Since first picking up a paintbrush as a child, Tim Carey's guiding preoccupation as an artist has been light. "How can I make this image more luminous?" — a question that has followed him through every painting, and later, every pane of glass.
Shay Bredimus is a Los Angeles-based figurative painter and renowned tattoo artist. His paintings uniquely blend gestural, monochromatic tattoo ink marks on drafting film with precise, classical portraiture techniques.
Born to Egyptian immigrant parents, Joseph P. Gerges (b. 1976, Houston, Texas) is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, and glass. His work explores mortality, vulnerability, loss, and survival, merging narrative imagery, symbolism, and personal experience to examine the psychological and emotional dimensions of human experience.
Andrea Guzzetta is a stained-glass artist and oil painter based in Los Angeles, CA. She has worked for over a decade for stained glass studios such as Conrad Schmitt Studios, Judson Studios, and Theodore Ellison Designs. Her personal style exists in the lowbrow pop surrealism realm showing with galleries nationally and internationally, most notably Beinart Gallery, Corey Helford Gallery, and Archenemy Arts Gallery.
James Jean (b. 1979, Taipei) is a multidisciplinary visual artist whose works explore the intersection of imagination and reality through intricately layered narrative-driven compositions. His expressionistic approach to mark-making merges figuration and abstraction, balancing technical precision with painterly spontaneity. Working across painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, animation, and design, Jean creates expansive visual worlds that fuse mythology, literature, nature, history, and personal experience.
Amir H. Fallah (b. 1979, Tehran, Iran; Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA) creates paintings, murals, sculptures, and installations that explore systems of representation embedded in the history of Western art. His ornate environments combine visual vocabularies of painting and collage to deconstruct traditional notions of identity formation, while simultaneously defying expectations of the genre for portraiture by removing or obscuring the central figure.
David Flores is an internationally recognized contemporary artist whose work explores the intersection of fine art, pop culture, and stained-glass aesthetics. Instantly recognizable for his signature linework, Flores has spent more than three decades developing a visual language that transforms portraits, figures, and cultural icons into timeless compositions of light, geometry, and emotion.
El Mac is an internationally renowned artist born and based in Los Angeles. He began painting both smaller indoor works as well as public murals and graffiti in Phoenix in the mid 1990s, and since that time has developed his unique visual aesthetic and rendering style which utilizes repeating contour patterns. His work draws on influences from classical European art, social realism, symbolism and devotional art, as well as the Chicano and Mexican culture he grew up around.
Suzanne Head is a multi-disciplinary artist currently based in Brooklyn, NY. She has notably cultivated a technique in which colored glass powder is sifted onto sheet glass and fired in a kiln. Over multiple firings, Suzanne creates imagery that looks similar to her paintings and drawings but is entirely made of glass.
Irvine Valley College’s Art Gallery will present The Glass Canvas: Contemporary Stained & Fused Glass from Oct. 29 through Dec. 12, showcasing artists who are pushing glass beyond its traditional forms and exploring new ways to use light, color, texture and dimension. The exhibition brings together contemporary artists working across glass, painting, sculpture and mixed media. Their work demonstrates how stained and fused glass can function not only as a decorative material, but also as a dynamic fine art medium.