An Artist In Residence (A.I.R.) is a working artist in painting, sculpture, textiles, photography, etc., who's studio is located within the studio space at SCIART. Visit SCIART West AIRs below.

To become an A.I.R. one must submit an application and portfolio which has been reviewed and accepted by the Standards Committee. In addition to rents paid monthly, artists volunteer time to SCIART; curate and hang shows, host receptions, maintain gardens and help with many other functions.If you are interested please call for an application: 805-383-1368

SCIAC ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE

Mary Ann Bednar
g.mabednar@verizon.net
Gallery
Mary Ann Bednar paints in several media including watercolors, oils, acrylics, and mixed media. Her formal education comes from taking college art classes but she has also attended many workshops with nationally known artists. Her subject matter is eclectic and colorful. Mary Ann is a potter as well as a painter.

Karin Beer-Koller
www.DiscoverArts.com
karinbeerkoller@verizon.net
The Texture of Vitality
The power of life leads to continuous metamorphosis and bears beauty within; "being alive“ means absorbing each and every texture of vitality.

I use highly textured foundations. The correspondence of color and texture is the basis of the artwork on which I create images of organic life forms. Plants, the human body and patterns found in nature symbolize the textures of vitality. Vitality includes all aspects of being – joy, pain, emotional depths. Inherent to vitality in every sense is the power of evolvement. Embracing this process of metamorphosis enriches our life.

Gretel Meys Compton
gcompton@vcss.k12.ca.us
My emphasis is on printmaking, intaglio and screenprinting, and I love the idea of taking an image and making many. I also find the craftsmanship of putting a print on paper enormously rewarding.

Julie Hurd
juliehurd@earthlink.net

Deborah Jarchow
djweaves@earthlink.net
www.deborahjarchow.com
Gallery
My relationship with fiber and art has been ongoing ever since I can remember. In 1996 when I discovered weaving, my love of fiber, texture, and color blossomed and I immersed myself in weaving as a full time pursuit. My greatest joy is sitting at one of my looms making a fabric that comes to life in front of me. There is wonderful satisfaction in the process of mingling individual threads to create something pleasing to look at and touch.

Inspiration comes from many things. I mix threads and yarns to reveal beauty within the infinite blending of various hues and shades. Mingling different fibers allows me to explore diverse tactile experiences. Creating colorful textiles expresses my joy and enables me to share my passion. As I weave I contemplate future projects and celebrate my connection to creativity. The rhythm of the loom makes music in my soul and my mind soars with each beat.

Gerri Johnson-McMillin
fishbonevessels@yahoo.com
Gallery
Fiber art has always been a part of my life. Whether it is basketry, weaving, spinning, knotting or another form of fiber art, I love the tactile sensations of fibers and feeling the life within them.
I am known for the fishbone baskets that I weave with fish bones and monofilament, and also my knotted waxed linen sculptures that I create.
The ocean and the sense of peace I feel when out on the water helps to center my being and bring out the creativity from within. I catch my own albacore and turn their bones into beautiful forms sending them on another journey. I call the baskets my "jewels of the sea, my vessels of remembrance."
My sculptures of knotted waxed linen are derived from my emotions within and personal feelings about life. I knot waxed linen over a form that best expresses my emotions until they make me feel good; until I feel they express what I want. I have exhibited nationally and internationally and have been the recipient of many awards in fiber art.

Elana Kundell
elana_kundell@yahoo.com
www.kundell.com
Elana Kundell creates imaginary environments in the abstract that are based on emotional rather than physical spaces. Based on memory – where experience is recycled and distorted – the paintings occupy an ambiguous zone between what is seen and what is felt. The process at its best reveals clues about the deep, usually hidden nature of meaning/feeling/being in the world, bringing to light possibilities for transformation.

Carleen LeVander
carleen.lvp@verizon.net
My current work is a series of diptychs growing out of painted divisions in my single canvases. I have crossed back and forth between representational and abstract art throughout my painting career. While some paintings use overt references to things seen others call upon them as a more general inspiration.

Christine Leong
www.asianartstrokes.com
chrissyleong@hotmail.com
Gallery
Christine, a native of Hong Kong, has a passion for Chinese watercolors. Her painting style demonstrates soft, lyrical brush strokes; her specialty is in Kois and florals. Ms.Leong's art works reflect unique and original Chinese watercolor images that combine Asian and Western painting techniques.

Leslie McQuaide
lmcquaide@sbcglobal.net
Gallery
Assemblage: a means of incorporating the mystical with the real. The real is the found object. The mystical is the clay element.

McQuaide’s constructions lead us down a path littered with signs of the mysterious, the miraculous and the transcendent.

Finding grace and beauty in the worn and discarded, McQuaide’s visual commentaries continue the historic conversation that centers on the concept of an infinite God, moral good and evil, the immortality of the soul, and the relationship between God and the affairs of man.

Tom McMillin
tomgerri@verizon.net
Gallery
Thoughts on my Art:
Life: All is of the same. The answers are there, we seldom are.
Insight: A moment of perfect harmony with our inner and outer being. The pure connection of our microscopic space with the systems intrinsic in nature.
Intuitive action
Creative thinking
Seeing the answer
Making art

My work over the past 40 years has dealt with natural phenomena and the systems intrinsic in nature.

With each new work of art my concept, intent, and materials will vary. One value, which remains constant throughout, is a commitment to the clarity of the purpose. I try to reflect in my artwork these processes and present them to the viewer on an aesthetic level.

Arlene Mead
www.arlenemead.com
arlene@arlenemead.com
"Shreds"
Daily, we make the effort to shred and dispose of “sensitive” personal information in order to protect our identity, our privacy. Unfortunately, this is only perpetuating the illusion of personal privacy.

These bits of shredded paper have an intrinsic beauty that I am using as a formal element.

I am actively seeking sets of documents that are narrative as well as private; medical papers, cancelled checks, tax returns, prison information. Even after shredding the paper, there remains a record of a particular time in a particular life.

In recent works, I have taken these shreds of original documents that were once made private, and made them public again.

Julia Pinkham
tjpkimbrell@juno.com
Gallery
Interview
b. 1957 Ventura, CA
My paintings are my way of communicating, both with myself and with others, the direct experience of the living world as an ambiguous, unrepresentable, yet all pervasive presence. I attempt to paint my personal experience of the "magical world", that fluid realm that defies empirical understanding, but underlies all our endeavors and is a part of our everyday experience.

Noble Powell
www.noblepowell.com
nap3@verizon.net
Interview
Noble A. Powell II has been painting professionally for over 25 years. World renowned for his traditional landscape paintings of famous golf courses, his abstract expressionist painting are highly collected also.Born and raised in California, he received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Santa Barbara Art Institute, participated in the Master of Fine Arts program at California State University (Long Beach) and earned a Certificate in Commercial Art from the University of California at Santa Barbara.

Peggy Pownall
pkpownall@aol.com
Gallery
Interview
I am interested in the historical journey of a painting’s surface. My process deals as much with what is buried as with what is revealed. This plays out in the painting both in a literal/physical sense and on a conceptual/symbolic level. I am also intrigued by the exploration of the relationship between that which is random and that which is ordered.

Recent paintings reference family and personal histories, identities and longings.

Barbara Rapko
Barbara Rapko has a love of landscape. Her small format watercolors caught the attention of CSUCI President Richard Rush, earning Barbara the 2004 President's Choice Award.

Roxie Ray
art4roxie@aol.com
Roxie Ray-Bordelon is an award winning artist whose paintings capture the passion of the human spirit in its interaction with the environment. Her migrant worker series employs expressionistic techniques and bold colors to emphasize the quiet power and dignity of this often ignored and exploited segment of society. Her recent series of water paintings explore the human figure and its ambiguous relationship with the multi-layered sense of water. The artist is a founding member of Studio Channel Islands Art Center. For more information, please contact the artist at (805) 383-1368.

Pat Richards
www.patrichardsart.com
patrichards1@earthlink.net
Gallery
Interview
Working primarily in oils on canvas, I create expressionist paintings using color, rhythm, patterns and form to convey a mood or time of day. Subject matter Includes landscapes, seascapes, garden settings and figures. Art resume and background material upon request.

Patti Robinson
twosonspatti@aol.com
Interview
From an interview with the artist…
Who and what inspires you?
"Moments in time are my inspiration. I was driving on a two-lane highway in Illinois through dried wheat fields when a flock of crows flew off against a stormy sky. For that moment I was living in Van Gogh's "Wheat Field With Crows". The person most inspirational to me has been Gerd Koch. Through his lectures I began to see a simple shadow as a moment of wonder, all my visual perception was enhanced."

What is your definition of art?
"Art is a tangible reflection of the artist's core. Conceptualizing an idea and bringing it to focused form."

Some say that art communicates, strives to communicate to its audience. What are your paintings' whisperings?
"Paintings bare the soul. Hopefully, I communicate my great love of beauty and my personal growth as I journey."

Sylvia Torres
www.sylviatorres.com
Sylvia@studiochannelislands.org
Gallery
Interview
Sylvia is a contemporary painter, who works in several mediums; oils, acrylics, gouache, collage and encaustic. Her dynamic and award paintings both obscure and reveal her subjects, and her energetic brushwork is her unique visual language. She shows throughout Southern California.

Kathy Waggoner
sciac231@aol.com
Gallery
Interview
Kathleen Waggoner received a Master of Arts degree with emphasis in sculpture and ceramics from Cal State University. As a visual artist, I have chosen to create imagery that explores the physical manifestations of emotion and human behavior. Myths, identity and stereotypes are the issues that continue to define and support my current work.

Gregg Arbeene
Gregg is a relatively new member. We will present information about him shortly.

John McCarthy
johnville88@verizon.net
John McCarthy was born and raised in Oxnard and currently lives in Santa Monica. He has studied art in Big Sur, CA; Providencia, Colombia and other exotic locales including San Miguel de Allende, Patzcuaro and Guananjuato.

Johanna Spinks
johanna@johannaspinks.com
www.JohannaSpinks.com
Gallery
Award-winning Los Angeles portrait artist Johanna Spinks knows faces inside out. For years she worked as a top Hollywood makeup artist to the stars applying her artistry to many famous faces before they went under the lights.

Johanna is proud to serve as California State Ambassador for The Portrait Society of America. She is also a member of Oil Painters of America, Allied Artists of America, Artists Fellowship Inc., The Portrait Society of Atlanta and The California Art Club.