Catalog cover designed by Stephen C. Wagner Catalog interior designed by Karen Gutfreund Tamiko Sidore, Exhibition Administrator Copyright 2017 by Arc Gallery & Studios
San Francisco Summer of Love Events Organized by San Francisco Travel and the California Historical Society, highlights include the following: • “All Power to the People: Black Panthers at 50” at the Oakland Museum of California, Oct. 8, 2016 Feb. 12, 2017 • “Bruce Connor: It’s all True” at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Oct. 29, 2016 - Jan. 22, 2017 • “Jim Marshall: Summer of Love” at the San Francisco Arts Commission Galleries at City Hall, Jan. 26 June 1, 2017 • “Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia” at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), Feb. 8 - May 21, 2017 “Summer of Love” at the de Young Museum, April 15 - Aug. 20, 2017 “Intersection of Revolutions: The Road to the Haight-Ashbury, 1967” at the California Historical Society, May 11 - Sept. 8, 2017 • “Summer of Love” by Smuin Contemporary Ballet at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, May 2017 • A Summer of Love exhibition at the Mexican Museum, June 1 - Aug. 20, 2017 • “Flower Power” at the Asian Art Museum, June 16 - Oct. 1, 2017 • Summer of Love 50th Anniversary Concert, June 2017 • 15th Annual “Jerry Day” concert in celebration of what would have been Jerry Garcia’s 75th year, Aug. 6, 2017 • San Francisco Public Library’s Summer of Love Exhibition • Sunday Streets events throughout 2017 in partnership with It’s Your District • San Francisco Giants Summer of Love-themed home games and additional activities Additional events showcasing this special moment in time include “The Summer of Weird” at the annual How Weird Street Festival (May 7, 2017), the 40th Annual Haight Ashbury Street Festival (June, 2017), the Monterey Pop Festival 2017 (June 16-18, 2017) and “Let the FUN Shine In!” at the Marin County Fair (June 30-July 4, 2017). Plans are currently underway for additional lectures, service and volunteerism events, personal appearances and other “happenings.” https://www.pubclub.com http://www.sftravel.com/summer-love-2017 A special website has been set up devoted to everything about the Summer of Love and it’s 50th anniversary: summeroflove2017.com.
About SUMMER OF LOVE During the summer of 1967, as many as 100,000 young people converged on Haight-Ashbury, making San Francisco the epicenter of the hippie revolution and a melting pot of music, psychedelic drugs, sexual freedom, creative expression, and politics. The year 2017 marks the 50th Anniversary of the Summer of Love in San Francisco. The artists in this exhibition recreate and celebrate the amazing revolution that started in the Haight-Ashbury and Golden Gate Park and changed the world forever.
About the Jurors Arc Gallery founders and managing partners Matthew Frederick, Priscilla Otani, Stephen C. Wagner and Michael Yochum juried the works for Summer of Love. Matthew Frederick is the founder of Art Farm, an artists’ collective at 1890 Bryant, where he maintains his studio. Priscilla Otani is a board member of the Northern California Women’s Caucus for Art and maintains her studio at Arc Studios. Stephen C. Wagner is the founder of the Studio Fine Artist Network that provides professional development programs for visual artists and maintains his studio at Arc Studios. Michael Yochum is the founder of Arc Fine Arts Consulting, which connects San Francisco Bay Area collectors and businesses with local art and artists.
About Arc Arc Studios & Gallery features ten artist studios, a 1,000 sq. ft. art gallery, two smaller galleries and an art education center, along with the Kearny Street Workshop office, the Studio Fine Artist Network office and VEGA Coffee kiosk. Arc is located at 1246 Folsom Street, between 8th and 9th streets in San Francisco's SOMA neighborhood. Arc supports the making of quality art in all media, provides a nurturing environment for artists to create their work, builds a community of artists to encourage exploration of art, provides resources for the professional development of visual artists, and promotes appreciation of the visual arts in the city of San Francisco. http://www.arc-sf.com/summer-of-love1.html
FEATURED ARTISTS NEW BOHEMIA SIGNS in the Project Gallery at Arc David Benzler Ashley Fundora
Patrick Piccolo Damon Styer New Bohemia Signs has been dealing exclusively in hand painted signs in San Francisco for a quarter century now, fully half of all the years since the Summer of Love, having been founded in 1992 by journeyman entrepreneur Steve Karbo, who insists that he owned the first shop to sell bell-bottomed jeans on Haight Street! We are designers and sign writers who appreciate the art of a good looking hand-painted sign, and want nothing more than to keep spreading their love with a brush.
David Benzler ASS, GAS, or GRASS, Nobody rides for FREE Enamel on overlay plywood, 39.5 x 14 x .5 inches, 2017
David Benzler Hippies Use Side Door Enamel on overlay plywood, 22 x 14 x .5 inches, 2017
Ashley Fundora Love Trumps Hate Draft sketch, 2017
Ashley Fundora Going Furthur Draft sketch, 2017
Ashley Fundora 1967 Draft sketch, 2017
Patrick Piccolo PEACE Enamel on overlay plywood, 24 x 11.75 x .5 inches, 2017
Patrick Piccolo FREE! Enamel on overlay plywood, 10.5 x 4.5 x .5 inches, 2017
Patrick Piccolo DROP OUT Enamel on overlay plywood, 12.5 x 7 x .5 inches, 2017
Damon Styer Orange Sunshine Enamel on particle board, 30 x 13 inches, 2017
Damon Styer Tune In Turn On Drop Out (vermilion, teal, and rainbow outline) Enamel on plywood, 20 x 20 x .5 inches, 2016
FEATURED ARTIST HILARY WILLIAMS in the Project Gallery at Arc
BIO: Hilary Williams is an artist living and working in the San Francisco Bay Area. She creates fine art screen prints on paper, mixed media paintings and illustrations in which she takes inspiration from her environments, the urban and natural landscapes and a fantastical imagination. Hilary received her BA in Printmaking from California College of the Arts. STATEMENT: San Francisco has been the most influential city in my life and I love to celebrate all things about it. The wonderful Victorian architecture has always been a source of artistic inspiration to me as well as the landscape and landmarks of the city. I created pieces to compliment and contrast the urban qualities of this big little city with nature and floral motifs and subjects that speak to how I feel about San Francisco, its culture and people, from past to present.
www.hilaryatthecircus.com
Hilary Williams Bringing Life Times Limited edition screen print on paper, 34 x 42 inches, 2016
Hilary Williams Good Life SoirĂŠe Limited edition screen print on paper, 11 x 11 inches, 2015
Hilary Williams Red Jazzed Limited edition screen print on paper, 16 x 20 inches, 2015
Hilary Williams Innocence of Memory Limited edition screen print on paper, 32 x 26 inches, 2014
SUMMER OF LOVE ARTISTS
Dan Alcazar Turn on Wood, 20 x 16 inches, 2017
Amanda Baker Psychedelic Black Lives Matter Acrylic ink on paper, 17 x 11 inches, 2017
Jennifer Banzaca The Harvey girls Acrylic on canvas, 20 x 20 inches, 2016
Brandin Barรณn ...and sought slumber in a bower of leaves Linocut and digital overlay on parchment with gouache and enamel, 8.5 x 11 inches, 2017
Jennifer Clifford Me and Bobby McGee Acrylic paint and screen print ink on vintage wallpaper attached to a wood panel, 20 x 10 inches, 2017
Nikki Dance Split the Heart Colored pencil and brush marker on paper, 14 x 9 inches, 2017
Peter Diggs The Kiss Wood framed canvas print, 23.75 x 19.75 inches, 2014
Loring Doyle Humm 2 lips Canvas and wood, 18 x 24 inches, 2016
Fiona Fahey Feed Your Head Pencil, 19 x 12 inches, 2017 Juror Award
Amber Fua Woodland Counterculture Plastic, foam, wood, cork, moss, dried plants, twigs, bone, fur, hide, 22.5 x 8 x 21 inches, 2015
Sylvia Gardner psychedelica Polar metal paper, 14 x 11 inches, 2015 Juror Award
Carla W. Gelbaum Ninth Bloom Acrylic on canvas, 48 x 24 inches, 2017
Dilcia Giron Acid Love Paper collage on wood, 30 x 24 inches, 2017
Dennis Hearne Hippy Hill Arrest Archival digital photo, 13.5 x 19.5 inches, 1966
Dennis Hearne Dancing Couple Archival digital photo, 20 x 29 inches, 1968
Susan Elting Hillyard Jerry Garcia #1 Photo on aluminum plate, 24 x 16 inches, 1966
Johnny Karwan MY LOTUS HEART Birch, poplar and Acrylic paint with varnish, 14 x 11 x 2 inches, 2016
John Kraft Daydream Believer 2-D Mixed Media and Resin on Wood, 26 x 24 x 1.5 inches, 2017
Jennifer Landau The Haight Felted handspun wool, woven fabrics, 16 x 16 x 18 inches, 2017
Jennifer Landau Haight Legs Watercolor, 16.5 x 22 inches, 2008
Liz Mamorsky Inscape Acrylic on canvas, 36 x 42 inches, 1967
Linda Joy Kattwinkel and Miles Kattwinkel Ceralde Love Trumps Hate Limited Edition Digital print—Artists’ Proof, 18 x 18 inches, 2017 Juror Award
Seren Moran Frankly Stellar Acrylic on canvas, 26 x 28 inches, 2015
Gigi Ordway Peace Block in Denim and Orange-2 Canvas, denim, leather, newsprint, on stretched canvas block, 4 x 4 x 1.5 inches, 2017
Mallika Prakash Lustcicles Acrylic on canvas, 18 x 36 inches, 2017
Mallika Prakash LSD:Liberty, Self and Defiance Acrylic on canvas, 18 x 36 inches, 2017
Fernando Reyes Groovin' Hand printed paper cutouts and oil on wood panel, 30 x 30 x 2 inches, 2017
Summer Romasco Busy Being Free, Orange Acrylic and screenprint on canvas-covered panel, 24 x 24 x 2 inches, 2014
Cleng Sumagaysay Human BE-in Acrylic on canvas, 10 x 8 inches, 2017
Mari Tepper God Grows His Own/ Her Own/ Hermone 3 variations of a pot poster; archival digital prints in a 3-window mat, 12 x 36 inches, 1967, 2000, 2003
Randy Titchenal A Whiter Shade of Pale Mixed media on plexiglas, 12 x 12 x 1.5 inches, 2016
Robin van Wijk Spread the Love Paper, print ink, 23 x 17.5 inches, 2017
Lola Untitled #2 Tinted resin on wood panel, 24 x 24 x 3 inches, 2017
Lola Untitled #3 Tinted resin on wood panel, 24 x 24 x 2 inches, 2017
ARTIST DIRECTORY Dan Alcazar, Fairfield, CA Amanda Baker, Napa, CA Jennifer Banzaca, San Francisco, CA Brandin Barรณn, San Francisco, CA David Benzler, San Francisco, CA Jennifer Clifford, San Francisco, CA Nikki Dance, Miranda, CA Peter Diggs, San Francisco, CA Loring Doyle, San Rafael, CA Fiona Fahey, San Francisco, CA Amber Fua, San Francisco, CA Ashley Fundora, San Francisco, CA Sylvia Gardner, Salinas, CA Carla W. Gelbaum, Moraga, CA Dilcia Giron, San Francisco, CA Dennis Hearne, San Francisco, CA Susan Elting Hillyard, Santa Cruz, CA Johnny Karwan, San Francisco, CA Linda Joy Kattwinkel & Miles Kattwinkel Ceralde, San Francisco, CA John Kraft, San Rafael, CA Jennifer Landau, San Francisco, CA Jennifer Landau, San Francisco, CA Lola, Richmond, CA Liz Mamorsky, San Francisco, CA Seren Moran, El Cerrito, CA Gigi Ordway, Mill Valley, CA Patrick Piccolo, Oakland, CA Mallika Prakash, San Francisco, CA Fernando Reyes, Oakland, CA Summer Romasco, Oakland, CA Damon Styer, San Francisco, CA Cleng Sumagaysay, Dublin, CA Mari Tepper, San Francisco, CA Randy Titchenal, Alameda, CA Robin van Wijk, Oakland, CA Hilary Williams, Santa Rosa, CA