Blue Gray People
Watercolor and collage on paper
19” x 24”

Rich Sigberman is a North Bay artist who works with watercolor. His early body of  work are reminiscent of early modernist painters. Rich is attempting to maintain a continuity with the past but evolving by altering the geometric cubist style to a more organic based cubism.

In this particular piece, he used cool toned color scheme, with hints of warm accents to create interest in areas, without sacrificing the feel of the color schemata. The transparent effects of watercolor creates a sense of depth and dimension with varying value ranges. His organic evolving elements is spontaneous and energetic that is hinting an expressionistic overtones.

Rich further evolves the concept by adding collaged elements on the painting making it even more interesting visually.

Horizontal Tapestry
Oil and gold leafing on canvas
12″ x 12″

Erica Steiner is a mix media artist that works with oil and gold leaf foiling. Her work delves in the innate impulse of humanity that deals with repetition and ornamentation. She uses repetition and ornamentation to indicate man’s impulse to material excess. Material excess is man’s language to express and identify who they are and how they integrate in society. Erica’s insight into man’s ability to make decorative art  is profoundly influenced by historic folk and conventional art making. The nuances that makes repetition interesting is what strikes Erica to make her delightful decorative artwork.

Providence
Oil on canvas
50″ x 60″

Jeff Hemming is a Bay Area artist who paints in oil and creates a complex work of art. The style of work he makes falls in a maximalist genre. Jeff’s work shows a hyper-exuberant and complex overlaying of converging elements in an entropic manner. In Jeff’s work, the elements are images of materials that connotes society’s excess, and in addition, he amalgamates the concept of the ever changing macro/micro-relations between humanity and his environment.

This coming May, the Paolo Mejia Art Gallery and Design Studio cordially invites you to attend an art show that will present a contemporaneous introspection into what Mexican Art is today. The gallery will be showing a diverse collection of artwork by internationally/nationally acclaimed artist Diego Marcial Rios. He will be showcasing powerful woodblock prints, multifariously colored watercolor works and traditionally hand-made paper mache masks.

Come pass by the gallery, meet and greet the artist, see the powerfully charged art show and purchase art that will perfectly diversify your art collection at the Paolo Mejia Art Gallery and Design Studio this May. The art show will be up from April 29 – May 26.

Mosaic Affinity
Ink on paper
14″ x 17″
2013

Ashwin Nayaranan is a South Bay  artist who works with ink. His idiosyncratic ink work delves into the subconscious mind where one is engrossed in meditative flow of process, similar to the idea of automatic drawing or “doodling”, where the physical body is disconnected from the mind and the subconscious creates a different connection.

Ashwin’s work explores the idea of technological circuitry and networking, and integrate that with his cultural heritage, resulting to a fastidious work of art.

(Below are pictures from Mary’s artist reception in March)

“Blue Series”

Guests

Mary Collins

Head Wedge
Oil on canvas
65″ x 65″
2008

Bill Chiechi is an artist/painter that lives in the north valley area. He paints with an expressionistic and independent vibe that symbolizes his inner self. His art making is fueled by a creative visual imagination that shows passion and truth. This painting shows his experience and where he has lived and how that environment left an imprint in him. He paints without regret.