Born in Mississippi and raised in Texas, Logan Adair is a self-taught painter who began creating and exhibiting artwork at sixteen. He lives between Southern California, New York City, and Texas, leading a nomadic life as an artist. His work merges painting and ceramics: he approaches ceramics with a painter’s eye, focusing on surface, glaze, and color.

Logan’s story vessels draw on the ancient tradition of narrative pottery. He strips away color and carves directly into the cream-colored slip brushed over rich black mountain clay.

Born in the mid-1940s in upstate New York, Richard Etts is a self-taught artist whose creative journey began in early childhood. His artistic path was shaped by two pivotal influences: his uncle, who introduced him to the vibrant world of colored inks, and his artistic grandmother, who opened the door to clay modeling and plaster casting when he was just seven years old.

At seventeen, Richard moved to New York City, where he spent the next fifteen years honing his craft in visual merchandising. His showroom and window displays included prestigious commissions for Tiffany & Co. on Fifth Avenue. Today, one of his lamps is part of the permanent collection at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City. At nineteen, Richard spent a transformative year in Madrid, studying sculpture, molding, and casting at the Escuela de Artes Aplicadas y Oficios Artísticos and the Círculo de Bellas Artes.

During a side trip to Geneva, he met Pablo Picasso while shopping for a clock—a thrilling, once-in-a-lifetime moment that left an indelible mark. During the 1960s and 1970s, Richard owned a thriving design and manufacturing business in Manhattan’s Lower East Side. His distinctive creations, including a series of unique hand lamps and other home furnishings, were sold at Bloomingdale’s in New York City, cementing his reputation as an innovative designer. By the early 1980s, he had expanded his operations with a showroom and factory on Perez Road in Cathedral City, California.

Richard’s lifelong artistic exploration has culminated in his current focus: large acrylic paintings on canvas that express his energy, color, and sense of joy. Inspired by nature, music, architecture, fractal concepts, and the transition from liquids to solids, his works bring together his diverse influences. He often spends up to a year on a single painting, meticulously balancing space and color, and typically works in sets of three. A master of his materials, Richard designs and creates his own silicone molds for casting bronze and plastics, and primes his canvases with custom acrylic and polymer mixtures.

Museum Collections:

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York City

World Erotic Art Museum, Miami, Florida

Born in the Coachella Valley, Granados’s roots are grounded in the sparse, primal, and extreme aspects of the desert environment. As a youth, the cultural void of the time compelled him to explore and cultivate his artistic interests. The desert was the perfect place to experiment, observe, ask questions, and immerse himself in creative endeavors.

Growing up, his family environment was divided between opposing views of spirituality and artistic expression. These polarized views of authority, along with deep questions about the purpose and nature of humanity, were immense themes to confront at a young age. In the 1990s, Granados made a life-altering move to New York City and met his future Danish wife. This partnership exposed him to classic Scandinavian design, allowing him to hone an identifiable aesthetic that fuses dramatic simplicity with primitive tribalism.

A multidisciplinary artist, Granados has worked with stone, metal, wood, and ceramic. Infusing abstract emotions such as illumination and inspiration into his art is a way of paying homage to the human capacity both to inspire and to be inspired.

Kai Kingsley III (b. 1946) is an American painter whose practice spans five decades. Born in Brooklyn, New York, he has developed a singular visual language grounded in mark-making, reduction, and repetition. His work moves fluidly between abstraction and figuration while remaining independent of prevailing trends. He lives and works in Palm Springs, California.

Kingsley studied at Fairleigh Dickinson University, served in the United States Army, and received his B.A. from the University of Maryland in 1974. He continued postgraduate study at Towson State University, St. Thomas University Seminary in Denver, and the Naropa Institute in Boulder. His engagement with psychology, philosophy, and contemplative thought further informed the intellectual foundation of his work.

Over the course of his career, Kingsley has exhibited in the United States, Europe, and Asia, with notable presentations in Santa Fe, Honolulu, Chicago, Denver, Bangkok, Hua Hin, Munich, Bern, and Palm Springs. His work has been shown at venues including the Contemporary Museum in Honolulu; the Queen’s Museum Gallery in Bangkok; River City Exhibition Hall in Bangkok; Jean Albano Gallery in Chicago; and galleries in Switzerland, Germany, New Mexico, Hawaii, and Thailand.

Kingsley’s work has also been recognized in publications including the Bangkok Post, Fine Art Magazine, The Santa Fe New Mexican, National Geographic Traveler, the Denver Post, and regional and international arts publications.

Kingsley’s practice is defined by a sustained commitment to formal inquiry rather than stylistic conformity. Across five decades, he has built a body of work distinguished by internal rigor, visual invention, and an enduring belief that painting remains a site for discovery.

Jakthon Phaengtho was born in 1977 in northeastern Thailand. As a child, he recognized his artistic ability. He loved drawing and seeing the world with what he later learned was called an artist’s eye. At first, he was captivated by nature and the way it embraced him in color. It seemed natural to focus on capturing its beauty and wonder. At about fifteen, he began developing his own style and moved toward more contemporary themes. He also grew to appreciate nature more deeply, in all its forms and complexity.

In his twenties, Jakthon realized that creating art had become a major part of his life. His career goal was to become more complete as an artist by depicting both interior and exterior scenes. Working with other art students and joining Thai and international artist groups helped him along the way. He also helped many artist friends exhibit their work, learning how to organize art shows. Soon he came to appreciate another side of art: marketing. He understood that artists must not only create, but also exhibit and promote their work.

Jakthon then began showing the world his paintings, which are bursting with action and color. His varied subject matter offers a fresh look at the world through young eyes that remain open. He has spent most of his life becoming the artist he is today.

For ten years, he exhibited his work at his own studio galleries. The Art Jacky Gallery in Bangkok and Hua Hin, Thailand, was a success. His artwork has since moved permanently to America. It is now mostly abstract, reflecting years of creative development and contributing to a broader awareness of art within the global community. East meets West.

Born in Southern California’s stark desert landscape and surrounded by modernist architecture, Brett Stevens’s art naturally reflects the duality of human experience: structure, minimalism, and precision coexist with raw emotion and a stream of consciousness. This visual expression of duality began as a form of therapy—a way to give physical form to the internal conflict he was facing: order versus chaos, and the balance between them.

Craftsmanship is ingrained in Stevens through his father and grandfather. A third-generation craftsman, he was encouraged as a child to create and follow in their footsteps. Utilitarianism evolved into an elegant, refined artistic expression, executed with the highest level of craftsmanship and precision he can achieve. Stevens believes that striving for perfection, while understanding that perfection is never absolute, enables his artwork to approach it.

Brett Stevens lives in Palm Springs, California. He can be found most days in his studio, creating new work. He is constantly experimenting with materials, techniques, and ideas. He believes that continually innovating and improving his techniques is necessary to keep his work current in today’s fast-moving society.

Jack was born in Chicago, Illinois, and received both his BFA and MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he concentrated on painting, sketching, and design. He later taught painting, sculpture, design, and color at the Harrington Institute of Chicago.

He has worked from studios in Chicago and Palm Springs, creating commissioned abstract works. His work has been exhibited in galleries and showrooms in Chicago and Minneapolis, and is included in private collections in Palm Springs, San Francisco, Scottsdale, Texas, and California.

His paintings express strength and movement, anchored by a confident command of color. He currently lives and works in Palm Springs, California.