Marie Van Elder has always been terrified of the ocean, so she forces herself to sit at its shore and make paintings of it. This gives tension to her work — and when John Lindsey saw this sense of ...

Jamaica Plain artist Ginny Vogel Zanger has used her art as an escape from her political activism, but the painter and printmaker was compelled to combine her passions for her latest exhibit. “I have ...

Sometimes a change of place is much more than a change of scenery. The way Richard Diebenkorn told it, moving from the Bay Area to Southern California in the fall of 1966 was a catalyst that changed ...

A few months ago, Erick Toussaint came up with an idea to entertain his housebound children by creating chalk art on the sidewalk in front of their Ocean Beach house. Although his two children quickly ...

Jamie and Alexandra Jacobs live their lives in color. The artists and owners of the OC Painting Experience brought to you by T.C. Studios are constantly knee deep in paint palettes and canvases. The ...

It's enough to make you seasick. But in a good way. The ocean waves swirl and ebb and flow and rush around you. There is a breathless calm and an effervescent majesty in the paintings of Ran Ortner.

'Tsunami,' 2008, by Paulette Bensignor (Paulette Bensignor/for Great Bay Gallery) A mixed-media sculpture by Paulette Bensignor (Paulette Bensignor/for Great Bay Gallery) 'Shark Bait' and detail from ...

SAN DIEGO — In the spring of 2022, I reported about "The Event" which saved an Ocean Beach man's life and gave him a new beginning. In this Zevely Zone, I share the feel-good follow-up story from the ...