Park Street Gallery Artists
Sam DiMaggio is an award-winning, master woodturner and designer who crafts distinctive bowls, vases and other sculptural vessels. Through segmented woodturning, Sam explores the intersection of geometry and nature. Each vessel is built from precisely cut pieces, assembled into patterns and shapes that celebrate both structure and spontaneity. Guided by an intuitive approach to form and design, Sam brings a personal sense of balance and artistry to each piece, transforming raw materials into timeless works of art.
Sharon Gellerman offers hand-marbled silk scarves infused with vibrant colors and patterns. As a textile artist, she blends modern creativity with classical marbling techniques to create timeless, wearable art. Each scarf is meticulously infused with vibrant hues and intricate patterns. Through her artistry Sharon remains rooted in tradition and is committed to bridging cultures, communities, and hearts around the world.
As a native of SLO County, Sharon's love of the beautiful rocks and shells in the area just came naturally. Her grandpa would take her to Gem Fairs, where she would spend hours playing with grab bag treasures, and designing unique jewelry pieces for family and friends. Over the past 32 years, she learned to design in wire, recycle anything from a junk drawer, and has collected vintage watch fobs and medals for original jewelry that sparks our imagination. Sharon can turn anything into a piece of jewelry.
Through traditional techniques and innovative design, Sophia’s hand blown glass creations showcase the beauty of fluidity and transformation, resulting in pieces that are captivating and timeless. She has perfected the delicate and skilled art of glassblowing, creating masterful and collectable nautiluses, bowls, and sculptural vessels. She also transforms molten glass into heart shaped paperweights and stemmed roses that allow a gift-able expression of love.
Susan Kounanis is an award winning California artist. Inspired by her love of antiques, Susan enjoys using vintage glass and vases pared with colorful fresh fruits and flowers in her still life paintings. Forever chasing the light, her oil paintings are rich in color while capturing soft, subtle darks in shadow.
Terri has been painting with pastels since 1998, and has found that sticking to one medium has helped her become masterful, providing the freedom to push the pastels in different directions without feeling lost. She loves that pastels have such brilliant color and are compact enough to transport easily, which allows her to paint en plein air. Terri is a Signature Member of the Pastel Society of the West Coast and an Associate member of the Pastel Society of America, and her paintings have been collected nationally and internationally.
As a fisheries scientist by profession, Tom spent 31 years monitoring, conducting and directing salmon and trout research for the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife. He started carving wood shortly after retirement in 2005. Drawing on experience as a biologist, Tom began to create stylized wildlife sculptures. He currently works exclusively with a variety of hardwoods carved with power tools. Specializing in carving trout, Tom enjoys carving other fishes, birds and mammals. The more dramatic the wood, the better.
Trish’s journey as a ceramic artist began with a spark of inspiration and has evolved into a decade-long adventure in crafting hand-made pottery. Her pieces are functional and well-crafted, and also exquisitely beautiful. Driven by an undeniable need to create, her passion shines through in the balance, texture, and color of her work, adding a touch of beauty to any home. Trish specializes in functional pieces that include platters, plates, and functional pieces in all shapes and sizes.
Victor DiNovi comes from a family of artists and artisans, musicians and masons, chefs and poets. Exposed to the process of artistic creation as a small child, he feels that the act of creation is as important as the object created! Victor creates handmade one-of-a-kind, gracefully refined pieces of furniture reminiscent of old world design combined with mid-century modern. Each piece is made from domestic and/or imported hardwoods, and becomes a ravishing, sculptural art form, while also providing function.