Taylor Gallegos

Taylor Gallegos has been exhibited in solo and group shows in art galleries and businesses throughout the western United States and abroad. His work is in public and private collections from Hawai’i to Italy.

Taylor has always loved, created and studied art. He was born in Boulder, Colorado, and received a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts with a double concentration in both Painting and Drawing from Colorado State University. To expand on his formal education and artistic practice, he went abroad in 2004 to study, paint and draw in Castiglion Fiorentino, Italy. Since then he has lived and worked in the world of art practicing his craft in many different mediums and styles. Taylor now lives and makes art in Fallbrook, California, twenty minutes from the ocean that he visits often for fun, connection to the world and deep inspiration.

Check out more on the artist website taylorgallegos.com

Frankie and the Invisibles

A Sonic Blast from the Past…

Classic Rock & Roll Instrumental Guitar featuring the music of The Ventures, Link Wray, Duane Eddy, plus 50’s & 60’s hits, Surf tunes, and of course those classic Beatle rockers!

I’ve been a resident of Fallbrook since 1999. When I first arrived I didn’t know any musicians in the area, so I began experimenting with using pre-recorded back-up tracks to accompany my guitar playing. This led to developing a jazz/Latin guitar sound which I called “Guitar Moods”. For the next 10+ years I played in and around the Fallbrook area, most notably playing for a year at the old Wildwood Restaurant and another year at Rio Rico in Bonsall. In addition, I played at several other restaurants in Fallbrook, as well numerous times at the Fallbrook & Cultural Center. I also played at private parties throughout the area.

After retiring “Guitar Moods” I developed a real love for instrumental rock n’ roll music from the late 50’s early 60's. This included artists such as The Ventures, Duane Eddy, The Shadows, Link Wray, and many of the surf bands that recorded in the pre-Beatle era of rock n’ roll; groups like The Chantays, The Lively Ones, The Pyramids, and the Astronauts. This is first generation rock n’ roll that evokes an era of simply having fun, along with a good beat to dance to.

Out of this has come my latest musical venture...a “virtual” band I call “Frankie & The Invisibles”. Playing electric guitar~along with high quality instrumental accompaniment which I personally arranged and developed~I’ve created a full band sound that works really well in many venues where a more “energized” sound is wanted, but full bands are not an option. Over the last 14 months I’ve played a variety of venues in Fallbrook, Bonsall, Escondido, as well as Carlsbad and Encinitas. In addition I’ve done many gigs in Old Town Temecula, which has developed a very dynamic music scene over the last few years.

As a guitar player for 45 years, I have immersed myself in a variety of styles from Rock n’ Roll, Blues and Jazz, and even Classical. The one constant has always been my love of the power and passion expressed through the guitar.

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Steve Wallace

Steve Wallace is one of the first photographers in the United States to go completely digital back in 1994. His work was published in Photographic Magazine that year. Since then his work has been published in Popular Photography, Digital Photo Pro Magazine, Photoshop User Magazine, photographic instructional books and advertisements for Nikon’s Mentor Series. In 2012 he was named “Professional of the Future” by Digital Photo Pro Magazine. His photography appears on NGO web sites and will be in the Fall edition of University of San Diego Magazine.

My works are a combination of photography and digital painting. I start with a photographic image with good composition then add paint digitally. My favorite subject is an interesting face from a foreign land.

Check out more on the artist website: stephenwallace.zenfolio.com

Carl Heidenreich

The STAR Theatre has received a gift of 10 original watercolors that have not been seen in decades by renowned artist, Carl Heidenreich, from collector Emanuel L. Wolf and Patricia J. Recendez.

Carl Heidenreich (1901-1965) was at the center of Germany’s avant-garde. He was a student in the first school of Modern Art opened by Hans Hofmann in Munich in 1915. Hofmann moved to New York in the early 1932 and in 1941 helped Heidenreich escape the Nazis just before the outbreak of WWII. Most of Heidenreich's early works, left behind in Germany, were destroyed during the war, but the artist returned to painting after establishing himself in New York.

Heidenreich's surviving works "tell a tale of a man who lost everything — family, possessions, and all of his art in the escalating progress of war — struggling to replace and recuperate his loss." Heidenreich's efforts to absorb and come to terms with the traumas in his life are evidenced in abstract compositions in which effects of space, illumination, and other phenomena combine to set up an internal dynamic flow (what he called "pictorial motion"), in which recognizable images and forms emerge, recede, and at times disappear completely, spiraling through layers of colors and marks. Today Heidentreich's work is included in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.  The UC Berkeley Art Museum, which was founded by Hans Hoffman, has several of Heidenreich’sworks in its permanent collections.

Emanuel L. Wolf "Manny" is an avid collector of Heidenreich’s paintings.  Emanuel L. Wolf as head of Allied Artist Pictures was responsible for many major films including Cabaret ( 8 Oscars), Papillon, The Betsy, and The Man Who Would King.

Gretchen Koch

Koch’s oil paintings frequently inflect her photographic images with texture, color and brush strokes she could not realize in one medium alone.  They are a way of processing her emotions, capturing a color and ferocity felt in her soul. Koch’s use of paint to manipulate, personalize, minimize and exaggerate her subject matter, leaves the viewer enveloped in a secondary experience, that of the image and of Koch’s interpretation.(Diana Carey curator)

BFA Cleveland Institute of Art. Major in Photography.

Awards and exhibition history Ohio and California.

"I paint to process and release the emotions I feel. To manifest in color and texture my personal interpretations of life". Gretchen Koch

Check out more at the artists painting website renategk6.wix.com/grkoch and photography website gkochphotography.com

John Lamb

John Lamb is an artist, animation film producer/director, and entrepreneur. From the first animated surf and skateboarding cartoons, to perhaps the first American animated, rotoscoped rock n' roll video, to an Academy Award for Scientific and Technical Achievement for invention of the Lyon Lamb Video Animation System (VAS), Lamb's work has consistently been in the public eye since the 1970s.

In the early 1970s, Lamb's animation was seen in two seminal surf movies. "The Forgotten Island of Santosha" by Larry and Roger Yates featured Lamb's first animated film "Secret Spot" (1974), while "Five Summer Stories" by McGilivray-Freeman Films (1975) featured Lamb's animated short "Rocket 88".

Amber Rose Tibb

Amber Tibb was born and raised in the deserts of Southern California. She currently resides with her husband and small children in Oceanside, CA. She grew up in open spaces as a child with the freedom of the outdoors that she believes helped nourish a creative mind. She obtained her BA of Fine Art emphasizing in studio art from University of California Riverside; however, has been making art since before she can remember. Her work has been displayed at Riverside’s California Museum of Photography, the Chancellor’s Residence of UC Riverside, La Quinta Arts Foundation’s shows and other gallery exhibitions in the desert and california coastal regions.

Amber often combines raw pigments from the earth mixed with new and innovative bio resins creating a constant push pull between the natural and the synthetic. The work may also include handmade paper mixed with prior charcoal or pastel renderings merged into one mass. Some of the works build up a three-dimensional appearance as multiple layers of resin are places after each layer of medium is applied. What most of them have in common is a use of bold colors and iridescent pigments that provide vibrancy to the surrounding space in which it resides.

Check out more on the artist website amberroseart.com

Rizzo Michelle

Rizzo Michelle is a 28 year old self-taught custom toy artist and sculptor based out of Oceanside, California. She's a fan of Lowbrow/Pop surrealism art and has worked in various typed of mediums but it was not until October 2013, when vending at Comikaze, where she fell in love designer toys. She currently designs and produces her own independent line of unique and imaginative custom toys and plushies. Her work is best known for her highly imaginative style and impeccable quality and detail. Rizzo is a traveling artist vending at various Comic Cons throughout the US. The Next ComicCon that she’ll be vending at is at New York ComicCon in early October.

Check out more on her website www.rizzomichelleart.com or Facebook The Art of Rizzo Michelle or Twitter @pinupchronicles or Instagram @thepinupchronicles

Candye Kane

Candye Kane believes the universe makes no mistakes. She doesn’t view a stereotypical patriarchal God seated on a velvet throne in flowing white robes granting wishes and deciding who will live or die. Kane believes the universe, or your higher power or whatever you feel comfortable calling it, has already made decisions and already knows what you are capable of, long before you take your first step or have your first all night cry over the rejection of a girl or boy at school. The universe has already strengthened you for the most radical endurance race of all...LIFE.

In 1983, Candye was a teenage mom from the poor side of Los Angeles, it was welfare and food stamps by day, hard drug use and nude modeling by night, while at the same time yodeling and moshing alongside groundbreaking punk bands like the Circle Jerks, X and FEAR in Hollywood’s underground music scene. To help pay the bills she appeared on the covers of Hustler and High Society, whilst peddling her cassettes of original hillbilly music to anyone who would listen along the Venice, CA Boardwalk.

It didn’t take long before Candye signed a management deal with The Halsey Agency, the first agency to promote American music behind the Iron Curtain, she became close friends with Dave Alvin, Marty Stuart and Dwight Yoakum who wisely encouraged her to always be honest about her colorful past. "Be yourself Candye. It's what you're good at" said Yoakum.

Check out more on the artist website candyekane.com and Facebook candyekaneband and MySpace candyekaneband

Matt Dunn

For years now much of my work has involved text. People come into my studio, often people who think they don’t know how to look at art, and they read my work closely in spite of themselves. I make visual work people want to pronounce. I try to keep it in the middle area between propaganda or design and total abstraction. This show is titled “Anti-Analogy” because these works, all these words, are clearly talking about somethings but I want those things to exist in your brain alone, as insistent but distant ideas, not in a comparison or simile or allegory. A patient viewer who untangled a map of anagrams or a six-layer repetition would still find something oblique.

Using text in my pieces keeps me working. I can make something bold or clear on a painting, then back away from it, complicate it, complement it, or underline it. The cleaner, more legible texts in this show are still results of that back-and-forth process. The Quaker Game is a kinetic sculpture of ten words I wrote to someone once. I sat back and looked at the email and the pattern and various relationships between the words made sense to me in numerous ways. The sculpture presents those relationships individually. The words on the rapidly-spinning shaft have an urgency to them; the ones that stop and start are more stately. The strobe is there to animate the rapid one backwards; all the energy there is half-hidden and confusing. It’s a piece about silence and energy and lust.

JT Rhoades

My name is JT Rhoades . I have lived in Oceanside my entire life a long with my three brothers. Our dad raised all of us himself for nineteen years; having a house full of boys was quite the adventure. We were never far from trouble and on occasion we may have received a knock on our door from local OPD.

In my eyes, surfing and skateboarding have laid the foundation for a way of life that are lived by many. Surrounded by friends everyday gives me the inspiration to continue my passion and photograph those around me. Photography became an outlet that causes me to slow down and really take in the street life around me. Through all the ups and downs in life I have experienced thus far, I often think about that fact that I could be that dude sleeping at the bus stop or alone reading under the bridge. The way I see it, the misunderstood folks I often times interact with can either keep me on the right path or pull me into a world of the unknown.

Dean LeCrone

Dean LeCrone is a cartoonist, whose talents have been utilized in comic books, calendars, t-shirts, posters, magazines, and pretty much any other format- be it paper or internet- that has provided a platform for his work.

Dean brings his cartooning skills to Oceanside's Art Walk, by offering up his "Superhero Caricatures". With pen to paper, Dean will transform Oceanside Art Walk attendees into their favorite super hero!

In his youth, Dean grew up consuming and devouring comic books (into his brain, not actually chewing and swallowing them) and was influenced by the many talented, sequential art storytellers. His influences ranged from Marvel Comics, Mad Magazine, and newspaper strips.

Dean has been an exhibitor at Comic-Con, and continues attending each year as a professional. He was also the President of the Southern California Cartoonists Society for a couple of years, and continues to be a member of that fun group.

His comic character, "Doc Smith" (everybody's favorite social outcast) is growing in popularity with the yearly release of his Doc Smith calendars. See Doc Smith at: docsmith.us. and Facebook The Real Doc Smith Page

Dean's most recent project was an animation job- providing the art and character designs for an all animated episode of the comedy web series "Betty and DD's School of Acting Arts". The episode can be seen at their website, bettyanddd.com

Dean also has a multi-media partnership with photographer and artist Allen Freeman. Together, as Slambang Media, they have teamed up on various projects and jobs ranging from comics, poster art, film, and photography.

Check out the artist websites slambangmedia.com and deanlecrone.com and Facebook dean.lecrone

505 Collective

A artist collective connected with The Engravers Gallery, including Paul Boone, Joseph Moes, Jennifer Elsner, Benjamin Martin, Roger Moes and Kaylee 

Oceanside Museum of Art Artist Alliance

The Artist Alliance is a membership affiliate group dedicated to the support of the Oceanside Museum of Art. It provides opportunities for interaction, visibility and growth for artists in the region.

For more info, check out the website.

The Artist Alliance appears monthly on the patio of the Oceanside Museum of Art

The Center for the Arts at TERI, Inc

The Center for the Arts at TERI, Inc in Oceanside CA opened its studio doors in 2007. The Art Studios provide a space for artists with autism and other developmental disabilities to collaborate, experiment with sensation, personal expression and to connect to you, as audience. The work is expressive and often collaborative; thus giving the opportunity of participation to people of diverse abilities. The greater body of work is in acrylics on various platforms, but includes creation in collage, mosaic, and mixed media.

Jeannie Marshall Ortiz

Jeannie Marshall Ortiz was born in San Diego, California, and grew up near the beach in south Ocean Beach. The ocean, the sun, and a good breeze have always been her comfort and inspiration. She gradually got into making art, starting with drawing, beading, sewing, and spinning and dying wool. She also played the flute, enjoyed jamming, and was part of a modern dance group called Vanguard. The rhythm and flow of all these elements is seen in her artwork.

She made her first linoleum block print when she was 21, living in what she called her ‘birdhouse’ in Golden Hills, while going to Mesa College. She majored in Art and Spanish, and took her first sculpting class there, which felt like coming home. Continuing her studies at San Francisco State University she enjoyed lithography, and, of course, sculpting. Finishing up her B.A. in Art with an emphasis in Sculpture, she made her first figurative sculpture in marble.

During her time in ‘The City’, she started traveling in Mexico and Guatemala, with just a backpack, and stayed in ‘pensiones’. Jeannie visited many museums and galleries, small towns, lots of water falls, made many friends, and drew in pencil and ink wherever she went. While living in Coatepec and Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico, she worked on a sizable sculpture in marble, made a variety of prints, a couple of smaller sculptures in wood, and lots of drawings. She also taught art and sculpting to various individuals, and ceramics to a sizable group at the University Extension.

Returning to San Diego, Jeannie raised three sons, earned teaching credentials, and taught bilingual elementary school children for nearly two decades, mostly in Vista. She used her Spanish a whole lot more than her art during that time.

Since retiring, she’s gotten back to sculpting, and even made a couple of prints.
She teaches sculpting to kids of all ages, and now has a single subject credential to teach art. In 2010, Jeannie participated in the Oceanside Sculpture Competition. She taught sculpting at Reach, an after school program run by the Vista Community Clinic, with a grant from the Kenneth A. Picerne Foundation in 2011. She was the featured artist of November 2011 at Vista Art Foundation’s Gallery 204. She teaches sculpting and mask making to elementary school students through ‘Kid’s College’, an after school enrichment program. She just learned to work in stained glass this winter, and loves the color and light. She also started making her first sculpture in olive wood recently. Jeannie shows her work at Artbeat on Main Street in Vista, and in the Artist Alliance shows around town.

Myles McGuinness

He’s a waterman and cameraman, can communicate verbally and visually, and manages brand strategy as well as he does typography. He is a Creative Director whose intuition and experience allow him to break from the script but stay exactly on-strategy. A fine artist backed with facts. And a shooter whose precision focus coexists with a broad depth of field. Instead of dictating, he integrates, shifting roles to fit the project, crew, client and shot at hand. Everything else just gets in the way of the idea.

He follows a basic principle: always go the extra mile.

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These images have been exhibited & published internationally in U.K., Brazil, France, Italy, Japan, Germany, Australia, U.S. and recognized by: American Advertising Federation (AAF), National Geographic, The Smithsonian,  Oceanside Museum of Art, Surfer, The California Surf Museum, Communication Arts Photo Annuals, PDN Photo Annual and a Follow the Light Finalist.

Images Represented by : Aurora Photos (US), The California Surf Museum (CA), and 6Feet and Perfect (France).

Check out more on the artist website 9mphoto.com, Facebook 9mphoto, Instagram @9mphoto, Tumblr 9mphoto.

Kay Lim aka K Limonade

Residing in North County, San Diego, artist Kay Lim also known as K Limonade, can be found creating a wide variety of imaginative pieces. From psychedelic backgrounds and mildly morbid characters, she brings together elements from street art and cartoons.

Moüse Movement

PAINT. SKATE. DOMINATE.

Check out more at the artist website mousemovement.com