Outdoor Art Gallery
@ North Shattuck
Featured Artist Profile
Yoni
G.
Hometown: raised around the United States, living in Denver CO, Cleveland OH, Midwest City OK, and Rockville MD. He has spent the past 20 years in Berkeley.
Yoni G paints impressionist landscapes and scenes from his urban homestead and life in Berkeley, California using acrylic paints or on the computer. Yoni received a bachelor's in landscape architecture from the University of Maryland and has taken art classes at CCA, Merritt and Laney college.
Yoni's latest work includes digitally painted portraits of his backyard chickens, California native plants, acrylic painted scenes from backpacking in Yosemite, and produce from his garden.
Malcolm X Elementary school in Berkeley selected his illustration of the school building in 90’s neon colors for their t-shirt contest for the 2024/2025 school year.
Yoni G. is a singer/songwriter with two full length albums available online and plays mandolin in the pirate band Captain D and the Skallywags.
ART ON DISPLAY
Piece Name: Poppy Love
2 Pieces: Poppy Love is a digital painting of a photograph I took of poppies I planted in my backyard garden. This image is part of a series of portraits I'm working on of California native plants and their pollinators.
Location: 37.87652, -122.26891 (near 1700 Shattuck Avenue in the median)