Resident Artists
Resident Artist
Jan Govaerts
After retiring as District Chief of the Torrance Superior Court, Jan Govaerts received her Bachelor of Arts in studio art in 1991 and has never looked back. Her work has been shown in galleries across the United States and abroad and is in private collections, including the Art Colony Galichnik collection in Macedonia. In 1996 she and her seven studio mates founded the Loft Studios and Gallery, now Los Angeles Harbor Arts (LAHA), and were instrumental in starting a lively art scene in historic downtown San Pedro’s Arts Culture and Entertainment District, with the 1st Thursday art walk.
Art Director
Carol Hungerford
Carol Hungerford is a So Cal native impressionist style painter. Painting mostly in oil she focuses on color relationships using figures, still life, and landscapes as a backdrop for her work. She accepts commissions and has clients throughout the US and a few overseas.
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Resident Artist
Joy Gonzalez
Joy Gonzalez paints landscapes of Coastal California, where she lives, as well as scenes from her travels throughout California and the Southwest. She has enjoyed beach trips, back-packing and camping since she was a child. In this increasingly chaotic world, she feels that getting back to nature seems to restore sanity and serenity and that is what she tries to bring to her artwork.
Resident Artist
Michael Stearns
I am primarily a colorist who works with mostly organic shapes and images. Color to me is like music, it connects with us in ways we don’t realize. It focuses our eyes, asks is this right, it it real it makes me warm/cold, safe/discomfort. Color that doesn’t seem to “work” together can cause a calmness/ discomfort at the same time. The painting and sculptural work both explore the mysteries and energies that happen in synchronicity The pain of the human condition, man’s spiritual quest, his relationship to earth and our attempt to heal earth when she is out of balance.
Resident Artist
Jim Murray
"If, as Thomas Wolfe opined, you can’t go home again, you can’t ever really leave home in the first place. You carry your whereabouts, those places that have made you what you are, with you at all times. Jim Murray’s practice embraces the notion of place as spirit, finding the personal in both the monumental and the quotidian.
If art is a lens, Murray stays in sharp focus. If art is a mirror or window, then Murray’s art is a rear-view mirror and a windshield, streaked with memory". - Peter Frank
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Resident Artist
Rodney Boone
Rodney Boone is a photographer and photo-based collagist.
"As a photographer, what I am interested in are the myriad of tiny moments around us all of the time which, often busily chattering in our own skulls in our own personal monologue, dialogue, or multilogue, we can so easily miss. I think that life is lived best in these small instants, and much of my photography is a record of the moments that have surprised me with their abrupt vivacities."
Website:
http://www.rodneyboonephotography.com/
Instagram:
@rodneyboone96
Resident Artist
Sung-Hee Son
Sung-Hee Son is a Los Angeles based multi-disciplinary artist and curator. She earned her BFA in fine arts from Montserrat College of Art in 1996 and started working in and learning about the art world in Boston and New York City. In her artistic practice, she explores abstracted themes of experienced and perceived realities. She weaves between the mediums of painting, conceptually inspired photography and mixed media sculpture and installations.
As a curator and cultural programmer, Sung-Hee focuses on supporting emerging artists and bringing communities together to share and celebrate creativity and diversity.
Instagram:
@sungheeson.art
Resident Artist
Michael Petow
Born 1987, is a painter working in San Pedro CA. mostly in cell vinyl and acrylic. His work is abstract, filled with expressive brushstrokes, bold compositions intertwined with hints of figuration. His primary focus is on excavating his own symbology, and documenting the ever changing landscape of his subconscious, through a discovery process known as shamanic journeying. His work explores themes of alienation, destruction, and transformation.