I work as a full-time artist and live both in San Francisco, California, and in Melbourne, Australia. My artwork has been offered by Cain Schulte Contemporary Art in Union Square, San Francisco, by Reaves Gallery in Chelsea, New York, and by Art Equity, in Sydney, Australia, and by Kenneth Paul Lesko Gallery in Cleveland, Ohio.

My paintings explore the contemporary self and its evolving sense of identity. I investigate the influences of pop-culture, marketing, and news media on social and individual motivation and behavior, and I question the plausibility of the authentic individual. Each painting is the result of a labor intensive process comprised of scavenging and collecting newspapers and media materials to use as collage backgrounds that form suggestive narratives for the over-laying figurative images I paint on top. Once the collage is created, the drawing and painting begins, and finally the piece is sealed in a thick coating of epoxy resin. In early 2011, my series "Upload," based on Great Britain's Machin Head stamp, was exhibited at the Melbourne Affordable Art Fair and enjoyed a sold-out show. My latest series, "Comic Relief," is a small series inspired by the TinTin comic and addresses a society's inclination to ignore the underlying social psychological patterns and behavior that threaten to destroy it.

Most exciting at the moment for me is my current series called the "Rx" series.  I have been working twoard this solo show for the past two years.  The 20 paintings that comprise this series will open November 21, 2014 at the Kenneth Paul Lesko Gallery.

michelle inouchi aka Joyce Guthrie is a third-generation painter who graduated from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1979 and has a West Coast following. The current series included herein (shown in sepia tones) is based on a year spent with Berbers on the edge of the Sahara desert in Morocco. Come check it out at 1890 Bryant, Studio 210. Remember, michelle inouchi

i like telling stories—girl meets boy; girl loses boy; girl wins boy back. or girl learns that heartbreak, like love, changes everything. i revel in the disturbance inherent to a good story, in the disequilibrium between two people, between many people. this unbalance brings drama, promises myriad moments of crisis where one thing becomes another. i believe we can accomplish more together than we can alone. community and collaboration are ecstatic occasions. both provide organic structure, boundaries composed by all players. these boundaries are something to fight and push against because we are all moving bodies of difference, of otherness. to work together is to grapple and, hopefully, come out the other side transformed. i am fascinated by relationships between people, objects, aesthetics, words. every artist is a collaborator because an art piece demands a viewer to be finished. the viewer is one of the basic building blocks in the making of meaning. in my process as an artist, as a social experimenter, i am interested in the journey from sender (artist) to receiver (viewer) and how the one can mean the other. making art, thinking about art, is fun. ecstatic. art is a place of incandescence even as it is heartbreaking, alienating, a vast landscape without a map. portrait by portraits to the people. 

I make oil paintings and drawings about family, identity, home and the passage of time. Using a formal vocabulary that is equally organic, gestural and graphic, I produce work that straddles the boundary between abstraction and representation.

The central theme in my work is personal and collective memory. My investigation into personal identity and the role of family in shaping identity includes examining family lineage: oral, written and imagined. I use specific references—family photographs and artifacts, maps, folk art, textiles, flora and landscape— to create paintings layered with marks and vivid colors. These source materials provide me with a departure point that I translate into line, pattern, form and color. For example, hand-crocheted family heirlooms inspired the circular and net patterns that I use throughout my work.

The layered marks in my work symbolize the way memories build up internally and become a part of one’s character, creating a complex system of stories and narrative.  The blooming floral form is a recurring motif in my work; it is a form that allows me to investigate progression, growth and the passing of time.

For me, painting is an active process of thinking, feeling and discovery. I spend some days mostly looking, and consider it an equally important aspect of my practice. I work on several paintings at once, using a palette with a broad spectrum, allowing the momentum of color and mark making in one painting to feed the next.

I am an American artist, living in San Francisco, California. I am originally from the East coast where I received my classical education in Sculpture from the Art Students League of N.Y.C., N.Y., on the Merit scholarship and my Bachelors Degree in Graphic Arts and Education from Bennington College in Vermont in 1991. I teach clay modeling, protraiture and the figure to adults and children in public and private schools and in my studio.
Commissions I have done include lifesize bronze animals, animal stone carvings and portraits . I paint landscapes on location. Everything I paint has ancient mythic symbols that are revealed in optical illusions in my brushstrokes. My skill in my craft is important to me. I am greatly inspired by nature and by the great masters of the past and old American folk art. I try to bring out the architypes from the ancients in my portraits and create some kind of a pun.

"Zamarrón is a graphic artist whose work has been presented in different media: web, television, video, print, as well as art galleries. He has exhibited his work both in Spain, the United States and Northern Europe. He was invited to participate in the annual contest at the prestigious “New Langton Arts” gallery in 1995, after he had just arrived to San Francisco. His early work had been featured in several individual and collective shows at Facultad de Bellas Artes of Madrid (Painting and Audiovisual Media), where he graduated in 1994. He has worked with Madrid’s Galería Gaudí on shows for international festivals. He was invited by the Spanish Consulate of San Francisco to represent Spain with his paintings at the emblematic Palace of Fine Arts. He participated in a collective exhibit at the prestigious 111 Minna Gallery. His last big (sold out) show was at Fort Mason Center, for Open Studios in 2010.

Currently, he alternates his work as an art educator at Holy Name of Jesus school with his professional activity as a portrait artist, while trying to do “new things” in
all that relates to the development of his body of work. Day by day, he continues with his studies in art, he is getting his MA, Masters of Art Education at Academy of Art University. He has also studied multimedia and art in California, at the universities of San Francisco State and Berkeley, respectively."

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My body of work reflects my latest explorations – of the deeper regions of my own psyche and also the world of abstraction.

My Portal series represents for me the very center of creating my paintings. It is the process of trying to achieve a landscape on which one's interior life can explore.

In my figurative work I access my imagination and dig deep inside of myself to excavate a figure that evokes emotion and has vitality. 

The figure emerges, disappears, and reappears - until finally I connect strongly with the image. From there, I build layers of paint, then dig back into them to reveal a texture or color underneath that adds beauty, depth, originality and elegance to the piece. 

A lot of my recent work has been about accessing the subconscious. 

It is the things that bring me inward that inspire me - rain, Dvorak's New World Symphony, Japanese incense and poetry. It is from that place that I create.