August 30 - September 23, 2017
Curator’s Statement
SquaredAlumni 2017 brings together eight of the most popular alumni from previous FourSquared exhibitions at Arc in support of local non-profit organizations. Each artist will be exhibiting four works. The exhibition is a reflection of the Arc partners’ strong and abiding interest in supporting San Francisco Bay Area art, artists and community. All of the artists in the exhibition will be donating about 20% of their proceeds to the beneficiary organizations. Arc will be donating 100% of the gallery proceeds from this exhibition to those organizations. Curator: Michael Yochum is the co-founder of Arc Gallery & Studios, along with partners, Priscilla Otani, Matthew Frederick and Stephen Wagner. He is the managing partner for Arc Fine Arts Consulting, connecting local businesses and collectors with SF Bay Area artists.
Catalog designed by Michael Yochum Logo image by Mitchell Confer Arc Gallery © 2017
Featured Artists John Arbuckle Elizabeth Ashcroft Monica Denevan Ivy Jacobsen Sarah Newton Jann Nunn Kirsten Tradowsky Sandra Yagi
OPENING RECEPTION & BENEFIT FOR TEEN VAN Wednesday, September 6th, 7-9pm YOUTH IS A STATE OF MIND - Young Professionals Mixer Tuesday, September 19th, 6-8pm
ARTIST DISCUSSION & CLOSING BRUNCH RECEPTION Saturday, September 24th, 12-3pm
John Arbuckle
Watercolor to Lithography Series
The goal of my work is to capture the sensuous nature of objects and their relationship to each other. I am passionately inspired about luminous light and shadow with the goal of revealing that moment of wonder. I have mirrored my watercolor technique into a series of hand drawn herculene lithographs in collaboration with the master printers at Trillium Graphics. As each successive layer of ink builds on the former, it’s as though the inner light of each subject shines through in the final print.
website: http://www.johnarbuckle.com/ email: john@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 2013 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: 2015 Dr. Thomas Merigan, Palo Alto, CA Kevin Stampfl, Moss Beach CA Jeffrey Kohler, San Francisco CA 2008 Karen Raab, Chemers Gallery, Tustin, CA Marilyn Maslov, Walnut Creek, CA Dr. Richard Ostreicher, Oakland, CA 2007 Randy & Rebecca Wolf of Walters & Wolf inc, Hollister, CA 2006 Matt Belmont, San Francisco, CA Dr. Richard Ostreicher, Oakland, CA 2005 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
Bowl of Cherries 22 color litho 12” x 16” $1500
Gardenia in a Bowl 16 color litho 12” x 16” $1500
John Arbuckle
Magnolia 16 color litho 12” x 16” $1500
Persimmon Unwrapped 20 color litho 12” x 16” $1500
John Arbuckle
Elizabeth Ashcroft
The Dissected Library I enjoy word play, the combining of random & intentional acts of creativity, and both the beauty & the absurdities of life. I’ve found the literal board-paper-thread-glue-ink-word-story essence of the book offers a unique platform to cut into, build onto and burst out of in both two and three dimensional forms. The dual function of the book as a visual object as well as a conduit for ideas is a source of constant inspiration. As a whole, I refer to my ongoing altered books series as The Dissected Library. In the Word Garden series, I’ve culled words from within the books and brought them into new narrative relationships. Themes are variously inspired by words from the book titles, words that catch my eye again and again, a phrase that randomly forms as the culled words lay in juxtaposition to each other on the word palette….I like the tension as they float, hover above the surface on slender stems like flowers growing in a garden of ideas. Enhancing the wordplay are small patches of colored paper that thread their way among, beside and around the words adding visual melody while their shadows create ever changing patterns below.
website: http://www.artbyashcroft.com/ email: eastudio@comcast.net
photo credit: Rebecca Peters
EDUCATION 1983
Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA, BFA, Printmaking
REPRESENTATION 2012 - 2010 - 2005 -
Vamp & Tramp Booksellers, North Carolina Bright Side Gallery, Hanapepe, HI Studio Gallery, San Francisco, CA
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 2017 2016 2015 2014 2012-13
SquaredAlumni 2017, Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA City Scape & 94109, Studio Gallery, San Francisco, CA Boundaries & Balance, ACCI Gallery, Berkeley, CA Snap, Arc Gallery, San Francisco CA Night Light, Studio Gallery, San Francisco, CA New Museum Los Gatos Store, Los Gatos, CA Delicious, Studio Gallery, San Francisco, CA Plus One, Studio Gallery ,San Francisco, CA Look! Book Art, The Healdsburg Center for the Arts Solidarity-Unity-Acceptance, 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco, CA FourSquared 2015, Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA Bound & Unbound III: Altered Book Show, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD Yosemite Renaissance 31, Yosemite Museum Gallery, Yosemite, CA Absence and Presence, SF Center for the Book, San Francisco, CA 6th Annual Altered Book Show, Marin MOCA, Novato, CA Impulse, Arc Gallery, San Francisco CA City Scape & 94109, Studio Gallery, San Francisco CA 36th Annual Mini Works on Paper Show, Jacksonville State University, Jacksonville, AL Seeing Red, Village Theater Art Gallery, Danville, CA Absence and Presence, SF Center for the Book, San Francisco CA In Other Words, Pop-Up Gallery @ Autobody Fine Arts, Alameda, CA Impulse, Arc Gallery, San Francisco CA Red, Russian River Art Gallery, Guerneville, CA ABZ etcetera, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA The Dissected Library, solo show, Market Street Gallery, San Francisco CA
COLLECTIONS
Shakespeare Collection, University of Denver Library, Denver, CO McCabe Library, Swarthmore College Library, Swarthmore, PA Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Washington DC
AWARDS 2012 2010 2009 2005
College of Arts and Sciences Award, 34th Annual Mini Works on Paper Show, Jacksonville, FL Certificate of Honor, Community Artist & Visionary, SF Board of Supervisors “Best of the Bay” Award for “Art in the Alley”, Bay Guardian Fior d’Italia Prize, North Beach Festival
Trying to Silence altered book diptych 20” x 8” X 3” $800 Elizabeth Ashcroft
Upon Rising altered book diptych 18” x 7” X 3” $800
It’s About Time altered book diptych 18” x 8” X 3” $800 Elizabeth Ashcroft
Let Us Go altered book diptych 20” x 8” X 3” $800
Monica Denevan
Songs of the River: Portraits from Burma Monica Denevan has been returning annually to the same small fishing villages in Burma for over a decade. Away from the chaotic cities, she spends her time in tranquil places along the Irrawaddy River that change dramatically with every season, and photographs fishermen and their families. She makes intimate, stylized portraits, mostly of men and boys, in spare and graphic river settings. All of her photographs are constructed, not candid, and it is this, interactive, challenging, and intuitive process that she finds most rewarding. These images are part of an ongoing series. Monica travels light with one camera, one lens, and a few plastic bags full of medium format film. She prints her own silver gelatin prints in her Dogpatch darkroom in editions of 25. She is represented by Scott Nichols Gallery in San Francisco and Serindia Gallery in Bangkok. Monica lives and works in San Francisco.
Monica Denevan Studio Hunters Point Shipyard, Bldg 116, Studio 2 San Francisco CA 94124
website: http://monicadenevan.com/ email: monicadenevan@gmail.com
courtesy of Scott Nichols Gallery
EDUCATION 1987
Bachelor of Arts, Photography, San Francisco State University
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2015 2011 2010
China and Myanmar: Selected Photographs, Serindia Gallery Annex, Bangkok, Thailand Monica Denevan: Photographs, Strand Cruise Ship, Myanmar Portraits from Burma and China, Scott Nichols Gallery, San Francisco CA Monica Denevan ~ Through a Burmese Window, Tao Gallery, Hong Kong Photographs from Burma and China, Angkor Hospital for Children, Angkor, Cambodia Songs of the River: Portraits from Burma, Duncan Miller Gallery, Los Angeles CA Monica Denevan: Burma, San Francisco International Airport Museum, San Francisco CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012
SquaredAlumni, Arc Gallery, San Francisco CA Classics – Selections from the Gallery, Scott Nichols Gallery, San Francisco CA Members’ Juried Exhibition, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel CA Songs of Lao, Hardcover Art Bookshop, Bangkok, Thailand The Summer Show, Scott Nichols Gallery, San Francisco CA Songs of Lao, fundraiser and book signing, Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York NY Songs of Lao, fundraiser and book signing, Serindia Gallery Annex, Bangkok, Thailand The Big Print, Scott Nichols Gallery, San Francisco CA The Summer Show, Scott Nichols Gallery, San Francisco CA Past and Present: 6 Bay Area Photographers, Scott Nichols Gallery, San Francisco CA Fragments of Asia, Exposed Gallery, Moscow, Russia Photography at The Club, Chelsea Health Club, London, England Women: Seeing and Being Seen, Scott Nichols Gallery, San Francisco CA The Perimeter of the World, Rayko Photo Center, San Francisco CA The Summer Show, Scott Nichols Gallery, San Francisco CA Foursquared V, Arc Gallery, San Francisco CA Critical Mass Top 50 Exhibition, Jennifer Schwartz Gallery, Atlanta GA No Strangers, Annenberg Space for Photography, Slideshow Night, Los Angeles CA Take Me Away, SF City Hall (Photo Alliance/SFAC Galleries), San Francisco CA Our Twentieth Anniversary, Scott Nichols Gallery, San Francisco CA Guate Photo Festival, “Looking at Ourselves: Portraits featured on Lenscratch,” Guatemala City, Guatemala
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND PRESS 2016 2015 2014
Friends Without A Border, “Songs of Lao,” Nazraeli Press, US The Sun, June 2016, Issue 486, back inside cover image, US SHOTS, issue no. 131, Spring 2016, Children Issue, page 5, US Bangkok Airways In-flight Magazine, Jan-Feb issue, nine-page feature, Thailand Planches Contacts 03, Autumn 2015, France Top Photography Films photography blog, Sept 30, images and interview, Germany PetaPixel photography blog, March 18, images and interview, US
Divers silver gelatin print 20” x 20” framed $900
Galleon silver gelatin print 20” x 20” framed $900
Monica Denevan
Life Raft silver gelatin print 20” x 20” framed $900
The Race silver gelatin print 20” x 20” framed $900
Monica Denevan
Ivy Jacobsen
Day by Day
The series Day by Day is a meditation on the life cycles found in our natural world. Nature is always changing, whether growing into full bloom or fading back into the earth with seed. I am striving to capture a moment in time. I never underestimate the beauty of nature. I am forever in awe of the endless possibilities found there. Plants have healing properties and in the presence of them bring me peace. My paintings are composed of many thin layers of oil paint, epoxy resin, and other mixed medias on wood panel. Through the multiple semi-transparent layers the trees and plant forms begin to occupy various spaces in the foreground and background, creating the illusion of depth. It is my hope that the viewer is invited into the painting to fully explore the imaginary environment.
website: http://www.ivyjacobsen.com/ email: ivyjacobsen@gmail.com
EDUCATION 2000 1996
B.A, with Honors, Painting and Printmaking Concentrations, San Francisco State University, San Francisco CA Semester Abroad, Art History Concentration, Paris, France
RECENT SOLO/TWO ARTIST EXHIBITIONS 2016 2015 2013 2010
Ethereal, Patricia Rovzar Gallery, Seattle, WA New Works, 201 California Street, San Francisco CA Last Light, 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco CA Alchemy, HANG ART, San Francisco CA
RECENT GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010
Journey In, Patricia Rovzar Gallery, Seattle, WA Elemental, Luna Rienne Gallery, San Francisco CA FourSquared, Arc Studios and Gallery, San Francisco CA Annual Group Show, Patricia Rovzar Gallery, Seattle, WA Affordable Art Series No.4, Luna Rienne Gallery, San Francisco CA Affordable Art Series No.3, Luna Rienne Gallery, San Francisco CA Affordable Art Series No.2, Luna Rienne Gallery, San Francisco CA Annual Group Show, Patricia Rovzar Gallery, Seattle, WA Artmageddon: A Group Holiday Show, Vertical Gallery, Chicago, IL Annual Art Trunk Show, Stephaine Breitbard Fine Arts, Mill Valley CA Annual Group Show, Patricia Rovzar Gallery, Seattle, WA Summer Group Show, Gallery Bergelli, Larkspur CA New Voices New Visions, Gallery Bergelli, Larkspur CA Los Angeles Art Show, Hang Art Gallery Booth, Los Angeles CA The Affordable Art Fair, Hang Art Booth, New York, NY Artspan Benefit Art Show & Auction, SOMArts Bay Gallery, San Francisco CA FourSquared, Arc Studios and Gallery, San Francisco CA
AWARDS 2015 2013 2011
Juror's Choice Award, Artspan Open Studios Exhibition, SOMArts Bay Gallery, San Francisco CA Best Emerging Artist Award, New Voices New Visions, Gallery Bergelli, Larkspur CA Juror's Choice Award, Artspan Benefit Art Show & Auction, SOMArts Bay Gallery, San Francisco CA
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS & COMMISSIONS San Francisco General Hospital, Peabody Memphis Hotel, Four Seasons Hotel, Emory Hotel, San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, Woodruff-Sawyer & Company, Embarcadero Technologies, Keller Medical Institute, Best Best Krieger,Prospect Restaurant, Accel Partners, Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass, Sepiatone, Greylock, Jones Day, Seattle Cancer Center, Caesar’s Palace, Swedish Hospital RECENT BIBLIOGRAPHY 2015 2014
Alex Mac, Some Artists That You Should Not Miss at Open Studios WKND 1, BrokeAssStuart.com, October 16th Painting Plants, Ivy Jacobsen, vsemart.com, August 8th Jason Jose, Paintings by Ivy Jacobsen, www.faithistorment.com, November 28th Rivka Stein, Magical Realism Paintings by Ivy Jacobsen, YouArts.Quora.com, September 21st E. Ashley Rooney with Margery Goldberg, Green Art: Trees, Leaves and Roots, Schiffer Publishing
Day by Day No. 1 oil & resin on wood panel 16” x 16” $1200
Day by Day No. 2 oil & resin on wood panel 16” x 16” $1200
Ivy Jacobsen
Day by Day No. 3 oil & resin on wood panel 16” x 16” $1200
Day by Day No. 4 oil & resin on wood panel 16” x 16” $1200
Ivy Jacobsen
Sarah M. Newton The fore-shore There is a 500 mile trail planned to run the circumference of the entire San Francisco bay, of which currently about 350 miles have been built. This completed distance is not a continuous length but is separated by gaps where obstacles block access.
hand on the environment.
It is a marginal zone here, where industries and people are pushed out to the edges of the populated areas to face away from the cities and suburbs. On the land power plants, airports, trailer parks, jails, concrete yards and other urban outliers stand near the water’s edge. Below them are salt ponds and canals, houseboats in hidden marinas, power lines running through the marshes. It is also a marginal zone of course in that it is the very edge of the ocean; fragile, constantly changing, holding a mixed slurry of garbage and abundant life, and it will be the shifting margin where people soon will see the drastic longer-term effects of our
The drawings are of the discernible endpoints of the trail sections where they hit the construction sites, industry, and restricted areas that prevent the trail from completing the circuit. Many of those obstacles, like the airports, petroleum storage tanks, and power stations, are linked directly to the future changes that could imperil their own landscape. In the naming of coastal zones, the foreshore is the area between the high and low water lines, most influenced by the changing tides. It is also less specifically the area between the water and developed land. To me the name has an echo of apprehension or expectancy: forecast, foresight, foreshadow. It’s been almost 30 years that the trail has been under construction; sea level projections for 2050 could now measure the rising water in feet, not inches. In another 30 years we may be standing at the water’s edge before the circuit can be completed. website: http://sarahmnewton.carbonmade.com email: sarah@sarahmnewton.com
EDUCATION California College of Arts and Crafts, BFA Printmaking, 1997 SELECT RECENT EXHIBITIONS 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010-
The Way You Make Me Feel, A.Muse Gallery, San Francisco, CA Located Place, Kresge Gallery Lyon College, Batesville, AR Paper Jam, Bone Black Gallery, Austin, TX Urban Aces, Sixtysix Gallery, Albuquerque, NM Nexus: A Portfolio of Bay Area Etchers, Southern Graphics Conference, SFSU, San Francisco, CA California Etchers Currents, Diablo Valley College Art Gallery, Pleasant Hill, CA Urban Grit, Gary Francis Gallery, Alameda, CA After Hours, Peterson Gallery Green Library, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA A Matter of Light, Inclusions Gallery, San Francisco. CA New Prints 2014/Autumn: Somewheres and Nowheres, IPCNY, New York, NY Retrospective 7, Inclusions Gallery, San Francisco, CA 5 Printmakers, Inclusions Gallery, San Francisco, CA Connect & Collect, San Jose ICA, San Jose, CA Retrospective 6, Inclusions Gallery, San Francisco, CA Centering the Margin, Root Division, San Francisco, CA Altered Landscapes, Workspace Gallery, San Francisco, CA Inked Surfaces, Diablo Valley College Art Gallery, Pleasant Hill, CA In Extremis, Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, CA That’s It: Liquor Beer Wine, San Francisco Center for the Book, San Francisco, CA Off the Press, Halden Art Gallery, Tahoe Community College, South Lake Tahoe, CA Selections 2010, California Modern Gallery, San Francisco, CA City Subject, Back to the Picture, San Francisco, CA Dream Day Drawing, Southern Graphics Conference, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA A Condition of the Spirit, Solano Community College and Fairfield Center Gallery, Solano, CA
AWARDS & RESIDENCIES 2014 2009 2007 2002 1999 1997
Fellowship Residency, Playa Residency Program, Summer Lake, OR James D. Phelan Art Award in Printmaking Honorable Mention Artspan Juried Benefit Auction, Representational Art Award, San Francisco, CA Pacific Prints, Pacific Art League of Palo Alto, CA Works On Paper, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA Delta National Small Prints Purchase Award, Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, AR,
PUBLICATIONS
New American Paintings #91, Dec. 2010/ Jan. 2011 DeWitt Chang, “Complementaries”, East Bay Express, Nov. 4, 2009
Burlingame India ink wash and white watercolor with white chalk on grey paper 25” x 20.5” framed $950
Burlingame Fisherman’s Park India ink wash and white watercolor with white chalk on grey paper 25” x 20.5” framed $950
Sarah M. Newton
Hunters Point India ink wash and white watercolor with white chalk on grey paper 25” x 20.5” framed $950
Treasure Island India ink wash and white watercolor with white chalk on grey paper 25” x 20.5” framed $950
Sarah M. Newton
Jann Nunn
Tusk My content driven artwork primarily takes the form of sculpture, large-scale sculptural installations, and works on paper engendering both conceptual and poetic sensibilities. Copious research and gut instinct- a marriage of head and heart- inform the decisions in each of my site-related, site-specific, situation-responsive projects. Not unlike words in a poem, material selection along with scale and presentation become greater than the sum of their often-unrelated parts. The driving force behind my work resides in conjoining idea and aesthetic. Often described as a draw-you-in kind of beautiful, my art embodies a strong physical presence with carefully considered and often laborious craft, yet the ideas remain paramount. I use a variety of materials including welded steel and stainless steel, cast bronze, glass, lead, fiberglass, paper and wood. I’ve held a life-long penchant for creating sculpture out of repurposed materials, including the archival microprint paper used in the sculptures for the Tusk series. This beautiful coated paper, replete with information accessible only through magnification, was spared from the landfill when a librarian at Sonoma State University had the foresight to send it my way. I’ve enjoyed creating sculptures out of this material since 2012.
website: http://jann-nunn.com/ email: jann@jann-nunn.com
EDUCATION 1992 1991 1988
San Francisco Art Institute, MFA Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture University of Alaska Anchorage, BFA
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENT 1999 - present
Professor of Sculpture, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA
RECENT EXHIBITIONS 2017 Marking Space, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA Material Matter, Seager Gray Gallery, Mill Valley, CA Personals: Small Objects, Skowhegan, New York, NY 2016 NextNewPaper,San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA Geometric Reflections, Kate Eilertsen, curator; Paradise Ridge Winery, Santa Rosa, CA 2015 Cadence and Rhythm, Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland, CA Disruption, Tom Moran, curator; Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ 2014 Breathing Space: New Sculptural Installations, Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland, CA 2013 Jann Nunn Sculpture and Works on Paper, Hammerfriar Gallery, Healdsburg, CA Arc of the Atlas, Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland, CA 2012 PROJECT: Jann Nunn,Pro Arts, Oakland, CA The Elements of Style, Bullet Space, New York, NY 2011 DECORATIVE PUNCH: the #$&*()^% of Logorrhoea, ABC No Rio, New York, NY 2010 The Ides of March, ABC No Rio, New York, NY 2009 Erna and Arthur Salm Holocaust & Genocide Memorial Grove, Permanently Sited Public Sculpture Commissioned by the Center for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA The Seduction of Duchamp: Bay Area Artists’ Response, Hanna Regev, curator; Slaughterhouse Gallery, Healdsburg, CA 2006 Recent Acquisitions, Michael Schwager, curator; di Rosa Preserve, Napa, CA 2001 As She Seems, Space 743, San Francisco, CA Burning Man Festival, Commissioned Theme Art Installation; Black Rock Arts Foundation, Black Rock City, Nevada 2000 Korean Sculpture-Worldwide Sculpture, 38th Nak Woo Sculptor’s Society International Exhibition; Moran Museum of Art, Gyunggi-do, Korea 1999 Ban/Ban, Korean Culture and Art Center Foundation, Seoul, Korea 1998 New Sculptural Installations. Space 743, San Francisco, CA A Skowhegan Decade. David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY Skulpturen Ertasten und Nachformen, Kunstmuseum, Düsseldorf, Germany 1997 Vanity Not Protection, Atelier Höherweg, Düsseldorf, Germany RESIDENCES 1997 1996 1993-96 1989 1987
Atelier Höherweg, eV Düsseldorf, Germany Villa Montalvo Saratoga, California Headlands Center for the Arts, Affiliate Artist Sausalito, California Prema Arts Centre Uley, Gloucestershire, England Tout Quarry Sculpture Park Portland, Dorset, England Chesil Gallery Portland, Dorset, England
Tusk II # 1 & 2 hand-cut archival microprint paper, bronze, stainless steel 30� x 10� $2500 each (available as a pair at $4500)
Jann Nunn
Tusk III # 1 & 2 hand-cut archival microprint paper, charred wood, stainless steel, cast plastic 12” x 5” x 9” $1250 each (available as a pair at $2200)
Jann Nunn
Kirsten Tradowsky
Sightseers Painting is a means of excavation. My work starts with a found image, often discarded at an estate sale or buried online. Whether it is a forgotten family snapshot or a stack of dishes, the objects are reanimated through the act of painting. In the process, lines, light, and details are dramatized and diminished, uncovering new meaning that encourages a dialogue across time. My work has been exhibited throughout the United States, including Tinlark Gallery in Los Angeles and Red Dot Art Fair in New York. I earned a BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art and an MFA from the California College of the Arts. I currently work in San Francisco.
website: http://www.kirstentradowsky.com email: kirstentrad@yahoo.com
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 2017 2016 2014 2010 2009 2007
TimeFlip, SHOH Gallery, Berkeley CA Classic Palm Springs, Geras Tousignaut Gallery, Palm Springs CA Explorations, Hang Art, San Francisco CA 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 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2013 2013 2012 2010 2009
48 Pillars, Arc Gallery, San Francisco CA Fresh stART, Arena 1 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Face Value, Gensler Art, San Francisco CA Hello My Name Is, Hang Art, San Francisco CA Allegory, Hang Art, San Francisco CA FourSquared, Arc Gallery, 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
SELECT PRESS/PUBLICATIONS 2014 2010
The Jealous Curator Fine Arts Blog by Danielle Krysa Watercolor Day CD Design songs by Seth Swirsky
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
Georgia with Camper oil on panel 14” x 11” $950
Poolside Party oil on panel 14” x 11” $950
Kirsten Tradowsky
Sandra and Ruth oil on panel 14” x 11” $950
Sightseeing oil on panel 14” x 11” $950
Kirsten Tradowsky
Sandra Yagi
Circus Twins
My work is inspired by the natural sciences, the anatomical studies of such artists as Andreas Vesalius, Bernhard Siegfried Albinus and naturalists John Gould and John James Audubon, as well as the traditional drawing and painting techniques of the old masters. I have painted several series featuring conjoined fetal twin skeletons. These skeletal figures with severe deformities are portrayed while undertaking great feats of athleticism and grace. The challenge is to bring together the incongruity of deformity paired with perfection of movement, and make it look believable. In nature, such deformities are often incompatible with survival, but in my paintings, the little skeletons are performing in the circus, in amazing acrobatic feats requiring strength and extreme coordination. The Circus Twins paintings were inspired by Cirque du Soleil.
website: http://www.sandrayagi.com/ email: sandrayagi@gmail.com
SANDRA YAGI is a largely self-taught artist based in San Francisco. Her working studios is at the Pacific Felt Factory. She has exhibited extensively since 1998. EDUCATION 1988 1985 1979
Otis Parsons School of Design, Los Angeles CA M.B.A., University of Colorado at Denver, Denver CO B.S., cum laude, University of Colorado at Denver, Denver CO
RECENT SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2018 2015 2012 2011
Bert Green Fine Art, Chicago IL Bert Green Fine Art, Chicago IL Bert Green Fine Art, Chicago IL Bone Room, Berkeley CA Primal Renderings, Modern Eden Gallery, San Francisco CA Bert Green Fine Art, Los Angeles CA
RECENT GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2017 2016 2015 2014
48 Pillars, Arc Gallery, San Francisco CA beinart Gallery, Brunswick, AU Lover’s Eye, Modern Eden Gallery, San Francisco CA FourSquared, Arc Gallery, San Francisco CA Unnatural Histories V, Antler Gallery, Portland OR Destinesia, Stephen Romano Gallery, Brooklyn NY Dreams and Divinities, Atelier Gustave, Paris, France The Known Universe, Root Division, San Francisco Inaugural Exhibit, beinart Gallery, Brunswick, AU beinArt International Surreal Art Collective Group exhibition Copro Gallery, Santa Monica CA Bash Fine Art, Las Vegas NV Garden of Fernal Delights, Bash Contemporary, San Francisco CA Storybook, Modern Eden Gallery, San Francisco CA Dreams and Divinities,Luminarte Gallery, Dallas TX Macabre Gallery, Gallery X, Dublin, Ireland Myth, Magic and Lore, Bash Contemporary, San Francisco CA Endangered Visions, Manila Art 2014, Manila, Philippines MEDinART at the Vesalius Continuum, Zakynthos, Greece, video presentation of art On Beauty, Modern Eden Gallery, San Francisco CA
PRIVATE COLLECTIONS:
Axl Rose, Chris Vroom, Cesar Chavez, Paul Ruscha, Collection of Robert and Joan Williams, Collection of Robert Smith and Gary Noguera, Lee Unkrich, Ben Stiller & Christine Taylor, Robin Standefer and Stephen Alesch, Christie La Russell and Anne Zeller, Leslie Morgan, Susan Schen, Douglas and Amy Catlin, Renee Muzic, Susan Bolles, Josh Jaffe, Bert Green, Michael Yochum & Priscilla Otani, Laura and Sam Craven, Donna Regan, Sherry Mattson, Andrew Briggs, Tanya Wilkinson, Miley Cyrus and many more
GALLERY REPRESENTATION AND AFFILIATIONS Bert Green Fine Art, Chicago IL Bash Contemporary, Las Vegas NV Macabre Gallery, London UK
Circus Twins - Circle oil on panel 12” x 12” $1300
Circus Twins - Equestrian oil on panel 12” x 12” $1300
Sandra Yagi
Circus Twins - Fire oil on panel 12” x 12” $1300
Circus Twins - Ribbon oil on panel 12” x 12” $1300
Sandra Yagi
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