309 1st Street
Benicia, CA, 94510
707-297-6860
CONTEMPORARY ART
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Compassion and insight are the two words which immediately come to mind when viewing Nikki Basch-Davis’s depictions of human beings. She is a humanist whose work emulates the finest examples of early twentieth century German Expressionism and American Social Realism. The portrayals realized in her paintings and sculptures celebrate the human spirit; conveying moments of serenity, affection, tolerance, despair and joy. Her poetic visualizations provide a sense of hope, despite humanity’s turbulent journey towards uncertainty. Basch-Davis is a rare breed in artistic innovation — a true avant-garde. —Robert-Jean Ray, Artist/Curator/Instructor
Contact
Phone: 925-212-8096
Email: nikkibaschdavis@gmail.com
Web: nikkibaschdavis.com
Artist Statement
As a self-taught artist, my creative process begins with curiosity—a drive to explore, experiment, and push the boundaries of what paint can do. I am not confined by traditional techniques or formal rules. Instead, I approach the canvas with spontaneity and intensity, allowing instinct to guide my hand. My process is swift, bold, and visceral.
I work in layers, using paint, chalk, pencil, and crayon—building, erasing, and reworking the surface to uncover something just beneath. Each addition and removal are part of a dialogue between control and chaos, presence and absence. Through this push and pull, I aim to create a sense of movement and transformation.
I invite viewers to engage not just with the final image, but with the traces of process that remain visible. In this way, the act of looking becomes its own discovery. The viewer unearths meaning through texture, gesture, and color—unmasking what color lays bare.
Biography
Terin Christensen is a painter whose work explores emotion through texture and color. Raised in California’s Bay Area, she grew up surrounded by creativity—her grandfather and mother, both artists, nurtured her artistic instincts from an early age. Visits to San Francisco museums left a lasting impression, with the works of Monet and Wyeth shaping her early sensibilities.
Although she began her college studies in art, Terin ultimately earned a marketing degree and spent years working in the nonprofit sector, managing events and fundraising for health-focused organizations. Still, her creative spirit remained constant, finding outlets in stained glass, photography, collage, greeting cards, and other artistic pursuits.
In 2019, Terin returned fully to visual art, discovering her voice in an abstract impressionist style using primarily acrylic paints. Her work continues to evolve as she pushes the boundaries of the medium, using expressive mark-making and layered surfaces to evoke deeply felt emotional experiences.
Email: Terinc@pacbell.net.
Website: Terin-Christensen.com
Contact
Phone: 707-386-9836
Email: lindasdunlop@gmail.com
Barb Duvall is an artist who fervently believes animals are connected to the universe in ways humans barely comprehend. Her journey as an artist is deeply intertwined with her profound love of all creatures as beings of immense beauty and truth. Her declaration that her dogs have taught her unconditional love, and many other valuable truths, encapsulates the source of her artistic vision. Barb believes the bonds we form with our pets are transformative and spiritual.
Barb combines digital artwork, with traditional mediums, such as acrylic and ink, to create artworks that merge realism and fantasy. Using bold lines, unexpected patterns, and vibrant colors she portrays animal and human personalities in a way that elevates them beyond mere representations. Her style is colorful, unique, and imaginative. Her distinctive work, typically infused onto metal, collaged, or painted of various media, has won recognition locally and online. She has shown work in international and national juried shows, and in San Francisco galleries. Barb was commissioned to do a city public art project, (park bench in front of city hall) and her work was featured on City of Benicia art walks posters and other media. An active leader in her art community, Barb is a retired classroom teacher who continues to teach art to children as a volunteer for community arts organizations. She also does pet portraits for a non-profit that supports dog shelters.
Website: barbara-duvall.squarespace.com
Email: barbdvll@gmail.com
Kathleen's recent works are observational, painted in oil, small works en plein air and larger studio paintings. She delights in creating the illusion of space, light and place with paint. There is a time of painting without thinking when light, color and the brush take over, that is a favorite place.
Kathleen holds a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art, an MFA from California College of Art and has studied at the Jerusalem Studio School in Civita Castellana, Italy. She maintains studios in Berkeley and Volcano, CA.
Kathleen Gadway
510-459-5284
Daniel Hunter has been an artist and art educator in the Bay Area for over 35 years. He received a B.F.A. in Sculpture from the University of Arizona and an M.A.in Sculpture from the University of California, Berkeley.
After graduate school he went to work for the national news magazine, Ramparts, where he was a co-art director. His responsibilities included cover and magazine design and photography.
After Ramparts he began working as a studio photographer and taught black and white photography workshops to adults.
His interest in working with young people led him to Oakland High School, where he set up a ceramic program and taught both ceramics and photography.
His work has appeared in a number of national magazines and is represented in numerous private collections.
He currently works out of his studio in El Sobrante California.
Recent Shows
2018 New Works, Featured Artist, Gallery 621, Benicia CA
2017 Visions in Clay, L H Horton Jr Gallery, Delta Collage, Stockton, CA
2017 Grimm Tales, Featured Artist, Gallery 621 Benicia CA
2017 International Tile Exhibition, Pewabic Ceramic Center, Detroit, MI
2016 Still Life, uBE gallery, Berkeley, CA
2016 Slice, Contemporary Directions, Pence Gallery, Davis CA
2016 Bone Tiles, Featured Artist, Orinda Library Art Gallery, Orinda CA
2016 Spring Offerings, Gallery 621, Benicia CA
2015 Microcosmos, Gallery 621, Benicia CA
2015 50/50 Show, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica CA
2013 Innovations in Contemporary Crafts, Richmond Art Center, Richmond
Contact
Phone: 510-669-9544, 510-458-1723 Cell
Email: daniel.hunter@att.net
Web: www.hunterclayart.com
Ceramic Tiles 22 x 22 x 2.5
Ceramic 12 x 12
Painted Wooden tiles 24 x 27.5 x 2.5
Ceramic tiles 27.5 x 27.5 x 2
Enamel on wood 12 x 12
Enamel on wood 20 x 20 x 2.5
Marvin Perry Mann fuses the raw emotional energy of mid-Century abstract expressionism to a vision of a numinous natural world. Hues founded in the sonority of American Tonalist painting open into a boisterous symphony of color. Scrapping and scratching through layers of wax and paint he finds the reeds and weeds and twisting branches that exposes nature as a force that is both voluptuous and volatile.
A walk through one of his landscapes may yield stickers and burrs in your socks, water that soaks through your boots, and a need to watch your footing. These are landscapes that resist sentimentality, presenting nature as explosively fruitful even as it consumes.
Simultaneously, these are abstract expressions that create their own densely interwoven landscapes of the mind where the heavy weight of vegetation and the rumble of distant ruins remind us of our obligation as stewards of the earth, and foretell a land where the fae may have returned.
Contact
Phone: 415-497-1723 Cell
Email: Clmoore111@gmail.com
Web: www.CLMoorecontemporaryart.com
Patrice Newell’s paintings grow out of a lifelong habit of watching the natural world with quiet attention. As a child, she spent long afternoons studying clouds as they drifted, thickened, and scattered across the sky. Water held a similar attraction, especially the way light moves over its surface or collects in rolling waves. That early fascination never faded and eventually became the foundation for her work as a landscape painter.
Patrice is drawn to the moods and shifts of the seasons. A bright, wind-swept day offers one kind of energy, while a foggy morning brings out subtler colors and forms. Living above the Carquinez Strait, she has a front-row seat to dramatic skies, restless water, and constantly changing light. That daily display inspires her paintings and keeps her exploring new ways to capture atmosphere and movement.
After retiring from a career in health care, Patrice began painting in 2022. She started with acrylics but soon moved to pastel, a medium whose immediacy and luminosity matched the subjects she loves. She has since studied with noted painters including Randy Sexton, Nikki Basch Davis, Bill Cone, Liz Haywood-Sullivan, Kim Lordier, and Alain Picard.
Her work has been shown in group and solo exhibitions at aRT Cottage, Arts Benicia, Umpqua Bank, and the El Cerrito Arts Association, where she has received both an Honorable Mention and a Merchant’s Choice award. She is a member of the Pastel Society of the West Coast.
Patrice’s goal is simple: to invite viewers into the serenity, power, and ever-changing beauty of the natural world she observes every day.
Stephen Daniel Schumm is a versatile artist who has worked with glass, watercolor, collage, acrylic on canvas, and printmaking.
Contact
Phone: 510-333-8203
Email: sdschumm@gmail.com
Web: www.stephendanielschumm.com
James Storey has a B.A. in Art and an M.A. in Sculpture from the University of California, Berkeley. He ran a picture framing shop in Berkeley for forty seven years. His work investigates the mysteries of materials.
Jerrold Turner is one of the Bay Area’s prominent Plein Air painters and a founding member of the Outsiders, a group of plein air painters whose colorful, Fauvist style relates back to such groups as the Society of Six, the Fauves and other colorist schools.
Jerrold is a structural engineer, graduated from UC Berkeley with BS and MS degrees in engineering. He is primarily self-taught in art and painted with Lundy Siegriest and Terry St. John. His early influences were Daubigny, Matisse, William Keith, Seldon Gile and Lundy Siegriest.
He is very influential in the arts of the San Francisco Bay Area. Jerrold teaches advanced plein air painting privately as well as in workshops in Benicia and Walnut Creek, CA, and in Virginia City, NV. He also has curated several exhibits for Arts Benicia Center Gallery. Jerrold has exhibited extensively in solo and group shows and his art work is in collections throughout the United States.
The Outsiders is a group of eight painters, each with their own distinctive style. They formed in the late ’90’s and have had numerous successful shows in Bay Area venues such as the Triton Museum in Santa Clara and the Hearst Gallery at St. Mary’s College in Moraga, CA, among others.
Contact
Phone: 415-717-3914
Email: jert9@comcast.net
