Structured yet free-spirited, Gloria Huet’s art reflects the tension between rigid Asian traditions and a flexible Western lifestyle. Her goal is to create a work that appears fresh and spontaneous at first glance, yet provides a lingering visual impact for those who choose to probe further.

Seth Janofsky learned photography at The Cooper Union in New York City. But after a few years of photographing documents in the city’s archives, he decided to study woodworking at the College of the Redwoods in California.

Lorraine Lawson’s style of Gasan 画賛, appropriating inscriptions, poetry and calligraphy of other artisans has become a consistent means of creating meaningful works that explore culture, history, travel and nature.

Nicole Klassen is constantly scouring antique shops, flea markets and fabric stores for fabulous treasures to paint. It is her goal to glorify both ordinary and noble objects by use of careful arrangement and by simplifying or accentuating the play of light upon them.

A breath of fresh air is given to modern Japanese art through the calligraphy of Masamichi Kotaki. His work uses traditional styles such as the Rinpa school and elevates them onto a new level of expression.

Ken Matsumoto is a well-established and respected sculptor who holds a Masters of Fine Arts degree in sculpture from San Jose State University. His extensive track record includes solo and group exhibitions throughout California since the mid-1980′s.

Aki Mori’s interest in photography grew in the 1980’s, and eventually became her medium to represent her ideas. The strength of photography to seal the existence of objects is inevitable, identifying objects as individual elements simultaneously to their being a part of a greater assembly.

A breath of fresh air is given to modern Japanese art through the calligraphy of Masamichi Kotaki. His work uses traditional styles such as the Rinpa school and elevates them onto a new level of expression.

Known to many as the Matisse of Japan, Mayumi Oda has done extensive work with female goddess imagery. Born to a Buddhist family in Japan in 1941, Mayumi studied fine art and traditional Japanese fabric dying.

Beginning from a question about why the earth rotates, Hiroko Ohno is exploring the fundamental structure of space. Shes produce paintings, experimental installations, and sculptures that transform the collision that occurs from science’s encounters with art.

The themes of James Ong‘s paintings are memory, quiet places, impermanence, movement, energy, despair, and hope. He is drawn towards Eastern thinking and aesthetics, especially Zen Buddhism and Japanese art and design.