Exhibiting at the Bell Arts Factory

Email: courtneyellzey@yahoo.com

Website: www.clzphotography.com

Bio info: http://www.vcreporter.com/cms/story/detail/?id=8460

Exhibiting at the Bell Arts Factory, Studio 98

Email: karasails@sbcglobal.net

Website: www.karaskarma.wordpress.com

I am a designer in multiple mediums – experimenting with ceramics, photography, silversmithing, painting, textiles, and more.

I am an architect and teacher – at the collegiate level, architecture, and primary school level, “Funk Art from Junk,” the art of recycle and reuse.

I participate in the community – including a past Ventura Public Art Commissioner, founding board member of the local Green Building Council, and advisor/mentor at several high schools.

Email: jrt6812@yahoo.com

Exhibiting at the Bell Arts Factory, Studio 92
432 North Ventura Ave.
Ventura

Email:  deepsheeps@me.com

Website: deepsheeps.com

Born in Ventura County, Erik Abel grew up within a few minutes of the sunny beaches of Southern California. From the time he was able to hold onto a crayon, he was drawing… and he’s never stopped.

With an unquenched thirst for knowledge and understanding of the world around him Abel assembles his experiences into a unique visual language. One which alludes to some primitive yet thoughtful origin. His relaxed technique and nature-based subject communicates a sense of wonder, experimentation, discovery and balance.

Being heavily influenced by and involved in the surf/skate/snow sports industry and working as a freelance graphic designer and art director for over 15 years, Abel’s method of bold, graphical imagery fused with his loose brush, pen and pencil work seems to find a growing niche of it’s own in the fast rising “Urban Contemporary” art movement. Among the clients his style has attracted are Billabong, Oxbow, Reef, and Surfing Magazine.

Elements from inspirations such as the ocean, ancient civilizations, cycles of nature, plants, symbols, systems, and mid-century design are combined to create visually pleasing works of art. Abel notes, “I strive for a visual balance in my work, making art is a form of therapy for me. I’m a pretty simple guy, I like to create things that make me feel good and are pleasing to my eyes and my insides. I don’t paint to express my disgust in politics, or pollution or world affairs… it’s actually the opposite, I paint to help me cope with my disgust in politics, pollution and world affairs. Making art just takes me to that happy place where everything is good.”

Recently returned from over 2 1/2 years of traveling and exploring New Zealand, Australia, Indonesia, the Tongan and Fijian Islands, Abel is back in Ventura and has been in a creative frenzy. Erik currently shows in galleries throughout the U.S. and plans to continue traveling the world, making art and searching for that perfect wave.

CONTACT INFO ::

Erik Abel – WAV Resident
805.300.3650
info.abelarts@me.com
www.abelarts.com

ART WALK VENUE ::

Erik Abel will be painting a bunch of fish at the Ventura Museum of Art Saturday 1-7 and Sunday 12-5. Come stop by, check out his Fish Outta Water Project (www.fishouttawaterproject.com) and bring him cold beer. He’s always thirsty.

Bell Arts Factory, Studio 35
432 North Ventura Ave.
Ventura

Collage Paintings, Combined Media and Constructions
Included in website for Artists Guild of Fillmore
Email: kardia_001@att.net

My art work seeks to celebrate and include the ordinary stuff of life: Papers with history and reconfigured functional objects are some of the elements of my compositions. Vintage items are a favorite. I like to give new significance to things which might not have been noticed or valued.

Exhibiting at the Bell Arts Factory, Studio 97
432 North Ventura Ave., Ventura

Website: www.poteshmanart.com
Email: lenart641@aol.com

Painter, Sculptor, Educator, Art Crimes Consultant

Len Poteshman describes himself as a non-conceptual artist, whose work provides him the possibility of bridging illusion and reality. As a child, he showed talent in both music and art, and dreamed of becoming a concert violinist, but that dream was shattered when he was wounded during World War II. So he turned to his love of art, and studied at the Chicago Art Institute, the American Academy of the Arts, the Los Angeles Art Center, and the Chouinard Institute, and graduated from the University of Guadalajara with a Master of Arts degree.

His multi-faceted background includes an exciting career as a law enforcement officer in art crimes, doing undercover work, forgery detection, composite drawings of suspects, and theft investigation. He also co-authored a book on art crimes titled “Museum, Archives, and Library Security.” He is the creator of a sculpture made from confiscated weapons which is permanently on display at a California courthouse.

His work has been exhibited in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Riverside Museum as well as in galleries in Spain, Washington, and California.

Now living in Ventura, he is a member of the Buenaventura Artists’ Union, an artist participant of the Ventura Music Festival, and an original tenant of the Bell Arts Factory, where he maintains his studio/gallery. He can be reached by email at: lenart641@aol.com.

Exhibiting at the WAV, Studio #101
175 S. Ventura Avenue
Ventura

Email: kmaksimuk@gmail.com
On the web: facebook.com/maksimuk.art

Katrina Maksimuk’s art is inspired by a desire to seek out the history of what shapes others by looking through the overlooked power and entertainment lens of daily life.   Katrina continues to constantly explore different creative mediums in the arts including performance, theatre, writing, film and graphic design; yet she considers her core art principals aligning most with photojournalism.  She appreciates the interconnectivity of people and the power that a photograph has to acknowledge similarities versus differences.  For Westside ArtWalk, Katrina will be showcasing her series of work on gender bending including Drag Kings, Transgender and Gender Rebels refusing to accept the social construct of gender roles and expression.

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Hope to see you at the Westside Art Walk in the East Patio on Wall St at the Bell Arts Factory.