined by its edges – Its lines. And movement flows along these lines.
"I create my best work when I'm emotionally involved with the subject. Its almost always the light. I am a painter of light as are most accomplished artist. Without it there just isn't much to paint. The subject isnt nearly as important or emotionally stimulating as the light hitting it. The light and the atmosphere it creates is the
inspiration for all of my paintings."
"I feel that my solid background in drawing, received from the "Famous Artist Schools" has given me the Luxury to draw and paint a variety of subjects acurately and with confidence.
"I have never regreted the time and energy spent on my art. Art chose me, I didn't necessarily choose it. I was lucky, I learned early on that good paintings are created from good drawings. Good drawings are created by lots of hard work"
"Any success I have had in life, I owe to God and the loving support of my wife and best friend, Dixie."
Patrick Dooley
Visit Patrick's website at www.patrickdooleysart.com
Milford Zornes Milford Zornes grew up in Oklahoma, Idaho and California. He loved to travel, so at twenty years of age, he hitch-hiked across America, worked on the New York docks, and then shipped out for Europe. By 1930, he was back in Los Angeles studying art with F. Tolles Chamberlin at the Otis Art Institute. He became very interested in watercolor painting and took additional study in this medium from Millard Sheets at Scripps College.
Exhibition Title: LIVING TREASURE (Nov. 2006), EXPERIENCE 10 (Dec. 2006)
Jerry Owens “ I was born in 1940 and raised in Mobile, Alabama. Living and painting on location in the South, East Coast, Mid- West and now for the past 22 years the West Coast has been “my studio” . Variation and nuances of an American landscape, life and light finds itself in my work. To communicate, explore, create and visualize the world around me is paramount and it is an act of love that I paint.
Exhibition Title: EXPERIENCE 10 (Dec. 2006)
Artist's Statement for Fuller Arts Show - Sept 8 - Oct 24, 2007
These works come from the California deserts. I arrange them to see how they explain themselves by contrasts in size, shape and angles.
They came from the mountains.
Some day they may be part of new mountains.
I attempt to understand by drawing them.
James Seeley Fuller
Exhibition Title: EXPERIENCE 10 (Dec. 2006)
George James Teaching at California State University Fullerton since 1968 not only required but also permitted George to participate in the watercolor world: one man shows, group, regional and international exhibitions. Now the title of Professor “Emeritus” of Art at this university supports his present exploration of using
synthetic paper and traditional watercolor media--an innovative and creative
experience. Discovering that this area of research had not yet been explored was the motivation he needed. As a result, this new and unique approach to the watercolor process has generated his most recent paintings to be recognized in major exhibitions and periodicals.
George was one of the twenty-six U.S.A. artists (80 artists worldwide) invited to participate in the Jiangsu Watercolor Society International Watercolor Exhibition held in the city of Nanjing, China (Nov. 19 - Dec. 2, 2007).
George’s paintings and articles have been published in the folliwng periodicals: The Artist’s Magazine, Watercolor Magic, Southwest Art, International Artist, and most recently in The Artists--a magazine published in the UK. He has also been published in the following books: The California Style, California Watercolor Artists 1925-1955, and California Watercolors 1850-1970.
Creative Catalyst Productions has produced his first, second and third video: Mastering Yupo, The Artistic Process, and Conversations with the Artist. A fourth video, A Yubo Master Class title Designing for Content is currently available and Painting the Landscape on Yupo, is schedule for release later in the year.
Exploring the unknown combination of synthetic paper and the traditional watercolor media has motivated George James to continue his succesful
painting in this unusual, creative watercolor process. Exhibiting these results has led to his work being recognized on a national level. Some of his awards/prizes are the following:
AWS Gold Medal 1999
AWS Bronze Medal 1998, 2001
AWS Ida Wells Stroud Award 2000
NWS Silver Medal 2001, 2003, 2007
NWWS Waterworks, First Prize 2003
Cherry Hall Roussel LWS Memorial Award
Louisiana Watercolor Society, First Prize 2003
AWS High Winds Medal 2003, 2007
Born in Southern California, Gary Geraths finished his education at Long Beach State College (B.F.A.) and Claremont Graduate School with a Masters degree in Drawing and Painting.
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Square I Gallery - 110 Harvard Ave. Claremont CA 91711 - 909. 621 . 9091
Teaching at California State University Fullerton since 1968 not only required but also permitted George to participate in the watercolor world: one man shows, group, regional and international exhibitions. Now the title of Professor “Emeritus” of Art at this university supports his present exploration of using 