Kate Devine, born and raised in San Francisco, has been creating art for as long as she can remember. Encouraged by the voice of her grandfather, a senior apprentice of architect Frank Lloyd Wright, and her great grandmother Aline Barnsdall, creator of the Barnsdall Art Park in Los Angeles, she continued to find herself drawing and painting throughout her childhood which eventually brought her to study in New York. After graduating from NYU with a BFA in Art and Drama, she lived overseas where her artwork was influenced by the villages of Europe, the streets of Tokyo and the exotic landscapes of Bali.
Upon returning to the states she began to teach art and became the program director and head instructor of Mission Renaissance Fine Art Academy.
Her broad range of aesthetics in oil has been exhibited in galleries, airports, commercial spaces as well as sold to private collectors across the globe. When she is not teaching art, she continues to find her own voice as an artist. Whether it is painting murals or working on her next solo exhibition, she finds great joy discovering and exploring the coexistence of organic and urban life through her paintings. Thurayya Hernandez, is an Arab American born in Damascus Syria. She spent her early childhood years in Iraq during the Iran/Iraq War. At a young age, she learned about questioning the status quo. Amidst all the conflict and uncertainty, she found solace and comfort in drawing and sketching.
She moved to America with her family in the early 80’s. Confronted by culture shock and exclusion, once again she turned to art as a source of self empowerment.
Her love for art led her to seek out a career in design and she received a B.A. at Cal State LA.
The digital world was a revelation to this busy working mother and provided her with a tool that allowed her to create and mold a new world from anything she wanted.
Today, she is a seeker of beauty and poetry in the everyday, depicting it with a new and heightened appreciation.
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