A lifetime of conscious and unconscious responses to the natural world come to the surface in my paintings.  In a very real sense my work is autobiographical.  Color has always fascinated me.  Making most of my paints in bowls usig ground pigments and linseed oil I obtain highly saturated and, sometines, unusual hues.  Exploration is called forth.  Bowls of leftover paints are a path to the next painting.  My early training and love of math has led me effortlessly into abstraction where I am currently exploring the many lives of the line.  I have found a way to adventure armed with bowls of paint and a bucket of brushes.  JOY!

Memories of my childhood play a tremendous role in my approach to creating art today. In my early years my mother a single parent lived in fear for my health due to the environmental hazards of San Francisco’s Hunters Point district. I suffered with asthma. Therefore, my innate interest to drawing and painting became that of a marriage over sports modeling my pursuit for constant spiritual mental and physical elevation. Having siblings among others as viewers of my work challenged me to go beyond my limitations. I remember my late grandmother a Barber and tailor sewing for hours at her machine after coming home from work. I would sit at her feet and draw on a paper bag with a pen, marker, crayon or a number two pencil. Art is an absolute liberation of my imagination, a tool I use to communicate and share my “inner-light.” I have regular memories of my childhood working at the local super market, helping elders with their shopping bags. Receiving tips helping my grandmother in her barber shop by sweeping up the hairs to find money mysteriously hidden in large clumps. At the end of each service, those who knew me would say, “Keep up the good work and never stop doing your art.” From these experiences, I have learned the treasure of focusing on minuet details. Eventually, I realized in my artistic process that I too would hide treasures. Living with this artistic expression is ritualistic in act and meditative in thought. Many times in the midst of creating, I experience dejavu. The realization of a single moment is obsolete only until it is captured by a memory of a stroke; a thought or pause for observation that I have discovered represents reincarnation of that tangible moment. Because of this, the very act of creating fine art is imparted with the relationship and responsibility I have with THE CREATOR. “The purpose of my existence.” I also feel it is my duty as self taught artist to have an internal dialog with the viewer and in many cases the ancestors, where at this point I find inspiration for artistic expression. Fathering my child, serving my community, drumming, martial arts, poetry, philosophy and ancestral facts (history), all helps with the enhancement of my expression, to captures the Black, experience in America. I enjoy manipulating dry water-based paints, oil pastels, ink pen, found objects or assemblage. Book illustrations, portraiture, and public art projects have brought me closer to my community. The purpose of my compositions is to elevate the social, political, environmental and spiritual issues of people deeply challenged by oppression. This has been my greatest enrapture. Kenya and Haiti are places for instance that influence the bold and dramatic colors in my works. Henry Ossawa Tanner, Aaron Douglas, John Biggers and Jean-Michel Basquiat (to name a few) has inspired my artistic direction. Being an artist and growing up with-in low-income housing projects, surrounded by the early stages of Hip-Hop, had an immense impact on my ability to create freely. Although this bold life style of music, poetry, art, dance, and intense research today seems barbaric. It nevertheless has influenced me to be boundless in my creative efforts to deliver messages of empowerment to the indigenous peoples of the world.

My work is referential, every day objects speak to me. I take these familiar shapes and weave them into conceptual and abstract sculpture. I explore time and space, blending concept with form. Many of my pieces scrutinize society and explore its decay.

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“Portal”

Visual poetics that narrate the luminous beauty & grace descending upon us at this transcendent time.

In this collection of New Work by Aondrea Maynard there is a dialogue between The Artist and The Natural World that brings to life an inner exploration and evolution; and as the butterfly emerges from its chrysalis, out of the darkness … the light is born.

Modern interpretations of Nature, Inspired by old romantic European paintings that honor old world sensibilities, the poetry of memory, a calling on the lineage of wisdom found in nature, the history of our humanity and an embracing of the mysterious to reveal a space of serenity that is ever expansive, transformative and inclusive.

In lush layers of oil painted on wood panels, the elegant qualities of light and shadow are expressed and the emotionally evocative power of color explored to present a sensual experience as seduction, invitation and sanctuary.

I play with a few different art mediums -- collage, acrylics, encaustic -- and have a fondness for working with found/recycled/abandoned items.

With the mind of an architect and the soul of an alchemist, designer Sergio Penteado mixes balanced amounts of wit and poetry in his collections. His designs introduce elements of surprise with the movement of its parts, unexpected reflexions created by mirrored surfaces and, above all, by the flexibility they allow. By offering the possibility of multiple combinations, his work invites the wearer to play a fundamental part in the magical game of artistic creation and become its co-author.
Sergio graduated in Architecture and Industrial Design at the University of São Paulo, Brazil, and studied Multimedia, Web Design and 3D modeling at San Francisco State University in California. He perfected his skills as a goldsmith, model maker and gemologist at the Revere Academy in San Francisco. He also experimented with sculpture, ceramics, blacksmithing and photography.

My artwork ties into my training and skills as an engineer and manifests itself as kinematic art - involving motion both physical and perceived (light and sound giving the impression of motion.) I work with robotics, mechanics, light, and sound, creating mobiles, stabiles, and other geometric sculptures. I am examining the relationships of light and motion, reality and optical illusion, spinny and blinky.