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Yukari Sakura is a book of wisdom when it comes to her favorite subjects. Ask her about what she likes, and she will go into great detail about the given topic. Gathering inspiration from mythological tales, animated films, video games, heroes, daily life, and historical events, Sakura works primarily with watercolor, colored pencils, and paint. She also creates animations based on animals and their environments, writing out what she calls “documents” and then basing subsequent drawings off her research. 

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The Maiden with Two Mouths and Rice Balls

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The Maiden with Two Mouths and Rice Balls

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Working primarily in watercolor, marker, and pen, Ade Lewis has a detailed eye for portraiture. Lewis draws personalized portraits of models from fashion magazines and celebrity features. His process of drawing is concise, fast-paced, and “in the moment,” perfectly matching the style and speed of pop culture journalism itself. 

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Portrait with Blue Hair, Rainbow and Heart on Cheeks

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Portrait with Blue Hair, Rainbow and Heart on Cheeks

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Ana Maria Vidalon is known for her graphically strong compositions of layers of tiny faces. Her process is one of compulsive repetition, and this working rhythm is evident in each completed piece. Vidalon developed an entirely new iconography. Using sheet music as their basis, her prints convey an abstract typographical sense of musical notation, combined with bold design and color. 

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Growing up in a household filled with music and drawing, Alaina Schlier was inspired to be an artist at a young age. Whether working on an architectural artwork or a landscape, Schlier's mixed media artworks are marked by careful attention to detail. Schlier's subject matter is influenced by many sources including movies, holidays, and most recently astrological signs.

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An extremely focused artist, Albert Duong carefully selects images to use as inspiration. With an intuitive sense of color and a remarkable eye for composition, Duong reinterprets his source material. 

Duong excels with animal portraits draw from photos. Looking at his selected image, Duong examines every detail capturing the curves, color, and  essence of each animal.  

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Alissa Bledsoe states that making art gives her "no stress at all." She credits the encouragement of an uncle, and city life in general, as her sources of inspiration. Her practice, like the frenetic urban environment, angles in many directions: fabric, needlepoint, assemblage, collage, drawing, and painting. 

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Allura Fong typically works with an assemblage process. She cuts out parts of her drawings and paintings and collages them together to create a colorful, expressive visage. Fong also enjoys using watercolor and ink. Her playful use of marks and loose brush strokes offer airy and playful compositions that drift off the page.

The layering in Fong’s artwork produces a floating effect that adds to the dreamy quality of her subject matter of hearts and organic shapes.

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Amani Swalim primarily works in watercolor and pencil and has started experimenting with sewing, embroidery, and painting on silk. Her favorite subject matter is women of fantasy and fairy-tales: princesses and queens. She uses a warm palette of burgundy, reds, and pinks to depict her characters. Swalim is proud of her Palestinian heritage and also uses her personal history in her artwork. She has produced a series of drawings on wood detailing a number of Suras from the Koran in Arabi, translating them to English on the reverse.

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Working primarily in ink and watercolor Andrew Lee peruses books of classical paintings from which he draws inspiration. His source materials are broad and far-reaching, enabling Lee to explore Hindu mythology, classical European Renaissance paintings and American pop culture. Lee’s friendly and colorful aesthetic is defined by his clean linework and a strong sense of perspective.  

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Andrew Wong is known for his imaginative interpretations of trains, whimsical animals, and anthropomorphic figures made primarily in clay. Wong’s lively subjects are characterized by large expressive eyes and eyebrows. His functional pieces include “face mugs” and animal bowls. While his figures, especially his trains, are reminiscent of toys in picture books, they can often be so detailed and heavy, that “playing” with the sculptures would be dangerous.

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Anne Slater works in many different mediums. Abstract floral patterning dominates her exuberant and colorful use of oil pastel. A strong sense of design characterizes her figurative work as well. Layered over a vibrant, monochromatic background, sequences of linked, doll-like figures filled with vibrant washes of color cover the picture plane. Often done in marker and watercolor, on paper or wood, Slater’s palette and precise compositions are animated with the movement of dance and the tenderness shown in her connection with others.

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With great attention to detail and subtlety of line, Ann Yamasaki creates complex compositions that usually combine painting and drawing media. Her works depict landscapes and scenes teeming with life. Yamasaki says animals are her favorite subject matter. In fact, her dogs, now deceased, served as inspiration for several paintings and drawings.Yamasaki’s animal scenes often depict groups of animals doing various activities in their natural environment. 

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Armando Sanchez paints in acrylics on paper, often working with his own consistent symbology. Sanchez’s unique paintings straddle the line between abstraction and figurative modes that suggest a sense of story for his stoic glyph-like characters.

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Audwin “Audie” Stansbury wants to be a famous artist. Everything about art interests him, and he wants to produce his own books, paintings, sculptures, and digital work. He is aware of the hard work involved in attaining this goal and is anxious to learn how. His drawings show the makings of an excellent portraitist. They combine delicacy with vigor, swinging very quickly from representation to abstraction. He uses color and form experimentally, and is willing to try any technique because he wants to get better. 

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Avery Johnson makes art because doing so makes him feel more free: “You can do whatever you want with the paper. You can take your time and address a problem you’re having.” 

Johnson's preferred subjects are superheroes, animals, instruments, and teapots. He usually works in pencil and acrylic or watercolor, though he also does digital print work. 

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Ayana Norwood is a focused and dedicated artist: she starts drawing the moment she shows up at the studio. She readily embraces source material for inspiration when starting a new piece, but also draws from her own imagination with ease. 

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Benji Saechao-Cheung's favorite part of making art is being able to show others his unique personality and his varied interests. He is constantly seeking inspiration from his visual surroundings: anime and comic books, famous paintings, movies, video games, and even architecture are frequent sources for him. "There’s nothing that can stop me from making art," he says.

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Originally focused on textile work, Bertha Otoya used traditional Peruvian techniques to create tapestries and quilts as she enjoyed the repetitive process of sewing. In 2009, her practice grew exponentially as her focus shifted to printmaking. Stripping her color palette to black and white (occasionally red and blue), her print work has achieved an iconic status and is avidly collected by patrons. 

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Beth Zmerzlikar deposited layers in methodical, overlapping folds of pastel or ink, rendering both figurative and abstract compositions. Controlled lateral markings carefully fill the striations, meeting to create wavering bands of darker shades, reminiscent of sedimentary material laid down in geologic time. The effect lends her work movement and dynamism as the color of the ground can be seen between these vigorous marks, and the energy of her hand can be felt moving through the surface.

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Calvin Bernard Snow’s art has somewhat similar psychedelic aims as the album art of the 1960’s. These aims are a precise, but fluid, geometry and an intense electricity of color modulated by careful echoes of one another throughout the work. His palette ranges from scorching neon to an introspective coolness. Occasionally, a recognizable scene from the natural world is given psychedelic treatment, but overall, Snow’s work translates interior states of feeling and thought into pure abstraction, which encourages the viewer to create the meaning of each piece on an individual basis.

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Camille Holvoet's artwork is deceptively sweet. Her practice tends to draw on remembrances of life's anxieties and forbidden desires. Holvoet’s process is an endless discovery, in which – through repeatedly drawing in oil pastel her sacred objects: desserts, Ferris wheels, and crossed eyes – the pressures of the past are relieved by the joy of the creative process. 

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Charles Stanberry is a video game and cartoon enthusiast with a  knack for accurately reproducing the likeness of well-known characters with pencil, pen, and marker. Stanberry enjoys creating precise marker drawings of his favorite video game and cartoon characters and his practice is defined by an unbounded imagination. He combines characters from multiple franchises in his drawings of original video game covers mixing SpongeBob, Mario, and Sonic the Hedgehog into the same series.

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Charlie Barthelet creates large sculptural objects by wrapping shapes in layers of yarn and fabric, linking them together to make organic, lyrical pieces. 

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Steven Geeter worked with a variety of materials and was always exploring new techniques and media. He tended toward using colored pencils and watercolor. His innate sense of line and form were evident in his subtly powerful portraits and other representational works. The figures in his drawings and paintings with their elongated necks, narrow shoulders, and larger heads, were reminiscent of Modigliani. 

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Thomas Pringle said of his portraiture, "What I see is what I draw," drawing portraits of people he sees in magazines or commercials, mainly of "pretty women". Whether painting or drawing, Pringle’s art practice is marked by an honest and true line. The erasures of its early attempts are in plain sight. Pringle will leave the three tries at an eye’s shape stacked above and below the best one.

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Collage, pastel, colored pencil, and printmaking made up Cristina Saavedra’s diverse art practice. Saavedra’s portraits are loose and relaxed like candid snapshots. But what seems accidental is actually deceptively organized, creating balanced composition. She is a supreme colorist, unlimited in her choice of palette, able to temper whatever is dominant in the piece with either delicate or contrasting hues. Color accentuates the stability inherent in her line: the curve of a figure is countered by its gaze; an enlarged hind leg levels and extends the square of a cat’s head; a face weighted to the left is steadied by its hair sweeping to the right.

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Cheryle Rutledge’s work involves a series of repeated images of hearts on matte-board and cardboard cutouts of a variety of shapes. Her process involves outlining hearts of varying size in acrylic paint to cover the picture plane and then filling them in with complementary colors. 

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Known for her bold, graphic drawing style, Christina Marie Fong is influenced by fashion, pop culture, and mass media. Fong’s artistic practice takes up what she calls “personality…the fabulous.” She uses decorative patterning, thick white or black outlines, and bright colors to render her drawings, posters, and sculptures. Fong juxtaposes the familiar with fantasy, explaining, "Everything I draw or make is based on someone [or something] in a way… but then it changes and becomes part of my imagination."  

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Ernesto Sosa’s mostly figurative work is very grounded in pattern. He integrates depictions of animals and people into large, intricately patterned drawings and acrylic paintings. Sosa’s preferred subject matter is a bear-like figure composed of geometric shapes usually done in a striking black and white palette. Another common thread in Sosa’s artwork is the way he fills space with repeating dashes. In addition to making art, Sosa is also a student at City College, and an enthusiastic fan of Reggaeton music who loves to go out dancing every weekend.

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Eunice Juarez is a versatile artist working primarily drawing with various mediums and notably colored pencil. She works both from reference materials and from her own imagination - most often rendering scenes of animals or delicate portraits of dogs. 

Juarez has a stylized method of capturing light and shadow. She methodically breaks down parts of the image into clearly delineated sections, providing her initial sketches with an abstracted jigsaw puzzle-like design. Each section is then filled with color or shading. The parts of the puzzle make up a whole that is intricately organized, yet gentle and fluid. 

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When Gerald Wiggins makes art, he is "not necessarily trying to say something to people. I'm just trying to make them happy, because there is not enough happiness." Wiggins’ depictions of human figures, animal life, and fantastical creatures are stunningly accomplished. Working with colored pencil, marker, graphite, and watercolor, as well as with digital printmaking software, Wiggins' drawings are uncluttered and precise and use a spare, controlled line and careful coloring to convey detail. “I like the feeling of making something in your head that doesn’t exist," Wiggins says, "to make it real.” 

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Elana Cooper is primarily known for her striking, large-scale floral silhouettes, though animals are also a common subject of her work. Cooper paints in bold strokes, the background in one color and the subject in a contrasting color, giving her representational work an abstract quality. Drawing from journal of flowers, Cooper has created her modern floral silhouettes as with ink, watercolor, acrylic and even as 3-D wood cutout sculptures.

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Eric Boysaw is a native-born San Franciscan. His language, American Sign Language, has influenced many of the artworks he has produced over the years. Eric primarily works with drawing media, using pastel, charcoal, and ink with great precision. 

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Guadalupe Ramos excels with colored pencil and pastel. Her desert and mountain-filled landscapes are built upon carefully lined geological features and striations. Ramos’ level-handed and natural shading complement the grandeur of her subjects, be it the hilly facade of her native San Francisco or open spaces of the American West.

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I was walking by the mountain and it was beautiful

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I was walking by the mountain and it was beautiful

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Jesus Huezo’s influences include anime, comics, and pop culture, particularly Disney Infinity. In his signature colored pencil drawings on paper, his style is simple, defined by beautiful loose lines. In 2016, Huezo started to explore sculpture and papier-mâché creating a series of foods like tamales and a chili pepper. 

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John Iwaszewicz is a highly detailed artist who works on each of his pieces for an extended amount of time, layering watercolors over finely-drawn landscapes, designs and maps.

Iwaszewics, a professional guitarist, draws upon his musical background to explore a harmony between visual and auditory modes as a driving force in finding his artistic voice and personal identity. The inspiring and life-giving power of art and music come together in his deeply personal body of work, unveiling more complexity as the viewer explores the details.

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Yolanda Ramirez is recognized for the passion and intensity she brings to her work. Her drawings radiate energy through bold lines and bright colors. About her experiences as an artist, and what keeps her engaged and prolific, Ramirez states: “When I make art it makes me feel good because it’s just right... I want my art to make people feel stronger and better.” 

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Valerie Long worked mostly in black and white, but was not averse to using color. Her work appears abstract but is often based on the structure of everyday objects. Long’s matter-of-fact, relaxed personality complimented her free-flowing forms.

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Clementina Rivera is a dedicated and focused artist who has worked with a variety of mediums, including graphite, colored pencil, watercolor, and acrylic. The array of works she creates encompasses stylistic qualities that are as diverse as the materials she uses. Some works are figural, with soft lines and subdued colors, while others are sharp, boldly colored geometric abstractions. Rivera’s interpretations of Modernist classics are heralds of her practice – she’s drawn to portraiture and traditional still-lifes. 