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B-Minus Studios is a collaborative artist work space located in the historic Santora Arts Building in Santa Ana. Open during Artwalk and by appointment.
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B-Minus Studios is a collaborative artist work space located in the historic Santora Arts Building in downtown Santa Ana. The studio serves a dual function as both an exhibition space and artists’ studio. By bridging the gap between where art is created and where it is displayed, B-Minus offers the public a unique way to engage with art outside the traditional gallery model. Visitors are invited to not only view finished work, but to also meet with the artists in their personal workspace.

10/09/2023

Thank you for coming out to see and her recent works. If you are interested in one of her paintings or visiting, DM to make an appointment before October 27th.

09/23/2023

October Art Walk is almost here, mark your calendars for a special guest.

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Carolina Brunet
www.carolinabrunet.com [email protected]

Carolina Brunet is a contemporary visual artist based in California, United States. In 2004, after obtaining a Degree in Graphic Design and a Master degree in Strategic Communication in Santiago, Chile, she moved to live in The United States.

In 2005, she studied Abstract Painting in Minnetonka Center for the Arts and Introduction to Illustration in Minneapolis College of Art and Design MN, Minnesota. Between 2008 and 2017 she exhibited in different groups and solo exhibitions around the Twin Cities establishing herself as an emerging artist. In 2015, she was featured on Start Tribune article by Mary Abbe as one of the artists participating on the exhibition “Abstraction in Action”. The same year one of her
works was selected for Circa Gallery, Minneapolis, on the 25th Anniversary Exhibition.

In 2016, she worked as a Museum Educator at a multidisciplinary contemporary art museum, The Walker Art Center (MN), participating in exhibitions, such as Merce Cunningham and Katrina Fritsch. Combining painting with education, she has contributed with knowledge in Latin America culture and bilingual proficiency.
In 2017, she moved to live in Greater New York area. The artists Ronnie Landfield and Pat Lipsky, were her mentors at the Art Student League of New York. In 2019, the curator Lori Bookstein, from Bookstein Projects gallery, selected one of her pieces for the annual Juried exhibition on Prince Street Gallery, Chelsea, New York.

In 2019, she moved to live in state of California where she had expanded her practice incorporating diverse media and materials to her work; paper, acrylics, oils, collages, yarn etc... In 2021, the Juror Taylor Bythewood-Porter, assistant curator at the California African American Museum (CAAM), incorporated her work for the exhibition “All Media 2021” at Irvine Fine arts Center. Currently, Carolina is studying a Certificate on Drawing, Painting and Sculpture at the New York Studio School.

06/28/2023

We are so excited to expand "Cross-Discipline" to include 5 more artists, including a founding member of B-, .

One of the hallmark struggled of the artistic pursuit is making personal art while simultaneously meeting the demands of a sustaining art career. This show is art for the artist, done on personal time.

Come have a look, and ask questions about the balancing act, during art walk on Saturday July 1st

06/21/2023

Santa Ana Art Walk is Saturday July 1st from 6-10p.
Come check out Cross-Discipline Part 2 as we expand our showcase of artists working in multiple fields.

06/04/2023

Shots from "Cross-Discipline" Group Show last night- thank you everyone who came out!

Part 2 coming July 1st

We are showcasing artists working in various design and art careers, setting aside corporate work to create for themselves, and for fun.

05/04/2023

Art Walk is this Saturday, as well as Downtown Santa Ana's Cinco de Mayo celebration, come early!
Our featured artist is Monica Gava

See you soon!

04/28/2023

"My name is Monica Gava and I am the Illustrator and Impressionist Abstract artist at Koketi Studio. I am from Brazil and my art is heavily influenced by the vibrant brazilian culture, and its happy people.

Nature has always been an escape and a source of inspiration for me. Traveling feeds my thirst for diversity and wonder. So when I paint, I hope you can cross the oceans with me, and make meaningful connections through my brush strokes and the touch of my hands."

Website: www.koketi.com
Etsy shop: www.etsy.com/shop/koketi
Instagram:

02/20/2023

Christopher Maldonado is an emerging filmmaker/photographer from San Antonio, TX. He began a serious practice of photography during his freshman year at University of Texas at Austin, where he primarily focused on architecture and street photography- “the easiest subjects to photograph when you’re right in the middle of Austin,” Maldonado says, “I soon fell in love with the process of film photography and eventually acquired multiple cameras and a film scanner much to the disappointment of my wallet.”

Maldonado currently works in Los Angeles at Peter Berg’s documentary company Film 45 and writes feature scripts in his free time, to direct in the future.

16 Photos from 2021:

I’m a big fan of westerns and have always been fascinated by the push/pull of man and nature. I visited Yellowstone National Park in the summer of 2021 and was interested in the way people interact with nature nowadays as a vacation destination, and how we consolidate that into our day-to-day lives.

The photos were taken on a Canon AE-1 Program, Nikon L35AF, and iPhone XS.
-Maldonado

02/20/2023

David Solis Jr is a filmmaker, music producer, and artist from San Antonio, TX.
From a young age he had a passion for artistic expression. Solis relocated to California to pursue the development of his creative skills and to find opportunities to create. His work is largely influenced by his background as a Tejano, as well as his faith. Solis creates work that depicts human nature and the realities of life with honesty, without being reductive.

He is currently developing screenplays for short films, a tv pilot, and a feature, and eagerly applies himself for any opportunity to create and share the world as he sees it.

Goliad (2021) aprox. 11 min.:

Goliad is a short film that serves as a companion piece to his album of the same name. It is composed of three tracks from that album that tell a condensed version of the album’s story of self-actualization. The film has a focus on visual storytelling, relying on music, editing, and cinematography to dance with the protagonist and share its ideas nonverbally.

The film stars Houston-based dancer Hailey Summers as the titular Goliad, in an interpretive dance, experiencing birth to adulthood as she experiments with her personality, struggles with confusion and self-doubt, and resolves to incorporate her shadow and become the fullest version of herself.

The tracks used are:

1. This Is The Escape (ft. Joseph De La O)
2. (I Just Get) More Attached to You
3. Goliath/Perdition

02/06/2023

So much information, emotion, and sensation in the curve of a line and the arrangement of soft tones. Thank you for stopping by the studio to see Kohr’s work.. if you’re interested in having one of these, DM us or

12/27/2022

Add “See more art” to your new year’s resolution, and stop by January 7th to see new work by Gabriella Kohr.
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“Papel” is a series of recent mixed media works on paper by Southern California based artist Gabriella Kohr. Papel explores the art of play through pieces layered with emotion and color. Through this explorational use of multimedia on paper there is a figurative narrative throughout showcasing embrace and the entanglement of relationships with one another and the surrounding space.

09/25/2022

Art Walk is next Saturday!

Matteo Di Ventra:
This show is a paper trail of Matteo's life painting studies, including friends, students, and his best friend & wife. Many of these paintings were created during classes that he taught and life painting sessions that he attended at Kline Academy. Di Ventra crafted some the works meticulously from multiple life sessions, while others are more rudimentary. The range in level of realization intentionally depicts stages of the artist's process and technique. Due to the multitude of hours spent teaching the craft of oil painting, Di Ventra also enjoys the abstract and more expressive elements within representational painting. He finds that many of these exciting decisions made on the fly during a life session can be lost when too much time is spent on rendering details.

08/28/2022

-Matteo Di Ventra opening Sept 3rd-

Come join us 6-10p art walk :)

07/21/2022

So nice, we’ll do it twice..
Art walk August 6th. 6-10pm. Illustrator Rachel Davis will have more prints and stickers available as well. Join us in the Santora Building!

06/21/2022

July 2.
6-10p.

Illuminated Femme

Inspired by medieval etchings and iconography, Illuminated Femme is a series of illustrations by Rachel Davis. The dark enchantress is central to these allegories drawn with fine lines of hatched ink.

Rachel Davis is an Orange County-based artist, and a graduate of the University of California- Irvine, with a degree in Fine Arts. She creates both traditional and digital art in an illustrative style, with punk, goth, and medieval art influences.

05/29/2022

Hey! Check out the featured artist in the weekly update ;)
Thank you for the mention!

05/25/2022

Guest artist Shannon Vaught will be displaying an array of portraits June 4th 6-10p at BMinus:

Familiar Faces is a series of recent paintings by Southern California based artist Shannon Vaught. These spontaneous Alla Prima portraits depict friends of the artist, and are an energetic response to their unique characteristics. While exploring individuality in each singular painting, the sheer quantity of same-sized portraits unifies them, focusing on a greater connectedness, and what is most innately human.
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Born in 1996 just outside of Detroit, Shannon Vaught is a contemporary realist painter with emphasis on the human figure and portrait. Shannon fell in love with painting in oils the first time she was introduced to the medium at the Laguna College of Art and Design, where she received her BFA in 2019.
Shannon lives and works in Southern California where she is currently focused on creating portrait paintings that make connections with the physical body and the intangible parts of our human existence.

03/24/2022

Join us for the first art walk of Spring, April 2nd from 6-10p in Santa Ana.

We are delighted to present to you as our guest artist.

“The Snowdrop”

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Alexandra Haiven is a self-taught portraiture artist, currently living and creating out of Southern California.
Resisting the idea of the n**e form as inherently sexual, Alexandra uses self-shot portraiture to reclaim her own form in powerful, gentle, and sometimes animalistic expressions.
Alexandra has embraced the body as an instrument of artistic creation. She carves forms out of light, gently inspired by the marble sculpted works of the masters, romanticism, folklore, and naturalism.
Using self-shot portraiture to create depictions of her inner world and hoping to contextualize the struggle of healing, she has spent nearly a decade building a portfolio of pieces previously kept from the public eye.

This series seeks to explore women's experience through folklore and myth: Tragic, cautionary, and often bittersweet. The yearning leading us to chaos; the choices thrust upon us; the desperation to reconnect with our spirituality and inner world, to shed the sins we cast over ourselves, and to step into our power. Using romanticism and folklore as key elements, the artist hopes to examine what it means to be human through literary women.

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01/05/2022

RESCHEDULED-

Visit our guest FEB 5th. 6-10pm at Art Walk, and ask them about printmaking and their unique and diverse art collaboration in Orange County.

“The mighty oak tree from an acorn first grows its roots. The roots are the base which draws its nutrients from the soil. Once the roots are strong, the tree- its branches leaves and flowers, will have a healthy long life. All trees are a loving union of earth and sky. Twelve artists participated in creating trees and roots in various printmaking mediums, which were interchanged to create a wide variety of combinations. The trees collectively become a forest.

Artists: Yeansoo Aum, Elisabeth Beck, Andra Broekelschen, Christina Yasmin Fesmire, Bill Jaros, Nguyen Ly, Bill Myers, Marina Polic, Francisco Rogido, Tracy Skinner, Sue Stoyanoff, Paula Voss, Zana Zupur”

09/22/2021

B Minus Studios welcomes you back to DTSA Art Walk on Saturday October 2nd with our first guest artist since reopening to the public. We'd like to introduce Brooke Hunter, a young and celebrated recent graduate of LCAD. She came to California from Oklahoma, where she was raised by artistic parents and a familiarity with the art scene. She now teaches and practices her art locally in Santa Ana, and shares with us her portraiture and still life oil paintings.

‘Birdhouse’

Paintings by Brooke Hunter
Opening Reception October 2nd 2021
6-10pm

Downtown Santa Ana Art Walk
B Minus Studios
207 N. Broadway, Suite B.

08/09/2021

So happy to be back! Every 1st Saturday 6-10p.. come on by :)

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207 N Broadway
Santa Ana, CA
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BMinus welcomes a duo show, two artists from San Antonio, Texas: David Solis Jr. and Christopher Maldonado. Solis’s short film “Goliad” and Maldonado’s “16 Photos from 2021” pair adjacent experiences of humanity- to express our nature vs. occupying nature and observing it as something separate. Join us March 4th 6-10pm for the show opening at art walk.