Pictured: Elana Kundell, It’s a Toss Up

First Saturdays

The art studios are open to the public every first Saturday of the month. As many as 40 of the areas very best artists welcome visitors into their studios to watch them create sculptures, paintings and multimedia pieces up-close and personal.

Open Studio Saturday is the ideal time to speak with our artists about classes, commissions, and our wonderful creative community.

Free admission and free parking.

Meet this months featured Artist-in-Residence, Elana Kundell! Visit Elana in Studio A1 during the next Open Studios.

Elana Kundell is a longtime Artist-In-Residence at Studio Channel Islands whose sensitive oil and mixed media paintings explore our connection with nature, the body and each other through the evocative language of color. Her experiences as the granddaughter of a Holocaust survivor led her to curate this exhibition focused on the theme of displacement.

Kundell’s artwork has been exhibited at the Carnegie Art Museum in Oxnard, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) Artists Gallery, the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Los Angeles, CA for the Fresh! Art Auction, the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, and in galleries in the United States and in Korea. She has received grants including a residency at the Vermont Studio Center and three Ventura Music Festival commissions. Her artwork resides in numerous private collections in the United States and abroad.

Kundell studied art at the University of California at Santa Cruz and Painting and Sculpture at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Bologna, Italy. Her past curatorial projects for Studio Channel Islands include CA Printmaking Now, co-curated with Jennifer Printz in 2008, and Assistant Curator for the 10th Anniversary Exhibit in 2007, curated by Gerd Koch.