Virtual Open Studios Fall 2022 - ART 130 Intermediate/Advanced Painting
Instructor - Melissa Gwyn
Aaron Rose
Untitled
10”x12” Oil on Paper
“Fools Gold”
10”x12” Oil on Paper
“The Stroll”
12”x14” Oil on Canvas
Untitled 10”x12”
Oil on Paper
Amaya Pelayo
“The Seated Man”
Acrylics on canvas
This piece captures an in-class model session.
“Sunset Surf”
Acrylics on canvas
This painting illustrates the serene feeling at the surfer's overlook.
“SCC Chickens”
Acrylics on canvas
This work depicts two chickens at the Santa Cruz County Animal Shelter with a watercolor technique.
“Walks on West Cliff”
Acrylics on canvas
The piece utilizes abstract elements in combination with a sense of realism to convey the chaotic, yet stillness of the West Cliff waves.
Annalivia Martin-Straw
Ariel Barish
“I Am A Commodity”
Oil on Canvas
This oil painting dives into society’s and my own obsession with beauty and its connection to overcompensation.
“Live Model: Copper Oxidation”
Acrylic on Paper
I took this study of a live model as an opportunity to play with color and considered the oxidation of copper found on the Statue of Liberty during my palette selection.
“Empty Spaces”
Acrylic on Paper
This quick painting provoked my interest in the concept of desirability and the feelings of shame and objectification that come along with it.
“Live Model: Bronze Oxidation”
Oil on Canvas Panel
This is a further exploration of using metallic shades on the human body.
Bella Tuell
“Model Session”
11”x15”, Oil on Paper
This piece captures a two hour model session.
“Model Session”
11”x15”, Oil on Paper
This piece captures two different, two-hour long model sessions.
“Noam”
2’x3’, Oil on Canvas
This painting is meant to evoke a sense of musicality in an abstract landscape playing with color, movement, and play.
“Wade and his Chickens”
4’x3’, Oil on Canvas
This painting is meant to evoke a sense of childlike fun and play in an abstract landscape.
Camila Alvarado
Untitled from “Queer Intimacy” Series
Oil on Canvas
Untitled from “Queer Intimacy” Series
Oil on Canvas
Delicious Mess/Figure painting study
Oil on Rives BFK
Figure Painting 1
Oil on Rives BFK
Carissa Louise Martin
“Rooted”
Oil paint and collage on panel
This painting is based on the meditative process involved in the root chakra system and how it has contributed to treating mental health issues
Detail of “Rooted”
“Awaken”
Oil paint and collage on panel
This painting is about a guided psychedelic experience that contributed to me treating my mental health issues in successful ways.
Detail of “Awaken”
Dylan Lombardo
Eloise Shevin
“Baby I”
Acrylic on Canvas
“Baby II”
Acrylic and Oil on Canvas
“Hold Me”
Acrylic on Canvas
“Teather”
Acrylic on Canvas
Hannah Short
“Capra Dei”
16 x 12 in
Oil on canvas
“Eve With Cain and Abel”
18 x 14 in
Oil on canvas
“Meleagris Iscariot”
12 x 16 in
Oil on canvas
“Patrice in Black and White”
11 x 15 in
Oil on Rives BFK
Laura Staats
30 x 24 oil on canvas
Point Lobos
18 x 24 oil on canvas
New Beginnings
30 x 24 oil on canvas
Introspection
30 x 24 oil on canvas
Serendipity
Mable Tang
“Independent Painting”
Acrylic on Canvas, Lead Pencil
Taking inspiration from Yayoi Kusama, and wanted to tackle primary colors and their secondaries.
“A Delicious Mess”
Acrylic on Canvas, Lead Pencil
An attempted abstract painting that tackles the themes of hope (illustrated with a variety of polka
dots) and despair (illustrated with broken glass).
“Independent Painting”
Acrylic on Canvas
A representation of what it feels like to have expectations from peers weighing in, or a recreation of the feeling of uneasiness from strangers.
“Independent Painting”
Acrylic on Canvas
It all began with an urge to paint white stargazer lilies, after an unfinished piece that took after a photograph of a calla lily. The hand is there to observe the beauty of the stargazer lily, by reaching out to the petals.
Matilda Krulder
My paintings are self portraits that explore my sensual relationship with the Earth. These paintings draw inspiration from a place in the canyon I grew up in, which I often go to for refuge, healing and connection to self and environment. These paintings explore feelings of sexuality, sensuality, shame, liberation, pleasure, ego, connection and belonging. While I recognize the problematic history of faceless nude women within the art world, my paintings explore my own sense of self. I do not include my face because though I have a sense of the form of my body, I still can’t imagine what I look like. It is also a comment on my dissociation of body from conscious as well as engrained societal discomfort of connecting body to self.
I objectify myself to lend myself to the dialect of how we define objects and sentients.
“The Cliffs Glow Red at Sundown”
24”x18”
Oil on Canvas
“Tree Hugger”
22”x15”
Oil on BFK
“Sculpted Clay”
20”x16”
Oil on Canvas
Maximilian Rudolf von Strasser
My name is Maximilian Rudolf von Strasser. I am a practicing artist and a student at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Im a multi medium artist and I am working on refining my style in the various mediums I work in. My preferred mediums are music, drawing with graphite, ink, chalk, and painting with acrylic, oil, and aerosol. I create both abstract and representational works. I want my work to be provoking, unifying, and expansive. I'm exploring the duality of working with ideas I've created and bringing those ideas to life, sometimes distorting them, and creating completely free of a desired result. In my work I explore what cannot be known, the collective mind, my personal human experience, emotion, duality, and the call for more. I aim to blend the barriers between reality and abstraction.
Maximilianvonstrasser.com
“Kissing Goodbye A Kiss Goodbye”
88”x36”
Oil Paint and Pastel on Canvas
“The Fall”
96”x60”
Oil and Acrylic on Canvas
“Shut-Eye”
48”x36”
Oil on Canvas
“Dear Diary”
Triptych
48”x24”
48”x30”
48”x24”
Oil and Acrylic on Canvas
Natalia Grey
“Untitled”
Oil on Canvas
“Untitled”
Oil on Board
“Untitled”
Oil on Canvas
Ruby Phillips
Sage Simms
Artist statement: My artwork attempts to use light to evoke mixed feelings of safety and eerieness within the contexts of spaces we feel like we’ve been before. My intention was to create dreamlike and narrative-style paintings in which the audience can create a stories of their own.
“Comfortable Darkness”
18x24”, acrylic on canvas
“Nightly Encounter”
14x18”, acrylic on wood panel
“What happened?”
11x14”, acrylic on wood panel
“Who’s there?”
9x12”, acrylic on canvas
Vanessa Murray
“Untitled”
Acrylic and mixed media on wood
This artwork is meant to reflect the understanding of layering and color in the form of abstraction.
“Untitled”
Acrylic and mixed media on wood
This piece is an accumulation of extra paints in which it mirrors my artistic practice and the need to use every drop of medium I push onto my paint palette, as I like to put it: “the no paint left behind!” movement.
“A Colorful Mind”
Acrylic and mixed media on wood
This painting is a representation of the internalization of emotional turmoil, identity conflict , and growth of oneself. I use layering and harsh scribbles to reflect the baggage one builds within their lifetime, continuing to evolve and fade in and out.
Winnie Villar
24 x 28 Acrylic on canvas
Mystic Mane
16 x 20 Acrylic on canvas
Frozen Beauty
8 x 10 Acrylic on canvas
Swirl
8 x 10 Acrylic on canvas
Warm Embrace
Zella Vacaron
Zoe Block
Zoë HrubyLinstrom
“Tooth Fairy Believer”
18x24 Oil on primed Reeves BFK
This piece explores the relationship between the human organ market and sibling interactions in a pack-mentality household.
“180 BPM”
Oil on canvas
“Too Sick to Function at the Siiick Function”
Oil on canvas
