Continuum Gallery - About the Artist

C.S. Dailey

"I am interested in pushing (art) as far as I can. I will work with a given style and medium and push the limits; how far can I take this idea, how much farther can I develop this painting before it loses something? These are the questions I ask myself. Weather it is a single painting or a series in a particular style, I work and work and push myself until I reach a point where there is nothing more I would like to achieve. Then, I switch styles completely and start over with a fresh genre waiting for me to explore. As soon as I master a style, I move on."

- C. S. Dailey

C. S. Dailey is an artist who began his professional art career at the age of eleven. Now at the age of twenty three he has mastered many painting styles and has work in private and museum collections around the globe. Finishing third in national level art competitions when he was as young as seven, Dailey learned oil painting techniques quickly, and developed a unique Expressionist style which often used Hebrew and early Christian mythology in forms of abstraction.

In 1995 he debuted this work in a show called 'The Angels' at the Terra's Angels Gallery in San Juan Capistrano. In 1999 Dailey completed a mural at the George Walton Building in Atlanta, GA, which is widely regarded as a masterpiece of his early, self taught style; immediately after its completion Dailey took a hiatus from public showing to develop a wildly different body of work. This new work was comprised of both traditional still life and Minimalist landscape. The still life paintings were metaphors for social conditions while the landscapes were monochromatic, with an emphasis on expressing emotion rather than deep allegorical content. Dailey continued to develop these two series simultaneously until early 2003. That spring saw the production of two important pieces. One was a landscape titled 'Kennett Missouri Farm House' which marked the end of this body of landscape paintings and won several regional awards. The was a mixed media piece titled Sugar Island'. This piece was an entirely new style involving text, human figure, wood carving and mixed media elements. ‘Sugar Island' debuted at the Palm Springs Art Museum and won the 2003 Selma Pearl Award. Following this Dailey again took a break from public exhibition. He moved his studio to The Republic of Cyprus and, in 2004, released a new body of work in Southern Europe.

This new work was again divided into distinct genres, a series of oil glaze paintings on nontraditional grounds, and a series of installation pieces and performance art. The glaze paintings from this period were often exhibited unstretched and displayed rolled up in a miniature oil rig in the middle of a bare gallery or large theater. Viewers were encouraged to unroll the paintings onto a table and experience them one at a time. The popular paintings 'The Shadow Self' and 'The Nile' come from this series. Though not using text in his paintings, Dailey did use text in his installation and performance work of this time. In 2005 the Circulo de Bellas Artes in Madrid, Spain accepted the installation piece 'Lost Luggage' into their collection, a piece which included over ninety pages of handwritten text spiraling around a larger than life duffel bag. Following this, Dailey moved his studio back to the United States and produced another new body of work which he called 'Poetry Paintings'. These oil paintings utilized landscape, human figure, and lines of text that whipped through the image itself. However, when the Artist's studio was burglarized, resulting in the loss of eleven paintings from that series, Dailey again moved his studio and switched styles.. Working this time in Memphis, TN. Dailey produced a groundbreaking performance piece called 'Starve'. The twelve day performance was a real life twelve day hunger strike in which the Artist used Neo-Fluxus dialog to express the effects of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Dailey also created a twenty two foot tall neon and chrome sculpture titled 'Spot' for the Fire Museum of Memphis before moving back to his home state of California.

Since returning to California, Dailey has completed a series of landscape paintings which range from Minimalist to Hyper-Realism. Many of these landscapes required several hundred work hours to produce. Dailey recently completed an astonishing eight foot square oil painting titles 'Overcoming the Valley' which took over six-hundred work hours to complete. This dramatic, Surrealistic landscape is the Magnum Opus of his career.

John Lewis

Having a life long passion for the arts and painting, John Lewis is now putting his brush to canvas. His paintings exploit direct, immediate brushstrokes and fluid movement. His styles include impressionist and interpretive abstract. John’s painting philosophy is to create art that provides the viewer with long term enjoyment. The viewer should continue to discover nuances and details in his painting for years. He also wants his work to convey a sense of completeness, believing that great art takes on a life of its own. When a painting “lives” we derive a sense of satisfaction from it because consciously or subconsciously we are having a visual experience that needs nothing added or removed.

Born in Bloomington, Indiana to parents with interest in the arts, John was encouraged to develop his talents in art and design from an early age. By the time he was seven years old, he was spending countless hours in the basement of his home designing and sketching what he envisioned to be cars of the future. In high school he began to acquire the artistic skills that would allow him to illustrate his ideas. He worked and experimented with oils, watercolors, pastels, clay and wood. At the age of 17 he was awarded a General Motors scholarship to attend Art Center School of Design where he further developed his skills as a designer and artist.

Upon graduation from college John was hired by Chrysler as a car designer where he made contributions to the designs of vehicles in the “muscle car” era of the late 60’s and early 70’s. After relocating to Southern California he continued his career as a designer and magazine illustrator. John enjoys sharing his knowledge with others, having taught rendering classes at Long Beach State and conducting private art lessons.

In 2003, after an inspirational trip to Italy, he felt that the time was right to express himself as a fine artist. John has focused on oils as his primary medium of expression. Part of his fundamental approach to painting is to involve the viewer with a three dimensional experience. To achieve this he approaches a painting as a sculptor would develop a clay model. Darks and lights, cools and warms are moved and manipulated until the final effect has been achieved. Oils provide the best results for this style of painting.

Today John continues to paint in several styles. He searches for subjects that will result in paintings that have excellent abstract qualities regardless of content.

MATTEO

MATTEO’s passions and talent lie in new media video art combined with sculpture. His work and accolades in the design, commercial entertainment and advertising industries have kept him on the edge. He has chosen that peripheral position as a cultural observer who brings the outside in and the downside up.

For that he has been awarded two grants from The Burning Man Arts Foundation, for his large-scale interactive video sculptures entitled "HeadSpace" and "Spectre" which were exhibited at the annual events in 2005 and 2006 respectively. The reaction was spectacular as he brought people art that they could work with in ways familiar to them from the ubiquitous Internet experience while adding layers of visual complexity. His art responds to, challenges and reinvents the technology driven changes in human interaction and communication.

MATTEO has been working in the arts since he was a young man in his hometown, Toronto. He rapidly outstripped the traditions of a classical arts education and film study at the University of Toronto, where his father was founding director of the Cinema Studies Program. At age 18 he became an entrepreneur, producing, directing, shooting, editing and marketing successfully in the U.S. and Europe his special brand of video art for use in nightclubs. His many pursuits kept him conceptually engaged with contemporary culture as his technical savvy and business skills brought him deeper into entertainment industries. His successful video art compilations led him into establishing, designing, and managing startling new and different nightclubs like Caribou Club, Enertia Nightclub, Alligator Bar and Flix Lounge. His work earned him popular accolades: “The next new wave in groovy hangouts” –The Toronto Star. "The wildest decor in Toronto history! A great place for dancing and lounging the night away!" -The Toronto Sun.

Relocating to Los Angeles in early 1992, he worked with world-class production designers Jeremy Railton (three time Emmy award winner) and Bruce Rogers (1996 AT&T Olympic Pavilion, concert stage design for Sting, Madonna, Fleetwood Mac) who understood the level of MATTEO’s talent.

In 1995 he established his own design company, Matteo Industries Inc. Since then he has won numerous design awards for his work in television, music video, stage, concert, special event and commercial production including five International Broadcast Design Awards. Clients are familiar names like: The Jim Henson Company • Dick Clark Productions • MTV • VH1 • ABC • NBC • CBS • The Eagles • Alanis Morissette • Sega GameWorks • Mattel • Intel • Nissan • Larry King • Novell • iLink and Nickelodeon.

Another branch of MATTEO’s trajectory includes creating and designing full concept commercial venues, restaurants, offices and residential interiors. Beautifully crafted and unique contemporary furniture and details are what transformed those projects into living installations. MATTEO is comfortable in all circles of art and design but his move to bring art closer to life both ties him to the early history of design – when it was still art – and the post-modern situation of merging and deconstructing known and knowable areas.

MATTEO brings innovative, original, fresh and unique creative skills to his projects. He knows technology, he knows business, he is a passionate and cutting edge force always looking forward and ahead of the curve.

Dan Pyle

Dan Pyle is a charcoal artist rapidly emerging into the current art scene. His recent shows in Los Angeles have opened doors and gained him much acclaim for his distinctive style and compositions.

Working exclusively in charcoal, Dan uses a photo realistic style that mimics photography to the point that extra signage has to be displayed with his work, touting that these are drawings, not photos. He loves shadows, contrast, anonymity and using negative space in his compositions. His gifted eye catches timeless “fragments” of life in his work----- whether it’s the intricate lines of the human hand, or the delicate folds of a garment, they are drawn in detailed simplicity. The mystery of his work lets the viewer use their imagination to interpret the meaning behind each beautiful image.

With virtually no formal art training, Dan has been drawing since childhood. Throughout the years, he has displayed his work in local art shows, accepted commissions for residences, restaurants and private collectors, and his work has been selected for the cover of a local publication. More recently, he has been a featured artist in the annual Walk of Art and Design in West Hollywood, for the past several years. His work can also be seen in several public spaces around West Hollywood.

Originally from Washington state, Dan has been residing in Los Angeles for over 20 years, and just in the past 4 years has built his website, expanded his collection and begun to gain the respect of the art community as a serious and unique artist. His work intimately reflects his simple, independent sole and his relentless enthusiasm for detail.

His current collection encompasses isolated pieces of serenity, emotion and moments in time.

James Shilaimon

James Shilaimon is an embodiment of the self-taught artist who is continually searching for ways to express the artistic voice that has been with him his entire life. This inner voice has lead James to develop his artistry in several different mediums. Whether painting in oils or watercolor or sculpting in stone, James is always exploring ways to convey his stylized expression.

Growing up in Greece, the cradle of the Masters, you begin to understand this passion and some of the influence that has shaped as well as guided James and his creations. James is driven by a need to be honest with his creative voice and also to be recognized by his artistic peers for his artistry and his respect for those that came before him. James has spent a considerable amount of his artistic life pursuing commission work while developing his craft.

With each new series from James, we see touches of the masters he has studied as well as the influence of Modern Day expressionist like Paul Ecke and Don Treadway.

This series represents a seminal moment for James in his artistic endeavors. Delivering an entire body of work with a thematic component is just the beginning of the journey that James has now embarked on. His inner voice has a direction and focus that will allow us to share in the remarkable journey to come.

Matthew Southgate

I was very fortunate to be raised by parents that did everything they could do to nurture the artistic talents that they found in me. I have to thank them for providing me with various private lessons for painting, ceramics and the like. I am probably most grateful for the various worldly exposures that they gave me. They introduced me not only to art, but also to travel, philosophy and politics. It has been my life long project to try to use painting skills to communicate an appreciation of intellect and apprehension of ideas instead of the celebration of mere passion or visceral experience. I am very much interested in the relatedness of all the different humanities. These are the things that I tried to study in college before “dropping out” in order to “live and learn” the ideas instead. It is not uncommon for people to ask me if I have practiced architecture, or other more technical occupations than that of "fine artist". I have found that while Art, Philosophy, Psychology, and Politics can all be said to be extensions of one another, it is Art that has the power to predominate our consciousness and break up the categories of thought organization. I have come to discover that "good art" is the propaganda that we refuse to associate as "propaganda". It is, in a sense, "beautiful propaganda". In turn, "bad art" is recognized for what it usually is, "mere propaganda", or at least the impotent attempt at propaganda. This of course is not to touch on the subject of art as "mere decoration."

I currently manage and curate an art gallery in Santa Ana that I have designed to showcase "Realistic", or "Representational" type paintings if you wish to call them. I am almost as proud of being an art curator, and art philosopher as I am an artist. I rarely consider myself an art critic. I try to focus on the things that appeal to me and not the things that don’t.

Being intensely interested in the socially cohesive powers of art, I have rarely sought out any opportunities to display in "Solo-Shows" for myself. For me, Art is not about celebrating a "cult of personality", it is about a means to celebrate communication with others. So, it is with pleasure that I have been invited to show in another group showing with a few friends, and of course, fresh new people to share ideas with.

James Jared Taylor III

With a career that began with sculpture, James Jared Taylor’s new exhibition presents a provocative distillation of mental images captured, sketched, water colored, and finally painted over a period of years while travelling throughout the United States. The Dakota collection is the final abstract expression of landscapes of profound personal impression from east to west. This body of work calls attention to the constant of the horizon as the singularly fixed visual permanent. “The horizon never changes amid the seemingly chaotic turmoil of shapes and forms in the land, sea, and sky; it is a beginning of visual order.”

James Jared Taylor III received an individual artist fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts in 1985. His artworks have been included in close to 100 solo and group exhibitions primarily in Southern California and New Jersey. His work is widely collected and he has had a number of public and private commissions. He has been teaching art since 1988 and is currently fine arts chair at Desert Hot Springs High School. James received his M.F.A. attending the Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University.

Michael Valencia

Michael Valencia is a naturally gifted and self-taught artist born in Long Beach in 1933. He has been painting oil on canvas for the last 40 years. His primary concentration in painting has been in creating large floral works. Throughout the years his fascination with and celebration of flowers continues to go through a changeable variety of perspectives, from photo-realism to symbolist close-ups to huge, crowding dense collages. In all of his paintings, the flowers are vibrantly alive in aggressive, transient or meditative states. His works have been displayed throughout Southern California. His art is repeatedly collected throughout the United States. Michael continues his work based now in Palm Springs, California.


	C.S. Dailey "I am interested in pushing (art) as far as I can. I will work with a given style and medium and push the limits; how far can I take this idea, how much farther can I develop this painting before it loses something? These are the questions I ask myself. Weather it is a single painting or a series in a particular style, I work and work and push myself until I reach a point where there is nothing more I would like to achieve. Then, I switch styles completely and start over with a fresh genre waiting for me to explore. As soon as I master a style, I move on." - C. S. Dailey C. S. Dailey is an artist who began his professional art career at the age of eleven. Now at the age of twenty three he has mastered many painting styles and has work in private and museum collections around the globe. Finishing third in national level art competitions when he was as young as seven, Dailey learned oil painting techniques quickly, and developed a unique Expressionist style which often used Hebrew and early Christian mythology in forms of abstraction. In 1995 he debuted this work in a show called 'The Angels' at the Terra's Angels Gallery in San Juan Capistrano. In 1999 Dailey completed a mural at the George Walton Building in Atlanta, GA, which is widely regarded as a masterpiece of his early, self taught style; immediately after its completion Dailey took a hiatus from public showing to develop a wildly different body of work. This new work was comprised of both traditional still life and Minimalist landscape. The still life paintings were metaphors for social conditions while the landscapes were monochromatic, with an emphasis on expressing emotion rather than deep allegorical content. Dailey continued to develop these two series simultaneously until early 2003. That spring saw the production of two important pieces. One was a landscape titled 'Kennett Missouri Farm House' which marked the end of this body of landscape paintings and won several regional awards. The was a mixed media piece titled Sugar Island'. This piece was an entirely new style involving text, human figure, wood carving and mixed media elements. ‘Sugar Island' debuted at the Palm Springs Art Museum and won the 2003 Selma Pearl Award. Following this Dailey again took a break from public exhibition. He moved his studio to The Republic of Cyprus and, in 2004, released a new body of work in Southern Europe. This new work was again divided into distinct genres, a series of oil glaze paintings on nontraditional grounds, and a series of installation pieces and performance art. The glaze paintings from this period were often exhibited unstretched and displayed rolled up in a miniature oil rig in the middle of a bare gallery or large theater. Viewers were encouraged to unroll the paintings onto a table and experience them one at a time. The popular paintings 'The Shadow Self' and 'The Nile' come from this series. Though not using text in his paintings, Dailey did use text in his installation and performance work of this time. In 2005 the Circulo de Bellas Artes in Madrid, Spain accepted the installation piece 'Lost Luggage' into their collection, a piece which included over ninety pages of handwritten text spiraling around a larger than life duffel bag. Following this, Dailey moved his studio back to the United States and produced another new body of work which he called 'Poetry Paintings'. These oil paintings utilized landscape, human figure, and lines of text that whipped through the image itself. However, when the Artist's studio was burglarized, resulting in the loss of eleven paintings from that series, Dailey again moved his studio and switched styles.. Working this time in Memphis, TN. Dailey produced a groundbreaking performance piece called 'Starve'. The twelve day performance was a real life twelve day hunger strike in which the Artist used Neo-Fluxus dialog to express the effects of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Dailey also created a twenty two foot tall neon and chrome sculpture titled 'Spot' for the Fire Museum of Memphis before moving back to his home state of California. Since returning to California, Dailey has completed a series of landscape paintings which range from Minimalist to Hyper-Realism. Many of these landscapes required several hundred work hours to produce. Dailey recently completed an astonishing eight foot square oil painting titles 'Overcoming the Valley' which took over six-hundred work hours to complete. This dramatic, Surrealistic landscape is the Magnum Opus of his career. John Lewis Having a life long passion for the arts and painting, John Lewis is now putting his brush to canvas. His paintings exploit direct, immediate brushstrokes and fluid movement. His styles include impressionist and interpretive abstract. John’s painting philosophy is to create art that provides the viewer with long term enjoyment. The viewer should continue to discover nuances and details in his painting for years. He also wants his work to convey a sense of completeness, believing that great art takes on a life of its own. When a painting “lives” we derive a sense of satisfaction from it because consciously or subconsciously we are having a visual experience that needs nothing added or removed. Born in Bloomington, Indiana to parents with interest in the arts, John was encouraged to develop his talents in art and design from an early age. By the time he was seven years old, he was spending countless hours in the basement of his home designing and sketching what he envisioned to be cars of the future. In high school he began to acquire the artistic skills that would allow him to illustrate his ideas. He worked and experimented with oils, watercolors, pastels, clay and wood. At the age of 17 he was awarded a General Motors scholarship to attend Art Center School of Design where he further developed his skills as a designer and artist. Upon graduation from college John was hired by Chrysler as a car designer where he made contributions to the designs of vehicles in the “muscle car” era of the late 60’s and early 70’s. After relocating to Southern California he continued his career as a designer and magazine illustrator. John enjoys sharing his knowledge with others, having taught rendering classes at Long Beach State and conducting private art lessons. In 2003, after an inspirational trip to Italy, he felt that the time was right to express himself as a fine artist. John has focused on oils as his primary medium of expression. Part of his fundamental approach to painting is to involve the viewer with a three dimensional experience. To achieve this he approaches a painting as a sculptor would develop a clay model. Darks and lights, cools and warms are moved and manipulated until the final effect has been achieved. Oils provide the best results for this style of painting. Today John continues to paint in several styles. He searches for subjects that will result in paintings that have excellent abstract qualities regardless of content. MATTEO MATTEO’s passions and talent lie in new media video art combined with sculpture. His work and accolades in the design, commercial entertainment and advertising industries have kept him on the edge. He has chosen that peripheral position as a cultural observer who brings the outside in and the downside up. For that he has been awarded two grants from The Burning Man Arts Foundation, for his large-scale interactive video sculptures entitled "HeadSpace" and "Spectre" which were exhibited at the annual events in 2005 and 2006 respectively. The reaction was spectacular as he brought people art that they could work with in ways familiar to them from the ubiquitous Internet experience while adding layers of visual complexity. His art responds to, challenges and reinvents the technology driven changes in human interaction and communication. MATTEO has been working in the arts since he was a young man in his hometown, Toronto. He rapidly outstripped the traditions of a classical arts education and film study at the University of Toronto, where his father was founding director of the Cinema Studies Program. At age 18 he became an entrepreneur, producing, directing, shooting, editing and marketing successfully in the U.S. and Europe his special brand of video art for use in nightclubs. His many pursuits kept him conceptually engaged with contemporary culture as his technical savvy and business skills brought him deeper into entertainment industries. His successful video art compilations led him into establishing, designing, and managing startling new and different nightclubs like Caribou Club, Enertia Nightclub, Alligator Bar and Flix Lounge. His work earned him popular accolades: “The next new wave in groovy hangouts” –The Toronto Star. "The wildest decor in Toronto history! A great place for dancing and lounging the night away!" -The Toronto Sun. Relocating to Los Angeles in early 1992, he worked with world-class production designers Jeremy Railton (three time Emmy award winner) and Bruce Rogers (1996 AT&T Olympic Pavilion, concert stage design for Sting, Madonna, Fleetwood Mac) who understood the level of MATTEO’s talent. In 1995 he established his own design company, Matteo Industries Inc. Since then he has won numerous design awards for his work in television, music video, stage, concert, special event and commercial production including five International Broadcast Design Awards. Clients are familiar names like: The Jim Henson Company • Dick Clark Productions • MTV • VH1 • ABC • NBC • CBS • The Eagles • Alanis Morissette • Sega GameWorks • Mattel • Intel • Nissan • Larry King • Novell • iLink and Nickelodeon. Another branch of MATTEO’s trajectory includes creating and designing full concept commercial venues, restaurants, offices and residential interiors. Beautifully crafted and unique contemporary furniture and details are what transformed those projects into living installations. MATTEO is comfortable in all circles of art and design but his move to bring art closer to life both ties him to the early history of design – when it was still art – and the post-modern situation of merging and deconstructing known and knowable areas. MATTEO brings innovative, original, fresh and unique creative skills to his projects. He knows technology, he knows business, he is a passionate and cutting edge force always looking forward and ahead of the curve. Dan Pyle Dan Pyle is a charcoal artist rapidly emerging into the current art scene. His recent shows in Los Angeles have opened doors and gained him much acclaim for his distinctive style and compositions. Working exclusively in charcoal, Dan uses a photo realistic style that mimics photography to the point that extra signage has to be displayed with his work, touting that these are drawings, not photos. He loves shadows, contrast, anonymity and using negative space in his compositions. His gifted eye catches timeless “fragments” of life in his work----- whether it’s the intricate lines of the human hand, or the delicate folds of a garment, they are drawn in detailed simplicity. The mystery of his work lets the viewer use their imagination to interpret the meaning behind each beautiful image. With virtually no formal art training, Dan has been drawing since childhood. Throughout the years, he has displayed his work in local art shows, accepted commissions for residences, restaurants and private collectors, and his work has been selected for the cover of a local publication. More recently, he has been a featured artist in the annual Walk of Art and Design in West Hollywood, for the past several years. His work can also be seen in several public spaces around West Hollywood. Originally from Washington state, Dan has been residing in Los Angeles for over 20 years, and just in the past 4 years has built his website, expanded his collection and begun to gain the respect of the art community as a serious and unique artist. His work intimately reflects his simple, independent sole and his relentless enthusiasm for detail. His current collection encompasses isolated pieces of serenity, emotion and moments in time. James Shilaimon James Shilaimon is an embodiment of the self-taught artist who is continually searching for ways to express the artistic voice that has been with him his entire life. This inner voice has lead James to develop his artistry in several different mediums. Whether painting in oils or watercolor or sculpting in stone, James is always exploring ways to convey his stylized expression. Growing up in Greece, the cradle of the Masters, you begin to understand this passion and some of the influence that has shaped as well as guided James and his creations. James is driven by a need to be honest with his creative voice and also to be recognized by his artistic peers for his artistry and his respect for those that came before him. James has spent a considerable amount of his artistic life pursuing commission work while developing his craft. With each new series from James, we see touches of the masters he has studied as well as the influence of Modern Day expressionist like Paul Ecke and Don Treadway. This series represents a seminal moment for James in his artistic endeavors. Delivering an entire body of work with a thematic component is just the beginning of the journey that James has now embarked on. His inner voice has a direction and focus that will allow us to share in the remarkable journey to come. Matthew Southgate I was very fortunate to be raised by parents that did everything they could do to nurture the artistic talents that they found in me. I have to thank them for providing me with various private lessons for painting, ceramics and the like. I am probably most grateful for the various worldly exposures that they gave me. They introduced me not only to art, but also to travel, philosophy and politics. It has been my life long project to try to use painting skills to communicate an appreciation of intellect and apprehension of ideas instead of the celebration of mere passion or visceral experience. I am very much interested in the relatedness of all the different humanities. These are the things that I tried to study in college before “dropping out” in order to “live and learn” the ideas instead. It is not uncommon for people to ask me if I have practiced architecture, or other more technical occupations than that of "fine artist". I have found that while Art, Philosophy, Psychology, and Politics can all be said to be extensions of one another, it is Art that has the power to predominate our consciousness and break up the categories of thought organization. I have come to discover that "good art" is the propaganda that we refuse to associate as "propaganda". It is, in a sense, "beautiful propaganda". In turn, "bad art" is recognized for what it usually is, "mere propaganda", or at least the impotent attempt at propaganda. This of course is not to touch on the subject of art as "mere decoration." I currently manage and curate an art gallery in Santa Ana that I have designed to showcase "Realistic", or "Representational" type paintings if you wish to call them. I am almost as proud of being an art curator, and art philosopher as I am an artist. I rarely consider myself an art critic. I try to focus on the things that appeal to me and not the things that don’t. Being intensely interested in the socially cohesive powers of art, I have rarely sought out any opportunities to display in "Solo-Shows" for myself. For me, Art is not about celebrating a "cult of personality", it is about a means to celebrate communication with others. So, it is with pleasure that I have been invited to show in another group showing with a few friends, and of course, fresh new people to share ideas with. James Jared Taylor III With a career that began with sculpture, James Jared Taylor’s new exhibition presents a provocative distillation of mental images captured, sketched, water colored, and finally painted over a period of years while travelling throughout the United States. The Dakota collection is the final abstract expression of landscapes of profound personal impression from east to west. This body of work calls attention to the constant of the horizon as the singularly fixed visual permanent. “The horizon never changes amid the seemingly chaotic turmoil of shapes and forms in the land, sea, and sky; it is a beginning of visual order.” James Jared Taylor III received an individual artist fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts in 1985. His artworks have been included in close to 100 solo and group exhibitions primarily in Southern California and New Jersey. His work is widely collected and he has had a number of public and private commissions. He has been teaching art since 1988 and is currently fine arts chair at Desert Hot Springs High School. James received his M.F.A. attending the Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University. Michael Valencia Michael Valencia is a naturally gifted and self-taught artist born in Long Beach in 1933. He has been painting oil on canvas for the last 40 years. His primary concentration in painting has been in creating large floral works. Throughout the years his fascination with and celebration of flowers continues to go through a changeable variety of perspectives, from photo-realism to symbolist close-ups to huge, crowding dense collages. In all of his paintings, the flowers are vibrantly alive in aggressive, transient or meditative states. His works have been displayed throughout Southern California. His art is repeatedly collected throughout the United States. Michael continues his work based now in Palm Springs, California.
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