'Ray at Asian Nights' Artist Roster
Visual Artists
James Chen
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.
Kate DiPietro
Kate DiPietro was raised in the outskirts of Washington D.C. In 2005 she graduated from the University of Delaware with a B.F.A. in Painting and an Art History Minor. While in college Kate pursued every outlet of art allowed to her, gaining extensive experience in drawing, painting and figurative work, metal, wood work, ceramics, printmaking and photography.
After graduation Kate continued pursuing art while working as an assistant at the Byrne Gallery in Middleburg, VA and at the Mary Anne Reilly Studio, Potomac, MD. Recently, Kate made the move to California where in a few years she will pursue her M.F.A.
“Ray at Asian Nights,” is Kate’s first group show in the San Diego area.
Keith Greene
Keith is a fun loving type of guy with a free spirit, who in 1988, left Brooklyn to find whatever he could in Scandinavia. There he lived in Malmoe, Sweden's third largest city, for 12 years. Today, he tattoos full time along with various side projects and exhibitions. He learned web design, multi-media, and graphic design, among other things, in Sweden.
Mye Hoang
Jeremy Jumanan
Liz Lopes
Liz Lopes has strong felt perceptions of human intervention with the glory of nature. This is the driving force of emotion transferred onto paper and canvas. She explores emotions and celebrates nature, driven by the fascination of the aesthetics, along with an understanding of tolerance and compassion for the human condition. Owner of Liz Lopes Graphics, she is a freelance graphic designer and illustrator producing commercial work for businesses locally and nationwide for print and Web projects using digital technology in photography, and image optimization.
Michael Sussna
Tomo Uesugi
Tomo moved to San Diego from Japan about 5 years ago. He believes that San Diego is among the best cities in which he has lived. He appreciates the diversity Californian culture. He feels his work represents his world. The subject of Tomo’s work is always the people who he knows well. He believes his world is composed of association with others, so describing images of his friends can reveal the society to which he belongs. Tomo has a Bachelor of Arts in Applied Arts and Sciences Art with emphasis in Painting and Printmaking from SDSU.
John Valois
After a forty year career in the academic world, including thirty-one years as a psychology professor at the University of San Diego, John turned to the world of art a means of fulfillment. While he used traditional oil and acrylic media during the sixties and seventies, he has found the flexibility and range of possibilities afforded by the digital medium to be truly amazing and an excellent means for expressing one's creative thoughts and feelings.
He uses several digital painting programs, including Photoshop and Painter to create his work and has also begun to integrate photography into his artwork.
Although without formal art training, he has had a lifelong passion for art, literature and music. Generating an artistic work leads him frequently into unforeseen areas with sometimes surprising results. The conflicts and complementarities of the inner and outer worlds play a significant role in the content of his work.
Ezra Pound once gave a definition of an artistic image as an “intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time.” Much of John’s work results in emotional-thought images which are indeed time-captures of these complexes.
Ricardo Vela
Matthew Walker
Luara Wirtz
Jeffrey Wynne
Jeffrey Wynne is a mixed-media artist and photographer who devotes much of his time to collage work related to human rights and to image transfer photography. He is also a book artist and teaches workshops on Polaroid image transfer techniques.
Jeffrey has studied art under the direction of Norma Soule and Richard M. Greene. He also studied art as part of his undergraduate work at the University of California at Santa Barbara.
Jeffrey teaches Polaroid image transfer photography in small classes at his University Heights studio, located near Park Boulevard in San Diego.
Elizabeth Zaikowski
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