Alan Mazzetti comments on his "Particles" Series: "The paintings I'm showing are about changing our perspectives. I think one of the most important functions of art is to encourage us - both the artist and the viewer - to experience life in new ways. So within these paintings you'll see different relationships between the circles: changes in scale, dimensionality, color and pattern. Additionally, they are composed so that changing the orientation of the paintings realigns the elements and emphasizes different aspects of the composition. In other words, once I'm done with it, you get to play with it."

Daniel Newman's photographic works utilize, in abstract and expresssionistic forms, distinct fragments of the urban landscape of his birthplace, San Francisco. Daniel grew up immersed in a world of avant-garde art, jazz, and world music in the home. His father, Jim, founded the Dilexi Gallery in San Francisco (1958-1970) and Daniel developed his creative vision surrounded by the works of artists such as John Chamberlain, Jay de Feo, Roy De Forest and Alfred Jensen.

Dona Turner is a fine artist and illustrator. Her illustration work includes images for children's books, software products and editorial content, and more than 60 of her images have been published as licensed lithograph prints. "My interest involves probing beneath the surface, whether with people or with paint. I'm always searching for surprising complexities and trying to highlight them." Dona's paintings, pastels, prints and mixed media artwork will be exhibited.

Henry Epstein is an artist, poet and teacher who currently teaches Social Ethics at the University of San Francisco. "Many of my paintings are emergent beings, creatures. They emerge from inchoate visions that become specific on the canvas, or specific images that go through a period of incoherence and mutation only to become, if I am fortunate, coherent again. Just as the struggle for survival in nature yields creatures of terrible ferocity and stark ugliness, but also miraculous beauty, my hope is that some of my paintings emerge from mutated intentions, despair and inability, and become something real and full of grace."

Susan Tuttle will be exhibiting photography, jewelry, and mixed media shadow boxes. She has been shooting images, her main passion for several decades, attempting to capture the unusual from the usual. Her many varied influences include photographer Dare Wright, Monty Python, the Des Moines' International Leisure Suit Convention, and her graphic design employment at a toy company. Susan continues to enjoy promoting artists, curating and installing exhibits, at GarageGallery as well as during her five years as co-director and then director of Oakland's former Montclair Gallery. "If I had never looked through a camera lens, I'd probably be raising wombats."