About Us/Our Talent

Ventana Licensing Group. We are a branding agency that works with gifted and talented individuals and their companies. Our mission is to align vision and passion with consistent brand messaging and values. We are also a licensing agency representing artists, photographers and film makers whose intellectual properties represent the best-in-class to manufacturers and businesses interested in making distinctive, quality, salable products.

With decades of experience in creating saleable images, we seek to provide human-centered and mindful designs. Our goal is to make available images that are inspirational and increase positive feelings for the consumer. Quality images and video are in high demand in the $256 billion licensing industry. The desire for innovative and authentic images for enhancing brand values allows us to serve our customers by improving the licensing experience with great choices in digital art and photography.

This agency represents works that collectively have been published, printed, collected and merchandised since the 1980s, generating millions of dollars for clients who include: Italian Vogue, Playboy, Elle, Metro Magazine, Vogue China, Conde Nast, Ford Motor and Stockwell Greetings, to name a few.

OUR TALENT: Our clients are diverse masters in their fields. We make sure their company and personal brands are focused and authentic

Artist JOHN FENWICK was born in Chicago and attended the American Academy of Art and the College of Dupage. John’s abilities as a muralist are unsurpassed and his work has graced the walls of many Chicago restaurants, including the McDonald’s at Chicago’s Navy Pier, Alexander’s and 59 West.

John’s fine art work has been published in Chicago magazines and newspapers. His use of vibrant, saturated color and unusual compositions are his signature look which readily distinguishes his work from others.

His commercial work, specifically in greeting card designs, is viewed online at https://www.stockwellgreetings.com/by nearly 50,000 unique visitors annually. Having sold between 3,000,000 to 5,000,000 cards per year for the past 12 years, it is fair to say that at least 48,000,000 people have seen these designs worldwide.

VINCE GONZALES is a Los Angeles based fashion, portrait and fine art photographer. He is also a designer, custom printing on re purposed, vintage and new apparel ( https://vinpixstudios.com/ )

Inspired by the temporary abstract patterns created in ice, Frozen is a exploration of everyday items trapped in solid water then photographed. Originally created for the non- profit organization Art From The Ashes ( http://www.artfromtheashes.org/ ) to help raise money to rebuild the LA County wilderness areas damaged by the Station Fire. Frozen has exhibited three times for the Art From The Ashes organization and recently featured on the CBS crime drama Criminal Minds.

His other series, Tech Art ( http://vinpix.com/tech-art ) is the photographic exploration of golden age motion picture equipment as Fine art. Tech Art features the unique design and style of antique motion picture equipment. This collection represents my ongoing exploration of film making technology as art. Past exhibits include the United States Patent and Trademark Museum in Washington, DC., Two exhibits at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study, The Arclight at The Cinerama Dome, The Hollywood Entertainment Museum and The Forest Lawn Museum & Gallery.

Born in Chicago in November 1936, STAN MALINOWSKI decided to pursue photography while he was in his second year of college. He also had a great admiration for women who, subsequently, became his favorite subject in his art.

Following his honorable discharge from the army in 1961 where he served as a military policeman, Malinowski returned to college. While attending university, he went to show his work to Playboy magazine and was soon shooting covers and editorial feature assignments.

In 1976 he was shooting for Vogue. Two years later he was contacted by Bazaar Italia’s editor, Lizzette Kattan and was soon traveling to Europe where he worked for both Italian and French Bazaar, and Amica, an Italian fashion magazine. His clients included the famed fashion designer, Valentino and the cosmetic company Clinique. Malinowski also worked on numerous movie productions including the James Bond epic, Moonraker, in Paris.

In 1987, Malinowski created METRO magazine which he financed, edited and designed.

Now, with some 60 years’ worth of photographic images—15 of those years witnessing the emergence of the “supermodel”— Malinowski is stepping out of the shadows and into food photography.

Malinowski’s years of shooting for magazines like Vogue and Bazaar (with its USA, Italian and French editions) have filled his archives with photos of the girls who were the supermodels of an era, now belonging to fashion history.

Malinowski has been featured in articles in French PHOTO magazine several times. This issue of PHOTO JAPON reprinted one of those features. Malinowski had also been included in Jean-Jacques Naudet’s feature on The Most Underrated Photographers of the Past 30 Years which ran in American PHOTO.

Filmmaker, artist and toy designer C. LEIGH GOLDSMITH was also born in Chicago but calls Los Angeles home. Leigh graduated Magna Cum Laude from University of Southern California with a Bachelor’s degree in Communication from Annenberg and a Master of Fine Art from USC’s School of Cinema.

Leigh’s interests are in FemTech, technology for the improvement of women's healthcare, wellness, and Eastern medicine, which is the focus of her television pilot, 3^rd WARD, “where monsters receive their medical care.” https://www.3rdwardtvshow.com/#intro (password: creatures).

Leigh is also the creator of Greggor the star of a short stop-motion is the little green dreamer who believes that all his plans are “gonna be big, REAL BIG!”