Katie Willes
Katie Willes first started painting as a way to connect with her daughter majoring in art in college thousands of miles away. She fell in love with the process and knew she wanted to paint for the rest of her life! Katie is largely self-taught and loves using colorful acrylic paint.
Antonia Gross
Antonia Gross is a female Mexican American painter based out of Southern California. Her figurative pieces are intended to portray the human figure in a way that people may have never seen.
Robert Nelson
Some develop a world view through acquisition of unbiased knowledge, but the world view of many is pre-ordained by culture, or manipulated by institutions. The world today is striking in its defined sides.
Robert Nelson is interested in contrast; innocence/corruption, the infinite/the finite, past/future, good/evil. Robert is fascinated by how meanings can change depending on point of view. He strives for images that are defined differently by each observer. An image where their experiences, prejudices and beliefs all combine into the final experience of the work.
Arlene Weinstock
Weinstock’s “Recyclables” is about finding beauty in materials others discard. She creates paper from shredded office documents. As she builds the paper with layers of wet pulp, she sculpts the surface. When dry, she paints intense colors to enhance the forms and textures.
Tiago Segundo
Coming from all the way from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tiago Segundo uses visual research to balance paradoxes and irony, body and image, beauty and horror. His main medias include acrylic painting, watercolor, gouache, and mixed techniques.
Stella Lightheart
Working with inks, Stella focuses on channelling the feeling of a place or state. Whether it’s the energy of a busy cityscape or the peace of a still forest, she strives to capture the subject’s essence in her work. Inks are Stella’s chosen medium because of their ability to flow and change shape.
Eugene Huffman
Eugene Huffman is an established Queer, HIV-Positive Los Angeles Artist, Curator and Advocate. Described as “expressionism with vibrant color and non-repeating patterns that reference life through a lens of survival – as a survivor of domestic violence and abuse, and an HIV-Positive man.”
Justin Prough
Justin Prough is a Los Angeles-based artist whose work reflects the struggle between sunny days, good waves, and the environmental & political unrest of our times. Telling visual stories by connecting ideas with materials and processes drives his practice. Prough’s work has been exhibited in California and in private collections across the U.S.
David Marchetti
David Marchetti is a California-based photographer/conceptual artist who challenges the conventional notions of photography and image-making systems that are currently in place in our society; to push the boundaries that lead to the unexpected.
Kathryn Pitt
Kathryn Pitt is a UK artist that now lives and works in Los Angeles. A figurative and non-representational 2D artist, Kathryn has been involved with and featured in many exhibitions in California, throughout the US, and overseas, whilst teaching art to children within her studio and as a docent at the Getty.
Tony Smith
A longtime Graphic Arts professional, Tony Smith is a self-trained artist. His paintings allow us to view the human and ordinary side of life. Tony evokes a variety of emotions with each piece, allowing the observer to feel a new sense of connection.
Michael Korney
Michael Korney paints masterful contemporary landscapes that pull you into their world. Each place is one he has visited that has produced an emotional stimulus for him. Michael paints to capture these feelings so that viewers can have a similar experience.
Darnell Waine
Darnell Waine is a life long artist and Los Angeles native. Through oils and acrylics he explores matters of the heart, the ebb and flow of romance and matters of mental health. Darnell’s work also aims to highlight the universal human experience along with what he believes is our shared origin and destiny: LOVE.
Andy Thompson
Andy Thompson’s practice is an amplified version of himself following his intuition. Andy loves exploring color, but also the cultural and spiritual aspects of our world. He loves getting lost in art, and he hopes to inspire and even help others to find themself within his art.
Jeff Iorillo
Jeff Iorillo is a Los Angeles painter working with mass, momentum, and gesture. He works action-style on a table or floor, dragging and scraping acrylic and enamel paint with plexiglas blades in a single dramatic gesture or layered passes for a vivid experience of color and movement. Jeff has shown extensively in Southern California galleries and international shows in Japan and Italy; his larger pieces are commissioned for collectors and commercial spaces from Hollywood and Las Vegas to Mexico City and Hong Kong.
Laura Kowalski
Melinda McLeod is a local Los Angeles Santa Monica-based painter Laura Kowalski uses to represent the movement and light of her subject more accurately. Her impressionist style largely focuses on West Coast icons like scenes from the Santa Monica Pier, surf, and American Flags.
Margarita Camps
Margarita Camps is an Ecuadorian artist who uses a mixed media and collage approach to her illustrative work of quaint subjects like animals and people. In the Artist Tree Fresno, Margarita showcases her coloful palette by depicting her focused swimmers with swatches of color fields and patterns.
Shalla Javid
Shalla Javid is a Los Angeles-based artist accustomed to living life without borders. This has helped her move beyond the self-imposed confines of medium and subject into an exploratory realm of endless possibilities. In the Artist Tree Fresno, Shalla showcases abstracted figures within meditative stories
Justin Pitschmann
Justin Pitschman is a Sierra Nevada-based photographer and avid hiker.
Pitschmann works to isolate and reduce life down to simple frames with a heavy focus on simple stories told by Mother Nature. Pitschmann’s nature is clean and nostalgic.
Jason Dorman
Jason Dorman is a Fresno-based illustration who specializes in charcoal hyperrealism. His subjects often includes recognizable objects in isolated compositional framing.
Mario Campos Jr
Mario Campos Jr. is a Fresno-based painter who specializes in the macabre and the suspenseful. His subjects are nearly always experiencing hightened and unrestrained emotions of ecstasy, pain and fear. His work emulates the satyric and high pigmentation of classic thriller film posters.
Sküt
Sküt the artist (Scott Lewallen, @inkedbyskut) is best known as Co-Founder and original designer of Grindr. He currently is Vice President of TAG Gallery, Los Angeles. Born and raised in Los Angeles, Sküt graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California.
Melinda McLeod
Melinda McLeod is a local Los Angeles artist, intrigued with animals, colors, geometry, and people. Colors are influenced by feelings, everything falls into place—the look in the eyes, the twist of the head, the expression of emotion or none. Melinda’s abstract style is expressive, using a language of color and texture to express the experiences of life.
Edward Lightner
Edward Lightner’s fascination with images of atmospheric atomic tests inspires his compelling art. In his recent series he has moved on to exploring imagery derived from underground atomic testing, uncovering visual threads of connectivity between beauty and death.
Miss Brightside
Miss Brightside is an accomplished Los Angeles-based artist and designer. Miss Brightside works explore mark-making and subversive subjects, often applied in functional pieces such as clothing, wallpaper, and other design elements for the home.
Dave Emmett
Dave Emmett is punk-science-fiction artist who uses fluid pour-painting techniques to create nebulae, wormholes, planetscapes, and all things alien on canvas. He aims for vibes that are loud, vibrant, disruptive, and alive.
Joanna Chrys
Joanna Chrys (@joannachrysohoidis) is a mixed media artist presently focused on creating colorful and textural painted worlds on canvas. Joanna uses dots of acrylic paint to compose and layer her art, creating highly texturized, surreal surfaces. Joanna uses complex and rhythmic patterns to create an “amplified interpretation of emotion.”
Joan Sharma
Joan K. Sharma is a Fresno based artist. She studied for a year in Rome, Italy and a summer at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and is currently a faculty member of the Department of Art and Design, California State University, Fresno. A portion of Joan’s “Blue Whirl” series, gestural images that reference a clean-burning flame, appear in The Artist Tree Fresno lobby. Her oil paintings and photographs have been exhibited at the Fresno Art Museum, Spectrum Gallery, Arte Americas, Gallery 25 and internationally.
