Bill Fox, a San Francisco native, attended his first football game at the age of six to watch the 49ers take on the Green Bay Packers in 1956 at Kezar Field. Fox tried his hand at quarterback at Lincoln High School in the mid-60’s, alongside teammate Mike Holmgren. Fox went on to play football collegiately…

San Francisco 49ers team photographer Terrell Lloyd has been with the organization for over 15 years. He is noted for his experience shooting professional and college sports. In 1994 Terrell Lloyd was granted the opportunity to shoot on the sidelines at a San Francisco 49ers game and his passion for sports photography exploded. Over the…

Frank Rippon, a San Francisco native, acquired a camera and started photographing while in his early teens. “Rip” began photographing local college teams out of high school and shortly after approached the San Francisco 49ers organization to shoot.   He started his long career with the 49ers shooting every home game from 1948 through the…

Michael Zagaris began as a team photographer for the San Francisco 49ers in 1973, and the Oakland A’s in 1981, both which he continues to shoot to this day. To date, Zagaris has photographed 34 Super Bowls, 12 World Series and 14 All Star games. His photos have appeared in numerous publications including the cover…

Initially attending San Jose State for his photography, Ben Alexy quickly moved from photography to painting and never looked back. In painting, he found a voice and a strong sense of purpose and direction. His early photographic training continues to inform his work in terms of both composition and the implication of time inherent in…

Milton Bowens is the Lead Artist in Residence at Twin Rivers Unified School District. He has visited more than 60 schools over the past two years and was the spokesperson for Sacramento’s Any Given Child 2010 inaugural year. Bowens has donated his artwork to raise over $25,000 for arts & charitable organizations in the Sacramento…

Growing up in the small farming town of Hughson, in the heart of California’s Central Valley, Nick Brown was surrounded by orchards that seemed as endless as the skies above them. Sports were a big part of Brown’s life, which had to find their place in his daily schedule of drawing, painting, and clay-making. A…

Adam Feibelman was born and raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He took to the art of graffiti, a path that would eventually take him to the California College of Arts. His studies in printmaking and illustration won him the Yozo Hamaguchi award in printmaking, and a BFA with distinction. In the years following his formal…

Chris Filart was born in the Philippines in 1973 and is an up-and-coming mixed-media, figurative artist living and working in the Silicon Valley. He attended and earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in painting and drawing from San Francisco State University. Filart applies classical painting and drawing techniques to convey movement and emotion with…

Bart Forbesʼ unique approach to painting is the result of many years spent both as a fine artist and an illustrator. His interest in sports has led to a wide variety of major commissions. Forbes has created theme paintings for a variety of PGA and Seniors’ tournaments, and is known for his many posters and…

The vineyards of Oakville are both home and inspiration to Suzanne Groth, and her career and art continue to be profoundly influenced by the vineyards that surround her. Intertwining art, family and work, and with each release of a Groth Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon, Suzanne produces a new painting. An original of Suzanne’s is housed at…

Derek Gores is best known for his torn paper collage works, utilizing found materials like photographs, historical data, maps and memorabilia to create a captivating new images on canvas. Gores exhibits in galleries around the world and was honored as one of 15 artists selected for the Manifest Hope DC exhibit, prior to the 2009 Presidential…

Lynn Hanson lives on the California coast. The subjects of her work are people in motion and people in their environment; for reference she often photographs them in action or in their element.  The resulting drawings and paintings are large scale, eight feet in height. Another series of large scale portraits documents internationally renowned California…

Jorge Hernandez was born in Chula Vista, CA and graduated with a B.F.A. from the University of California, San Diego. Hernandez gravitates toward anything rhythmic and upbeat. He finds inspiration in musicians and the energy they create with a single chord, note or vibration. Being of Brazilian and Hispanic descent, Hernandez honors his Latin roots….

A Bay Area native for over 40 years, Jenny Kompolt has always had an artistic and graphic career – from her time as Creative Director for Netflix, and Partner Marketing at eBay, to her own graphic design & promotional agency, Kompolt Online Auction Agency – which raised over $22 million for charity in her 10 years…

Jon Krawczyk is a hard hitting neo-modernist: New York School with a contemporary twist. His work has a conceptual side, but it is also very much about the physicality of making art and the objects that result from that action, i.e. energy and matter. Krawczyk cuts, pounds and welds sheets of bronze and stainless steel…

Over her painting career, June Li has been influenced by many different movements and painters, notably the movement of Northern European Symbolism, Impressionism, Cubism, German Expressionism, The Blue Rider Group, and Russian Constructivism.  Li’s artwork is displayed in numerous San Francisco Bay Area public venues and private collections from China, Florence and London. She is…

Tom Mosser attended Penn State University and graduated with a BFA in Fine Arts. In the mid ʻ90ʼs, Tom was awarded four national sports awards for his portraits of Roberto Clemente, Honus Wagner, Mario Lemieux and Mark McGuire. Mosser was commissioned to complete a 75′ x 4.5′, three-panel mural that is currently on display in…

Known for her willingness to embrace new processes, materials and techniques, CJ Nash has experimented with a variety of media including painting, metal works, glass blowing, acrylic shaping and finishing and woodworking. She credits her Art & Design degree from San Jose State University for a solid understanding of creative fundamentals and extensive collaboration with…

Hang Nguyen was born in Saigon, Vietnam, and was raised in the Bay Area. She grew up as a “Junior 49er Minor” and collected scads of Croix de Candlestick pins. She and her siblings saw “The Catch” on TV and reenacted it many times over during neighborhood touch-football games. Nguyen is a trained artist, with…