36 artists in 4 days?

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It's that time again; this time it's the Oakland and surrounding cities East Bay Open Studios.

I got tired of judging the artists off a teeny tiny little thumbnail (or absence thereof), so I decided to click on every single artist and google if they didn't bother to post a jpeg or a link of some sort. Phew!

This is the list of artists I'm interested in checking out (definitely some more than others), sorted by city:

1. Ginny Parsons
   [newspaper bird]
   Mixed Media - Alameda

2. Larry Wilson (no image in listing!)
   [watercolor landscapes & designs]
   Watercolors - Alameda

   (image from Open Studios 2000)
   (are these from the same Larry Wilson? Nice. Not sure why you wouldn't want a jpg in your listing though.)

3. Barbara Moffat
   [wheat field]
   Painting - Berkeley

4. Mark Read
   [red sun over water]
   Photography Printmaking - Berkeley

5. Judi Miller (no image in listing) (website)
   [riverbed oil paintings]
   Painting/Sculpture - Berkeley

6. Kim Webster (website)
   [glass garden]
   Glass - Berkeley

7. Mary Curtis Ratliff (no image in listing) (website)
   [pigmented jet ink arborescence]
   Mixed Media Drawing - Berkeley

8. Jim Rosenau (website)
   [shelves made of books]
   Mixed Media Furniture - Berkeley

9. 
   Zach Pine (site1, site2)
   [nature sculpture; andy goldsworthy jr.]
   Sculpture Photography - Berkeley

10. Julie Cohn (no image in listing) (website)
    [watercolor landscapes & flora]
    Watercolors - Berkeley

11. Neil Levine (website)
    [blossom scans]
    Design - Berkeley

12. American Mythology (website)
    [bizarre melange of video, sculpture, painting... on the list for oddity]
    Conceptual Crafts - Berkeley

13. Jeannine Chappell (website)
    [skeletons, owls]
    Painting, Drawing - Berkeley

14. Kim Thoman (website)
    [studies in motion in oil and pastel]
    Mixed Media Painting - Emeryville

15. Paola Coda (website)
    [texture and waterbead photography]
    Photography/Painting - Oakland

16. Linda Lemon (no image in listing) (website)
    [transferred ghost images and pulp paintings on fabric]
    Mixed Media Paper - Oakland

17. Adriana Diaz (website)
    [unsettling layered koan paintings]
    Painting - Oakland

18. Janette MacKinlay (website)
    [9/11 themed bonsai]
    Sculpture/Mixed Media - Oakland

19. Naoko Haruta (website)
    [psychedelic abstract trees]
    Painting - Oakland

20. Mercury 20 Gallery (website)
    [Peter Honig: teddy bear in beartrap]
    [Victoria Staller: luminous debris]
    [Judy Miller: Here or in Berkeley?]
    20 Artists - Oakland

21. F. Michael Wells (website)
    [shiny metal texture paintings]
    Painting - Oakland

22. Jeff Ziarno (website)
    [photorealistic paintings of oakland & the bay area]
    Painting - Oakland

23. Lisa Rose (image not representative?) (website)
    [colorful evocative abstract]
    Drawing/Painting - Oakland

24. Chris Trueman (website)
    [bright abstract collage]
    Mixed Media - Oakland

25. 
    Richard Akers (website)
    [monolithic totem tower sculpture]
    Sculpture/Painting - Oakland

26. Chandra Garsson (website)
    [yay chandra! site lists her as jewelry?? wonder what she's up to]
    Jewelry[?] - Oakland

27. Tracy West (website)
    [thickly slathered mixed media paintings; the sort i'd paint if i were any good]
    [these would make good abstract album covers]
    Painting/Paper - Oakland

28. Cleo Vilett (website)
    [jellyfish and underwater oils]
    Painting - Oakland

29. Karen LeGault (website)
    [large floral and water/landscape paintings]
    Watercolors/Painting - Oakland

30. 
    Marianne Kolb (website)
    [flesh-eating zombie portraits!]
    Painting - Oakland

31. Bart Trickel (website)
    [metal & glass sculpture]
    Sculpture/Glass - Oakland

32. Stephen Day (website)
    [clever industrial lighting including skeletal xrays]
    Sculpture/Lighting/Furniture - Oakland

33. Keiko Nelson (website)
    [rose sculpture & twig tablets]
    Ceramics/Design - Oakland

34. Graham Bird (website)
    [portraits of freaks i might hang out with]
    Photography - Oakland

35. Kelly Steinauer (website)
    [body parts made of leather, rivets, and nails]
    Sculpture - Oakland

36. Fernando Reyes (website)
    [comic book-esque human form; he has got to be influenced by frank miller]
    Printmaking - Oakland

Ok, I don't want to have to do that again anytime soon. =P ... Still, there are so many artists' studios I really need to see now, many of whom I would never have found without this labor intensive search.

I found my once-upon-a-time favorite artist on the web today... maybe I'll go check out her studio the next Napa/Sonoma Open Studios. Her paintings have all gotten very happy and bright, but there are still flashes of the old darker stuff I loved.