Durwood Zedd | Photography [Spectrum auctioneer]
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Durwood Zedd's photography celebrates the beauty of simplicity in natural and man-made design. A long-time art collector, auctioneer and fitness trainer, Zedd's passions are evident in his work. His appreciation for art and design, his curiosity about the objects that shape and bring enjoyment to people's lives and his respect for the human form are clearly visible in his photographic images.
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Barbara Winkelstein | Oil Stick/Charcoal [returning artist]
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"I am primarily a figurative painter and have specialized in portraits for many years. I work in oil, watercolor, guache, pastel over watercolor, watercolor and ink, oilsticks, pencil, charcoal and Prismacolor, and take commissions in all of these mediums. I have done countless commissions for adults and children in San Francisco and the Bay Area. I have also done commissions in Southern California, Oregon, New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, as well as Italy and Spain."
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Anne Veraldi | Photography [returning artist]
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"Anne Veraldi is a San Francisco artist who works with the very simplest of means to achieve a subtle complexity in her photographs. For many years, Veraldi has enlisted thousands, if not millions of helpers in the creation of her images. Often working outdoors in the Mission District's public parks, she begins her art pieces, like many artists, with only a pencil and a piece of paper. What lures her to these parks is the constant availability of free help from her best protégés‹the ants."-San Francisco Airport Museums
Linc Real Art
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Daniel Tousignant | Painting [returning artist]
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Trees order the life on earth. In this new collection of paintings, Daniel Tousignant compellingly declares that leaf-heavy branches in Summer and the bare, exposed limbs of Winter reflect the beauty and vulnerability of all living things. From an orderly thicket of green symmetry, one sees balance and proportion not yielding to nature's randomness. Next and contrarily, one observes boughs refusing to hide a sunset -- dead wood coming alive.
Geras-Tousignant Gallery
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Valentín Toledo | Mixed Media [returning artist]
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Born in Spain, Valentín Toledo now calls Los Angeles home. He is an award winning art director, designer, and photographer whose work has been featured in magazines, publications and galleries around the world.
Baxter Chang Patri Fine Art
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Kirk Stoller | Mixed Media [returning artist]
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"I work with various media, but try to straddle a thin line between 2-D and 3-D surfaces. Through this grey area between painting and sculpture I am hoping to mimic the space where memories and reality meet."
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Monika Steiner | Painting
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I view painting as transformation. My work consists of two elements, the outer and the inner. The outer represents the material realities of my life, observations, and experiences; they are shown using form, scale, medium, texture, and color. The inner transformation comes from my intuitive response to content, giving it shape not as it exists externally, but as it takes on life through my perception.
Geras-Tousignant Gallery
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Bill Samios | Mixed Media [returning artist]
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"I was born in Buffalo, NY, raised in Syracuse, NY, moved to San Francisco after college, where I attended art school, almost earned a MA degree, and stayed for 17 years. I am currently living and working in New York City. My collage/painting series is my most dreamlike. I don't really know exactly what they mean. I pull together imagery from of a variety of disparate sources and look for visual links or cryptic messages. I am also working on three painting series simultaneously. These include people portraits and nudes, botanicals, and birds."
Cheryl Hazen Gallery, NYC NY
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Rex Ray | Digital Arts [returning artist]
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Well-known San Francisco artist Rex Ray has created an extensive oeuvre in a wide variety of art forms since launching his career two decades ago. Here, working in paper collage and acrylic on wood panels finished with a glossy resin topcoat, Rex Ray creates abstract, graphic compositions of pure form and color.
Michael Martin Gallery and Gallery 16
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Emily Payne | Sculptural Painting [returning artist]
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"My work is varied in scale, from room sized installations, to tiny, intimate objects. I like to find existing materials, take them apart and reconfigure them. I like the play between two dimensional and three dimensional perception. Although my work often appears two dimensional, its sculptural value is as important as the flat surface."
Cecile Moochnek Gallery
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Suzanne Palmer | Painting & Drawing [returning artist]
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Russell Pachman | Photography
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It is the nature of photography to elevate the commonplace to the extraordinary. Isolated in a photograph, this beaten up, old kitchen chair, so worn that it practically has no color, eerily takes on the hues, textures and emotional landscape of the place in which it has been photographed. The chair, an object our eyes would likely slip past without notice in real life, when photographed, becomes endowed with anthropomorphic qualities, infused with emotion, immersed in narrative.
Geras-Tousignant Gallery
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Miguel Osuna | Painting [returning artist]
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Miguel Osuna's artwork has been celebrated since his first exhibition in his native Mexico. Trained in architecture, he is now acclaimed across borders and media.
Baxter Chang Patri Fine Art
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Ramekon O'Arwisters | Mixed Media
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Ramekon O'Arwisters "SuperArt Hero" obtained a Master of Divinity from Duke University in 1986 and has participated in Yale University School of Art's Painting Scholarship Program. Commercial products are coded carriers of social and political attitudes in his art. Oreos join watermelon seeds, bananas, and women's handbags as the physical stand-ins for racial, sexual, and political prejudice. Ramekon "SuperArt Hero" engages ordinary objects of consumption to reveal their deeply-rooted symbolism, an activity that offers personal and social catharsis.
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"Pockets of Resistance Hand Bag Figure"
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Tomas Nakada | Painting [returning artist]
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These Thomas Nakada paintings are small compositions based on images of cells and chromosomes. With their muted geometry and floating shapes, they appear at first to be abstract. They are, however, studies of the body and, in their own way, connected to figurative painting. Some of the pieces are framed in welded iron and then coated in wax, giving them a translucency and depth. The paintings have an object-like quality, as though they were cloudy shadow boxes into which one peers.
Gallery Paule Anglim
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Patty Mulligan | Photography [returning artist]
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Printing on precious metals gives Patty's work an added dimension. "I take photographs with the eventual transfer process in mind, conceiving how gold or silver will change the emotional resonance. The result is an image that has a luminescence that is changeable depending on the light that strikes it. At the same time my work is also reminiscent of historic photographic techniques."
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Sheila Metcalf-Tobin | Painting
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Drawing from observation is the fundamental process I use to create my work. I rely on a connection, communication between my eyes and my hand. I try to surrender my literal self to the process and trust the physical experience and information.
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Molly Meng | Mixed Media
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Creating historical fiction through ephemera, Molly Meng brings to life the stories once trapped in discarded photographs and heirlooms left for the past. With vintage paper, old notes, random photographs, and antique books, she creates new emotions that live on into the future.
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"The Usual Crowd" (detail)
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Lauren McIntosh | Painting [returning artist]
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"What is in the depths is overwhelming to me -- the truth that life is hard and still we flourish, that other people's pain hurts us all, and that what looks like progress can destroy. I strive to make paintings that confront and counter deeply disturbing human conditions with a passionate espousal of love. Although my paintings leave a first impression of beauty and repose, their core subject matter reflects the astonishment and anger I feel over past and present injustices against humankind."
Stellar Somerset Gallery
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Brian McDonald | Painting [returning artist]
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"My paintings, inspired by cartoons and dream logic, deal with issues of aggression and anxiety, which are especially relevant given the recent economic and political climate. A dry and dark humor underscores the mood of my paintings and pokes fun at the absurdity of modern life."
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"They Like the Smell of It"
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Susan Mall | Photography [returning artist]
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"I love walking down the street and finding images that capture my sense of humor or my sense of the world. My challenge is to find interesting compositions in the everyday and ordinary situations that we know of as life. I am interested in themes of community and belonging as well as the absurdity of the human condition. After my family, photography is my greatest passion.....(well, I like bicycling and chocolate too)."
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Kenneth Leaf | Photography [returning artist]
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Ken's work brings together sensuality of subject and process. He often works with large format cameras, extended exposures and non traditional techniques. By working in such demanding processes, Ken himself remains an unseen presence in his prints.
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Denise Laws | Mixed Media [returning artist]
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The various approaches I have chosen -- manipulating photographs, advertisements, text, re-appropriated materials, drawing and ephemera -- narrate the range I have been developing and exploring in my art. As a whole, the work is symbiotic: the series are outgrowths of each other, relating conceptually.
Geras-Tousignant Gallery
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Carol Ladewig | Photography [returning artist]
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The movement of paint, mixture of materials and images, are expressions of the moment. I am fascinated by the overlapping of images and time that colors, lights and compose our memories. It is in the relationship of the elements, the spaces between things, where meaning resides.
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Todd Laby | Furniture
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Todd Laby began creating the moment his fingers had enough dexterity to hold Legos. Later, he meandered through painting and sculpture, studied product and advertising design and worked as an art director in advertising. He later moved from Los Angeles to San Francisco to further study sculpture, industrial design and furniture design. For the past several years Todd has worked as a furniture designer, maker, freelancer and business owner.
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Abraham Krol | Illustration
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Abraham Krol was born in Poland in 1919. In 1938 he moved to France where he studied as a painter, engraver and illustrator. By 1944 he was living in Paris and working with many publishing companies including the Societe Normande du Livre Illustré. He was mostly known for his fine limited edition engraved plates which were done on oatmeal linen paper. His fine illustration work can be found in some fine and rare book stores. This particular work on paper was a gift from the artist to his dear friend Emmanuel.
Le Trianon Gallery
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Carisa Kaplan | Photography [returning artist]
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Carisa's work as a motion picture editor informs her still photography. She composes her multiple exposure images in-camera, often adding a high degree of chance to the result. Images from different days, shot in different light and different moods, are inextricably bound together in one negative.
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Chris Honeysett | Photography [returning artist]
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Chris Honeysett finds his own voice in the rich history of West Coast photography through the lens of a 4x5 view camera. Since 1988, Chris has shown his work at local galleries, and has sold his work at premier art festivals throughout the western United States.
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Jonn Herschend | Painting [returning artist]
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Raised in a Midwestern amusement park, Jonn Herschend has always been interested in how the real and the unreal interact. He explores these ideas by building a narrative tension in the play between the quirky characters, anthropomorphized objects, dreamscape scenery, humorous and yet often melancholy moods, and even in the application of the paint itself.
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Audrey Heller | Photography [returning artist + Spectrum curator]
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Audrey Heller's theatrical photographs have been exhibited at art festivals around the country, and are collected internationally. She likes to play with perception, forcing the viewer to look twice, and reassess their preconceptions. She is glad to be the curator of Spectrum, a task that puts her in touch with a dynamic and generous group of people.
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Tracy Taylor Grubbs | Painting [returning artist]
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I am interested in how buildings, constructed by one generation, affect the lives of generations to come even as they are renovated, remodeled, diminished and in some cases, demolished by their inhabitants. My goal is to create forms that vibrate in the important intersection between representation and abstraction.
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David Lance Goines | Printmaking [returning artist]
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David Lance Goines is one of the most recognized and recognizable graphic artists working today. His artwork is represented in both public and private collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Museé de la Publicité, Paris, and the Hiroshima Museum of Modern Art. Locally, he designs the anniversary posters and cookbooks of Chez Panisse.
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"Chez Panisse 35th Birthday"
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James Scott Geras | Photography [returning artist]
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James Scott Geras records the intersection between wilderness and humanity to reveal the coincidence between a specific moment and timelessness. "My work has been called a blend of fantasy and reality... and that all things are not as they seem. The inconsistency of the constant and the fact reality is always just beyond the boundary of imagination, has allowed my work to evolve through the years."
Geras-Tousignant Gallery
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"Fixation: No Men Allowed"
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Greg Gawlowski | Photography [returning artist]
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"I feel that our society's pace is increasing at a monumental level, and I strive to create images that are calming, peaceful, and healing. There's too much chaos in our lives, and if I can provide some respite for others in my photography, then I'm happy." Greg's work is regularly published as calendar, posters and fine art prints. He was the 2003 poster artist for the KPFA holiday craft fair.
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Karen Ganz | Photogravure [returning artist]
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The images in my work emerge from a process which begins with small-scale artist books in which I combine painted, invented images with ones that I lift through various xerox processes. The images in my work are from old 1920's cartoons, of a universal character, the company-man. I use these images and very gestural painting as metaphors for psychological states of mind. Attachment, questions of being an individual within the group, assimilation and role-playing interest me. I use a frankenstein-like approach to piece together figures/images and use multiple broken-up canvases to further the fragmentation of those images.
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Andy Freeberg | Photography [returning artist]
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Andy Freeberg began his photographic career in New York, shooting musicians, politicians, and authors for the Village Voice, Rolling Stone, People, Time, and Sports Illustrated. He now lives in San Francisco and is working on the series 'Human Nature,' a celebration of nature and the human form.
Geras-Tousignant Gallery
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"Ann Arbor Blizzard 1978"
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Matthew Frederick | Painting [returning artist]
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Matthew Frederick's creative process centers on the careful balance of structure, color, lighting and mood. His compositions are rendered with a resplendent color palette that captures the nuances of his subjects and emulates the patterns and sensations found in nature.
Geras-Tousignant Gallery
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Josh Feldman | Digital Arts [returning artist]
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"My work mixes graphic design ideals of balance and form with imagery that evokes the technical or scientific. I see each piece as a pure aesthetic exercise combined with the visualization of an imaginary object, dream-like and half-captured in the frame."
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Paule Dubois Dupuis | Painting [returning artist]
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My art translates the many facets of women, my own metamorphosis as a woman and the freeing of my spirit. Exploring the essence of women enables me to portray my own animus and becoming. Abstraction acknowledges and respects the objet d'art for exactly what it is... a pure carrier of feelings ineffable as they are compelling.
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Geoffrey Dryan | Photography [returning artist]
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"Most of my photos capture people in emotional states that are highly interpretable. I seem to capture people in ambivalent moments. Ideally, then, each person viewing my work may see a different picture, a different story. And in this way, my work becomes a kind of projective instrument allowing the viewer to see the reflections of their own emotions inside those captured in my photos."
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Sidnea D'Amico | Painting, Mixed Media [returning artist]
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My work is a combination of painting and mixed media. My process involves building a surface, then scratching away most of what was originally painted. The more I scratch, the more I am in touch, literally and metaphorically with the painting. Some images survive, others are buried, some remain large while others become more intimate in scale. This whole process is physically and emotionally very complex.
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Peikwen Cheng | Photography
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Peikwen Cheng's work recently received a 1st and 2nd place, and seven honorable mentions at the 2006 International Photography Awards (IPA), and is included in the prestigious IPA Best of Show exhibition. He has recently shown work at the International Photography Festival in Aleppo, Syria, the Houston Center for Photography, and Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts in New York.
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eric BROOKS | Painting [returning artist]
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"I try to focus attention on an element of an image rather than the image itself. Deconstructing into lines, shapes, color, and texture. With the increased use of abstraction, try to convey values, sentiment, and emotion outside the acquired habits of perception. These paintings blend beauty and deformity while letting you pick and choose as to which is in control. Every piece is unique with what it holds and what it hides."
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"When The Lights Go Out You Just Take Take Take"
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Ellyna Berglund | Pastel [returning artist]
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Ellyna Berglund was trained in illustration at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan and has been working in pastels for the past nine years. Her style can best be described as whimsical and energetic, with aggressive study in movement and color.
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Andrew Belschner | Watercolor [returning artist]
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My work celebrates the intricacies of translucency. As the layers of watercolor overlap, blend, and mingle, shapes take form that may suggest mood or substance. The act of making a painting can involve the application of pigment in various ways, but the translucency of watercolor is always there, sometimes strongly defined, at other times more subtly a part of the final composition. The several layers of a painting can reflect both a simplicity and a complexity that I enjoy exploring.
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Alyson Belcher | Photography [returning artist]
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"My work combines pinhole photography with improvisational performance, and stems from the idea that everything we experience is stored somewhere in our bodies. Our bodies are constantly communicating with us, but we rarely take time to listen." Alyson currently teaches at the Academy of Art College and she frequently collaborates with Joe Goode Performance Group.
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Kevin Bean | Painting [returning artist]
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Kevin Bean is a San Francisco artist and lecturer at Stanford University, who specializes in oil paintings in both figurative and abstract work.
Charles Campbell Gallery
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"Untitled Geometric Abstraction"
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Jerwyn B. Austria | Photography [returning artist]
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Originally from Boston, Jerwyn is trained in many photographic mediums, including large format, 35mm, point-and-shoot and digital. Now a resident of San Francisco, his work continues to describe the world, places and spaces around him.
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Richard Adler | Painting
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