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.

After studying painting at SUNY, Buffalo, Linda Smith went on to get an MFA in film from NYU and then moved to Los Angeles from New York City. In Los Angeles, she began painting again and started exhibiting her work.

Her work is inspired by her daily life, a mix of relationships with people, cats and dogs, along with inspiration from art history from the early Greeks to more contemporary art. Smith is really influenced by Picasso, Leger and Matisse, and of course Viola Frey, Robert Arneson and the Funk movement up in Northern California.

In 1996, she started working in ceramics, and presently works with clay and glazes creating ceramic sculpture. It's an exciting medium. Smith loves to explore with color pattern and shape, using her imagination, Whether it be in painting , prints, mosaics or sculpture her imagination takes over. She says "art is basic to my life, and it gives it joy, struggle and meaning.

Melissa Meier work confronts social and spiritual issues by incorporating mixed media sculpture into narrative assemblage. She is constantly working with new processes and structure, for example, with her "Laced" series, she photographed mug shot female portraits in natural light. With wood putty and graphite, the photographic surfaces are re-rendered and then dramatically altered with incised lace patterns. With a feeling similar to the Maori warrior facial tattoos, at once sexy and intimidating, the portraits are created out of a symbol of elegance, femininity and ironically Victorian repression. Meier's latest work entitled "Skins" furthers female portraiture, this time using natural elements such as leaves, feathers, stones, egg shells, pinecones, sticks, sponges, sea shells, scales and fur. Tribal ritual or the future of fashion, the "Skins" series asks the question: is there a difference?

Meier spent most of her childhood in Brazil. She received a B.A. from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. She has exhibited her work in New York City, Boston, Los Angeles, Sao Paulo and was chosen by Sotheby's for their Young International Artists group show and auction in Tel Aviv, Vienna and Chicago. Most recently, in Los Angeles, she has shown at Gloria Delson Contemporary Arts, Bleicher Golightly Gallery, Caporale/Bleicher Gallery and James Gray Gallery at Bergamot Station. In March, 2023, Meier will be having a solo show entitled "Becoming Nature" at The Oceanside Museum of Art in Oceanside, California.

Ms. Yellow (Nuria Ortiz) is a self-taught Mexican-American muralist, artist, craftswoman and teaching artist. She has dedicated her time to the creative development and empowerment of communities, working closely with schools, cities, community centers & more to develop workshops, murals & mentorship to the youth. Her artwork and murals have been displayed in museums, galleries, and streets throughout the United States and around the world such as Egypt, Haiti, Japan, Spain, France, Australia and Mexico, centering on themes such as culture, folklore, sisterhood, education, unity, love and social justice.

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.

Based in her native Los Angeles, Laurie Raskin has exhibited her vividly colored abstract paintings and collages throughout the world. Trained as a designer, Raskin's education at the California Institute of the Arts, where she earned a BFA and MFA, awakened in her the perceptions and skills to work in fine as well as applied art, and her ability to generate energetic, high-keyed imagery now finds her working pictorially. She has shown in galleries, museums and art fairs in Tokyo, Paris, Istanbul, New Delhi, Brussels and Miami as well as New Orleans and throughout California. In the last few years Raskin has licensed her art on such diverse applications as a fashion line in England, a vodka label for a Michigan-based micro distillery, and a designer carpet line resulting from a collaboration with Didden & Co in Brussels.