My current work is an exploration of geometry, color and space. I am interested in the power of stars, both as iconographic symbols and as mysterious elements that are part of our natural universe. Each piece is an attempt to distill the magic of something millions of miles away into a frozen artifact trapped within the four walls of my canvas.

Most of my pieces have a stark contrast between the beautiful and the foul.  I have an entire mini series of "Easy Pickings" paintings that follow along these sames lines with a bit of twist.  I enjoy precision in my work and there is a theme of accurate human anatomy that crops up peridoically in a few of my pieces.  

My vehicle for self expression has always been through creating art and practicing interior design. I balance two creative careers equally as a visual artist and as a partner of INSTUDIO interior design. My contemporary aesthetic in art and design is shaped by my passion for art, architecture, craft and designs from global periods, styles and cultures.

 Let me tell you why I'm not an axe murderer.

 I have traveled to every corner of this dark earth and it really is a terrible place:  death, disease, irritable bowel syndrome.

 Then there's the rent, the bills, the unhappy spirits floating everywhere around us.
  I chose to just run away from my problems and paint naked ladies all day. 

My art isn't about trying to heal the violence in my soul, instead it's about the cultivation and nourishment of it--because that is how I genuinely feel, or maybe this is how the universe genuinely feels, through me.  

 Either way, I am putting all of that violence out for your viewing pleasure:
 destruction and chaos, colors and shapes, form and imagination.

Plus philosophy, science, mysticism, our ordinary experience of daily life.

 It's all on the table, and because I have no allegiances to any of those things, I can fuck around all I want.

 Healing is for hippies.  Self-cultivation is for deluded artists.  
 Stop by my studio and share in my delusions.

 Namaste,

 Locust
 SF 2013

Barry Ebner – Artist Statement

An idea transformed by a moment of observation into an image that signifies weight and contemplation.

A wall was constructed, why? For protection from the elements, from danger from the unknown. To construct shelter, to define what’s mine, ours and what is not. A wall is a way to keep the outside out and the inside, the private, in. It is a way to divide as much as it unities. A wall is a border, a boundary. The border that divides us from them, a boundary defines those limits. It defines limitations, how far we can go and where we should stop. A boundary in thought is as real as the Berlin Wall was, as the wall in Jerusalem is. A border can be a line in the sand south of Arizona, north of Mexico that defines who can walk in a region freely and who must present documentation.

I gaze at the walls constructed in our society, both real and through the image of the real to the walls constructed in our sociological interactions, through the illusions of transparency created by the massive availability of controlled information. I wander up and down their length, stare up at their height and ever so often test their strength, by pushing or blowing, running up against them or simply removing a finger from the hole.

I work in series; moving between drawing, monotype and intaglio. Often monochromatically or muted in palette.

Barry Ebner is an internationally exhibited printmaker and painter. He earned his MFA in Printmaking from CCA in 2001. He teaches printmaking at AAU and is in numerous public and private collections.

I love how cold clay feels, but then fires to a finish that can feel warm in its shape and color.

I like to create beautiful and functional shapes, but I love being able to paint and draw on a freshly fired bisque ware. I mainly work with black oxide because it’s fun for me to watch how one shade of oxide changes as its absorbed by the porous surface.

I once took a ceramics course early in my college years and I dabbled again years after college.

I am not classically trained but I enjoy what I do and hope that others will also enjoy my pieces or at least feel the passion that I have in making each and every piece.

I wouldn’t be sharing my pieces if it wasn’t for my loving and supportive husband who encourages me to explore my happiness every day and also for our loving dog, Rufus, who guards the house while I go and play with dirt.

John Kiltinen is a San Francisco Artist, who's paintings and drawings of northern California explore the beauty in the caious of nature.  

Recent photographs, Romantic, Urban Landscapes, speak of the often overlooked beauty in our city. 

John has made exhibits for many childrens museums and is responsible for many unusual and delightful objects throughout the State of California.