2025
KENNY HARRIS
Colossal - Experimenting with Color and Reflection, Kenny Harris Brews Beautiful Still Lifes
August 8, 2025 | By Kate Mothes
For Venice, California-based artist Kenny Harris, the metallic, faceted surface of the iconic maker inspires an ongoing series of lovely still-life oil paintings. Exploring color and form, the artist focuses on reflections and their effects. Delicate gradients and patterns are mirrored across the pot’s surface, sometimes blurring the boundary between the object and its surroundings.
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KENNY HARRIS
Artsy - 'Little Gems' Artist Feature
June 2025
Kenny Harris's oil painting, Venice Rooftops, is featured in Artsy's carefully curated "Little Gems" collection, a showcase of small art pieces "designed to add personality and style to even the smallest spaces."
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JOSH DORMAN
Cill Rialaig Arts Center - Artist Residency
June 2025
Highlighting Josh Dorman's month-long artist residency at the Cill Rialaig Arts Center in County Kerry, Ireland. The "main aim is to develop and maintain a retreat for artists and writers from Ireland and abroad. Seven studios, a meeting house and library and a utility house have been completed at the village".
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FABIOLA GIRONI
Canvas Rebel - Meet Fabiola Gironi
May 14, 2025
"Every day, you choose to be creative, and you must have the freedom to choose it again and again; otherwise, it’s all pointless. The essential skill for me has been sustained attention: to really look, to be patient with the process and to push through with each painting. I painted from life for years, I had to, in order to develop. Today, I am beginning to work from imagination." - Fabiola Gironi
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MITRA FABIAN
Square Cylinder - Mitra Fabian, "Seeping Through Domestic Dissonance"
May 7, 2025 | By DeWitt Cheng
Fabian, an Iranian-born artist who lives and works in the nearby Santa Cruz Mountains, was painfully impacted by the threats by fire, smoke, and water to her home, life, and livelihood. The Museum’s Spotlight Gallery is a small, cubic space with darkened walls and track lighting, suggestive of an intimate theater. Fabian decided to create an installation which could better express the enveloping sense of danger and dread than could conventional two- and three-dimensional objects. She created an enclosed space about 12 feet square composed of scorched boards that read as a ruined cabin or palisade but was festooned with strange forms that look like mutant mushrooms pierced by electronic hardware, the seeming survivors of some future Silicon Valley disaster.
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BRYAN IDA
The City of Los Angeles Dept of Cultural Affairs (DCA) - 2024/25 City of Los Angeles Independent Master Artist Project Grant Recipient
May 2025
Bryan Ida has been announced as one of the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA) recipients of the 2024/25 City of Los Angeles Independent Master Artist Project (COLA-IMAP). The nine master artists will each produce a series, set, or singular new artwork in performing, literary, design, and/or visual arts with the grant. The original works will premiere at DCA’s Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery (LAMAG) in the Summer of 2025 and in partnership with Grand Performances as part of the 28th edition of DCA’s COLA-IMAP annual initiative.
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BRYAN IDA
Gottlieb Foundation - The Gottlieb Foundation Individual Support GrantMay 2025
Bryan Ida is a 2025 recipient of the Gottlieb Foundation Individual Support Grant. The Gottlieb Foundation awards 20 grants to artists who have dedicated their lives to developing their art. The grant recognizes and supports the serious, fully-committed artist who have worked in a mature phase of art for 20 years or more.
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BRYAN IDA
Forest Lawn Museum - Persona: Exploring Self-Portraiture Exhibition
April 26, 2025
Bryan Ida is included in a group exhibition at the Forest Lawn Museum titled "Persona: Exploring Self-Portraiture". Work from more than 20 contemporary artists and historical self-portraits spanning over 125 years is included in the show. The exhibition considers the expanse of self-portraiture and examines the concept of visual representations of the self. “Persona” features paintings, sculptures, photographs, prints, fused glass, digital art, textile art, illustrations, and more. The exhibition is on view until August 10, 2025.
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ANA MEDINA
CanvasRebel - Meet Ana
April 10, 2025
"With the current overabundance of access we have to each others digital photo albums, a new generation has been made to feel that they have to make every moment iconic- that their life needs to be bigger, better, and more beautiful than everyone else’s. I hope to remind people through my work that every little simple moment that is spent shared with each other, or in quiet reflection is already perfection- no filter required." - Ana Medina
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DANNY HELLER
Long Beach Museum of Art - "Collective Vision: Collector’s Circle Museum Acquisitions" Exhibition
March 14, 2025
Danny Heller's painting, Cul-de-sac House At Sunset is on view at the Long Beach Museum of Art as part of their Collective Vision exhibition opening March 14th, in celebration of the museum's 75th anniversary. The exhibition "highlights the generosity of its members, whose support has facilitated the acquisition of more than 100 significant artworks across various media, enriching the Museum’s holdings and exhibitions. Through their contributions, Collector’s Circle patrons played a vital role in preserving and promoting artistic achievement for future generations."
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FABIOLA GIRONI
VoyageLA - Life & Work with Fabiola Gironi of Los Angeles
March 10, 2025
"My work blends autobiography, history, and imagination—highly chromatic still life paintings where acrylics, oils, and embroidery come together in layered narratives. I weave everyday objects with ancient Italian artifacts, like Maiolica vessels, to explore femininity, motherhood, and identity. My paintings exist in that space where the ordinary meets the mythical—where a simple fruit holds centuries of symbolism, and a vessel becomes a metaphor for the body and memory." - Fabiola Gironi
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MITRA FABIAN
Google - Commissioned Works
March 2025
Featured works commissioned by Google in 2025. Mitra Fabian uses resistors to create different compositions. Each piece refers to a specific computing concept.
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TERRY LENESS
Crocker Kingsley Juried Exhibition - Selected Artist
March 2025
The Crocker-Kingsley exhibition, a revered tradition since 1926 and a juried event since 1940, stands as a prestigious testament to the dynamic evolution of contemporary art. This collaboration between the Crocker Art Museum and the Kingsley Art Club has long been a beacon for artistic innovation, showcasing both emerging talent and celebrated masters. With a history that includes iconic figures like Robert Arneson, Wayne Thiebaud, and Mel Ramos, the exhibition has cemented its place as a cornerstone of California’s artistic legacy.
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CARLA FALB
Concerning the Spiritual in Art Podcast - A Light in the Dark with Carla Falb
February 27, 2025 | By Martin Benson
"In this episode, I have an enlightening conversation with artist Carla Falb, who shares her unique journey through art, spirituality, and personal growth. We explore the profound influence her father's role as a Methodist minister had on her early understanding of mysticism and creativity, and how these experiences shaped her artistic vision." - Martin Benson
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CARLA FALB
Canvas Rebel - Meet Carla Falb
February 27, 2025
"More than twenty years later, I am still making paintings based on roller coaster rides, although my emphasis has shifted to nighttime imagery. My attraction to light streaming through the darkness dates back to my childhood. I have vivid memories of riding in the backseat of our car at night, transfixed by the white and red car lights speeding by, as well as sitting on my father’s shoulders at a crowded Fourth of July fireworks display, mesmerized by the explosions of lights in the sky." - Carla Falb
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BRADLEY HANKEY
Eric Minh Swenson Art Films - Bradley Hankey: Almost a Dream
February 25, 2025
Filmmaker Eric Minh Swenson follows Bradley Hankey's art life over the past year, from taking reference photos from a helicopter, to painting in his studio, and attending the opening reception for his latest exhibition, Almost a Dream, at our gallery.
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KEVIN YAUN
Nous-Ance - Inside Kevin's Studio: Where Light, Texture, and Experimentation Converge
February 10, 2025 | By Clarisse Abelarde
"Typically my painting ideas come from casual everyday moments. Something may catch my eye and make me feel a way I can’t capture with a photograph. The painting is then all about trying to get to the essence of that original thing I had in my head. Sometimes it takes many versions and layers of paint to get it there and unfortunately I’ve had to kill off several dear figures in the process." - Kevin Yaun
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KEVIN YAUN
ART HUB Magazine - Windows are living paintings: Interview with Kevin Yaun
February 3, 2025
"Typically my painting ideas come from casual everyday moments. Something may catch my eye and make me feel a way I can’t capture with a photograph. The painting is then all about trying to get to the essence of that original thing I had in my head. Sometimes it takes many versions and layers of paint to get it there and unfortunately I’ve had to kill off several dear figures in the process." - Kevin Yaun
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KEVIN YAUN
Pacific Art Foundation - Public Collection Acquisition
February 2025
Billis Williams Gallery is pleased to announce that Kevin Yaun's Pacific Coast 14 is now part of the Pacific Art Foundation's permanent collection. The painting is on display at the Pacific Club in Newport Beach alongside an outstanding collection of California Art from the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries.
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MITRA FABIAN
New Museum Los Gatos: Mitra Fabian: Seeping Through Domestic Dissonance
106 E. Main Street Los Gatos, CA 95030 | January 24 - May 18, 2025
Mitra Fabian creates a surreal and somber mixed-media installation that intersects the natural world, built environments, climate change, and human interference. This project will include Fabian’s recognizable organic sculptural forms as well as the use of resistors, capacitors, and diodes. But it will also reveal animal elements and a wooden shelter ravaged by fire.
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