Pamela Beck is a writer/producer whose novels include the New York Times best sellers Fling and Rich Men, Single Women. She has written screenplays as well as novels and has developed/produced various film and television projects, including the adaptation of one of her novels, Rich Men, Single Women for Aaron Spelling and ABC.

Pamela's shift into working as a visual artist taps into her lifelong love of contemporary art, a passion for color, and the joy (and challenge) of creating.

Her art-making journey began with an empty wall she was on a mission to fill. As a long-time contemporary art collector, she visited her favorite galleries, looking for the perfect piece to fulfill her vision for the space.

She began seeing the work in her mind. As it came into sharper and sharper focus, she felt compelled to try and construct what she saw when she closed her eyes.

She began experimenting. She wanted white space. She wanted calm. She wanted linear lines. Visualizing her palette she saw white, black, shades of gray. A lone red.

As she watched her work grow and morph, it became all about color, light and imagination. The balance between chance and control. The elegance of linear lines and the endless potential of abstraction. The work became its own kind of storytelling.

Making art has become an obsession.

Pamela has had various works selected for multiple online exhibitions as well as in-person group shows. Her work is part of some very substantial collections.

O'Connor is an emotional artist who is driven by his need to create and express.

Growing up between the beach and the city in sub-tropical Queensland strongly influenced his sensibility as an artist. His vivid use of color and expressive forms are a nostalgic marker of his early life. Recently featured by prominent global arts and fashion magazines including ODDA and SICKY, O'Connor has begun carving out a voice in the international art and culture scene.

His process is always kinetic, mining for instruction from his heart and body "Music has the ability to get me out of my head and into my body and this is where ultimately I want to paint and create from" O'Connor is often dancing and moving in-between strokes. "I want people to feel something, I want them to dance too."

O'Connor's high school art assignments at the conservative all boys catholic school he attended would often take over entire classrooms and would be as much about the visual work as the reaction. "For senior year I turned my entire classroom and everyone in it into a thundering storm with swaths of black and grey tulle covering the entire ceiling and projections of lighting strikes bouncing off mirrors around the room. I wanted to see how people reacted, how it made them feel"

A native of southwestern Michigan, Stephanie Visser relocated to sunny southern California in 2003. Educated at Kendall College of Art and Design in Grand Rapids Michigan, she graduated there with her BFA in Fine Arts. She continued her education in fine arts and painting at Western Michigan University and Pasadena College of Art and Design.

Stephanie began her artistic journey as a realistic painter. Graduate study led her into landscape abstraction and then to non-objective abstraction. Stephanie Visser uses color, light and emotion to articulate abstract compositions on canvas. Her mature working methodology is inspired by instruction received at the graduate level layered upon a classical arts education. The ideas for the canvases are distilled from techniques that she learned from Mary Winterfield, whom she counts as one of the primary influences to her current painting style. Winterfield, an instructor at the Pasadena College of Art and Design, studied at the the Arts Student League of New York and the Cape School under Henry Hensche. Winterfield taught Visser the spatial push pull theories of Hans Hoffman as well the use of color keys to depict the color of light itself. Visser employs what she terms abstract simplification to create strong soaring work.

Rotem Reshef is a painter and installation artist based in New York and Tel Aviv. Her work creates social commentary via immersive installations and paintings that relate to society's effect on climate change and its relations to the private and public environments.

Reshef uses waste vegetation (branches, petals, ferns, leaves etc.), collected in the streets, parks and elsewhere in the urban surroundings, and imprints these "relics" onto her canvases, in a technique that resembles photograms.

In the spirit of Ecofeminism, reacting to a world that has suffered greatly from industries that had excavated and damaged entire natural areas for centuries, Reshef is suggesting a more compassionate approach of coexistence with nature, out of respect and acknowledgment of its importance for centuries to come.

Through her artistic practice, Reshef wishes to bring optimism and stability, and to address longevity, historical perspectives and the power of nourishment and life.

Multidisciplinary artist Yana Tammah has taken a variety of artistic journeys in her life so far. In her childhood years, she was strongly shaped by her Eastern European upbringing and later by her life as an immigrant in the U.S., where she first discovered her creative talents, as well as her interest in the glamorous fashion world.

Driven by her devotion to sharing her vast knowledge and expertise with others, Yana founded her own lifestyle brand "SSTAGIONI" and authored two books on developing a personal style. Throughout her creative journey, Yana always believed that from suffering there comes strength and that every hardship ultimately reveals a better side of life. This profound belief is what inspired her label "SSTAGIONI", which translates as "Four Seasons" in Italian. The label perfectly embodies the rhythm of life's constant changes, where warmth only exists because of cold, and light only because of darkness.

Later on, with her artistic curiosity still burning bright, Yana discovered a new medium to visually represent her experiences and emotions in a whole new way with her experimentation with abstract painting. She founded her art label "SSTAGIONI Art by Yana Tammah" in 2022 as a body of abstract work, embracing the feminist movement and incorporating masculine inspirations to create an open, relatable, and emerging dialogue of contemporary artwork. Along her journey, Yana has experienced various hardships, which have shaped her art and continue to influence it to this day. So far, her expressive paintings have touched the hearts of their viewers at numerous exhibitions worldwide and have also been featured in well- known television productions.

SSTAGIONI Art paintings have been exhibited and collected worldwide, including in United Kindom (London), Italy (Milan, Venice), Germany (Berlin), Spain (Madrid, Palma de Mallorca), Switzerland (Zurih, Zug), Russia (Moscow).

In US as well (New York, Miami, Los Angeles, Beverly Hills, Santa Monica, Denver).

CALIFORNIA HERITAGE MUSEUM (Sep 9-30 2023)

Her work has been featured in television productions on prominent networks such as 5KTLA and Fox.

Kymm Swank is a self-taught artist living in Los Angeles, CA.

She works primarily in oils and acrylics. The bold work she creates explores abstract forms, urban texture, and structure through line and color.

She currently lives in downtown Los Angeles, where the transforming skyline and city streets offer constant inspiration. She has shown her work throughout Southern California, most recently at WallspaceLA, Shockboxx, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, and the LA Art Association. Her paintings can also be seen on the sets of numerous TV shows including: Grace and Frankie, Newsroom, American Horror Story, Insecure, and MadMen.

Annie Clavel is a mixed media abstract painter who grew up in Paris, France. She studied mathematics and computer science and taught mathematics in France and in Tunisia. Annie moved to Long Beach in 2006, where she opened a gallery and began her career as a professional artist.

She takes her inspiration from her background in science, thinking of the perpetual motion in space since the Big Bang and of the concept of infinity. Cosmic landscapes, magical nature, emotions, and stories might be seen in her paintings.

Her art is in private collections in France, Tunisia, Germany, Canada, Japan and USA.

Annie is chair of marketing and treasurer at Orange County Center for Contemporary Art. She is an active member of Los Angeles Art Association (Gallery 825) and a board member of Women Painters West.

Kymm Swank is a self-taught artist living in Los Angeles, CA.

She works primarily in oils and acrylics. The bold work she creates explores abstract forms, urban texture, and structure through line and color.

She currently lives in downtown Los Angeles, where the transforming skyline and city streets offer constant inspiration. She has shown her work throughout Southern California, most recently at WallspaceLA, Shockboxx, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, and the LA Art Association. Her paintings can also be seen on the sets of numerous TV shows including: Grace and Frankie, Newsroom, American Horror Story, Insecure, and MadMen.

Kymm Swank is a self-taught artist living in Los Angeles, CA.

She works primarily in oils and acrylics. The bold work she creates explores abstract forms, urban texture, and structure through line and color.

She currently lives in downtown Los Angeles, where the transforming skyline and city streets offer constant inspiration. She has shown her work throughout Southern California, most recently at WallspaceLA, Shockboxx, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, and the LA Art Association. Her paintings can also be seen on the sets of numerous TV shows including: Grace and Frankie, Newsroom, American Horror Story, Insecure, and MadMen.

Allois is an American painter and illustrator, best known for the striking and bizarre images of Aliens in her surrealist work. She illustrated collectible edition of the stories by Edgar Allan Poe and Ray Bradbury "THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER/USHER II," published by Gauntlet Press in 2010.

These words very well describe the artist as well as her works. Rhea, over the last twenty-seven years, produced a body of work that celebrates with antiquity the everlasting human spirit, which survives the brutality, and insanity of war, aridity, and harshness of human nature as it endures.

Rhea utilizes a variety of media: oils, sand, water, treated paper, canvas, and wood; which she layers, smoothes, and sculpts to create the abstract impressions, which demand tactile as well as visual interplay.

Her works are perceived as the topography of intimate landscapes, as well as the mapping of emotions and sensations devoid of familiar forms. The paintings are a personal diary of the artist as she chronicles the events that had an impact on humanity and nature.

These works combine to express the feelings of introspection, conflict, human emotion, and the effects of malicious wielding of power and greed on humanity.

Rhea's work has been exhibited in Israel, Europe, Australia, New York, and Los Angeles. She now resides in California with her husband of 48 years.

Tom O'Connor is a contemporary Australian artist, actor, and creative director who lives and works in Los Angeles. His artist practice spans across abstract painting, spatial installation, sculpture, and self-portrait photography.