Participating Spectrum Artists 2004

Artist	Medium		Sample of Work
Victor Arimondi	Photography			Preview of Spectrum auction piece, "Man With Branch".
Geras-Tousignant Gallery / Estate of Victor Arimondi Victor Arimondi's photography brings people from many different realms together. They are all united by his use of the camera as the great equalizer, giving each person their own space, time, and recognition. His images fall into four general, but in no way tidy, categories: fashion, portrait, still life, and erotic. He pushed the limits of one genre into the next, resulting in diverse works open to interpretation.
Jerwyn Austria	Photography
Melissa Ayoubpour	Photography
Geras-Tousignant Gallery
Alyson Belcher	Photography			Preview of Spectrum auction piece, "Self-Portrait #77A".
Freddie Fong Contemporary Art "My work combines pinhole photography with improvisational performance, and stems from the idea that everything we experience is stored somewhere in our bodies. Our bodies are constantly communicating with us, but we rarely take time to listen." Alyson currently teaches at the Academy of Art College and she frequently collaborates with Joe Goode Performance Group.
Andrew Belschner	Watercolor			Preview of Spectrum auction piece, "Veils #176".
Andrew Belschner is an internationally recognized interior architectural designer. His work has been published in Interior Design, Architectural Digest, and other industry publications. For many years his paintings have graced the commemorative poster and award for the National AIDS Memorial Grove.
Paul Brigham	Painting			Preview of Spectrum auction piece, "Cedar Waxwing (#9)".
Hang Gallery "Paul Brigham's work concerns the mystery and beauty of the environment and the interdependence of all living things. He creates his images of environmental awareness by building up their surfaces with layers of paint, sand, collage and transfers, then scratching and sanding between layers of media." - www.hangart.com
Jerome Caja	Mixed Media
Gallery Paule Anglim / Estate of Jerome Caja "To enter Jerome Caja's paintings is to be transported into the world of the artist's naked desires and fantasies, coupled with an anti-clerical irreverence that turns Roman Catholic iconography inside out. Although small in scale, they are huge in impact." -Will Shank, Bay Area Reporter
Carol Charney	Photography			Preview of Spectrum auction piece, "SLC 1".
Geras-Tousignant Gallery "The goal of this body of work, entitled Interior Landscape, is to open a space for the viewer to experience an external, familiar landscape in an altered way-letting the eye tap into both a real world view and a personal, inner terrain."
Geoffrey Dryan	Photography			Preview of Spectrum auction piece, "ZooeyMoz43".
"Most of my photos capture people in emotional states that are highly interpretable. I seem to capture people in ambivalent moments. Ideally, then, each person viewing my work may see a different picture, a different story. And in this way, my work becomes a kind of projective instrument allowing the viewer to see the reflections of their own emotions inside those captured in my photos."
Glenna Evans	Photography			Preview of Spectrum auction piece, "Aura". Preview of Spectrum auction piece, "Floral Motion".
"I have a fascination with rich, unusual color, movement, and energy.  My subject entices me to reveal its mysteries. So I photograph them in a way to capture that essence. These close-up and personal sessions reveal the spirit, essence, and energy many usually miss."
Josh Feldman	Digital Art			Preview of Spectrum auction piece, "Hanging Gardens 1".
"My work mixes graphic design ideals of balance and form with imagery that evokes the technical or scientific. I see each piece as a pure aesthetic exercise combined with the visualization of an imaginary object, dream-like and half-captured in the frame."
Tom Fowler	Drawing			Preview of Spectrum auction piece, "All About Me".
"Obsessive thoughts: We all have them occasionally. Whether over relationships, money, sex or spiritual concerns, the compulsive repetition of that which gnaws at our psyches is something we share with all of humanity. For the last several years I have been mining my own particular obsessive thought patterns with a series of paintings and drawings that feature common words and phrases in multiples: repetitive verbal fragments that become concentrated centers of meaning."
Matthew Frederick	Painting
Geras-Tousignant Gallery Matthew Frederick's creative process centers on the careful balance of structure, color, lighting and mood. His compositions are rendered with a resplendent color palette that captures the nuances of his subjects and emulates the patterns and sensations found in nature.
Andy Freeberg	Photography			Preview of Spectrum auction piece, "Kehana Beach, 1997".
Geras-Tousignant Gallery Andy Freeberg began his photographic career in New York, shooting musicians, politicians, and authors for the Village Voice, Rolling Stone, People, Time, and Sports Illustrated. He now lives in San Francisco and is working on the series ‘Human Nature’, a celebration of nature and the human form.
Greg Gawlowski	Photography			Preview of Spectrum auction piece, "Sandstone Sonata".
"I feel that our society's pace is increasing at a monumental level, and I strive to create images that are calming, peaceful, and healing. There's too much chaos in our lives, and if I can provide some respite for others in my photography, then I'm happy." Greg’s work is regularly published as calendar, posters and fine art prints. He was the 2003 poster artist for the KPFA holiday craft fair.
James Scott Geras	Photography			Preview of Spectrum auction piece, "Rose".
Geras-Tousignant Gallery James Scott Geras records the intersection between wilderness and humanity to reveal the coincidence between a specific moment and timelessness. “My work has been called a blend of fantasy and reality... and that all things are not as they seem. The inconsistency of the constant and the fact reality is always just beyond the boundary of imagination, has allowed my work to evolve through the years.”
David Lance Goines	Printmaking			Preview of Spectrum auction piece, "Callahan Piano Service".
David Lance Goines is one of the most recognized and recognizable graphic artists working today. His artwork is represented in both public and private collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Museé de la Publicité, Paris, and the Hiroshima Museum of Modern Art. Locally, he designs the anniversary posters and cookbooks of Chez Panisse.
Norman Green	Watercolor			Preview of Spectrum auction piece, "Orange Poppies".
Norman Green's watercolors are a personal forray from a life as a commercial illustrator. His work combines the softness of floral subjects with bold architectural structures.
Jaime Guerrero	Glass			Preview of Spectrum auction piece, "Footed Vessel #5 Blue".
Geras-Tousignant Gallery This is a very special piece from Jaime Guerrero demonstrating his unique ring technique. Each color is individually blown beforehand and then goes through the process of being cut and grounded to polish. Each ring gets cold work on both sides and then fused in a combination of other colored rings.
Sarah Jane Hassler	Home Accessories			Preview of Spectrum auction piece, "Business Card Case".
With weighty silver and weightless acrylic, Sarah's jewelry and decor elements combine solidity and light. Playful colors and bold design elements make her work unique. Her work is shown across the country, including several modern art museum shops.
Audrey Heller	Photography
Audrey Heller's theatrical photographs have been exhibited at art festivals around the country, and are collected internationally. She likes to play with perception, forcing the viewer to look twice, and reassess their preconceptions. She is glad to be the curator of Spectrum, a task that puts her in touch with a dynamic and generous group of people.
Jonn Herschend	Painting
Raised in a Midwestern amusement park, Jonn Herschend has always been interested in how the real and the unreal interact. He explores these ideas by building a narrative tension in the play between the quirky characters, anthropomorphized objects, dreamscape scenery, humorous and yet often melancholy moods, and even in the application of the paint itself. - www.hangart.com John is a San Francisco Hearts Project artist. You can find his "Heart" between the War Memorial and the Opera House.
Chris Honeysett	Photography
Chris Honeysett finds his own voice in the rich history of West Coast photography through the lens of a 4x5 view camera. Since 1988, Chris has shown his work at local galleries, and has sold his work at premier art festivals throughout the western United States.
Henry Jackson	Painting
"By taking the figure and removing all that is familiar to me, seeking the soul -- the true essence -- I'm left with something that has a much more deeper grasp of reality -- the human spirit."
Carisa Kaplan	Photography			Preview of Spectrum auction piece, "Frondset".
Carisa's work as a motion picture editor informs her still photography. She composes her multiple exposure images in-camera, often adding a high degree of chance to the result. Images from different days, shot in different light and different moods, are inextricably bound together in one negative.
Leslie Kossoff	Photography			Preview of Spectrum auction piece, "And They Said It Would Not Last".
Geras-Tousignant Gallery
Denise Laws	Photography			Preview of Spectrum auction piece, "Aparition".
My creations are fueled by a sense of historical and hysterical themes often blended into glamorous, hyper-feminine conceits. My interdisciplinary approach towards art making is expressed through photography, assemblage. performance, sound, garments, animated environments and beauty products. I incorporate sewing, video, digital media and the varied oddments that I collect as a way of investigating my liaison with reinventing the notion of the everyday. Through my often-recurring themes, fetishized objects, images, ideas and desired ephemera, I assemble and narrate my artistic subsistence.
Kenneth Leaf	Photography
Ken's work brings together sensuality of subject and process. He often works with large format cameras, extended exposures and non traditional techniques. By working in such demanding processes, Ken himself remains an unseen presence in his prints.
Laura Malone	Painting
Michael McConnell	Mixed Media			Preview of Spectrum auction piece, "Sitting Duck".
"My work has a sardonic edge, but possesses satiric and youthful enthusiasm: the child and adult viewpoints circle one another. It displays a relationship between childhood imagery and the more sophisticated play of composition and meaning."
Brian McDonald	Painting			Preview of Spectrum auction piece, "All The Flowers I Possess".
"My paintings, inspired by cartoons and dream logic, deal with issues of aggression and anxiety, which are especially relevant given the recent economic and political climate. A dry and dark humor underscores the mood of my paintings and pokes fun at the absurdity of modern life."
Julie Montgomery	Painting
Julie lives and works in San Francisco as part of Belcher Artists. Her influences include Klee, Rothko, DaVinci, dreams, dance, meditation, physics, nature, as well as her time living in the United Kingdom and Japan. Her work has been commissioned internationally, and she recently returned from a residency in Barcelona.
Scott Moules	Photography
In the series "Locus" Scott Moules continues to explore the multifarious issues surrounding his interest in constructed spaces. He lives and works in San Francisco, a city that he reinvisions constantly through the lens of his camera.
Patty Mulligan	Photography
Printing on precious metals gives Patty's work an added dimension. "I take photographs with the eventual transfer process in mind, conceiving how gold or silver will change the emotional resonance. The result is an image that has a luminescence that is changeable depending on the light that strikes it. At the same time my work is also reminiscent of historic photographic techniques."
Tomas Nakada	Painting
Gallery Paule Anglim These Thomas Nakada paintings are small compositions based on images of cells and chromosomes. With their muted geometry and floating shapes, they appear at first to be abstract. They are, however, studies of the body and, in their own way, connected to figurative painting. Some of the pieces are framed in welded iron and then coated in wax, giving them a translucency and depth. The paintings have an object-like quality, as though they were cloudy shadow boxes into which one peers.
Tetsuya Noda	Printmaking			Preview of Spectrum auction piece.
Anonymous Donor Tetsuya Noda is considered by some to be Japan’s greatest living printmaker. His images embody a delicate subtlety resonant with spiritual depth. The San Francisco Asian Art Museum will feature a retrospective titled "Days in a Life: The Art of Tetsuya Noda", October 22 through January 16.
Cynthia Ona Innis	Painting
Braunstein/Quay Gallery
Suzanne Palmer	Painting and Drawing
Emily Payne	Sculptural Painting
Cecile Moochnek Gallery
Rex Ray	Mixed Media
Haley Martin Gallery Well-known San Francisco artist Rex Ray has created an extensive oeuvre in a wide variety of art forms since launching his career two decades ago. Here, working in paper collage and acrylic on wood panels finished with a glossy resin topcoat, Rex Ray creates abstract, graphic compositions of pure form and color.
Bill Samios	Painting			Preview of Spectrum auction piece, "Upside Down".
Jon Tomlinson Industries Bill Samios is a painter and stylist, currently living in New York City. "My work expresses the multidimensional way that I experience the world. The paintings are pictures of what memories, feelings or thoughts might look like, and they usually contain multiple layers of imagery. I strive to create work that is visceral, and evocative of the language of dreams, with topics including sexuality, gender, identity, spiritually and nature."
Alex Santamarina	Sculpture			Preview of Spectrum auction piece, "Paintcil".
Alex's playful work with the iconic yellow Dixon Ticonderoga #2 pencils have been exhibited nationally. Reminding us of our first lettering exercises, and the fundamentals of all creativity, these pieces delight and challenge.
Jack Spencer	Photography			Preview of Spectrum auction piece, "Ninas: Dia de las Muertas, Oaxaca, Mexico".
Anonymous Donor "Jack Spencer's exquisitely crafted prints are the result of an exceptional vision, original darkroom technique, and a marvelous sense of story. Many of Spencer's works suggest an introspective, allegorical dimension; the soul struggling with thoughts of mortality, loneliness, and failure." -Liz Kay, Andrew Smith Gallery
Kirk Stoller	Mixed Media
"I work with various media, but try to straddle a thin line between 2-D and 3-D surfaces. Through this grey area between painting and sculpture I am hoping to mimic the space where memories and reality meet."
Daniel Tousignant	Painting			Preview of Spectrum auction piece, "Reflection 15".
Geras-Tousignant Gallery The unique spirit and energy of every scene Daniel Tousignant paints captures the subtleties of color and light. His landscapes are a memory of places visited, and are the result of an emotional response to the beauty around him.
Anne Veraldi	Photography
"Anne Veraldi is a San Francisco artist who works with the very simplest of means to achieve a subtle complexity in her photographs. For many years, Veraldi has enlisted thousands, if not millions of helpers in the creation of her images. Often working outdoors in the Mission District’s public parks, she begins her art pieces, like many artists, with only a pencil and a piece of paper. What lures her to these parks is the constant availability of free help from her best protégés—the ants." -San Francisco Airport Museums
Audrey Welch	Painting
Audrey Welch is an emerging artist on the San Francisco scene whose work hangs in numerous private collections throughout the United States. Through the use of color, imagery, and texture, Audrey Welch tries to capture the "humor and weirdness" of daily life, and the complexity of human emotion and personality.
Barbara Winkelstein	Oil Stick/Charcoal			Preview of Spectrum auction piece, "Untitled". Preview of Spectrum auction piece, "Untitled".
Durwood Zedd	Photography			Preview of Spectrum auction piece, "3 Ledge Balls".
Durwood Zedd's photography celebrates the beauty of simplicity in natural and man-made design. Printing in both silver gelatin and iris, as well as pigment on canvas, Zedd's fine art work ranges from still life, to architectural, to nudes. Access Institute welcomes Durwood Zedd as our Spectrum 2004 auctioneer.