309 1st Street
Benicia, CA, 94510
707-297-6860
CONTEMPORARY ART
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Robert Anke spent the majority of his studio time over the past several years painting landscapes in acrylic, and then oil. Recently he has also begun to incorporate both types of paint into abstract pieces with figurative imagery layered over them. With a BA in fine art from Humboldt State University, and a career as a middle school art teacher, he loves working in various mediums but always comes back to painting, drawing, and ceramics.
In addition to Gallery 621, his work is currently featured in the Rice Gallery of Fine Art (Kansas City KS), Valley Art Gallery (Walnut Creek CA), Blackhawk Gallery (Danville CA), and Papillon (Lafayette CA). He is a member of Arts Benicia and Lamorinda Arts Alliance, and his studio is in the 940 Tyler Building in the Historic Benicia Arsenal.
instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robert.anke.art/
Compassion and insight are the two words which immediately come to mind when viewing Nikki Basch-Davis’s depictions of human beings. She is a humanist whose work emulates the finest examples of early twentieth century German Expressionism and American Social Realism. The portrayals realized in her paintings and sculptures celebrate the human spirit; conveying moments of serenity, affection, tolerance, despair and joy. Her poetic visualizations provide a sense of hope, despite humanity’s turbulent journey towards uncertainty. Basch-Davis is a rare breed in artistic innovation — a true avant-garde. —Robert-Jean Ray, Artist/Curator/Instructor
Contact
Phone: 925-212-8096
Email: nikkibaschdavis@gmail.com
Web: nikkibaschdavis.com
Founder of Gallery 621, a co-op for contemporary artists in Benicia, Pam Dixon began her career in free-lance commercial and industrial art, later becoming a serious exhibiting artist in the 80′s.
Dixon’s checkered life history - a mad-cap mixture of Hollywood, Carmel and San Francisco “contribute to (her) inspired playfulness and sense of poignancy as refreshing as a blast of fresh air,” Mark Van Proyen. Art Week.
Dixon is currently represented by Gallery 621 in Benicia. She was previously represented by the John Natsoulas Gallery in Davis and has also worked on casting at the Sacramento Art Foundry. She was a member of the Berkeley Pot Studio before joining Jerry Epperson in his ceramics studio in Crockett and recently with Happy Life Pottery in Benicia.
Dixon was guest artist working in the Sacramento studio of Tony Natsoulas from 2013-2014. She was a driving force in bringing an incredible array of ceramic talent to Benicia in Transmigrational: Ceramics from the Corridor, the opening exhibition of the Benicia Museum of Art project in 2014. In 2015 she was also included in the publications Why Make Art by Hedi Desuyo, Kurt Fishback’s 51 Women Artists. Past publications and their companion exhibitions include Excor: Revival of Exquisite Corpse, the Art of Chance by Sherry Parker. Notable exhibitions (from a long list) include two retrospectives: Richmond Art Center, Un-Still-Lifes: Pami Fat Face and her Friends, and San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Hosay Portrait.
Studio: Benicia, California
“Whatever happens between the wall-of-self and the wall-of-paint is the mystery which is worth everything.”
- pam dixon, 2012
contact Pam Dixon at mz.pam@mac.com
Contact
Phone: 707-386-9836
Email: lindasdunlop@gmail.com
Kathleen's recent works are observational, painted in oil, small works en plein air and larger studio paintings. She delights in creating the illusion of space, light and place with paint. There is a time of painting without thinking when light, color and the brush take over, that is a favorite place.
Kathleen holds a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art, an MFA from California College of Art and has studied at the Jerusalem Studio School in Civita Castellana, Italy. She maintains studios in Berkeley and Volcano, CA.
Kathleen Gadway
510-459-5284
Daniel Hunter has been an artist and art educator in the Bay Area for over 35 years. He received a B.F.A. in Sculpture from the University of Arizona and an M.A.in Sculpture from the University of California, Berkeley.
After graduate school he went to work for the national news magazine, Ramparts, where he was a co-art director. His responsibilities included cover and magazine design and photography.
After Ramparts he began working as a studio photographer and taught black and white photography workshops to adults.
His interest in working with young people led him to Oakland High School, where he set up a ceramic program and taught both ceramics and photography.
His work has appeared in a number of national magazines and is represented in numerous private collections.
He currently works out of his studio in El Sobrante California.
Recent Shows
2018 New Works, Featured Artist, Gallery 621, Benicia CA
2017 Visions in Clay, L H Horton Jr Gallery, Delta Collage, Stockton, CA
2017 Grimm Tales, Featured Artist, Gallery 621 Benicia CA
2017 International Tile Exhibition, Pewabic Ceramic Center, Detroit, MI
2016 Still Life, uBE gallery, Berkeley, CA
2016 Slice, Contemporary Directions, Pence Gallery, Davis CA
2016 Bone Tiles, Featured Artist, Orinda Library Art Gallery, Orinda CA
2016 Spring Offerings, Gallery 621, Benicia CA
2015 Microcosmos, Gallery 621, Benicia CA
2015 50/50 Show, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica CA
2013 Innovations in Contemporary Crafts, Richmond Art Center, Richmond
Contact
Phone: 510-669-9544, 510-458-1723 Cell
Email: daniel.hunter@att.net
Web: www.hunterclayart.com
Ceramic Tiles 22 x 22 x 2.5
Ceramic 12 x 12
Painted Wooden tiles 24 x 27.5 x 2.5
Ceramic tiles 27.5 x 27.5 x 2
Enamel on wood 12 x 12
Enamel on wood 20 x 20 x 2.5
Contact
Phone: 415-497-1723 Cell
Email: Clmoore111@gmail.com
Web: www.CLMoorecontemporaryart.com
Jean Purnell
I grew up in Bethesda, Maryland. My college and early professional years were spent in North Carolina; I moved to California’s central valley in 1984, where I enjoyed the many opportunities offered by an academic and executive administrative career at University of the Pacific. I moved to Benicia in 2013. Always an art lover, I began to connect with the friendly and supportive artist community through regular gallery visits on First Street. I joined Arts Benicia as Development Associate in 2017.
I picked up a paintbrush for the first time that same year and am thankful to Anthony Riggs and Mary Parkerson for my development as an artist. My study with Jerrold Turner, whose work I have collected for years, has been invaluable.
The beauty of nature creates endless inspiration for my work. I primarily paint landscapes and nature-inspired still life, mainly working in oils. I enjoy the challenge of plein air work. My paintings explore the landscapes of northern California, as well as familiar scenic landscapes of Maryland and Pennsylvania, with a painterly sense of calm and restfulness.
My work can be seen at Gallery 621 (920 First St, Suite 203) as well as the HQ Gallery (333D First St), in Benicia.
Contact:
Phone: 209-712-6923
Email: jeanpurnellart@gmail.com
Website: jeanpurnellart.com
Stephen Daniel Schumm is a versatile artist who has worked with glass, watercolor, collage, acrylic on canvas, and printmaking.
Contact
Phone: 510-333-8203
Email: sdschumm@gmail.com
Web: www.stephendanielschumm.com
James Storey has a B.A. in Art and an M.A. in Sculpture from the University of California, Berkeley. He ran a picture framing shop in Berkeley for forty seven years. His work investigates the mysteries of materials.
I am a California native originally from Los Angeles. I have been in the Bay Area for over 40 years and I currently live in Benicia with my tennis pro husband and Fred, our cranky, lovable senior dog.
I come from a family of artists; my mother went to art school and was a ceramicist, and my sister is a stained glass artist in Southern California. Both of us literally grew up making art. I began painting seriously using acrylics, but became fascinated with the luminosity and textures created by cold wax and oil paint and I have been working in that medium for about five years. I love abstraction and I am constantly looking for new ways to abstract figures and faces. The biggest compliment I can receive about my work is a viewer telling me that the painting made them feel something.
Jerrold Turner is one of the Bay Area’s prominent Plein Air painters and a founding member of the Outsiders, a group of plein air painters whose colorful, Fauvist style relates back to such groups as the Society of Six, the Fauves and other colorist schools.
Jerrold is a structural engineer, graduated from UC Berkeley with BS and MS degrees in engineering. He is primarily self-taught in art and painted with Lundy Siegriest and Terry St. John. His early influences were Daubigny, Matisse, William Keith, Seldon Gile and Lundy Siegriest.
He is very influential in the arts of the San Francisco Bay Area. Jerrold teaches advanced plein air painting privately as well as in workshops in Benicia and Walnut Creek, CA, and in Virginia City, NV. He also has curated several exhibits for Arts Benicia Center Gallery. Jerrold has exhibited extensively in solo and group shows and his art work is in collections throughout the United States.
The Outsiders is a group of eight painters, each with their own distinctive style. They formed in the late ’90’s and have had numerous successful shows in Bay Area venues such as the Triton Museum in Santa Clara and the Hearst Gallery at St. Mary’s College in Moraga, CA, among others.
Contact
Phone: 415-717-3914
Email: jert9@comcast.net
Angela White is a recent California transplant from the DC area where she was an arts educator for decades and a well-known artist featured in both corporate and private collections. She and her husband, writer Gareth Branwyn, moved to Benicia in Fall of 2021 and are loving their new California community.
Angela’s work is inspired by physical, spiritual, and emotional memories that create the depth and density of her work. Abstract seascapes compose the majority of her compositions. Natural and sensual materials such as oils and encaustic paint allow the blending of edges to create visual depth. By superimposing layers of media, the varied themes and processes of her work are exposed. Her seascapes are not literal interpretations; rather they articulate the quiet mystery and power of the natural world.
During the pandemic, in search of something calming and organizing in a world seemingly coming unglued, Angela began taking daily, meditative walks looking for small, discarded objects and bits of nature to create assemblage found art boxes.
In the past 20 years, Angela has exhibited oil, encaustic, and mixed media paintings extensively in juried shows across the DC metropolitan area as well as in New York and the West Coast. She holds two B.A. degrees and an M.A. degree from the University of Maryland.
https://www.angelawhiteart.com/
