Art & Advocacy:
About the Artists
These works of art will be in a silent auction on December 11, 2021, along with several other pieces.
If you wish to purchase a piece in advance,
online pre-sale purchases are 25% off before the event!
Paul Dean MD
"Desert Heat" Value $2,500
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Watercolor has always fascinated me because of its spontaneity. While painting in
watercolor, numerous serendipitous events occur which result in either fantastic visual
effects or disasters which necessitate placing the final painting in a place never to be seen
again! Watercolor is vibrant! I am a practicing dermatologist specializing in skin cancer
diagnosis and treatment with offices in the Grossmont section of San Diego County and
brighten the walls of my Grossmont office with many of my original watercolors. I sell my
originals as well as offering reproductions of my work in a variety of sizes
Ken Khoury MD
"US flag over Koyasan (Japan)" Value $2,000
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Comes from a family of painters. As a child, he painted with his father, who was trained by
Pierre Tartoue, a French portraiture specialist in N.Y., a photographer of Native Americans in
the 30’s and 40”s, and a landscape and sunset painter in later life. Ken’s daughter, Charis,
graduated in art from Brown and step daughter, Zoey, is applying for a master’s in scientific
illustration at Johns Hopkins. Ken was trained at Watts Atelier and relaxed from his addictive
psychiatric practice expressing nature En Plein Air oils
Carol Mayfield
"Magic Horse" Value $250
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is a retired Art Resource teacher, mother of three adult children and grandmother of 3. She has won awards for her sculptures in clay and bronze and has been selected to sculpt public and private art projects. In last few years she began painting on canvas,
creating textures, mixing colors, and telling stories with great music in the background. Art is what life is about. Making authentic, personal, honest and joyful pieces is her way of bringing happiness to the viewer. Color and passion are important ingredients too.
Josie Rodriguez
"Heart Be Still" Value $150
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Visual artist, uses melted beeswax, pigment, damar (tree resin) and other natural elements to create her paintings and sculptures.
Inspired by the messy, visceral and spontaneous character of encaustic art, Josie speaks to her relationship with nature and to the colonies of bees that she considers collaborators in her process.
Matt Steinberg
"Mother & Child" Value $550
is a contemporary American artist who explores
themes of shared human experience within art,
literature, philosophy, psychology, mass media
and pop culture. After a career in graphic design
he has now turned his attention to creating a multidisciplinary practice pursuing his own
interests that deal with communication, empathy
and the human condition. The artist prefers to
use an economy of (visual) language to create an opportunity for reflection. He draws heavily on
influences from iconic abstract artists Mark Rothko
Helen Frankenthaler and Cy Twombly to
Jean Michel Basquiat and contemporary artists
Rashid Johnson, George Condo and KAWS.
Visit: www.mattstenberg.com.
Caroline Stewart
"Doors to Anxiety" Value $200
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Caroline Ridout Stewart, LCSW-President of the Board of A New PATH is a San Diego harm
reduction psychotherapist recently retired from the UCSD Department of Psychiatry where
she was a clinical instructor and non-physician attending. Caroline has a graduate degree
in British Social Anthropology from McGill University in Montreal where she also attended
the Musee des Beaux Artes Fine Arts School where she specialized in wood block
print-making.