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A Berkley Graduate in Architecture and a Los Angeles architect Mary Anne
believes that whether the medium is architecture, art or social experiences,
whenever opposite, or merely dissimilar entities coexist, choices initiating
both chaos and structure are called forth. Her work explores that balance.
"Wages of Deciet"
We are looking forward to her new work she will be creating for the 2009 shows, "Water Landscapes" and "The Art of Human Built Constructs".
"Place Des Vosges"
"I paint with all I know and all I feel - I paint with my very being", says Jablonski.
Two years ago I was invited to a pastel workshop in Ojai and was excited about trying a new media. Watercolor painting has been my first love for the past ten years. I immediately fell in love with pastels and have been exploring them with earnest for these past two years. I love the soft effect they portray and the ease with which they can be applied. I now split my time between watercolor and pastel painting. While I don't paint every day during the year, I do enjoy painting on the weekends and summer. I am a high school art and math teacher at Community High School, right up the street from the High Studio Art Gallery in Moorpark. It is exciting to be able to send my art students to a gallery so close by so that they can explore art first hand. It also gives them a better understanding of the art world as a career. I mostly paint landscapes and love to paint on location. I also paint still lifes, flowers and animals. I've even experimented with abstracts. I feel like I grow with each painting that I complete and am still exploring all different aspects of our world on paper. Painting enhances my focus on life and is my inner guidance to serenity.
"Playing Solo"
Michael Pearce is an educator and an advocate for public art. At the Kwan Fong Gallery at California Lutheran University, he has curated more than twenty shows, bringing national and international focus to the gallery. We look forward to seeing what he creates for "A Warriorr" Exhibit is september 2009.
Since graduating from CalArts, Shane has continued to produce both commercial and fine art, and has had his work publicly displayed, exhibited, & published nationally. After working for 8 years in architecture, he formed Shane Pickerill Design LLC as a broader outlet for both his artwork and unique design visions. The piece that he is currently focused on manufacturing is a sculptural art piece called the ODDOMAN. Shane's current work explores the boundary between fine art and product design, and it his personal goal to elevate product design to the level of fine art. Shane enjoys using 3D digital modeling and computer aided drafting in the creation of his work. Bob Privitt’s works have been juried in over 100 national and regional exhibitions and received awards in over one-third of them. His drawings and sculptures are in many public collections, including those of University of Tulsa, Indiana University, Oklahoma Art Center, University of Arkansas Little Rock, and City of Thousand Oaks, CA. Bob is an established is both an established artist and curator in Ventura Counties Focs on the Masters. He continues to create new thought provoking work and we look forward to his work next year in our show “Art of Human Built Constructs" in December 2009.
Kathrin Raab-Questenberg was born in 1966 in Vienna, Austria. Raised in the generative substrate of a long-line of Austrian artists and artisans, she began from a young age to probe an innate and prodigious fascination with the revelatory aspects of art. Particularly infatuated with the dynamic of spiritual insight found at the nexus of vision and mind, she spent her first years assiduously collecting and synthesizing the artistic skills necessary to probe that nexus. To this end she plumbed a catholic range of study that would adequately flex and tune her senses, fields including drawing, photography, sculpture, horticulture, mathematics, language and religion. Though wary of the often closed-loop influence of artistic orthodoxy, she soon recognized an affinity for Jungian themes, specifically those adumbrated in the perspective that art channels truth no less powerfully than science, that in Jung’s words “hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.” Jungian insights on the group subconscious thus play a potent role in her art, as does the tense existential vein of artistic transmission explored in the paintings of El Greco, Oskar Kokoschka and Erich Katzmann and in the sculptures of Alberto Giacometti, Karl Hartung and Wander Bertoni. Kathrin graduated from the Sigmund Freud Academy of Vienna, then traveled to the United States to pursue a graduate degree at the University of California at Davis. She currently resides in the Santa Monica mountains near Los Angeles with her husband, writer Charles Questenberg, and their three sons. 
"Undine"
Plein Air Impressionism oils of local landscapes are Beth's method of expression. Colors surge and soar, singing until at last they take shape on her canvas. Beth is a teacher's teacher of art and art therapy incorporating her graduate studies in education and psychotherapy in her classes. Her work is well received in galleries in Mammoth and locally and she is a juried member of Oil Painters of America.
I received the degree of Bachelor of Fine Arts at the San Francisco Art Institute, and a teaching credential with a major in art at California State University, Los Angeles. In the professional arena, I applied my art in many directions. Illustration, both traditional and digital, greeting cards, children’s books, graphic design, and show design were all areas in which I worked. I spent many years working for the Walt Disney Company designing in their Imagineering department. In 2002, working as an Art Director, I closed out my commercial career to realize my goal of devoting myself to fine art and finally take time to paint the beauty of nature that brings me joy.
About painting, Brimer says, "Ever since I was a kid, I have loved the ocean and I have loved creating images with pencil or brush. I go to the California shoreline as often as possible. These times allow me to reflect on the important things of life that God has given me and the fortune I have in my family. Painting allows me to have a time alone in the power of nature. I paint quickly in order to make the impression of what I am experiencing find its way to the canvas." Professionally, he has been a commercial illustrator and graphic designer for over 20 years. It has been only in the last seven years that he has returned to the outdoors to express himself with plein air painting. Rch a father of three and his wife reside local and additional work can be seen on request.
He moved to Newbury Park in 1998. Prior to that, he lived in New Jersey for most of his life studying landscape painting with local artist James McGinley. He has had paintings in many shows in the Princeton and Bucks County areas, and, prior to moving west, was represented by the Coryell Gallery in Lambertville, NJ. He has had solo shows at Princeton University and at the Coryell Gallery.
Gerry has studied in the field of psychology and medicine while polishing his aesthetic skills under the guidance and tutoring of distinctive, accomplished artists in the Philippines including Ramon Cumagon and Reynaldo Dizon. He further enhanced his skills in Los Angeles through extensive formal training in figure painting, gesture drawing, animation, digital imaging and graphic design. He went on to develop his own unique style incorporating impressionism, expressionism, and cubism in his creations, resulting in meticulously executed fine art. Gerry has used oils, acrylics, watercolors, pens, colored pencils, pastels and charcoals. Throughout the years, he has developed a strikingly unique style characterized by strong clean forms, light, shadows and color that creates vibrance within his rendition. His artworks display extraordinary detail while portraying his unique interpretation of the subject. Over the years, his skill and perception have evolved to the point where he is now a true master of line and color. 
"Red Hot Salsa"
In 1996 Larisa came to USA and faced all kinds of problems that many emigrants usually have to deal with. Now living in Flagstaff, Arizona with her husband she continues to do what she loves, paint. She is an Artist in residence in numerous Flagstaff Schools and creates murals with children. In addition she has the pleasure of teaching art at Coconino Community College.
Roxanne has had the honor of receiving an honorable mention in the California Art Club Gold Medal Show, and a first place medal at Pepperdine University while participating in the Malibu Art Association. She has been commissioned by Silagi Development and the Hampton Inn to sculpt life-size public art pieces. Her work can be found in various collections including those of Dr. Phil and the Hilton family.
Barry grew up in the Pittsburgh area and received his degree in fine arts from The Philadelphia College of Art. His Masters degree in Art Teaching is from Carnegie Mellon University. Barry did a couple of stints teaching art in Pittsburgh public schools before coming to The University of Pittsburgh and Penn State University ten years ago. He has been teaching introduction art to college students ever since. Barry has been in many exhibitions in western Pennsylvania. His work is in private and corporate collections. High Studio is the place to find Barry Shields West Coast art a few times a year as his brother Darby lives in town and he is delighted to join the artists exhibiting here. We are lucky to have such a visiting talent be sure, his work is not to be missed. Come take a look in person at the original paintings.
He has worked over thirty-five years in the film and television industry and has recently retired to his home studio to create from his own inspirations. Tom started as a graphic artist for KOCE-TV, at a very young age. There, he became well rounded as an artist, doing everything from camera-ready publication art and illustration, to set designs and animation. At that same time he taught Basic Cartooning at Community Colleges. A class that he would maintain for ten years. Animation was always an interest to Tom and he left the T.V. station to eventually land a job at Filmation, to work on He-Man Cartoons for T.V. as a Layout Artist. Years afterward, Tom obtained a position at Walt Disney Feature Animation. He would end up staying there for fifteen years, doing Layout, storyboarding and location designs, visual development for such films as; Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, The Lion King, Mulan and many more. Tom is a member of the Animation Guild and the Creative Talent Network. His art has appeared at the Laguna Beach Festival of the Arts, as well as the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art. 
"The Hang Out"
"Ascension" After graduating from California State University at Northridge with a degree in graphic design, Trisha began working for a variety of advertising agencies and eventually opened her own office in Westlake village, California. She has been published in a variety of magazines and newspapers throughout the country. She has been hired to create movie promotional packages, video box covers and movie posters, largely for children’s movies. She has illustrated 2 children’s books with author Sandra Peckinpah called Rosey the Imperfect Angel, and Chester the Imperfect Allstar. Recently she has moved into the fine arts with gallery exhibitions in local galleries including Thousand Oaks Gallery, where she won in a juried show. She is presently a member of The Westlake Village Artist Guild in Southern California. When Trisha is not busy creating new works of art, she can be found distance running in the hills or creating general chaos with her 2 children, cat, dog, 5 turtles, 21 koi and 6 chickens.
Francesco Masci is a contemporary artist and political cartoonist who have shown in Italy in solo exhibits in Rome. Group shows include Rome’s Mondrian Suite Gallery and recently in the New York Francis Naumann Gallery as part of group show “The Demoiselles Revisited,” commemorating the 100-year anniversary of Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’ Avignon. Continuing his fine art exhibits Francesco is visiting the West Coast to see how we will react to his work. High Studio is the first stop on the West Coast where he will unroll his recent oil canvas paintings of faces painted while living in Brooklyn. The Oil paintings are created from a composite of digital media icons of our culture and actual people and places of Francesco real and imagined world.
An artist of breathtaking depth and diversity has experienced a meteoric rise in popularity since he was discovered at a City of Ventura Art Walk a short three years ago. Jorge was High Studio’s first solo exhibitor in 2006. Jorge is a resident of Ventura, California. His art is collected across the nation. A documentary about Jorge and his paintings is currently in production. HBO is considering him for Artist of the quarter for fall 2009. These accomplishments are even more amazing when you discover that Jorge’s ability to paint came overnight almost magically. Additionally, Jorge has been contending with Parkinson’s disease for the last thirty years. As Jorge explains it the carburetor may not be working as well as it might but the driver is fine. Please then enjoy the works of this one of a kind, truly unique American talent. Roland Roy was born and raised in Honolulu. His interest in art developed after his stint with the Honolulu Police Department. As a young police officer in Honolulu, his very job would be the key to opening doors to art. Through his work he was exposed to the darker side of paradise; to crimes, the abused, prostitution, criminals, and death. As a result, his emotions would flare and his temper became obvious to his fellow officers. To calm himself to a peaceful existence, he used his spare time at the Academy of Arts in Honolulu. Art became his sanctuary, a direction he never thought he could take. A teacher at the Academy, a Hungarian who had studied in Paris and hobnobbed with Picasso, saw his talent and pushed to have Roland study in Europe. Due to financial and language difference Roland chose Art Center College of Design, in California, a choice he still regrets today. Roland drew furiously for a year. Unknowingly, someone was picking up the drawings he threw away and sending them to colleges in the mainland, from which Roland eventually would pick Art Center. He quit police work and ventured to a new career. His new career took a turn in art. Design and television would become his mainstay in art which led him to numerous awards, namely the New York Film Festival Award for a documentary he co-wrote and directed. He designed the CBS promotional Fall Campaign in 1986 and followed with the Star Wars Congressional Presentation for Ronald Reagan with Bob Able and associates. He retired soon after to concentrate on his true love, fine art. Roland has had numerous shows throughout Hawaii and California. His works have an international appeal that needs no explanation. He conveys moods and is interested more in the effect of a subject rather than its correctness. He explores all facets of art from music to poetry, sculpting to stage plays. As he explains it, “ I want to touch, to feel everything.” And he does.
Rachel’s work is influenced by the impressionistic and post impressionistic eras, as well as by her long-time teacher and world renowned artist, Renee Amitai. Rachel has presented her collection in a number of group shows in Los Angeles, Paris, and three cities in China.
Award-winning as both an artist and an author, Gerald Zwers is considered to be of the most versatile and creative artists in the area. He is a previous a gallery owner of four galleries in California and has a background in art conservation. Gerald’s works have been acquired by collectors in nearly all fifty states as well as nine foreign countries. His abstract paintings shown here show his interpretation of A Warrior is one battling for a higher good.
Terry has shown her work at a number of California galleries including Gallerie Barjur in Mammoth Lakes and High Studio in Moorpark. She has a BA in art from UCLA and a MBA from Loyola-Marymount. Terry is currently on the faculty of California Lutheran University where she teaches drawing, watercolor and art education.
Born in Los Angeles, California, Photographic Artist & Printmaker, Lis J. Schwitters began her interest in photography in 1976 and continued as a Staff Photographer for her high school, college, and local community newspapers having published over 2000 photographs. In 1985, she received her Bachelor of Arts Degree in Photocomunications from California State University at Fullerton where she studied under Professor of Photography Emeritus, Darryl Curran and visiting Professor John Szarkowski. Marcia graduated from Otis Institute of Art and Design and worked as a graphics technician for many years. Her goal has always been to expand on her subjects, not just depict them, whether it is a landscape, figure or flower. She draws from her past experience of working in a plant nursery to realize the unique attributes of many plants, trees and flowers. Enjoy the expression of her plant studies shown here in pure vibrant color on canvas.
Frances works in fused glass out of her beautiful Somis studio on the hill. Over twenty years in interior design heightens her awareness of what people are looking for in fine art to adorn their homes and businesses.
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