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A SUMMER GROUP EXHIBIT BY
Kelly Allen | Meegan Barnes | Laura Berger | Heather Day Monica Kim Garza | Kate Klingbeil | Nathan Mckee | Kelly Ording
KELLY ALLEN
Kelly Allen is interested in creating work that portrays the unity of life on earth. Allen’s work is primarily fueled by the desire to build a bridge between our ancestral connection to the natural world and contemporary society. Acting from our current side of that bridge, she seeks to create a renewed respect and appreciation for the fantastic flora and fauna that shares the earth with us. Allen is a native of Michigan and an alumna of Humboldt State University. She earned her undergraduate degree in Studio Art from Humboldt State, graduating summa cum laude in 2003. She later went on to a residency at the Ox-Bow School of Art. In 2008 Allen earned an MFA with and emphasis in drawing from the Kendall college of Art and Design.
KELLY ALLEN Ejszaka (night) Cotton, acrylic, wood, plastisol ~ 28 inches $650
MEEGAN BARNES
Meegan Barnes is a Los Angeles based, multi disciplinary artist and sculptor. Her work, which usually features a voluptuous derriere, is cheeky, irreverent and empowering. It’s feminine and feminist, it’s got grit, it’s got glamour. Her sculptures are tooted in the tradition of craft with nods to ancient artifacts and folklore, spiritual symbolism, warrior women and pop culture. Originally form the Bay Area, Barnes lived in New York as an illustrator for the fashion, beauty, and music industries before she went to Brazil and sculpted her first derriere. “Butts are sensual, symmetrical, and also represent a duality that’s a big part of my own personality.”
MEEGAN BARNES Dripping in Gold Booty ceramic stoneware, glazes and 22 kt gold luster 12 x 10 x 8.5 inches $2,000 (set) Please contact info@stephaniechefas.com for individual pricing on pieces
MEEGAN BARNES Versace Booty ceramic stoneware, glazes and 22 kt gold luster 13 x 12 x 9 inches $2,000 (set) Please contact info@stephaniechefas.com for individual pricing on pieces
LAURA BERGER
Laura Berger is an artist based in Chicago, working primarily in acrylic and gouache. Her work focuses on exploring the connections to ourselves and each other, and the idea of finding novelty and adventure in everyday life. Rituals, symbols, nature, dreams, travel, the quest for selfdevelopment inspire Berger, along with how we piece it all together to create personal meaning and a sense of belonging to the greater whole.
LAURA BERGER Warmer Together acrylic and acrylic gouache on cradled wood panel 20 x 16 inches $800
LAURA BERGER Our Waves acrylic and acrylic gouache on cradled wood panel 20 x 16 inches $800
HEATHER DAY
Heather Day is an artist living and working in the San Francisco Bay Area. Day grew up in Hawaii and along the east coast of the United States, finally moving to San Francisco after graduating from Maryland Institute College of Art with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in painting and art history. Her background in travel and culture encouraged her to see more of the world, where she discovered a connection to nature - her main source of inspiration. Day’s art is a form of visual storytelling interested in conveying moments of interactions. She works primarily with paint and nontraditional materials, and is known for her murals. The philosophy that everything is a product of an experience frames each work, conveying stories of movement and ideas of color through seams, lines, and layers.
HEATHER DAY Stacks at Home #1 soft pastel, acrylic and spray paint on paper 30 x 22 inches $750
HEATHER DAY Objects in Your Pocket #1 soft pastel, graphite, acrylic and spray paint on paper 30 x 22 inches $750
MONICA KIM GARZA
Monica Kim Garza creates work that celebrates the female form. Painting and sculpting women (primarily in the nude), Garza places her dark skinned full bodied models in contemporary situations: on motorbikes, surfboards and sitting in bed looking at their cellphones. Inspired by her own daily experiences chasing boys and daydreaming, Monica’s lush figurative paintings evoke a playful sensuality that mirrors the artists own life. Using bold and vibrant sketches the half Korean, half Mexican-American artist draws further influence from hip-hop culture and strong female artists such as Frida Kahlo and Selena.
MONICA KIM GARZA Cake Con Leche acrylic on canvas paper 18 x 24 inches $600
MONICA KIM GARZA Juice and the Squeeze acrylic and tempura on canvas paper 18 x 24 inches $650
KATE KLINGBEIL
“My work is about the awkward moment, the time in between feeling comfortable and melting in embarrassment. These fleeting ideas floating in my boiling blood, laid out in creamy texture and sweeping lines are a tangible translation of life, as it exists inside. There is a satisfying serenity involved in visually mapping emotions. Painting is a way to organize these thoughts, to deconstruct confusing emotions, to process life, to slow down and make sensations tangible. Feelings change, and I am attached to the idea of the non-committal painting. I paint in sections, small pieces that are meticulously cut and arranged to form complete thoughts. I have the power to move and arrange images as I see fit. Using multiple techniques, I organize picture to explain an intuition, where each process provides me with it’s own separate satisfaction. Each piece is a choreographed dance, an emotion laid out in ink, suspended in animation, balancing on pinheads. These paintings are records in time, and are carefully curated questions to myself. Each one acts as a puzzle of feelings in times of sedation, seduction, elation, anxiety and obsession.”
KATE KLINGBEIL Lush As the Underside of August acrylic, paperclay and gouache on wood panel 9 x 12 inches $750
KATE KLINGBEIL Making the Barren Fruitful Again acrylic and gouache on wood panel 18 x 24 inches $1,100
NATHAN MCKEE
Nathan McKee is an artist and illustrator who lives and works in Portland, Oregon. McKee’s illustrations and paper cutouts utilize simple lines and flat color, and are inspired by comics, sports, music and other elements of popular culture. His works have been included in exhibitions in Portland, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, Cleveland, Boston, and Switzerland. McKee runs the websites fakeyourowndeath.com and makentakem.com. Additionally, McKee has created the fanzine’s ‘Hang Time’ and ‘Blazerzine’ that espouses Blazers. McKee has studied at the Pacific Northwest College of Art.
NATHAN MCKEE The Eddie archival paper cut 17 x 20 inches (framed) $500
NATHAN MCKEE Party Wave archival paper cut 17 x 20 inches (framed) $500
KELLY ORDING
Kelly Ording creates artwork that blends organic and geometric shapes with exact lines, pairing intuitive and mathematical markmaking. In doing so, she attempts to create and find beauty in simple things. Her pieces are as much about their creation process as the resulting imagery. Ording is a graduate of San Francisco Art Institute. In addition to fine art, she creates large-scale public works and murals for locations such as Clarion Alley, Pelaga Park Recreation Center, Genentech, Facebook, and Kala Art Institute. This summer, she will complete a large-scale paving project at Unity Plaza, in conjunction with the San Francisco Department of Public Works and the San Francisco Arts Commission.
KELLY ORDING Paloma acrylic on dyed canvas 18 x 18 inches $1,600
KELLY ORDING Rockaway acrylic on dyed canvas 18 x 18 inches $1,600
A SUMMER GROUP EXHIBIT BY Kelly Allen | Meegan Barnes | Laura Berger | Heather Day Monica Kim Garza | Kate Klingbeil | Nathan Mckee | Kelly Ording
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