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Featured Artist: Janas Durkee

Janas Durkee, a local artist from Indiana, presents her series, The American Dream in portraits, which is influenced by hard-working people such as farmers.  The artist told us about her inspirational subjects: “I have used that work as research for my paintings. It is here that I find myself—with the stories of others in my […]

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Open Studios Featured Artist: Sonia Calderon

After studying art at establishments like Cabrillo College, San Jose State University and San Francisco’s Art Institute, Sonia Calderon launched a fruitful career as an abstract painter, photographer and filmmaker. Her work, which is influenced by the paintings of such artists as Paul Klee and Richard Diebenkorn, can be seen at juicyabstracts.com and at Juicy […]

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Open Studios Featured Artist: Mezza9 Beecomb

Featured Artist, Mezza9 Beecomb’s art offers a glimpse of a phantasmagorical world where the usual rules just don’t apply. The curious characters that populate her paintings can morph into sea creatures, float in midair and ride tandem bicycles underwater. Based in oil and acrylic paints and mixed-media, Beecomb’s work is a synthesis of visionary and […]

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Tracy Oliver : Featured Artist

Recently moving to Santa Cruz, Tracy Oliver brings a creativity that blooms within its own reality. In Tracy Oliver’s own words: My art is a way for me to try to understand and balance the mystical or inexplicable against the seemingly fixed laws of nature. Often times, a painting will appear in my mind and […]

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Eurydice with Hare, on a Barge Voyage to the Underworld by Nora Sarkissian

Featured Artist: Nora Sarkissian

Nora Sarkissian is a local artist working and living in Aptos. Sarkissian is a painter and sculptor who has been teaching art in various locations (including assisting at UCSC) for 30 years. Although she has years of artistic experience, and has had formal exhibitions and showings, Nora presumes proudly that she is “still learning.”   “The sculptures […]

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Featured Artist: Ken Keegan

  Ken Keegan is a name of many titles: baseball player, UCSC alumnus, beloved & retired campus bus driver, gallery opener, and sponsor for a sport’s radio show on 1080 KSCO AM (Coach’s Decision, Wednesdays from 8:00 PM to 9:00 PM). However, today we’re appreciating the artwork of Ken Keegan, rightfully self-described as “abstract, surreal, […]

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