August 23 - September 20, 2014
Curator’s Statement
FourSquared V 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 $500. The exhibition is a reflection of the co-curators’ strong and abiding interest in local, affordable art represented here by some of our most talented local artists. Curators: Michael Yochum is the author of SF Art News, which maintains an exhaustive list of art events and openings in San Francisco. Matthew Frederick is founder of Art Farm, an artist collective in the Mission, where he maintains his studio. Michael and Matthew are co-founders of Arc Gallery & Studios, along with Stephen C. Wagner and Priscilla Otani.
Catalog designed by Michael Yochum Logo image by Mitchell Confer Arc Gallery © 2014
Featured Artists
John Arbuckle Lisa Congdon Monica & Robin Denevan
Rebecca Fox
Paul Gibson Joseph Kowalczyk Lisa Levine & Peter Tonnigsen
Saundra McPherson
Howard Munson Miwako Nishizawa Sawyer Rose Tim Svenonius Kirsten Tradowsky Truong Tran Heather Wilcoxin Jan Wurm
OPENING RECEPTION: Saturday, August 23rd, 7-10PM ARTIST TALK & BRUNCH CLOSING RECEPTION: Saturday, September 20th, 11AM-3PM
FourSquared
August 23 - September 20, 2014
photography by John Arbuckle Š 2014
John Arbuckle The Meaning of Flowers The FourSquared exhibition has given me the opportunity to express the many symbols that flowers have represented for centuries in 16 paintings. Throughout time flowers have had a significant meaning spiritually and emotionally to all cultures. With watercolor and gouache in a realist style, I’ve chosen to paint passion, purity, joy, hope, love, wisdom, innocence and more. Through this series, I hope bring the optimistic human experience alive.
Hunter’s Point Shipyard Building 101, Studio 2106 San Francisco, CA 94124 415-819-3202
john@johnarbuckle.com
www.johnarbuckle.com
EDUCATION: 1971-76 BFA painting, printmaking, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY 1971 New York School of Visual Arts, New York, NY SELECTED EXHIBITIONS: 2014 2113 2011 2010 2008 2006 2004 2003
FourSquared, Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA Solo Exhibition, The Sequoias, San Francisco, CA Two Artists, St. Paul’s Towers, Oakland, CA Still Life, University of San Francisco School of Law, CA (two artist exhibition) Contemporary Still Lifes, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA Delicious, Donna Seager Gallery, San Rafael, CA Realism, Prudential California Realty, Sausalito, CA Good Enough To Eat, CFA Gallery, San Anselmo, CA Still Life, 1870 Design Group, San Francisco, CA Christopher Clark Fine Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA
SELECTED PUBLIC AND CORPORATE COLLECTIONS: Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY Citibank, Walnut Creek, CA Erickson, Beasley & Hewitt Law Firm, San Francisco, CA Exxon Corporation, New York, NY Kaiser Permanente, San Francisco, San Jose, & Santa Clara, CA Lloyds of London, San Francisco, CA Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY Wells Fargo Bank, San Francisco, CA Nordstrom, San Francisco, CA PRIVATE COMMISSONS: 2008 2008 2008 2007 2006 2006 2005 2005 2005
Karen Raab, Chemers Gallery, Tustin, CA Marilyn Maslov, Walnut Creek, CA Dr. Richard Ostreicher, Oakland, CA Randy & Rebecca Wolf of Walters & Wolf inc, Hollister, CA Matt Belmont, San Francisco, CA Dr. Richard Ostreicher, Oakland, CA Joe McCarthy of McCarthy Farms, Los Gatos, CA Dr. Neal Shorstein, San Francisco, CA Dr. Richard Ostriecher, Montclair, CA
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY: Photo, “Persimmon with Leaves”, The Oxford American magazine, April, 2008, pg 31 Cover, U.S., Art Gallery Magazine, May, 2002 Sara Gilbert, 25 Artists You Should Know, U.S. Art Gallery Magazine, May, 2002 pg 27 Anita Amirrezani, Anatomy Illustrates Range of Print Medium, Santa Clara Times, April 24, 1997, pg. F1 - F2 Photo “Pears”, watercolor, Sunday San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle Datebook, Sept. 29,1996 pg.23 Photo, “Artichoke”, lithograph, Sunday San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle Datebook, April 20.1997 pg.20
John Arbuckle
Commitment Watercolor & Gouache 7” x 7” $495
Delight Watercolor & Gouache 7” x 7” $495
Devotion Watercolor & Gouache 7” x 7” $495
Divine Watercolor & Gouache 7” x 7” $495
John Arbuckle
Elegance Watercolor & Gouache 7” x 7” $495
Enlightenment Watercolor & Gouache 7” x 7” $495
Fantasy Watercolor & Gouache 7” x 7” $495
Gratitude Watercolor & Gouache 7” x 7” $495
John Arbuckle
Hope Watercolor & Gouache 7” x 7” $495
Innocence Watercolor & Gouache 7” x 7” $495
Joy Watercolor & Gouache 7” x 7” $495
Love & Joy Watercolor & Gouache 7” x 7” $495
John Arbuckle
Passion Watercolor & Gouache 7” x 7” $495
Purity Watercolor & Gouache 7” x 7” $495
Splendor Watercolor & Gouache 7” x 7” $495
Wisdom Watercolor & Gouache 7” x 7” $495
Lisa Congdon Planet Hunters 1 I am an artist who is has always been interested in the shapes of the things I paint and the relationship of those shapes to other shapes and to the negative space on the canvas. This collection of small abstract paintings explores tension in space. In literal “outer space� fiery balls play with and against each other to create energy and movement through gravitational pull. Regularly planets blow up because they cannot handle the pull of their suns. The planet PH1 (an acryonym for Planet Hunters 1) is an exception. It has so many different gravitational pulls swirling around it that scientists are still amazed it hasn’t imploded. PH1 is helping scientists understand how planets form and find stable orbits even in hostile environments. This series of sixteen small paintings is my own attempt to create dynamic and stable energy in space.
lisacongdon@gmail.com
http://lisacongdon.com/
BORN: EDUCATION:
January 17. 1968, Niskayuna, NY Bachelor of Arts, History, Saint Mary’s College, 1990
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS: 2014: 2012: 2011: 2010 2009: 2008
Marion & Rose’s Workshop, Oakland, CA Poketo Flagship Store, Los Angeles, CA Rare Device, San Francisco, CA Land Gallery, Portland, OR Assemble Gallery, Seattle, WA Gallery Hijinks, San Francisco, CA Artstream Gallery, New Hampshire Bell Jar Gallery, San Francisco Paperboat Gallery, Milwaukee, WI Swallowtail, San Francisco
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS: 2014: 2013: 2012: 2011: 2010: 2009: 2008
The Patti Smith Show, Wild Goose Gallery, Columbus, OH The Neon Show, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA Do Not Destroy, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco The Abstract Fiction Show, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee Biennial Show, Michael Rosenthal Fine Art, San Francisco The Letter Collector, Gallery Hijinks, San Francisco Inaugural Exhibition, Gallery Hijinks, San Francisco Breaking the Spine, Rare Device, San Francisco Enormous Tiny Art Show, Living Room Gallery, Los Angeles Anniversary Show, Bell Jar, San Francisco Verbatim, Nahcotta Gallery, New Hampshire Family Quilt Two, Together Gallery, Portland, OR Bonfire Show, Uppercase Gallery, Ontario, Canada You’ve Got Light in Your Eyes, Needles and Pens, San Francisco Art for Obama, Democratic National Convention, Denver, CO Old School, Uppercase Gallery, Ontario, Canada Pigmentary Portraits, Artstream Gallery, New Hampshire
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS: 2011
Author, Art Inc, Chronicle Books, 2014 Author/Artist, Whatever You Are, Be a Good One, Chronicle Books, Author/Artist, A Collection a Day, Uppercase Publishing,
PH1 # 1 Acrylic, Ink and Gold Leaf on Wood 4” x 4” $150
PH1 # 2 Acrylic, Ink and Gold Leaf on Wood 4” x 4” $150
PH1 # 3 Acrylic, Ink and Gold Leaf on Wood 4” x 4” $150
PH1 # 4 Acrylic, Ink and Gold Leaf on Wood 4” x 4” $150
Lisa Congdon
PH1 # 5 Acrylic, Ink and Gold Leaf on Wood 4” x 4” $150
PH1 # 6 Acrylic, Ink and Gold Leaf on Wood 4” x 4” $150
PH1 # 7 Acrylic, Ink and Gold Leaf on Wood 4” x 4” $150
PH1 # 8 Acrylic, Ink and Gold Leaf on Wood 4” x 4” $150
Lisa Congdon
PH1 # 9 Acrylic, Ink and Gold Leaf on Wood 4” x 4” $150
PH1 # 10 Acrylic, Ink and Gold Leaf on Wood 4” x 4” $150
PH1 #11 Acrylic, Ink and Gold Leaf on Wood 4” x 4” $150
PH1 # 12 Acrylic, Ink and Gold Leaf on Wood 4” x 4” $150
Lisa Congdon
PH1 # 13 Acrylic, Ink and Gold Leaf on Wood 4” x 4” $150
PH1 # 14 Acrylic, Ink and Gold Leaf on Wood 4” x 4” $150
PH1 # 15 Acrylic, Ink and Gold Leaf on Wood 4” x 4” $150
PH1 # 16 Acrylic, Ink and Gold Leaf on Wood 4” x 4” $150
Lisa Congdon
Monica and Robin Denevan Body and Steel Body and Steel is a collaboration between painter Robin Denevan, known for his luminous, encaustic landscapes and photographer Monica Denevan, whose black and white prints of Burma and China have been exhibited internationally. The theme of this project is The Elusive Figure. Using Monica’s diverse negatives of dancers from SF Ballet, fitness instructors, and fishermen from Burma, this series celebrates the universal quality of the strong, expressive figure. These one of-a-kind, non-digital pieces use light-sensitive emulsion and traditional darkroom processes, and are printed into 20 gage, etched steel with incredible effect. Robin prepares and distresses the metal, and applies nuanced glazes of oil to accentuate the timeless nature of the subject. The plates are coated with resin to protect the surface and transform the image into a tangible object: part painting, part photograph, part sculpture. All sixteen works are mounted magnetically and can be interchanged. Monica Denevan www.monicadenevan.com monicadenevan@gmail.com 415-948-4675 Gallery Representation: Scott Nichols Gallery Tao Evolution Gallery Capital Culture Gallery 49 Geary Street, 4th Floor 12 Circular Pathway, Sheung Wan 66 Great Suffolk Street San Francisco, CA 94108 Hong Kong London 415.788.4641 +852 2805 1112 020 32682184 info@scottnicholsgallery.com tao@minickjiaodesign.com info@capitalculture.eu Robin Denevan www.robindenevan.com rdenevan@gmail.com 415-550-1965 Gallery Representation: Patricia Rovzar Gallery Addington Gallery 1225 2nd Ave, 704 N Wells St. Seattle, WA 98101 Chicago, IL 60654 (206) 223-0273 (312) 664-3406 Joint Studio Hunters Point Shipyard Building 116, Studio 2 San Francisco, CA
MONICA DENEVAN EDUCATION BA, Photography, San Francisco State University RECENT SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2011 Songs of the River: Portraits from Burma , Scott Nichols Gallery , San Francisco CA Through A Burmese Window, Tao gallery, Hong Kong Photographs from Burma and China, Angkor Hospital for Children, Cambodia 2010 Songs of the River: Portraits from Burma , Duncan Miller Gallery , Los Angeles CA Burma, San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco CA RECENT GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2014 FourSquared V, Arc Gallery, San Francisco CA Women’s Exhibition , Scott Nichols Gallery , San Francisco CA Burma , Scott Nichols Gallery , San Francisco CA Serindia Gallery ANNEX, Bangkok The Perimeter of the World, Rayko, San Francisco The Summer Show Scott Nichols Gallery, San Francisco 2013 FourSquared IV, Arc Gallery, San Francisco CA No Strangers, Annenberg Space for Photography, Slideshow Event, Los Angeles Critical Mass Top 50, Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach ROBIN DENEVAN EDUCATION
B.F.A. with Distinction, Painting, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
RECENT SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008
Riverscapes, Addington Gallery, Chicago, IL Horizons, Patricia Rovzar Gallery, Seattle, WA New Encaustics, Addington Gallery, Chicago, IL Aluminum and Encaustic, Addington Gallery, Chicago, IL River Perspectives, Addington Gallery, Chicago, IL Julie Nester Gallery, Park City, UT Notes from the Yangtze, Addington Gallery, Chicago, IL
RECENT GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2014 2013
FourSquared V, Arc Gallery, San Francisco CA Modern Landscape, Slate, Oakland, CA Material Witness Addington Gallery, Chicago, CA FourSquared IV, Arc Gallery, San Francisco CA Working with Wax, Santa Rosa College, Santa Rosa, CA 2010
Against the Current Photo Emulsion and Oil on Steel 10” x 10” $495
Anchor Photo Emulsion and Oil on Steel 10” x 10” $495
Arch Photo Emulsion and Oil on Steel 10” x 10” $495
Balance Photo Emulsion and Oil on Steel 10” x 10” $495
Monica & Robin Denevan
Ballerina Photo Emulsion and Oil on Steel 10” x 10” $495
Circle and Stripes Photo Emulsion and Oil on Steel 10” x 10” $495
Equilibrium Photo Emulsion and Oil on Steel 10” x 10” $495
Layback Photo Emulsion and Oil on Steel 10” x 10” $495
Monica & Robin Denevan
Lift Photo Emulsion and Oil on Steel 10” x 10” $495
Matador Photo Emulsion and Oil on Steel 10” x 10” $495
Phllip Photo Emulsion and Oil on Steel 10” x 10” $495
Poolside Photo Emulsion and Oil on Steel 10” x 10” $495
Monica & Robin Denevan
Suspended Photo Emulsion and Oil on Steel 10” x 10” $495
Sweet Photo Emulsion and Oil on Steel 10” x 10” $495
Tutu Photo Emulsion and Oil on Steel 10” x 10” $495
Vigilant Photo Emulsion and Oil on Steel 10” x 10” $495
Monica & Robin Denevan
Rebecca Fox Surface Studies This series is an exploration of textures and repeated shapes and patterns that are slightly skewed and altered from one micro study to the next. My goal was to create a cohesive series where each piece stands on its own, but overall has a sense of unity and connection to the other pieces. At first glance, the viewer can identify the connections between the sixteen pieces because of the material, the shape, and how one piece plays off the other, with the carefully repeated patterns and forms. Then, the pieces invite the viewer to come closer, to really examine and inspect all the little intricacies involved. The circle, which can be found in most of my work, suggests thoughts of continuity and continuousness. In my work I push boundaries of the material by changing how metal is typically viewed as a hard heavy material and translate it into a lighter more delicate appearing material.
Islais Creek Studios 1 Rankin Street San Francisco, CA 94124 (415) 682-7511 rebecca@rebeccafox.com www.rebeccafox.com
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008
Color and Contrast, Harrington Gallery, Pleasanton, CA Squared Alumni, Arc Studios & Gallery, San Francisco, CA Artists Warehouse Sale, SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA Davies After Hours, Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco, CA 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 Sculpture in the Garden, Mendocino Coast Botanical Garden, Fort Bragg, CA Geometry x3, The Atrium Gallery, San Francisco, CA Pacific Rim Sculpture, The Carl Cherry Center for the Arts, Carmel, CA
PUBLIC ART 2009
Hearts in San Francisco, a public art project benefiting San Francisco General Hospital.
AWARDS 2010 2007
Received First Place in the 3-Dimensional category at the ArtSpan Benefit Art Show and Auction, SOMArts Gallery, San Francisco, CA Received First Place in the International Juried Exhibition, The Look of Love, Art Object Gallery, San Jose, CA
COLLECTIONS
Stanford Hospital & Clinics, Palo Alto, CA Aurelian Marketing Group, Las Vegas, NV Over 150 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
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
Surface Studies 1 Welded Steel, Patina, Lacquer 3.5” x 3.5” $425
Surface Studies 2 Welded Steel, Patina, Lacquer 3.5” x 3.5” $425
Surface Studies 3 Welded Steel, Patina, Lacquer 3.5” x 3.5” $425
Surface Studies 4 Welded Steel, Patina, Lacquer 3.5” x 3.5” $425
Rebecca Fox
Surface Studies 5 Welded Steel, Patina, Lacquer 3.5” x 3.5” $425
Surface Studies 6 Welded Steel, Patina, Lacquer 3.5” x 3.5” $425
Surface Studies 7 Welded Steel, Patina, Lacquer 3.5” x 3.5” $425
Surface Studies 8 Welded Steel, Patina, Lacquer 3.5” x 3.5” $425
Rebecca Fox
Surface Studies 9 Welded Steel, Patina, Lacquer 3.5” x 3.5” $425
Surface Studies 10 Welded Steel, Patina, Lacquer 3.5” x 3.5” $425
Surface Studies 11 Welded Steel, Patina, Lacquer 3.5” x 3.5” $425
Surface Studies 12 Welded Steel, Patina, Lacquer 3.5” x 3.5” $425
Rebecca Fox
Surface Studies 13 Welded Steel, Patina, Lacquer 3.5” x 3.5” $425
Surface Studies 14 Welded Steel, Patina, Lacquer 3.5” x 3.5” $425
Surface Studies 15 Welded Steel, Patina, Lacquer 3.5” x 3.5” $425
Surface Studies 16 Welded Steel, Patina, Lacquer 3.5” x 3.5” $425
Rebecca Fox
Paul Gibson Script Skrip: a style with cursive characters, the language of cursive Love, Wonder, Freedom, Peace I continue to use spatial ambiguity, “having the nature of space” with “Script” handwriting, the element, cord/wire, electric cord with a specific flow, using colors, Cad Orange, Cad Yellow, Cobalt Teal and Dioxazine Purple enables me to use the picture plane with the script element to create the desire ambiguity in each panel. The viewer can participant in each work by interpreting the language they see in each work, be it one purple panel or the continuous flow of all.
Hunters Point Shipyard Building 101, Studio 2121 San Francisco, CA (415) 822-8087 psgibson4@aol.com http://www.pdgartist.com/
EDUCATION 1987 1984 1980
National Academy Of Design New York, NY Center College Of Design, Pasadena CA BFA California Polytechnic State University,, San Luis Obispo, CA Architecture
SELECT SOLO & 2-PERSON EXHIBITIONS 2012 Axion Gallery, Santa Monica , CA 2008 Andrea Schwartz Gallery , San Francisco CA 77 Van Ness Ave, San Francisco, CA 2004 Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco CA 505 Sansome Street, San Francisco CA 2001 Andrea Schwartz Gallery San Francisco CA 1999 Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco CA 1998 Debra Owens Gallery, San Diego CA
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2014 San Jose Institute Of Contemporary Art, San Jose CA FourSquared , Arc Gallery, San Francisco CA Art For Aids, San Francisco CA Melissa Morgan Fine Art, Palm Desert, CA San Jose Institute Of Contemporary Art, San Jose CA 2013 Los Angeles Fine Art Fair , Los Angeles, CA FourSquared , Arc Gallery, San Francisco CA Melissa Morgan Fine Art, Palm Desert, CA Art For Aids, San Francisco CA 2012 LifeLive , Arc Gallery, San Francisco CA George Krevsky Gallery, San Francisco CA Artmkt, San Francisco CA Bau=y Area Stars, Melissa Morgan Fine Art, Palm Desert, CA Art For Aids, San Francisco CA SELECT CORPORATE COLLECTIONS Adobe Systems Incorporated, Mountian View, CA Nordstrom Inc., Seattle WA Vmware Palo Alto, CA Cisco Systems, Inc. San Jose, CA Mcguire Real Estate San Francisco, CA GT Global, San Francisco, CA Schilling Inc. The National Building Museum, The Hechinger Collection Washington, DC. The San Francisco Firemen Union San Jose County Hospital, San Jose, CA El Camino Hospital Mountain View CA Marriott Hotels Inhale Therapeutics, Inc. Achenbach Collection, San Francisco Fine Arts Museums
Paul Gibson
CB 1 Acrylic on Wood 8” x 10” $495
CB 2 Acrylic on Wood 8” x 10” $495
CB 3 Acrylic on Wood 8” x 10” $495
CB 4 Acrylic on Wood 8” x 10” $495
Paul Gibson
DP 1 Acrylic on Wood 8” x 10” $495
DP 2 Acrylic on Wood 8” x 10” $495
DP 3 Acrylic on Wood 8” x 10” $495
DP 4 Acrylic on Wood 8” x 10” $495
Paul Gibson
O1 Acrylic on Wood 8” x 10” $495
O2 Acrylic on Wood 8” x 10” $495
O3 Acrylic on Wood 8” x 10” $495
O4 Acrylic on Wood 8” x 10” $495
Paul Gibson
Y1 Acrylic on Wood 8” x 10” $495
Y2 Acrylic on Wood 8” x 10” $495
Y3 Acrylic on Wood 8” x 10” $495
Y4 Acrylic on Wood 8” x 10” $495
Joseph Kowalczyk Beside the Mask We Make When I was a child around the age of 6 or so, I remember one day my father began repainting the interior walls of our home. Upon starting my room with paint roller in hand, he jokingly painted a great big smiley face on my wall… directly over my bed. It terrified me! I’m not sure why it scared me so much. The smiley face had no personality, no portrayal of maliciousness; it was just two rectangles above a simple smile. After seeing how I felt, my father immediately painted over it, but STILL I was scared. I knew that although the face was covered, that giant smile was still there, hiding underneath this new layer of paint. Over 20 years later I still remember the event vividly, and I find it fascinating. The fear obviously wasn’t based on any legitimate threat. The fear was completely inside my head. I can’t help but to consider the fears I hold today and how they might influence my decisions. It brings me to question, which fears are legitimate, and which ones are just smiley faces. And furthermore, how did they get there?” “Wearing a mask to impress others. - If the face you always show the world is a mask, someday there will be nothing beneath it. Because if you spend too much time focusing on other people’s perception of you, or who everyone else expects you to be, you can eventually forget who you really are. So don’t fear the judgments of others; you don’t have to be perfect to impress and inspire people. Strive to be who you are and what’s true to you. We all have imperfections; inspiration and awe will come from how you deal with those flaws.” 30 May, 2014, “The Mind Unleashed” FM Studios 483 25th Street Oakland, CA. 94612 510-601-5053 studiojoko@gmail.com http://www.joko.us
EDUCATION 2006
California College of Art, San Francisco CA
SELECT SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2014 2012 2007 2006
New Ceramic Work, Roscoe Gallery, Oakland, CA. Millions of Colors in the Shadow, Anno Domini, San Jose, CA. Savior, Scarecrow, and Spirit of Ancient Past, FM, Oakland, CA. The Art of JoKo, Abundant Art Planet, Oakland, CA. Beside the Mask I Make, CCA - South Gallery, Oakland, CA.
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2014 2013 2012 2011
Figuratively Speaking, SMAart Gallery, San Francisco, CA. ÉMOI, NTROPIC, San Francisco, CA. ACGA SMAart Invitational, SMAart Gallery, San Francisco, CA. Red Hot Chili Water, Studio Quercus, Oakland, CA. The Compendium of Craft, Art Attack SF, San Francisco, CA. Figurative Forms, ECHO Gallery, Calistoga, CA. Mythos, Warehouse 416, Oakland, CA. Imaginarium, Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA. Plate and Totem Encore Show, Alpha Fired Arts Gallery, Sacramento, CA. 3rd Totems & Plates: Ceramics Invitational & Competition, Blue Line Gallery Roseville, CA. Samplings Oakland Art, MUA, Oakland, CA. Figures in Clay, Skyline College Art Gallery, San Bruno, CA. The Big Hurt“, Classic Cars West, Oakland, CA. Stand Tall Pt.III, Old Crow Gallery, Oakland, CA. Creatures, ECHO Gallery, Calistoga, CA. What is a Rabbit, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA. Totems & Plates 2012, Blue Line Gallery, Roseville, CA. 23rd Annual California Clay Competition, The Artery, Davis, CA. Día de los Muertos, Studio One Art Center, Oakland, CA. Display of Skulls Osceola Gallery, Emeryville, CA. Ceramics Annual of America 2011, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA. Urban Genuine, American Steel Studios, Oakland, CA. The Monster Show, Basement Gallery, Oakland, CA. Outside In, Creative Growth Art Center, Oakland, CA. Totems & Plates, Ceramics Invitational & Competition curated by Tony Natsoulas, Blue Line Gallery, Roseville, CA.
RECENT AWARDS, ACCOMPLICHMENTS, & HONORS 2012 2011
Pat & Gene Hill Award for Excellence in Hand Building, 23rd Annual California Clay Competition 2012 Exhibit Accepted as exhibiting member into the Association of Clay and Glass Artists of California
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS 2014 Smith, Nan. 500 Figures in Clay: vol. 2 New York, NY. Lark Books, 2014 2013 Eclectix Online Interview 40: Joe Kowalczyk eclectix.com/joe-kowalczyk-40 2011 CCA Notable Alumni: Ceramicist & FM co-founder Joe Kowalczyk https://www.cca.edu/news/2012/11/26/notable-alumni
Cause and Effect Wood Fired, Glazed Stoneware, Acrylic 6.5” x 5” x 8” $425
Clutching Wood Fired, Glazed Stoneware, Acrylic, Wood 9” x 10” x 5” $425
Follow the Howl Glazed Stoneware, Acrylic, Epoxy 9.5” x 6” x 6” $425
Hooded Head #1 Glazed Stoneware, Acrylic 8” x 6” x 7” $425
Joe Kowalczyk
Hooded Head #2 Glazed Stoneware, Acrylic 10” x 5” x 5.5” $425
Hooded Head #3 Glazed Stoneware, Acrylic 11” x 5” x 7.5” $425
Hooded Head #4 Glazed Stoneware, Wood, Acrylic 10” x 6” x 7” $425
In the Mind Glazed Stoneware, Acrylic 10” x 4” x 7” $425
Joe Kowalczyk
Masked Marauder #1 Glazed Stoneware, Wire, Acrylic 8” x 8” x 5” $425
Masked Marauder #2 Glazed Stoneware, Raku, Wire, Acrylic 11” x 6” x 7” $425
Masked Marauder #3 Glazed Stoneware, Wood, Acrylic 8” x 6” x 5” $425
Masked Marauder #4 Glazed Stoneware, Acrylic 8” x 6” x 6” $425
Joe Kowalczyk
Out the Hand Glazed Stoneware, Acrylic 10” x 5” x 4.5” $425
Releasing Glazed Stoneware, Acrylic 9” x 10” x 6” $425
Shifting Roles #1 Glazed Stoneware, Acrylic 9” x 6” x 4” $425
Shifting Roles #2 Glazed Stoneware, Acrylic 8” x 6.5” x 5” $425
Joe Kowalczyk
Peter Tonningsen and Lisa Levine Counterpoint Drawing inspiration from a musical notion in which two voices that sound and move independently coalesce to create a more elaborate and harmonious music, Counterpoint is a collaborative photo-based project pushing the limitations of a singular vision towards a more fluid and complex perspective by interweaving two creative voices. This project is essentially a visual conversation intended to redefine the boundaries of authorship and the photographic document while creating a novel approach to defining landscape that moves beyond what either artist can do individually. Beginning with a single roll of film, one artist photographs various scenes throughout a specific landscape. The film is then rewound, exchanged with the other artist to duplicate this process, with this exchange repeated multiple times, eventually creating a surprising and complexly layered document of that place. The multiple exposed films are scanned in sections of consecutive frames, the artists digitally extract discrete scenes from these sections, and then those scenes are reworked to accentuate selected formal and contextual components. This unique synthesis between digital and analog technologies relies on the distinctive characteristics and possibilities of each, yet also unites them into an aesthetically imaginative and innovative form. Opposing the singularity and clarity of conventional direct photographic representation, and embracing the serendipitous wonder of this atypical process, the resulting photographs are visually rich and highly complex compositions that describe a creative interchange composed of fragments of information, time, and space. Such interpretive photographs are no longer picture perfect portals into reality, but now depict a multidimensional perspective that expands our notions of the photographic instant and reorders the appearance of photographic space. This approach allows the artists to convey a blending of visions where the individual and editorial narrative is replaced by a vitality and intricately textural expression commensurate with musical counterpoint.
COUNTERPOINT STUDIO, LLC 2934 Ford Street, #2 Oakland, CA 94601 510- 842-9342
c
ounterpointphoto@yahoo.com
www.counterpointphoto.com
RECENT SOLO EXHIBITIONS: 2013: 2012: 2011:
Metropolitan Transportation Commission, Oak CA Rhythmix Cultural Works, Alameda, CA Oakland City Center, 500 12th Street, Oakland Museum of California Photo Gallery, Oakland California Kala Art Institute and City of Berkeley, Public Art Installation
RECENT GROUP EXHIBITIONS: 2013: 2012: 2011:
333 Bush Street, an Exhibition organized by Suzy Locke & Associates Kala Artist Annual Exhibition, Kala, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA From the Golden Gate Bridge to Oakland: Trade and Tourism, Oakland International Airport , The Oakland Museum of California Civic Art Exhibition, City Civic Center office, Berkeley CA Snap: National Exhibition, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek Mills Building Exhibition, San Francisco, CA On View: New Work from Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA FOTO: Pushing Boundaries, Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA Artist Annual, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
RECENT PUBLIC COMMISSIONS: 2013: Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, Commissioned to create a new signature outdoor mural. Temple Beth El, Charlotte, North Carolina, Commissioned to create a new signature artwork for Temple atrium.. Elevate 2013, City of Atlanta Office of Cultural Affairs. Commisioned to create large-scale photographic banners Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital New Expansion Project, Commissioned to design two pieces for hospital interior. 2012: Alameda County Art Commission and Highland Hospital, Commission for permanent installation in Hospital San Francisco Art Commission, Acquisition for 2-Dimensional Artwork program for New Public Utilities Commission Headquarters, San Francisco EDUCATION Peter: 2001 1996 1983
M.F.A. (Photography) San Jose State University B.F.A. (Photography) San Francisco Art Institute B.B.A (Accounting & Finance) University of Oregon
Lisa: 1981 1978
M.F.A. (Photography), CUNY-Brooklyn College. Teaching Assistantship. B.F.A. (Photography), School of Visual Arts, NYC.
COLLECTIONS AND REPRESENTATION: Alameda County Art Commission San Francisco Art Commission:Public Utilities Commission Benham Fine Arts, Seattle WA Berkeley Civic Arts Center City of Walnut Creek Library Highland Hospital, Oakland, CA Hahnemuhle Photo Collection Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA LensWork Publishing, Anacordes WA Oakland Museum of California SLATE Gallery, Oakland, CA Danielle Wohl Fine Art, Palo Alto, CA
2 Women # 1 Analog & Digital Photography on Aluminum 11” x 11” edition 1/10 $400
2 Women # 2 Analog & Digital Photography on Aluminum 11” x 11” edition 1/10 $400
Adrian Analog & Digital Photography on Aluminum 11” x 11” edition 1/10 $400
Bings Analog & Digital Photography on Aluminum 11” x 11” edition 1/10 $400
Peter Tonningsen & Lisa Levine
Cafe Analog & Digital Photography on Aluminum 11” x 11” edition 1/10 $400
Chop Suey Analog & Digital Photography on Aluminum 11” x 11” edition 1/10 $400
Dragon Light Analog & Digital Photography on Aluminum 11” x 11” edition 1/10 $400
Elk Hotel Analog & Digital Photography on Aluminum 11” x 11” edition 1/10 $400
Peter Tonningsen & Lisa Levine
Hall Analog & Digital Photography on Aluminum 11” x 11” edition 1/10 $400
Hunger Analog & Digital Photography on Aluminum 11” x 11” edition 1/10 $400
Kearny Analog & Digital Photography on Aluminum 11” x 11” edition 1/10 $400
Lanterns Analog & Digital Photography on Aluminum 11” x 11” edition 1/10 $400
Peter Tonningsen & Lisa Levine
Legs Analog & Digital Photography on Aluminum 11” x 11” edition 1/10 $400
Lines Analog & Digital Photography on Aluminum 11” x 11” edition 1/10 $400
Mona Lisa Analog & Digital Photography on Aluminum 11” x 11” edition 1/10 $400
Tosca Analog & Digital Photography on Aluminum 11” x 11” edition 1/10 $400
Peter Tonningsen & Lisa Levine
Saundra U. McPherson Trace The work of San Francisco painter Saundra McPherson is driven by a fascination with the processes that shape both the natural and human environment. Her work is process driven, working with the physicality and immediacy of her materials and applying dozens of layers of semi-transparent pigments and mediums. The process is intuitive and allows for unanticipated outcomes. Taking shape over time, the work is built, in a balance between intention and surprise, order and chaos. Surface is an all-important element, revealing a history of materials and forces visible beneath the finished one. Trace was inspired by daily urban walks, where she found marks left by the human hand: skateboard, spills, bicycle or car tire. Marks were everywhere, unintentionally made and left by human interaction with the urban environment: curbs, buildings, walls, bus stops, freeway barriers, tollbooths. She began to reconsider the hand in her work: why it is not present, and why and how it might appear. Looking to Cy Twombly’s history of work and interviews for insight, gesture found its way into the work, the marks revealing, raw, energetic, refined and coarse. These marks represent the hand of the artist returning to a body of work. The Trace paintings are a glance at a life, or an urban wall, in any given moment, a snapshot of that narrative captured in time. The marks have a rhythm, a pattern, where they join to form pattern or fly off the canvas. They are smears, scars, streaks dragged, scraped, sometimes arcing across a surface – marks coloring an urban canvas. These gestures are largely allowed to happen, to gather in groups or stand alone, to be sanded back or glazed over. As are the marks left inadvertently in the urban landscape. What’s left is Trace: a narrative of marks, lives, left behind. http://sumcpherson.com/
EDUCATION: 1992-1999 1989 1981
San Francisco Art Institute Extension, and UC Berkeley M.S. Non-Profit Arts Management, Drexel University, Philadelphia B.S. Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley
RECENT EXHIBITIONS: 2014 FourSquared, Arc Gallery, San Francisco 2013 Dynamic Color, Lim Gallery, San Francisco Memento, Arc Gallery, San Francisco 2011 Flow, Arc Gallery, San Francisco (Andre Rozanoff, curator) (Re)Collections, Labspace Studio, Toronto Chain Letter, Samson Gallery, Boston 2010 NRDC Environmental Art Prize (winner) Nabi Gallery, New York City (solo) Current, Block Gallery, Oakland Arc Gallery, San Francisco 2009 Hyde Street Gallery, San Francisco Sanctus, The Gardener, Berkeley (solo) 2008 Then and Now, HANG Gallery, San Francisco Axis Cafe and Gallery, San Francisco (solo) 2006 The Color of Iron, Group Show and Commission, Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin, Madison 2005 Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco Women’s Work Now: Large Scale Paintings by Bay Area Women, Bank of America Building, San Francisco 2004 Artwalk, The Embarcadero Centers, San Francisco 2003 Pacific Northwest Annual, University of Oregon, Eugene Bold Expressions, Northern California Arts, Sacramento 2002 Landscape/Mindscape, HANG Gallery, San Francisco American Portfolio, Chemeteka College, Salem, Oregon Invisible Truths, Matrix Arts, Sacramento Gallery Route One, Point Reyes, California 2001 Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, California REPRESENTATION: 2001-present 2009 – present 2010-11 2007-08 2007-08 2002-03
Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco SFMoMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco Block Gallery, Oakland Julie Nester Gallery, Park City, Utah SPUR Gallery, Portola Valley HANG Gallery, San Francisco
AFFILIATIONS & PUBLICATIONS: 2010 2007-08 2008
NRDC Environmental Art Prize Folly Magazine 2 Studio Visit Magazine (Fall ‘08)
Trace panels 1-4 Oil and Alkyd on Panel 12” x 2” x 2” $225 Saundra McPherson
Trace panels 5-8 Oil and Alkyd on Panel 12” x 2” x 2” $225 Saundra McPherson
Trace panels 9-12 Oil and Alkyd on Panel 12” x 2” x 2” $225 Saundra McPherson
Trace panels 13-16 Oil and Alkyd on Panel 12” x 2” x 2” $225 Saundra McPherson
Howard Munson Compositions These collages are from my experimenting with one large collage and searching out interesting possibilities for compositions in form, color and texture. Then, those areas were removed as completed works. For the past ten years I have used the book structure for my art. Prior to that I was a printmaker for twenty years. Those were the years of abstract works and conceptual art which led me into the book format to express my ideas. My inspiration for artist books and collage work comes from my frequent visits to Japan and Mexico. I continue to work with collage, sumi ink, photography and now pursuing video art.
415-391-4852
tellhill@aol.com
Work can be viewed on the site of dealer, Vamp and Tramp Booksellers http://vampandtramp.com/finepress/m/howard-munson.htm
EDUCATION 1977 M.F.A. & B.F.A.
(Printmaking) San Francisco Art Institute
EXHIBITIONS: Howard has exhbited extensively and his work is in numerous collections, including private collections, museums, universiites and art departments. TEACHING: SF Center for the Book, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico Cluj, Romania SF Art Institute. RESIDENCIES: University of Michigan, Northern Ireland INSTITUTIONAL COLLECTIONS San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, University of Mexico in Mexico City Otis College of Art and Design, Library UC San Diego, Giesel Library, Mandeville Collections San Jose State University, King Library, Special Collections University of Washington, Library , Special Collections San Jose State University, King Library, Special Collections Ringling School Art & Design, Kimbrough Library, Special Collections Scripps College, Denison Library, Special Collections (Middle East) Stanford University, Green Library, Special Collections University of Connecticut, Dodd Research Center, Special Collections UC Berkeley, Environmental Design University of New Mexico, Zimmerman Library, Special Collections University of Michigan, Art Library Baylor University, Crouch Fine Arts Library, Artist Book collection Texas Tech University, Southwest Collections New York Public Library, Spencer Collections University of Kentucky, Little Fine Arts Library IUPUI, Herron Art Library Lilly Library, Indiana University, Special Collections UCLA, Young Research Library CalPoly, Kennedy Library
Untitled Mixed Media on Wood Panel 8”x 8” $250
Untitled Mixed Media on Wood Panel 8”x 8” $250
Untitled Mixed Media on Wood Panel 8”x 8” $250
Untitled Mixed Media on Wood Panel 8”x 8” $250
Howard Munson
Untitled Mixed Media on Wood Panel 8”x 8” $250
Untitled Mixed Media on Wood Panel 8”x 8” $250
Untitled Mixed Media on Wood Panel 8”x 8” $250
Untitled Mixed Media on Wood Panel 8”x 8” $250
Howard Munson
Untitled Mixed Media on Wood Panel 8”x 8” $250
Untitled Mixed Media on Wood Panel 8”x 8” $250
Untitled Mixed Media on Wood Panel 8”x 8” $250
Untitled Mixed Media on Wood Panel 8”x 8” $250
Howard Munson
Good Grief Mixed Media on Wood Panel 8”x 11” $495
He Said, She Said Mixed Media on Wood Panel 8”x 11” $495
Untitled Mixed Media on Wood Panel 8”x 8” $250
Untitled Mixed Media on Wood Panel 8”x 8” $250
Howard Munson
Miwako Nishizawa 16 Views of Mt. Tam Rendering a landscape is for me a rendering of a time rather than a place. With “FourSquared�, I chose 4 different Mt. Tamalpais vantage points views from Berkeley, from Oakland, from San Anselmo and from Fairfax. Then, I created 4 different versions of each of those views. Mt. Tam is a gift, providing me with an endlessly rich vocabulary. English is my second language and it can be an awkward tool for dialogue. Japanese woodblock is the language that I prefer to employ. It is a more comfortable way for me to share my thoughts. It requires patience and precision while, at the same time, it demands decisiveness and boldness. The technique is difficult to master. But once you are comfortable with the process, there is an endlessly rich vocabulary at your disposal.
EDUCATION
MA Studio Art—New York University, majored in Printmaking BA Education—Kyoto University of Education, majored in Art Education, Exhibitions
EXHIBITIONS 2014-15 Twelve Views of Virginia, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond VA Civic Center Art Exhibition, Berkeley CA 2014 FourSquared, Arc Gallery, San Francisco CA Disconnect, Transmission Gallery, Oakland CA First Street Gallery, New York NY 2013 Choice, Arc Studios & Gallery, San Francisco CA Stories We Tell, Phoenix Gallery, New York NY Alta Bates Summit Medical Center Art Gallery, Berkeley CA Online exhibition on the homepage of Women’s Caucus for Art 2004 Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton NJ 2001 Freundorfer Gallery at the Kitano, New York NY 1995 Japan Society, New York NY 1991 80 Washington Square East Gallery, New York NY 1990 NYU Kimmel Student Center, New York NY 1987 Gallery Sai, Kyoto, Japan 1984 Gallery Maronie, Kyoto, Japan PUBLICATIONS Impressions: The Journal of the Japanese Art Society, Number 34, 2013, pp 120-121 “Kawase Hasui: Collecting a Versatile Modern Master” by René C. Balcer Choice: An Art Exhibition of Women’s Reproductive Rights, published by Northern California Women’s Caucus for Art. TEACHING & WORKSHOPS 2010 2004 2000, 2001 1998 1995 1994, 1997 1994, 1995 1993-1995
City and Country School, New York, NY Princeton University Art Museum Japan Society, New York, NY Japan Society, Seminar for NY Public High School Students Japan Society, New York, NY The Manhattan Graphics Center, New York, NY American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY Brooklyn Botanic Gardens, New York, NY
Dusk Japanese Woodblock 7 1/2” diameter edition 1/16 $250
Fog Japanese Woodblock 7 1/2” diameter edition 1/16 $250
Midday Japanese Woodblock 7 1/2” diameter edition 1/16 $250
Night Japanese Woodblock 7 1/2” diameter edition 1/16 $250
Miwako Nishizaswa
Morning Japanese Woodblock 7 1/2” diameter edition 1/16 $250
Afternoon Japanese Woodblock 7 1/2” diameter edition 1/16 $250
Evening Japanese Woodblock 7 1/2” diameter edition 1/16 $250
Rain Japanese Woodblock 7 1/2” diameter edition 1/16 $250
Miwako Nishizaswa
Cal Poppy Japanese Woodblock 7 1/2” diameter edition 1/16 $250
Full Moon Japanese Woodblock 7 1/2” diameter edition 1/16 $250
Grass Japanese Woodblock 7 1/2” diameter edition 1/16 $250
Sunrise Japanese Woodblock 7 1/2” diameter edition 1/16 $250
Miwako Nishizaswa
Spring Japanese Woodblock 7 1/2” diameter edition 1/16 $250
Summer Japanese Woodblock 7 1/2” diameter edition 1/16 $250
Autumn Japanese Woodblock 7 1/2” diameter edition 1/16 $250
Winter Japanese Woodblock 7 1/2” diameter edition 1/16 $250
Miwako Nishizaswa
Sawyer Rose Hothouse California is big and bold. Our rugged landscape is home to a profusion of native plants whose forms are both brash and beautiful. The works in this series are a tribute to the grandeur-- even, extravagance-- of the species that share these lands with us. The exuberant beauties in this hothouse aren’t content to sit still. Captured in a fleeting moment of calm, their glowing auras remain in motion. Asking these bold forms to sit nicely on a square panel was out of the question. Silvery, textured, radiant—these California natives shine with all the vitality of the majestic West.
Hunters Point Shipyard Building 110, Studio 210 San Francisco, CA (415) 806-2458 sawyer@sawyerrose.com http://sawyerrose.com/
SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2014 2013 2012
Dusk to Dawn, Inclusions Gallery, San Francisco, CA Marin Headlands Visitors Center, Sausalito, CA NATIVE: California Plants in Metal, Glass & Light, Inclusions Gallery, San Francisco, CA
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS: 2014, 2013, 2012 2009 2009 2007-10
FourSquared, Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA ReThinkIt: New Ways of Thinking About Art & the Enviornment, Vernon Davis Foundation for the Arts, San Jose, CA Rooted, Lark & Key Gallery, Charlotte, NC Explorations Westward, Mine Gallery, Fairfax, CA The Grand Hand Gallery, Napa, CA Retrospective 5”, Inclusions Gallery, San Francisco, CA The Guerilla Show,”Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco, CA San Francisco Convention & Visitors Bureau, San Francsico, CA Artist-Xchange Gallery, San Francisco
COMMISSIONS: 2013,
Wild California, large-scale silkscreen (12 x 25 ft.), silkscreen ink on glass, The Etta Building, San Francisco, CA
GRANTS: 2014 2013
Center for Cultural Innovation, Creative Capacity Fund Vermont Studio Center Merit Grant Vermont Studio Center Merit Grant
RESIDENCIES: 2014 2013
Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont
BIBLIOGRAPHY: 2013 2012
Larson, Vicki. “Fairfax artist pays tribute to wild California.” Marin Independent Journal. April 4, 2013. Lappin, Todd. “Super-Chic Art Opening at Inclusions, Saturday.” Bernalwood. July 13, 2012.
Education: 1996 1995
BA, Art, Williams College, Mass., cum laude Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland
Professional Experience: 1997
Director, Fothoui Kramer Gallery, East Hampton, NY
Blaze
(Indian Paintbrush)
Silver Solder on Wood Panel 9.5” x 9.5” $425
Spirit
(Matilija Poppy)
Silver Solder on Wood Panel 9.5” x 9.5” $425 Sawyer Rose
Cirque
(California Flannel Bush)
Silver Solder on Wood Panel 9.5” x 9.5” $425
Monarch
(Stream Orchid)
Silver Solder on Wood Panel 9.5” x 9.5” $425
Aura
(California Meadowfoam)
Silver Solder on Wood Panel 9.5” x 9.5” $425
Vision
(California Meadowfoam)
Silver Solder on Wood Panel 9.5” x 9.5” $425 Sawyer Rose
Luster
(California Bush Anemone)
Silver Solder on Wood Panel 9.5” x 9.5” $425
Spice
(Western Spice Bush)
Silver Solder on Wood Panel 9.5” x 9.5” $425
Corona
(Elegant Tarweed)
Silver Solder on Wood Panel 9.5” x 9.5” $425
Aurora
(California Bush Anemone)
Silver Solder on Wood Panel 9.5” x 9.5” $425 Sawyer Rose
Rave
(Western Spice Bush)
Silver Solder on Wood Panel 9.5” x 9.5” $425
Essence
(Matilija Poppy)
Silver Solder on Wood Panel 9.5” x 9.5” $425
Inception
(Matilija Poppy)
Silver Solder on Wood Panel 9.5” x 9.5” $425
Diva
(Stream Orchid)
Silver Solder on Wood Panel 9.5” x 9.5” $425 Sawyer Rose
Halo
(Matilija Poppy)
Silver Solder on Wood Panel 9.5” x 9.5” $425
Howl
(Indian Paintbrush)
Silver Solder on Wood Panel 9.5” x 9.5” $425
Tim Svenonius Four Movements In this series, I aimed to capture the essence of remembered images, which through erosion or dissolution become unfixed from place or time. Each cycle shows a passage of figures through a landscape, rendered indistinctly as if through a haze of distance and time, belonging to no particular place or century. While landscape paintings may purport to show something timeless or eternal, figures in the landscape point to vanishing moments in time. I wanted to render the landscape as fluid, ebbing in imperceptibly slow waves. Against this backdrop of geological time are the ripples of human habitation, a perpetual crisscrossing of the world’s surfaces in endless migratory waves. The background of each painting was built up over time, layer upon layer, much like geological strata; The figures appeared late in the process, as though fleeting and impermanent. Four Movements reflects on an intersection between these distinct scales of time: the age of the earth; the age of humankind; and time as we experience it, through the lens of memory. The motif of figures crossing a landscape is one I return to again and again, for reasons mysterious even to me. The grid format presented a unique challenge to construct these scenes unfolding across multiple panels. I took it as an opportunity to create constellations of figures and forms to play against one another, much like variations on a theme in music. I divided the grid into four registers, like staves; and just as a musical composition can tap into our emotions directly, bypassing meaning and narrative, these paintings give themselves more to feeling than deciphering.
415-283-9693 tsven@sacredbeast.net www.sacredbeast.net
EDUCATION: 1991
B.A., Art and Theory, University of Maryland1995
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2013 2012 2011
Land, Caffe Museo at SFMOMA (San Francisco) Fauna, Andalu (San Francisco) Coarse Drawn Heart, Truesilver Gallery (San Francisco)
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS: 2013 2011 2008 2008
Lure, SFMOMA Artists Gallery (San Francisco) One Year Here, group exhibition. Incline Gallery (San Francisco) 30th Anniversary Show, group exhibition. SFMOMA Artists Gallery (San Francisco) Current State of Affairs, 2-person show with Holly Boruck, Market Street Gallery (San Francisco)
Untitled (A1) Acrylic on Wood Panel 10” x 10” $400 (set of four, $1500)
Untitled (A2) Acrylic on Wood Panel 10” x 10” $400 (set of four, $1500)
Untitled (A3) Acrylic on Wood Panel 10” x 10” $400 (set of four, $1500)
Untitled (A4) Acrylic on Wood Panel 10” x 10” $400 (set of four, $1500)
Tim Svenonius
Untitled (B1) Acrylic on Wood Panel 10” x 10” $400 (set of four, $1500)
Untitled (B2) Acrylic on Wood Panel 10” x 10” $400 (set of four, $1500)
Untitled (B3) Acrylic on Wood Panel 10” x 10” $400 (set of four, $1500)
Untitled (B4) Acrylic on Wood Panel 10” x 10” $400 (set of four, $1500)
Tim Svenonius
Untitled (C1) Acrylic on Wood Panel 10” x 10” $400 (set of four, $1500)
Untitled (C2) Acrylic on Wood Panel 10” x 10” $400 (set of four, $1500)
Untitled (C3) Acrylic on Wood Panel 10” x 10” $400 (set of four, $1500)
Untitled (C4) Acrylic on Wood Panel 10” x 10” $400 (set of four, $1500)
Tim Svenonius
Untitled (D1) Acrylic on Wood Panel 10” x 10” $400 (set of four, $1500)
Untitled (D2) Acrylic on Wood Panel 10” x 10” $400 (set of four, $1500)
Untitled (D3) Acrylic on Wood Panel 10” x 10” $400 (set of four, $1500)
Untitled (D4) Acrylic on Wood Panel 10” x 10” $400 (set of four, $1500)
Tim Svenonius
Kirsten Tradowsky Intersections Walking the Bay Area city streets, historic theaters and buildings glow. Around every corner, new faces and movements in passing. Across the bay, ships and rooftops prance in shifting shades. I’m constantly inspired by these intersections of ever-changing moments. To mimic the dynamic landscape of this symphonic cityscape, the paintings in my series can be switched around and rearranged, or taken to stand on their own.
Courtesy of Hang Art 567 Sutter St., 2nd Fl. San Francisco, CA 94102 415-434-4264
sales@hangart.com
https://www.hangart.com/
kirstentrad@yahoo.com
kirstentradowsky.com
1890 Bryant Street Studios 1890 Bryant Street #212 San Francisco, CA 94110 216-789-9412
EDUCATION 2006 2003
M.F.A California College of The Arts, Painting and Drawing B.F.A The Cleveland Institute of Art, Painting
SELECT SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2014 2010 2009 2007
Past Perfect, Pease Gallery, Charlotte NC Matinee, Revolver Gallery, San Francisco CA Gravity Index, Tinlark Gallery, Hollywood CA Hokey Pokey, Tinlark Gallery, Hollywood CA Divafest, The Exit Theater, San Francisco CA
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2014 2013 2013 2013 2012 2010 2009 2008
Allegory, Hang Art, San Francisco CA Transported, Gary Francis Fine Art, Alameda CA Specific and Anonymous, Hang Art, San Francisco CA Small Works Show, Art Zone 461, San Francisco CA Fresh Start, Arena 1 Gallery, Santa Monica CA Oodles of Doodles, Tinlark Gallery, Hollywood CA Fresh Start, Arena 1 Gallery, Santa Monica CA Shifting Paradigms, Gallery 560, San Francisco CA Fresh Start, Arena 1 Gallery, Santa Monica CA Eleven 11, Reaves Gallery, San Francisco CA First Anniversary Group Show, Tinlark Gallery, Hollywood CA Red Dot, Tinlark Gallery, New York NY
SELECT PRESS/PUBLICATIONS 2014 2010 2009 2008 2007
The Jealous Curator Fine Arts Blog by Danielle Krysa Watercolor Day CD Design songs by Seth Swirsky Wallpaper Magazine November issue page #031 Design* Sponge Blog “Sneak Peek” by Caitlin Williams & James Freeman The Family Room, www.susanetlinger.typepad.com (online) New American Paintings Magazine 15 years, page #216 Oxford American Magazine Issue 59 page #65 New American Paintings Magazine MFA Annual Winner, Volume 12, Issue 3
ARTIST RESIDENCIES 2009 2006 1999
Art in the Every Day, Teachers: Claire Gavronsky and Rose Shakinovsky, Oakland CA LA Cipressaia workshop, Teachers: Claire Gavronsky and Rose Shakinovsky, Italy Cleveland Institute of Art Italy & Germany workshop
GRANTS AND AWARDS 2005 2003 2002
The Murphy & Cadogan Fellowship Award in the Fine Arts Cleveland Institute of Art Portfolio Grant (1998-2003) The Paul Travis Memorial Award in Painting
Kirsten Tradowsky
Kids Corner 1 Oil on Panel 6” x 6” $200
Kids Corner 2 Oil on Panel 6” x 6” $200
Kids Corner 3 Oil on Panel 6” x 6” $200
Kids Corner 4 Oil on Panel 6” x 6” $200
Bernal Rooftops Oil on Panel 6” x 6” $200
View from Bernal Hill Oil on Panel 6” x 6” $200
Potrero Hill Oil on Panel 6” x 6” $200
Wharf Piers Oil on Panel 6” x 6” $200
Kirsten Tradowsky
Victoria Theater Oil on Panel 6” x 6” $200
Fox Theater Oil on Panel 6” x 6” $200
Iceland Oil on Panel 6” x 6” $200
Grand Lake Theater Oil on Panel 6” x 6” $200
Kirsten Tradowsky
Kirsten Tradowsky
Dogpatch Oil on Panel 6” x 6” $200
Panhandle Oil on Panel 6” x 6” $200
Wharf Ships Oil on Panel 6” x 6” $200
MacArthur BART Station Oil on Panel 6” x 6” $200
Truong Tran An Imperfect World On days when I am not working as a poet and teacher, I try to wake up early. I empty my oversized messenger bag of books and papers and the previous day’s half-eaten lunch. I place the strap over my left shoulder, with the bag firmly secured to my back. I begin to walk. I walk for as long as it takes to fill the bag with stuff: branches, findings from the local thrift stores, choice items left in boxes on sidewalks and, if I’m lucky, something I’ve never seen before. Once the bag is filled, I return to my studio, empty the contents from the bag, creating mounds of what some might consider piles of junk. I see them as source materials and the beginnings to my art making process. I am committed to using these recycled materials as an environmentally conscious artist but also as an artist who strives to make art accessible through both its practice and use of materials. Quite frankly, I get a kick out of forcing these disparate objects to come together, compromising and accommodating one another in their process of becoming something new, something beautiful. I refer to what I do as art making because I do not paint, draw or sculpt in a traditional or learned consideration of artistic craft. My craft is founded in the doing. I glue things together. I make things fit. I cut. I build. I weave. I think. I stare at things in hopes that these things will talk back to me. This is what I do. It makes me happy. It allows me to lose myself in the process of doing. It makes me sad. It allows me to find myself in the process of seeing.
Studio 17, Studio # 6 3265 17th Street San Francisco, CA 415-314-8788
truong.celan@gmail.com
gnourtnart.com
EDUCATION 1995
M.F.A. San Francisco State University, Poetry with an emphasis on American poetics, writers of color, visual poetics B.A. University of California at Santa Cruz, English with and emphasis on Creative Writing
CURRENT POSITIONS:
Visiting Assistant Professor, English Department, Mills College, Oakland, CA Lecturer, Creative Writing Department, San Francisco State University, CA
SELECT EXHIBITIONS: 2014 2012 2010
I Meant To Say Please Pass The Sugar, Telegraph Hill Gallery, San Francisco CA (solo) At War, SOMArts, San Francisco CA (two-person) Lost and Found, Mina Dresden Gallery, San Francisco CA (solo)
SELECT PUBLICATIONS
Books I Meant To Say Please Pass The Sugar, The Telegraph Hill Gallery Press, 2013 Dust and Conscience (in Translation), Mangos Con Leche Press, 2010 Four Letter Words, Apogee Press, 2008 Within The Margins, Apogee Press, 2004 Going Home Coming Home, Children’s Books Press, 2003 Dust and Conscience, Apogee Press, 2002 Placing The Accents, Apogee Press, 1999 The Book of Perception, Kearny Street Workshop, 1999
Anthologies, Interviews, Special Projects A Community Writing Itself: Conversations with Vanguard Writers of the Bay Area, 2010 Letters To Poets: Conversations about Poetics. Politics and Community, 2008 Watermark, Asian American Writers Workshop, New York, 1998
From Both Sides Now, Scribner Poetry, 1998 Not A War, Yale University Council on Southeast Asian Studies, 1997 HONORS, AWARDS, AND FELLOWSHIPS: 2012 2011 2009 2003 2002 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996
Individual Artist Grants ( Literary ARts), San Francisco Arts Commission Curatorial Commons Residency Recipient Individual Artist Grants (Visual Arts), San Francisco Arts Commission. 2007 The Fund For Poetry Grant San Francisco Arts Commission Cultural Equity Grant (Literary Arts) San Francisco Arts Commission Cultural Equity Grant (Literary Arts) Intersection for the Arts Writer In Residence San Francisco Poetry Center Prize for Dust and Conscience San Francisco Library Laureate Western States Book Prize Finalist in Poetry Kiriyama Book Prize Finalist Creative Work Fund Grant California Arts Council Poetry Fellowship Arts Council of Santa Clara Poetry Grant
Truong Tran
An Imperfect World 1 Mixed Media 12” x 12” x 2” $400
An Imperfect World 2 Mixed Media 12” x 12” x 2” $400
An Imperfect World 3 Mixed Media 12” x 12” x 2” $400
An Imperfect World 4 Mixed Media 12” x 12” x 2” $400
Truong Tran
An Imperfect World 5 Mixed Media 12” x 12” x 2” $400
An Imperfect World 6 Mixed Media 12” x 12” x 2” $400
An Imperfect World 7 Mixed Media 12” x 12” x 2” $400
An Imperfect World 8 Mixed Media 12” x 12” x 2” $400
Heather Wilcoxon Memories Over the years I have filled numerous books with hundreds of drawings that reflect how I see and feel about the world around me. These sixteen mix medium pieces are an assemblage of these visual dairies. I picked the images randomly and re-worked by adding more layers to their visual impact. This colorful cast of characters comments on our concerns, fears, worries as well as our brutality towards one another. I view the world as a dangerous place. However, I am seasoned enough to see the absurdity of it all. My cartoon figures capture both comedy and the tragedy of humanity in my childlike iconography. These characters embody a sense of innocent playfulness. Yet, in their monstrous rendering, a dark humor is reflected. The pleasing colors, pretty surfaces, and childlike imagery lure the viewer into a disjointed narrative that quickly turns ugly, mean and nasty.
Heather Wilcoxon
http://heatherwilcoxon.com/
Courtesy of Jack Fischer Gallery 311 Potrero Ave. San Francisco CA 94103 415-522-1178
jackfischer@sbcglobal.net
www.jackfischergallery.com
EDUCATION: 1986 BFA San Francisco Art Institute, Painting 1 1988 MFA San Francisco Art Institute, Painting RECENT SOLO & 2-PERSON EXHIBITIONS: 2014 2011 2010 2009
Winter Work, Tony Fitzpatrick, and Heather Wilcoxon at Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco, Ca. The Dark and Humorous Mind of Heather Wilcoxon, American University Museum, Katzen Art Center for the Arts, Washington DC Loaded, Triton Art Museum, Santa Clara, Ca. Other Works, SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, Ca. Being Heather Wilcoxon, Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco, Ca. Surface and Beneath, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, Colorado
RECENT GROUP EXHIBITIONS: 2013 2012 2011 2010
SF Art Mrkt, Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco, Ca As The Mouth Sees, Alter Space, curator, Josh Hagler, San Francisco, Ca. California Contemporary, 15th st... Studio, Boulder, Colo. SF Art Mrkt, Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco, Ca. Art Greenwich, Brenda Taylor Gallery, New York, NY Richmond Center 75th Anniversary Exhibition,, Richmond Ca. Three’s Company, San Pablo Art Center, San Pablo, Ca. What in the World, Commerce Bank of California, Lafayette, Ca. curated by Mark Taylor Secret Drawings, Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, Ca. San Francisco Art Fair, Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco, Ca. \ San Diego Art Fair, Brenda Taylor Gallery, New York
AWARDS/FELLOWSHIPS/ RESIDENCIES:: 2013 2012 2007 2004 2002 1999 1998
Nominated for a Eureka Fellowship, San Francisco, Ca, Nominated for SECA Award, SFMOMA Pollock/Krasner Foundation, Fellowship, New York, NY Buck Foundation/Marin Arts Council, Artist Working Grant, Painting Thomas P. Johnson Visiting Artist, Fellowship - Rollins College, Orlando, Fl. Stonehouse Residencey Program, Fellowship, Miramonte, CA. Pollock/Krasner Foundation, Fellowship, New York, NY. Djerassi Resident Artist Program, Woodside, CA. Buck Foundation/ Marin Arts Council, Individual Artist Grant, Painting
SELECT COLLECTIONS: American University Museum, Katzen Art Center, Washington DC The Fine Arts Museums, Auchenbach Foundation of Graphic Arts Rene Di Rosa Preserve , Napa, CA
De Saisset Musem. Santa Clara, Ca. Trition Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA.
Bad Dream Mixed Media on Wood Panel 8”x 11” $495
Hot Tub Mixed Media on Wood Panel 8”x 11” $495
Cut Mixed Media on Wood Panel 8”x 11” $495
Dirt Mixed Media on Wood Panel 8”x 11” $495
Heather Wilcoxon
Good Grief Mixed Media on Wood Panel 8”x 11” $495
He Said, She Said Mixed Media on Wood Panel 8”x 11” $495
Kiss Mixed Media on Wood Panel 8”x 11” $495
Murr Murr Mixed Media on Wood Panel 8”x 11” $495
Heather Wilcoxon
Cloud Mixed Media on Wood Panel 8”x 11” $495
Ouch Mixed Media on Wood Panel 8”x 11” $495
Pink Cloud Mixed Media on Wood Panel 8”x 11” $495
Red Eye Mixed Media on Wood Panel 8”x 11” $495
Heather Wilcoxon
Spell Check Mixed Media on Wood Panel 8”x 11” $495
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Jan Wurm Keeping Score FourSquared is a system, it forms a neat package. And just as this order is imposed, these men on their squared off panels are busy ordering things: a progression from T-ing off to the final putt, from shuffling the deck to the last card dealt, from the first cast to the last catch reeled in, even from the first draft to the dregs. Everything is counted, measured, ranked. How we keep score in sport or war is a numbers game that tallies with our views of conquest and mastering. It also permeates our relationship to food and drink and even sexual conquest. Somehow we are always keeping score and trying to find order in our lives. Through all these routines, the men, however, remain isolated and alone on their circumscribed square.
Jan Wurm Berkeley Art Project 1308 Fourth St Berkeley, CA, 94710
510-526-0926 artwurm@gmail.com http://janwurm.com/
EDUCATION 1975 1972
M.A.R.C.A. Painting, Royal College of Art, London B.A. Pictorial Arts, University of California, Los Angeles (cum laude)
AWARDS 2012 SECA Award Nominee, S F Museum of Modern Art, Society for Encouragement of Contemporary Art 1971,72 Clifton Webb Scholarship SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2013 Peacock Gallery, Middle Georgia State College, Cochran, Georgia Personal Landscapes (two person), Liberty Arts, Yreka, CA 2012 Serious Play, Christine Fréchard Gallery, Pittsburgh 2011 Myth and Magic, Transition and Transformation: Jan Wurm – Paintings and Drawings, UC Merced 2010 Jan Wurm: Dancing Through Life, E.M. Galerie, Drachten, Netherlands Figures (two person), House Gallery, Salt Lake City 2009 The Art of Gaming (two person), Carl Cherry Center for the Arts, Carmel, CA SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2014, Man Up; The Struggle Within; Bitter Fruits, Altered Esthetics Gallery, Minneapolis 2014, 13 The Breakfast Group – java and jive, Richmond Art Center; Carl Cherry Center for the Arts 2012 Astoria, The Lab; 24h Video Art Extravaganza, UC, Santa Barbara; CRAVE,Arizona State Tempe 2012 Banned & Recovered, National Steinbeck Ctr;UC Merced;Humboldt State,SFCB; AfricanAmMus&Lib 2011 OFF CENTER---Five Perspectives from Los Angeles; Blacklisted, Carl Cherry Center for the Arts 2011 WANTED: pets in society today; Boxers & Fighters, Two Window Project, Berlin 2010, 09 The Seduction of Duchamp, Art Museum of Los Gatos; ArtZone; SlaughterhouseSpace, Healdsburg SELECTED OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES 2013, 09 Instructor, Sommerakademie, Künstlerdorf Neumarkt an der Raab, Austria; Visiting Artist 2012 Visiting Artist, American Academy in Rome 2009-10 Guest Artist National Park Service, Whiskeytown; Judge, Artist-in-Residence Program 2006-09 Visiting Artist: Royal College of Art; Claremont Graduate University;Dominican; deYoung Museum SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY Catamaran Literary Reader, Santa Cruz Fall 2013 Josef Woodard, “Looking In, Looking Out,” Los Angeles Times, February, 2001; Artweek, April 2001* Alicia Miller, Artweek, October 1997 * Dyana Chadwick, “Modern Allegories,” Palo Alto Cultural Center, Exhibition Essay, November 1985 Suzaan Boettger, “Jan Wurm’s Social Situations,” Catalogue, July 1985 * Suzanne Muchnic, Los Angeles Times, October 27, 1978 Alfred Frankenstein, S.F. Chronicle, May 30, 1978 SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Achenbach Graphic Arts Foundation New York Public Library Print Collection ; Archiv Verein der Berliner Künstlerinnen, Berlin Universität für angewandte Kunst, Vienna;Tiroler Landesmuseen, Moderne Galerie / Graphische Sammlungen Children’s Hospital Oakland; Community Hospital of Monterey Peninsula; Providence St Joseph
Jan Wurm
Keeping Score # 1 Oil Stick on Panel 10” x10” $495
Keeping Score # 2 Oil Stick on Panel 10” x10” $495
Keeping Score # 3 Oil Stick on Panel 10” x10” $495
Keeping Score # 4 Oil Stick on Panel 10” x10” $495
Jan Wurm
Keeping Score # 5 Oil Stick on Panel 10” x10” $495
Keeping Score # 6 Oil Stick on Panel 10” x10” $495
Keeping Score # 7 Oil Stick on Panel 10” x10” $495
Keeping Score # 8 Oil Stick on Panel 10” x10” $495
Jan Wurm
Keeping Score # 9 Oil Stick on Panel 10” x10” $495
Keeping Score # 10 Oil Stick on Panel 10” x10” $495
Keeping Score # 11 Oil Stick on Panel 10” x10” $495
Keeping Score # 12 Oil Stick on Panel 10” x10” $495
Jan Wurm
Keeping Score # 13 Oil Stick on Panel 10” x10” $495
Keeping Score # 14 Oil Stick on Panel 10” x10” $495
Keeping Score # 15 Oil Stick on Panel 10” x10” $495
Keeping Score # 16 Oil Stick on Panel 10” x10” $495
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