This July The Studio Shop is doing something new and completely different, a staff art show to display the multi-talented creativity of our awesome Studio Shop team.
Ty Nguyen brings his digital photography skills to The Studio Shop where he photographs the art work and performs digital retouching and printing for clients. He is a recent photography student at the Acadamy of Art University in San Francisco where he prefers to shoot in film and then print in both darkroom and digitally. The above scene is a panoramic photo collage of an iconic San Francisco location, made with over 90 prints and spanning almost 8 feet.
In his early artistic period Gary experimented with unique methods of photo printing which included Vaseline, photo paper and a face plant. Sounds weird but the results are amazing and you have to come in and see for yourself. One of his prints won first place in a Marathon County, Wisconsin, photo contest but then was unfortunately lost when it went to the state contest in Madison. Now this extremely rare work of art is probably in someone's attic waiting to be rediscovered by Antiques Roadshow and acknowledged as the ground-breaking work that it truly is. Another print from that series has survived and will be on display.
Steve Stowell is the frame builder and master of wood finishing at The Studio Shop. He is also an extremely fine photographer with a career spanning several decades from a Sears camera with flash cubes to shooting weddings with a Mamiya medium format film camera. Today Steve carries a digital camera on hikes and bike rides capturing his visions of pattern and composition.
Kristen Benson, gallery manager, art consultant and frame designer extraordinaire, is a long time artist with an art degree from Humbolt State. She has worked in textiles, mixed media and currently a lot of painting. The piece on left is painting on canvas and titled Moment by Moment.
Carl Martin wears many hats at The Studio Shop including web meister, art installer, IT, HR, photographer, trombone player and janitor. While his trombone playing will not be on display, some of his photography will be. The architectural photo on the right is of an office stairway in Belmont and part of a series of other Bay Area locations.
Also, Janet Martin and Julie Venosa, too late for photographs so come see their work in person.
Julie's finely executed landscape painting reveals a powerful dose of artistic DNA from her father, life long career artist Joseph Kertesz. Julie gained another couple decades of arts education by successfully running the family's Kertesz Gallery in San Francisco in the 80s and 90s.
Janet began her arts education by growing up with her parents at The Studio Shop. During her college years she supported herself as a working artist by carving and selling wood sculptures. More recently she has delved into mixed media/found art sculptures which will be on display at The Studio Shop.
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