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Alejandro Rojas Salazar, is an art dealer, as well as, an abstract painter. He has been an art dealer for over 20 years, and curated hundreds of art exhibits nationwide. He is influenced by great artists such as Miro, Jackson Pollock and Gerhard Richter. Salazar, completed a second Masters in Theological Studies and Art at Harvard University in 2001. Prior to that, he completed his first Masters Degree in Art and Sociology at Boston College and undergraduate studies at Colorado College. This will be Alejandro’s second year with us at Hotels/Motels (Unofficial Art Fair)
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Andre Urbano and his cast of performers transformed room 1946 into an interactive performance space. A dream-like production, that invited audiences to make decisions that affect the main characters inhabiting the hotel room. Andre Urbano is a theatrical writer who focuses on creating works heavily influenced by fairy tales and cultural myths. He has been involved with theater for five years as a dancer in musicals around San Diego, but has recently started writing within the past two years in order to explore some fantasy driven themes that he has been interested in. His most recent work includes short narrative monologues about mythical creatures from the Philippines.
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Carolyn Brann is an abstract painter, who works predominantly with oil based paints, combining gold, aluminum, and copper leaf. She integrates daily Vedic meditation in her studio practice to induce imagery often found her work. Carolyn’s paintings are both contemplative and intuitive reflections of the artist’s relationship with the natural world. She is interested in the place where art, music, nature, and human behavior intersect. Her paintings are a dialogue with these chance encounters. This will be Carolyn’s first year with us at Hotels/Motels (Unofficial Art Fair), and we are excited to have her! Her proposed hotel room transformation will be an experience not to be missed!
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Cassandra Schramm is a San Diego based painter, muralist, and art instructor. She utilizes mixed media, but widely uses acrylic paint, and colored pencil. In her work she is interested in the rich symbolism of eyes and faces as subject matter. Cassandra is fascinated with the diverse, cultural, and spiritual meanings connected to the image of the eye. Her paintings deal with the vulnerability of perceptual relationships in our relative connection with the outside world. Her painterly eyes are metaphoric portraits that convey various human characteristics, such as emotion, pain, happiness, consciousness, and of the soul.
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CM Curatorial is a contemporary art gallery and art services consultancy with a regional emphasis focusing on the powerful axis of experience and aesthetics that runs from Tijuana to Los Angeles through San Diego.
Southern California artist C.MARTINO is a closet conceptualist using the tools and techniques of contemporary narrative painting, sculpture and installation to create provocative works that transform the mundane into the magical. Defined by its conceptual rigor, thematic resonance and an adventurous post modern aesthetic, Martino’s art is an exploration of the many often contradictory trajectories that intersect and define our hectic day-to-day lives and hint at the hidden, Inner World seething just beneath the gleaming surface of a world on the edge. His work hangs in public and private collections nationally and internationally             |
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Colleen Veltz is an abstract artist who combines natural materials and objects in her paintings. She is interested in both color and texture to create dimensional surfaces on canvas. Her paintings exude seasonal rhythms and lyrical patterns in nature, where she finds her inspiration. She has exhibited in West Hollywood, Laguna Beach, San Diego, Palm Desert, Savannah, South Bend, with future projects in Canada and Chicago. Colleen is also the owner and director of Veltz Fine Art Gallery, located in the Liberty Station Arts District. Carlos Castrejon shared and curated their hotel room.
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Distinction Gallery was created in 2004 to give beginning and established collectors a venue to purchase high-quality, artwork created by highly skilled artists. Distinction has hosted over 130 exhibitions since its inception featuring mid-career and professional artists. The primary genres forwarded at Distinction are Contemporary Realism, Surrealism and Urban art with a focus on the figure. Our primary media focus is original oil and acrylic paintings; however, they occasionally display drawings and mixed media.
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Edwin Nutting studied painting, drawing, and metal sculpture at the San Francisco Academy of Art, San Francisco Institute of Art, and Grossmont College. Over the past 30 years, he has refined the complex drawing and painting processes he works in. Mediums such as acrylic, airbrush painting, ink drawings, and water media. The artist is notable for his daily illustrative renderings, of personal, and sometimes political topics of the day. These small, visual notations, are a more progressive an unencumbered extension of his work as a Social Illustrator-(Stink) for the Union Tribune.
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Ellen Lane, works with acrylics, collage, and assemblage, and often incorporates non-traditional materials in her paintings. She is interested in texture, hidden images, movement, age, and the process of painting itself. Her work in abstraction is a very personal, automatic, relationship with the materials she works with.
Lane began painting in 1981, and studied with international artists Fritz Scholder, Nathan Oliveira, and George Herms, at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, UW Milwaukee. She also studied photography and graphics at Milwaukee Technical College, which led to 12 years as a professional photographer and multi-media producer. This will be Ellen’s second year with Hotels/Motels (Unofficial Art Fair).         |
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Grace Gray-Adams received a B.A and M.F.A in Sculpture from SDSU and has been teaching Art and Computer Graphics at MiraCosta, Grossmont and Southwestern Colleges for almost 20 years. Gray-Adams was trained in traditional figurative sculpture and now specializes in expressing feminist foundational beliefs through multimedia tableau-style installations. Her work also engages spiritual concerns, through performance art and interactive environments. In her most recent exhibition “Visualize Grace”, the artist converted an empty bedroom into an angelic encounter with faith. This will be Grace’s first year with us at Hotels/Motels (Unofficial Art Fair). “I create art to give voice to the soul within me and I exhibit art to shatter my invisibility and to be heard.” – Gray-Adams
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James Watts was born in San Diego, California in 1961 to an American father and a Japanese mother. He created paintings and sculptures that emphasize the retelling of stories and myths from around the world. His 1995 Kokeshi series started in homage to his Japanese mother with his first Kokeshi representing his family of brothers and sisters. His figures are a mixture of images and color that represent influences of multiple cultures. The artist’s work is both romantic and wonderfully whimsical!
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John Geary renders cats, dogs, sheep, gorillas, chimpanzees, and other creatures in charcoal and pastel on paper without alteration or commentary. He revisits his childhood pursuit of drawing animals from various photo sources such as calendars and nature magazines. Through his choice of images and the exacting skill with which he draws, he creates a dual effect of intensity and detachment. Geary’s work crosses many genres, from performance to photography, and often with a sense of both humor and isolation.
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Larry Caveney is a contemporary painter, sculptor, and performance artist. In his work, he engages conceptions of visual, and social recognition, using pop iconography and other familiar imagery. His expressive applications of acrylic paint on un-stretched canvas capture his various personalities in a moment of gesticulation. His painterly portraits echo Francis Bacon’s transmogrified faces with a distinctive kind of raw, parabolic, branding. Caveney’s painting and performance, both require an immediacy from the viewer, which opens the experience of the work into a relational space. In this expanse, he hopes to circumvent that potentially isolating space, that the world can sometimes represent.
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Legend Nano Gallery is a flourishing gallery in Oceanside, with a flagship location in Santa Fe founded by Paul Brockwell. He conceived the idea of creating a smaller art showroom by converting existing offices into elegant exhibition and retail space, coining the term: nano gallery. Legend Nano Gallery Artists: Michael Snodgrass, David Krovblit, Regina Foster, Alexandra Eldridge, Joe Ramiro Garcia, Andrew Holder, Chuck Thomas, Michael Maas, Lucy Schappy, David Rudolph, Conrad Kern, Stacy D’Aguilar, Dan Mcstocker, Kristi L. Stout, Dr. Steven Wade Adams, Andrew Kaplan, Xenia Mateiu, Ashley Binder, Leah Siegal, G. Kim Hinkson
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Lynn Schuette is a visual artist whose practice includes painting, drawing, and mixed media. Schuette often explores the body and nature, ranging from classical figurative and landscape painting to anatomical/medical imagery often laced with contemporary social issues. Since 1987, she has created fourteen series of works including Bloodstorm, an exploration of boxing, 1990-92; Mi oeste perdido (My Lost West), elemental landscapes, times of day and weather conditions, using white, black and yellow ochre only, 2004-2009; and The Beauty Project, sixty-four paintings generated from answers to a question about beauty, 2010. Schuette received a City of San Diego public art commission in 1999. The Color of This Life is Water, which is eight panels at 110” x 107” each, was installed at the San Diego Convention Center from 2003-2013.
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Michael Walrond is a contemporary artist and commercial photographer based in San Diego. He is interested in the transformation of images, using light and organic manipulation without Photoshop or any post production processes. Michael works with live models and unusual sets to create signature profiles of his subjects in the moment. The resulting images are like “in between portraits” that mirror the connection between the artist, model, and viewer. In his work he hopes to capture the authentic self through splinters of unedited emotion. He also works in film and installation. Walrond dropped out of art school in Los Angeles to directly pursue work in the creative industry. He has worked on design, film, and fashion projects, such as Michael Jackson’s tribute exhibit at The Grammy Museum, Il Teatro Alla Moda by The Wallis Annenberg, and La Plaza. He currently works as a contemporary photographer and installation artist out of his studio at the ArtHatch building in Escondido.
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Mikaela McLeish is San Diego based figurative artist, who paints with oils on large-scale canvases. Her work engages the figure with expressive applications of paint and a highly saturated color palette. Mikaela’s painterly process reflects her concerns in the contrast between the pulsating figure and static color field. Within the grotesque manipulations of the human body, she seeks to capture the sensation of the figure constantly shifting between presence and absence. Inspired by Jacques Lacan’s philosophy on mirrors and how they help children develop a sense of self-identity, McLeish’s current work explores ideas of consciousness and the self.
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Nicole Deline is a sculptor, furniture builder and crafts-person. She works in architecture and design at her company Studio Deline and has a studio in Barrio Logan where she also teaches welding. Nicole’s passions lie in building, not designing alone. She loves to have tools in her hand to actually be apart of the execution.
Rich Stewart has developed a large body of work in a series described as “Dangerous Sculptures”. His work is inspired by artists such as Julio Gonzalez, David Smith, and those contemporary sculptors who pour their own iron and embrace risk. Stewart’s interest lie in the precariousness of his craft of object making. His subject matter itself is cheeky and ominous, and conveys both the refined and yet coarse disposition of the artist’s sensibilities.        |
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PRESS WORKS is a Los Angeles based, artist-run fine art print shop that specializes in printing limited edition screen-print, intaglio, relief block, and monotype prints for collectors, publishers, and boutique outlets. PRESS WORKS also collaborates with visual artists who are looking for a way to expand their imagery using various monotype techniques. PRESS WORKS was established by artist Todd A. Smith in 2014 and is also home to TAS Studio where he creates his own artworks.
Press Works Current Artists: Chris Trueman, Erin Morrison, Devon Tsuno, Mhiachnoiti,Claudia Morales McCain, Christopher Kuhn, Bryan Ricci, Gregory Siff, Damian Ross, Jackie Leishman, Julian Lombardi, Mangda            |
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Richard and Maria work have collaborated on installations for Hotels/Motels (Unofficial Art Fair 2017), Lori Lipsman’s ‘Vacancy 3,’ an installation at Larry Caveney’s Garage gallery titled ‘Off Center,’ another titled ‘Suburban Zen” More whimsically Maria created ‘Pride Toys’ for San Diego’s Art of Pride in a booth shared with Richard ChauDavis.
For Maria Ming Sum ChauDavis, time and change are the subjects in her work. Her interest lies in the ephemeral. She uses articles from thrift stores as important parts of her installations. Richard ChauDavis (Baer) employs photography, painting, and performance. He has had numerous group and solo exhibitions at the San Diego Art Institute.                               |
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Stephanie Mansolf , Anna Feil, Sarah Tell and Nidia Castaldi, came together as a hotel artists’ collective. They transformed their room into a collection of four micro worlds that are connected visually and by a common thread of interest in the fantastic. Visitors will engage with Anna's puppet ladies, step into Sarah's dark menacing industrial narratives, embrace Stephanie's carnivorous plants and macabre creatures, or wander through Nidia's lush solarium.
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Fallen Tree Exhibitions in room #116, shared with Larry Caveney and Edwin Nutting.
Our "Gift Gallery", included a curated selection of San Diego based visual and performing artists, as well as, scheduled conversations centered around Lewis Hyde’s “The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World", led by Alessandra Moctezuma (artist and gallery director at Mesa Community College), Patricia Frischer (coordinator @ San Diego Visual Arts Network, SDVAN), Tony Allard (educator and interdisciplinary artist). Additional Fallen Tree Artists: Tiange Zhou, Anqi Liu, Brian and Ryan, Elizabeth Ayerle, Victor Angelo , Eric Wong , Marianne Goyette , Lonny Wood , Blue Buddha and David Lofton of OMB from San Francisco, Pall Jenkins (of Black Heart Procession and Three Mile Pilot), Chris Vannoy (Beat Poet Laureate of the USA, Igor Goldkind, Paval Sfera, & special guest poets), contemporary interpretive dance curated and performed by Patricia Maldonado, with Niara Eustace and an original performance by Flavor Company Dance, and Mitchum Todd. |
Bathroom installation
Tiange Zhou
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Vanity Room installation
Anqi Liu
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Closet installation & Sculpture in the lobby
Elizabeth Ayerle
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Victor Angelo
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  Bedroom paintings
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Marianne Goyette
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Mixed media paintings (bathroom)
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Eric Wong
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 Untitled mixed media drawing (bathroom)
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Lonny Wood
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  Mixed media collage (Hallway)
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Performance by Pall Jenkins, a vocalist, guitarist and music producer based in San Diego. He is best recognized as the front man for the bands Three Mile Pilot and The Black Heart Procession, as well as his collaborations with Vampire Rodents and Ugly Casanova.
Pall Jenkins
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Performance by Blue Buddha & David Lofton of OMB
Blue Buddha
David Lofton
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Patricia Maldonado, with Niara Eustace and an original performance by Flavor Company Dance, and Mitchum Todd
Contemporary dance curated and performed by Patricia Maldonado
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Spoken Word by Chris Vannoy San Diego's 'beat poet laureate' and many other well known local poets
Chris Vannoy
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More Fallen Tree Exhibitions Artists
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Brian and Ryan Kitsch Christmas installation in the lobby of the Lafayette Hotel. Brian Black and Ryan Bulis have been working collaboratively in Southern California since 2004. This artist team appropriates iconic activities and challenges preconceptions of masculinity, athleticism and identity.
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Denise Lacarra Fernández is a Tijuana based contemporary artist originally from San Diego. She paints large-scale abstract paintings that combine expressive and organic brush work with structural drawing.
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