I am currently working on a two new series of paintings the first  endangered species of California and the second fantastic space aliens.  I am interested in texture and variety and contrast of ark through the use of many materiasl including gouache, screen printing, resin, spray paint, and pencil. 

Ali grew up in Ithaca and Brooklyn, NY and moved to San Francisco in 1995. She holds an MFA in Printmaking from Washington University in St. Louis, and a BFA in Painting from Cornell University. She works in printmaking, painting, and mixed. Recent exhibits include “Four Artists” at Ligne Roset, “The Day of the Dead” at the Legion of Honor, “The Eye of the Storm” at Markham Vineyards, and “Chicano Visions” at the De Young Museum. She has held artist residencies at the de Young Art Center in San Francisco and the Lower East Side Printshop in New York. Ali has taught at Drew high school since 1996. She has taught in a wide range of institutions including community centers, at risk youth summer programs, and special events and workshops at the de Young Museum and SFMOMA. She will be the artist in residence at the De Young Museum August 2010. There are several new bodies of work including small 8" x 8" encaustic wood panels inspired from dreams and childhood memories. The smaller pieces created this year reference Stonehenge and seasons. My favorite quality of encaustic is the transparency and layering that creates a sequenced narrative, a feeling of memory, and nostalgia. The beauty of this media is its unique translucency, spontaneity, and combination of printmaking, painting, and drawing techniques. Monprints are created by painting a plate with ink. A moist piece of paper is placed on top of the plate and rolled through an etching press which transfers the ink from the plate to the paper. Each color is a separate pass through the press. The characteristic of monoprinting is that no two prints are alike; although images can be similar, editioning is not possible. Also known as the most painterly method among the printmaking techniques, monoprints and monotypes are essentially printed paintings. The appeal of the monotype lies in the unique translucency that creates a quality of light very different from a painting on paper or a print, and the beauty of this media is also in its spontaneity and its combination of printmaking, painting and drawing mediums.

As I evolve and add the pages of life,I find myself again igniting my passion for art. My aim is to capture the beautiful essence of the human body.
My pieces are of clay ,a very easy and pliable material with the ability to add and subtract and carve and shape. I leave the raw texture in most of my pieces to show the material. I see,I sculpt, I push the clay,fast and slow , dancing with the energy of my model and myself. The body is a beautiful element. I try to capture the spirit,the emotion,the gesture,the positive and the negative in which the body creates within the space.
BA California of the Arts

"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. 

My work arises from the desire to capture emotion and expression: their mystery and power have always intrigued and fascinated me. In both my figurative and non-figurative work, I aim to retain the emotional rather than the physical, to evoke the spiritual rather than the temporal; and to search for the common sensitivity between my work and the viewer. I use opaque and transparent acrylics, oil pastels, varnishes and washes in super-imposed layers, arranging them according to their affinities and resistances, letting the colors speak.