AV is a collaborative exhibition exploring the convergence of audio and visual art. This show features work by 12 Ojai-based artists, each piece is paired with a custom audio soundtrack. Curation for this event is by Christopher Noxon, Will Thomas, and Chris Hacker.
Meet the AV Artists
Sally England is an artist widely recognized for her large-scale knotted works that explore the intersection of material, form, and space. Drawing on traditional craft techniques such as knotting, weaving, and twining, she creates sculptural compositions that are refined, tactile, and architecturally resonant, often incorporating materials such as rope, cord, ceramic, and stained glass. Working primarily on a commission basis, Sally’s artworks are represented in hotels, restaurants, and private collections internationally. In addition to her studio practice, she shares her love of handwork by teaching art camps and workshops in her hometown of Ojai, California. Originally from the Midwest, England earned her undergraduate degree from Grand Valley State University in West Michigan and attended the MFA in Applied Craft & Design program at Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon.
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Floating Garden. 2026. Upcycled pool hose and wire. Varying sizes.
Joel Fox lives with Jennifer Day on their compound in Ojai, California. Joel attended CalArts and was the first graduate from their Integrated Media program in 1997. He made segments for various children’s television shows and created video campaigns for Vans, Levi’s and other brands. Joel started making spinners a few years ago, in response to the wind blowing all over the place and getting away with it.
Ben Grace is an artist and designer with a background in architecture and set design, exploring the intersection of light, nature, and form. His work focuses on creating lighting installations and sculptures that blur the line between art and function, using sustainable materials to evoke a sense of wonder and connection back to nature. Through his creations Ben aims to fostering stillness, reflection, and a deeper appreciation of the natural world.
Rosemary Holliday Hall is a transdisciplinary artist working across installation, sculpture, ceramics, sound, moving image, and performance. Her work explores ecology and relationships between natural systems and the built environment. She holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BFA with a minor in Environmental Horticulture from the University of California, Davis. She has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions across the United States and internationally. Her practice often includes collaborations with scientists through residencies and research-based fellowships, including the National Center for Ecological Synthesis and Analysis Artist Researcher in Residence, Nemeth Art Center Artist Residency, Taft Gardens Artist Researcher in Residence, UC Davis Bilinski Fellowship, Ex.Change: Artists and Scientists on Climate Change, the University of Chicago Art, Science & Culture Grant, the Leroy Neiman Oxbow Fellowship, and the Manetti Shrem Royal Drawing School Fellowship.
Bhagvati Khalsa is an artist based in Ojai, California. Raised within a multicultural environment, her creative perspective is shaped by layered cultural traditions, ways of seeing, and modes of making. With formal training in fashion design, her work is informed by an understanding of construction, systems, and how form moves through space and the body. Twelve years ago, she began working with ceramics, grounding her practice in tactility, time, and material presence. Alongside this, her photography project Pattern Plotting explores rhythm, repetition, and visual structure—mapping patterns found in everyday environments as a way of observing order, intuition, and lived experience. Across mediums, Bhagvati approaches making as an act of care and inquiry, allowing process, repetition, and attention to guide the work. Her practice often reflects themes of curiosity, belonging, and the quiet rituals embedded in daily life.
Cassandra C. Jones is a multidisciplinary artist, the founder and director of the Art in Nature Residency at Taft Gardens & Nature Preserve, and the curator of The Mega Gallery, a storefront window project in downtown Ojai. Following 22 years as a digital artist, she has shifted her studio practice to making only affirmational artwork in whatever medium feels necessary until the current administration is out of office. Jones holds a BFA from California College of the Arts and an MFA from Carnegie Mellon University. Having exhibited in museums and galleries throughout the USA and Europe, her current studio practice now evolves alongside her commitment to help build a more connected art ecosystem across the Central California Coast.
After discovering kelp’s vital significance and alarming decline in 2021, Marie McKenzie shifted her focus from imaginative seascapes to underwater visions, ultimately leading her to confront her fears of the ocean through freediving. This transformative, healing journey inspired her recent paintings and clarified her mission to share the beauty of these “sequoias of the sea,” advocating for their restoration and protection. By illuminating the beauty of kelp forests, she strives to foster connection and contribute to their restoration through her partnership with SeaTrees, a nonprofit organization in Southern California that works with coastal communities to reforest the ocean.
Marie lives and works in Ojai, California. She studied painting at the University of Kansas and has been painting for nearly three decades. Her most recent solo exhibition was in Los Angeles in 2021, with previous solo shows in 2017, 2014, and 2013. Her work has been included in multiple group shows, including at Sullivan Goss Gallery in Santa Barbara, as well as in museums such as the Ojai Valley Museum, Crocker Art Museum, Santa Paula Art Museum, and the Channel Islands Maritime Museum. Marie was recently awarded an arts grant from the Ventura County Arts Council. Her blend of abstract and realistic oil painting combines classical techniques with the unseen subject matter of our kelp forests.
Mary Neville is a Southern California native and contemporary abstract painter working from her studio in Ojai. Rooted in the light, color, and openness of the West Coast, her large-scale paintings have been exhibited at the Santa Paula Art Museum, the Ojai Valley Museum, and other regional institutions, and are held in private and corporate collections.
Before dedicating herself fully to fine art, Mary built a career in fashion, interior design, and architecture — a multidisciplinary background that continues to inform her sensitivity to scale, composition, and the emotional resonance of color. She holds a degree from the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising in Los Angeles and has completed a residency at Ghost Ranch in New Mexico. Mary is currently represented by The Marshall Gallery in Scottsdale, and 10 West Gallery and Domecil in Santa Barbara.
Christopher Noxon paints and writes in Ojai, California. Solo exhibitions include “Roundies” at Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation (Ojai, 2026), “Terra Incognita” at Oxford House Projects (Los Angeles, 2025), “Greenbelt: Interplay & Imagination at the Edge of Wildness” at the Santa Paula Art Museum (2024) and “Betty Lane & Christopher Noxon: From One Generation to the Next” at Sullivan Goss Gallery (Santa Barbara, 2023). His writing and illustrations have appeared in the New Yorker, the Atlantic and New York Times Magazine; books include Good Trouble: Lessons from the Civil Rights Playbook, Plus One: A Novel and Rejuvenile: Kickball, Cartoons, Cupcakes and the Reinvention of the American Grown-Up.
Rebecca Odes is an interdisciplinary artist working in Ojai, California and New York City. Her collaborative music and sound projects include Odes (Merge Records) Love Child (12XU) and THRESHING FLOOR, a collaboration with Gretchen Gonzales, Alan Licht and Wolf Eyes. She has exhibited work at the Every Woman Biennial, The New Museum and the Phoenix Center for the Contemporary Arts.
Brittany Sanders makes paintings, books and films. Her artwork is in many permanent collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA, the Getty Museum, Yale University and the New York Public Library. She has received private commissions from the Gund Family and the artist Maya Lin. Brittany Sanders’ artwork focuses on themes of the temporal moment, beauty and truth. She graduated with Honors from Brown University, double majoring in Comparative Literature and History of Art and Architecture. She lives in Ojai, California.
Carol Shaw-Sutton is a fiber artist who has been exhibiting her work for decades nationally and internationally. She is Professor Emeritus from Cal State Long Beach’s School of the Arts and has lived in Ojai for 11 years. Her work crosses boundaries from textiles to sculpture, using natural materials to explore cycles of growth, transformation and ancient knowledge. “Womb Room” is a space for renewal and relief from the outside chaos of our world. A space to return to our centered life force and flow state of oneness……come home.