Chris Saunders is an american mixed media artist living in Venice Beach, CA.After getting a BFA in graphic design at Maine College of Art in Portland, Maine he moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in animation and motion graphics for commercial, tv and film. Chris has consulted with top leading agencies and brands over the last decade as a freelance designer in LA and NYC and also taught motion design at The Art Center College of Design from 2006-2008.
Carrie Ann Baade is an internationally emerging artist whose surreal oil paintings are rich with allegorical meta-narratives inspired by spirit, literature and art history. She has exhibited widely with the Pop Surrealists and her paintings have been featured in Metamorphosis, a survey of the top, contemporary Visionary Surrealists including Ernst Fuchs, Alex Grey, Amanda Sage, and Kris Kuksi.
Known primarily as an emerging graphic artist & photographer, Cameron has qualifications in Graphic Design, Multimedia Design, Photography and Contemporary Arts, as well as a keen interest in new media, sculpture, jewelry making, painting, experimental video and sound design.
His influences and admirations include Stephen Kasner, Troy Ruffels, David Ho, Ryan Larkin, Bill Viola, Ash Sivils, Janelle McKain, Simon Haiduk, Steve Danzig, Alex Grey, Fabrice Lavollay, and Pieter Bruegel to name a small selection.
Amanda Sage is at the forefront of a new breed of visionary artists using art as a tool for personal, spiritual and planetary growth and transformation.
Born 1978 in Denver, Colorado; her adventurous spirit carried her to Bali, then on to Vienna, Austria to study classical painting with Michael Fuchs, resulting in becoming a long time painting assistant to Ernst Fuchs.
When not traveling to teach workshops or for projects & exhibitions, she currently spends most of her time in her studio above the HIVE Gallery & Studio’s and the Temple of Visions Gallery in downtown Los Angeles.
Grey’s unique series of 21 life-sized paintings, the Sacred Mirrors, take the viewer on a journey toward their own divine nature by examining, in detail, the body, mind, and spirit. The Sacred Mirrors, present the physical and subtle anatomy of an individual in the context of cosmic, biological and technological evolution. Begun in 1979, the series took a period of ten years to complete. It was during this period that he developed his depictions of the human body that “x-ray” the multiple layers of reality, and reveal the interplay of anatomical and spiritual forces. After painting the Sacred Mirrors, he applied this multidimensional perspective to such archetypal human experiences as praying, meditation, kissing, copulating, pregnancy, birth, nursing and dying. Grey’s recent work has explored the subject of consciousness from the perspective of “universal beings” whose bodies are grids of fire, eyes and infinite galactic swirls.
Andrew Gonzalez, of San Antonio, Texas, is an award-winning figurative artist whose work has been exhibited in several countries. Born on October 13, 1963, and raised in a creative family, Andrew’s art education is largely self-taught. His artist father, Anthony A. Gonzalez, encouraged his early interest in drawing and painting but gave him no formal training.
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As an artist of modern times, understanding himself and the world through color, defining the meaning of originality Chor Boogie is one of many masters that leads this pioneering craft of spray paint in its diverse art form.
Chor Boogie, born Jason Hailey in 1979, was raised in Oceanside California a small city by the sea with in San Diego county. He was handed a paint brush at the mere age of five from his kindergarten grade school teacher, started painting and fell in love with the creative process immediately, telling his teacher "When I grow up I am going to be an artist." Thus overtime Chor Boogie was exposed to the spray paint medium along with many other trials and tribulations that changed his life and formed this learning lesson we live in.
As a self made artist his drive and his passion fueled his study from renaissance artists such as Michelangelo, Da Vinci, and Rembrandt to more modern artists like Klimt, Van Gogh, Dali, combining a street culture of modern day spray paint "mentors" such as Phase2 and Vulcan, and in turn helped guide his lifestyle into a life it self.
A deep spiritual healing nearly a decade ago transformed his life and has had a major impact in his style of color therapy and techniques of creative innovativeness. Chor Boogie moved to San Francisco in 2007 and took the leap to pursue a full time career in art. His visionary works ignites the hearts and minds of the masses world wide. There is no color he does not use. He creates a wide range of forms pioneering his inverted can technique which slows down the pressure of the paint and creates dense, rich tones giving room for more detail on a broad perspective. Chor Boogie's dynamic range of artistic styles can manifest as soulful, deftly shaded portraits to color therapy, geometric elements adding up to half hidden faces, and a minds eye or two to encourage you to see internally and externally.
Needless to say, we are living in a very exciting time unprecedented in human civilization. Seven billion people currently live together on planet Earth and new challenges emerge daily on handling all the issues that arise with such a vast and diverse population. It is not difficult to see that our civilization as a whole is on a path towards its own demise with its uncontrolled polluting, rampant warring, unbalanced distribution of resources, and overall disharmony in relationship with each other and nature. We stand at a crossroads, a precipice, and are poised to make a major choice as a whole which will greatly determine our futures for ourselves and our offspring. It is our responsibility as humans to shift our relationship with the spirit of nature and restore our connectedness with all that is before we move beyond the point of no return and ensure our own destruction. This shift needs to occur within, deep within our consciousness, so that it can permeate throughout our bodies into our behaviors and life patterns so that the collective may be restored as it once was, in true resonance with the rest of life on this planet and the rest of life in the universe. I have discovered that the arts are perhaps the most powerful tool towards this goal. I have been deeply inspired by the creative offerings of others, through music, painting, dance, as well as by the art that surrounds us all the time in the form of forests, beaches, mountains, and rivers. Through the inspiration gathered from all these sources, I myself have developed the means to channel the current into art in the form of paintings and sculptural installation. The intention embedded within these works is to assist in the catalyzation of one’s core connection with the source, that which connects us all, to heal the schism between ourselves as humans and the world around us. Our strongest resource is inspiration, and through this means we have the power and ability to steer our society towards the path of love, beauty, and peaceful harmony which will ensure our survival on this wonderful planet we are so blessed to live upon.
As an artist I plant and nurture the seeds of change. Art has the power to ignite mass movements of compassionate action, communicating complex concepts through aesthetic beauty and symbol. Creativity is the backbone of social transformation, and to that end I tag creative works with breadcrumbs that lead to (r)evolutionary information. Check out Datachurch.com for archives of activated content.
In 2007 I graduated from the Evergreen State College, where I joyfully pursued an independent curriculum in digital painting.
In 2008 I attended the Conceptart.org Revelations Intensive in Seattle, which completely elevated every aspect of my life.
In 2009 I journeyed to the icy foothills of the Himalayas where I became a Yoga teacher, creating art inspired by my studies.
In 2010 I joined the development team of Dreamcatcher.net, the social network for sharing dreams and transcendent experiences.
Through the practices of martial artistry, asana, pranayama, meditation, and lucid dreaming, I find the empowered center where creativity surges. Hare Om Tat Sat.
Bruce Harman is a full-time artist in Santa Cruz, CA. His journey into visionary painting started shortly after graduating art school in 1980 and moving to California. Spiritual studies and meditation opened his awareness to reincarnation and karma and became central to his artistic output. Visited by brilliant visions in moments of peace and quiet, his approach to painting is a sacred imperative. Though trained as a printmaker, most of his work is acrylic painting on board. With digital technology, the paintings can be reproduced with startling fidelity as limited edition prints, all made start to finish in his studio.