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  • Pilar Agüero-Esparza
    Pilar Agüero-Esparza
    Visual Artist: Mixed Media, Print Maker, Sculptor, Textile
    Born in Boyle Heights, East Los Angeles, Pilar Agüero-Esparza was exposed to the potential of materials and the love of the hand-made working with her parents in their shoe repair shop. She received a BA in Art from the University of California,...
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  • Diana Pumpelly Bates
    Diana Pumpelly Bates
    Visual Artist: Sculptor
    Diana Pumpelly Bates is a sculptor and public artist working in bronze, iron, and steel. Her work has been included in exhibitions at the Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA; The Triton Museum, Santa Clara, CA; the Oliver Art Center at California College of...
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  • Terry Berlier
    Terry Berlier
    Visual Artist: Sculptor
    “Terry Berlier makes conceptual art of unusual intelligence, humor and sensitivity to the impact of materials.”—Kenneth Baker, San Francisco Chronicle Terry Berlier is an interdisciplinary artist who works primarily with sculpture and expanded...
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  • Jaap Bongers
    Jaap Bongers
    Visual Artist: Sculptor
    Jaap Bongers is a practicing artist who has had many solo exhibitions in the United States, Holland, Sweden, and Denmark. He has authored a number of publications and has received many public commissions for his art. Born in Holland, he was educated...
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  • Ryan Carrington
    Ryan Carrington
    Visual Artist: Sculptor, Textile
    Ryan Carrington works as a lecturer at San Jose State University teaching sculpture, foundry work, and mold making. Having received his MFA in spatial art from SJSU he went on to earned his BFA at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in ceramics and...
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  • Chris Eckert
    Chris Eckert
    Visual Artist: Sculptor
    Originally trained as a mechanical engineer, I worked for a number of years in Silicon Valley designing and building factory automation. While I enjoyed many aspects of this career, I rapidly became frustrated with its necessary emphasis on...
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  • Yvonne Escalante
    Yvonne Escalante
    Visual Artist: Jeweler, Sculptor
    Yvonne Escalante is a metalsmith artist based in San Jose. She is a lecturer at San Jose State University in metalsmithing, jewelry, and small sculpture. In addition to metal, her work also incorporates wood, glass, and found objects. Using these...
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  • Cynthia Handel
    Cynthia Handel
    Visual Artist: Sculptor
    Cynthia Handel is an Oakland based artist using metal and fabric to create immersive experiences.
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  • Sam Hernandez
    Sam Hernandez
    Visual Artist: Sculptor
    Sam Hernández is a sculptor primarily known for his innovative work in wood. Hernández achieves poetic yet vigorous free-standing abstractions through such widely-varying tools as African adzes, Japanese saws, Native American crook knives, and...
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  • Pancho Jiménez
    Pancho Jiménez
    Visual Artist: 3D, Ceramist, Sculptor
    Pancho Jiménez holds an MFA in Sculptural Ceramics from San Francisco State University, and his BA degree from Santa Clara University. He has exhibited extensively in the San Francisco Bay Area and nationally at universities, private galleries, and...
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  • Terry Kreiter
    Terry Kreiter
    Visual Artist: Sculptor
    I have been making art in various media for more than 40 years. In the last 20 years most of my concentration has been in bronze cast sculpture. I still draw, paint and fabricate. I work in my studio / foundry which I designed and built behind my...
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  • Marianne Lettieri
    Marianne Lettieri
    Visual Artist: 3D, Mixed Media, Sculptor, Textile
    Marianne Lettieri creates art from commonplace objects that people have used over time and no longer find desirable or necessary. Her mixed media constructions explore the process by which relics of the past illuminate and inform current contexts. ...
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  • Ken Matsumoto
    Ken Matsumoto
    Visual Artist: Sculptor
    Ken is a well-established and respected sculptor who holds a Masters of Fine Arts degree in sculpture from San Jose State University. His extensive track record includes solo and group exhibitions throughout California since the mid-1980’s. His...
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  • Stephanie Metz
    Stephanie Metz
    Visual Artist: Sculptor
    Stephanie Metz lives and works in San Jose, California and was a featured artist in Bay Area Currents 2009 at ProArts Gallery, Oakland, CA. She has exhibited at Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco and New York, and the San Jose Institute of Contemporary...
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  • Harry Powers
    Harry Powers
    Visual Artist: Sculptor
    Potent childhood memories, those treasured experiences, often become the matrix of an artist’s work. So it is with Harry Powers who as a very small child saw a native American ceremonial dance around a bonfire at night. The intensity of watching...
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  • Tim Ryan
    Tim Ryan
    Visual Artist: Sculptor
    Tim’s work is 3-D, spatial sculpture that generally begins on a constructive surface Tim builds upon. Sometimes he paints or collages on the surface. He uses electro-mechanical, time-related aspects as well, but right now he is making an effort to...
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  • Randall Shiroma
    Randall Shiroma
    Visual Artist: Sculptor
    Randall Shiroma is a sculptor who works in a terrazzo medium creating works that also evoke the natural elements and forms of nature. Shiroma’s polished and patinated concrete sculptures seem to reflect the mountains, sky and water, while revealing...
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  • Stan Welsh
    Stan Welsh
    Educator; Visual Artist: Ceramist, Mixed Media, Sculptor
    Stan Welsh was born and raised in Southern California in the town of Claremont. He currently has a home and studio on three acres of property in the coastal mountains of Santa Cruz California.  For the past 20 years Stan has been a professor at San...
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  • Shannon Wright
    Shannon Wright
    Visual Artist: 3D, Architecture, Mixed Media, Sculptor
    Shannon Wright is a sculptor and installation artist based in San José, California. She earned her BFA in Sculpture from Virginia Commonwealth University and her MFA in Time Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Wright is an...
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