artist registry

OTHER / MIXED MEDIA

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JoAnn Burchfiel
607 Chapman Drive
Corte Madera, CA 94925
(415) 924-2625
lettersandimagesearthlink.net

My work is about simplicity and the beauty that can be found in it.

 

Claudia Chapline
P. O. Box 1117
Stinson Beach, CA 94970
(415) 868-2308
claudiacchapline.com
www.cchapline.com

My assemblages are constructed of found materials and discarded functional objects. The forms are wall reliefs, boxes, pedestal and free standing sculptures.

 

Simma Chester
7049 Redwood Blvd., #201-D
Novato, CA 94945
(415) 897-3777 (Phone/FAX)
simmamail.com
www.simmachester.com

My work incorporates beadwork, metalsmithing (silver and gold) often utilizing fiberworking techniques. My influences are tribal with a rustic flavor stemming from my travels and living abroad yielding “Artifacts of the Future.”

 

Carol Durham
34 Forrest Lane
San Rafael, CA 94903
(415) 479-4630

I make shoes from hog gut. I embellish the shoes with various scenes that usually have somewhat of a social commentary.

 

Susan Field
1462 Almaden Valley Drive
San Jose, CA 95120
(408) 323-1179
susanfieldatt.net
www.susanfield.net

Drawing on French Canadian craft practices I learned while growing up in New Hampshire has proved a source of unexpected pleasure for me as an artist. I knit and sew with horsehair, raw wool, or wires of copper, brass, and silver to make sensuous wall hangings and sculpture — what the eye can touch.

Carol Goldman
 

Carol Goldman
Berkeley, CA
(510) 525-9392
cgoldmanearthlink.net

I make loom woven bib necklaces of small glass beads embellished with semi-precious stones. Color and light are used to create pieces of glamour and drama.

 

Catherine Graves
720 A Wright Street
Santa Rosa, CA 95404
(707) 542-9847
kitgravesearthlink.net

My work in the mask has evolved into images of our gods and demons. As primitive masks evoked these spirits, mine conjure their contemporary forms.

 

Jeff Greef
245-A Elk St.
Santa Cruz, CA 95065
(831) 469-3243
jgjeffgreefwoodworking.com
www.jeffgreefwoodworking.com

Bombe Vitrine — display cabinet of double curvature glass and wood. Claro walnut, kiln-slumped glass, locking door, three glass shelves, lighting above.

 

Sha Sha Higby
P. O. Box 152
Bolinas CA, 94924
(415) 868-2409
shashashashahigby.com
www.shashahigby.com

International dance/performance/sculptural artist, Sha Sha Higby is known for her evocative and haunting performances and the ephemeral body sculpture she creates and moves within.

 

Miss Kitty
Astoria, OR
(503) 325-9688
misskittymisskittyvodouart.com
www.misskittyvodouart.com

The dolls, serpent figures, necklaces and other Vodou art created by Miss Kitty are an authentic expressions of a religious spirit, dating back 6000 years to West Africa. It is her intent to raise the representation of Vodou from a craft to a fine art, with highly expressive papier-maché, selection of colors, materials and symbolic objects of adornment.

 

Jacqueline Mallegni
P. O. Box 602
Bolinas, CA 94924
(415) 868-2508
luminismallegni.com
www.mallegni.com

From illuminated sculptural form to installation, my work is about form and light, the process of creating utilitarian form with the addition of an interactive environment. An environment inspired by the natural world in which the psyche can explore through a suggestive nature of sculpture the calm found in chaos.

 

Liz Mamorsky
739 Clementina Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
(415) 863-1047
lizlizland.com

I work with recycled materials to create unique anthropomorphic and zoomorphic sculpture, masks and furniture.

 

Aural Martin
7601 Haven Ave. PMB 492
Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91701
(760) 953-1612
foxsparrownativeweb.net

A mixture of traditional and contemporary beadwork designs from the “lost art” of the south-eastern Woodland Indians. Experimentation with textures, leather, beads, bone and silver clay on bandolier bags, pillows and jewelry.

 

Corinne Okada Takara
13099 Merriman Road, B
Cupertino, CA 95014
(408) 996-9001
coreyokadadesign.com
www.okadadesign.com

Candy wrappers, fabric, newspapers, plastic netting and rice papers stretch across Takara’s wire forms. The resulting translucent skins give definition to objects of delicate weight and airy volume.

 

John Taylor
33562 Via de Agua
San Juan Capistrano, CA 92675
(949) 661-8562
folkartshipscox.net
www.folkartships.com

John’s ships are made from old wood, metal, recycled electronic parts such as: computer motherboards, old radios,tape players and other miscellaneous found objects.

 

Dorothy Walden
271 6th Avenue, Apt. 9
San Francisco, CA 94110
(415) 437-1642

My work is inspired by the elements of earth and water. My aim is to unite the beholder with nature and generate a feeling of peacefulness, as from a wave washing up on the beach.