Angels Gate Open Studios
As part of Arts Open San Pedro, Angels Gate Cultural Center (AGCC) will be hosting Open Studios Day which will include community class demonstrations, all-ages art workshop, gallery exhibitions, and open artist studios.
EarthFirst! Pottery
I am a ceramic artist, making hand made functional pottery as well as one of a kind sculptures in beautiful San Pedro, California. I have been a studio artist at Angels Gate Cultural Center in since 2017. My work is available to see in person and online at the Angels Gate Artist Emporium.
Vanessa Madrid Studio
As a multidisciplinary artist, I create work that responds to the natural world, memory and the body. My themes are inspired by the dynamics of energy flow, vibration and the physics of resonance. I’m interested in energy rooted in, around, and between places, objects and living beings. Edges are important, places between outer and inner, boundaries and borders. These liminal spaces are where the magic is. I look to the in-between stages of energetic shifts for inspiration. My practice includes painting, sculpture, drawing, and printmaking. I use the language of abstraction to avoid singular interpretations. Curiosity and direct observation are essential starting points to every piece. I work intuitively, choosing materials that feel authentic to each piece. I try different colors and shapes, changing position, sizes, and textures until the piece reflects some part of what is there, or what is not there. The design process of stripping away, leaving only essential elements, is at the core of my practice. IG: @vanessamadridstudio
artsy-ist who appropriates arts practice itself (artoiserie, philosphoiserie, wabi-sloppy, terrorism, etc.)
My studio is a Gallery of all my works: ceramic sculpture, printmaking, photography, creative sewing and collectibles from around the world.
I am a studio artist at angels gate cultural center in San Pedro California. I received my MFA from Otis College of Art and Design in 2023 and have been a resident artist at Angels Gate since 2019. My art seeks to facilitate encounters with strange images.
Melodie Reay is an artist and educator living in Los Angeles. She received her BFA in ceramics and photography at Concordia University in Montreal, and her MFA in ceramics at Louisiana State University. Compelled by the indexical nature of clay, her work explores ideas of documentation and preservation based on impressions of her surroundings. Throughout her artistic career she has worked as a ceramics technician, university adjunct professor, instructor for community outreach programs for all ages, assistant gallery director, and small business owner. Her work has been shown internationally and she has been the recipient of several scholarships and awards. She was the artist in residence at AARK in Finland in 2016, MAWA in Winnipeg in 2019, and Vermont Studio Center and Shadbolt Center for the Arts in 2024.
Carla Erausquin Bayona
Carla Erausquin is a second-year MFA candidate in the School of Art who engages with the fluidity of meaning through the transformation of visual forms. Her work explores the intersection of graphic design and sculptural art, where symbols and signs undergo physical changes that challenge their original interpretations. By translating her drawings into inflatable sculptures, Carla investigates how shifts in scale, materiality, and context alter the perception of familiar forms, highlighting the inherent instability of communication.
Dennis Keeley has worked as an artist, photographer, educator, and writer for more than 40 years. He has exhibited in numerous one person and group shows and he is published internationally in studies concerning urban circumstance and condition. He began his career as one of a group of photographers in the field of music portraiture. His portraits of musicians were utilized in hundreds of record albums and cd covers. He also worked for the J. Paul Getty Center Conservation and Research Institutes. His book "Looking for a City in America won numerous awards and Keeley was commissioned by the Getty Trust to document the construction of the Getty center’s Central Garden by artist Robert Irwin. In addition to being the photo editor for the LA WEEKLY, Keeley was the chair of the Photography and Imaging program at Art Center College of Design for 18 years
Delora Bertsch , AGCC Studio Artist / Raku Pottery
Interdisciplinary installation and media artist working with site-specific materials, dirt, water, fungi, plants and ecological agents of repair
Phoebe Barnum
Phoebe works in a variety of materials, including ceramics, jewelry, oil stick drawings and installation
Lowell Nickel Artworks
Self directed mixed media visual artist with a half century of exhibiting mixed media objects, paintings, videos, and installations. The content and or concept of the work often reflects my thoughts related to earth sciences and environment concerns.
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Memory and energy inform my artistic practice, these two ethereal concepts provide space to inquire introspectively about experiences that have shaped my present awareness. The abstract paintings I make, whether intimate or large in scale, interpret and translate personal narratives and their enigmatic energies. Recent exhibitions include The Pleasure of My Company (Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion), Time Being (Wonzimer), Within a Realm (Tyler Park Presents), Incantation (Orange County Center for Contemporary Art) and the 24 hour performance, For Baby's Baby (Transformative Arts). Recent awards include the COLA Individual Artist Fellowship (2020), the Hermitage Artist Retreat Fellowship (2018) and the Georgia Fee Artist Residency (2016, France). Recent acquisitions include the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, The Harper Museum and private collections.
Roy Kunisaki has been an Angels Gate artist since 1998 and it is his first studio. His inspiration comes from his cultural background as well as the coastline around the South Bay. He incorporates materials in the area to capture the beauty of nature into his body of work.
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"Nancy Voegeli-Curran's abstract mixed-media sculptures explore the forms and processes found within the natural world. Current sculptures address the effects of climate change and human intervention on the environment such as an oil spill off the coast or toxic algae formation from warming oceans. Her works made of recycled plastic and Tyvek, both synthetic materials, are fluid and malleable refer to the ever shifting flux of the natural world. Voegeli-Curran earned an MFA from California State University, Long Beach (CSULB). She has also studied art in Florence, Italy and at Anderson Ranch Art Center in Colorado. Her work has been exhibited in the Los Angeles area, nationally, and internationally and has been collected by CSULB and in private homes. She lives in the Los Angeles area and has a studio at Angels Gate Cultural Center in San Pedro. "
AGCC shows contemporary art in our on-site galleries and occasionally in various pop-up spaces in the South Bay area. The Center curates exhibitions of Southern California artists with an emphasis on local artists from San Pedro and Los Angeles. Our Exhibitions Program is focused on providing a platform for artists of all career levels to explore their practice. We invite local cultural groups to curate exhibitions that are relevant to our communities in the Port region of Los Angeles. In addition, our Guest Curatorial Program provides opportunities for independent curators to expand upon the diversity of artists, perspectives, and ideas shown at the Center.