Kristian Talley

Through depicting the human form, I attempt to catalog the tension and harmony apparent between our bodies and the spaces we inhabit, while also striving to involve my viewers through representational acuteness and ambiguity. I hope in the pursuit of honing my own practice and critical eye, I implicate the eyes of others in a resistance to our modern trend of seeing. From our tendency to personify the natural and synthetic landscapes we each create, destroy and inhabit, I hope to illuminate each viewer’s unique and often contradictory condition– as well as the distance one maintains between themselves and the context they habituate.

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Ruben Alexander Barron

My artwork is about metamorphoses of the human spirit. Exploring the parallax of space and time, it expresses a deep understanding of mythological epochs juxtaposed in the foreground of an unattainable post-modernity. My work is concerned with the ancient as much as it is inspired by the possibilities of the future, intending to reach for the future with a sense of gratitude and connection with the past.

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Jeremy Rathjen

The artwork I create has a strong connection to the environment in which I was raised and the difficult struggles that the diverse majority of people still face every day in my hometown of Stockton, California. After Stockton was crowned by Forbes “The Most Miserable City in the United States” twice, my eyes were opened to the obvious misery on every passing face. I am interested in translating all emotions that relate to “misery” into at times easily digestible yet often deeply conceptual mechanical reproductions through any and every print making process, alongside more tactile mixed-media pieces incorporating photography, painting, sculpture, collage, and assemblage.

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Lulu Zilinskas

I feel you can conjure up the plainness of emotion with almost nothing at all. Following intuitive motion, my work has a handmade or sketchy quality. In graphic novel style, I utilize simple lines and shapes to command attention with understated power.

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Gloria ‘Shile’ Cifuentes

After many years of doing small paintings I was introduced to murals in Gavilan College in 2006.

My interest has changed; I put aside my personal work and now dedicate myself to giving back to my community, and to bringing back arts to schools.

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Jennifer Macias

I have always loved drawing; however there is something about printmaking that I have not been able to experience with any other art medium. With printmaking not only am I a printmaker, I am also an illustrator, a sculptor, a painter, an athlete, and even a chemist. It amazes me where I am now and where I have yet to go, and I owe it all to my humble beginnings in drawing.

Louise Couzens

My interest as an artist is tied in closely with my curiosities of the individual, and the inner and outer working of the Self.  In my work I strive to show the person as they truly are, stripped of all social contexts and material objects so that whether they be proud or angry, they are simply seen as human.  I have found that my explorations work best in layers, and so my pieces are usually a culmination of many different creations combined into one piece, just as I feel the complex human being is.

Joanne Wang

I fully immerse myself in the processes of playing, manipulating, accumulating, morphing, deconstructing, and building. I create visually tactile installations and sculptures that are jarringly uncomfortable when finished yet still represent familiar, biomorphic forms. My work incorporates calming, organic forms that have unsettling undertones due to the minuscule details of excess and reverberation throughout the surfaces. Each piece evolves through extensive processes of repetition and experimentation with multiples and found materials of various textures. These processes are representative of the prolonged natural, physical, and chemical processes that our planet and its inhabitants undergo—mutations, formations, death, erosion, evolution, growth, and decay.

Jesus Zuniga

I am interested in the mind and body’s markers of lived experience. My mixed-media work portrays my mind and body as merged landscapes processed by my own perceptions of those experiences. It is exciting to know that, when under enough pressure, these bodily tectonics will reveal their limits and potential for growth.

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Jessica O’Handley

My practice tends to focus on the exploration of color and how it triggers a response to the viewer. Most of my work is about social interaction and exchange while exploring individuality.

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Richard Vallejos

My artwork takes a critical look at the constantly deepening relationship between culture and information technology. In order to pose questions about how we understand the world through the framing of technology, I examine concepts related to computation, such as, user-interface design, gamification, big data, and simulation. In recent projects, these themes are explored in interactive, sculptural installations that feature data-shaped tensile structures, constructed using folk building techniques

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Jaysie Yu

My fascination with pop art, fashion, and food has such a relationship with each other that can easily be both aesthetically pleasing yet deceptively pointless. I find a lot of humor and light-heartedness in my work and I want my audience to feel the same. With bold colors and patterns, differently textured fabrics, and a whimsical theme of food, my work directs to different eras and evokes the feeling of nostalgia along with a hint of the munchies.

Jordan Goldfine-Middleton

I believe that we humans draw meaning out of a hollow space that surrounds all of us. My abstract paintings often begin with a layer of black gesso to illustrate the process of searching and building that we go through in constructing our own meaning. Some of my work in this vein references the lights of bio-luminescent deep-sea animals, creatures who literally construct their own guiding light in a black and shapeless environment.”

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Giovanna Martinez

My artwork analyzes the social standards that have been defined for women of today’s society in order to educate them about a lesser-known space using the ideals of a woman of color. I am drawn to the subject of women and their space in society because as a Hispanic woman, I have observed that there is no space to represent me as something other than fetish or sub parity. I explore the themes of fat shaming, fashion bias, and unrealistic depictions of the female body

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