Angels and Devils Artist Roster

Visual Artists

Kandice Braswell

Kenneth Colby
Kenneth William Colby was born March 4, 1949, and raised in the Buffalo, New York area. His father founded and operated a successful pipe organ company, Delaware Organ. He entered Purdue University in the fall of 1968, majoring in electrical engineering.

One day in Philadelphia, Ken was speaking to a group of computer scientists, when a young California entrepreneur, Peter Pruess, noticed his talents. Pruess persuaded Ken to join his fledging computer software company, ISSCO, in San Diego. In September 1978, a month after the birth of their first child, Seth, the family moved to San Diego. Eighteen months later their second child, Paige was born.

In his first years as a photographer he learned how difficult it is to earn a living and to develop a unique photographic style. Ken now has a clear direction and is pursuing the following areas: Green Screen Magic, Wedding Photography (see www.elegantdigital.com), Portrait and Model Photography, Digital Artist.

Lester Corral
Lester studied Applied Design at San Diego State University. He has been designing things from fine metal, ceramics, wood, and fabric. His schooling makes him feel well rounded in the field of design. Lester's imagination along with his vision have always been his approach in designing things for others. His emphasis at SDSU was Woodworking/Studio Furniture Design. He also studied and experimented a lot with surface manipulation in the textile field.

Dottie Korn Davis
Dottie Korn-Davis is a native Southern Californian. Her life changed when she walked into an archaeology class in her junior year at UCLA. Until then she was convinced she would be a foreign correspondent and travel around the world on freighters. Instead, she changed her focus, graduated, became a "shovel bum" and wound up working in the La Brea Tar Pits as a paleo-archaeologist for the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History. She was affectionately known as "Dottie the Dowser Nose" because of her ability to spot fossils on desert digs.

She then moved to Chicago and was hired by the Academy of Sciences in Lincoln Park to dig up a Mastodon. But the mastodon got bogged down in a bog and she wound up building and painting exhibits at the museum. Moving to San Diego, she received her master’s degree in studio arts from SDSU.

Soon, the travel bug bit hard again and she began a series of adventures in China, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Tunisia, Morocco, Peru, and, and in 2004 on public transportation and on foot in the ancient silk road countries of Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. She brought back objects, patterns and images which soon found their way into her work.

Jason Hite
Jason Hite has been a costume designer and sculptor for over 12 years. In 1995, he was fortunate enough to receive a full-tuition scholarship to the Art Institute of Pittsburgh where he learned the basics of his craft.

After graduating with a degree in Industrial Design, Jason moved to Los Angeles to work in movies. It wasn't as fun or glamorous as he imagined, so after 1 year of experience he relocated to San Diego. Since then he has been a full time sculptor and designer for a Halloween company called Disguise. Some of his clients include Marvel, Disney, Fox, Sony, and Dreamworks.

Jason really likes breaking the rules when it comes to sculpting. His best sculptures were never thought out on paper. Found objects also play a big part in his work. He kit bashes almost any interesting looking part he can get his hands on. In his spare time he creates his own characters, and he recently finished a stop-motion short called "STASIS". It was a really challenging project that took him over 3 years to complete.

Victoria Johnson

Kenneth Perez
Ken's prior life has been a mind-bending succession of spectacular pratfalls, deadly near-misses and major recriminations. Now, in the throes of adulthood, he finds himself slowly stumbling into the inevitable role of responsible family man. In the calm center of this "perfect storm," Ken paints to be happy. And he's happy because he paints.

Jen Seeley
Jennifer Lynne Seeley was born in Westlake Village, California on the unusual day of February 29th, which only appears on calendars every 4 years. This may explain her youthful inquisitiveness, powerful imagination and endless interest in the exploring the world around her.

Her first artistic epiphany came at a very young age while reading a coloring book. Suddenly she realized that the nose of the Stage Coach Driver that Borris and Natasha were “sticking-up” in the coloring book was simply made up of a triangle and a squiggle. From that day on, she began seeing the world in shapes and color.

In 2002, she earned her B.A. in Art & Graphic Design from San Diego State University. Her favorite pastimes include playing guitar and keyboard, digital photography, editing special effects into home movies, surfing, being a Rockstar!, writing screenplays, and of course spending time with her amazing family and friends. Jennifer loves meeting new people, walking unknown roads and writing the unknown codes. Gotta dream? Make it your reality. Remember, today is someday.

Gabriela Anaya Valdepena
For Gabriela, the different art forms that she explores; poetry, photography, and dance, do not compete, but mutually inspire. Poetry gives her a feeling for the narrative implied by an image; dance makes her aware of the grace inherent in a simple gesture; photography allows her to bring this drama and this beauty together with a compelling immediacy.

She is usually her own model, and this is both the heart of the matter and a matter of convenience. There are multiple characters, multiple worlds, within every soul, and if she reveals the many sides of herself she can reveal the many sides of us all. As Walt Whitman said in Song of Myself: do I contradict myself? very well then, I contradict myself. I am large. I contain multitudes. I am not a photographer; I am a liar with a camera. I do not wish to capture a moment, but an eternity.

David Villa

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