FourSquared 2021 by Arc Gallery

12th Annual August 28 - October 9, 2021

Curator’s Statement

FourSquared 2021 is a unique exploration of the works of sixteen Bay Area artists. Each of the artists has produced sixteen small works, presented in sixteen clusters giving the audience the experience of sixteen micro solo exhibitions. All works are priced under $600. This 12th annual exhibition is a continuing reflection of the curator's strong and abiding interest in affordable art represented here by some of our most talented local artists.

Curator: Michael Yochum is founding partner of Arc Gallery & Studios. He has been active in the Bay Area art community for over 30 years and is a past chairman of ArtSpan. While his current day job is in the finance industry, his academic background, both undergraduate and graduate, is art history. The other partners, Priscilla Otani and Stephen Wagner, have also been involved in the curation of this iconic annual exhibition at Arc Gallery. Previous partner, Matthew Frederick, co-curated the first eight FourSquared exhibitions.

Catalog designed by Michael Yochum Logo image by Mitchell Confer © Arc Gallery 2021

Featured Artists Salma Arastu Luz Marina Ruiz Natasha Dikareva

Eric Saint Georges

Rebecca Fox Sondra Schwetman Tanya Herrera Cindy Shih Jennifer Jigour Allison Snopek Linda Larson Jenny Wantuch Silvia Poloto John Wood Mark D. Powers

Fumiyo Yoshikawa

OPENING RECEPTION: Saturday, August 28th, 7-9pm ZOOM ARTIST TALKS: Wednesday, September 15th, 7-8pm Wednesday, September 22nd, 7-8pm CLOSING ARTIST RECEPTION: Saturday, October 9th, 12-3pm

FourSquared 2021 August 28 - October 9, 2021

photo credit: Luz Marina Ruiz

Salma Arastu Interdependence: Diverse Communities My works are lyrical, spiritual, figurative, and calligraphic. My paintings reveal stories of unity in diversity, peace and joy, celebration of life. I celebrate energy and movement of line in my paintings, drawings, and sculptures. Arabic Calligraphy, miniatures, and the folk art of Islam and the Hindu tradition continue to influence my work today. I have tried to bring together Eastern spirituality and Western techniques of painting learned over the years. Through the contrasting elements in my work, I yearn and search for unity, and when that unity or balance is achieved, it brings about a tranquility and joy.

website: email:

www.salmaarastu.com salma@salmaarastu.com

EDUCATION 1974

MFA, Maharaja Sayaji Rao University, Baroda, India

SELECTED RECENT SOLO SHOWS 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014

Our Earth: Embracing All Communities, Abrams Claghorn Gallery, Albany CA Meditations on Rumi, Think Round Fine Art, San Francisco CA Memory Vignettes, Oakland Asian Cultural Center, Oakland CA Seeking Oneness, Graduate Theological Institute Library Gallery, Berkeley CA Myth & Mystery, Arts at CIIS, San Francisco CA ArtReach, First Congregational Church, Portland OR Peninsula Art Museum, Burlingame CA Multicultural Center, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara CA Museum of Contemporary Religious Art. St. Louis University, St. Louis MO Levantine Cultural Center, Los Angeles CA Trtion Museum of Art, Santa Clara CA

SELECTED RECENT GROUP SHOWS 2021 2020 2018

Deadlocked and Loaded, ArtRage Gallery, Syracuse NY Traces, Danville Village Art Gallery, Danville CA The Writing is on the Wall, K Gallery, Rhythmix Cultural Center, Alameda CA Work & Worship, Abrams Claghorn Gallery, Berkeley CA The Word, Arc Gallery, San Francisco CA Universal Messages: New Vistas, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley CA

AWARDS 2020 2015-6 2014 2012 2004

East Bay Community Foundation, “Fund for Artists”, Oakland, CA City of Berkeley Individual artist grant, Berkeley CA East Bay Community Foundation, “Fund for Artists”, Oakland CA East Bay Community Foundation, “Fund for Artists”, Oakland CA First Place, Northeastern Regional Art Show, Marywood University, Scranton PA

PUBLICATIONS Six books of poems and paintings.

Animals acrylic, paper and pen & ink on canvas 8" x 8” $400

Bees acrylic, paper and pen & ink on canvas 8" x 8” SOLD

Birds acrylic, paper and pen & ink on canvas 8" x 8” $400

Butterflies acrylic, paper and pen & ink on canvas 8" x 8” $400

Earth, Water & Skies acrylic, paper and pen & ink on canvas 8" x 8” $400

Ecosystem of the Sea acrylic, paper and pen & ink on canvas 8" x 8” $400

Fishes acrylic, paper and pen & ink on canvas 8" x 8” $400

Flowers acrylic, paper and pen & ink on canvas 8" x 8” $400

Humanity acrylic, paper and pen & ink on canvas 8" x 8” $400

Insects acrylic, paper and pen & ink on canvas 8" x 8” $400

Phytoplankton acrylic, paper and pen & ink on canvas 8" x 8” $400

Plants acrylic, paper and pen & ink on canvas 8" x 8” $400

Spider Web acrylic, paper and pen & ink on canvas 8" x 8” $400

Under the Sea acrylic, paper and pen & ink on canvas 8" x 8” $400

Water acrylic, paper and pen & ink on canvas 8" x 8” SOLD

Web of Nature acrylic, paper and pen & ink on canvas 8" x 8” SOLD

Natasha Dikareva Forest Diaries I walk in the forest every day, bathing in the lush sounds and smells of wind through the trees and observing wild creatures going about their lives. The textured layers of past autumns and future springs surround me. On the forest path, I can hear the constant rustling and chattering through the thick growth of vegetation on either side, yet I know the forest secrets are inaccessible to me in my human form. Returning to my studio, I create figures who could reveal those secrets; wise sages dwelling within trees, ready to pass on their knowledge, sirens singing songs of untold legends, nests ready to hatch new messengers between the forest and the ocean. As they become part of the forest, figures sprout vegetation and climb onto vertical structures to gain a better vantage point. Observing the horizon, they see imminent obstacles and challenges and embrace them as opportunities for further spiritual growth. I create these sculptures as an ambassador of the natural world. There is so much strength and inspiration within the wild places around us and I want to pass on those reveries and revelations through my pieces. During these tumultuous times it is more important than ever to offer messages of hope and revival. My figures whisper that even this too will pass. One has all they need to thrive within themselves, like the tiny seed that sprouts into a huge tree, or the still, smooth egg that hatches into a vibrant, lively bird. What truth will be revealed on the next forest walk?

website: email:

dikarevart.com natasha@dikarevart.com

RECENT SOLO/TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS Certain About Uncertainty, Abrams Claghorn Gallery, Albany CA Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts, Ojai CA Elements, Saint-Raphaël, France Evolution of Shell Dweller, Abrams Claghorn Gallery, Albany CA Return to Concordia, Concordia Art Center, St.Paul MN Sea Calling, SMAart Gallery, San Francisco CA Zone In, Oregon’s Finest Gallery, Portland OR Enter & Escape, Abrams Claghorn Gallery, Albany,CA Double-Take, Clay by the Bay, San Francisco CA Downtown Atlantis, Inclusions Gallery, San Francisco CA

2020 2019 2017 2016 2015

RECENT SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015

Real or Imagined, Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro MA April in the Annex, Fountain Street Gallery, Boston MA (three person show) SOFA, Hive Contemporary Gallery, Chicago IL Rare Birds, Pence Gallery, Davis CA Visions in Clay, LH Horton Jr Gallery, Stockton CA What Lies Beneath, Epperson Gallery, Crockett CA 48 Pillars, Arc Gallery, San Francisco CA SOFA, Hive Contemporary Gallery, Chicago IL Off Center, Blue Line Arts, Roseville CA Sculpture Now, Peninsula Museum of Art, Burlingame CA Art Palm Springs, Maria Kravetz Gallery, Palm Springs CA La ragazza con gelato e la sua compagnia, C.R.E.T.A, Rome, Italy La Mesa Invitiational – Garden Party, Santa Fe Clay, Santa Fe NM Deconstructing the Conversation, Morgan Contemporary Glass Gallery, Pittsburgh PA Farenheit 2018, American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona CA Generous Kingdom II, Verum Ultimum Gallery, Portland OR 4th Clay & Glass Biennial Competition, Brea Artery, Brea CA International Sculpture Day Exhibition, Marin Society of Artists, San Rafael CA Illuminate, Inclusions Gallery, San Francisco CA A.I.R. Vallauris, Galerie Aqui Siam Ben, Vallauris, France 21st San Angelo National Ceramic Competition, San Angelo TX Equality, Ohio Craft Museum, Columbus OH Energizing the Issues with Clay, Folk Art Center, Asheville NC Clay: tell-tale signs of connected(ness), SMAART Gallery, San Francisco CA Sphinx, Carmen Castellano Fine Arts Gallery, San Jose CA (three person show)

SELECTED AWARDS 2021 2020 2019 2017 2016 2015 2012

Juror’s Award, Real or Imagined, Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro MA Honorable Mention, What Lies Beneath, Epperson Gallery, Crockett CA Excellence Award, 1st World Teapot Competition, Yixing, China Best in Show, 4th Clay & Glass Biennial Competition, Brea Gallery, Brea CA Finalist, Niche Award, Washington DC People's Choice Award, 2015 California Clay Competition, Davis CA Grand Prize, Big Fish: Small Teapot, AMOCA, Pomona CA

Nest Riders stoneware, stains, glazes, glass 9" x 9" x 2" $595

Guardian of Untold Legends stoneware, stains, glazes, glass 9" x 9" x 4" $595

Searching for Portal stoneware, stains, glazes, glass 8.5" x 8" x 3" $595

Shaman: Last Bite of Ego stoneware, stains, glazes, glass 9" x 9" x 4.5" $595

Uncertain Moment stoneware, stains, glazes, glass 9" x 8.5" x 3" $595

Lookout Point stoneware, stains, glazes, glass 9" x 9" x 4" $595

New Beginnings stoneware, stains, glazes, glass 9" x 9" x 2.5" $595

Tomorrow's Forecast: Dancing Clouds stoneware, stains, glazes, glass 9" x 9" x 4" SOLD

Forest Flavor stoneware, stains, glazes, glass 9" x 9" x 4" $595

On the Way to Luneburg stoneware, stains, glazes, glass 9" x 9" x 2.5" $595

Spellbound Under Northern Skies stoneware, stains, glazes, glass 9.5" x 9" x 3" $595

Celestial Bliss stoneware, stains, glazes, glass 8.5" x 9" x 3" $595

Marina’s Game stoneware, stains, glazes, glass 8" x 8" x 3" $595

Make a Wish stoneware, stains, glazes, glass 9" x 9.5" x 2.5" SOLD

Tickets to the Moon? stoneware, stains, glazes, glass 9" x 8.5" x 3" SOLD

Lucid Dream stoneware, stains, glazes, glass 9" x 9" x 3" $595

Rebecca Fox

Circle Mists Circle Mists is an examination of texture, form, and subtle explorations of positive and negative space and color. This series utilizes the circle in the investigation of material, composition, and process. The inspiration for this series came during the height of the lockdown due to the pandemic. I was working from home digitally reviewing and cataloguing my older works. I was reminded that in the past I had worked quite a bit with color. I was seeing days as monotonous and blending into one another and wanted to create new work utilizing a repetitive shape and re-visiting color to represent some light and hope for the future. There was a misty haze over this time period, and from this the idea for Circle Mists developed. Since my work explores the circle, I felt the best way to execute this vision was to create a series that was almost identical with only slight variations to each piece. I created one circle in the exact center of each one of these pieces to represent sameness and then created slight textures and depths into each circle representing slight variations of the sameness. I then added color and used the characteristics of the material to create a feeling of depth in the metal.

website: email:

www.rebeccafox.com rebecca@rebeccafox.com

EDUCATION 1994 – 1995 1996 1996 – 2001

University of California at Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz CA Cabrillo College, Santa Cruz CA City College of San Francisco, San Francisco CA

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 2019 Corporate Art Rental Program: Selections from the Gallery, SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco CA stARTup Small Works, San Francisco CA 2018 48 Pillars, Arc Gallery, San Francisco CA 2017 stARTup Art Fair, Hotel del Sol, San Francisco CA 2016 SquaredAlumni, Arc Gallery, San Francisco CA In the Abstract, STUDIO Gallery, San Francisco CA 2015 Magic Carpet Ride, Ekfrasi-yianna grammatopoulou Gallery, Athens, Greece 2014 Color and Contrast, Harrington Gallery, Pleasanton CA FourSquared, Arc Gallery, San Francisco CA 2013 SquaredAlumni, Arc Gallery, San Francisco CA 2012 Artists Warehouse Sale, SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco CA 2011 Davies After Hours, Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco CA 2010 Twisted – Chiseled - Fired, Village Theatre Art Gallery, Danville CA Private Eyes: Artists’ Visions, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Novato CA Selections 2010, California Modern, San Francisco CA FourSquared, Arc Gallery, San Francisco CA ArtSpan Benefit Art Show and Auction, SOMArts Gallery, San Francisco CA (1st Place, 3D category) 2009 Sculpture in the Garden, Mendocino Coast Botanical Garden, Fort Bragg CA 2008 Geometry x3, The Atrium Gallery, San Francisco CA Pacific Rim Sculpture, The Carl Cherry Center for the Arts, Carmel CA 2007 The Look of Love, Art Object Gallery, San Jose CA (International Juried Exhibition, 1st Place) COLLECTIONS & PUBLIC ART

Installation at Google, Google San Francisco Headquarters, San Francisco CA Hearts in San Francisco, a public art project benefiting San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco CA Stanford Hospital & Clinics, Palo Alto CA Aurelian Marketing Group, Las Vegas NV Gravity Tavern, Mill Valley CA Zscaler, San Jose CA Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco CA Over 200 private collections throughout the United States

SELECTED MEDIA 2013 2010 2009

Sugar Dome, The Food Network 7Live, KGO ABC Superscapes, HGTV

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS 2011 2009 2008

San Francisco Open Studios 2011 Preview, Huffington Post, September 2011 S.F. Open Studios showcase emerging artists, San Francisco Chronicle, October 2011 Artists Put Their Hearts Into a Good Cause, San Francisco Chronicle, February 2009 Living An Artist’s Life: Reaching the Turning Point, ArtSpan San Francisco Open Studios Guide Faces, The Jewish News Weekly of Northern California, October 2008

Circle Mist 1 patinaed steel 6" x 6" x 1.75" SOLD

Circle Mist 2 patinaed steel 6" x 6" x 1.75" $550

Circle Mist 5 patinaed steel 6" x 6"x 1.75" SOLD

Circle Mist 6 patinaed steel 6" x 6" x 1.75" $550

Circle Mist 3 patinaed steel 6" x 6" x 1.75" $550

Circle Mist 4 patinaed steel 6" x 6" x 1.75" SOLD

Circle Mist 7 patinaed steel 6" x 6" x 1.75" $550

Circle Mist 8 patinaed steel 6" x 6" x 1.75" $550

Circle Mist 9 patinaed steel 6" x 6" x 1.75" $550

Circle Mist 10 patinaed steel 6" x 6" x 1.75" SOLD

Circle Mist 13 patinaed steel 6" x 6" x 1.75" $550

Circle Mist 14 patinaed steel 6" x 6"x 1.75" $550

Circle Mist 11 patinaed steel 6" x 6" x 1.75" $550

Circle Mist 12 patinaed steel 6" x 6" x 1.75" SOLD

Circle Mist 15 patinaed steel 6" x 6" x 1.75" $550

Circle Mist 16 patinaed steel 6" x 6" x 1.75" SOLD

Tanya Herrera

Deconstructed Dyscalculia I am a 37 yr old first generation Costa Rican American, born and raised in the Bay Area. I have created art for as long as I can remember, even as a child I wanted nothing more but to create all day. My earliest memories were experimenting with traditional mediums all the way into college, always challenging myself "what else is there?" I continued testing a wide variety of modern art techniques until the age of 25 when I discovered pyrography by making an impression of a stencil on wood in an untraditional way. Since then, I have been burning pyrography with wood going on 13 years, 9 years on leather and another 7 years on bone. This series, Deconstructed Dyscalculia, is a play on the math equation that is the title of this group show. Being a right-brained creative I’ve never really been good at math and true to type, I amused myself by originally calling the show 16 x 16 up until I was reminded of the FourSquared title by a colleague who had been in the show a previous year. During production of these pieces I realized it was the first time I had successfully created a series that looked so cohesive, this jokingly being about as mathematical as I was able to be artistically. Although the series is cohesive, each piece still holds a unique part of life pertaining to the elements that once was in each individual being. Taking in the idea of the golden ratio, not only do the individual pieces embody the previous life but they also hold a piece of mathematics hidden beneath their surfaces, creating an invisible balance of math, art and the natural world.

website: email:

www.tanyaherrera.com tanyahg@gmail.com

EDUCATION 2013 2004 – 2007 2002 – 2004

Apprenticeship in Sarchi, Costa Rica B.S. (graphic design), Art Institute of Portland, Portland OR Art Institute of California, San Francisco CA

EXHIBITIONS 2020-21 The Return of Discolandia, 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco CA 2020 SFWA Annual Artist Choice, SFWA Gallery, San Francisco CA (juror’s choice) Awaken by the Midnight, Arc Gallery, San Francisco CA Covid Convention a digital group show Women Rising, The Drawing Room Annex, San Francisco CA Artist in Residence, Bernal Cutlery, San Francisco CA SNAP!, Arc Gallery, San Francisco CA (juried) 2019 Resolution, PalletteSF, San Francisco CA (collaboration of Wonderland SF & 111 Minna) Pertenecemos, Office of Senator Scott Wiener, San Francisco CA ArtSpan’s Art Launch, SOMArts, San Francisco CA (juror’s choice) Art of Peace, Yerba Buena Center of the Arts, San Francisco CA Almas De Fuego, International Art Museum of America in the LightSpace Gallery, San Francisco CA (solo) Rebel Girl, International Art Museum of America in the Tendergold Gallery, San Francisco CA (2-person) 2018 Discolandia, Wonderland SF, San Francisco CA 100 under 100, Fleetwood, San Francisco CA Dia De Los Muertos, Wonderland SF, San Francisco CA ACA (Art Comes Alive), Art Design Consultants, Cincinnati OH ArtSpan’s Art Launch, SOMArts, San Francisco CA Mi Lucha, Wonderland SF, San Francisco CA VOLUNTEER WORK 2020 - current 2021 - current

ArtSpan Open Studios committee San Francisco African-American Arts and Cultural District committee (SFAAACD)

TEACHING 2019 2018

Honey Art Studio, Daly City CA (and various Locations) Make Museum of Craft and Design

CURATORIAL PROJECTS 2019 FESTAC Outdoor Art Festival, Oakland CA 2017-18 ArtSpan’s Art in Neighborhoods - three exhibitions opening and closing ceremony, one artist hanging artwork on the wall paired with a different interactive artist 2015-17 Fall Open Studios at The FARM, San Francisco CA 2016 Spring Open Studios at The FARM, San Francisco CA

Deconstructed Dyscalculia 1

Deconstructed Dyscalculia 2

hand burned pyrography on cow tooth & gold, wood, silver & bronze gilding, resin

hand burned pyrography on cow tooth & wood, gold gilding, resin

5" x 3" x 1.5" $470

Deconstructed Dyscalculia 3

Deconstructed Dyscalculia 4

hand burned pyrography on cow tooth & wood, bronze gilding, resin

hand burned pyrography on cow tooth & wood, silver gilding, resin

5" x 3" x 1.5" $470

Deconstructed Dyscalculia 5

Deconstructed Dyscalculia 6

hand burned pyrography on cat vertebrae, silver gilding, resin

hand burned pyrography on cat vertebrae, bronze gilding, resin

5" x 3" x 1.5" $470

Deconstructed Dyscalculia 7 hand burned pyrography on cat vertebrae, gold gilding, resin

5" x 3" x 1.5" $470

Deconstructed Dyscalculia 8 hand burned pyrography on vertebrae & wood; gold, silver & bronze gilding, resin

4" x 4" x 1.5" $470

Deconstructed Dyscalculia 9 hand burned pyrography on scapula bone, femur bone & wood; gold gilding, resin

5" x 3" x 1.5" $470

Deconstructed Dyscalculia 10 hand burned pyrography on cow tooth & wood, gold, silver & bronze gilding, resin

5" x 3" x 1.5" $470

Deconstructed Dyscalculia 11

Deconstructed Dyscalculia 12

hand burned pyrography on animal tooth & wood, silver & bronze gilding, resin

hand burned pyrography on cow tooth & wood, bronze gilding, resin

5" x 3.5" x 1.5" $470

5" x 3" x 1.5" $470

Deconstructed Dyscalculia 13 hand burned pyrography on possum skull & wood; gold. silver & bronze gilding, resin

5" x 3" x 1.5" SOLD

Deconstructed Dyscalculia 15 hand burned pyrography on vertebrae & wood, gold, silver & bronze gilding, resin

5" x 3" x 1.5" $470

Deconstructed Dyscalculia 14 hand burned pyrography on muskrat skull & wood,; bronze gilding, resin

4" x 4" x 1.5" $470

Deconstructed Dyscalculia 16 hand burned pyrography on cat vertebrae & wood, silver gilding, resin

5" x 3.5" x 1.5" $470

Jennifer Jigour Secret Agent Moscow – Part Two Born and raised in San Jose, California, I have a deep connection to the Bay Area. I am The Artist with The Golden Paintbrush. I create what I want to see become a reality. My creative expressions span many media including writing, oil and watercolor painting, photography, theatre and film. For Arc Gallery’s Four Square, I am focusing on watercolor and pen illustration to complete the sequel to my graphic novel Secret Agent Moscow. The first book included 228 full-color illustrations and was self-published in 2013. Here, the second book is summed up in a brief 16-page collection of 8”x10” watercolor illustrations. Secret Agent Moscow is a story about identity, sexuality, healing, self-acceptance and empathy. It is set to the backdrop of 1949 postWW2 America in San Francisco and Communist Russia, Moscow. The main character is Natasha, a former WASP (Women’s Air Force Service Pilot) and closeted lesbian who is coerced into working as a secret agent on a mission in Moscow. All but one page in this mini-sequel take place in the main character’s subconscious. In her dreams, she overcomes her internal struggles through a desire to connect and feel empathy for the people she meets (Gladys Bentley, a black lesbian jazz singer; Jia-Li and Lailoni, who formerly were interned at Manzanar; Maxine, a bisexual Cuban; and Valentina, a Soviet Night Witch Pilot). My artwork is deeply layered and heavily symbolic. It is laced with historical and cultural inspiration and created from a place of love where I desire to bring about unity, understanding, empowerment and personal growth.

website: email:

www.jenniferjigour.com jenny@jenniferjigour.com

EDUCATION 2006 BA, Studio Art, Theatre and Communication, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara CA 2001-03 Studio Art and Film, De Anza College, Cupertino CA SELECTED SOLO SHOWS 2017 Co-Creating Art with Nature: Paintings Hanging from Trees, New Almaden CA 2014 The Art of Secret Agent Moscow, Petite Galleria, San Jose CA 2006 Eclectic Dreams, Gallery A, Santa Clara CA SELECTED GROUP SHOWS 2020 International Festival of Erotic Arts, Online Gallery, Zoom 2019 Gallery Erato Opening Show, Gallery Erato, Seattle WA 2012 Women Rising Presents: A Night of Creative Empowerment II, Artist Collective, San Jose CA 2011 Passion Fruits, San Jose Repertory Theatre of Performing Arts, San Jose CA 2010 Young Cannibals Art Show, The Citadel, San Jose CA QGTP Queer Girl Theatre Project Reunion Show, Femina Potens, San Francisco CA 2009 A Piece of My Heart, Femina Potens, San Francisco CA RECENT JURIED EXHIBITIONS 2021 Composing the Future, Bankhead Theatre, Livermore CA 2020 Seattle Erotic Art Festival, Gallery Erato, Seattle WA 2019 Erotic Art Exhibition London, OXO Bargehouse, London, England Go Figure, Bankhead Theatre, Livermore CA Seattle Erotic Art Festival, Seattle Center’s Exhibition Hall, Seattle WA 2018 Seattle Erotic Art Festival, Seattle Center’s Exhibition Hall, Seattle WA CURATOR 2021

The Table Setting, Bankhead Theatre, Livermore CA

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS 2019 “Creativity without Boarders,” DESTIG Magazine, issue 6. July 2019 2014 “12 Great Gifts for the LGBT Graphic Novel Lover,” The Advocate, December 2014 2013 “Secret Agent Moscow,” self-published graphic novel, October 2013 MEDIA 2020

The Erotic Art Ambassador, presenter, filmmaker and participating visual artist, series (1-7)

ASSOCIATIONS 2019- Professional Development Chair on the Board of Directors for NCWCA (Northern Californian Women’s Caucus for Arts) 2017-19 Artist, author and self-publisher participant at Comic Con Silicon Valley AWARDS 2020 The Denis Diderot [A-i-R] Grant, Chateau Orquevaux Artist in Residence, Orquevaux, France

Matryoshka of Natasha’s Soul watercolor, pen, paper 8”x10” $595

Mission Accomplished on Pyatnitskya Street: Recollections of Guilt and Shame Transform into a Purpose to Live watercolor, pen, paper 8”x10” $595

Secret Agent Moscow Breaks Out of Her Own Cell watercolor, pen, paper 8”x10” $595

The Fall watercolor, pen, paper 8”x10” $595

Letting Go of Baggage watercolor, pen, paper 8”x10” $595

Giving Up the Chase watercolor, pen, paper 8”x10” $595

Icebreaker watercolor, pen, paper 8”x10” $595

Electric Firefighters watercolor, pen, paper 8”x10” SOLD

Flowing Down to the Secret Underground watercolor, pen, paper 8”x10” $595

Breaking the Small Self to Pieces watercolor, pen, paper 8”x10” $595

Empathy Projection as the Wire Turns to Rose watercolor, pen, paper 8”x10” $595

Reimagining Gladys Bentley Taking on the McCarthy Era watercolor, pen, paper 8”x10” $595

Jia-Li and Lailoni Live Happily Ever After watercolor, pen, paper 8”x10” $595

Maxine Libre watercolor, pen, paper 8”x10” $595

Valentina and Fedora’s Great Escape from Red Square watercolor, pen, paper 8”x10” $595

“Hand in Hand / With a Girl and Not a Man / Just Me and My Gal / Dolores Parker” watercolor, pen, paper 8”x10” $595

Linda Larson Pecking Order I’m inspired by the thrumming rituals of the sparrows and the red wing blackbirds, the obtuse arguments between the hawk and the mockingbirds. Increasingly awed by their resilience and beauty; how do these creatures thrive amidst the brutality of the human appetite for their space and resources? Remembering other birds with impractical beauties, immortalized in paintings because of their outlandish tails or otherworldly plumage, I dive deep into lore and history. The baroque appetites of the 18th and 19th centuries fed a hunger for exotic feathers, wings, and fully stuffed, stabbed, and stitched specimens on hats and hairpieces. Posed to death. This human craving for loveliness hunted some birds to extinction- too beautiful to live. Birds stuffed and posed, garnishing Marie Antoinette’s doomed and delicate head. The perching sparrows at my window know nothing of history. In exchange for some humble seed they offer an intimate peek at their mesmerizing complexity. I strive to quietly elevate these winged marvels, who somehow survive in the desolation of an industrial park. They thrive for now in this weed choked environment, their rituals plucked from something familiar, fresh, and full of fantasy. I’m a voyeur to the cyclical nature of their habits, a quiet, constant thrum of resilient life in the tenuous dance of savage survival. I watch, romanced by their resilience, their rhythms, and their irrepressible transcendence.

website: email:

http:/www.lindalarsonart.com/ linda@lrlart.com

EDUCATION

BA, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom,

SELECT EXHIBITIONS 2021 Art for AIDS, Alliance Health Project, San Francisco CA (juried auction) POLLAN-ators, Palette Gallery, San Francisco CA Botanic Rituals II, Radium Gallery, San Francisco CA Hospitality House Auction, San Francisco CA Ecstasy: Breathtaking Beauty of Nature, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol CA (jurors award) Endangered Flora, Chico Art Center, Chico CA 2020 Art for AIDS, Alliance Health Project, San Francisco CA (juried auction) Botanic Rituals, Radium Gallery, San Francisco CA Awakened by the Midnight, Arc Gallery, San Francisco CA FourSquared 2020, Arc Gallery, San Francisco CA 2019 Woman Rising, The Drawing Room Annex, San Francisco CA SF Open Studios, Rock & Rapture ~ Onyx Gallery, San Francisco CA Small Work, StARTup Art Fair, San Francisco CA Make your Mark, Art Attack Gallery, San Francisco CA To Live Briefly, Four Barrel Coffee, San Francisco CA (2 person) Movers and Shakers, The Drawing Room, San Francisco CA Snap!, Arc Gallery, San Francisco CA If Only I had Time to Tell You, Gallery Route One, Pt,Reyes Station CA (juror: M. Louise M. Stanley) 2018 Retrospective 11, Inclusions Gallery, San Francisco CA Holiday Show & Art Walk, Mixx Project, Telluride, Co, Contemplations and Musings, Inclusions Gallery, San Francisco CA (4 person) Rock&Rapture, Onyx Gallery, San Francisco CA (3 person) Art for AIDS, Alliance Health Project, San Francisco CA (juried auction) Into the Wild, Art Attack Gallery, San Francisco CA Snap!, Arc Gallery, San Francisco CA 2017 Arts Benicia, Benicia CA (juror: Donna Seager) 2016 Select 7, Inclusions Gallery, San Francisco CA Retrospective 9, Inclusions Gallery, San Francisco CA 2015 Retrospective 8, Inclusions Gallery, San Francisco CA Daydreams & Archetypes, Inclusions Gallery, San Francisco CA (2 person) Snap!, Arc Gallery, San Francisco CA 2012 Into Night, Neito Gallery, San Francisco CA (2 person) New Work, Secession Art&Design, San Francisco CA (2 person) Guess Work, Arterra Gallery, San Francisco CA (solo) PUBLIC ART WORK 2017

Ceramic Installation, Clarendon Elementary School, San Francisco CA

SELECT PUBLICATIONS 2021

Artists of the Bay Area (book) Wild Lands (book)

Pecking Order # 1 (Lesser Gold Finch) oil on birch panel 10” round SOLD

Pecking Order # 2 (Red Wing Blackbirds) oil on birch panel 10" x 10” SOLD

Pecking Order # 3 (Western Phoebe Bird) oil on birch panel 10" x 10” SOLD

Pecking Order # 4 (Savannah & Song Sparrow) oil on birch panel 10” round SOLD

Pecking Order # 5 (White Crowned, Vesper & Fox Sparrows) oil on birch panel 10” round SOLD

Pecking Order # 6 (Hermit Thrush, Western Mocking) oil on birch panel 10" x 10” SOLD

Pecking Order # 7 (Band Tailed Pigeons) oil on birch panel 10” round SOLD

Pecking Order # 8 (Cedar Wax Wings) oil on birch panel 10" x 10” $520

Pecking Order # 9 (California Crows) oil on birch panel 10” round $520

Pecking Order # 10 (White & Golden Crowned Sparrows) oil on birch panel 10” x 10" SOLD

Pecking Order # 11 (Anna’s Hummingbird) oil on birch panel 10” x 10" SOLD

Pecking Order # 12 (Great Blue Heron) oil on birch panel 10” round SOLD

Pecking Order # 13 (Chestnut Backed Chickadees) oil on birch panel 10” x 10" SOLD

Pecking Order # 14 (House Finches) oil on birch panel 10” round $520

Pecking Order # 15 (Cedar Wax Wings) oil on birch panel 10” round $520

Pecking Order # 16 (Mourning Doves) oil on birch panel 10” x 10" SOLD

Silvia Poloto 100 Women The 100 Women series started as commissions for people I know. As I delved more deeply into portraiture, I began dipicting important women in the history of art. The works here revisit the original 100 Women project, but with imaginary women. They are made with acrylic paint on watercolor paper, overlaid with an abstract image printed on silk. Through this process, the imagined women enter imaginary landscapes evoking the viewer’s imagination.

website: poloto.com email: silvia@poloto.com

Silvia Poloto - born in Brazil, lives and works in San Francisco SELECT EXHIBITIONS 2020 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011

Spotlight: Silvia Poloto, Arc Spotlight Gallery, San Francisco CA (solo) SquaredAlumni 2020, Arc Gallery, San Francisco CA Aberson Exhibits, Tulsa OK (solo) SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco CA (solo) Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica CA (two-person) AAF, New York NY Modernism at Foreign Cinema, San Francisco CA (solo) 48 Pillars, Arc Gallery, San Francisco CA SFMOMA Artist’s Gallery at Fort Mason, San Francisco CA (two-person) Butters Gallery, Portland OR (solo) Scope, New York NY ArtMrktSF, SFMOMA Artist’s Gallery, San Francisco CA AAF, Hong Kong, China AAF, New York NY Art Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan Scope Miami, Miami, FL The Billboard Creative, Los Angeles CA Butters Gallery, Portland OR (solo) Aberson Exhibits, Tulsa OK (solo) SquaredAlumni, Arc Project Gallery, San Francisco CA SFMOMA Artist’s Gallery at Fort Mason, San Francisco CA (two-person) Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara CA (solo) Julie Nester Gallery, Park City UT (solo) Butters Gallery, Portland OR (solo) 5 Claude, San Francisco CA (solo) McLoughlin Gallery, San Francisco CA (solo) SFMOMA Artist’s Gallery, San Francisco CA FourSquared, Arc Gallery, San Francisco CA

SELECT COLLECTIONS

Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford CA Stanford University, Redwood City Campus CA UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles CA Hayes Mansion, San Jose CA (with the San Jose Office of Cultural Affairs) University of California, San Francisco CA University of Texas, Department of Entomology, Austin TX Burj Khalifa, Dubai, UAE The Ellie Mae Collection, San Francisco CA Oregon Health and Sciences University, Beaverton OR Sutter Pacific Medical Foundation, San Francisco CA

100 Women # 1 acrylic on paper; layered silk; birch panel frame 5" x 5" image size; 12" x 12" framed SOLD

100 Women # 2 acrylic on paper; layered silk; birch panel frame 5" x 5" image size; 12" x 12" framed $390

100 Women # 3 acrylic on paper; layered silk; birch panel frame 5" x 5" image size; 12" x 12" framed SOLD

100 Women # 4 acrylic on paper; layered silk; birch panel frame 5" x 5" image size; 12" x 12" framed $390

100 Women # 5 acrylic on paper; layered silk; birch panel frame 5" x 5" image size; 12" x 12" framed SOLD

100 Women # 6 acrylic on paper; layered silk; birch panel frame 5" x 5" image size; 12" x 12" framed $390

100 Women # 7 acrylic on paper; layered silk; birch panel frame 5" x 5" image size; 12" x 12" framed SOLD

100 Women # 8 acrylic on paper; layered silk; birch panel frame 5" x 5" image size; 12" x 12" framed $390

100 Women # 9 acrylic on paper; layered silk; birch panel frame 5" x 5" image size; 12" x 12" framed SOLD

100 Women # 10 acrylic on paper; layered silk; birch panel frame 5" x 5" image size; 12" x 12" framed $390

100 Women # 11 acrylic on paper; layered silk; birch panel frame 5" x 5" image size; 12" x 12" framed $390

100 Women # 12 acrylic on paper; layered silk; birch panel frame 5" x 5" image size; 12" x 12" framed SOLD

100 Women # 13 acrylic on paper; layered silk; birch panel frame 5" x 5" image size; 12" x 12" framed SOLD

100 Women # 14 acrylic on paper; layered silk; birch panel frame 5" x 5" image size; 12" x 12" framed $390

100 Women # 15 acrylic on paper; layered silk; birch panel frame 5" x 5" image size; 12" x 12" framed $390

100 Women # 16 acrylic on paper; layered silk; birch panel frame 5" x 5" image size; 12" x 12" framed $390

Mark D. Powers San Francisco Realism These paintings are based on my 2020 photographs of San Francisco businesses, and celebrates the people who continued to serve our city when we really needed the neighborhoods to feel like home: the local market making fresh sandwiches every day, the nightclub around the corner serving food and music, the coffee shop across the street, the hairstylists, bike mechanics, local picture framers, etcetera who donned masks and got things done. The paintings also capture the resilience of those who ventured out during 2020 to do everyday San Francisco things like get a cup of coffee, eat tacos, or watch a drag show on the sidewalk.

website: email:

www.markdpowers.com studio@markdpowers.com

While he was still a young military officer in 1991, self-taught artist Mark D. Powers showed (and sold) his first work at a Washington DC gallery. He continued to show and sell work throughout the 1990s. While living in Detroit, Mark was a member and officer of Artist’s Cooperative (ACT), a decade’s old non-profit artist group that operated a gallery space and hosted the annual International Detroit Salon Show. A career in real estate development brought Mark to the SF Bay Area. He ultimately retired from that industry, and for nearly a decade made art and helped produce adult films. Since 2018 Mark has produced paintings, drawings, and assemblage full-time from his studio in San Francisco. EDUCATION 1998

Bachelor of Arts, William Tyndale College, Detroit MI

RECENT EXHIBITIONS 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013

El Capitan at Town's End, San Francisco CA (solo exhibition) Skateboard Art Group Show, Lonestar Saloon, San Francisco CA FourSquared 2020, Arc Gallery, San Francisco CA Nocturne, Arc Gallery, San Francisco CA (national juried exhibition) The Town’s End Bakery and Restaurant, San Francisco CA Art For AIDS, San Francisco CA (juried auction) The Dirty Dozen, in support of Alliance Health Project, San Francisco CA National Juried Exhibit, Chico Art Center, Chico CA PROUD+, The Studio Door, San Diego CA URB, DaDa Art Gallery and Bar, San Francisco CA Lone Star Saloon, San Francisco CA Art For AIDS, San Francisco CA (juried auction) Lone Star Saloon, San Francisco CA Art For AIDS, San Francisco CA (juried auction) Back to the Picture, San Francisco CA Art For AIDS, San Francisco CA (juried auction) Art For AIDS, San Francisco CA (juried auction) Structure, Arc Gallery, San Francisco CA (national juried exhibition)

Car Wash acrylic on birch panel 10" x 10” SOLD

The Oasis acrylic on birch panel 10" x 10” SOLD

The Cat Club acrylic on birch panel 10" x 10” SOLD

The Bike Connection 1 acrylic on birch panel 10" x 10” SOLD

Bi-Rite acrylic on birch panel 10" x 10” SOLD

Dan at The Painter's Place acrylic on birch panel 10" x 10” SOLD

The Bike Connection 2 acrylic on birch panel 10" x 10” SOLD

The Mix acrylic on birch panel 10" x 10” SOLD

Dreamers and Make Believers acrylic on birch panel 10" x 10” SOLD

The Castro Barber and Lounge acrylic on birch panel 10" x 10” SOLD

Flowers for 101 Henry Adams acrylic on birch panel 10" x 10” SOLD

Vega Coffee on Folsom acrylic on birch panel 10" x 10” SOLD

Red's Java House acrylic on birch panel 10" x 10” SOLD

Diana Market 2 acrylic on birch panel 10" x 10” SOLD

Alimento in North Beach acrylic on birch panel 10" x 10” SOLD

Michael Thompson Framing acrylic on birch panel 10" x 10” SOLD

Luz Marina Ruiz Elemental Water The 16 artist-books which make up this exhibition emerged from a previous image also associated with water. Originally entitled Travesia, meaning Travel-by-Sea in Italian, the large-scale black-andwhite linoleum block prints were embedded with the idea of the boat as a metaphor for our literal and metaphorical journeys through life. These already-existing linoleum cuts went through multiple levels of modification and transformation; the prints were hand-colored with watercolor and gouache, then cut into, broken up, deconstructed and reconstructed to re-emerge as the 16 related pieces presented here to form the installation Elemental Water. I am fascinated with the theme of water on many levels, drawn to our visceral connection to this element so closely tied to our human survival. I am interested in the theme of cycles and repetition as represented by water; the making of my prints and these artist-books and paper sculptures are also a literal embodiment of cycles, repetitions, and variations on a theme. I hope that the images and the structures also embody a sense of play, magic, whimsy, and surprise, as moons appear and disappear, sea creatures are suggested and ramble through the spaces, unidentifiable organisms and plant forms show up in unexpected places. Elemental Water represents my personal musings on the importance of water as a resource, on the power of water as metaphor, on the joys and tribulations we face on this journey.

website: email:

www.luzmarinaruiz.com lmr.arts@gmail.com

EDUCATION 1986 1985 1983

M.F.A. (Painting), University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley CA M.A. (Painting), University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley CA B.A.(Printmaking & Painting), University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley CA

SOLO & TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS 2021 2019 2016 2012 2008

Pandemania, Manna Gallery, Oakland CA Recent Work, 3 Door Gallery, 1890 Bryant St, San Francisco CA Suspended in Time, Manna Gallery, Oakland CA Xiaoxiang Exhibition of International Printmaking, Changsha Normal University, Changsha, China (solo) The Mei Lun Gallery, Hunan Fine Art Institute, Changsha, China A Chance to Play, San Pablo Art Gallery, San Pablo CA Sueños Mensajeros/Dream Messengers, NoneSuch Space Gallery, Oakland CA Painting & Prints, Coast to Coast Fine Arts, Sargentville ME

GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2020 5 x 5 Celebrating Ten Years, Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum, Santa Barbara CA Reflections, National Juried Show, Arc Gallery, San Francisco, California First Impressions, Davis Art Center, Davis, California 2019 Collectors’ Showcase: An Eighth Anniversary Celebration, Manna Gallery, Oakland, California 2018 Climart, Academy of Art Galleries, San Francisco, California (Juror, Gail Wight) Thinking Out of the Frame, NUMU Museum, Los Gatos CA (Juror, Cathy Kimball) 2017 Book Jam, Palo Alto CA California Art of Letter, Word and Book, Noyo Printworks, Mendocino CA CODEX 6 2017, International Book Fair, Richmond CA Contemporary Prints, School of Fine Arts, Cusco, Peru Mirrored Images, Pacific Grove Art Center, Pacific Grove CA Beneath the Surface, Davis Art Center, Davis CA RESIDENCY 2018 2017

Playa Residency, Summer Lake OR Dan Weldon Printmaking, School of Fine Arts, Cusco, Peru

TEACHING 2013-Present 1991-2006 1990 · 91

First Year Program, California College of the Arts. San Francisco CA 2D Art Tenure track position, Diablo Valley College, Pleasant Hill CA Drawing Instructor, City College of San Francisco, San Francisco CA

Ultramarino tunnel book 6" x 12" $550

Navegando accordian fold book 6" x 6" $550

Portadores del Mar carousel book 12" x 12" $550

Viaje accordian fold book 6" x 6" SOLD

Aguamarina tunnel book 8.74" x 7.5" SOLD

Remolino tunnel book 6" x 10" $550

Jornada accordian fold book 6" x 6" $550

Luna Flor flag book 5" x 9.75" $550

Olas 2 tunnel book 4" x 8" $400

Atardecer flag book 6" x 11.75" $550

Jardin carousel book 15" x 11" $550

Turquesa tunnel book 5" x 11" $550

Barca Luna accordian fold book 6" x 6" SOLD

Luna Mar tunnel book 8" x 11" $550

Agua Elemental tunnel book 6" x 10" $550

Olas 1 tunnel book 4" x 8" $400

Eric Saint Georges Figures I watch the model, I feel the tension of her movement in my own body. With my knife I make bold cuts in the block of clay, trying to capture the essence of the pose. I must work fast, to keep the energy flowing, and when I start to see some life emerging from the clay, I feel alive too… I like to make several variations from the same pose, getting with each one a better sense of my model, and allowing me to simplify and abstract more and more. My focus is on figurative sculpture and drawing. I draw almost exclusively from life, my preference being very short poses. I do not try to tell a story, as much as to capture the movement, the mood. While I enjoy carving once a while a stone or a beautiful piece of wood, I create most of my sculptures in clay, often from life. I then cast them in bronze, which is time consuming but very rewarding.

website: email:

www.ericsaintgeorges.com contact@ericsaintgeorges.com

Born in Paris, France, ERIC SAINT GEORGES moved to the US in 1994. As far as I can remember I have always been drawing and building things, but it is a workshop with the sculptor Petrus in 1978, which triggered my passion for sculpture. At that time, I had just completed my education in electrical engineering. Rather than going right away to work, I applied to the “Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts” in Paris, and studied drawing and sculpture there for 2 years, before spending several months with Petrus, from whom I learned the foundation of my clay technique. However, at the time, a career in art was not really an option for me (or so I thought) and I went back to pursuing a career as an engineer. Eventually, in 2015, after 35 years with limited artistic activity, I finally decided to go back to art full time. SELECT EXHIBITIONS 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015

Life Live X, exhibition and live life drawing, Arc Gallery, San Francisco CA Life Live IX, exhibition and live life drawing, Arc Gallery, San Francisco CA San Mateo City, San Mateo CA stARTup Fair, San Francisco CA (juried) Life Live VIII, exhibition and live life drawing, Arc Gallery, San Francisco CA Sculpture Now, Peninsula Museum, Burlingame CA (juried) Ruth Bancroft Sculpture Garden, Walnut Creek CA (juried) Human Form, Pacific Art League, Palo Alto CA (juried) stARTup Fair, San Francisco CA (juried) Work on Paper, Pacific Art League, Palo Alto CA (juried) Member Show, Pacific Art League, Palo Alto CA (juried, honorable mention) Ruth Bancroft Sculpture Garden, Walnut Creek CA (juried) Statewide 2D Competition, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara CA (juried) Gallery House, Palo Alto, CA Form of a Woman, Neologian Gallery, San Mateo CA (juried) Vyne Bistro, San Jose, CA Pacific Art League, Palo Alto CA (2nd Place) Not so Heavy Metal II, Mission College, San Jose CA (juried) More the Merrier, Art Ark Gallery, San Jose CA (juried) Instructor Exhibition, Pacific Art League, Palo Alto CA California Clay Competition, The Artery, Davis CA Figure and Faces, Pacific Art League, Palo Alto CA (juried) Art Object Gallery, San Jose CA (celebrating International Sculpture Day) Art Ark Gallery, San Jose CA (Silicon Valley Open Studio preview exhibition)) Pacific Art League, Palo Alto CA Main St Cafe, Los Altos, CA Figure and Faces, Pacific Art League, Palo Alto CA (juried)

TEACHING 2017 -

Instructor at Pacific Art League, Palo Alto CA (life drawing; figure sculpture) Teaching Assistant, Metal Sculpture, West Valley College, Saratoga CA

ART EDUCATION 2015-16 Metal Sculpture at West Valley college (Saratoga) 2015-2016 1980-81 Resident with sculptor Petrus, France 1979-80 Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts, Paris, France. 1979-1980

Anastasia 1 black clay 7" x 6" x 5" $595

Anastasia 2 red clay 7" x 6" x 5" $595

Dana Sitting 1 black clay 9" x 6" x 5" $595

Dana Sitting 2 black clay 7" x 5" x 5" SOLD

Taryn 3 red clay 3.5" x 9" x 4" $595

Zika OMG red clay 10" x 8" x 7" $595

Zika 1 red clay 10" x 5" x 4" $595

Zika 2 red clay 10" x 5" x 4" SOLD

On top of the world black clay 19" x 2" x 2" $595

I feel good today black clay 14" x 4" x 2" $595

Inrinav black clay 9" x 5" x 5" $595

Dana Sitting 3 black clay 5" x 4" x 2.5" $395

Emma Reclining 1 red clay 4" x 12" x 6" $595

Taryn 1 red clay 3.5" x 9" x 4" $595

Emma Reclining 2 red clay 4" x 15" x 5" $595

Taryn 2 red clay 4" x 12" x 4" $595

Sondra Schwetman On My Sleeve There two major bodies of work I generate; one is based on three-dimensional clothing construction, the other is allegorical figurative work. Both bodies of work display their own poetry – some connections intended, some not. I work with many materials such as: Forton MG resin, fibers, bronze, found object, etc.; and feel that possessing knowledge in as many mediums as possible is necessary so that one can achieve a “vision” that is a basis for communication. I desire to start a dialog about women’s issues, cultural change and contemporary miasma. These most current works address a variety of issues: war, witness to our current times and social upheaval. Works such as On My Sleeve are from my clothing based series. This particular piece addresses the emotional strain from the last few years, how we as a culture dealt with it and a little bit of Southern “tea-sip” culture thrown in for good measure.

website: email:

sondraschwetmanart.com sondraschwetmanart@gmail.com

EDUCATION 1995 1986

MFA, Sculpture and Metalsmithing, The University of Houston, Houston TX BFA, Art - Visual Communications, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX

RECENT EXHIBITIONS 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011

Composing the Future, Bankhead Theater, Livermore Valley Performing Arts Center, Livermore CA A Thousand Words, Core New Art Space, Lake Wood CO @CSU, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park CA Women in Art, Las Laguna Art Gallery, Laguna CA On Being, Sculptors Alliance, New York NY A Generous Kingdom,Verum Ultimum Art Gallery, Portland OR Madonna Play, Stichting White Cube Gallery, Alkmaar, the Netherlands Collectively Shifting, Bridgeport Art Center, Chicago IL 100% Vrouw (100% Female) Stichting White Cube Gallery, Alkmaar, the Netherlands EnGENDERing Change, National Exhibition, Cloyde Snook Art Gallery, Adams State University, Alamosa CO September Exhibition, Alexandria Museum, Alexandira LA (juror’s award) Decadence and Desire, Gallery 114, Portland OR Art Speaks: Lend Your Voice, Santa Monica Art Studios, Santa Monica CA Metamorphosis, Arc Gallery, San Francisco CA Underbelly, H Gallery, Ventura CA Vision: An Artist’s Perspective, Kaleid Gallery, San Jose CA Voices: An Artist’s Perspective, National Association of Women Artists, New York NY (in conjunction with Karen Gutfreund; Art and UniteWomen.org) Contemporary Women Artists XVII Reimagining Femmage, The Foundry Art Center, St. Louis MO Through the Eyes of the Mother in two parts: An Album for my Mother and Awakening Goddess, Baekryun Gallery, Seogu, Qwangju, South Korea Piante Gallery, Eureka CA Korean Cultural Center, Chicago IL Stories We Tell, Phoenix Gallery, Chelsea NY Paducah Arts Alliance NEA Exhibition, Yeiser Art Center, Paducah KY Summer National Juried Exhibition, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Novato CA (juror: George Rivera) Collector’s Choice, Sylvia White Gallery, Ventura CA Yellow, A.I.R. Studio, Paducah KY Pink, A.I.R. Gallery, Paducah KY Southern Vortices, Curtis Center Gallery, Murray State University, Murray KY Body, Figure, Nude, Lexington Art League, Lexington KY (juror: Anna Brzyski) National Juried Exhibition, The Arts & Culture Alliance, Knoxville TN (juror: Neely Hyde) Contemporary Women Artists XV – Art as Activism, Foundry Art Centre, St. Louis MO (juror Yolanda Lopez) Illuminance, Mythology and Weird Little Fetishes, Morris Graves Museum of Art, Eureka CA (solo) Art of Fiber, Workhouse Arts Center, Lorton VA (curator: Amy Lust) As They See It: Works by Contemporary Women Artists, Sacramento State University Library Gallery, Sacramento CA

On My Sleeve #1 tea stained linen, hand dyed silk, hoops and pins 8" x 8” $350

On My Sleeve #2 tea stained linen, hand dyed silk, hoops and pins 8" x 8” $350

On My Sleeve #3 tea stained linen, hand dyed silk, hoops and pins 8" x 8” $350

On My Sleeve #4 tea stained linen, hand dyed silk, hoops and pins 8" x 8” $350

On My Sleeve #5 tea stained linen, hand dyed silk, hoops and pins 8" x 8” $350

On My Sleeve #6 tea stained linen, hand dyed silk, hoops and pins 8" x 8” $350

On My Sleeve #7 tea stained linen, hand dyed silk, hoops and pins 8" x 8” $350

On My Sleeve #8 tea stained linen, hand dyed silk, hoops and pins 8" x 21” $350

On My Sleeve #9 tea stained linen, hand dyed silk, hoops and pins 8" x 8” $350

On My Sleeve #10 tea stained linen, hand dyed silk, hoops and pins 8" x 8” $350

On My Sleeve #11 tea stained linen, hand dyed silk, hoops and pins 8" x 8” $350

On My Sleeve #12 tea stained linen, hand dyed silk, hoops and pins 8" x 8” $350

On My Sleeve #13 tea stained linen, hand dyed silk, hoops and pins 8" x 8” $350

On My Sleeve #14 tea stained linen, hand dyed silk, hoops and pins 8" x 8” $350

On My Sleeve #15 tea stained linen, hand dyed silk, hoops and pins 8" x 8” $350

On My Sleeve #16 tea stained linen, hand dyed silk, hoops and pins 8" x 21” $350

Cindy Shih Perpetual Foreigner Perpetual Foreigners uses elements from traditional Chinese landscape painting by using nature as metaphor, and as a reflection of society and current affairs. In this series, sixteen plants native to Asia are juxtaposed with scenes in San Francisco and Oakland, calling into question their ecological impact, sense of belonging, and right to occupy space. Despite having been cultivated here for decades, these plants can be looked upon as intrusive, exotic, and perpetually foreign. The recent pandemic and politics have highlighted nativist tensions here and around the world. While bringing beauty, biodiversity, and significant contributions to the American landscape, these plants are quick to be seen as threatening or menacing. A stark reminder that while our roots may be in American soil, our place within the natural order is fragile, even in a place that we call home.

website: email:

www.cindyshihart.com cindy.h.shih@gmail.com

SELECT EXHIBITIONS 2021 Sowing Agency: Seeding the Future for Environmental Justice, SOMArts Cultural Center, San Francisco CA (juried AAWAA exhibition) 2020 Carpe Diem Solidaire, MonART, Paris, France (virtual group exhibition) Contributions: The Art of Giving and Receiving, Minnesota Street Project/Pacific Felt Factory, San Francisco CA (virtual pop-up exhibition) 2019 In Search For, Crescendo Gallery at Throckmorton, Mill Valley CA (solo) 2018 Wuji: Boundless, Infinite, Abend Gallery, Art of the Cube, Sugarcube Building, Denver CO (solo) Love. Being. Here. Now., San Francisco Zen Center, San Francisco CA (solo) Bay Area Women Artists, O'Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley CA (juror: Seager Gray Gallery) 48 Pillars, Arc Gallery, San Francisco CA Fauna, Abend Gallery, Denver CO 2017 Ecological Resilience, 10th Anniversary Show, Secession Art and Design, San Francisco CA Ocean of Memories, curated by Glass Garage Gallery and bG Gallery, Los Angeles CA Variance, Abend Gallery, Denver CO Flora and Fauna, Arc Gallery, San Francisco CA (juror: Suzanne Gray, Seager Gray Gallery) With Liberty and Justice for Some, Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles CA 2016 MFA Never 2016 Archive Project, Root Division, San Francisco CA (juried) 2015 Out of Storage, Studio 110 Projects, Sausalito CA (juried) 2014 A Place of Her Own, Asian American Women Artist Association, Seed Gallery, Thoreau Center for Sustainability, San Francisco CA Expand: 18th Annual New Generations Student Showcase, deYoung Museum, San Francisco CA (juried) 2013 Choice, NCWCA National Juried Exhibition, Arc Gallery, San Francisco CA (juror, Catherine Clark) Bold Expressions, b.Sagata Gallery, Sacramento Fine Arts Center, Carmichael, CA (juried) Shifting the Body, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica CA (juror, Pamela Ybanez) underCurrents & the Quest for Space, AAWAA National Juried Exhibition, SOMArts Main Gallery, San Francisco CA (jurors: Jay Xu, Asian Art Museum, Linda Inson Choy) AWARDS RESIDENCIES 2021 2019-20 2020 2018 2017 2016 2015

Villa SF x Lighthouse Immersive Artist in Residence at Immersive Van Gogh, San Francisco CA San Francisco Art Commission, Individual Artist Grant Recipient, San Francisco CA AAPI Civic Engagement Fund, Artist Grant Recipient, San Francisco CA Print Installation at San Francisco Airport Marriott Waterfront, Burlingame CA SF Open Studios Juror's Choice Award, SOMArts Main Gallery, San Francisco CA 2x2 Solo Show Nominee, Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland CA Top Ten ArtSpan Open Studios Artist, Juror's Choice, SOMArts Main Gallery, San Francisco CA Best in Show (Mixed Media), deYoung Museum, San Francisco CA

Perpertual Foreigner # 1 sumi-e ink & mixed media 6" x 8" oval $400

Perpertual Foreigner # 2 sumi-e ink & mixed media 6" x 8" oval $400

Perpertual Foreigner # 3 sumi-e ink & mixed media 6" x 8" oval $400

Perpertual Foreigner # 4 sumi-e ink & mixed media 6" x 8" oval $400

Perpertual Foreigner # 5 sumi-e ink & mixed media 6" x 8" oval SOLD

Perpertual Foreigner # 6 sumi-e ink & mixed media 6" x 8" oval $400

Perpertual Foreigner # 7 sumi-e ink & mixed media 6" x 8" oval $400

Perpertual Foreigner # 8 sumi-e ink & mixed media 6" x 8" oval $400

Perpertual Foreigner # 9 sumi-e ink & mixed media 6" x 8" oval SOLD

Perpertual Foreigner # 10 sumi-e ink & mixed media 6" x 8" oval $400

Perpertual Foreigner # 11 sumi-e ink & mixed media 6" x 8" oval $400

Perpertual Foreigner # 12 sumi-e ink & mixed media 6" x 8" oval $400

Perpertual Foreigner # 13 sumi-e ink & mixed media 6" x 8" oval $400

Perpertual Foreigner # 14 sumi-e ink & mixed media 6" x 8" oval $400

Perpertual Foreigner # 15 sumi-e ink & mixed media 6" x 8" oval $400

Perpertual Foreigner # 16 sumi-e ink & mixed media 6" x 8" oval $400

Allison Snopek Hippocrates' Menagerie Can you imagine living in the age when Hippocrates’ theory of Humorism explained our understanding of medicine and the human body? A balance of internal fluids called “the four humors” (blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile) were believed to affect our health and feelings, as well as our looks and actions. Each of the humors represented a particular state of being. If your humors were out of balance, your health and temperament were adversely affected. I was fascinated by Humorism when I first learned about Hippocrates many years ago, and I was artistically inspired by Humorism when I was invited to participate in this FourSquared exhibition. Each of the animals featured in Hippocrates’ Menagerie represents one of the four humors: BLOOD / Bats & Snakes: hot, wet, air, sanguine PHLEGM / Octopus & Arctic Fish: cold, wet, water, phlegmatic BLACK BILE / Owls & Snow Foxes: cold, dry, earth, melancholy YELLOW BILE / Armadillos & Lizards: hot, dry, fire, choleric If Hippocrates had a menagerie, I imagine that it would look something like this.

website: email:

www.allisonsnopek.com allison.snopek@gmail.com

ALLISON SNOPEK is an ever-evolving artist who recently moved from San Francisco to Portland, OR. She works mostly with oil paint on canvas, focusing on vibrant color experimentation while depicting figures and representational forms. In addition to this practice, she enjoys large-scale mural projects, sculpture, and community collaborations. EDUCATION 2008

BA Fine Arts, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis MN

SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014

48 Pillars, Arc Gallery, San Francisco CA LifeLive, Arc Gallery, San Francisco CA City Art Cooperative Gallery, San Francisco CA (July and August) City Art Cooperative Gallery, San Francisco CA (February, May, August, and October) Spring Spectrum, Hôtel Biron Wine Bar, San Francisco CA Breasts. An Art Exhibit of Form and Function. The Public Works, San Francisco CA SFOS Hub Exhibition,The Mill Cafe, San Francisco CA City Art Cooperative Gallery, San Francisco CA (March, August, and November) City Art Cooperative Gallery, San Francisco CA (March and October) City Art Cooperative Gallery, San Francisco CA (March, June, July, and September)

SOLO & DUO EXHIBITIONS 2017 2013 2010

Swich Café, San Francisco CA Secession Art & Design, San Francisco CA Room Gallery, San Rafael CA

OPEN STUDIOS 2013 2017

SF Open Studios at Asterisk Gallery, San Francisco CA SF Open Studios at Mission Creek Park Pavilion, San Francisco CA

ART AUCTIONS 2019 2018 2017

Global Fund for Women’s Art Live Lounge, The Great Northern, San Francisco CA Yes on Prop F! Benefit Art Show, Incline Gallery, San Francisco CA ArtSpan Benefit Art Auction, SOMArts Cultural Center, San Francisco CA

LIVE PAINTING/DRAWING PERFORMANCE 2019 2017 2017 2 2017 2016 2 2016 2015 2014

LifeLive: Live Drawing Event, Arc Gallery, San Francisco CA Daybreaker, SOMArts Cultural Center, San Francisco CA Blocks of Art Festival, San Francisco CA Poetry in Parks, Candlestick Point State Recreation Area, San Francisco CA Blocks of Art Festival, San Francisco CA Poetry in Parks, Mt.Tamalpais, Mill Valley CA NightLife Gallery Crawl, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco CA Artbeats, Pier 70, San Francisco, CA

MURAL PROJECTS 2018 2018 2015 2014 2010

ArtSpan Hickory Alley Mural (Project Director), San Francisco CA ArtSpan Salesforce Transit Center Murals (Project Director), San Francisco CA ArtSpan Birdsong Mural (Project Director), San Francisco CA Undercover Presents Paul Simon’s Graceland at Freight and Salvage, Berkeley CA Italian Street Painting Festival, Community Action Marin, San Rafael CA

TEACHING 2013-14 Teaching Artist, SF Arts Education, San Francisco CA 2013-14 Teaching Artist, Leap Arts in Education, San Francisco CA

Hippocrates' Menagerie # 1 oil on canvas 8" x 8" SOLD

Hippocrates' Menagerie # 2 oil on canvas 8" x 8" $395

Hippocrates' Menagerie # 3 oil on canvas 8" x 8" $395

Hippocrates' Menagerie # 4 oil on canvas 8" x 8" $395

Hippocrates' Menagerie # 5 oil on canvas 8" x 8" SOLD

Hippocrates' Menagerie # 6 oil on canvas 8" x 8" SOLD

Hippocrates' Menagerie # 7 oil on canvas 8" x 8" $395

Hippocrates' Menagerie # 8 oil on canvas 8" x 8" $395

Hippocrates' Menagerie # 9 oil on canvas 8" x 8" SOLD

Hippocrates' Menagerie # 10 oil on canvas 8" x 8" SOLD

Hippocrates' Menagerie # 11 oil on canvas 8" x 8" SOLD

Hippocrates' Menagerie # 12 oil on canvas 8" x 8" $395

Hippocrates' Menagerie # 13 oil on canvas 8" x 8" $395

Hippocrates' Menagerie # 14 oil on canvas 8" x 8" SOLD

Hippocrates' Menagerie # 15 oil on canvas 8" x 8" SOLD

Hippocrates' Menagerie # 16 oil on canvas 8" x 8" SOLD

Jenny Wantuch Hills + Bay San Francisco is famed for its picture-perfect scenery, but its industrial landscapes are equally compelling, though less familiar. While commuting via Caltrain from Brisbane’s Bayshore Station to SF’s 22nd Street Station, I became fascinated with the contrast between the geometry of the infrastructure—cylindrical storage tanks and rectangular shipping containers—and the organic topography of the natural environment. The resulting “Hills+Bay” paintings, enlarged still lifes placed within landscapes, are based on sketches made and photographs taken from the train, both stationary and moving, often from elevated vantage points. The area adjoining San Francisco Bay is rapidly changing, and the paintings can be seen as time capsules that capture the vibrant energy of San Francisco, as documentation viewed through a painterly sensibility. “The landscape paintings of Jenny ML Wantuch are quiet evocations of place that derive from Impressionism, Fauvism and Abstract Expressionism. Her work continues the Bay Area Figurative tradition, which synthesized traditional subject matter—figures, landscapes, still life—with painterly impulse and improvisation.” —DeWitt Cheng, “Jenny Wantuch: Sound of Water," July 13, 2020

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EDUCATION 2013 Cañada College, Redwood City,CA (Certificate, Multimedia Art & Technology) 2004-08 College of San Mateo, San Mateo CA (Studio Art and Art History) 1996 Uppsala University, Sweden (Bachelor of Science, Chemistry) RECENT SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2020 2019 2013 2009-10

Sound of Water, Avenue 12 Gallery, San Francisco CA Water Stories, Throckmorton Gallery, Mill Valley CA (catalogue) Landscape Paintings by Jenny Wantuch, Café Borrone, Menlo Park CA Pond Reflections, San Francisco Zen Center, San Francisco CA Ice Flowers, ArtTerra, San Francisco, California Ljuskälla- Swedish Landscapes, Glasbrukets Galleri Stockholm, Sweden

RECENT GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017

Water (Nordic5 Arts), Vesterheim Museum, Decorah IA Picture Windows, Live Worms Gallery, San Francisco CA Virtual Windows, Avenue 12 Gallery, San Francisco CA Women Rising, The Drawing Room Annex, San Francisco CA Women’s View, Caldwell Gallery, Redwood City CA Where the Journey Takes Us, Gualala Arts Center, Gualala CA 20-20 Vision, Far Out Gallery, San Francisco CA Tiny, STUDIO Gallery, San Francisco CA Nordic Light, Think Round Gallery, San Francisco CA 48 Pillars, Arc Gallery & Studios, San Francisco CA (catalogue) Movers & Shakers, The Drawing Room, San Francisco CA Allowance for Form, Guerrero Gallery, San Francisco CA Illuminate, Heron Arts, San Francisco CA Tiny, STUDIO Gallery, San Francisco, CA Road Maps, Gallery Route One, Point Reyes Station CA (juror: DeWitt Cheng) Nordic Voyage: A Sense of Place, Harrington Gallery, Firehouse Art Ctr, Pleasanton CA 50|50, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica CA (juror: Andres Guerrero) Retrospective 10, Inclusions Gallery, San Francisco CA Runes Revealed, Adobe Art Center, Castro Valley CA Open Air, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica CA By the Bay...Our San Francisco, Back to the Picture, San Francisco CA Vistas: Urban & Rural, Inclusions Gallery, San Francisco CA Local Terrain, San Ramon Valley Conference Center, San Ramon CA

SELECTED COLLECTIONS AND AWARDS 2020

First Place, Women’s View, Caldwell Gallery, Redwood City CA (juror: Rory Padeken, curator at San Jose Museum of Art) Two paintings in the permanent collection at CPMC Mission Bernal, Sutter Health, San Francisco CA

A Glimpse of the Bay oil on panel 8" x 8” $450

Hunter's Point Shipyard oil on panel 8" x 10” $450

Texas and 20th oil on panel 10" x 8” $450

India Basin oil on panel 8" x 10” SOLD

Candlestick Hill oil on panel 8" x 10” $450

STOP oil on panel 10" x 8” SOLD

Historic District at Pier 70 oil on panel 8" x 10” $450

San Bruno Mountains oil on panel 8" x 8” $450

Steep Hills and Sunshine oil on panel 8" x 10” SOLD

Potrero Point oil on panel 10" x 8” SOLD

Next Stop 22nd Street oil on panel 8" x 8” $450

Hills and the Bay oil on panel 8" x 10” $450

Leaving the Noonan Building oil on panel 8" x 10” $450

Islais Creek Channel oil on panel 8" x 8” $450

Bayshore oil on panel 10" x 8” $450

Warehouses at Pier 70 oil on canvas 8" x 10” $450

John Wood Strata My art is usually quite large—40 x 40 or 50 x 50 inches—but I also have a long history of working with small images. Once upon a time I started making a series of 5 x 5-inch pieces with the plan of creating 1,000 images, but of course I lost track somewhere along the way. Working on these 8.5 x 8-inch pieces, I’ve been reminded of the many small works of my life. Often a very small abstract painting can seem big. When looking at a small work our mind expands the image to be whatever size we imagine it to be. I really like this quality. I have found elements from my simple color block paintings as well as from my gestural abstract work, becoming the layers, the strata found here. Memories of formal training in abstract composition—work by Hoffmann, Albers, Held, Mondrian and others—crept into my subconscious while exploring how these elements have come together. For me, it is a completely intuitive process. Some of the layers are very subtle, almost undefined transitions from one to the next, while others display juxtapositions of bold color. They speak to one another, gaining strength while maintaining their individuality. I haven’t typically thought about my small pieces as “preliminary drawings” for larger work, but these have given me a chance to re-examine ideas from many older paintings of various styles. The combination and interaction of all these layers have brought to light exciting new directions and possibilities for future projects.

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EDUCATION 1974 1971

MFA-Painting, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills MI BFA-cum laude, University of Utah, Salt Lake City UT

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 2021 Besieged By Fire, Phillips Gallery, Salt Lake City UT 2020 Times Like These, Desta Gallery, Mill Valley CA Silver Anniversary, ArtHaus Gallery, San Francisco CA 2019 Traces: John Wood, Desta Gallery, San Anselmo CA Summertime, ArtHaus Gallery, San Francisco CA Art/ASPEN, Desta Gallery, Apen CO ArtMRKT San Francisco, ArtHaus Gallery, San Francisco CA 2018 New Work: John Wood, Phillips Gallery, Salt Lake City UT Impressions, Markings and More, Space Gallery, Denver CO Magnificent, Gray Loft Gallery, Oakland CA ArtMRKT San Francisco, ArtHaus Gallery, San Francisco CA Glow, Andra Norris Gallery, Burlingame CA 2017 Unintended Consequences, Space Gallery, Denver CO 555 California Street, ArtHaus/Casey & Associates, San Francisco CA ArtMRKT San Francisco, ArtHaus Gallery, San Francisco CA 48 Pillars, Arc Gallery, San Francisco CA 2016 ArtMRKT San Francisco, ArtHaus Gallery, San Francisco CA The Lake: John Wood, ArtHaus Gallery, San Francisco CA John Wood: Live Painting, Oakopolis Gallery, Oakland CA 2015 Look Again: John Wood, LuckyLo Gallery, Jack London Sq, Oakland CA Luster, Gallerie Citi, Burlingame CA Abstract Perfection, Arts Brookfield/ Space Gallery, Denver CO Nature’s Line, Space Gallery, Denver CO 2014 Two Boys at Play: John Wood, Ligne Roset San Francisco, San Francisco CA Large Vision / Small Work, 555 California Street Concourse, San Francisco CA Considering Orange: John Wood, Morris Graves Museum of Art, Eureka CA 2013 John Wood, Avenue 64 Gallery, Emeryville CA 2012 Drawn From Life: John Wood, Montclair Gallery, Oakland CA Focus on the Figure, Pence Gallery, Davis CA 2011 Considering Eden: John Wood, Space Gallery, Denver CO 2010 John Wood at SFMOMA Caffé Museo, SFMOMA, San Francisco CA 2009 John Wood, Hyde Street Gallery, San Francisco CA SELECT RECOGNITIONS

Governor’s Collection, Governor’s Mansion, Salt Lake City UT Purchase Prize, Permanent Collection of the City of Emeryville, Emeryville CA Permanent Fine Art Collection of the State Of Utah, Salt Lake City UT Artist Residency, Jentel Foundation, Banner WY Review Panel, Syracuse Univerity School of Architecture, Syracuse NY Artist Residency, Eastman Lane Studios, Petaluma CA Artist Residency, Oakopolis Creativity Center, Oakland CA Artist Residency, Morris Graves Foundation, Loleta CA Ambassador’s Residence, US Embassy, Zagreb, Croatia Permanent Collection of Salt Lake County, Sale Lake City UT Wood On Hyde, Kenneth Baker review, San Francsco Chronicle Interplay, Maria Medua review, ArtBusiness.com

Strata No. 1 mixed media on paper, mounted on panel 8.5" x 8" $595

Strata No. 2 mixed media on paper, mounted on panel 8.5" x 8" $595

Strata No. 3 mixed media on paper, mounted on panel 8.5" x 8" $595

Strata No. 4 mixed media on paper, mounted on panel 8.5" x 8" $595

Strata No. 5 mixed media on paper, mounted on panel 8.5" x 8" SOLD

Strata No. 6 mixed media on paper, mounted on panel 8.5" x 8" $595

Strata No. 7 mixed media on paper, mounted on panel 8.5" x 8" SOLD

Strata No. 8 mixed media on paper, mounted on panel 8.5" x 8" $595

Strata No. 9 mixed media on paper, mounted on panel 8.5" x 8" $595

Strata No. 10 mixed media on paper, mounted on panel 8.5" x 8" $595

Strata No. 11 mixed media on paper, mounted on panel 8.5" x 8" $595

Strata No. 12 mixed media on paper, mounted on panel 8.5" x 8" SOLD

Strata No. 13 mixed media on paper, mounted on panel 8.5" x 8" SOLD

Strata No. 14 mixed media on paper, mounted on panel 8.5" x 8" $595

Strata No. 15 mixed media on paper, mounted on panel 8.5" x 8" $595

Strata No. 16 mixed media on paper, mounted on panel 8.5" x 8" $595

Fumiyo Yoshikawa Every Life Matters It has been almost 40 years since I started painting with ink and brush, a practice that continually inspires and sustains me. This series drew inspiration from “Choujugiga / Animals Caricature” scrolls created in the Fujiwara period (12th & 13th centuries). They are also called “The Scrolls of Frolicking Animals.” Lively and expressive, the set of four scrolls were all executed almost solely in ink brush line, with little or no shades or colors. I was particularly drawn to the first scroll where various animals such as flogs, rabbits, monkeys and foxes are shown playing games and simulating human rituals. This comical and humorous scroll which parodies human hierarchy and discrimination, is both timely and timeless. With recent tragedies, police assaults on Black Americans, attacks on Asian Americans, plus many more examples of man's inhumanity to man, I wonder how and why we don’t make the world where all living things can coexist without confronting each other. I painted various animals with a sense of the seasons and a hint of Shinto and Zen: big ones, small ones; prey and predator; popular or unpopular ones - everyone with equal affection, dreaming about a peaceful world where every living thing enjoys life equally and respects one another.

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EDUCATION 1987-88 Studied Nihonga Japanese painting under Ikeda Yoson (lineage of Takeuchi Seihou and Shijou Maruyama School) 1987 BA, Kyoto University of Education, Kyoto Japan SOLO EXHIBITION 2020 2019 2011 2003 2001

Contemplation in Ink, California Institute of Integral Study, San Francisco CA Organic Mind, Gallery Hillgate, Kyoto, Japan A Child's World, Western Colorado Center for the Art, Grand Junction CO Fumiyo Yoshikawa Solo Exhibition/ El Mundo Fantastico, Collegio de Santo Tomas Akino, Antigua, Guatemala Fumiyo Yoshikawa Solo Exhibition, Art Gallery Shiki, Teramachi Sanjo, Kyoto, Japan Fumiyo Yoshikawa Solo Exhibition, Art Gallery Mouri, Ginza, Tokyo, Japan

JURIED EXHIBITION 2013-20 1991 1989-93 1990 1988 1987-95 1985 1985

The 50th - 57th Sumi-e Society of America Juried Exhibition Kyoto Shinbun Japanese Painting Grand-Prix Exhibition, The Museum of Kyoto, Kyoto Japan The Spring Japan Fine Arts Exhibition, Sogo Art Gallery, Tokyo Japan The Spring Japan Fine Arts Exhibition, Takashimaya Art Gallery, Osaka Japan Central Museum Japanese Painting Grand-Prix Exhibition, Tokyo Central Museum, Tokyo, Japan Uenonomari Japanese Painting Grand-prix Exhibition, Uenonomori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan Central Museum Japanese Painting Grand-Prix Exhibition, Tokyo Central Museum, Tokyo, Japan The Japan Fine Arts Exhibition, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan The Japan Fine Arts Exhibition, Kyoto Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan Kansai Region Art Exhibition, Tennouji Art Museum, Osaka, Japan Kyoto Art Exhibition, Kyoto Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan

GROUP EXHIBITION 2018 2014 2013 2004 2000-01 1998-99 1987-91 1993-97

Mirang Wonne + Fumiyo Yoshikawa, SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco CA The Way of the Brush, Ren Brown Collection, Bodega Bay CA The Kyoto Nihonga Association Selected Exhibition, The Museum of Kyoto, Kyoto , Japan Issho / Together: Japanese American /Japanese National Artists in America 1941-present, Meridian Gallery, San Francisco CA The Kyoto Nihonga Association Selected Exhibition, The Museum of Kyoto, Kyoto , Japan Ko no Kagayaki, Hankyu Art Gallery, Kobe, Japan The Kyoto Nihonga Association Selected Exhibition, The Museum of Kyoto, Kyoto , Japan The Selected Seitousha Exhibition "Kimaira", Tokyu Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan The Selected Seitousha Exhibition "Kimaira", Daimaru Art Gallery, Kyoto , Japan

AWARDS 2016 2015 2014 2001 1990 1989 1989 1987

Tesshin Sasaki Memorial Award at " 53rd Sumi-e Society of America Juried Exhibition" Sumi-e Award at " 52nd Sumi-e Society of America Juried Exhibition" Calligraphy Award at" 51st Sumi-e Society of America Juried Exhibition" The Excellent Encouragement Award at the Spring Japan Fine Arts Exhibition The Excellent Encouragement Award at the Spring Japan Fine Arts Exhibition The Excellent Encouragement Award at the Spring Japan Fine Arts Exhibition Kyoto Broadcasting Award at The Kyoto Nihonga Association Selected Exhibition Mayor of Kyoto Award at "Seitosha Exhibition"

ASSOCIATIONS 2016-19 Board member of Sumi-e Society of America, Inc 1987- Member of Kyoto Japanese Painting Association

Every Life Matters 4 - Buddha Nature of a Dog