Artworks
Kathy Mason Lerner
"In the studio Kathy’s paintings evolve, as she experiments with the treatment of space and the relationship of forms to the surface of the canvas. She has extraordinary skills as a colorist and a gift for rendering atmospheric effects. Though her landscapes often approach abstraction, they draw the viewer into a recognizable, felt environment. The landscapes are meditative but invigorating, serene spaces captured in vibrant color."
- Ruth Keffer, Assistant Curator of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Kevin Luthardt
I have always been drawn to stories. The most intriguing stories to me are those that creatively reveal truth through words, images, and humor in a way that is peculiarly subtle, yet unmistakable. That is the sentiment that I strive to capture in my work. Using tools of irony, humor, and childlike sappiness; I strive to create images on canvas that read like a storybook to a child, but are weighty enough to provoke deeper levels of sophisticated thought. My paintings are essentially whimsical, childlike parables with a Biblical worldview.
- Kevin Luthardt
Karen Parisian
Beyond the Physical is the Spiritual, the Abstract, the Unknown. As I work further towards abstraction in my painting varying paths come together, intersect and disperse. Exploring the spiritual in art is an ongoing quest. I believe that spirituality and art occur simultaneously in many forms. In this current series of paintings, the figurative element appears, fragments and disappears. In some respects addressing the questions; Where do we come from? Where do we go? The circle, a symbol of the universal and a unifying point, continues to represent itself. Dotted lines and triangles of color transfer light and energy. The natural world; sticks, stones and plants are transformed into organic shapes, sometimes one becoming part of another, at other times separate and floating. Ultimately, I hope to be aware of nature and spirit, its natural forms and rhythms and apply that to my painting.
- Karen Parisian
Eric Skaggs
My work is figurative because I am fascinated by the human form. I believe the form is very pliable and that there are no barriers. Though there is a universal language to the human form, each individual still brings something to it which is uniquely theirs. This allows me to construct, deconstruct, manipulate, and abstract the form while still conveying an idea, or an emotion that is understandable.
- Eric Skaggs
