Liz Mamorsky
Mackerel Sky at Twilight (2021)
Photo print: dye sublimation on metal
12 x 12"
"Since graduation from Bennington College in 1960, I have exhibited my unique reclaimed materials sculpture, studio furniture, visionary paintings, drawings and photography nationally and internationally, starting with The International Young Artists Exhibition in Osaka, Japan. My work resides in numerous public and private collections including: Tonellerie Taransaud, Cognac; The Spertus Museum, Chicago; The Oakland Museum of California, Sony Corporation, First National Bank of Arizona, Francois Freres, St. Romain, France, and Paramount Pictures for the set of Star Trek: Voyager."
"I am an urban explorer, fascinated by the photographic possibilities of everyday life. Drawn to the strange and quirky, I feel like I'm living in a film, framing shots as I move along, my painter’s eye visually reclaiming bits and pieces of the environment. The streets are teeming with all sorts of wonderful images just waiting to be captured; serendipitous events of irony, beauty, humor and pathos.…I love them all!"
Courtesy of Liz Mamorsky
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Lora Danley
Village Funk (2020)
Metal c-print
12 x 18"
"The piece is called Viilage Funk in part because most of the images contained in it were shot from the graffiti and paint drippings in the East Village of New York City. Various images were blended together on the computer, while erasing some parts and amplifying others. The red and white lines throughout the image give a feeling of vibrance and movement, while the darker tones of blues, blacks, and browns, give a more calming and hypnotic feel."
Courtesy of Lora Danley
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Lucky Rapp
“IN ORDER TO EXCEL…” WILLIE MAYS (2023)
Mixed media, resin, found object
12 x 12 x 2.5”
"My work combines inquisitive, whimiscal statements that play with both language and the potency of graphic communication, while pushing the three-dimensional nature of layered resin forms."
"From Babe Ruth to Jackie Robinson, to Yogi Berra, to Willie Mays, to Hank Aaron, and to all the quotes and idioms throughout time, we celebrate America’s greatest pastime to this very day. From the “Say Hey Kid”, to the breakthroughs of Jackie Robinson, the trailblazer of equality, to the “GOAT”–we observe throughout history the game of Baseball as it reflects life, as it parallels through the words and quotes from the greatest players of all time. My series, ‘PLAY BALL!’, reflects the past as it relates to the present. It is a study of the relationship between our lives throughout history and “the greatest sport of all time”, as Babe Ruth said."
Courtesy of Lucky Rapp
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Lump
"Rafael Dudley" (2023)
Acrylic on wood
16 x 20"
Matt Lumpkins is a painter who has been making art since childhood. He has been a community member at CAP for two years and is influenced by comic books.
Courtesy of Lump & Hospitality House Community Arts Program.
Preview in person at MothBelly, 912 Larkin St. SF
Maja Planinac
Thoughts (2016)
Metal print in a black frame
19 x 13"
"I find a way to express what is inside of me through surreal self-portraits. Once I discovered photography, it felt like I had found my voice, and I began to communicate—not just with others through my work but also with myself. The process itself is intimate. I capture the emotion that resembles what I feel. I don't show my face in my work, leaving space for others to see themselves."
Courtesy of Maja Planinac & the Pamela Walsh Gallery.
Preview in person at Rosebud Gallery, 839 Larkin St. SF
Mario Navasero
Vessel of Happiness #1 (2022)
Acrylic & spray paint on wood
12.5 x 15.5 x 2"
Courtesy of Mario Navasero and Voss Gallery.
Preview in person at Drawing Room ANNEX, 599 Valencia St. SF
Mary Kalin-Casey
Inside/Outside I (2022)
Acrylic on panel
31 x 25”
"My previous series, Dressed, explored themes of isolation while also playing with pattern in abstract compositions. Inside/Outside continues that emotional focus in more narrative, personal settings. All of the subjects in this series face an internal debate, asking themselves, 'How ready am I to face the world?'"
Courtesy of Mary Kalin-Casey
Preview in person at Rosebud Gallery, 839 Larkin St. SF
Maureen Shields
Gastropods, Polyplacophorans, and Cephalopods (2023)
Mixed media on wood
24 x 24"
Artist Maureen Shields was born and raised in Southern California. She earned a BFA in Drawing and Painting from California State University Long Beach and a MFA from New York University.
She makes mixed media works on wood that combine paint, collage, handmade stickers, gold leaf, and glitter. Her printed matter and source material range from vintage LIFE magazines from the 1950s to vintage Playboy magazines from the 1970s and 80s.
Courtesy of Maureen Shields
Preview in person at Rosebud Gallery, 839 Larkin St. SF
Mayetta Steier
Skating Bird Candelabra (2024)
Ceramic
15 x 8 x 3"
"I create functional ceramic ware that is meant to serve the inner child in every person. Bringing as much joy and silliness as possible into the world is my prerogative. The healing power that creating with clay can foster has led me to want to bring more people into the clay world through collaboration and teaching."
Courtesy of Mayetta Steier
Preview in person at Hospitality House’s Community Arts Program, 1009 Market St. SF
Michael Campbell
Natura Naturans: The Garden (2021)
Mixed media
8 x 14 x 11"
Courtesy of Michael Campbell & Modern Eden Gallery.
Preview in person at Hospitality House’s Community Arts Program, 1009 Market St. SF
Midori
Hannya (2022)
Ceramic, glaze, rope
10 x 10"
Midori is a local interdisciplinary artist who works across a range of media that includes, ceramics, painting, soft sculpture and collage. She has been a community member at the Community Arts Program for over 17 years.
Courtesy of Midori & Hospitality House’s Community Arts Program.
Preview in person at Hospitality House’s Community Arts Program, 1009 Market St. SF
Miklos
Party out of bounds (2021)
Lead free ceramic
13 x 13 x 4.5"
New York, London, Paris, Munich. Miklos has been creating art in the Tenderloin for over 35 years.
"Work inspired by the great Peter Shire"
Courtesy of Miklos and Hospitality House’s Community Arts Program
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Miles Epstein
Incline (2022)
Mat board with artist made frame
14 x 22"
"Incline is made of cut and assembled blocks of mat board. The works explores the weight of color and the perception of movement."
Courtesy of Miles Epstein and an.ä.log SF
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Miriam Klein Stahl
16th street (2024)
Woodcut and watercolor
12 x 13"
Miriam Klein Stahl is a Bay Area artist, educator and activist and the New York Times-bestselling illustrator of Rad American Women A-Z and Rad Women Worldwide . In addition to her work in printmaking, drawing, sculpture, paper-cut and public art, she is also the co-founder of the Arts and Humanities Academy at Berkeley High School where she’s taught since 1995.
Courtesy of Miriam Klein Stahl
Preview in person at MothBelly, 912 Larkin St. SF
Misia Soup
starlite (2022)
Acrylic and screen printing ink on poster paper
22" x 29"
Artemisia Farris (aka Misia Soup) is an artist born and raised in Fri$coooo <3 She works primarily in illustration and painting but also sometimes works in textile, ceramics, photography, writing, and tattooozeee. Her biggest inspirations are dreams, subconscious, and all of the amazing people that she is so lucky to call her art family and community :0)
Courtesy of Misia Soup and Space Between Gallery
MrBlack
Cultivate (2022)
Screen print ink on paper
12 x 18"
Micah Black, is a multidisciplinary visual artist versed in painting, printmaking and large scale murals.
Originally from Oklahoma, Black grew up in Northern California, where he was influenced by comic book art, graffiti and 20th-century art movements at an early age.
He combines aspects of these influences to create a unique hieroglyphic style using tessellate shapes, symbols and colors to construct a landscape that reads like a haiku of pictographs. His work explores themes centered around the interconnection of living things, self-perception and mythology.
Several of his works can be found at home and abroad through mural projects, art shows and his own curated events.
"'Cultivate' is a hand made screen print. The art is part of my first ever series of paintings on paper. The content and imagery within each piece circled around life during 2020 and 2021 when Covid 19 was a part of everyday life."
Courtesy of MrBlack & 111 Minna Gallery.
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n.jasper
Golden Home (2024)
Watercolor on paper
30 x 22"
https://www.njasper.live/about
Courtesy of n.jasper
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Nathan Kosta
Sunset Over the Golden Gate Bridge, From Grizzly Peak Blvd (2017, 3/5)
Archival photographic print, walnut frame
24 x 18"
Nathan Kosta is a visual artist, educator, and photographic technology researcher. His work explores issues relating to surveillance capitalism, photographic image recognition, machine learning, and land use. He currently teaches photography at San Francisco State University.
Courtesy of Nathan Kosta
Preview in person at Hospitality House’s Community Arts Program, 1009 Market St. SF
Nathaniel J. Bice
Architectural Abstraction: Purple (2022)
Acrylic on wood panel
16 x 16"
"My paintings encourage their viewer to celebrate the beauty in their environments, and in the Bay Area specifically. I look for new perspectives on everyday sights and things, and play with the border between literal observation and subjective interpretation. I am exploring simplification, abstraction, and blending my sense of realism with a taste of invention."
Courtesy of Nathaniel J. Bice and an.ä.log SF
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Nic Griffin
Margo (2021)
Acrylic on canvas
16 x 20"
"I am a San Francisco based mixed media artist creating Paintings, Sculptures and Assemblage works. I have also built giant puppets for street fairs and Trashion designs for runway shows. My Trashion name is Lotta Rubbish!"
"This painting is a portrait of my Mother added to a Plein Air painting of the Golden Gate as viewed from near the Legion of Honor museum."
Courtesy of Nic Griffin
Preview in person at Hospitality House’s Community Arts Program, 1009 Market St. SF
Nick Despota
Photosynthesis (2022)
Acrylic eyeglass lenses, brass
9 x 23 x 6"
"I made art when I was a young man, exhibited, received an MFA from a top-ranked art school — then stopped. To help support my family with a more reliable income, I developed a career in electronic media work; video, web design. Now retired, I’m again cultivating the practice of making art objects."
"'Photosynthesis' was inspired by the leaves of trees, which both collect and refract light. And like a tree, a viewer can appreciate both by looking at it and looking through it."
Courtesy of Nick Despota and an.ä.log SF
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Nick Melle
Bacon Street Overpass (2023; Ed. 2/5)
Archival pigment print
18 x 24"
"I am a San Francisco based artist working in photography, collage, and multimedia. My current photographic work is focused in and around the southeast neighborhoods of San Francisco. Photographing my neighborhood has been a way to try and find a new relationship to spaces I have increasingly found myself overlooking or disconnected with in my daily life."
Courtesy of Nick Melle
Preview in person at Rosebud Gallery, 839 Larkin St. SF
Nicole Hayden
Fresh Like Springtime (2022)
Acrylic and gold leaf on panel
16 x 16"
"This is the first piece of a new series where I focus on foliage as pattern. Using vintage Playboy magazines as my reference, I reinterpret the playmate into a new figure-ground relationship."
Courtesy of Nicole Hayden
Preview in person at Rosebud Gallery, 839 Larkin St. SF
Nicole Shaffer
Untitled (2024)
Mixed media on ceramic
3 x 2 x 2”
Courtesy of Nicole Shaffer
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Noelle Castro
Intuition (2024)
Ceramic, glaze, beads
7 x 12"
"I work in many meduims all of them speak to me, different voices speaking the same language. The topics vary so I find it best to listen to what my works says to you."
Courtesy of Noelle Castro
Preview in person at Hospitality House’s Community Arts Program, 1009 Market St. SF
Olivia Cunningham
Giddy up cuff (2024)
Sterling silver, vintage turquoise.
2.5 x .5”
Olivia Cunningham is a SF based metalsmith who grew up making leis with her aunties and beaded geckos during the summer. She has been a metalsmith for the past 5 years.
Courtesy of Olivia Cunningham
Preview in person at Hospitality House’s Community Arts Program, 1009 Market St. SF
Pablo Bautista
Footprint (2024)
Archival pigment print
18.25 x 22.25 x .75"
"As a street photographer, I am drawn to chance and to happy accidents. I am inspired by the stories that emerge from making photographs of such found objects."
Courtesy of Pablo Bautista
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Patricia Araujo
Golden Gate Theatre II (2013)
Oil on panel
18 x 24"
"While living in San Francisco’s SoMa (South of Market), I witnessed the changes taking place in this redeveloping neighborhood and found myself enchanted by the rich architectural history of that area and the decayed beauty that remains. For over a decade, I’ve painted the facades of both iconic city landmarks and downtown buildings. My fascination with domes, towers, sacred and municipal structures began with daily observations of the Golden Gate Theatre at Sixth and Market.
"Golden Gate Theatre II” (oil on panel) features a cropped side view of the theatre seen in abstracted shapes and painted in bright tones under an emerald-green sky. The Golden Gate Theatre, a marvelous Art Deco structure and dome with spike atop, was built by G. Albert Lansburgh in the 1920’s and it showed silent films for over 50 years. During the 1960’s, it was converted into a two-screen theatre, and it was later restored as a single auditorium. The theatre reopened in 1979 as a Performing Arts Center and to this present day it continues to host performances. A glorious theatre to visit!"
Courtesy of Patricia Araujo
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