LPAPA Signature Artist Dan McCaw
Torrance, California
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Dan McCaw’s work is a bridge between his traditional background and the contemporary influences that continually impact his art. Strong design is the foundation that his work is based upon but curiosity is the fuel that drives his creativity. “Art flourishes in change, it expands when its limits are limitless. The artist must remain open to its possibilities and eliminate the dispassionate. The dignity of art is not in its constants but in the liberation of its possibilities.“

Influenced by the classical masters at an early age Dan, over the years, has seen his appreciation and seduction for many different genres of art. “Anything that make me think, makes me engage and broadens my perceptions is of great importance and interest to me.” Dan tries to make his paintings somewhat ambiguous so that the viewer, if they wish, can participate and walk through a door that he just holds open, what you find inside becomes your own. If he defines or explains everything Dan feels that he robs you of your own experience.

Dan was raised in a small colorful tough Irish mining town of Butte, Montana, whose people were far richer in character than the precious copper that was mined day and night. It was in these formative years much of his own character was molded and from which he constantly draws upon.

Dan began his formal art training at the San Francisco Academy of Art University in San Francisco, California when he was twenty, then on to the Art Center College Of Design, in Pasadena, California and the Bongart School of Art in Santa Monica, California. He was on the faculty of the Art Center College of Design for over fifteen years, has had over forty Solo Exhibitions, numerous national and international articles, written one book, and in 2007 was given an Honorary Doctorate degree by the San Francisco Academy of Art University.

Dan is an invited master artist in the LPAPA Gallery’s special 2025 exhibition “LPAPA Beyond the Landscape” featuring works by Jove Wang, Scott Burdick and Dan McCaw.

LPAPA Signature Artist Kelley Mogilka
Laguna Beach, California

Kelley Mogilka is a figurative painter born and raised in Edmond, Oklahoma. After obtaining her BFA in Studio Art at Oklahoma City University in 2018, she ventured to California to pursue life as an artist and quickly found one in the historic artist community of Laguna Beach. Mogilka received her MFA in Painting at Laguna College of Art and Design and upon graduating joined their faculty ranks as an adjunct professor. At the age of 25, Mogilka was recognized in Southwest Art Magazine’s “21 Under 31, Young Artists to Collect Now”; her paintings have been awarded by the Laguna Plein Air Painters Association, the Salmagundi Club in New York; and most notably, Mogilka was the recipient of the Emerging Artist Award at Pence Gallery in Davis where she had her first solo exhibition in 2023. Her paintings exist in collections across the United States and beyond, including the Almenara Collection in Córdoba, Spain. A recurring exhibitor at the Festival of Arts in Laguna Beach, she currently works out of her Laguna Canyon studio with husband and painter Mason Williams, both recipients of the 2025 Breakthrough Artist of the Year Award by Plein Air Magazine.

Learn More at KelleyMogilka.com