Faith
Acrylic on canvas
4′ x 6′

Roberto Mendez is a Central Valley artist that paints in oil. In this particular painting, he paints a figurative element in a very loose and expressive way that mimics mid-century avant-garde expressionist style. Visually abrasive and obscured in darkness, Roberto creates emotionally charged artwork that incorporates his cultural heritage and his experience living as a Mexican-American.

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.