The Westlake Village Art Guild is looking for a volunteer to coordinate the outside exhibits. If you are interested, please contact June Seeley.
WVAG artists showing at the Westlake Village Library
Born in New York, grew up in California. Always creative – art and music. An avid reader I live for books. Bit of a hot head . Largely self-taught, get out of my way, I'll figure it out myself, given libraries, museums, books, materials, and time. Love classical art, truth and beauty, high concept, composition, refined skills, color and line. A former Disney Imagineer, I do 2D, 3D, traditional and digital work. I build things; draw, paint, sculpt, with a wide variety of materials; oils, acrylics, water colors, pastels, pencils, and charcoal. Lately I've been using ball point pens for 'life drawing'. I build my own frames, was an assistant instructor of Machine technology, I do CAD and can run CNC machines. I've done architectural visualization and been a model maker, print maker, illustrator, musician, composer – leaning towards jazz and experimental – time signatures, strange scales, odd chord patterns. I believe that “late bloomers are the most exotic flowers”.
Carla Bowman-Smith is a California-based photographer and graphic designer whose work explores the unseen, the ephemeral, and the surreal. With a career spanning over two decades, Carla currently serves as the Head of the Visual & Performing Arts Department at Malibu High School, where she has taught Photography and Graphic Design since 1997.
She earned a B.S. in Art and Design with a Photography Concentration from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, and an M.A. in Education from Pepperdine University. Before entering education, she worked professionally in the graphic design field.
Carla’s photographic practice is grounded in a fascination with the mysterious qualities of the nocturnal and the infrared. Using a range of camera formats—including digital, small, medium, and converted infrared—she captures images that reveal what the human eye cannot see: ghostly silhouettes, streaks of light from passing vehicles, and landscapes transformed by invisible infrared light. Her long exposure techniques and infrared imagery offer viewers a haunting and surreal alternate vision of everyday environments.
Her work has been featured in numerous group exhibitions, including venues such as the Los Angeles Center of Photography, Muzeo Museum and Cultural Center, Malibu City Hall, Hillcrest Center for the Arts, and the Santa Cruz Art League Gallery. She has also exhibited with the Westlake Village Art Guild, the Anaheim Art Association, and the Thousand Oaks Art Association, among many others.
Carla is an award-winning photographer, with honors from Photographer’s Forum Magazine, the Westlake Village Art Guild, the Anaheim Art Association, and the Los Angeles Center of Photography. Her accolades span from honorable mentions to top placements in competitive juried exhibitions.
Inspired by her travels and by contemporary and modern photographers, Carla continues to explore the boundaries of visual perception, striving to create work that evokes curiosity, introspection, and a deeper appreciation for the unseen world. Upcoming artists at the Westlake Village Library
July - September TBD
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