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SPECTRUM 5 is an art auction and cocktail party benefiting Access Institute for Psychological Services, on Sunday, October 21, 2007
Mezzanine, San Francisco. 444 Jessie St. @ Mint • Easy parking @ 5th & Mission Garage • 6:00 - 9:00 p.m. ::Learn more::
This year, Access Institute is teaming up with the San Francisco Art Institute and the Consulate of Mexico to bring you the most exciting Spectrum party yet.
Many thanks to our ongoing supporters, especially Dr. Ingrid Tauber, who will be honored at this year's event. Check back often- we'll be updating this artist's page until the event!
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Become a sponsor of the event, or buy individual tickets online.
::Ana Adarve:: | Photography
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San Francisco Art Institute
Master of Fine Arts, 2007
Disruption 2 2006
20 x 70 inches
Laminated digital print mounted on aluminum
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galeriafernandopradilla.com
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The Disruption series is a reflection of how fear is the main factor shaping suburban development today. These digitally produced landscapes present extremely controlled environments where order has been radicalized. In fact, the photographic technique used to construct them responds to the same logic where nothing is fortuitous.
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::Lauren Anderson:: | Photography
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San Francisco Art Institute
Bachelor of Fine Arts
Photography Student
"Life seems to harmonize with certain cosmic melodies: the musical accompaniments of our unraveling fates. "Crescendo", a visual metaphor is part of a deeper investigation and re-interpretation of the traditional notion of self-portraiture. I used the experimental method of a Holga camera for its lack of technical control. Without anticipating the immediate gratification of the digital realm, my emphasis was on the process and experience of conceptually photographing aspects of my life."
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Crescendo
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::Dhiren Babaria:: | photography
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The Rider
Geras Tousignant Gallery
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I take photographs because I am intrigued by human faces... their way of life and whatever they have to offer me through that one look. I take it humbly. Fine art shots interests me as much as portraits do if not more. I love the process of taking apart a scene or discovering one, looking for elements which make a composition to me, and texture that weaves the whole scene as a whole. I feel in command at times and at times I work with what’s been offered to me. I am thankful for this vision.
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::Hee Kyoung Bae:: | Painting
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San Francisco Art Institute
Master of Fine Arts, 2007
Discoid, Bring me where you go,
Tell me what you know
53"x 42”
Charcoal on paper
2007
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::Brice Bischoff:: | Photography
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San Francisco Art Institute
Master of Fine Arts, 2007
"The dimensions are 46" x 36" and it's from a series taken in different bathrooms around San Francisco of shower streams from showerheads. The titles correspond with the showerhead name and manufacturer found in the each bathroom."
Country Deluge, Delta
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::Barron Bixler:: | Photography
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Examining the industrial architecture and altered landscapes of his home state of California, his major photographic projects include the decommissioned naval shipyards of the Bay Area, the domestic oil fields of the L.A. Basin and the Central Valley, the decaying cultural outposts of the California desert, and the mining and refining of industrial-use minerals, such as limestone, boron and silica.
Everything around us is built, put to use, littered with the signposts of civilization, Barron has written about his choice of subject matter. If there is a thread that runs through much of my work, it is my own interest in exploring the ways in which we quite literally shape the world we inhabit. |
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San Joaquin Valley, Dairy #3, 2007
I mean this neither as a polemic against nor an apology for human ingenuity. Not exactly, anyway. If anything, the pictures are part diary, part eulogy and part travel brochure for all the places you would never want to go. They are also, I hope, a testament to the idea that there is beauty to be found everywhere, if only you have the compulsion to go digging for it.
Geras Tousignant Gallery |
::Daniel Blomquist:: | New media
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San Francisco Art Institute
Bachelor of Fine Arts
New Genres Student
"Part of my new body of work is a vinyl cut design on a white background featuring images from a series of Photographs that I took at a bull-riding event I attended to last year."
Icarus
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::Blair Bradshaw:: | Painting
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Alaska
blairbradshaw.com |
After studying film at the University of Texas, Blair Bradshaw moved to Los Angeles to start a career in motion pictures. However as he continued to search for a more spontaneous creative experience, Blair's study of film eventually turned to an interest in still photography and ultimately to painting. The influence of filmmaking is evident in his work -- from panel to panel, and layer upon layer, his art tells a story. And as with any film, the more time spent watching and observing the work, the more clearly its details and message come into focus. The assembled canvases reconstruct the iconography of the periodic table, transforming complex chemical structures into common human experience. Stacked, juxtaposed, separated and recombined, the familiar classroom elements are given new significance. |
::Eric Brooks:: | Painting [Returning Artist]
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ericjbrooks.com
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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."
Blue Stained Glass Saints with Curbstone, Lightpole, Playground |
::Matthew Cella:: | Painting
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 Another on the Horizon
San Francisco Art Institute
Master of Fine Arts, 2007
matthewcella.com
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"My work takes the form of digital abstractions inspired by media blitzes and subliminal advertising. Using clips from video games, web animations, digital photography, and word processed text, I arrange dense formal battlefields for candy-colored pixels. Embracing the silly and absurd, I make layered collages and synesthetic compositions in low resolution. I toil over the computer screen, attempting to capture the emanating light and spatial tension found in the virtual format. The resultant imagery is a hectic response to the over-stimulation caused by digital and commercial media" |
::Matt Colagiuri:: | Photography
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"I believe the human body is one of the most misinterpreted and misrepresented forms of artistic expression. It's all but impossible to look at a nude person--particularly in a photograph--and not assign to it judgments based on religion, social morality... Even gender rolls and sexual orientation. With my sculptural photography, my hope is to challenge the viewer to look at what they see by breaking up the imagery. It's not enough merely to recognize the nude body. The blocks, the blank spaces, even the redistribution of body parts are all used to propell the viewer beyond their assumptions beyond what nudity represents.
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Flesh and Stone
Geras Tousignant Gallery
In "Flesh and Stone" I call into question the idea of "timeless beauty". Is the sculpted form of the man sunning himself on a rooftop as classic as that of Michael Angelo's "David"? Is the blonde rolling in her bedsheets as immortal as the greek goddess wrapped in drapery? Or is it all destined to the faceless obscurity of erosion?"
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::Christopher Culver:: | Painting
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San Francisco Art Institute
Bachelor of Fine Arts
Painting Student |
::Kelly Donahey:: | Photography
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San Francisco Art Institute
Bachelor of Fine Arts
Photography Student
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Alcatraz 11, 2007
kellydonahey.com |
"While the images and objects that I create present varied manifestations; their objectives are inextricably bound. My art is a constant annotation of existence in a complex society. Whether responding to the mood of a city or commenting on the social/structural environment of the museum; my work is an attempt to encourage critique of rote encounters.
Relying frequently on amusement as entry; the focus of my images extend to more serious issues of social stratification and the implications of truth in popular culture.
My objects are not absolutes; they are reverberations of ideas and assertions of discourse."
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::Adrian Elliot:: | Photography
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San Francisco Art Institute
Bachelor of Fine Arts
Photography Student
Untitled, 2007
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::Buck Ellison:: | Photography
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I make photographs because they are instantly digested as real. Despite the prevalence of digital manipulation, one accepts a photograph as concrete, that whatever captured on the film exists. The ostensible authenticity of photography, like the words “based on a true story” in a film, heightens the effect on the viewer.
The staged, cinematic work of Jeff Wall and Anthony Goicolea has furthered my sensitivity to the value of creating scenarios. I am drawn to possibilities of dioramas, anatomical models and roadside dramas. My images celebrate photography’s ability to create realities for the study of otherwise indescribable emotions.
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Cabinet
Geras Tousignant Gallery |
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::Josh Feldman:: | Digital Art [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.
The process: I usually start with a simple monochromatic graphical element, and through hand replication and processing in the computer turn it into a multi-layered, complex piece. No photographic or preexisting textures are used. Focusing on a section of the image, I then crop out areas to create the feeling of tension and energy I’m looking for. The image then becomes a flat piece of art encased in clear plastic, or is transformed into a dimensional work by breaking the plane into repeating panels that are mounted perpendicular to the wall.
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The Truth and the Light
2004
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::Ana Teresa Fernandez :: | Painting
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San Francisco Art Institute
Master of Fine Arts, 2006
anateresafernandez.com
"My work in painting, performance, and installation investigates how women identify their strengths and sensuality in performing labor in which there is no visible economic or social value, and frequently is considered "dirty." I also subvert the typical overtly folkloric representations of Mexican women in paintings by changing my protagonist’s uniform to the quintessential little black dress. Wearing this symbol of American prosperity and femininity, the protagonist tangos through this intangible dilemma with her performances at the San Diego/Tijuana Border -- a place I myself had to cross to study and live in the US. |
In these performances, I portrayed this multiplication of self and the Sisyphean task of cleaning the environment to accentuate the idea of disposable labor resource. Moreover, the black dress is transformed into a funerary symbol of luto, the Mexican tradition of wearing black for a year after a death.
In addition to highlighting ongoing social political conflicts, the works also underscore the intersection of everyday tasks and fantasy from both sides of the political/gender divide, illuminating the psychological walls that confine and divide genders in a domestic space."
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::Matthew Frederick:: | Painting [Returning Artist]
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Matthew Frederick presents an unconventional and amusing spin on the genre of landscape painting. Inspired by his life amid Northern California's scenic countryside, Frederick looks within the landscape to capture and exaggerate the whilmsical shadows and shapes cast from surging hills, majestic oak trees and gaping valleys. Frederick's style is characterized by the careful balance of structure, color, lighting and mood. His compositions are rendered with a resplendent color palette of generous applications of paint and undulating brushwork, lending to a compelling emulation of the patterns and sensations inherent in nature.
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::Marianna Garibay R:: | Mixed media
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Dew
www.marianagr.com
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"My monotypes are a collection of still-frames, a catalogue of random impressions that stand out against the data of everyday life. In these works, the line between living and non-living forms, nature and technology, dream and reality, blend together. I draw inspiration from the organic world, science and the mystery of the unknown, as well as from everyday objects and cityscapes. Each composition seeks to achieve a balance between these elements and their underlying meaning, reinventing them into portable fragments of experience that convey my relationship with the world.
The process of creating these prints begins with simple drawings or cutouts. I then transfer these shapes to the paper with the aid of a press. One by one, colors, textures and lines are laid down on the paper. With each new layer, some sections of the work get covered as others become exposed, rearranging and transforming the piece. This process is repeated until the image emerges. Much like a living organism, these prints have a unique history that gets encrypted layer by layer on the paper. The process is an intimate experiment in which I play scientist, magician and dreamer, resulting in a collection of marks that are produced with the help of knowledge, intuition and chance." |
::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."
The Monkey Puzzle |
::James Scott Geras :: | Photography [Returning Artist]
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Lands End
Geras Tousignant Gallery |
"Photography is as much about what is just beyond the picture frame as what is in its focus. When landscape unfolds itself in the camera lens we find ourselves ushered to distant quiet places. But for all its nature, the true, invisible subject of pastoral imagery is time. James Scott Geras records the intersection between wilderness and humanity to reveal the coincidence between a specific moment and timelessness. His photographs seek not to distuinguish landscape as civilization's foil, but to document the detente between man's design and nature's will, where moss on hewn stone and an overgrown path evidence time's inexorable passage."
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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. |
::Jaime Guerrero :: | Glass [Returning Artist]
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| Being a first generation Mexican-American, Jaime Guerrero has used glass art to explore his origins; a practice that has not only enabled him to express his views on culture, but has simultaneously provided him with a means of scrutinizing the various ways aspects of our heritage continue to inspire us, even in the face of cultural uprooting. Born in Los Angeles, California in 1974 he began drawing, painting, and working with ceramics when he was 12 years old, received a scholarship to attend the ryman master program for painting at Otis parsons. Guerrero was first introduced to glass in 1992, while earning a BFA degree at CCAC. |
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::Norm Halm :: | Photography
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Tree of Life
Geras Tousignant Gallery |
"I am fascinated by humanity’s desire to understand and explain the reality of our physical world. Religion, Philosophy, Science and Art relentlessly offer evolving theories and paradigms of thought. I have chosen to participate in this dialogue by using the visual language of photography. I make a photograph without acknowledging the ephemeral states of space, gravity or time. I conceive my images as though the objects spring from pure blackness, spontaneously and beautifully. I deify the subject and empathize with its timeless nature. Photography is a unique art form. Just as life on our planet is impossible without light, photography can’t exist without light. It is the essence that sculpts and reveals beauty, animating the living energy in all things. I want light to course through the subject with the life force of blood coursing through my veins. By allowing photography to be a passage to a heightened awareness, it becomes a vehicle towards transcendence."
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::Karen Heathwood :: | illustration
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In her capacity as an industry animation story board artist, Karen Heathwood has refined her skills in writing, character design, layout, staging, and visual storytelling. Her narrative skills lend themselves perfectly to the varied needs of editorial, commercial, and children’s illustration. Karen has developed an illustration style influenced by “an exciting blend of fine art sensibility and vivid cartoon imagery.” Currently, she is developing a variety of projects for both print and television media.
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Yellow Cow Field
karenheathwood.com
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::Audrey Heller:: | Photography [Returning Artist]
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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.
Urban Culture, 2007
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::Lynn Hershman:: | Photography [Returning Artist]
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| The artistic versatility of Lynn Hershman encompasses over thirty years of work in photography, photo-collage, film, video, conceptual performance, and computer-based interactive installation. The 1998 Berlin International Film Festival described Hershman as "the most influential female artist working today." Focusing on conceptual issues of gender, technology and identity in contemporary America, Hershman's work has been exhibited internationally at over 200 major institutions, and her ground-breaking work has earned her numerous awards including the 1998 Flintridge Foundation Prize; the 1996 Annie Gerber Award; and First Prize in the 1990 Crystal Trophy, Montbiellard, France. A graduate of San Francisco State University, Lynn Hershman is currently a professor of art at the University of California, Davis. |
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Tillie the Telerobotic Doll.
Interactive networked installation, 1995–1998.
Generously donated by Bob Kelley, San Francisco.
lynnhershman.com
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::Paul Hollingsworth :: | Mixed media
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Paul Hollingsworth is an artist living in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Generously donated by
Bob Kelley, San Francisco.
figureworks.com |
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::Ana Labastida :: | Mixed Media | Photography
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Ana Labastida is a Mexican artist working in installation, mixed media and photography. She received her BA in Fine Arts from the National School of Visual Art (UNAM) in Mexico City, in addition to studying at UC Berkeley. She has participated in shows in Mexico City, Barcelona and the San Francisco Bay Area.
Her work explores the relationship between the mind and its environment, creating works that challenge the common perception of our daily spaces. In her most recent project she examines the contemporary identity of Mexico by focusing on its capital city and its relationship to contemporary issues such as gender, globalization and ecology. |
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:: Peter Max Lawrence :: | Painting
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"A North American Prayer for Apollo" from the series
"Contemporary Dilemmas
for the Ancient Gods"
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San Francisco
Art Institute
Bachelor of Fine Arts
New Genres Student
Peter Max Lawrence is a maker of things. He grew up in Kansas City, Kansas where he began his career by organizing alternative space and independent exhibitions. Lawrence's videos, performances, and paintings/drawings have been presented internationally in various galleries, museums and private collections. Lawrence is currently working on several projects and collaborations with other musicians, writers, and visual artists. He lives and works in San Francisco.
petermaxlawrence.com
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::Denise Laws:: | Mixed media [Returning Artist]
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Make Me Series,
stitching on canvas, 2007
Geras Tousignant Gallery
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"My artistic sensibility is fueled by a long held interest and keen appreciation of hysterical/historical female themes often blended into glamorous, hyper-feminized projects. Through self-portraiture, photography, performance, video, beauty products, fashion, sewing and everyday utensils, I bring into question the female body, how it is clothed and exposed in a sociological context. I prefer diverse media, conceptualized and materialized into a variety of altered icons, assemblages and objects."
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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.
Chan Chan
web.mac.com/kennethleaf
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::Gene Lee:: | Photography
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Gene lives in San Francisco, photographing digitally and with film.
Generously donated by Bob Kelley, San Francisco
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::Daphne Light:: | Painting
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By removing detail and rendering subjects in silhouette Daphne Light allows the unfettered contemplation of the subject and coaxes the observer to recognize the blueprint and origin of its construction. Paired with the shadow, the sheen ofthe Enamel Series provides an insinuated luminosity which entreats the viewer to appreciate the contrast of light and shadow.
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:: Jose Esteban Martinez:: | Printmaking
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Jose Esteban Martinez was born in Cuernavaca, México. He has successfully taken the common elements of life and transformed them into active magical characters that watch our complex reality with amazement.
His style has earned the respect of art critics in Asia, Europe, and throughout the Americas.
Martinez has enjoyed great success at his most recent exhibitions in New York and San Francisco where his work was very well received by collectors, including Robin Williams, Don Johnson, Terry Gilliam, Sofia Baron, and James Newton Howard. Singer Rickie Lee Jones acquired several of Martinez's paintings and used one as the cover for her Flying Cowboys CD.
Generously donated by John Larson and Leslye Russell Larson, San Francisco
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 Untitled, Etching, 12" x 14"
lesartssf.com
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::Sheila Metcalf Tobin:: | Painting [Returning artist]
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| The layered, textured effect of Sheila Metcalf Tobin's paintings work on your senses almost like a weaving. In grappling for a term, she identifies it as "an orchestrated synesthesia", and is attempting to capture the memories of colors, textures, the quality of the air and light layered on top of each other." Just as when you walk in a garden, experience springtime, you can remember a smell, a sound, and they become woven together in a moment of time. "I want to create the effect of such a moment when things are moving, growing together. It's not a static experience, even though it's represented in a still image."
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::Thomas Nakada:: | Painting [Returning artist]
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Spirillum II
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Thomas Nakada has exhibited at Gallery Paule Anglim for over ten years and had solo exhibitions at the Newport Harbor Art Museum (now Orange County Museum) and at the Richmond Art Center, both in California.
He has both a M.F.A. and a B.F.A. from the San Francisco Art Institute.
Gallery Paule Anglim
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::Miguel Osuna:: | Oil on Canvas [Returning artist]
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"My own creative process demands absolute concentration, peace of mind, and a clarity of ideas. These ingredients are always present in one way or another during the process of my art-making, but the best results only happen when there is a balance among them - it is a necessary but very fragile state."
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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." |
::Irene Pena:: | Photography
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| "Through these images I want to express the liberation for women from the fear of feeling imperfect and the obsession we have of attaining a certain social standard to look thin. Having an image of ourselves that is completely different than how we truly look, at the cost of not eating, hiding our bodies in large clothes and separating ourselves from truly living and enjoying our life." |
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Daniela
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::Kristen Pless:: | Photography
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San Francisco
Art Institute
Master of Fine Arts,
2007
Van Dyke
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Photo on Japanese Paper
kristenpless.com
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::Aaron Rosenstreich:: | New media
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San Francisco Art Institute
Master of Fine Arts, 2007
This current work is about objects. It is also about photography. As a collector of things, I find value in the discarded object. My personal connection to a piece of tangible history is at times abstract, nostalgic and sensual.
From the
Ocular Landscape Series
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::Bill Samios:: | Painting [Returning artist]
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Bill Samios is a painter and stylist, currently living in San Francisco. "My work expresses the multidimensional way that I experience the world. The paintings are pictures of what memories, feelings or thoughts might look like, and they usually contain multiple layers of imagery. I strive to create work that is visceral, and evocative of the language of dreams, with topics including sexuality, gender, identity, spiritually and nature."
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Lexi, acrylic on canvas, 2005
billsamios.com |
::Eric Saxby:: | Drawing
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Classified with
extreme prejudice
Geras Tousignant Gallery |
As a child, one of my dreams was to become an astronaut (I dreamed of one day going to Mars, or beyond). Studying primates naturally led me to the American space program and the chimpanzees used in the early days of space exploration, but I quickly became fascinated by the Soviet space program and their space dogs. Absurdity seems to contain equal parts heroism and tragedy – these dogs became national heroes, some of them still floating out there somewhere in orbit, some of them now stuffed and sent on world tours. This one is from an image decoded by the CIA, before the capsule was exploded in orbit to keep its contents safe from foreign intrusion. As a child I also played with rockets, but in my stories my puppies always returned to earth, better for the journey.
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::Burges Smith:: | Photography
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Freighters on the Bay
Burges Smith's arched windows were photographed from inside a San Francisco factory. Window views first captured his imagination in the early 1990's, when he produced a series from within his Napa Valley farmhouse. As Burges explored the views offered by his farmhouse, he came to understand that people are universally inclined to see peripherally. With respect to window views, this is accomplished either by moving, or by approaching the glass. Realizing that this process curtails conscious registration of views, he set about photographing ordinary moments and perspectives. He found the images evocative, hinting of sights shared by others in decades long past.
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Photography provides Burges means to articulate the emotional resonance of past experiences. The son of a US Foreign Service officer, he grew up in Poland, Russia, East Germany, West Germany, Israel, and Washington, D.C. During his years in the East, variations of hammer and sickle symbolism were omnipresent. His present work suggests intuitive childhood misgiving for this communist doctrine of industry agriculture symbiosis.
Geras Tousignant Gallery |
::Monika Steiner:: | Painting [Returning artist]
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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."
Potential
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::Daniel Tousignant:: | Painting [Returning artist]
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Double Tree, Summer
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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 |
::Matthew Trygve Tung:: | Printmaking
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San Francisco Art Institute
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Printmaking, 2006
Through elaborate suites of etchings, intricate ink drawings, and handcrafted artists’ books, I seek to examine overarching themes of impermanence as embodied by both built and natural landscapes. My work is born our of my engagement with my native environment, San Francisco, as well as other landscapes I encouter and inhabit, and as built upon intensive research and amassing of histories. Ultimately each element of my work is an essential source of one single unified entity with no disconnect between process and product, nor inspiration or actualization. |
Tailings II
Etching w/drypoint
2006
www.gtfineart.com |
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::Anne Veraldi:: | Photography [Returning artist]
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When I was living in Florida my studio became overrun with ants—I had never seen so many ants before. I was fascinated by them and liked to watch the patterns that they made while they foraged for food. These started out being very chaotic and then became a distinct design. I found this much more interesting than my own work and so I started photographing the ants. As this idea progressed, I began drawing patterns with honey on a white card and then letting the ants fill them in. I take the photos when the design is at its strongest and most distinct stage. The color is added in the darkroom when I print them.
For many years a theme in my work has been pattern and order, so photographing the designs made by the ants was a natural progression. I want to show the way ants work individually and but also as a group or colony. They have an amazing organization which has many similarities to all communal life forms, even humans, but at the same time they are distinctly different.
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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." |
::Bridget Whitlow:: | Photography
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::Vanessa Woods:: | Works on Film and Paper
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Moth Breath
San Francisco Art Institute
Master of Fine Arts , 2007
www.vanessawoods.com |
"My film work explores mnemic experience and exposes the limitations of verbal language through charged emotional/visual registers.
Derivative of surrealism, my films transform "real space" through extensive manipulation and layering that includes lens alterations, re-photography, hand processing and multiple exposures in-camera. These processes catalyze unexpected chances that allow me to further investigate facets of identity, memory and dream.
Layering also functions as a metaphor for the compounded layers of emotive, aural and visual experience encoded in memory.
Evidencing the hand-made, and making the physical processing of the celluloid medium visible, similarly creates a physiological trace that becomes another index of remembrance."
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